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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:17pm CEST
European Jewry and the First Crusade
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520205065 | edition 1996 | CHM | 380 pages | 1,20 mb
One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:14pm CEST
The Apocalypse in Germany
Publisher: University of Missouri Press | ISBN: 0826212921 | edition 2001 | PDF | 437 pages | 2,64 mb
Originally published in German in 1988, "The Apocalypse in Germany" is translated here into English. A fitting subject for the dawn of the new millennium, the apocalypse has intrigued humanity for the last 2000 years, serving as both a fascinating vision of redemption and a profound threat. A cross-disciplinary study, "The Apocalypse in Germany" analyzes fundamental aspects of the apocalypse as a religious, political and aesthetic phenomenon. Author Klaus Vondung draws from religious, philosophical and political texts, as well as works of art and literature.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:05pm CEST
The North and the Nation in the Era of the Civil War
Publisher: Fordham University Press | ISBN: 0823222942 | edition 2003 | PDF | 277 pages | 5,26 mb
In this rich collection, a leading historian argues that in order to fully understand the Civil War, we need to grasp the relationship between American national identity and the values of Northern society. Northerners shaped nationalism into an ideology to justify and sustain a war against the South. Parish explores politics and religion as sinews that connected Northerners to the Union cause.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:48pm CEST
The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520077792 | edition 1992 | CHM | 318 pages | 1,04 mb
This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:45pm CEST
The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations
Publisher: University of Missouri Press | ISBN: 082621388X | edition 2002 | PDF | 344 pages | 2,92 mb
In The First Cold War, Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani review the Wilson administration's attitudes toward Russia before, during, and after the Bolshevik seizure of power. They argue that before the Russian Revolution, Woodrow Wilson had little understanding of Russia and made poor appointments that cost the United States Russian goodwill. Wilson later reversed those negative impressions by being the first to recognize Russia's Provisional Government, resulting in positive U.S.-Russian relations until Lenin gained power in 1917. Wilson at first seemed unsure whether to recognize or repudiate Lenin and the Bolsheviks. His vacillation finally ended in a firm repudiation when he opted for a diplomatic quarantine having almost all of the ingredients of the later Cold War. Davis and Trani argue that Wilson deserves mild criticism for his early indecision and inability to form a coherent policy toward what would become the Soviet Union.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:41pm CEST
SS-Wiking: The History of the Fifth SS Division 1941-45 By Rupert Butler
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd 2002 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1932033041 | PDF | 35 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:37pm CEST
Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press | ISBN: 0807824321 | edition 1998 | CHM | 354 pages | 1,78 mb
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred nearly all Chinese from US shores for ten years. Gyory traces the origins of the Act, contending that rather than confronting divisive problems such as class conflict, politicians sought a safe, non-ideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:32pm CEST
Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics
Publisher: University of Texas Press | ISBN: 0292743440 | edition 2002 | PDF | 208 pages | 10,5 mb
"This text will be the classic work in the field. . . . It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America." --Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole spectrum of ethnic origins, traditions, and religious practices. In this book, Akel Ismail Kahera explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:23pm CEST
Vietnam War (America at War) By Maurice Isserman, John S. Bowman
Publisher: Facts on File | ISBN: 0816049378 | edition 2003 | PDF | 192 pages | 3,4 mb
This riveting history includes a clear discussion of the roots of American involvement in Indochina in the days just after World War II and goes on to explore the varied and complex motives behind America's effort to halt the spread of communism in Asia. In clear, lucid prose, Maurice Isserman explores the critical questions surrounding the United States experience in Vietnam: What led President Lyndon Baines Johnson to commit combat troops in 1965? How was it possible for North Vietnamese to suffer a military defeat in the Tet Offensive in 1968 and yet achieve a political victory? What has America learned from the experience of fighting in Vietnam? The need for objective and accurate information about the Vietnam War has never been greater than it is today.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:09pm CEST
New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520067223 | edition 1990 | CHM | 251 pages | 2,36 mb
First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum--the underground story--of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:03pm CEST
Central America, 1821-1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform
Publisher: University Alabama Press | ISBN: 0817307656 | edition 1995 | CHM | 168 pages | 1,15 mb
This volume consists of two interrelated essays dealing with the economic, social and political changes that took place in Central America, changes that led to both liberal regime consolidation and export agricultural development after the middle of the 19th century.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:02pm CEST
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric By Susan Miller
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press | ISBN: 0809327880 | edition 2007 | PDF | 224 pages | 2,60 mb
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:00pm CEST
Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press | ISBN: 0877458472 | edition 2003 | PDF | 272 pages | 4,34 mb
From the end of the Ice Age to the fur trade era, Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley provides an excellent overview of the 12,000-year human past of the Driftless region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley—roughly from Dubuque, Iowa, to Red Wing, Minnesota, but framed within a somewhat larger area extending from the Rock Island Rapids at the modern Moline-Rock Island area to the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:52pm CEST
Till God Inherits the Earth (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) By ALEJANDRO GARCÍA SANJUÁN
Publisher: BRILL | ISBN: 9004153586 | edition 2006 | PDF | 548 pages | 1,96 mb
This volume deals with the origins and evolution of the Islamic institution of pious endowments in al-Andalus and provide us with a complete review of relevant issues such as the structure of economic property, the idea of charity, the concept of general or common interest and the social and juridical role of men of religion.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:51pm CEST
The Iliad
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 0140445927 | edition 1991 | CHM | 704 pages | 1,22 mb
In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry and evokes the impact and nuance of Homer's mesmerizing repeated phrases.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:50pm CEST
Gallipoli: Gully Ravine By Stephen J. Chambers
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd 2003 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0850529239 | PDF | 30 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:47pm CEST
Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | ISBN: 0742519147 | edition 2003 | PDF | 304 pages | 17,55 mb
This accessible text provides a concise political history of European integration from the end of World War II to the present. The European Project raises fascinating and important questions: How did Europe's states overcome their traditional rivalries and quarrels to build supranational institutions? What were the economic and geopolitical forces that drove them? Which individual statesmen contributed most to defining the European project? What are the issues that confronted the EU in the last decade and what problems will the EU face as its leaders consider even more advanced forms of political integration? All these questions are addressed by this engaging text, which offers a clear and readable account of the complex historical process by which Europe's unique polity has been built. Visit our website for update chapter!
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:20pm CEST
Battleship "Yamato" By Janusz Skulski
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press Ltd 1995 | 92 Pages | ISBN: 0851774903 | PDF | 37 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 6:53pm CEST
Chariots Of The Gods? Was God An Astronaut?
Publisher: CORGI | ASIN: B000S6JV2Y | edition 1969 | PDF | 5,97 mb
It took courage to write this book, and it will take courage to read it. Because its theories and proofs do not fit into the mosaic of traditional archaeology, constructed so laboriously and firmly cemented down, scholars will call it nonsense and put it on the Index of those books which are better left unmentioned.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 6:31pm CEST
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions): Mary Wollstonecraft
Dover Publications | ISBN: 0486290360 | 1996-07-03 | PDF (OCR) | 224 pages | 15.5 Mb
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:35pm CEST
Giuseppe Nesi , "International Cooperation in Counter-terrorism: The United Nations And Regional Organizations in the Fight Against Terrorism"
Ashgate Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 0754647552 | 313 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:21pm CEST
Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau's Journal of Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition
Publisher: Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 031332512X | edition 2002 | CHM | 232 pages | 1,05 mb
This lively, firsthand account of an army trapped in a hostile land, cut off from reinforcement and facing powerful enemies, is offered in English for the first time. As an active artillery officer, Jean-Pierre Doguereau was present at most of the major battles and sieges of the campaign. While essentially the account of a professional soldier, the journal also details Doguereau's wonder and reflections on the invaded country and its people, so different from the land he and his comrades had expected.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:14pm CEST
Christie W. Kiefer PhD, "Doing Health Anthropology: Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change"
Springer Publishing Company | 2006 | ISBN: 0826115578 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:13pm CEST
The Great Armies of Antiquity
Publisher: Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 0275978095 | edition 2002 | CHM | 456 pages | 1,69 mb
Gabriel examines 18 ancient army systems, examining the organizational structure and weapons employed and the degree to which cultural values and imperatives shaped the form and application of military force. The tactical doctrines and specific operational capabilities of each army are analyzed to explain how certain technical limitations and societal/cultural imperatives affected the operational capabilities of ancient armies. Cross-cultural and cross-historical connections ground the analysis in the larger historical context of the ancient world.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:05pm CEST
The History of Iran
Publisher: Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0313307318 | edition 2000 | CHM | 320 pages | 1,05 mb
With almost three thousand years of history, Iran is home to one of the world's richest and most complex cultures. Yet to the average American the name Iran probably conjures up an image of a remote and upstart country inhabited by a people whose religious fanaticism is matched only by the intensity of their disdain for the United States and its values, who speak an obscure tongue called Farsi, and whose identity is not clearly distinguished from that of their Arab neighbors. This work offers an objective and engagingly written portrait of the Iranian people and their complex history from the perspective of one of the world's foremost experts on the country. It is ideal for student use and for the interested reader.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 4:36pm CEST
The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia: A Supplemental Bibliography, 1984-2003 (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)
Publisher: Brill | ISBN: 900414594X | edition 2006 | PDF | 944 pages | 2 mb
| “ | The bibliography includes material published from 1984 to 2003. The historical chronology has been expanded to include the fourth century. This includes unlike the first one Iberian Fathers such as Gregory of Elvira, Potamius of Lisboa, Prudentius, and Pacian of Barcelona. As with the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) among the many topics represented are: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic and Muslim Invasions, and more. In addition, peoples such as the Vandals, Sueves, Basques, Alans and Byzantines are included. The book contains author and subject indexes and is extensively cross-indexed for easy consultation. A periodicals index of hundreds of journals accompanies the volume. This collection of nearly 8,000 entries is an attempt to bring up-to-date the scholarship on Iberia and Gaul in Late Antiquity... | ” |
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:49pm CEST
The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521584086 | edition 1997 | CHM | 164 pages | 1,03 mb
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating one's opposition, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare. Her study challenges recent claims that the state controlled poets' criticisms by means of censorship, arguing instead that power relations between poets and the state are more accurately described in terms of the reversible charge of slander.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:34pm CEST
Reading Inca History
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press | ISBN: 0877457255 | edition 2000 | PDF | 335 pages | 1,10 mb
At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History, Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:03pm CEST
Old Routes of Western Iran: Narratives of an Archaeological Journey
Hardcover | 308 pages | 1969 | ISBN: 0837122562 | PDF | 133 mb
Sir Marc Aurel Stein (Hungarian: Stein Márk Aurél) (1862 – 1943) was a Hungarian archaeologist. He was also a professor at various Indian universities.
Stein was born in Budapest in a Jewish family. His parents had him and his brother, Ernst Eduard, baptised as Lutherans, while his parents and sisters remained Jews He later became a British citizen and made his famous expeditions under British sponsorship....
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:03pm CEST
The Emergence of American Zionism
Publisher: NYU Press | ISBN: 0814774997 | edition 1998 | CHM | 320 pages | 1,58 mb
The images of Zionist pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--hard working, brawny, and living off the land--sprang from the ascendent socialist Zionist movement in Palestine known as "Labor Zionism." The building of the Yishuv, a new Jewish society in Palestine, was accompanied by the rapid growth of Zionism worldwide.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 2:18pm CEST
Urban Politics And the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh, 1617-53 (The Northern World) By Laura A.M. Stewart
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers 2006-06-01 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 9004151672 | PDF | 1.72 MB
On 23 July 1637, riots broke out in Edinburgh. These disturbances triggered the collapse of royal authority across the British Isles. This volume explores the political and religious culture in the Scottish capital from the reign of James VI and I to the Cromwellian occupation...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 1:23pm CEST
Justo Miranda, Paula Mercado - Secret Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich: German Missiles 1934-1945
Schiffer Publishing | 2000 | ISBN: 0764300865 | 138 pages | PDF | 19.78 MB
This book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 "Fritz-X", Henschel Hs 293, Hs 294, Hs 295 and Henschel "Zitterrochen", Blohm und Voss Bv 226, Bv 246 "Hagelkorn" and Lippisch GB-3/L, Blohm und Voss Bv 143, Henschel G.T. 1200 and other gliding torpedos, Arado E-377 and E-377a, Mistel Me 262 A-1/A-2 and Me 262 A-1a/Ju 287b-1, Fieseler Fi 103 Series; PILOTED MISSILES: Blohm und Voss Bv 40, Daimler-Benz Projekt E and F, Messerschmitt Me 328, "Gleiter Bombenflugzeug" 1945, Projekt "Reichenberg" Series, Sombold So 344, Zeppelin "Rammer"; BALLISTIC MISSILES: EMW A-3/A-5, EMW A 4/A 4b, EMW A 5/A 8, EMW A 7/A 9/A 10, Blohm und Voss "Manuell Gesteuertes RAketen Projektil"; ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-4, Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-7 "Rotkappchen", Henschel Hs 298 V1 and V2, Henschel Hs 117 "Schmetterling", Messerschmitt "Enzian", Rheinmetall-Borsig F-25 and F-55 "Feuerlilie", Rheinmetall-Borsig "Rheintochter" I and III, Rheinmetall-Borsig "Hecht" 2700, EMW C2 "Wasserfall".
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:46am CEST
The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare and Propaganda under the Successors By A. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2002-12-26 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 0198153066 | PDF | 28 MB
This major study by a leading expert is dedicated to the thirty years after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. It deals with the emergence of the Successor monarchies and examines the factors that brought success and failure.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:24am CEST
Coins of England and the United Kingdom
Spink & Son Ltd; 37 edition (3 Sep 2001) | ISBN: 1902040449 | 267 pages | PDF | 38 mb
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:06am CEST
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-110 (Blackwell Companions to British History) By Pauline Stafford
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 2009-04-27 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 140510628X0 | PDF | 4.8 MB
Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:52am CEST
Weapons of Terror, Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms Hans Blix, WMDC Chairman Weapons Of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC)
Publisher: Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council 2006 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 9138225824 | PDF | 1.4 MB
WHY ACTION IS NECESSARY... Nuclear, biological and chemical arms are the most inhumane of all weapons. Designed to terrify as well as destroy, they can, in the hands of either states or non-state actors, cause destruction on a vastly greater scale than any conventional weapons, and their impact is far more indiscriminate and long-lasting...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:27am CEST
Hard-won victory: The Canadians at Ortona, 1943 (Access to history) By N. M Christie
Publisher: CEF Books 2001 | 42 Pages | ISBN: 1896979408 | PDF | 14.6 MB
Maps, illustrations, photographs, bibliography...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:20am CEST
Shreveport Sounds in Black and White (American Made Music)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi | ISBN: 9781934110423 | edition 2008 | PDF | 358 pages | 2,5 mb
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To borrow words from Stan "The Record Man" Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation's most important "regional-sound cities." Its musical distinctiveness has been shaped by individuals and ensembles, record label and radio station owners, announcers and disc jockeys, club owners and sound engineers, music journalists, and musicians. The area's output cannot be described by a single genre or style. Rather, its music is a kaleidoscope of country, blues, R&B, rockabilly, and rock.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:08am CEST
The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Studies on Tradition, Redaction, and Theology (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter | ISBN: 9783110194999 | edition 2008 | PDF | 411 pages | 2,1 mb
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The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological. There were even confessional questions which divided the traditions of synagogues and churches. It is, therefore, a fascinating book, located on the edges of the canon. Does the book attempt to repair the harm done by the erosive criticism of Job and Qoheleth, or is it the work of a thoughtful interpreter who, in a time of change, seeks to bear the tradition towards the new situation emerging from the Hellenistic Diaspora? Is it a book which aims at the restoration of the true faith against the autonomous questing of human wisdom, or is it merely a sincere, if shrewd, experiment at dialogue between the legitimate reasoning of the world and the wisdom given in the Law? According to a well-tried methodology of juxtaposing the specialists of different schools, this volume presents an up to date consideration of historical, exegetical and theological research.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:02am CEST
The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire (International Library of Colonial History) By Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies 2008-10-14 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1845115856 | PDF | 3.3 MB
Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India in the late 15th Century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. At the height of Portugal’s maritime influence, it had created an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal’s direct political influence in Asia was comparatively short-lived, its linguistic influence remains...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:59am CEST
War of 1812, Updated Edition (America at War)
Publisher: Facts on File | ISBN: 9780816049332 | edition 2003-04 | PDF | 176 pages | 6,39 mb
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A revised account of the events surrounding the War of 1812 between the newly established United States and Great Britain.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:03am CEST
Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World By E.R. Hoffman
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing 2007 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 140512072X | PDF | 8 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:32am CEST
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker By Robert S. Hopkins
Publisher: Midland Publishing 1997 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1857800699 | PDF | 80 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:25am CEST
Miriam Greenblatt , John Stewart Bowman, "War of 1812"
Facts on File | 2003 | ISBN: 0816049335 | 176 pages | PDF | 6,4 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:20am CEST
Deutsche Lufthansa: Der Kranich in Turbulenzen, 1939-1945 By Hans W Neulen
Publisher: Stedinger; Auflage: 1 2003 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 3927697346 | PDF | 40 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:09am CEST
Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador By Terence Grieder, James D. Farmer, David V. Hill, Peter W. Stahl, Douglas H. Ubelaker
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009-01-01 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0292718926 | PDF | 5 MB
Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)--now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador--has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:08am CEST
Hilary Synnott, "Bad Days in Basra: My Turbulent Time as Britain's Man in Southern Iraq"
I. B. Tauris | 2008 | ISBN: 1845117069 | 240 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:58am CEST
George W. Liebmann, "Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World"
I. B. Tauris | 2008 | ISBN: 1845116372 | 288 pages | PDF | 15 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:32am CEST
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits) By Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank
Publisher: The MIT Press 2009-04-24 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0262012715 | English | PDF | 1.1 MB
What matters is not so much that iek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:31am CEST
American Bomber Crewman 1941-45 Warrior 119
Osprey | 68 Pages | Gregory Fremont-Barnes | ISBN: 1846031257 | English | PDF | 2008 | 25MB
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth", who crewed, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators that flew from the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk and other counties of England. He highlights the physical and psychological strain placed on these brave men. Long bombing missions called for brute strength to control the aircraft and extraordinary endurance to fly for hours at 20,000 feet at temperatures below freezing in unheated, unpressurized cabins. Then there were Luftwaffe fighters and anti-aircraft fire to contend with and it required incredible skill and some luck to return from a mission unscathed. This book is a fitting tribute to these often uncelebrated heroes who took the war deep into the Third Reich, as well as a fascinating historical account of the experiences they went through.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:30am CEST
The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia By Victor Tupitsyn
Publisher: The MIT Press 2009-05-29 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0262201739 | PDF | 5.6 MB
In The Museological Unconscious, Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a "communal optic" that registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as communal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:25am CEST
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India. (Cross/Cultures) By Nalini Iyer, Bonnie Zare
Publisher: Rodopi 2009-01-22 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 9042025190 | PDF | 2.2 MB
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English. From the 1960s the debate in India has centered on the role of the English language in perpetuating and maintaining the cultural and ideological aspects of imperialism...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:19am CEST
The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, 2nd edition By Professor Lee I. Levine
Publisher: Yale University Press 2000-02-09 | 768 Pages | ISBN: 0300074751 | PDF | 5.4 MB
In this comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through late antiquity, Lee Levine traces the development of a dynamic and revolutionary institution. Examining synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora, he describes their physical features, role in the community, leadership, liturgy, and art as well as their success in integrating social and religious behavior from surrounding non-Jewish society.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:18am CEST
Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures By Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009-05-01 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0292719094 | PDF | 4.9 MB
In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways...
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