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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 11:01pm CEST
Ф. Араго- Биографии знаменитых астрономов, физиков и геометров. В 2-х томах.
Регулярная и хаотическая динамика | 2000 | ISBN: 593972017Х,5939720188 | 496,464 pages | DJVU | 5.10 MB
Первый том этой книги представляет сборник биографий великих астрономов, от древнего Гиппарха до Лапласа, а также биографии Бальи, Кондорсе, Карно, Монжа и Фурье, где описываются не только их научные труды, но и общественная жизнь в буре политических страстей. Во втором томе содержатся биографии Малюса, Томаса Юнга, Френеля, Гей-Люссака, Вольта и Ампера. Здесь также представлены неоконченные очерки биографий членов Французского института. В последнем томе содержатся две биографии, Пуассона и Джеймса Уата, а также автобиография самого Араго. В приложении приведена статья переводчика о жизни Араго, его влиянии на современников и значении его сочинения и открытий в науке. Для широкого круга читателей.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:43pm CEST
O.C. Gaedechens "Hamburgische Munzen und Medaillen"
Hamburg | 1854 | German | PDF | pages 358 | 9.17 Mb
Книга по монетам и медалям ганзейского города Гамбурга. Первая половина книги посвящена медалям, отчеканенным с 1594 по 1848, вторая - золотым, серебряным...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:21pm CEST
Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | ISBN: 0803229704 | edition 2007 | PDF | 230 pages | 1,23 mb
Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More than Soldiers demonstrates that, to the contrary, the militia remained an active civil institution in the early nineteenth century, affecting the era’s great social, political, and economic transitions. In fact, given their degree of community involvement, militiamen were more influential in Kentucky’s maturation than any other formal community organization...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:11pm CEST
Die deutsche Schutztruppe 1889 - 1918. Auftrag und Geschichte By Werner Haupt
Publisher: Dörfler 2001 | 163 Pages | ISBN: 3895550329 | PDF | 61 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:02pm CEST
The Vital Guide to Modern Warships By Leo Marriott
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd 2001 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1840371773 | PDF | 63 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:57pm CEST
Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries By Michael Kurland
Publisher: Alpha 2000-06-14 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0028638433 | PDF | 3 MB
Albert Einstein once said, "There is nothing more beautiful than a mystery." If you believe Albert, then the "Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries" is for you...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:34pm CEST
Missing (Astonishing Headlines) By Sarah Hutt, Kent Publishing
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. 2005-08 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 1562548247 | PDF | 1.3 MB
This new series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with reluctant readers in mind, these riveting 64-page softcover books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:32pm CEST
Into the Bermuda Triangle By Gian Quasar
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press 2005-02-07 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0071452176; B001E5NNM2 | PDF | 3.5 MB
Still unsolved, still baffling, still claiming new victims. Here are the untold stories...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:04pm CEST
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative
Publisher: Rutgers University Press | ISBN: 0813539013 | edition 2006 | PDF | 176 pages | 1,08 mb
The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window into the experience of sickness...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 8:37pm CEST
Raymond Westbrook, Gary M. Beckman, "A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2003-10 | ISBN 9004129952 | PDF | 1209 pages | 4.4 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 8:05pm CEST
Jan-Bart Gewald, Jeremy Silvester, "Words Cannot Be Found: German Colonial Rule in Namibia"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2003-06-01 | ISBN 9004129812 | PDF | 312 pages | 3.0 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:58pm CEST
Karin Moorhouse, Wei Cheng, "No One Can Stop the Rain: A Chronicle of Two Foreign Aid Workers during the Angolan Civil War"
Publisher: Insomniac Press | 2000-09-01 | ISBN 189466390X | PDF | 288 pages | 17.6 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:57pm CEST
R. P. Hunnicutt - Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank
Presidio Press | 1984 | ISBN: 0891412301 | 460 pages | PDF | 58.25 MB
This book covers the history and development of America's longest service series of tanks, the Patton.
Tracing the post Korea era, Hunnicutt provides excellent detail of all prototypes, models and varients of the M-47, M-48 and M-60 series. The photos, line drawings and text fully explain the armament, suspension, hull, turret, automotive.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:49pm CEST
Peter C. Smith - Aichi D3A1/2 Val
Crowood Press | 1994 | ISBN: 1861262787 | 194 pages | PDF | 106.9 MB
From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the kamikaze raids in the closing stages of WWII, the Aichi Val was a potent Japanese weapon that caused considerable damage to Allied ships and ground installations. Using official records and the testimony of men who designed and flew it, Peter Smith tells the full story of the Aichi D3A1/2 Val using many rare photographs and interviews with surviving crew members. Filled with a wealth of material never before seen on this often-overlooked aircraft.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:37pm CEST
Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War By Elizabeth Bergman Crist
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0195383591 | edition 2009 | PDF | 272 pages | 1,3 mb
Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War.
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