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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:59pm CEST
Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, And an Island in Conflict (New Anthropologies of Europe) By Yiannis Papadakis, Gisela Welz
Publisher: Indiana University Press 2006-06-30 | 235 Pages | ISBN: 0253347513 | PDF | 1.7 MB
The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic "island of Aphrodite" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:58pm CEST
A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness By Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim
Publisher: Open University Press 2005-07-01 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0335215831 | PDF | 2.1 MB
A vital text for studying the effects of mental health and illness on a society...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:42pm CEST
Каталог монет мира 18-го века. 3 издание. На английском языке (Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 3th Edition).
ISBN: 0873494695 | 2008 | JPEG | 2297 x 3128 | 313 MB
With prices for classic coins driving collecting activity around the world, continued fluctuation of the precious metal market, and greater than ever availability of coins now is a great time to expand your coin collecting efforts, and extend your knowledge, before you buy and sell.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:40pm CEST
Thomas J. Sienkewicz "Ancient Greece, Vol. 3"
Salem Press | 2006-08-22 | ISBN: 1587652811 | 1200 pages | PDF | 9,6 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:28pm CEST
A New World Order: Grassroots Movements for Global Change By Paul Ekins
Publisher: Routledge 1992-02-13 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0415071151 | PDF | 2.35 MB
"Hard hitting, yet hopeful, Ekins combines a compendium of our planet's greatest ills with stirring, real-life examples of people breaking out of old moulds to become practical problem solvers.' Frances Moore Lappe
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:17pm CEST
Stacke Roderick "The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany"
Routledge | 2007-12-20 | ISBN: 0415308615 | 369 pages | PDF | 1.76 MB
The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany combines a concise narrative overview with chronological, bibliographical and tabular information to cover all major aspects of Nazi Germany. This user-friendly guide provides a comprehensive survey of key topics such as the origins and consolidation of the Nazi regime, the Nazi dictatorship in action, Nazi foreign policy, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the opposition to the regime and the legacy of Nazism.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:06pm CEST
Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs By Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Routledge 1995-11-20 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415118441 | PDF |1.3 MB
In Judaism in the New Testament, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, the most prolific author writing in English today, contend that, contrary to conventional wisdom, early Christians identified not as Christians, but as Jews...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:50pm CEST
Adrian Goldsworthy "Caesar: Life of a Colossus"
Yale University Press | 2006-09-22 | ISBN: 0300120486 | 608 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, “in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:49pm CEST
Daniel C. Snell, Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Daniel C. Snell "A Companion to the Ancient Near Est"
Wiley | 2004-12-09 | ISBN: 0631232931 | 504 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:48pm CEST
Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) By Sophocles
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2001 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0195049608 | PDF | 3.29 MB
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:07pm CEST
Eliot Crawshay Williams, "Across Persia"
Publisher: | 1907 | ISBN 1437487998 | PDF | 378 pages | 15.5 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:10pm CEST
S. Vanantetzi, Victoria, "Descent of her Majesty Victoria Queen of England from the Arsacid Kings of Armenia"
Publisher: Armenian & English | 1866 | ISBN B0018FZ8U8 | PDF | 98 pages | 3.6 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:52pm CEST
Catapult Aircraft: Seaplanes That Flew from Ships without Flight Decks By Leo Marriott
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation 2006 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 184415419X | PDF | 25 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:31pm CEST
Bruce Babbitt. "Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America"
A Shearwater Book Island Press | 2005 | ISBN: 9781559630931 | 215 pages | PDF | 5 Mb
In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:25pm CEST
Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior By Stephen Allen
Publisher: OsPublishing 2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1841769487 | PDF | 39 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:11pm CEST
Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything By Gene Healy
Publisher: Cato Institute | ISBN: 1930865635 | edition 2004 | PDF | 160 pages | 1,56 mb
The American criminal justice system is becoming ever more centralized and punitive, owing to rampant federalization and mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. Go Directly to Jail examines these alarming trends and proposes reforms that could rein in a criminal justice apparatus at war with fairness and common sense.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:08pm CEST
Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC - AD 1840 By C.J. Peers
Publisher: OsPublishing 2006 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1846030986 | PDF | 53 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:00pm CEST
Fergus Millar, Guy M. Rogers, Hannah M. Cotton, Hannah M. Cotton
"Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire"
The University of North Carolina Press | 2004-06-28 | ISBN: 0807855200 | 504 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 7:14pm CEST
Paul Barber, "Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality"
Yale University Press | 1988 | ISBN: 0300041268 | 244 pages | siPDF | 4.5 MB
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires—from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires. Analyzing these reports, Barber offers for the first time a scientific explanation for the origin of the vampire legends.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 12:24pm CEST
Romanticism and Form
Palgrave Macmillan | 256 pages | 2007 | ISBN: 1403994722 | PDF | 1 mb
Romanticism and Form gives a snapshot of what and where the recent revival of formalism in Romantic Studies is up to, ...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 12:09pm CEST
Historic Bridges: Evaluation, Preservation, and Management
CRC | 304 pages | 2008 | ISBN: 1420079956 | PDF | 2 mb
Explore Historic Bridge Design through the Perspective of Modern Engineering
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:43am CEST
Динозавры. Школьный путеводитель
Publisher: Балтийская книжная компания | 2007 | ISBN: 9785912330506 | PDF | 98 pages | 13 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:28am CEST
Adam Horowitz, "The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs of Unintelligent Life in the Workplace"
Portfolio Hardcover | 2004 | ISBN: 159184035X | 176 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:26am CEST
Wolfgang Tarnowski, "Was ist was?, Bd. 88, Ritter"
Tessloff Verlag | 2003 | ISBN: 3788606304 | 48 pages | PDF | 19,8 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:59am CEST
“50th Anniversary of Sinchon Museum Observed”
KOREA PICTORIAL, Pyongyang. DPRK | 2008 | Language: English | 12 pages | PDF | 1.01 MB
For 52 days of their occupation of Sinchon County during the war the U.S. imperialists massacred at least 35,000 patriots and innocent people or a quarter of the population of the county by the most brutal methods. They tortured civilians in a savage manner, buried them alive, hung and burned them to death and drove nails into their heads....
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:34am CEST
Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199242690 | edition 2000 | PDF | 400 pages | 2,4 mb
The first study to investigate the interlinked problems of domestic security and national defense in Ireland, this book describes the development of ...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:27am CEST
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
Publisher: HarperCollins | ISBN: 0747273332 | edition 2000 | PDF, LIT, DOC, HTML, TXT | 416 pages | 2 mb
Our Lady of Victories
How many lands, how many frontiers separate us!
—Napoleon, in a letter to Josephine .
In which my new life begins
March 10, 1796 — Paris, early morning, grey skies. I am writing this in my jasmine-scented dressing room, where I might not be discovered by Bonaparte, my husband of one day...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:25am CEST
Speech Acts in the History of English (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company | ISBN: 9027254206 | edition 2008 | PDF | 318 pages | 1,8 mb
Histories of the English language continue to be published in great numbers and recent years have seen an upsurge in such publications in the form of handbooks, scholarly treatises or introductory textbooks for students.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:20am CEST
Readings in Han Chinese Thought
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company | ISBN: 0872207099 | edition 2006 | PDF | 220 pages | 3,56 mb
The first comprehensive English-language collection of the writings of this pivotal period in Chinese intellectual history, this volume provides translations of key works, arranged chronologically within topics, and accompanied by substantive headnotes, a glossary, and a bibliography...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:14am CEST
Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press | ISBN: 0801866081 | edition 2001 | PDF | 296 pages | 1,07 mb
Stories of transgression--Gilgamesh, Prometheus, Oedipus, Eve -- may be integral to every culture's narrative imaginings of its own origins, but such stories assumed different meanings with the burgeoning interest in modern histories of crime and punishment in the later decades of the seventeenth century. In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience. These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterizes the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:08am CEST
Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements)
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | ISBN: 0810860740 | edition 2008 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,06 mb
"Originating in the 1870s from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Russell's death in 1916, Franklin Rutherford was named his successor and gave the society a new name: Jehovah's Witnesses. Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses shows how World Wars I and II influenced Watch Tower attitudes toward civil government
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:57am CEST
Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262026333 | edition 2008 | PDF | 400 pages | 1,4 mb
Our morning cups of coffee connect us to a global industry and an export crisis in the tropics that is destroying livelihoods, undermining the cohesion of families and communities, and threatening ecosystems. Confronting the Coffee Crisis explores small-scale farming, the political economy of the global coffee industry, and initiatives that claim to promote more sustainable rural development in coffee-producing communities. Contributors review the historical, political, economic, and agroecological processes within today's coffee industry and analyze the severely depressed export market that faces small-scale growers in Mexico and Central America.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:51am CEST
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199256047 | edition 2005 | PDF | 312 pages | 1,2 mb
Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:47am CEST
THE MANY LIVES&SECRET SORROWS OF JOSEPHINE B.
Publisher: Review | ISBN: 0747273324 | edition 1999 | PDF, LIT, DOC, TXT, HTML | 438 pages | 2 mb
June 23, 1777—Trois-Ilets, Martinico.
I am fourteen today and unmarried still. Without a dowry, what hope is there? Mother says the wind takes hope and dashes it into the sky, just as the big wind took our house, picked it up and dashed it, leaving nothing but debts in its place.
Oh, what a black mood has possessed me. Is not the celebration of one's birthday supposed to bring one joy? After dinner, after eating too many doughnut fritters with guava jelly, I took my leave and climbed up to my special place in the kapok tree. It was cool in the shade of the leaves. I could hear Grandmother Sannois and Mother arguing in the front parlor, the slaves chanting as they pushed the cane stalks through the rollers in the crushing hut, a chicken scratching in the honeysuckle bushes. I felt strange up there—peering out at my world, enveloped in gloom on my happy day...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:39am CEST
Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company | ISBN: 087220636X | edition 2003 | PDF | 312 pages | 2,42 mb
This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entrée into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student edition, this volume also includes a general introduction, notes, multiple appendices—including a glossary of technical terms, references to modern Western scholarship that point the way for further study, and an annotated bibliography...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:32am CEST
Prophets Without Honor
Publisher: Algora Publishing | ISBN: 1892941988 | edition 2002 | PDF | 376 pages | 1,6 mb
Priests, giving their lives to the poor, protesting wars and . . . ., they have been beaten, arrested, and threatened with death. In this chronicle of their times, they mourn parishioners whom they could not protect.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:10am CEST
Top Secret: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Publisher: Book Tree | ISBN: 1885395566 | edition 1998 | PDF | 56 pages | 3 mb
This is the top secret manual found by accident in 1986 by an employee of Boeing Aircraft who bought a surplus IBM copier for scrap parts and found the manual inside. Much of it has come to pass - it planned to control the masses through manipulation of industry, education and politics, and to divert the public's attention from what's really going on...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:03am CEST
Camron Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna, Elizabeth B. Frierson "The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook"
Oxford University Press | 2006-05-12 | ISBN: 0199262098 | 704 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists' and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced, translated and annotated by a specialist in the particular history and culture from which it was drawn...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:02am CEST
Chris Wickham "Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800"
Oxford University Press | 2005-11-10 | ISBN: 019926449X | 1018 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base...
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