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Чингисхан. Великий завоеватель
2008 | Эренжен Хара-Даван | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953326278 | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 384 pages | 22.1 Mb or 8.9 Mb
Есть ли некий высший смысл в возникновении империи Чингисхана? Или чудовищная игра случайностей повергла к ногам монгольского воителя бессчетные царства Азии и Европы, губя их обитателей? Вряд ли возможен окончательный ответ на эти вопросы. Автор книги, которую вы держите в руках, Эренжен Хара-Даван - историк евразийского склада, калмык по национальности - не пошел по пути безудержной национальной апологетики. Прежде всего он стремится постичь суть самой идеи евразийской империи.

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Phil Scraton, "Power, Conflict and Criminalisation"
Publisher: Routledge | 2007 | ISBN 0415422418 | PDF | 284 pages | 10.5 MB
Drawing on a body of empirical, qualitative work spanning three decades, this unique text traces the significance of critical social research and critical analyses in understanding some of the most significant and controversial issues in contemporary society. Focusing on central debates in the UK and Ireland prison protests; inner-city uprisings; deaths in custody; womens imprisonment; transition in the north of Ireland; the crisis in childhood; the Hillsborough and Dunblane tragedies; and the war on terror Phil Scraton argues that marginalisation and criminalisation are social forces central to the application of state power and authority. Each case study demonstrates how structural relations of power, authority and legitimacy, establish the determining contexts of everyday life, social interaction and individual opportunity. This book explores the politics and ethics of critical social research, making a persuasive case for the application of critical theory to analysing the rule of law, its enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. It is indispensable for students in the fields of criminology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, social policy and social work.

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Jenni Richards, "Rhetoric (The New Critical Idiom)"
Publisher: Routledge | 2007 | ISBN 0415314372 | PDF | 209 pages | 10.1 MB
The term ‘rhetoric’ describes the effective use of language, usually to persuade or influence. Frequently set up in opposition to ‘truth’ or ‘plain speech’, it has attracted much critical debate from ancient philosophy to current literary theory. Examining both the practice and theory of this controversial concept, Jennifer Richards looks at: historical and contemporary definitions of the term ‘rhetoric’uses of rhetoric in literature, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley and James Joyceclassical traditions of rhetoric, as seen in the work of Plato, Aristotle and Cicerothe rebirth of rhetoric in the Renaissance and its return to the contemporary academy through Composition and Literature coursesthe current position and way forward for rhetoric in literary and critical theory, as envisaged by critics such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida and Kenneth Burke. This insightful volume offers an honest and accessible account of this debatable yet unavoidable term, making this book invaluable reading for students of literature, philosophy and cultural studies.

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Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi, "Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Paradoxes of Exile (African Studies)"
Publisher: Routledge | 2007 | ISBN 0415960916 | PDF | 315 pages | 10.2 MB
This book contrasts voluntary labor and political migration with the involuntary diaspora by focusing on the paradoxes of migration, exile, and survival of African immigrants in the New World.

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John Foran: Dav, "Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social identities, globalization and modernity"
Publisher: Routledge | 2008 | ISBN 0415771838 | PDF | 325 pages | 10.4 MB
Featuring contributions from leading thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with case studies of individual revolutions to question whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century.

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David Norbrook Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660
Cambridge University Press | 2000 | ISBN: 0521785693 | 525 pages | PDF | 20,6 MB
This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers reimagined English literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offering a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as a royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars.

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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties By Craig Unger
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (March 23, 2004) | ISBN: 074353719X | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 89 MB
Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security. "House of Bush, House of Saud" begins with a politically explosive question: How is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis, many immediate kin to Osama Bin Laden, were permitted to leave the country without being questioned by U.S. intelligence?...

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The Language of the Papyri By T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010 | 380 Pages | ISBN: 0199237085 | PDF | 2 MB

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Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction By Fergus Kerr
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2009 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0199556644 | PDF | 2 MB

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Man and Myth Joseph Campbell Audio Collection (Campbell, Joseph, Joseph Campbell Audio Collection.) By Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Highbridge Audio (November 11, 2002) | ISBN: 1565117336 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 377 MB
From the "Star Wars" saga to the lyrics of the Grateful Dead, Joseph Campbell has had a profound impact on our culture, our beliefs, and the way we view ourselves and the world. Whether you were captivated by "The Power of Myth" or you're just now discovering "the man with a thousand stories", these early lectures are a must...

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Fairey Gannet (Warpaint Series No. 23) By Steve Hazell
Hall Park Books | 2000 | ASIN: B000VMK27S | English | 46 Pages | PDF | 71,6 MB

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As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Pivotal Moments in American History) By Richard Archer
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2010 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0195382471 | PDF | 3 MB

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Hawker Hurricane część 1 (Polskie Skrzydła 4)
Stratus | 2005 | ISBN: 8389450372 | Polish | 50 Pages | PDF | 106,7 MB
Polish Wings No. 4 focuses on seven RAF (Polish) Squadrons that flew the Hawker Hurricane. These were 302 (WX), 303 (RF), 306 (UZ), 308 (ZF), 315 (PK), 316 (SZ) and 317 (JH) Squadrons.

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Anca Pusca, "European Union: Challenges and Promises of a New Enlargement (Sourcebook on Contemporary Controversies Series)"
Publisher: International Debate Education Association | 2004 | ISBN 0972054154 | PDF | 422 pages | 10.8 MB

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Asifa M. Hussain, William L. Miller, "Multicultural Nationalism: Islamaphobia, Anglophobia, and Devolution"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN 0199280711 | PDF | 229 pages | 10.7 MB
When the focus is on black or Asian minorities, Britain is frequently described as a multi-cultural state. But when the focus is on Scotland, England and Wales, Britain is also described as a multi-national state. Yet debates about multiculturalism and nationalism have been held in parallel without sharing even a common vocabulary. This book is a pioneering study of how multiculturalism interacts with multinationalism, especially within post-devolution Scotland. It gives equal attention to Scotland's largest 'visible' and 'invisible' minorities: ethnic Pakistanis (almost all of them Muslim) and English immigrants. Rising Scottish self-consciousness could have posed a challenge both these minorities. But in practice, potential problems have proved themselves to be solutions, integrating rather than alienating. In the eyes of the minorities, devolution has made Scots at once more proud and less xenophobic. Even English immigrants feel devolution has defused tensions, calmed frustrations, and forced Scots to blame themselves rather than others for their problems. Pakistanis have suffered increasing harassment - but they attribute that to 9/11 not to devolution. And Muslims adopt Scottish identities, Scottish attitudes, even Scottish nationalism - consciously or unconsciously using these as tools of integration. The book is based in part on large-scale surveys: of Pakistani and English minorities within Scotland, and of the majority populations in Scotland and England. But it is also based on systematic analysis of transcripts of focus-group discussions with minorities revealing the variety of opinion within minorities as well as the contrasts between them. In particular, it presents a unique account of how Scottish Muslims express their feelings in a time of crisis.

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Donald John Markwell, "John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN 0198292368 | PDF | 311 pages | 10.8 MB
Sixty years after his death, the life and thought of the economist, John Maynard Keynes, continues to be a subject of the greatest interest to scholars. Yet one of the most significant areas of Keynes' thinking has been strangely overlooked - international relations, a subject that was always of central importance to him. The purpose of this book is to explore comprehensively, for the first time, the evolution of Keynes' thinking on international relations , and to show how this is linked to the changing of his opinions on economic matters, in a way which deepens our understanding of both.

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Wenzel Matiaske, Hauke Brunkhorst, Gerd Grozinger, Marcelo Neves, "European Union as a Model for the Development of Mercorsur?: Transnational Orders between Economical Efficiency and Political Legitimacy"
Publisher: Hampp, R | 2007 | ISBN 3866181124 | PDF | 208 pages | 10.3 MB
It is rarely questioned that the European Union can be considered a model for other world regions. Comparable initiatives elsewhere are much less integrated, and up until now less successful, even if like Mercosur they are based on the European model. Although elements of the democratic rule of law in the EU are more developed than in all comparable projects and organisations, the model character of the EU is highly questionable in terms of democratic theory, and we should ask what scholars concerned with the European Union can learn from similar experiments in other world regions. Perhaps experience from the Merco-sur countries with deliberative citizen democracy at the local level, the double perspective of the still ongoing transition from a 'nominalistic' to a 'normative' constitutional regime within nation states, and the simultaneous continental net-working of law, economics, and policy could also be instructive for the current EU with its new problems in the realm of democracy and rights. Transcontinen-tal social capital can only build-up if the learning processes are opened in both directions. The individual contributions to this volume move between the poles 'effectiveness' and 'democracy'. It is the result of an international workshop or-ganized by scholars from Flensburg University and from the Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo. Englisch. Bookseller Inventory.

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Thomas Banchoff, "Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2007 | ISBN 0195307291 | PDF | 345 pages | 10.5 MB
Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the collapse of communism, and the globalization of communications technologies have all fostered a wider variety of religious beliefs, practices, and organizations within and across democratic societies. This is true in both the United States and Europe, where growing and diverse minority communities are transforming the political landscape. As a result, controversies over such things as headscarves and depictions of Mohammed are unsettling a largely secular Europe, while a Christian majority in the US faces familiar questions about church-state relations amidst unprecedented religious diversity. Far from receding into the background, religious language pervades arguments around established issues such as abortion and capital punishment, and new ones such as stem cell research and same-sex marriage. In Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism, leading scholars from multiple disciplines explore these dynamics and theirimplications for democratic theory and practice. What are the contours of this new religious pluralism? What are its implications for the theory and practice of democracy? Does increasing religious pluralism erode the cultural and social foundations of democracy? To what extent do different religious communities embrace similar -- or at least compatible -- ethical and political commitments? By seeking answers to these questions and revealing religious pluralism as both a source of animosity and a potent force for peaceful engagement, this book offers a revealing look at the future of religion in democratic societies.

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Zachary Shore, "Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe"
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0801885051 | PDF | 240 pages | 10.6 MB
While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe's Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic alliance. Europe's failure to integrate its Muslim millions, combined with America's battered image in the Muslim world, have left too many Western Muslims easy prey for violent dogmas. Until America and Europe adopt new strategies, Shore argues, Europe will increasingly become the incubation ground for breeding new Bin Ladens. The United States continues to spend billions of dollars and lose thousands of its young men and women to combat Islamic extremists, a group estimated to be as small as fifty thousand. What Western leaders have not done, says Shore, is seek to understand the millions of moderate Muslims who live peacefully in the United States and Europe. Many in this extraordinarily diverse group are deeply ambivalent toward perceived Western values. Although they may admire America's economic or technological might, many are appalled by its crass consumerism, sexualization of women, lack of social justice, and foreign policies.

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Sudhir Hazareesingh, "Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Republican Political Thought"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2005 | ISBN 0199279500 | PDF | 352 pages | 11.1 MB
In this innovative study of French political culture, the author re-examines the origins of modern republicanism through the writings and political practices of five key nineteenth-century intellectuals: Jules Barni, Charles Dupont-White, Emile Littre, Eugene Pelletan, and Etienne Vacherot. Drawing on a range of archival and published sources this study explores the transformation of republican ideology, and stresses the continuing influences of Saint-Simonism, socialism, doctrinaire liberalism, and neo-Kantianism on republican thinking during this period. The book sheds new light on French republican conceptions of good citizenship, the meaning of patriotism, the role of the state, the value of individual liberty, and the place of education and religion in public and private life. Offering challenging insights into modern French politics as well as the history of political thought, Intellectual Founders of the Republic opens up new perspectives on republican ideology and political practice.

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Lisa Hajjar, "Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza"
Publisher: University of California Press | 2005 | ISBN 0520241932 | PDF | 337 pages | 10.7 MB
Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians--including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators--about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions, and how its functioning has affected the conflict. Her lucid, richly detailed, and theoretically sophisticated study highlights the array of problems and debates that characterize Israel's military courts as it asks how the law is deployed to protect and further the interests of the Israeli state and how it has been used to articulate and defend the rights of Palestinians living under occupation.

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Tom Campbell, "Separation of Powers in Practice"
Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics | 2004 | ISBN 0804747369 | PDF | 249 pages | 11.4 MB
Each branch of American government possesses inherent advantages and disadvantages in structure. In this book, the author relies on a separation-of-powers analysis that emphasizes the advantage of the legislature to draft precise words to fit intended situations, the judiciary’s advantage of being able to do justice in an individual case, and the executive’s homogeneity and flexibility, which best suits it to decisions of an ad hoc nature. Identifying these structural abilities, the author analyzes major public policy issues, including gun control, flag burning, abortion, civil rights, war powers, suing the President, legislative veto, the exclusionary rule, and affirmative action. Each issue is examined not from the point of view of determining the right outcome, but with the intention of identifying the branch of government most appropriate for making the decision.

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Christopher Wolfe, "Natural Law Liberalism"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0521842786 | PDF | 280 pages | 10.8 MB
Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and seeks to diminish its historical contribution to the liberal political tradition, but it is only one, defective variant of liberalism. A careful analysis of the history of liberalism, identifying its core principles, and a similar examination of classical natural law theory (as represented by Thomas Aquinas and his intellectual descendants), show that a natural law liberalism is possible and desirable. Natural law theory embraces the key principles of liberalism, and it also provides balance in resisting some of its problematic tendencies. Natural law liberalism is the soundest basis for American public philosophy, and it is a potentially more attractive and persuasive form of liberalism for nations that have tended to resist it.

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Early Metallurgy of the Persian Gulf: Technology, Trade, and the Bronze Age World
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | pages: 272 | 2004 | ISBN: 0391042130 | PDF | 23,1 mb
This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume contists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium BC.

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Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV: An Illustrated History of Fortifications and Strategies
McFarland | 2005 | ISBN: 0786444010 | 300 pages | PDF | 16,6 MB
A man of inventiveness, versatility and reformist ideas, Marshal Sebastien Le Preste de Vauban built a formidable ring of fortresses to protect Franc's national frontiers. More than just a fortification designer, Vauban was also a gifted economist, author, and political strategist. This book tells the complete story of Vauban's exceptional career, placing him within the framework of Louis XIV's reign and revealing his lasting influences in France and other nations. With the aid of numerous detailed drawings, 17th century bastioned fortification, artillery, and seige warfare are described in detail. Vauban's fortifications that are still standing today are particularly highlighted.

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Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary Results By Joe Cannon
Publisher: American Media International 2003-10-25 | ISBN: 1932378006 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 96 MB
Leadership and teamwork techniques of the military elite, where partnering is mandatory, and failure is never an option.

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Secret societies their mysteries revealed by John Lawrence Reynolds
Publisher: Clipper Audio, 2008 | narrated by Paul Hecht Publisher Rearsby | Duration: 10 hr., 45 min. | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 154 MB
Secret societies have flourished throughout history, capturing the public imagination and generating fear, suspicion and above all fascination. The author treats the reader to a behind-the-scenes look at the origins, initiations, secret signs and famous members of the most notorious secret societies of all time...

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Норманны. Покорители Северной Атлантики
2010 | Гвин Джонс | Центрполиграф | ISBN: 978 5952446373 | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 326 pages | 25.4 Mb or 8.7 Mb
Книга Гвина Джонса посвящена открытию и заселению Северо-Западной Атлантики. Норманны были непревзойденными мореходами и опередили в кораблестроении другие народы Европы на целых три столетия. Вы познакомитесь с их героическими деяниями, династическими распрями и необыкновенной страстью к покорению неведомых земель.

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Tom Lodge, "Mandela: A Critical Life"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN 0192805681 | PDF | 295 pages | 10.4 MB
Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revealing biography examines these questions in detail for the first time. Drawing on a range of original sources, it presents a host of fresh insights about the shaping of Mandela's personality and public persona, from his childhood days and early activism, through his long years of imprisonment, to his presidency of the new South Africa. Throughout, Lodge emphasizes the crucial interplay between Mandela's public career and his personal or private world, showing how his heroic status was a product both of his leading position within the anti-apartheid movement and his own deliberate efforts to supply a form of quasi-messianic leadership for that movement. And as Lodge shows, Mandela's huge international appeal is a compelling and unusual cocktail. Of the sacred and the secular. Of traditional African values and global media savvy. And of human vulnerablilty interwoven with the grand narrrative of liberation throughout the story of this exceptional life.

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Will Kymlicka, Keith Banting, "Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN 0199289174 | PDF | 442 pages | 10.1 MB
In many Western democracies, ethnic and racial minorities have demanded, and sometimes achieved, greater recognition and accommodation of their identities. This is reflected in the adoption of multiculturalism policies for immigrant groups, the acceptance of territorial autonomy and language rights for national minorities, and the recognition of land claims and self-government rights for indigenous peoples. These claims for recognition have been controversial, in part because of fears that they make it more difficult to sustain a robust welfare state by eroding the interpersonal trust, social solidarity and political coalitions that sustain redistribution. Are these fears of a conflict between a "politics of recognition" and a "politics of redistribution" valid? This volume is the first systematic attempt to empirically test this question, using both cross-national statistical analyses of the relationships among diversity policies, public attitudes and the welfare state, and case studies of the recognition/ redistribution linkage in the political coalitions in particular countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, and in Latin America. These studies suggest that that there is no general or inherent tendency for recognition to undermine redistribution, and that the relationship between these two forms of politics can be supportive as well as competitive, depending on the context.

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Kenneth Dyson, "Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN 0199277672 | PDF | 395 pages | 10.3 MB
This book seeks to offer the first in-depth and systematic analysis of the challenges of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the European Union. It focuses in particular on how the prolonged process of accession to the Euro Area is affecting domestic economic policies in the accession states of east central Europe. It contributes to Europeanization studies, comparative political economy and to studies of Economic and Monetary Union. It also provides a picture of processes of domestic transformation in such countries as the three Baltic States, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The book brings together a range of recognized experts from across Europe and combines country and sectoral case studies with a thematic treatment. It begins by offering an 'outside-in' perspective, which situates the effects of EMU on the accession states in the wider context of the development of global economic norms. The second part focuses on an 'inside-out' analysis of how Euro Area accession affects the states of east central Europe - their policies, politics and public institutions. The final part assesses how Euro Area accession is affecting key policy sectors in east central Europe: financial market regulation, fiscal policies and welfare states and labour markets.

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Mark Rosenberg, "The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility (Contemporary Inter-American Relations)"
Publisher: Routledge | 2007 | ISBN 0415958350 | PDF | 148 pages | 11.2 MB
This book is a concise overview of the recent history of US-Central American relations. Part of the Contemporary Inter-American Relations series edited by Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, it focuses on the relations between the US and this region since the end of the Cold War.
The volume considers economic relations between the two regions, presenting pertinent information on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). It also looks at political issues such as military cooperation, security issues, the drug trade and organized crime, democracy in the region, and migration. Finally, it concludes with an assessment of the direction US-Central American relations are taking at present, moving beyond the black-and-white challenges of Soviet domination in the region to address post-9/11 security concerns. The United States and Central America will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, Latin American politics and politics andinternational relations in general.

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Felix Dodds, Michele M. Betsill, Elisabeth Corell, "NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations"
Publisher: The MIT Press | 2007 | ISBN 0262524767 | PDF | 263 pages | 11.2 MB
Over the past thirty years nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have played an increasingly influential role in international negotiations, particularly on environmental issues. NGO diplomacy has become, in the words of one organizer, an "international experiment in democratizing intergovernmental decision making." But there has been little attempt to determine the conditions under which NGOs make a difference in either the process or the outcome of international negotiations. This book presents an analytic framework for the systematic and comparative study of NGO diplomacy in international environmental negotiations. Chapters by experts on international environmental policy apply this framework to assess the effect of NGO diplomacy on specific negotiations on environmental and sustainability issues. The proposed analytical framework offers researchers the tools with which to assess whether and how NGO diplomats affect negotiation processes, outcomes, or both, and through comparative analysis the book identifies factors that explain variation in NGO influence, including coordination of strategy, degree of access, institutional overlap, and alliances with key states. The empirical chapters use the framework to evaluate the degree of NGO influence on such negotiations as the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations on global climate change, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

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William Anthony Hay, Harvey Sicherman, "Is There Still a West?: The Future of the Atlantic Alliance"
Publisher: University of Missouri Press | 2007 | ISBN 0826216986 | PDF | 265 pages | 11 MB
The international response to the attacks of 9/11 promised a new sense of unity between the United States and its European allies, but subsequent disagreements over Iraq have made the Western alliance seem tentative at best. Is There Still a West? looks beyond recent events to put disagreements within NATO into historical perspective, exploring how cultural, demographic, economic, and military factors since the 1940s have affected future prospects for security cooperation. As questions underlying the current rift persist, distinguished scholars—Stephen A. Schuker, Michael Radu, Jeremy Black, and others—consider whether that gathering of nations long known as “the West” remains a valid construct. Claiming that differences over Iraq are no greater than past conflicts over Suez, China, or other issues, they adopt a “realist” stance in international relations to offer an alternative to neoconservative and liberal viewpoints. They show what the major issues—and nonissues—really are, and which among them are the true time bombs.

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Susan L. Shirk, "China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2007 | ISBN 0195306090 | PDF | 335 pages | 10.2 MB
Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: The Fragile Superpower, Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies elsewhere--not in China's astonishing growth, but in the deep insecurity of its leaders. China's leaders face a troubling paradox: the more developed and prosperous the country becomes, the more insecure and threatened they feel. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today's Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think--and what they fear. In this revealing book, readers see the world through the eyes of men like President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin. We discover a fragile communist regime desperate to survive in a society turned upside down by miraculous economic growth and a stunning new openness to the greater world. Indeed, ever since the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square and the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, Chinese leaders have been haunted by the fear that their days in power are numbered.

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Geoffrey Owen, Tom Kirchmaier, Jeremy Grant, "Corporate Governance in the US and Europe: Where Are We Now?"
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 | ISBN 1403998663 | PDF | 175 pages | 10.1 MB
Corporate Governance in the US and Europe provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the most recent developments in corporate governance. It is based on a recent joint conference arranged by New York University and the London School of Economics, which brought together eminent academics and practitioners, including Michael Jensen in Finance and Martin Lipton in Law, to discuss the stock market boom-and-bust, and the recent corporate scandals. The book is aimed at practitioners, policy makers and academics who have to deal with corporate governance.

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Martin Charles Golumbic, "Fighting Terror Online: The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law"
Publisher: Springer | 2007 | ISBN 0387735771 | PDF | 186 pages | 11.5 MB
The unprecedented events that have taken place in recent years have led legislators and governments throughout the world to reconsider and restructure their policies regarding security issues. Today, worldwide attention is being given to a new security threat, in the form of global terrorism. Legal systems are being called upon to provide a response to these threats, in all areas of life, including the online environment. Among its many tools, global terror also uses advanced technological methods. This fact presents a difficult challenge to policymakers. Therefore, we have chosen to focus this book on the issue of formulating appropriate policy at the interface between security and technology, human rights and economic policy. The fundamental issue the tension between security needs and civil rights is not new. A great deal of experience has been amassed in various countries in this regard, and the question that now arises is whether the existing system of principles and laws, developed on the basis of experience gathered in the concrete world, is applicable to the digital environment.

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Mauro Zamboni, "Law and Politics: A Dilemma for Contemporary Legal Theory"
Publisher: Springer | 2007 | ISBN 3540739254 | PDF | 172 pages | 10.2 MB
Politics and the political discourse occupy a central position in the modern legal theoretical discussion. The goal of this book is to reconstruct and to classify, according to ideal-typical models, the different positions taken by the major contemporary legal theories as to whether and how law relates to politics. In particular, attention is focused on Kelsen, Hart, Finnis, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Economics and legal realisms. Though reaching different conclusions, these major legal theories have some common points of departure as to the "law and politics" issue: law and politics tend to keep the features of being two different phenomena as well as of presenting regions of interaction, although with differences as to extent and intensity. Finally, a possible explanation is presented as to why such different legal theories, though often reaching diametric results, somehow must still begin from these common basic points. The explanation for this is found in the specific character of law in the modern state, and the welfare state in particular.

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Richard Immerman, Loch Johnson, Kathryn Olmsted, John Prados The Central Intelligence Agency: Security under Scrutiny
Greenwood Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0313332827 | 400 pages | PDF | 27,5 MB
Created in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency plays an important part in the nation's intelligence activities, and is currently playing a vital role in the "war on terrorism." While the agency is often in the news and portrayed in television shows and films, it remains one of the most secretive and misunderstood organizations in the United States. This work provides an in-depth look into the Central Intelligence Agency and how its responsibilities affect American life. After a brief history of the agency, chapters describe its organization, intelligence/counterintelligence, covert operations, controversies, key events, and notable people.

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Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage French Fortifications, 1715-1815: An Illustrated History
McFarland | 2009 | ISBN: 0786444770 | 282 pages | PDF | 38.5 MB
This book describes and illustrates French fortifications from 1715 (the death of Louis XIV) to 1815 (the fall of Napoleon), focusing particularly on the Napoleonic era. After an historical background, it covers the heritage of the Ancien Regime with the important contributions of Vauban (the bastioned defense), Gribeauval's reforms in artillery, and Montalembert's innovations. Chapters explore the style of Napoleonic fortifications, siege warfare, artillery and engineering corps, as well as the Napoleonic achievements in France, Italy, German and the Netherlands, including projects that were planned but never completed. Included are nearly 250 line drawings of historic fortifications.

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Medicine and Religion c. 1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0198207263 | edition 1998 | PDF | 351 pages | 12,8 mb
This book discusses the relationship between religion and medicine around 1300. Joseph Ziegler analyses the spiritual writings of two learned physicians in the light of their medical background and examines the use of medical knowledge for non-medical purposes, and by clerics who did not engage in medical practice.

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Raphael Chijioke Njoku Culture and Customs of Morocco
Greenwood Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0313332894 | 176 pages | PDF | 14,5 MB
General readers finally have a substantive resource for information on a country most known in the United States for the Humphrey Bogart classic Casablanca, images of the souks (markets), hashish, and Berber rugs. The strong introduction surveys the people, land, government, economy, educational system, and history. Most weight is given to modern history, with French colonial rule ending in 1956 and a succession of monarchs since then. The discussion of religion and worldview illuminates the Islamic base and Jewish communities but is also notable for the discussion of Berber beliefs in spirits. In the Literature and Media chapter, the oral culture of the Berbers and the new preference for Western-style education and use of French and even English are highlights. The Moroccans are renowned as skilled artisans, and their products are enumerated in the Art and Architecture/Housing chapter, along with the intriguing descriptions of casbahs and old quarters in the major cities. Moroccans are hospitable and family oriented, which is reflected in descriptions of their cuisine and social customs.

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Thomas More, "Utopia"
Cambridge University Press | 2002 | ISBN: 0521819253, 0521525403 | 180 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB

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The International Politics of the Middle East
Publisher: Manchester University Press | ISBN: 0719053463 | edition 2003 | PDF | 240 pages | 11 mb
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Middle East international politics in the light of international relations theory. It assesses the impact of international penetration, including the historic formation of the regional state system, the continued role of external great powers, and the incorporation of the region into the international capitalist market. It examines the region’s distinctive dialect between trans-state identities, Arabism and Islam, and the consolidation of a sovereign state system. It looks at the consequences of state formation for the ability of state elites to manage the external and domestic arenas in which they must operate; and it analyzes the impact of the foreign policy process in individual states.

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What Would Google Do? CD By Jeff Jarvis
Publisher: HarperAudio 2009-02-01 | ISBN: 0061726338 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 196 MB
A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? ... The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you...

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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Blowback Trilogy) By Chalmers Johnson
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc. 2007-11-01 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1433204797 | MP3 | 394 MB
The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms...

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Беглый огонь! Записки немецкого артиллериста 1940-1945
2009 | Вильгельм Липпих | Яуза-Пресс | ISBN: 978 5995500414 | руcский | PDF | 304 pages | 7.0 Mb
Серия: Вторая мировая война: Жизнь и смерть на Восточном фронте
Помимо передовой тактики блицкрига, помимо сокрушительных танковых клиньев и грозных пикировщиков, наводивших ужас на врага, к началу Второй мировой войны Вермахт обладал еще одним "чудо-оружием" - так называемой Infanteriegeschutzen ("пехотной артиллерией"), чьи орудия сопровождали немецкую пехоту непосредственно в боевых порядках, чтобы при необходимости поддержать огнем, прямой наводкой подавить вражеские огневые точки, обеспечить прорыв обороны противника или отражение его атаки. "Пехотные артиллеристы" всегда находились на самых опасных участках фронта, несли самые тяжелые потери; неудивительно, что их мемуары - большая редкость. И эта книга - среди лучших.

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Bf 109 Aces of the Russian Front
Publisher: Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1841760846 | edition 2001 | PDF | 99 pages | 16,4 mb
The highest scoring aces of any aerial conflict were the Luftwaffe pilots involved in the bloody combats on the Russian Front. The most common fighter used by these pilots was the Bf 109, which was involved in the action from Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, through to the doomed Defence of the Reich in 1945. Units like JGs 5, 52 and 54 all flew the Messerschmitt fighter, progressing from Emil to Gustav variants. This volume includes all the high-scoring aces, and explains just how difficult a job the Jagdwaffe faced on the Russian Front, and how its experts achieved such overwhelming scores. Aircraft of the Aces 6 and 37 are also available in a single volume as ‘German Aces of the Russian Front’.

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Юности честное зерцало или Показаниiе къ жiтеiскому обхожденiю
1717г. | DjVu
Книга "Юности честное зерцало" впервые была напечатана в 1717г. по личному указанию Петpa I. Она представляет собой наставление для молодежи, собранное, как сказано в заголовке, "от разных авторов".

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Шарлотта Зелинг "Мода. Век модельеров. 1900-1999"
Konemann, 2000 г. | 656 стр. | ISBN 3829054149 | PDF | 26.5Mb
Автор рассказывает о творцах моды - кутюрье, модельерах, дизайнерах, об их творческом пути, о созданных ими моделях. Это издание - не только энциклопедический словарь по истории моды, куда вошли все знаменитые имена модельеров XX столетия, но одновременно красочный рассказ о многих звездах подиума. Завершает эту прекрасно иллюстрированную книгу справочный аппарат, где читатель может найти подробный глоссарий, а также адреса крупнейших международных школ моды.

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История костюма, составленная Наталией Будур
Олма-Пресс, 2001 г. | 480 стр. | ISBN 5224020123 | DjVu | 20Mb
В книге рассказывается об истории костюма с древнейших времен до конца XIX века, когда произошла реформа одежды. Особое внимание в книге уделяется русскому костюму. Все описания костюмов сопровождаются старинными черно-белыми раскрашенными вручную гравюрами.

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Colin Robinson, "Successes and Failures in Regulating and Deregulating Utilities: Evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA"
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing | PDF | 2004 | ISBN 1843767708 | 241 pages | 10.3 Mb
This book is the latest annual review of utility regulation and deregulation, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School. It contains a series of chapters from leading practitioners in the field which comment on the most significant and up-to-date developments. Topics include US telecoms deregulation, road network regulation, UK competition policy, Ofcom and light touch regulation, railway regulation, the liberalization of European utility markets, postal regulation, investment and regulation, and energy regulation in the UK. Two papers are presented on each issue: the first by a distinguished academic or industry expert and the second, a shorter comment, usually by the relevant regulator. Together they show how regulation and deregulation are evolving, and highlight the successes which have been achieved and the failures which must be overcome. This book will be of considerable value to practitioners, policymakers and academics involved in regulatory reform and regulatory economics. It will also be of interest to anyone wishing to gain an overview of international regulatory policies.

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Valerie Marcel, John V. Mitchell, "Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East"
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press | PDF | 2006 | ISBN 0815754744 | 332 pages | 10.2 Mb
Ninety percent of the worlds oil reserves are entrusted to state-owned companies. Originally created as political instruments, these so-called national oil companies (NOCs) face new demands amid todays dwindling oil reserves and simmering social pressures. Increasingly, state-owned oil firms--particularly in the Middle East--must balance the political demands of their governments with the need to be commercially competitive. In this ground-breaking new volume, Valerie Marcel draws on unprecedented access to the politicians, engineers, and businessmen directing five Middle Eastern state oil companies to illuminate one of international industrys most secretive yet powerful sectors. The author tells the stories of Saudi Aramco, the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, the National Iranian Oil Company, Sonatrach of Algeria, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Taken together, these oil titans produce one quarter of the worlds oil and hold half of the worlds known oil and gas reserves. Marcel explains the complex bond between each state and its oil company, tracing evolution of the companies from the politically charged days of foreign concessions to todays world of profit-driven decisionmaking. Drawing on numerous and extensive interviews with company executives, middle managers, and oil ministry officials, Marcel identifies a number of surprising new trends in NOC strategy. She also paints a picture of their operating culture, capturing their nascent sense of corporate identity. Contributor John V. Mitchell, a renowned oil industry analyst, puts the operations and culture of NOCs into a wider macroeconomic context. He shows how the hydrocarbon sector fits into the overall national economies and discusses how it must adapt to rapidly changing circumstances in order to offset economic weaknesses elsewhere. Oil Titans provides rare and timely insight into how state-owned companies are striking a new balance between their national mission and their commercial needs. It provides an insiders guide to their unique culture while demonstrating the critically important role they plan in developing and maintaining their countrys economic welfare.

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Yan Sun, "The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | PDF | 1995 | ISBN 0691029989 | 365 pages | 10.6 Mb
A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of reform and revolution in their respective countries.

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Yoram Dinstein, "War, Aggression and Self-Defence"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | PDF | 2001 | ISBN 0521793440 | 330 pages | 10 Mb
Yoram Dinsteins seminal textbook is an essential guide to the legal issues of war and peace, armed attack, self-defence and enforcement measures taken under the aegis of the Security Council. This third edition incorporates new material on the Kosovo air campaign, humanitarian intervention, recent resolutions adopted by the Security Council, the latest pronouncements of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Also discussed are new treaties including the 1998 Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court and current studies of the International Law Commission. In addition, supplementary sections consider, for example, enforcement action carried out by regional organizations under the authority of the Security Council. War, Aggression and Self-Defence remains a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the legal issues surrounding war and self-defence, and continues to provide an indispensable tool for students and practitioners of international law, international relations and military studies.

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Raymond Van Dam, "The Roman Revolution of Constantine"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | PDF | 2007 | ISBN 0521882095 | 458 pages | 10.4 Mb
The reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and the Middle East. The foundation of Constantinople as a new imperial residence and the rise of Greek as the language of administration previewed the establishment of a separate eastern Roman empire.

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Edward C. Page, Bill Jenkins, "Policy Bureaucracy: Government with a Cast of Thousands"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | PDF | 2005 | ISBN 019928041X | 241 pages | 10.8 Mb
Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. Long before laws are drafted, policy commitments made, or groups consulted on government proposals, officials will have been working away to shape the policy into a form in which it can be presented to ministers and the outside world. Policy bureaucracies - parts of government organizations with specific responsibility for maintaining and developing policy - have to be mobilized before most significant policy initiatives are launched. This book describes the range of work policy officials do. The 140 civil servants interviewed for this study included officials who helped originate policies which were subsequently taken over as manifesto commitments by the Labour Party; officials who helped devise the formula by which billions of pounds are allocated to local government in grants; and also officials who recommended to the Secretary of State that a controversial publisher be allowed to take over a national newspaper. The background and career paths of middle-ranking officials show them to be a diverse group who do not tend to develop long-term subject specialisms. The instructions to which these officials work - whether coming from ministers or senior officials - are often very broad and leave much to personal interpretation. Policy Bureaucracy goes on to examine how ministers and senior officials affect the work of middle ranking officials and the cues policy bureaucrats use to develop policy. The analytical approach adopted in the book is derived from Alvin Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy and his elaboration of Max Weber's notion that hierarchy and expertise place a fundamental tension at the heart of modern bureaucracies. In the UK this tension is handled by combining 'invited authority' with 'improvised expertise'. The book also explores other models of handling this tension in political systems in Europe and the USA.

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Derek Gregory, Allan Pred, "Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence"
Publisher: Routledge | PDF | 2006 | ISBN 041595147X | 402 pages | 10.6 Mb
Derek Gregory and Allan Pred's Violent Geographies gathers together a group of young and well established geographers to look at how territory and space delimit and shape both terrorism and political violence in wide range of places, from the Middle East to Latin America. In short, the book shows how physical violence, especially terrorism, disrupts the distinction between the global and the local by injecting transnational politics into the intimacies of everyday life. Violent Geographies also shows how terrorism is not simply used by nonstate groups --states use it as well, including many of America's allies. It goes far beyond 9/11 moving backward in history and across the globe to other locales to get at the heightened states of emergency that are occurring everywhere.

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Adalbert Evers, Jean-Louis Laville, "The Third Sector in Europe (Globalization & Welfare)"
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing | PDF | 2004 | ISBN 1843764008 | 279 pages | 10.1 Mb
This book explores Europe's third sector - the non-profit organizations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organizations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary socio-economics and social policy. The pathbreaking contributions examine the third sector in Europe within a framework which seeks to conceptually integrate two hitherto separate debates: that concerning the `social economy' of co-operatives and mutuals, and the debate on voluntary, civil society and non-profit organizations. Theoretical concepts are developed and debated, and the relationship between the development of national societies, public welfare and the third sector are explored. The book goes on to discuss the crucial role of the state and public policies - including measures that have been introduced at the European Union level. The contributions reveal the need for policy perspectives and forms of governance that respect the added value of third sector organizations, without separating them. It is argued that, in future European welfare models, it is not the size of a third sector that matters, but rather the overall impact of its civic principles. With its informative contributions about the third sector in various EU countries, the theoretical approaches offered and the ways in which policy issues are dealt with, this book will be of great interest to a wide-ranging audience including: social policy scholars, economists, political scientists and policymakers with an interest in the evolution of the third sector.

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David M. Guss, "The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance"
Publisher: University of California Press | PDF | 2000 | ISBN 0520202899 | 254 pages | 10.5 Mb
If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings. Guss investigates "the ideology of tradition," combining four case studies in a radical multisite ethnography to demonstrate how in each instance concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined.
In a narrative as colorful as the events themselves, Guss presents the Afro-Venezuelan celebration of San Juan, the "neo-Indian" Day of the Monkey, the mestizo ritual of Tamunangue, and the cultural policies and products of a British multinational tobacco corporation. All these illustrate the remarkable fluidity of festive behavior as well as its importance in articulating different cultural interests.

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Dean Kotlowski, "European Union: From Jean Monnet To The Euro"
Publisher: Ohio University Press | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 0821413317 | 243 pages | 10.7 Mb

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Myths & Legends Explained By Neil Philip
Publisher: DK Publishing 2007 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0756628717 | PDF | 15 MB

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Matthew Sprange, Nick Robinson
Victory at Sea : World War II Naval Combat Game
Mongoose Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 1906103054 | 96 pages | PDF | 61 Mb
The Second World War saw naval warfare evolve from the clash of mighty dreadnaughts, which had been the preoccupation of navies for half a century, to a conflict dominated by the aircraft carrier and submarine. The Battle of the Atlantic saw German U-boats attempt to strangle the economy of the United Kingdom, with fast commerce raiders such as the pocket battleships and the mighty Bismarck attempting to slip into the Atlantic to wreak devastation upon the allied convoys. In the Mediterranean the Italian and British fleets squared off as each side attempted to settle the fate of Egypt and North Africa, as both sides attempted to strangle the other s supply routes. In the east mighty carrier fleets clashed as the Imperial Japanese Navy tried to hold on to the rapid conquests of 1942, whilst all the while American submariners strove to paralyse Japan s industrial might via attacks on her merchant fleet. It was here that mighty battleships clashed in ferocious night battles amongst the Pacific islands. Victory at Sea brings these conflicts to life allowing budding admirals to re-fight the epic battles of this conflict, or to create their own fleets based upon the ships of the day and fight entire campaigns. Over seventy different ship classes are detailed, allowing a wide array of different battles to be fought with eighteen scenarios included. Based upon the award winning A Call to Arms games system, Victory at Sea is a fast flowing game that will allow novices and veteran gamers alike to enjoy recreating the epic struggles between the mighty fleets of the era. Victory at Sea includes cut-out counters to use with every class of ship featured in the game.

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The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles By Hamid Naficy
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press 1993 | 283 Pages | ISBN: 0816620873 | PDF | 16 MB

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John Clare's Religion By Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher: Ashgate 2009 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0754665143 | PDF | 2 MB

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Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462-1874 By John L. Keep
Publisher: Oxford University Press 1985 | 475 Pages | ISBN: 019822575X | PDF | 124 MB

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Правда о допетровской Руси. "Золотой век" Русского государства
2010 | Жак Сустель | Андрей Буровский | ISBN: 978 5699338993 | русский | PDF | 414 pages | 9.4 Mb
Один из главных исторических мифов Российской империи и СССР - миф о допетровской Руси. Якобы до "пришествия Петра" наша земля прозябала в кромешном мраке, дикости и невежестве: варварские обычаи, звериная жестокость, отсталость решительно во всем. Дескать, не было в Московии XVII века ни нормального управления, ни боеспособной армии, ни флота, ни просвещения, ни светской литературы, ни даже зеркал...

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Andrew P. Cortell, "Mediating Globalization: Domestic Institutions And Industrial Policies in the United States And Britain (Suny Series in Global Politics)"
Publisher: State University of New York Press | 2006 | ISBN 0791464423 | PDF | 247 pages | 10.4 MB

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John S. Odell, "Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0521679788 | PDF | 310 pages | 10.5 MB
Negotiations between governments shape the world political economy and in turn the lives of people everywhere. Developing countries have become far more influential in talks in the World Trade Organization, including infamous stalemates in Seattle in 1999 and Cancún in 2003, as well as bilateral and regional talks like those that created NAFTA. Yet social science does not understand well enough the process of negotiation, and least of all the roles of developing countries, in these situations. This book sheds light on three aspects of this otherwise opaque process: the strategies developing countries use; coalition formation; and how they learn and influence other participants' beliefs. This book will be valuable for many readers interested in negotiation, international political economy, trade, development, global governance, or international law. Developing country negotiators and those who train them will find practical insights on how to avoid pitfalls and negotiate better.

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James D. Savage, "Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2008 | ISBN 0199238693 | PDF | 256 pages | 10.5 MB
The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU member states comply with their famous deficit and debt requirements of three and sixty per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the EU's leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a three per cent deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France? Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's sanctions. This book provides the first examination of how the EU entrusted the credibility of these critical budgetary figures to a relatively minor European Commission agency, and what effect the surveillance procedure has on the making of the EMU and the enforcement of Maastricht.

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Mark LeVine, "Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948"
Publisher: University of California Press | 2005 | ISBN 0520239946 | PDF | 457 pages | 12 MB
This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages. Drawing from a wealth of untapped primary sources, including Ottoman records, Jaffa Shari'a court documents, town planning records, oral histories, and numerous Zionist and European archival sources, LeVine challenges nationalist historiographies of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, revealing the manifold interactions of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities that lived there. At the center of the book is a discussion of how Tel Aviv's self-definition as the epitome of modernity affected its and Jaffa's development and Jaffa's own modern pretenses as well. As he unravels this dynamic, LeVine provides new insights into how popular cultures and public spheres evolved in this intersection of colonial, modern, and urban space. He concludes with a provocative discussion of how these discourses affected the development of today's unified city of Tel Aviv-Yafo and, through it, Israeli and Palestinian identities within in and outside historical Palestine.

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Keith Laybourn, Christine F. Collette, "Modern Britain Since 1979: A Reader (Tauris History Readers)"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2003 | ISBN 1860645976 | PDF | 272 pages | 10.8 MB
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power and the ensuing years are key to understanding Britain in the 21st century. Keith Laybourn and Christine Collette have gathered a carefully selected collection of materials from primary and secondary sources. They cover the major themes in British social and cultural history and politics of the last 25 years; trade unionism, the welfare state, Conservative politics, Blair's "Third Way". The conflict over Britain's relations with Europe, along with regionalism and devolution are illustrated, as well as the shifts in ethnicity, racial and sexual equality and immigration.

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David M. Standlea, "Oil, Globalization, And the War for the Arctic Refuge"
Publisher: State University of New York Press | 2006 | ISBN 0791466329 | PDF | 209 pages | 10.8 MB
Examines the battle to develop the oil resources of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Lisa Pollard, "Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923"
Publisher: University of California Press | 2005 | ISBN 0520240235 | PDF | 302 pages | 11 MB
Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.

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Juliane Hammer, "Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland"
Publisher: University of Texas Press | 2005 | ISBN 0292702965 | PDF | 287 pages | 11.5 MB
In the decade following the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, some 100,000 diasporic Palestinians returned to the West Bank and Gaza. Among them were children and young adults who were born in exile and whose sense of Palestinian identity was shaped not by lived experience but rather through the transmission and re-creation of memories, images, and history. As a result, "returning" to the homeland that had never actually been their home presented challenges and disappointments for these young Palestinians, who found their lifeways and values sometimes at odds with those of their new neighbors in the West Bank and Gaza. This original ethnography records the experiences of Palestinians born in exile who have emigrated to the Palestinian homeland. Juliane Hammer interviews young adults between the ages of 16 and 35 to learn how their Palestinian identity has been affected by living in various Arab countries or the United States and then moving to the West Bank and Gaza. Their responses underscore how much the experience of living outside of Palestine has become integral to the Palestinian national character, even as Palestinians maintain an overwhelming sense of belonging to one another as a people.

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Allan Gyngell, Michael Wesley, "Making Australian Foreign Policy"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2003 | ISBN 0521539978 | PDF | 300 pages | 10.9 MB
Outlining practical and theoretical approaches in the making of Australian foreign policy, this text analyzes the processes, structures and calculations involved in policy initiation in an increasingly tense and dangerous international environment. Revealing changes caused by the impact of the various manifestations of globalization, this book is essential for students of Australian foreign policy. It will also be of interest to anyone concerned with foreign policy, diplomacy and international relations.

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Attila Meligh, Attila Melegh, "On the East/West Slope: Globalization, Nationalism, Racism and Discources on Eastern Europe"
Publisher: Central European University Press | 2006 | ISBN 9637326243 | PDF | 224 pages | 12.8 MB
Attila Melegh, sociologist, economist and historian by training. He has taught in the United States, Russia, Georgia and Hungary, now is a lecturer at Corvinus University, Budapest, and also works for the Demographic Research Institute. Beside discourse analysis he also does research on sociological and historical aspects of globalization and international migration. Melegh's work offers a powerful analysis of the sociological and symbolic meanings of East-West in Europe after the end of the Cold War. Melegh exposes the underbelly of liberal characterizations of East-West, highlighting the polarizing effect of extreme nationalism and ethnic racism. The theoretical underpinnings of this work involve the ideas of preeminent theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Michel Foucault and more recently Maria Todorova and Iver Neumann. The importance of this work lies in its ability to cast into fine relief how the "East-West Slope" oriented negatively from West to East has emerged from liberal characterizations of this project. In addition this is one of the first attempts to link post-colonial analysis to developments in Eastern Europe.

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Мэри Берд Парфенон
Эксмо | 2007 | ISBN-13: 9785699238927 | 234 pages | PDF | 91 MB
Силуэт этого храма над Афинами мгновенно узнаваемый образ. Оскар Уайльд сравнивал этот храм с белокожей богиней, а Ивлин Во – со стилтонским сыром. Вот уже две с половиной тысячи лет Парфенон вызывает восхищение, вдохновляет, бередит души: от его красоты захватывает дух, а на глаза наворачиваются слезы. Этот храм сжигали, бомбили, грабили – но и по сей день он остается одним из величайших чудес света.

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Willie F. Page Encyclopedia of African History and Culture, vol. 1-5
Facts on File | 2005 | ISBN: 0816052697 | 1780 pages | PDF | 60 MB
Authoritative and Illuminating; This comprehensive set covers the entire expanse of African history as never before. It treats Africa - its geography, art, cultures, peoples, personalities, and even its wildlife - in three volumes, each devoted to a major period in the continent's development. Each volume's in-depth, heavily cross-referenced, and alphabetical entries draw students, researchers, and general readers into the histories of ancient cities, powerful kingdoms, and charismatic leaders, many of whom are little known. Filled with fascinating sidebars, unusual illustrations, and above all wonderful stories, these accessible, attractive, and very readable encyclopedias are authoriative information sources as well as enteratining and illuminating guides to the world's most diverse continent. Ancient Africa; This volume covers the earliest stages of Africa's history, from civilization's beginnings through the Metallic Age, the kingdoms of Egypt and Nubia, Africa's interaction with ancient Greece and Rome, and the rise of Kush and Aksum.

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Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature: Cisjordan-Israelite, Transjordan-Israelite, and Judahite Portrayals
De Gruyter | 2009-11-16 | ISBN: 3110221713 | 303 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and

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О. Семенов Авторское оружие. Создание образа, отделка. Мастер-класс тульского художника-оружейника
Аделант | 2010 | ISBN-13: 9785936421815 | 256 pages | PDF | 28 MB
В мире есть три вещи, созерцание которых доставляет человеку удовольствие и никогда не наскучит - это вид воды в движении, огонь (если не горит твой дом) и как работает человек - Мастер. Я рад представить уважаемому читателю удивительную книгу моего коллеги, тульского художника-оружейника Олега Семенова. Удивительна эта книга тем, что она не о произведениях оружейного искусства современных мастеров, а о том "Как это делается". Удивительна еще и тем, что написана не теоретиком и знатоком прикладного искусства и оружейного дела, а Мастером, владеющим всеми тонкостями древнего искусства. Для нас, его коллег из Гильдии мастеров-оружейников стало полной неожиданностью, что Олег задумал и осуществил свою мечту - поделиться своими знаниями со всем миром. Он пунктуально, шаг за шагом открывает завесу тайны Мастерства

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Vincenzo Ruggieri yzantine Religious Architecture 582-867 Its History and Structural Element
Loyola Pr | 1991 | ISBN: 9993890197 | 287 pages | PDF | 37.5 MB
The aim of the present work js to investigate the development or religious Byzantine architecture between the years 582-867 A.D. These two dates are the termini we tentatively use in order to delimit a period which elsewhere has been called the ‘Dark Ages’. Inasmuch as we will be investigating an architectural evolution, this work will also become an account and an historical investigation of the development of two major religious institutions: the cathedral church and the monastery.

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Rick Priestley, Jervis Johnson
Black Powder: Battles with Model Soldiers in the Age of the Musket
Warlord Games | 2010 | ISBN: 0956358101 | 182 pages | PDF | 103 Mb
Black Powder is Warlord Games' first publication. It is a beautiful book in its own right with hundreds of color photographs taken by the Perry brothers of the most exquisitely painted model soldiers from their world-renowned collection.
The rule book's intention is inspire a collector to play gentlemanly games with their own collections of soldiers with friends where the emphasis is on the spirit of the age of musket, not the letter of the rule. With decisive battles from the key wars of the period, such as El Teb, from the Sudan War, Ntombi River from the Zulu Wars, Alma from the Crimean War and Freemans Farm from the American War of Independence, as well as two fictional scenarios from the American Civil War and Napoleon's Wars, there really is something to keep everyone happy. It is a hearty publication and not for nitpickers or miseries. There are some good gags in it, but it also plays well and enables players to conduct a very big battle in a civilized period of time, leaving them more time to chat about the highs and lows and what ifs.

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Federalism and Democratisation in Russia
Publisher: Manchester University Press | ISBN: 0719058708 | edition 2003 | PDF | 182 pages | 11,3 mb
The fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc has been covered in print to an almost exhaustive degree. However, there has been very little written that focuses on the regions of the former Soviet Union, or on the Russian Federation itself. This book builds on Cameron Ross' earlier work, Regional Politics in Russia, by combining theoretical perspectives with empirical work, to provide a comparative analysis of the electoral systems, party systems, and governmental systems in the ethnic republics and regions and to assess the impact of these different institutional arrangements on democratization and federalism.

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Ирландия: История страны
2009 | Питер Невилл | Эксмо; Мидгард | ISBN: 978 5699338047 | руcский | PDF | 352 pages | 14.2 Mb
Размеры Зеленого острова, олицетворения "кельтского духа", невелики, зато история этого острова чрезвычайно богата. Холмы Волшебного народа, Финн и его дружина, священные камни Тары и Эмайн Махи, викинги в Дублине, английское вторжение, "грязные Пэдди", борьба за гомруль, картофельный голод, эмиграция в Америку, боевики ИРА и растянувшееся на многие годы противостояние в Ольстере - все это Ирландия...

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Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence By Karen Pinkus
Publisher: Stanford University Press 2009 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0804760322 | PDF | 2 MB

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Ancient Glass Research Along The Silk Road By Gan Fuxi
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company 2009 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 9812833560 | PDF | 5 MB

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The Complete Kama Sutra : The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text By Alain Daniélou
Publisher: Park Street Press 1994 | 564 Pages | ISBN: 0892814926 | PDF | 2 MB

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Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy By Christopher Chase-Dunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1998 | 452 Pages | ISBN: 0847691020 | PDF | 20 MB

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For the Love of Teddi: The Story Behind Camp Good Days and Special Times - 2nd edition
Publisher: Praeger | ISBN: 0275973417 | edition 2001 | PDF | 208 pages | 10 mb
Teddi Mervis, at 12 years of age, lost her battle with cancer. Yet, Camp Good Days and Special Times--an organization devoted to making the lives of children with cancer as happy and rewarding as possible--lives on because of the dedication Teddi inspired. In this newedition, Lou Buttino brings the story forward from 1990 with new photographs and an afterword.

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The Steamboat Era: A History of Fulton's Folly on American Rivers, 1807-1860 By S. L. Kotar, J. E. Gessler
Publisher: McFarland 2009 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 0786443871 | PDF | 17 MB

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Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century By Charles Derry
Publisher: McFarland 2009 | 447 Pages | ISBN: 0786433973 | PDF | 15 MB

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Roger B. Beck
Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction [CD ROM edition]
Mcdougal Littell / Houghton Mifflin | 2004 | ISBN: 0618432388 | 715 pages | PDF | 379 Mb
Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction combines a highly visual approach with primary sources to help all students understand world history and make global connections.

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Richard H. Wilkinson
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Thames & Hudson | 2000 | ISBN: 0500051003 | 257 pages | PDF | 152 Mb
A comprehensive survey of all Egypt's temples, from Luxor and Karnak to those in the delta, oases and Nubia. It traces the processes of building and decorating, how they functioned, and what happened when they were robbed and desecrated. It also discusses the Egyptian pantheon, rites and festivals.

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Линкоры фюрера. Главный калибр Кригсмарине (Арсенал коллекция)
Эксмо | 2008 | ISBN: 5699278329 | 276 Pages | PDF | 31 MB

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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 0375702105 | edition 1998 | PDF | 208 pages | 4,9 mb
Sixty-five million years ago a gigantic comet or asteroid as big as Mount slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, creating an explosion on impact equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million bombs. It produced a cloud of roiling debris that blackened the sky for months as well as other geologic disasters--and triggered the demise of Tyrannosaurus rex. We know what happened largely because Walter Alvarez--synthesizing the findings of experts from a variety of scientific fields--has written a gripping story of the decades-long search for the cause of the dinosaurs' extinction.

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The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds
Publisher: Basic Books | ISBN: 1568582048 | edition 2001 | PDF | 304 pages | 2,4 mb
In 1996, a group of Chinese farmers discovered whose skeletons looked like small dinosaurs outlined with feathers. To paleontologist Phil Currie, this finding suggested that the controversial theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds might be true. In The Bone Museum, Wayne Grady recounts his travels with Currie on major digs. Conveying both the environmental challenges and the adrenaline rush of discovery, Grady's tales are a compelling blend of adventure and intellectual quest.

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Paul van der Velde, "Multiregionalism and Multilateralism: Asian-European Relations in a Global Context (Icas Publication)"
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press | 2007 | ISBN 9053569294 | PDF | 193 pages | 10 MB
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM, est. 1996) is an interregional forum which consists of the members of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan and South Korea. The main components of the ASEM process include political dialogue, economy, education and culture. Multiregionalism and Multilateralism focuses on the institutionalsiation of intra-regional and inter-regional cooperation in the international system with emphasis on the changing relationship between the EU, China and India. The role of ASEM in this relationship is growing more important because of the growth of multilateralism as cornerstone of the international system.

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Richard Delgado, Jennifer Hochschild, "Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis"
Publisher: NYU Press | 2003 | ISBN 0814719554 | PDF | 236 pages | 10.5 MB

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«Atlas der Globalisierung» von Serge Halimi (Vorwort), Barbara Bauer (Redakteur), Philippe Rekacewicz (Zeichner)

Le Monde diplomatique |Illustrator:Philippe Rekacewicz| ISBN 3937683259 | Edition - 2009 | PDF, ZIP | 216 Pages | 92.4 MB
Der Atlas der Globalisierung macht die ökonomische, mediale und technologische Globalisierung anschaulich und behält dabei stets im Blick, was sich durch sie für die Menschen verändert. Die Leser werden sich verwundert die Augen darüber reiben, mit welcher Wucht und Selbstverständlichkeit die Globalisierung inzwischen alles erfasst hat.

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Империя Романовых и национализм
2006 | Алексей Миллер | Новое литературное обозрение | ISBN: 5867934357 | русский | DJVU | 248 pages | 4.6 Mb
Империя, среди прочего, это пространство, где различные этнические группы взаимодействуют между собой и с властями. Это история восстаний и репрессий, борьбы и сотрудничества, аккультурации, ассимиляции и диссимиляции. Такая история империи Романовых еще не написана. Алексей Миллер, один из ведущих российских специалистов по истории империй, автор книги «"Украинский опрос" в политике властей и русском общественном мнении» (2000), соредактор недавно вышедшей в «НЛО» книги «Западные окраины Российской империи», размышляет в своей новой работе о том, как можно писать историю империи, чтобы на не превращалась в сумму национальных и региональных нарративов и не была повторением традиционной имперской версии русской истории.

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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
Publisher: Ballantine Books | ISBN: 0345465660 | edition 2003 | PDF | 423 pages | 15,7 mb
Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.
Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderers—from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, “trophies” to trading cards. Discover:

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Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror By Senator Bob Graham with Jeffrey Nussbaum
Publisher: Books on Tape 2004 | ISBN: 1415905053 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 165 MB
Shining much-needed light on areas the 9/11 Commission preferred to keep dark, Intelligence Matters chronicles the efforts of a historic joint House-Senate inquiry to get to the bottom of our intelligence failures on that infamous day in 2001. Originally published in 2004 amid the media circus surrounding The 9/11 Commission Report, it told more than a riveting tale--it also provided an unflinching expose of failure, incompetence, and deceit at the highest levels of our government...

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Military Intelligence Blunders
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers | ISBN: 0786707151 | edition 2000 | PDF | 381 pages | 16,7 mb
This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders who won't listen to what they are told. It is an analysis of the "intelligence cycle" that turns raw data into useful information about capabilities and intentions and then brings it to the attention of the decision-makers. Who uses many examples of all kinds of extraordinary decisions and deceptions from history to show how often and badly things can go wrong

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America's Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies by George Friedman
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks 2004-12-01 | Genre: World Affairs | ISBN: 0786182830 | Read By: Brian Emerson | MP3 files in rar | 117 MB
Dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA," Stratfor, George Friedman's global intelligence company, is one of the world's most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map...

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Carl Waldman, "Atlas of the North American Indian"
Facts on File | 2009 | ISBN: 0816068585 | 465 pages | PDF | 50,5 MB

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Vietnam Veterans Since the War: The Politics of Ptsd, Agent Orange, and the National Memorial By Wilbur J. Scott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press 2004 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0806135972 | PDF | 16 MB

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Наша история. 100 великих имён. Выпуск 6 Александр Пушкин
2010 | Де Агостини | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 32 pages | 20.3 Mb or 9.0 Mb
Очередной выпуск новейшей по времени коллекции «Де Агостини» «Наша история. 100 великих имён» посвящён великому русскому поэту Александру Сергеевичу Пушкину.

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Западные окраины Российской империи
2006 | М. Долбилов | Новое литературное обозрение | ISBN: 586793425Х | русский | DJVU | 606 pages | 14.8 Mb
Западные окраины были наиболее плотно заселенной и развитой в экономическом отношении частью империи Романовых. Интенсивность политических процессов на этих землях также была несравненно выше, чем в других частях империи. Именно здесь возникли еврейский, польский и украинский вопросы, сохранявшие свою актуальность вплоть до краха Российской империи.

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Frantisek Koran, Michal Ovcacik - Avia S-199 & CS-199
Wings and Wheels Publications | 1999 | ISBN: 8090267726 | 76 pages | PDF | 22.46 MB
Wings & Wheels Special Museum Line No. 7
One of the Messerschmitt Bf 109G/K successors from Czechoslovak post-war production. Photo manual for modelers.

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The Gulf War 1991
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415968526 | edition 2003 | PDF | 89 pages | 12 mb
The Gulf War of 1991 heralded a new type of warfare - one dominated by speed and high technology, that yielded a remarkably low level of casualties among the Allied forces. Just under a million Allied troops were deployed to the Gulf region, where they faced not only the extreme heat, but also biological, chemical and suspected nuclear threats. This book assesses both Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield, examining each forces strategies, and the political and military figures who were involved on both sides. The operational side of Desert Shield is also detailed in full.

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Arthur and the Anglo Saxon Wars
Publisher: Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1841761656 | edition 2000 | PDF | 17 pages | 15,5 mb
In the minds of most the name 'King Arthur' conjures up images of an armour-clad king surrounded by his loyal knights. It is more likely that the real King Arthur, if he truly existed, was a Romano-British warlord in the dark days that followed the collapse or Roman rule in Britain. This book looks at the realities behind the myth of king Arthur against the backdrop of invasion as a nation was forged on the bloody anvil of war.

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400 лет обмана
2010 | А.Т. Фоменко | АСТ, Астрель | ISBN: 978 5953344876 | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 350 pages | 87.0 Mb Mb or 29.7 Mb
Первая часть посвящена критике скалигеровской хронологии. Подробно изложена история хронологической проблемы. Рассказано кто, как и когда создавал общепринятую
ныне хронологию Скалигера — Петавиуса. Рассказано о предшественниках Новой хронологии — Исааке Ньютоне, Николае Александровиче Морозове и других ученых XVI—XX ВЕКОВ, ВЫРАЖАВШИХ НЕДОВЕРИЕ К ХРОНОЛОГИИ Скалигера — Петавиуса и предлагавших различные пути ее исправления. Дан критический обзор МЕТОДОВ ДАТИРОВАНИЯ, ИСПОЛЬЗУЕМЫХ ИСТОРИКАМИ. В частности, критически анализируется радиоуглеродный метод датирования и его применения в хронологии.

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Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence By Jon Pahl
Publisher: NYU Press 2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0814767621 | PDF | 1 MB

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История Румынии
2005 | Ион Аурел Поп, Иоан Болован | Весь Мир | ISBN: 5777702600 | русский | DJVU | 680 pages | 9.3 Mb
Впервые современный российский читатель имеет возможность узнать о событиях румынской истории со времен даков и Древнего Рима и до самого последнего времени из уст самих румынских историков. Это фундаментальное научное исследование, проведенное под эгидой Центра трансильванских исследований Румынского культурного центра, отличается богатством фактического материала и нетривиальностью научного подхода.

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Charles Wesley - The Sermons of Charles Wesley: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2001-11-15 | ISBN: 0198269498 | PDF | 424 pages | 53.49 MB

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Bill Gunston - Nimrod: The Centenarian Aircraft
Spellmount | 2009 | ISBN: 0752452703 | 160 pages | PDF | 28.63 MB
For the first time and with previously unpublished data, this book traces the complete history of the world’s first jet airliner, and how this aircraft was developed into a succession of military aircraft named Nimrod. One chapter contains much information on a remarkable Nimrod version that was unfortunately abandoned, while another deals with a version of the Nimrod that was previously secret, and contains information never previously published in a book. A particular feature of this title is that each aircraft is illustrated by a detailed cutaway drawing.

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Средневековая Испания
2006 | Аделина Рюкуа | Вече | ISBN: 5953314590 | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 400 pages | 30.2 Mb or 16.0 Mb
Иберийский полуостров - уникальный регион, на территории которого в течение многих веков жили вместе христиане, евреи и мусульмане. Это совместное существование дало начало единственной в своем роде цивилизационной модели. Она стала результатом такого непосредственного восприятия и такой глубокой переработки каждым народом полуострова различных, порой взаимоисключающих влияний, что можно говорить о единой культуре, характерной для Средневековой Испании.

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The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942 - present By Scott Gunther
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2009 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 023022105X | PDF | 1 MB

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Judy E. Gaughan Murder Was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic
University of Texas Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0292721110 | 200 pages | PDF |11.5 MB
Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal system through which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment for murder. With implications that could modify the most fundamental beliefs about the Roman republic, Gaughan's research maintains that Roman criminal law did not contain a specific enactment against murder, although it had done so prior to the overthrow of the monarchy. While kings felt an imperative to hold monopoly over the power to kill,

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P-36 Hawk Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces 86)
Osprey Publishing Ltd | 2009 | ISBN: 1846034091 | 96 Pages | PDF | 34 MB

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John J., Jr. Pitney The Art of Political Warfare
Red River Books | 2001 | ISBN: 0806133821 | 246 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Highlights the striking similarities between politics and war and persuasively argues that the language of war teaches us about political activity. Each chapter takes a single military concept and applies it to political concerns ranging from campaign war chests to legislative tactics.

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Joshua Rubenstein, Alexander Gribanov, "The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov (Annals of Communism Series)"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2005 | ISBN 0300106815 | PDF | 428 pages | 10.8 MB
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and—as a result—a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency. The documents reveal the untold story of KGB surveillance of Sakharov from 1968 until his death in 1989 and of the regime’s efforts to intimidate and silence him. The disturbing archival materials show the KGB to have had a profound lack of understanding of the spiritual and moral nature of the human rights movement and of Sakharov’s role as one of its leading figures.

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Joanne Reitano, "The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present"
Publisher: Routledge | 2006 | ISBN 0415978491 | PDF | 338 pages | 10.8 MB
New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. The Restless City is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city. Organized around conventional time periods, each chapter provides an introduction to the era, followed by four or five mini-essays on different economic, political, social, or cultural conflicts that impacted NYC in that time period. This would make a great short text for a course on New York history, or on urban history and the development of the American city.

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Повседневная жизнь папского двора времен Борджиа и Медичи. 1420-1520
2008 | Жак Эрс | Вече | ISBN: 978 5235029644 | русский | DJVU | 264 pages | 5.1 Mb
История папского правления в Риме восходит к VIII веку, но лишь в конце XIV-XV веках власть пап приобретает необыкновенную значимость. Вынужденные покинуть Рим в 1307 году и более чем на три четверти века обосноваться во Франции, в Авиньоне, папы возвращаются в Вечный город лишь в 1378 году.

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Nell Freudenberger, "The Dissident: A Novel"
Publisher: Ecco | 2006 | ISBN 0060758716 | PDF | 443 pages | 10.5 MB
From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes a bold, intricately woven first novel about an enigmatic stranger who disrupts the life of one American family. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year's artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. But when their guest arrives, the Traverses are preoccupied with their own problems. Cece—devoted mother and contemporary art enthusiast—worries about the recent arrest of her son, Max. Unable to communicate with her husband, Gordon, a psychiatrist distracted by his passion for genealogical research, she turns to Gordon's wayward brother, Phil. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Olivia Travers is just relieved that her classmates seem to be ignoring the weird Chinese art teacher living in her pool house—at least until a brilliant but troublesome new student appears in his class. The dissident, for his part, is delighted to be left alone. His relationship to the 1989 Democracy Movement and his past in a Beijing underground artists' community together give him reason for not wanting to be scrutinized too carefully. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to see one another with clearer eyes.

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Frank Uekoetter, "The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany (Studies in Environment and History)"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0521848199 | PDF | 247 pages | 10.7 MB
This study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyses the roots of conservation in the late 19th century, the gradual adaptation of racist and nationalist thinking among conservationists in the 1920s and their indifference to the Weimar Republic. It describes how the German conservation movement came to cooperate with the Nazi regime and discusses the ideological and institutional lines between the conservation movement and the Nazis. Uekoetter further examines how the conservation movement struggled to do away with a troublesome past after World War II, making the environmentalists one of the last groups in German society to face up to its Nazi burden. It is a story of ideological convergence, of tactical alliances, of careerism, of implication in crimes against humanity, and of deceit and denial after 1945. It is also a story that offers valuable lessons for today's environmental movement.

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Sheri Berman, "The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0521817994 | PDF | 239 pages | 10.7 MB
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second World War and formed the basis of the postwar settlement. This is a study of European social democracy that rewrites the intellectual and political history of the modern era while putting contemporary debates about globalization in their proper intellectual and historical context.

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Norman Schofield, Itai Sened, "Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0521450357 | PDF | 248 pages | 10.5 MB
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leaders non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists. In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests between activists for the two main parties over who controls policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses of the Labour party were due to Blairs falling valence. For the US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of the two major parties over the last century.

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Angela K. Bourne, "The EU And Territorial Politics Within Member States: Conflict Or Co-operation?"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2004 | ISBN 9004141650 | PDF | 254 pages | 10.3 MB
"The EU and Territorial Politics Within Member States examines whether European integration helps or hinders the resolution of domestic territorial conflicts, including conflict between national groups, between territorially-based political parties or communities and different levels of political authority. The research draws on a wide range of case studies from Germany, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Ireland and Italy. The studies suggest EU institutional rules altering the balance of power between central and regional elites (as in Germany) and/or different national elites (as in Spain) and particular EU policies, such as enlargement in Cyprus and EU anti-terrorism policy in Spain, may create new or aggravate existing tensions within member states. However, the same EU institutional rules in different states (such as Belgium) and different policies, such cross-border programmes in Ireland may have the opposite effect. Similarly, opportunities for re-imagining territorial identities and redefining ambitions for control over territories may in some ways help the search for means to accommodate conflicts, while in others they may help entrench territorial cleavages or reproduce old tensions.

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Alfred Lambremont Webre, "Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe"
Publisher: Universebooks | 2005 | ISBN 0973766301 | PDF | 103 pages | 10.8 MB
EXOPOLITICS is the evolution of Alfred Lambremont Webre's groundbreaking work as a futurist at the Stanford Research Institute, where in 1977 he directed a proposed extraterrestrial communication study project for the Carter White House. Exopolitics may turn the dominant view of our Universe upside down. It reveals that we live on an isolated planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, and highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, and multi-dimensional Universe society. It explores why Earth seems to have been quarantined for eons from a more evolved Universe society. Exopolitics suggests specific steps to end our isolation, by reaching out to the technologically and spiritually advanced civilizations that are engaging our world at this unique, challenging time in human history.

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Babak Ganji, "Politics of Confrontation: The Foreign Policy of the USA and Revolutionary Iran (Library of International Relations)"
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies | 2006 | ISBN 1845110846 | PDF | 329 pages | 10.6 MB
This is a penetrating critique of international relations theory within the historical framework of US-Iranian relations from the early reign of the Shah to the revolution under the Ayatollah Khomeini, with particular emphasis on the final years during the Carter administration. This thorough examination provides the first in-depth look at US documents seized from the American Embassy by revolutionary students during the infamous hostage crisis.

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Muhsin al-Musawi, "Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2006 | ISBN 1845110706 | PDF | 217 pages | 10.4 MB
As a dramatic new era of Iraqi politics unfolds, Muhsin al-Musawi shows how artificially imposed notions of constitutional monarchy and secular nationalism failed to take root in the Iraqi sensibility, and instead provoked a broad-based counterculture of resistance. In a penetrating historical analysis, Musawi demonstrates the attractions of sectarianism and religion during periods of occupation and oppression.

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"Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Florida for the Period Beginning January 1, 1899 and Ending December 31, 1900"Tallahassean Book and Job Office, Tallahassee | 1900 | ISBN: none | 56 pgs. | PDF | 14MB
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"Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Florida for the Year 1907"Capital Pub. Co., State Printer, Tallahassee | 1908 | ISBN: none | 306 pgs. | PDF | 59MB

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Robin Margaret Jensen The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works
Cambridge University Press | 1998 | ISBN: 0521586631 | 334 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This is a major new student edition of the text described as ‘the first modern classic of English history’. Bacon’s penetration into human motives, his life-long experience of politics and government, and his remarkable literary skills, render this History of the Reign of King Henry VII a major work of English literature and an important document in the history of political thought. The introduction places Bacon’s History in the context of Renaissance historiography, revealing its debt to Tacitus, and shows Bacon’s originality in re-ordering traditional material to make a coherent psychological analysis of the King’s actions. In addition to the usual series features and supporting contextual material (including relevant Essays by Bacon), generous editorial footnotes explain the historical and political issues of the reign of Henry VII, and a substantial glossary clarifies Bacon’s rich but sometimes unfamiliar vocabulary.

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Glenn Dedmondt, "The Flags of Civil War Alabama"Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna | 2001 | ISBN 156554840 | 153 pgs. | PDF | 42MB

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Жюль Верн "История великих путешествий" (В трех книгах)
Терра, 1993 г. | 584 + 496 + 526 стр. | ISBN 5852552364 | PDF | 145Mb
Книга 1. Открытие Земли
Книга 2. Мореплаватели XVIII века
Книга 3. Путешественники XIX века

Труд знаменитого французского писателя Жюля Верна (1828-1905) - "История великих путешествий" - посвящен истории географических открытий с древней

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Elena Govor, "Russian Anzacs in Australian History"UNSW Press - National Archives of Australia | 2005 | ISBN 0868408565 | 307 pgs. | PDF | 73MB

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Logan Thompson, "Daggers and Bayonets - A History"Spellmount, Staplehurst | 1999 | ISBN 1862270279 | 121 pgs. | PDF | 35MB

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The Mafia Encyclopedia (Facts on File)
Publisher: Checkmark Books | ISBN: 0816038570 | edition 1999 | CHM | 414 pages | 15,4 mb
They're all there, starting with Anthony Joseph Accardo (1906-1992), the Chicago mob leader known as Tony to crime pals, Mr. Accardo to underlings, Joe Batters to his subordinates, and as "having more brains before breakfast than Al Capone had all day" to syndicate supporters, and working through the alphabet to Abner "Longy" Zwillman (1899-1959), a crime-syndicate founder and New Jersey boss, one of the most feared of the Jewish Mafia, known as the "Al Capone of new Jersey," and much revered for his love affair with Jean Harlow.
Between Accardo and Zwillman, Carl Sifakis explores the lives, reputations, exploits, and subcultures of more than 450 Mafia perpetrators and personalities. Sifakis describes the individuals, codes of behavior, misdeeds, legal scrapes, rivalries, and flamboyant lifestyles associated with the world of organized crime--an entity whose existence J. Edgar Hoover denied for 30 years. Sifakis's research is thorough, and his subjects are nefarious and riveting. It's his feel for storytelling, however, that makes his encyclopedia so enjoyable. He writes about infamous characters such as Al Capone (who felt his bootlegging was merely a public service) and John Gotti (a.k.a. the Teflon Don, who's now serving a life sentence) as well as the Mafia Social Clubs, Donnie Brasco (the FBI agent who infiltrated the mob and sent more than 100 mobsters to prison), and the importance of slot machines to the post-Prohibition welfare of organized crime.

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M. Lyons, "The Russian Imperial Army - A Bibliography of Regimental Histories and Related Works"The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace | 1968 | ISBN: none | 188 pgs. | PDF | 36MB

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Floya Anthias, "Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle"
Publisher: Routledge | 1993 | ISBN 0415103886 | PDF | 178 pages | 10.2 MB
Racialized Boundaries offers an innovative approach to an analysis of the constructs of race and racism. The authors maintain that the concept of race has to be understood within the wider category of "ethnos" or ethnicity, which they define as a primarily political rather than a cultural phenomenon.
The authors explore the ways in which race and racism serve as structuring principles for the processes of defining national boundaries and constituting national identities. They examine the ways in which the phenomenon of race and racism relate to other social divisions, such as class and gender and the way "blackness" can play a part in the racialization process. Finally the authors consider some of the ideologies that have influenced the "race relations industry" as well as some of the racial struggles surrounding this entity. In particular they look at what they term, "community
ideology," which underlies in different ways both multi-culturalist and anti-racist schools of thoughtand apply this ideology to a critical examination of identity politics.

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David Satter, "Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2003 | ISBN 0300098928 | PDF | 327 pages | 10.2 MB
Anticipating a new dawn of freedom and democracy after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country mired in poverty and controlled at every level by organized crime. This compelling book tells the story of reform in Russia through the real experiences of individual citizens. Describing in details the birth of a new era of repression, David Satter analyzes the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old way of thinking. Through the stories of people at all levels of Russian society, Satter shows the contrast during the reform period between the desperation of the many and the insatiability of the few. Wish insights derived from more than twenty years of writing and reporting on Russia, he considers why the individual human being there has historically counted for so little. And he offers an illuminating analysis of how Russia's post-Soviet fate was decided when a new morality failed to fill the vast moral vacuum that communism left in its wake.

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Mord Bogie, "Churchill's Horses and the Myths of American Corporations: Power, Stakeholders, and Governance"
Publisher: Quorum Books | 1998 | ISBN 1567200737 | PDF | 232 pages | 10.2 MB
The large public corporations powering the U.S. economy--Churchill's Horses, in Bogie's metaphor--are underachievers, and all of us are paying the price. Why? The reasons are shrouded in the myths that these corporations use to mask their great power and disguise the interests it serves. Myth: the shareholders who own a public corporation control it by electing the directors who govern it. Anti-Myth (fact): shareholders of a public corporation don't elect the directors, and the directors don't govern the corporation. Shareholders don't even own the corporation in any meaningful sense of the word. Yet Churchill's Horses spend billions propping up the current price of their shares rather than invest the money in their (and our) future prosperity. Using many voices from current and recent business literature, Bogie leads you through myths and anti-myths to understand how public corporations have lost focus and ignored their most important stakeholders. Few readers will emerge with all their assumptions and beliefs intact.

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R. Ross Holloway, "Constantine and Rome"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2004 | ISBN 0300100434 | PDF | 208 pages | 10.4 MB
Constantine the Great (285–337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, R. Ross Holloway examines Constantine’s remarkable building program in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the Christian Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He then focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John’s in the Lateran and St. Peter’s, as well as the imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignatara. In a final chapter Holloway advances a new interpretation of the archaeology of the Tomb of St. Peter beneath the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. The tomb, he concludes, was not the original resting place of the remains venerated as those of the Apostle but was created only in 251 by Pope Cornelius. Drawing on the most up-to-date archaeological evidence, he describes a cityscape that was at once Christian and pagan, mirroring the personality of its ruler.

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Steven T. Usdin, "Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2005 | ISBN 0300108745 | PDF | 346 pages | 10.4 MB
Engineering Communism is the fascinating story of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, dedicated Communists and members of the Rosenberg spy ring, who stole information from the United States during World War II that proved crucial to building the first advanced weapons systems in the USSR. On the brink of arrest, they escaped with KGB’s help and eluded American intelligence for decades. Drawing on extensive interviews with Barr and new archival evidence, Steve Usdin explains why Barr and Sarant became spies, how they obtained military secrets, and how FBI blunders led to their escape. He chronicles their pioneering role in the Soviet computer industry, including their success in convincing Nikita Khrushchev to build a secret Silicon Valley. The book is rich with details of Barr’s and Sarant’s intriguing andexciting personal lives, their families, as well as their integration into Russian society. Engineering Communism follows the two spies through Sarant’s death and Barr’s unbelievable return to the United States.

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Peter M. Lencsis, "Insurance Regulation in the United States: An Overview for Business and Government"
Publisher: Quorum Books | 1997 | ISBN 1567200850 | PDF | 158 pages | 10.5 MB
Insurance attorney Peter Lencsis provides a unique, objective description of the insurance regulatory system as it exists today in the United States. Concise but comprehensive, it provides an easily grasped, immediately useful explanation of how the regulatory system works. Because of the federal McCarran-Ferguson Act, most insurance regulation is left to the individual states, and is thus non-uniform. But there is still a common pattern to state regulation, explains Lencsis, due in large part to the activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and its own uniform standards. Lencsis covers the formation and licensing of insurance companies and the regulation of their underwriting and investment activities, as well as the insurance insolvency laws and guaranty funds, assigned risk plans, reinsurance, holding companies, and the regulation of agents and brokers. An important resource for insurance industry professionals, and others in regulatory agencies of the public sector.

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Bryan Cassidy, "European Lobbying Guide (Hawksmere Report)"
Publisher: Thorogood Publishing | 2003 | ISBN 1854181440 | PDF | 193 pages | 10.5 MB
The appointment of a new team of European Commissioners--many new to their briefs and all keen to display a more listening attitude than their predecessors--is a golden opportunity for those with a message to deliver, be they from the private sector, trade associations, trade unions, local authorities, other public sector bodies, charities or other non-governmental organizations. But how to make the most of these opportunities? How to focus your energies on those parts of the system most likely to respond favorably? How to deal with so much change all at once? And, with the rapid growth of the lobbying industry in Brussels, how to make your voice heard amidst the rising clamor?

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Carnes Lord, "The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2003 | ISBN 0300100078 | PDF | 296 pages | 10.6 MB
The role of leaders is never more crucial than during times of war. The ability to inspire confidence and communicate resolution is essential to the national interest. The requirements of leadership are not limited to military affairs: citizens look to leaders to guide the economy, protect the laws, and safeguard national values. Leadership has never been simple, but it is even more complicated in the age of mass democracy: globalization, the power of the media, and the constraints of bureaucracy are among the many challenges facing leaders at the beginning of the twenty-first century. What do leaders need to know in order to be effective? Carnes Lord-an eminent political scientist who has held a number of high-level positions in the United States government-here offers witty and trenchant counsel to both leaders and the citizens who elect them. Exploring such issues as leadership in war and crises, diplomacy, the use of secret intelligence, the role of political advisors, and the media, Lord enumerates the major challenges confronting modern leaders and offers practical advice on how leaders can deal with them effectively.

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Loyd E. Lee, "World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research"
Publisher: Greenwood Press | 1998 | ISBN 0313293260 | PDF | 530 pages | 10.9 MB
A companion to World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this volume reevaluates the most enduring literature on basic aspects of the war in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers themes pertaining to societies at war, culture, the arts, and science and technology as well as international relations and the postwar world. Included are not only grand strategy, military and naval campaigns, and matters of diplomacy, but also resistance, collaboration, prisoners of war, and broad topics of the "home front," including chapters on gender issues, film, literature, popular culture, and propaganda. This volume and its companion provide the first comprehensive historiographic reference work on the war. Each chapter describes the state of knowledge on the topic, relating each bibliographic reference to the chapter's themes and issues, and concludes with a bibliography. Recent original scholarship is included when it aids new understanding, and older works of enduring value also find a place. The essays in this volume will interest scholars and college teachers as well as advanced students and serious amateurs seeking insight into the history of the war and its literature.

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William R. Hutchison, "Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2003 | ISBN 0300098138 | PDF | 289 pages | 11 MB
Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken justifiable pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define our nation, for two centuries we have been grappling with the question of how we can coexist. In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, William Hutchison chronicles the country's struggle to fulfill the promise of its founding ideals. In 1800 the United States was an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. Over the next two centuries, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others would emerge to challenge the Protestant mainstream. Although their demands were often met with resistance, Hutchison demonstrates that as a result of these conflicts we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. No longer satisfied with mere legal toleration, we now expect that all religious groups will share in creating our national agenda. This book offers a groundbreaking and timely history of our efforts to become one nation under multiple gods.

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Duane W. Roller, "Cleopatra: A Biography"
Oxford University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0195365534 | 256 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB

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Star of India: The Spicy Adventures of Curry
Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470091878 | edition 2004 | PDF | 296 pages | 13,2 mb
How did the curry get here and how did the Brits, a nation famed for a love of bland food, end up with Chicken Tikka Masala as their favourite dish? It is a history that took curry, via the British Empire, from its Eastern origins, around the globe. This book talks to the men and women who gambled everything to make a living, who endured indifference and racism to secure an income and those who got their relatives to pack the cardamom when they visited as there was no other way of obtaining the ingredients. This book looks at how the British love affair with curry has changed lives, not just in Britain but around the globe.

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James R. Moore - The Transformation of Urban Liberalism: Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-century England
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2006-09-30 | ISBN: 0754650006 | PDF | 323 pages | 5.96 MB

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Kazimierz Sakowicz, "Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2005 | ISBN 0300108532 | PDF | 177 pages | 11.1 MB
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis. He chronicled these events in a diary that he kept at great personal risk. Written as a simple account of what Sakowicz witnessed, the diary is devoid of personal involvement or identification with the victims. It is thus a unique document: testimony from a bystander, an “objective” observer without an emotional or a political agenda, to the extermination of the Jews of the city known as “the Jerusalem of Lithuania.” Sakowicz did not survive the war, but much of his diary did. Painstakingly pieced together by Rahel Margolis from scraps of paper hidden in various locations, the diary was published in Polish in 1999. It is here published in English for the first time, extensively annotated by Yitzhak Arad to guide readers through the events at Ponary.

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Kumar Ramakrishna, See Seng Tan, "After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia"
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company | 2004 | ISBN 9812387145 | PDF | 442 pages | 11.4 MB
This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, trans-regional linkages, and media representations of the terrorist threat in the region, assesses the efficacy of the regional counter-terror response and suggests a more balanced and nuanced approach to combating the terror threat in Southeast Asia. The contributors include leading scholars of political Islam in the region, renowned terrorism and regional security analysts, as well as highly regarded regional journalists and commentators. This represents a formidable and unequalled combination of expertise.

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J. Duncan Campbell and Edgar M. Howell, "Smithsonian Technical Bulletin 235 - American Military Insignia 1800-1851"Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. | 1963 | ISBN: none | 124 pgs. | PDF | 167MB

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The US Navy in World War II
Publisher: Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1841763012 | edition 2002 | PDF | 64 pages | 11,2 mb
In 1941 the US Navy had 17 battleships - of which eight would be knocked out on the first day of the war - four aircraft carriers, and about 340,000 men including reservists. Pearl Harbor so weakened it that it was unable to prevent the Japanese capture of the Philippines and a vast sweep of Pacific islands. By 1945 it was the strongest navy the world had ever seen, with nearly 100 carriers, 41,000 aircraft and 3.3 million men; the unrivalled master of air-sea and amphibious operations, it was poised to invade Japan's home islands after reducing her fleet to scrap and her Pacific empire to impotence and starvation. This extraordinary story is illustrated here with dramatic photos, and nine meticulous colour plates showing a wide range of USN uniforms.

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Руны славян и глаголица
2010 | А.В. Платов, Н.Н. Таранов | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953344876 | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 362 pages | 21.2 Mb or 14.0 Mb
Когда возникла письменность у славян? Во времена святых Кирилла и Мефодия, как мы привыкли считать? Или раньше? Нисколько не принижая роль великих просветителей славянства, один из авторов этой книги - известный исследователь древней культуры Антон Платов - на неопровержимых фактах доказывает: задолго до принятия христианства в славянском мире существовала если не письменность, то система магических знаков, родственных скандинавским рунам

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Русская Финляндия
2009 | Н. В. Кривцов | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953330138 | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 288 pages | 19.5 Mb or 7.5 Mb
Где и когда начинаются связи между Россией и Финляндией? - Они были всегда. В этой стране повсюду чувствуется "русское присутствие". Почему? Все дело в том, что связанные с нашим общим прошлым памятники в Финляндии сохранили сам дух, атмосферу, кажется, даже запах минувшего - того, что, увы, исчезло у нас и что нельзя воссоздать самой богатой и изощренной реставрацией. Многое из того русского, что создавалось в России и что было уничтожено у нас, осталось в Стране тысячи озер - живы памятники, даже некоторые русские традиции...

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther By Jeffrey Haas
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books 2010 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 1556527659 | PDF | 7 MB

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Квеннелл М., Квеннелл Ч. Гомеровская Греция. Быт, религия, культура
Центрполиграф | 2005 | ISBN: 5952418341 | 190 pages | PDF | 72 MB
Авторы, через поэтический эпос Гомера, пытаются воссоздать подлинные картины жизни в Древней Греции. Объемно и полно представлены все аспекты бытия древних греков: дворцовые покои и их расположение, снаряжение кораблей, оружие, процесс ткачества, жертвоприношение богам. Книга приоткрывает тайны античного мира времен создания "Илиады" и "Одиссеи".

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Jennifer Sterling-Folker, "Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy: Explaining U.S. International Policy-Making After Bretton Woods (Suny Series in Global Politics)"
Publisher: State University of New York Press | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 0791452085 | 321 pages | 10.1 Mb
Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to expalin international cooperation.

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Maurice R. Berube, "Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism: Essays on the Politics of Culture"
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey | PDF | 2001 | ISBN 0897898052 | 152 pages | 10.1 Mb
Berube examines the political matrix of intellectual and cultural America. In a wide-ranging series of essays from the rise of the postmodern intellectual to a modernist appreciation of the spiritual quality of the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Berube stakes out his claim that all areas of human endeavor are rooted in a politics of culture. The essay collection is divided into three sections: The first two essays deal with the postmodern intellectual and the corporate university; the second section plumbs the depth of a conservative school reform movement and asks whether we have not reached an end to education reform. The last section contains essays pertaining to precarious state of arts education in the schools, reflections on a modernist literary canon, the contribution of Pollock and plumbing alternative views of Jesus as the penultimate revolutionary. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with cultural studies and education.

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George Lakoff , "Whose Freedom? - The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea"
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux | PDF | 2006 | ISBN 0374158282 | 287 pages | 10.2 Mb
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word freedom. The United States can strike preemptively because freedom is on the march. Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words freedom, free, and liberty were used forty-nine times. Freedom is one of the most contested words in American political discourse, the keystone to the domestic and foreign policy battles that are racking this polarized nation. For many Democrats, it seems that President Bush s use of the word is meaningless and contradictory deployed opportunistically to justify American military action abroad and the curtailing of civil liberties at home. But in Whose Freedom?, George Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that in fact the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom. The conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion.

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Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia, 1892--1914"
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0299194604 | 380 pages | 10.4 Mb
The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards through the lens of the Holocaust and the ethnic rivalries that escalated in the period between the two world wars. Critical to the history of Polish-Jewish relations, however, is the period prior to World War I when the emergence of mass electoral politics in Czarist Russia led to the consolidation of modern political parties. Using sources published in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian, Joshua D. Zimmerman has compiled a full-length English-language study of the relations between the two dominant progressive movements in Russian Poland. He examines the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), which sought social emancipation and equal civil rights for minority nationalities, including Jews, under a democratic Polish republic, and the Jewish Labor Bund, which declared that Jews were a nation distinct from Poles and Russians and advocated cultural autonomy. By 1905, the PPS abandoned its call for Jewish assimilation, and recognized Jews as a separate nationality. Zimmerman demonstrates persuasively that Polish history in Czarist Russia cannot be fully understood without studying the Jewish influence and that Jewish history was equally infused with the Polish influence.

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Brenda Gayle, "Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 080785428X | 268 pages | 10.4 Mb
The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United States endorsed abroad. This is one of the many fascinating links between racial politics and international affairs explored in Window on Freedom. Broad in chronological scope and topical diversity, the ten original essays presented here demonstrate how the roots of U.S. foreign policy have been embedded in social, economic, and cultural factors of domestic as well as foreign origin. They argue persuasively that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in America is best understood in the context of competitive international relations. The contributors are Carol Anderson, Donald R. Culverson, Mary L. Dudziak, Cary Fraser, Gerald Horne, Michael Krenn, Paul Gordon. Lauren, Thomas Noer, Lorena Oropeza, and Brenda Gayle Plummer.

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Constantine P. Danopoulos, Cynthia Watson, "The Political Role of the Military: An International Handbook"
Publisher: Greenwood Press | PDF | 1996 | ISBN 0313288372 | 534 pages | 10.6 Mb
In Western, developing, and totalitarian countries alike, the armed forces are powerful political organizations that play key roles in domestic politics. Yet, the literature on civilian-military relations provides few comparative examinations of the military's political role. In 27 chapters devoted to representative countries, this handbook looks at the varying roles the military plays around the world. Political role is defined as substantial and purposeful involvement in the making and allocating of wealth and social and political values. Using this definition, each chapter traces the historical background of civil-military relations in the country, identifies and analyzes the processes the military uses to exert political influence, evaluates the success and results of the military's political role, and projects future developments. As with any dynamic, organic body, the armed services in various countries change quickly and sometimes upredictably. The purpose of this book is beyond merely reporting whether a particular military is in the barracks as the 20th century draws to a close. Rather, the book offers analyses on the role that militaries have played in their societies, the historical forces that have shaped those roles, the socioeconomic constraints on them in the past, present, and anticipated in the future, and the current positions that armed forces have occupied in the last decade of the century.

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Edward Lorenz, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, "How Europe's Economies Learn: Coordinating Competing Models"
Publisher: Oxford University Press | PDF | 2007 | ISBN 0199203199 | 470 pages | 11.1 Mb
When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look to compare them to the economies of Japan and the United States. How Europe's Economies Learn shows how this is seriously misleading, and how any such comparison needs to be complemented with an understanding of the fundamental differences between Europe's economies. The contributors provide an up-to-date description and analysis of the way differences in state systems and institutional contexts, such as labour markets, education and training systems, and financial systems, shape learning processes and innovation performance across the member nations of the European Union. In doing so, it draws important conclusion for how policy strategies should be designed at the national and European levels in order to further promote the goals of the Lisbon process.

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Elmer Plischke, "U.S. Department of State: A Reference History"
Publisher: Greenwood Press | PDF | 1999 | ISBN 0313291268 | 806 pages | 11.2 Mb
This reference history describes and analyzes the State Department and Foreign Service of the United States. It also outlines the history of three major State Department functions, namely, the treatymaking process and record, representation in international conferences, and participation in international organizations and other agencies. The volume covers more than two centuries--from the genesis of American diplomacy to the 1990s. Unlike other works, this volume deals with such matters as departmental organization and management; personnel and staffing; administrative practices, reform, and reorganization; and the Department's operations, functions, principal and other officers, and problems. The volume consists of eight chapters, extensively footnoted, each of which focuses on successive periods grouped in four major historical eras. Tables are designed to serve as further reference for long-range historical analysis and exploration. The book is supplemented with three appendixes and a comprehensive bibliography. A complete and up-to-date major reference, this will be an asset to the reference collections of both academic and public libraries.

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Michael McKeon The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge
Johns Hopkins University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 080188540X | 904 pages | PDF | 16,3 MB
Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity.
A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.

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Siro Offelli
Le Armi e Gli Equipaggiamenti Dell'Esercito Austro-Ungarico dal 1914 al 1918: Bandieri reggimentali, decorazioni armi e dotazioni individuali (Vol. 2)
Weapons and Equipment of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918: Regimental banners, weapons (rifles and guns) - field and personal items (Vol. 2)
Gino Rossato | 2001 | ISBN: 8881300818 | 240 pages | PDF | 120 Mb

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Siro Offelli
Le Armi e Gli Equipaggiamenti Dell'Esercito Austro-Ungarico dal 1914 al 1918: Uniformi, distintivi, buffetterie (Vol. 1)
Weapons and Equipment of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918: Uniforms, badges, vests (Vol. 1)
Gino Rossato | 2001 | ISBN: 8881300761 | 232 pages | PDF | 120 Mb

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Kagero Air Show - Dornier Do-17 cz.1
Kagero | 1997 | ISBN: 8390700522 | Polish/English | 52 Pages | PDF | 28 MB

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Maurice Mullard, "The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation"
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing | 2004 | ISBN 1843765799 | PDF | 233 pages | 10.5 MB
This book deals with the nature of contemporary globalization. Maurice Mullard shows that globalization is not an inescapable, unstoppable process somehow beyond human control, rather that it represents, and is being shaped by, a series of deliberate policy choices and policy decisions. The emphasis of this fascinating work is on how these policy choices are creating new forms of economic inequalities and also political elites that distort the democratic process. The mapping of winners and losers goes beyond the usual analysis of the rich North versus the poor South, by including an examination of the widening inequalities in the North and the emergence of new elites in the South. Policies of privatization and liberalization of water and electricity create new political elites. The author reveals the shift in the North towards multi-national corporations with their emphasis on profits and stock market prices, while at the same time incomes for most employees have either stagnated or actually declined. The standard discourse on globalization and market flexibility often blurs the issues of declining trade union influence and corporations moving to countries offering lower labor costs. Maurice Mullard herein attempts to rectify this imbalance. The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation is interdisciplinary and will therefore be relevant for academics and researchers of politics, social policy, public policy and economics. Scholars involved in globalization will find this book to be a major contribution to the ongoing debate.

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Robert Paul Resch, "Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory"
Publisher: University of California Press | 1922 | ISBN 0520060822 | PDF | 322 pages | 10.3 MB
The writings of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his associates have figured prominently in the development of contemporary social theory. The Althusserian school of Structural Marxism is a startlingly original synthesis of Marxism and Modernism, which has produced a large body of work that extends across the human sciences and the humanities to engage a wide variety of cultures, theoretical problems, and political issues. Despite the fact that Althusser himself is widely recognized as a major figure, the breadth, coherence, and achievements of Structural Marxism as a whole have gone largely unrecognized. In this, the most systematic and wide-ranging assessment of Structural Marxism in any language, Resch provides a comprehensive and thematic introduction to the work of Althusser, Nicos Poulantzas, Pierre Macherey, Etienne Balibar, Emmanuel Terray, Terry Eagleton, Göran Therborn, Renée Balibar, Perry Anderson, Pierre-Philippe Rey, Michel Pêchaux, Guy Bois, and others. Resch's sympathetic and critical study demonstrates the enormous significance of Althusser's modernist renewal of Marxist social theory and its ongoing challenge to post-Marxist movements such as postmodernism and neo-liberalism.

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Hasan Kayali, "Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918"
Publisher: University of California Press | 1997 | ISBN 0520204468 | PDF | 143 pages | 10.1 MB
Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs on the other. Kayali's novel use of documents from the Ottoman archives, as well as Arabic sources and Western and Central European documents, enables him to reassess conventional wisdom on this complex subject and to present an original appraisal of proto-nationalist ideologies as the longest-living Middle Eastern dynasty headed for collapse. He demonstrates the persistence and resilience of the supranational ideology of Islamism which overshadowed Arab and Turkish ethnic nationalism in this crucial transition period. Kayali's study reaches back to the nineteenth century and highlights both continuity and change in Arab-Turkish relations from the reign of Abdulhamid II to the constitutional period ushered in by the revolution of 1908. Arabs and Young Turks is essential for an understanding of contemporary issues such as Islamist politics and the continuing crises of nationalism in the Middle East.

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Греческая история Том II. Кончая Аристотелем и завоеванием Азии
2009 | Юлиус Белох | Гос. публ. ист. библиотека России | ISBN: 978 5852092151 | руcский | PDF+DJVU | 473 pages | 11.06 Mb
Труд крупнейшего немецкого историка Ю.Белоха "Греческая история" и сейчас остается самой полной из существующих на русском языке общих историй Греции эпохи архаики и классики (VIII-IV вв. до н.э.). В большинстве общих курсов древнегреческой истории она чаще всего сводится к истории Афин и Спарты. В данной же работе дана история Древней Греции в целом.

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Греческая история Том I. Кончая софистическим движением и Пелопонесской войной
2009 | Юлиус Белох | Гос. публ. ист. библиотека России | ISBN: 978 5852092144 | руcский | PDF+DJVU | 512 pages | 11.8 Mb
Труд крупнейшего немецкого историка Ю.Белоха "Греческая история" и сейчас остается самой полной из существующих на русском языке общих историй Греции эпохи архаики и классики (VIII-IV вв. до н.э.). В большинстве общих курсов древнегреческой истории она чаще всего сводится к истории Афин и Спарты. В данной же работе дана история Древней Греции в целом.

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Marina Petrakis, "The Metaxas Myth: Dictatorship and Propaganda in Greece (International Library of War Studies)"
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies | 2005 | ISBN 1845110374 | PDF | 280 pages | 11.2 MB
The first detailed study of Ioannis Metaxas and his self-promotion as 'Saviour of theNation', this book includes a fascinating examination of propaganda techniques based on Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany that brings tha personality of Metaxas to life with vivid writing. Why did the propaganda efforts that succeeded so thoroughly in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany fail so drastically in Greece? "The Metaxas Myth" is the first detailed account of General Ioannis Metaxas's attempts to mimic the fascist models of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco by portraying himself as the 'saviour' of the Greek nation in an effort to build his power base as dictator. Following the dissolution of parliament in 1936 up to his death in 1941, Metaxas used every media outlet available to promote his great myth: newspapers, periodicals, cinema, theatre and radio. Marina Petrakis analyses the nature of Metaxas's shortcomings: the errors made and the policies that eventually bred not loyalty, but at best apathy and at worst hostility towards his would-be autocracy.

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Jon Burchell, "The Evolution of Green Politics: Development and Change within European Green Parties"
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. | 2002 | ISBN 1853837520 | PDF | 208 pages | 10 MB
The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a "new'" form of political movement and a challenge to existing party models. However, since the "green wave" of the 1980s these parties have struggled to solidify their electoral successes in the face of stiff opposition from established political parties. This original book, the first to address the future direction of the European Green parties, presents an in-depth, thematic comparative approach to the analysis of recent Green party development and change, questioning whether the process of party evolution has resulted in the ideological dilution of Green ideals and objectives. With Green parties across Europe experiencing a significant upturn in support in recent years, the current period marks an important stage in the shaping of Green politics across Europe. If we are to gain a clearer picture of the impact that the Green parties may have in the new millennium, this book argues that we must understand the issues and themes which have shaped their reemergence as a more mature political challenge.

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Julie V. Gottlieb, Thomas P. Linehan, "The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2004 | ISBN 1860647995 | PDF | 265 pages | 10 MB
The history and ideologies of the Far Right in Britain have been well documented, but until now there has been little understanding of the movement's cultural foundations. The book demonstrates that British fascism is essentially not just a political movement, but one that had as its goal the establishment of an all-embracing fascist culture in Britain. The contributions in this volume by a distinguished team of cultural historians cover film, theatre, music, literature, the visual arts and the mass media.

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Steven Tsang, "The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the UK, 1950-1958 (Library of International Relations)"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2006 | ISBN 1850438420 | PDF | 288 pages | 10.3 MB
The relationship between the US and the People's Republic of China was the defining factor in the Cold War in Asia--the potentially explosive conflict which, as seen in the Korean War, brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. The PRC had not become "Titoist" as some hoped and remained firmly within the Soviet international orbit. But how did Great Britain and the Republic of China fit into this potentially lethal global jigsaw? Steve Tsang has illuminated the history of a seemingly obscure corner of international relations and politics but which was, to contemporaries, at the heart of global survival.

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Anthony Stephen King, "Britain at the Polls, 2001"
Publisher: Chatham House Publishers | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 1889119741 | 257 pages | 11.4 Mb
Britain at the Polls 2001 provides the first analytical account of Tony Blair's first term, including a detailed description of the changes in the British political system since 1997. It explains New Labour's success in winning a second term and describes the Blair government's relations with the Labour Party itself, the Liberal Democrat Party and, not least, the British mass media. It reflects on the plight of--and the options open to--the post-Thatcher Conservative Party and concludes with an analysis of the outlook for British politics in an era now dominated by New Labour under Tony Blair.

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Jonathan Mendilow, "Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965 - 2001"
Publisher: State University of New York Press | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0791455882 | 310 pages | 10.7 Mb
Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s.

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Hella Pick, "Guilty Victims: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | PDF | 2000 | ISBN 1860646182 | 263 pages | 10.3 Mb
Behind the faccedil;ade of Gemuuml;tlichkeit can Austrians ever admit to themselves the extent to which they collaborated with Nazi Germany and became party to the Holocaust? So much has been written about post-war Germany, but what about Hitler's other willing executioners? Since 1945 Austria has succeeded in presenting an image of itself as a comfortable middle class society at the center of Europe, whose recent past, though awkward, was not shaming. Hella Pick explores Austria's search for a foolproof, internationally credible identity for itself after the Nazi era. She shows how the old ghosts will not go away.

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Norman J. Vig, "Green Giants?: Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)"
Publisher: The MIT Press | PDF | 2004 | ISBN 0262720442 | 414 pages | 10.3 Mb
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability. Green Giants?, one of the most detailed comparisons of the environmental policies of America and Europe yet undertaken, looks at current policy trends in the United States and the European Union -- the two largest economic actors in the world -- and the implications they have for future transatlantic and global cooperation. The contributors -- leading European and American scholars and practitioners -- examine similarities and differences in specific policy areas in order to assess whether United States and European Union policies are diverging, pursuing similar goals and methods, or undergoing a "hybridization" through joint learning and exchanges. They find that although European and American policies may parallel each other somewhat in domestic regulation, they are clearly diverging in the "third generation" of environmental concerns, which include such global problems as climate change, international trade, and sustainable development. In the final chapter the editors conclude that transatlantic dialogue and cooperation at the highest level are necessary if these two economic and political giants are to lead the international community toward a stable and secure ecological future.

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Mohammad Gholi Majd, "Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941"
Publisher: University Press of Florida | PDF | 2001 | ISBN 0813021111 | 443 pages | 11.2 Mb
Using recently declassified U.S. State Department archives, Mohammad Gholi Majd describes the rampant tyranny and destruction of Iran in the decades between the two world wars in a sensational yet thoroughly scholarly study that will rewrite the political and economic history of the country. The book begins with the British invasion of Iran in April 1918 and ends with the Anglo-Russian invasion in August 1941. Though historians are aware of the events that ensued, until now they have had no written evidence of the dreadful magnitude of the activities. Majd documents how the British brought to power an obscure and semi-illiterate military officer, Reza Khan, who was made shah in 1925. Thereafter, Majd shows, Iran was subjected to a level of brutality not seen for centuries. He also documents the financial plunder of the country during the period: records show that Reza Shah looted the bulk of Iran's oil revenues on the pretext of buying arms, amassing at least $100 million in his London bank accounts and huge sums in New York and Switzerland. Not ven Iran's ancient crown jewels were spared. In contrast to incomplete and unreliable British records for the period, the recently declassified archives and bank records that Majd uses encompass a wide range of political, social, military, and economic matters. A work with immense implications, this book will correct the myth in Iranian history that the period 1921-41 was one of unqualified progress and reform.

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Jeffrey Glen Giauque, "Grand Designs and Visions of Unity: The Atlantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955-1963"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 0807853445 | 342 pages | 10.1 Mb
In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States could no longer shoulder the entire political and economic burden of the West yet hesitated to share it with Europe. Focusing on the four largest Atlantic powers--Britain, France, Germany, and the United States--Jeffrey Giauque explores these early stages of European integration. Giauque uses evidence from newly opened international archives to show how a mix of cooperation and collaboration shaped efforts to unify postwar Europe. He examines the "grand designs" each country developed to advance its own interests, specific plans for collaboration or accord, and the reactions of the other Atlantic powers to these proposals. Competing national interests not only derailed many otherwise sound plans for European unity, Giauque says, but also influenced such nascent European institutions as the Common Market, the antecedent of today's European Union. Indeed, beyond examining the origins of the European community, this comparative study provides insight into national attitudes and aspirations that continue to shape European and American policies today.

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Mark Levene, "Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Volume 2: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | PDF | 2005 | ISBN 1845110579 | 470 pages | 13.7 Mb
Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth century phenomenon. In The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide, Mark Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. It was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations.One critical outcome, on the cusp of modernity, was the French revolutionary destruction of the Vendee. Levene finishes this volume at the 1914 watershed with the destabilising effects of the 'rise of the West' on older Ottoman, Chinese, Russian and Austrian empires, with devastating consequences for peoples such as the Armenians, and the East European Jews. The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide is the second volume in Levene's sweeping four-volume survey, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State.

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University Of Chicago, "The Economic Future Of Nuclear Power A Study Conducted At The University Of Chicago"
Publisher: University Of Chicago | PDF | 2004 | ASIN R20070927O | 368 pages | 10.7 Mb
Any policies concerned with the future of nuclear power must funnel through the price at which nuclear power will enter the marketplace, if nuclear power is to be viable. The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), as the price at the busbar needed to cover the operating plus annualized capital costs of nuclear power, must be competitive with prices of other baseload electricity. Part One attempts to develop the most reliable estimates possible of the future busbar cost of nuclear electricity. A starting point is estimates of nuclear generator costs from previous studies. These estimates for the United States are reviewed in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is a parallel international review. In light of the importance of capital costs and the role they have played in contributing to differences in LCOE estimates, Chapter 3 is devoted to the anatomy of the estimation of capital costs. An aim is to narrow the range of uncertainty in estimates of future capital costs. Chapter 4 proceeds to another major reason for uncertainty about nuclear costs, which is learning from experience in constructing facilities. Drawing on analyses of earlier nuclear experience and innovations in manufacturing more generally, estimates are developed of the extent to which costs can be expected to fall between the building of the first and nth plants of a given technology. Chapter 5 develops the financial model used in this study to evaluate the prospects for nuclear power. The complications of the tax system and of private sector financing as influenced by risk are introduced. No-policy estimates of nuclear LCOEs are estimated to set the stage for the later policy analysis.

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George Willis Botsford, Lillie Shaw Botsford, "The Story of Rome As Greeks and Romans Tell It"
Publisher: MacMillan | PDF | 1911 | ASIN B000K7J1B2 | 338 pages | 10.3 Mb

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Gord Hill 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
PM Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1604861061 | 96 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An alternative and unorthodox view of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is offered in this concise history. Eurocentric studies of the conquest of the Americas present colonization as a civilizing force for good, and the native populations as primitive or worse. Colonization is seen as a mutually beneficial process, in which "civilization” was brought to the natives who in return shared their land and cultures. The opposing historical camp views colonization as a form of genocide in which the native populations were passive victims overwhelmed by European military power. In this fresh examination, an activist and historian of native descent argues that the colonial powers met resistance from the indigenous inhabitants and that these confrontations shaped the forms and extent of colonialism. This account encompasses North and South America, the development of nation-states, and the resurgence of indigenous resistance in the post-World War II era.

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John L. H. Keep, "Soldiers of the Tsar - Army and Society in Russia 1462-1874"Clarendon Press, Oxford | 1985 | ISBN 019822575 | 432 pgs. | PDF | 129MB
This is the study of the armed forces' role in sustaining autocratic government and shaping social life in Russia. For about four hundred years the realm of the tsars was a 'service state': that is to say, the most important element in the experience of most of its inhabitants was the performance of duties designed to bolster the country's external and internal security. Nowhere else in medieval or early modern Europe was the principle of service to the Crown pressed so far as it was in Russia. The position which Russia enjoyed in European affairs owed a good deal to fear of her armed might.

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Испания. Дорога к империи
2007 | Генри Кеймен | АСТ, АСТ Москва, Хранитель | ISBN: 978 5170393985 | руcский | PDF | 699 pages | 46.8 Mb
Испания. Владычица морей. Страна, которая несколько столетий была величайшей державой Европы. Ей подчинялись многие государства Нового Света, а также территории Африки и Тихоокеанского региона. Но как Испания достигла своего могущества?

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Graham Sumner and Graham Turner, "Brassey's History of Uniforms - Roman Army Wars of the Empire"Brassey's | 1997 | ISBN 18575632120 | 144 pgs. | PDF | 188MB

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Dan and Susanna Shadrake, and Richard Hook, "Brassey's History of Uniforms - Babarian Warriors - Saxons, Vikings, Normans"Brassey's | 1997 | ISBN 1857532139 | 144 pgs. | PDF | 183MB

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Наша история. 100 великих имён. Выпуск 5 Юрий Гагарин
2010 | Де Агостини | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 32 pages | 18.2 Mb or 8.4 Mb
Очередной выпуск новейшей по времени коллекции «Де Агостини» «Наша история. 100 великих имён» посвящён первому космонавту планеты Юрию Алексеевичу Гагарину.

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Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Mark Levene, "Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Volume 1: The Meaning of Genocide"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2005 | ISBN 1850437521 | PDF | 277 pages | 10.1 MB
How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the international system itself? This is the first book to consider the phenomenon within a broad context of world historical development. In this first volume of a major four-volume survey, Mark Levene sets out the conceptual issues in the study of genocide and the historical linkage between the rise of the West, in both its modern and early modern domestic and colonial settings, and increasing tendencies to physically annihilate native peoples or religiously heterodox communal groups who stood as obstacles in its path.

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Leslie Friedman Goldstein, "Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)"
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2001 | ISBN 0801866634 | PDF | 257 pages | 10.6 MB
Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the development of the European Union by blending comparative and historical institutionalist approaches. She argues that the most useful framework for understanding the kinds of "supra-state" formations that are increasingly apparent in the beginning of the third millennium is comparative analysis of the formative epochs of federations of the past that formed voluntarily from previously independent states. In Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context Goldstein identifies three significant predecessors to today's European Union: the Dutch Union of the 17th century, the United States of America from the 1787 Constitution to the Civil War, and the first half-century of the modern Swiss federation, beginning in 1848. She examines the processes by which federalization took place, what made for its success, and what contributed to its problems. She explains why resistance to federal authority, although similar in kind, varied significantly in degree in the cases examined. And she explores the crucial roles played by such factors as sovereignty-honoring elements within the institutional structure of the federation, the circumstances of its formation (revolt against distant empire versus aftermath of war among member states), and notably, the internal culture of respect for the rule of law in the member states.

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Neil Redfern, "Class or Nation: Communists, Imperialism, and Two World Wars"
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies | 2005 | ISBN 1850437238 | PDF | 268 pages | 11 MB
The size of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) belied its influence; many saw it as a microcosm of the communist-capitalist struggle. It had a powerful presence in British society despite being a minority movement. Based upon newly available sources, Neil Redfern re-examines the movement and its relationship to imperialism. He traces the history of British communism from its gradualist roots and finds that, despite World War I, the 1917 revolution and mass movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America, CPGB remained Euro-centred and reformist rather than revolutionary, even supporting the post-1945 Labour government.

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Paul Hollander, "Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 1999 | ISBN 0300076207 | PDF | 190 pages | 11.1 MB
In this unique analysis of the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, sociologist Paul Hollander focuses on the human aspects of the country`s demise. Drawing on autobiographical writings and interviews with members of the political elite, the author shows how leaders who experienced a loss of faith in their ideals and an eroding sense of legitimacy fatally undermined the political system they had once upheld.

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История Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза 1941-1945 (в шести томах)
1960-1965 | П.Н. Поспелов | Воениздат | руcский | DJVU | 3905 pages | 173 Mb
Шеститомный фундаментальный труд "История Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза 1941-1945 гг." разработан коллективом научных сотрудников Отдела истории Великой Отечественной войны Института марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС на основе: документальных материалов, хранящихся в центральных партийных и государственных, ведомственных и местных архивах СССР; материалов архивов Германской Демократической Республики, Польской Народной Республики,Чехословацкой Республики, Народной Республики Болгарии, Румынской Народной Республики, Венгерской Народной Республики; опубликованных документов СССР и других стран, а также советской и иностранной научно-исторической литературы. Каждый том содержит карты, схемы и фотоиллюстрации, повествующие о событиях этого периода войны.

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Dalia Dassa Kaye, "Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia"
Publisher: Rand Corp | 2007 | ISBN 0833041916 | PDF | 167 pages | 9.8 MB
This monograph examines regional, multilateral track two dialogues in the Middle East and South Asia that are focused on arms control and other cooperative security measures. Unofficial policy discourse, or track two diplomacy, is an increasingly important part of the changing international security landscape, with the potential to raise new ideas and solutions to conflicts that, over time, may influence official policy. Talking to the Enemy considers how track two efforts in South Asia and the Middle East have socialized participants into thinking about security in more cooperative terms, and whether the ideas generated in track two forums have been acknowledged at the societal level or influenced official policy. Comparing the two regions, Kaye finds that South Asian dialogues, on Kashmir and other regional issues, have been more somewhat more effective than track two efforts in the Middle East, where lack of progress on official Arab-Israeli peace talks has also hindered unofficial regional dialogues. The author concludes with assessments of regional security trajectories in both regions, particularly proliferation dynamics, as well as suggestions on how to improve future track two efforts.

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Anga R. Timilsina, "Getting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing of Policies in Post-Conflict Countries"
Publisher: RAND Institute | 2007 | ISBN R20070921B | PDF | 185 pages | 10.3 MB
One of the most pressing issues in the post-conflict reconstruction field is how to prioritize and sequence political, social, and economic policies to enable post-conflict countries to sustain peace and reduce the risk of violence re-occurring. Analyzing three cases of post-conflict reconstruction (Cambodia, Mozambique, and Haiti) and expert opinions of 30 academicians and practitioners, this study identifies major reconstruction policies, outlines the preferred way to prioritize and sequence them, and develops a framework to help policymakers better navigate the complexities and challenges of forming appropriate policies. Security and development are interdependent: Development fosters security and security fosters development. However, in the early stages of reconstruction in most post-conflict countries, security must be achieved first. Without a sustained improvement in the security situation, other reconstruction efforts, such as relief efforts, political reforms, democratization, economic reform and reconstruction, are not possible. However, the question of how to achieve security is a contextspecific. After security, important policy priorities should be building effective, accountable, and inclusive governance institutions, institutionalizing democracy at the national and local levels through free, fair, participatory, and inclusive elections. Similarly, economic stabilization is needed to revive market, attract investment, generate employment opportunity, and create an environment for economic recovery and stability.

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Fereydoun Hoveyda, "The Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution"
Publisher: Praeger Publishers | 2003 | ISBN 0275978583 | PDF | 136 pages | 10.3 MB
Twenty-two years after Ayatollah Khomeini's ascent to power in Iran many aspects of his 1979 Islamic revolution remain obscure if not baffling. For instance, in November 1978 an offer was made to him in his Paris exile to return to Iran with international guarantees of freedom of speech and action. He refused and demanded the departure of the Shah. Americans put pressure on the monarch to leave the country. Khomeini arrived in Tehran in early February 1979, and he immediately demanded the "return" of the Shah and his trial before an Islamic tribunal! No one could give a valid explanation of this "contradiction" in Khomeini's conduct and demands. Many other "mysteries" in the unfolding of the revolution and the policies of the Islamic republic which replaced the monarchy have gone unexplained up to now. Scholars and experts in the West have offered the usual explanations for the Islamic revolution-corruption, deepening gaps between the rich and the poor, rapid industrialization, sky-rocketing inflation, westernizing policies that offended traditions, lack of democratic institutions, authoritarian rule, and on and on. But such characteristics which exist in other Muslim countries, especially in the Arab world, fail to clairify the particularities of the Iranian revolution. Indeed, as Ambassador Hoveyda points out, Iran is not an Arab country. It has kept alive its ancient mythological heritage which is not Islamic. It is an Indo-European nation with a recorded history of three thousand years! To understand the real causes of the 1979 revolution one must refer to the deep-rooted "beliefs" of Iranians and to their very rich mythology.

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Tibor R. Machan, "Liberty and Equality (Philosophical Reflections on a Free Society)"
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press | 2002 | ISBN 0817928626 | PDF | 146 pages | 11.2 MB
The Declaration of Independence asserts that "all men are created equal"—but in what way are we equal? Does this mean that we all have a right to the same rewards and benefits society has to offer? Or that every time an individual achieves something beyond what has been accomplished by others, he must give it up—along with, as would naturally follow, his personal freedom and autonomy? Liberty and Equality takes an unflinching look at the difficult, often emotional issues that arise when egalitarianism collides with individual liberties. Personal autonomy, the contributors show, is sharply at odds with the "coercive egalitarianism" championed by many today. Through well-researched arguments, they offer their insightful views on the most important aspects of this often controversial issue. They examine the history of equality versus autonomy from ancient times through the present day, showing how it has become central to modern political and social debate, and explain why we all have a general right to liberty—but not a fundamental right to equality. Machan and his contributors clearly illustrate why the kind of egalitarianism preached by socialists and other sentimentalists is ultimately not an option in a free society, exposing its very real consequences. For example, they show how the advocacy of economic equality in any absolute sense would lead to a severe loss in economic benefits for all—and they reveal the potentially disastrous social and political changes that could occur if contemporary feminists attained the full "equality" they desire from society. Concluding on a more hopeful note, they explain how a different conception of liberty and equality might eliminate the tension between the two and allow the ideals of both to coexist in today's society.

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The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction By Robert T. Bakker
Publisher: William Morrow & Company 1986 | 481 Pages | ISBN: 0688042872 | PDF | 14 MB

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Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia By Luis Chiappe, Lowell Dingus
Publisher: Scribner 2001 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0743212118 | PDF | 11 MB

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The Ultimate Dinosaur: Past, Present, and Future By Byron Preiss, Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Bantam 1992 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0553076760 | PDF | 14 MB

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Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time By Peter D. Ward
Publisher: Springer 1998 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 038798416X | PDF | 4 MB

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Христос родился в Крыму. Там же умерла Богородица.
2010 | Г.В. Носовский, А.Т. Фоменко | Аст, Астрель | ISBN: 978 5271239427 | руcский | PDF or DJVU | 624 pages | 218 Mb or 81.1 Mb
Новая книга российских математиков акад. А.Т.Фоменко и Г.В.Носовского продолжает исследования, начатые ими в книге "Царь славян" и продолженные в книгах "Начало Ордынской Руси", "Крещение Руси", "Христос и Россия глазами древних греков", "Завоевание Америки Ермаком-Кортесом и мятеж Реформации глазами древних греков", "Потерянные Евангелия", "Раскол Империи".

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Повседневная жизнь Венеции во времена Гольдони
2004 | Франсуаза Декруазетт | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 5235026632 | руcский | DJVU | 328 pages | 14.1 Mb

В книге французской исследовательницы Франсуазы Декруазетт на широком историческом материале воссоздана общественная и культурная жизнь Венецианской республики в XVIII веке, время ее расцвета и "упадка".

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Medieval Military Costume: Europa Militaria Special No. 8
Publisher: Crowood | ISBN: 1861263716 | edition 2001 | PDF | 96 pages | 12,2 mb
Reenactors wearing carefully created costumes, photographed in authentic settings, provide a snapshot of spear men, archers, crossbow men, gunners, and knights from the period 1300-1500. Detailed photographs are supported by artwork showing scores of original images from period paintings, carvings and manuscript illustrations revealing what it was like to live, work, and fight during the Middle Ages.

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Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga By John R. Horner, Edwin Dobb
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers 1997 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0060174862 | PDF | 5 MB

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Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America By Patrick M. Malone
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0801893062 | PDF | 6 MB

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Rodrigo Hernández Cabos - Modelismo Aplicado Tomo IV: Dioramas
Acción Press | 2006 | ISBN: N/A | Spanish | 196 pages | PDF | 40.82 MB

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Гибель владыки морей. Линейный крейсер "Худ" (Арсенал коллекция)
Эксмо | 2009 | ISBN: 5699363803 | 131 Pages | PDF | 21 MB

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Rodrigo Hernández Cabos - Modelismo Aplicado Tomo II: Viñetas y Escenarios
Acción Press | 2006 | ISBN: 8495464330 | Spanish | 206 pages | PDF | 40.98 MB

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Anatomy Of Deceit - An American Physician's First - Hand Encounter With The Realities Of The War In Croatia By Jerry Blaskovich
Publisher: Dunhill Publishing 1997 | 247 Pages | ISBN: 0935016244 | PDF | 1 MB

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Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq By Hess, Gary R.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0801891248 , 080189123X | PDF | 1 MB

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Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed WWII Yugoslavia By Marcia Kurapovna
Publisher: Wiley 2009 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0470084561 | PDF | 3 MB

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Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521877288 | edition 2008 | PDF | 696 pages | 10,5 mb
This is a study of marriage litigation in the archiepiscopal court of York (1300-1500) and the episcopal courts of Ely (1374-1381), Paris (1384-1387), Cambrai (1438-1453), and Brussels (1448-1459). All these courts were, for the most part, correctly applying the late medieval canon law of marriage, but statistical analysis of the cases and results confirms that there were substantial differences both in the types of cases the courts heard and the results they reached.

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Philip Kotler Somkid Jatusripitak Suvit Maesincee Ulusların Pazarlanması/ Ulusal Refahı Oluşturmada Stratejik Bir Yaklaşım
Publisher: Türkiye Isbankasi Yayinlari | 2009 | Turkish | ISBN: 9754582459 | PDF | 416 pages | 23,7 MB

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John Neville Keynes, "The Scope And Method Of Political Economy"
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC | 2007 | ISBN 1430491132 | PDF | 231 pages | 10.7 MB
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Ilber Ortaylı - Tarihin Sinirlaiına Yolculuk
Publisher: Timas Yayinlari | 2009 | Turkish | ISBN: 9752635630 | PDF | 206 pages | 1,08 MB

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Mihail Sebastian - Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee | 2000-08-25 | ISBN: 1566633265 | PDF | 669 pages | 50.64 MB

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Повседневная жизнь "русского" Китая
2006 | Н.Д. Старосельская | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 5235028015 | руcский | PDF | 424 pages | 7.6 Mb
Острова Рассеяния - так принято называть места компактного проживания русских эмигрантов, покинувших Родину в конце XIX - начале XX века. Несколько таких островов более полувека существовали на территории Китая.

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"Краб" первый в мире подводный заградитель
Судостроение | Russian | PDF | ISBN: 5735500015 | 115 pages | 100 MB | 1988

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Maja Zehfuss, "Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2002 | ISBN 0521815444 | PDF | 311 pages | 10.2 MB
Maja Zehfuss critiques constructivist theories of international relations (currently considered to be at the cutting edge of the discipline) and finds them wanting and even politically dangerous. Zehfuss uses Germany's first shift toward using its military abroad after the end of the Cold War to illustrate why constructivism does not work and how it leads to particular analytical outcomes and forecloses others. She argues that scholars are limiting their abilities to act responsibly in international relations by looking towards constructivism as the future.

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Anne Fisher, "Civil Defence In Canada, 1939 - 1965: Garnering Public Support For War And Nuclear Weapons"
Publisher: Anne Fisher | 1999 | ISBN 0612520552 | PDF | 130 pages | 10.2 MB

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Georg Menz, "Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2005 | ISBN 0199273863 | PDF | 291 pages | 10.1 MB
Europeanization has often been conceived as a top-down process, necessitating implementation and adjustment at the national level. However, Europeanization can also be conditioned by bottom-up national initiatives. While recent endeavors in comparative political economy have emphasized the resilience of coordinated market economies, few detailed empirical studies have examined to date exactly how different European systems of political-economic governance cope with and respond to an European impetus for liberalization. This original study of the impact of the EU-induced liberalization of service provision on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be implemented in response to Europeanization. In permitting any company registered in an EU member state to provide services throughout Europe, new possibilities were created for the transnational posting of workers from low-wage to high-wage countries. However, high-wage countries could re-regulate the wage levels applicable to such employees. The exact nature of such response strategy is coloured by the respective institutional power that labour market interest associations like trade unions and employer associations command. Therefore, different institutionalised varieties of capitalism generate distinct re-regulations of the Single European Market.

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Anthony D. Smith, "National Identity (Penguin Politics & Current Affairs)"
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd | 1991 | ISBN 0140125655 | PDF | 236 pages | 10.5 MB
National identity is often cited as a major contributing factor to many of the world's worst trouble spots, for example Palestinians versus Jews in Israel, the troubles in Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Bangladesh, Armenia and Tibet. This book addresses the issue of why national identity is so important. It examines how it differs from racial, ethnic and regional identity and how it originated in both the West and the Third World. The relationship between national identity and language is shown by the author to be important, but crucial to an enduring sense of national identity is religion and it capacity to separate groups of people.

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Utilizing evidence from numerous imperial cities, this book offers a new explanation for the spread and survival of urban reform during the sixteenth century. By analyzing the operation of regional political constellations, it reveals a common process of negotiation that shaped the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire. It reevaluates traditional models of reform that leave unexplored the religious implications of flexible systems of communication and support among cities. Such networks influenced urban reform in fundamental ways, affecting how Protestant preachers moved from city to city, as well as what versions of the Reformation city councils introduced. This fusion of religion and politics meant that with local variations, negotiation within a regional framework sat at the heart of urban reform. The Negotiated Reformation therefore explains not only how the Reformation spread to almost every imperial city in southern Germany, but also how it survived imperial attempts to repress religious reform.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , "U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports Inventory Of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Sinks: 1990-2005 (April 2007)"
Publisher: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | 2007 | ASIN R20070803B | PDF | 458 pages | 22.2 MB

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Jeanne Guillemin, "Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism"
Publisher: Columbia University Press | 2004 | ISBN 0231129424 | PDF | 273 pages | 14.1 MB
Until the events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001, biological weapons had never been a major public concern in the United States. Today, the possibility of their use by terrorists against Western states looms large as an international security concern. In Biological Weapons, Jeanne Guillemin provides a highly accessible and compelling account of the circumstances under which scientists, soldiers, and statesmen were able to mobilize resources for extensive biological weapons programs and also analyzes why such weapons, targeted against civilians, were never used in a major conflict. This book is essential for understanding the relevance of the historical restraints placed on the use of biological weapons for today's world. It serves as an excellent introduction to the problems biological weapons pose for contemporary policymakers and public officials, particularly in the United States. How can we best deter the use of such weapons? What are the resulting policies of the Department of Homeland Security? How can we constrain proliferation? Jeanne Guillemin wisely points out that these are vitally important questions for all Americans to consider and investigate -- all the more so because the development of these weapons has been carried out under a veil of secrecy, with their frightening potential open to exploitation by the media and government. Public awareness through education can help calm fears in today's tension-filled climate and promote constructive political action to reduce the risks of a biological weapons catastrophe. Biological Weapons is required reading for every concerned citizen, government policymaker, public health official, and national security analyst who wants to understand this complex and timely issue.

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Hamdi A. Hassan, "The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Religion, Identity and Otherness in the Analysis of War and Conflict (Critical Studies on Islam Series)"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 1999 | ISBN 0745314163 | PDF | 285 pages | 11.2 MB
The purpose of this book is to understand and explain the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: to understand the motivation of the Iraqi polity, and the conditions, in particular the Arabic discourse, which accelerated and facilitated the decision. Western accounts of the invasion have tended to ignore the Arabic discourse, despite the facts that this was the actors' world view. Much of the literature has tended to focus on Saddam Hussein's personality and leadership, demonizing the man, and few have viewed the invasion more calmly through the social and political context of history and political science. Few have examined the Sate, outside pressures, the impact of history, the exposure to colonialism which would have provided a balanced view, as this book attempts to do. During the Gulf crisis the literature and media coverage linked the behaviour of Arab political leaders directly to Islamic theology, as if this alone was enough to explain the invasion. This book discusses three perspectives. Firstly, the realist perspective of "Realpolitik": how Saddam Hussein reasoned and calculated the various alternatives, including the US's and Israel's intentions; the miscalculated response of the other Arab States, the Pan Arab framework; and the unprecedented support from grass roots and main-stream Arabs as the Iraq leadership introduced itself as the champion of the common Arab Nation. Secondly, the institutionalist perspective: the Iraqi domestic environment and its crisis of legitimacy, which disposed the regime to violent foreign behaviour; the social structure of Iraqi society, families, clans and regional alliances; and the modern political structure of the society, and of Ba'athism. Thirdly, the sociological perspective: the relating of the identity of Arabism (mainly the religion and language, which is associated closely with the Pan Arabist ideals) to foreign policy behaviour, as an additional explanation of the invasion.

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Paul Rogers, "Losing Control: Global Security in the Early Twenty-First Century, Second Edition"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2002 | ISBN 0745319106 | PDF | 195 pages | 10.4 MB
The attacks in New York and Washington on 11th September 2001 took most of the world by surprise. It showed that, for those living in the West, the threat of terrorist attack is now very real. Maintaining control of global security has become a matter of paramount importance to all Western governments. As the war against "terrorism" widens into a war against particular states who may have played little part in the disaster, the idea that we can maintain global security by desperately clinging to our current security paradigm becomes increasingly improbable. In "Losing Control", Paul Rogers calls for a radical rethinking of Western perceptions of security that embraces a willingness to address the core issues of global insecurity. This acclaimed book has already become an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the current crisis, with the first edition even predicting acurately how the United States would respond to a major attack. This updated edition contains a new preface and a new chapter which address the specific problems that have arisen since the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Drawing on examples from around the world, Rogers analyzes the legacy of the Cold War's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; the impact of human activity on the global ecosystem; the growth of hypercapitalism and resulting poverty and insecurity; the competition for energy resources and strategic minerals; biological warfare programs; and paramilitary actions against centers of power.

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Michael Hudson, "Super Imperialism - New Edition: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2003 | ISBN 0745319904 | PDF | 444 pages | 16.9 MB
This new and completely revised edition of Super Imperialism describes the genesis of America's political and financial domination. Michael Hudson's in-depth and highly controversial study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception which -- he argues -- were intended to preserve the US's financial hegemony. Difficult to detect at the time, these problems have since become explicit as the failure of the international economic system has become apparent; the IMF and World Bank were set up to give aid to developing countries, but instead many of the world's poorest countries have been plunged into insurmountable debt crises. Hudson's critique of the destructive course of the international economic system provides important insights into the real motivations at the heart of these institutions - and the increasing tide of opposition that they face around the world.

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Hazel Smith, "European Union Foreign Policy: What it is and What it Does"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2002 | ISBN 074531869X | PDF | 305 pages | 10.4 MB

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Баженов А.Г. "Создание японского меча"
Бранко, 2009 | ISBN 5903521067 | 308 стр. | PDF | 48Mb
Третья книга Баженова о японском мече. Долгий путь от извлечения руды до полировки клинка в деталях. Руководство по изготовлению клинка во всех деталях. Половина книги - переводы японских специалистов. предисловие - супер гуру Кэндзи Мишина. Статья о легендарном японском кузнеце Амаде.

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Артиллерия боевого корабля
1957 | Д.И. Соловьев | Воениздат МО СССР | руcский | PDF | 173 pages | 41.1 Mb
В доступной для широкого круга читателей форме, даны сведения об артиллерийском вооружении кораблей, устройстве морской артиллерии, ее классификации, освещены некоторые вопросы теории стрельбы на море. Кроме сведений о нарезной артиллерии, в книге приведены данные о корабельных реактивных снарядах и ракетах.

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Siegfried Breyer - Graf Zeppelin
AJ-Press | 2004 | ISBN: 8372371563 | Polish / English | 182 pages | PDF | 102.51 MB
Encyklopedia Okrętów Wojennych 42
Text in Polish and English, a history of German aircraft carriers with special attention to Graf Zeppelin-the ship that has never been completed. The author describes her history from the very beginning, then problems which occurred to designers and finally decisions which led to abandoning the construction. Monograph contains also technical description, rich in photo graphs and 3D drawings. There is also chapter concerning deck aircraft; short description of each aircraft type intended to be used is included. General scale plans, original shipyard drawings, longitudinal and frame sections are shown on A1 inserts. 3D drawings show aircraft carrier presumable appearance and her appearance according to the original design. Bonus: Polish Maritime Academy: Graf Zeppelin wreck - inspection and confirmation (Polish text).

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Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions By Charles Gallenkamp, Michael J. Novacek
Publisher: Viking Adult 2001 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0670890936 | PDF | 15 MB

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The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology By Rosemary Guiley, John Zaffis
Publisher: Facts on File 2009 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0816073147 | PDF | 8 MB

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Amber: Window to the Past By David A. Grimaldi
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams 2003 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0810926520 | PDF | 17 MB

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Jacek Kijak - Hełmy Wojska Polskiego i organizacji paramilitarnych, 1917-1991
Bellona | 1993 | ISBN: 8311079978 | Polish | 200 pages | PDF | 85.98 MB
W książce opisano konstrukcję, zastosowanie oraz dane techniczne hełmów polskich i obcych używanych w okresie 1917-1991 w Wojsku Polskim i polskich organizacjach paramilitarnych.

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Trevor Parfitt, "The End Of Development?: Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development (Third World in Global Politics)"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2002 | ISBN 0745316379 | PDF | 183 pages | 10 MB
Over the past fifteen years, ideas in the field of development studies have been highly contested. During this time, most countries from the South have come under the iron heel of the IMF and World Bank, who have imposed structural adjustment programmes wherever they have provided loan capital to governments. However, these programmes have had little success, and development studies has suffered accordingly. Many development theorists turned to postmodernist theory to try to move on from this impasse, which in the 1990s led to a new line of critical thought that heralded 'the end of development'. They argued that development studies should be replaced by new strategies of emancipation, or 'new social movements' theory, originating in groups such as the Zapatistas of Mexico. This book summarises the contested ideas of development studies and new social movements theory while rejecting calls for the end of development. Using postmodern theory to demonstrate that forms of development can be complementary to emancipatory social movement projects, Trevor Parfitt develops an alternative model of development which incorporates the needs of peoples both South and North.

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Ludwig Von Mises, Bettina Bien Greaves, "Nation, State, And Economy: Contributions to the Politics And History of Our Time (Von Mises, Ludwig, Works.)"
Publisher: Liberty Fund | 2006 | ISBN 0865976414 | PDF | 224 pages | 10.1 MB
Published less than a year after Austria's defeat in World War I, "Nation, State, and Economy" examines and compares pre-war and post-war economic conditions and explicates Mises' theory that each country's prosperity supports rather than undercuts the prosperity of other countries. Mises' humanitarian recommendations in this book, born from a classical liberal perspective, provide a striking example of how supposedly "hardnosed" economic theory, based on the reality of experience, is in fact far more supportive of human flourishing than seemingly more "idealistic" but actually impractical social theories. Specifically, Mises warned of the consequences of the punitive terms of the Treaty of Versailles by victors more interested in punishing their defeated enemies than in building a Europe that would be able to meet the challenges of the future. With the benefit of hindsight, we see how different European and world history might have been.

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Jeff Pratt, "Class, Nation And Identity: The Anthropology of Political Movements (Anthropology, Culture and Society)"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2003 | ISBN 0745316727 | PDF | pages | 10.1 MB
Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are usually portrayed as formed by economic categories of people driven by material interests. By contrast the study of ethnic or nationalist movements has concentrated on the complexities of identity formation within culturally defined groups driven by strong passions. In this unusual book, Jeff Pratt argues for the need to set up a new analytical framework that extends the study of identity formation, and the ethnographic analysis of economic and social processes, to all political movements. Setting up a new analytical framework, he argues that political processes involve two linked components: a 'discourse' (an identity narrative which positions us within social history) and a 'movement' (the process of organization whereby local social divisions are transformed by their incorporation into a wider movement). He illustrates his arguments with a vivid mix of case studies from across the last century including Basque nationalism, Andalusian anarchism, Italian communism, the break-up of Yugoslavia, to the 'newer' political movements in Europe, in French Occitania and the Italian Lega Nord.

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199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad
Publisher: Forge Books | ISBN: 0312868537 | edition 1999 | PDF | 212 pages | 15 mb
The epic battle of Stalingrad will be remembered as one of history’s most savage conflicts. Here world-renowned military historian Edwin P. Hoyt tells the full story of this bloody battle, using documents from Moscow and American archives as well as first-person testimonials from Stalingrad’s heroic survivors.
With the dramatic power of a first-rate storyteller, Hoyt recreates the words and deeds of the battle’s chief participants: its ruthless warlords, Hitler and Stalin; its fabled generals, von Paulus and Marshal Zhukov; its soldiers and civilians who fought, bled and died. In this thought-provoking and grimly fascinating book, Hoyt gives some startling and illuminating insights into this crucial battle.

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Dieter Haller, "Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society)"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2005 | ISBN 0745321577 | PDF | 262 pages | 10.2 MB
Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective -- it shows how anthropology can throw light on aspects of corruption that remain unexamined in international relations.The contributors reveal how corruption operates through informal rules, personal connections and the wider social contexts that govern everyday practices. They argue that patterns of corruption are part of the fabric of everyday life -- wherever we live -- and subsequently they are often endemic in our key institutions.The book examines corruption across a range of different contexts from transitional societies such as post-Soviet Russia and Romania, to efforts to reform or regulate institutions that are perceived to be potentially corrupt, such as the European Commission. The book also covers the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the mafia in Sicily and the USA, and the world of anti-corruption as represented by NGOs like Transparency International.

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Sturmgeschutz III (L/24 und L/33) Der Panzer der Infanterie (Waffen-Arsenal 074)
Podzun-Pallas-Verlag GmbH | 1982 | ISBN: 3790901709 | 52 Pages | PDF | 11,7 MB

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Majid Tehranian, "Bridging a Gulf: Peace-Building in West Asia"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2003 | ISBN 1860648843 | PDF | 263 pages | 10.6 MB
From 1980 to the present, two bloody wars and the possibility of a third have characterized the Persian Gulf region. Emerging from a series of meetings of the International Commission for Security and Cooperation in West Asia, this volume consists of contributions from noted scholars and diplomats searching for the peaceful settlement of regional disputes and the establishment of a durable security regime. Peace scholars from Iran, Iraq and Kuwait edit the volume - the three countries that were at war in 1980-88 and 1990-91.

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Norman Dennis, George Erdos, Ahmed Al-Shahi, "Racist Murder and Pressure Group Politics (Civil Society)"
Publisher: Civitas:Institute for the Study of Civil Society | 2000 | ISBN 1903386055 | PDF | 198 pages | 11.2 MB
On 22 April 1993 black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered. His killers were never brought to justice. A committee of inquiry was established under the chairmanship of Sir William Macpherson to investigate 'the matters arising' from the death of Stephen Lawrence for both the investigation and the prosecution of racially motivated crimes. The inquiry concerned itself almost exclusively with racist policemen. The Macpherson report, published in February 1999, purported to have found that officers of all ranks in the Lawrence case were guilty of what Macpherson called 'institutional racism'. It further claimed that 'institutional racism' pervaded the Metropolitan Police, other police services and British society as a whole. Racist Murder and Pressure Group Politics offers a devastating critique of Macpherson's methods and conclusions. Although the inquiry had the appearance of a judicial procedure, it came closer to the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s. Rules of procedure and evidence were relaxed, and indeed no evidence of racism in the police who dealt with the case was ever produced. Witnesses were harassed by members of the inquiry team and by the crowd in the public gallery.

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Vinay Lal, "Empire Of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2002 | ISBN 0745317367 | PDF | 262 pages | 10.6 MB
During the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations, there was little mention of the fact that, for the majority of the world, there was no Millennium at all. This linear understanding of time is a specifically Western - and Christian - concept. This is just one example of the homogenization of knowledge that Vinay Lal uses to demonstrate that nearly every idea which we take for granted in the west is part of a politics of ideas. Oppression is usually associated with class struggle, military power, and other forms of economic monopoly. Lal looks beyond this, deconstructing the cultural assumptions that have emerged alongside capitalism, to offer a devastating critique of the politics of knowledge at the heart of all powerbroking. Other topics examined are the concept of "development", which has created a generally accepted hierarchy of "developed" and "developing" countries, providing a mandate for surreptitious colonization; and the idea of the 'nation state', something we have lived with for no more than two centuries, yet is accepted without question. Linking this to the emergence of 'international governance' through the United Nations, the US, and imperial economic bodies (such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization), Lal explains how such universalisms came to dominate the trajectory of Western thought. "No More Requiems" is an impassioned account of the need to move towards an emancipatory politics of plurality and democracy that reveals which competing categories of knowledge can claim our allegiance for the future.

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Christian Thomasius, "Essays on Church, State, and Politics (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)"
Publisher: Liberty Fund | 2007 | ISBN 0865974993 | PDF | 336 pages | 10.4 MB
The essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius' work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works, originating as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority. In mandating limited religious toleration within the German states, the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) also provided the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia with a way of keeping the powerful Lutheran church in check by guaranteeing a degree of religious freedom to non-Lutherans and thereby detaching the state from the most powerful territorial church. Thomasius' writings on church-state relations, many of them critical of the civil claims made by Lutheran theologians, are a direct response to this state of affairs. At the same time, owing to the depth of intellectual resources at his disposal, these works constitute a major contribution to the broader discussion of the relation between the religious and political spheres.

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Steven Salaita, "Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics Today"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2006 | ISBN 0745325165 | PDF | 260 pages | 10.4 MB
Today is a difficult time to be both Arab and American. Since 9/11 there has been a lot of criticism of America's involvement in the middle east. Yet there has been little analysis of how America treats citizens of Arab or middle eastern origin within its own borders. Steven Salaita explores the reality of Anti-Arab racism in America. He blends personal narrative, theory and polemics to show how this deep-rooted racism affects everything from legislation to cultural life, shining a light on the consequences of Anti-Arab racism both at home and abroad.Uniquely, the book shows how ingrained racist attitudes can be found within the progressive movements on the political left, as well as the right. Salaita argues that, under the guise of patriotism, Anti-Arab racism fuels support for policies such as the Patriot Act. Salaita breaks down the facade of Anti-Arab racism with an insightful analysis, arguing for the urgency of a commitment to openness and inclusion in today's political climate.

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Judith Palmer Harik, "Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2005 | ISBN 1845110242 | PDF | 242 pages | 10.2 MB
Since the assassination of Rafik Hariri in early 2005, Lebanese politics has been plunged into a new era. Will Syrian withdrawal send the country back into civil war? How will the seismic political shifts underway affect the stability of the region? At the center of the turmoil stands one player that will affect the outcome more than any other: Hezbollah. Hezbollah, or the "Party of God", is one of the most powerful and the most misunderstood forces in Middle Eastern politics. In this new edition of her acclaimed book, Judith Harik explains what it actually believes in, what its real relationship with other regional players is, and in what direction it is heading. Hezbollah arose amidst the chaos of the Lebanese civil war to resist the Israeli invasion of 1982. Based amongst the poor Shi'ite population, it takes its inspiration from the Iranian revolution and the teachings of Ayatollah Khomeini. Today Hezbollah's military wing controls the major fault-line of the Middle East: the Lebanese-Israeli border. To the US, Hezbollah represents one of the most dangerous terrorist networks in the world. In Lebanon, it is a democratically elected party within the Lebanese parliament, backed not just by Shi'ites, but by Christians and secular Muslims. To the wider Arab world, Hezbollah is a legend: the only Arab fighting force to have defeated Israel, forcing its withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. Harik draws on her considerable first-hand experience of the movement to tell the story of how a clandestine, radical militia transformed itself into a seemingly moderate and mainstream player in the Lebanese political arena. She looks at key questions: why do so many non-Shiites support them? Who controls the movement--the Mullahs, or the grassroots? Harik's penetrating analysis helps us make sense of fast-moving events as the future of Lebanon--and the region--hangs in the balance.

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Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside By Brad Steiger
Publisher: Visible Ink Press 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1578592550 | PDF | 24 MB

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Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies By Paul Cartledge, Fiona Rose Greenland, Oliver Stone
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0299232840 | PDF | 1 MB

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Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade By Christian K. Wedemeyer, Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 019539433X | PDF | 1 MB

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Апальков Ю.В. Боевые корабли мира на рубеже XX-XXI веков. Фрегаты
Галея Принт | ISBN: 581720052Х | 376 pages | DJVU | 10,7 MB
В книге приведены данные по находящимся в строю, строящимся и проектируемым фрегатам: названия и номера, количество кораблей в строю и в серии, даты закладки, спуска и вступления в строй, предприятия (заводы, фирмы) - строители (при лицензионной постройке указаны фирмы-проектанты); рассказано об особенностях проектов, проектировании, строительстве, ремонтах и модернизациях. Представлены многочисленные иллюстрации: фотографии, наружный вид и общее расположение фрегатов.
А также приведены основные сведения по вооружению фрегатов: противокорабельным, противолодочным и зенитным ракетам, вертолетам корабельного базирования, торпедам, бомбометам и артиллерийским установкам.

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Ilber Ortayli - Osmanli'yi Yeniden Kesfetmek - 1
Publisher: Timas Yayinlari | 2009 | Turkish | ISBN: 9752633711 | PDF | 190 pages | 10,5 MB

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Loire 43, 45 & 46 (Document'air No 3)
Avia Editiones | 2004 | ISBN: 2915030075 | 40 Pages | PDF | 33 MB

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Златоуст. Холодное украшенное оружие XIX-XXI веков
2008 | Интербук-бизнес | ISBN: 978 5891641976 | руcский | PDF | 320 pages | 190 Mb
Холодное оружие, выполненное на Златоустовской оружейной фабрике и украшенное златоустовской гравюрой на металле, представляет собой ярчайшее самобытное явление, имеющее глубокие исторические корни. Освященный именами знаменитых мастеров-оружейников Ивана Бушуева и Ивана Бояршинова, создателя русского булата Павла Аносова, этот феномен получил в наши дни блистательное развитие благодаря деятельности ряда современных предприятий, чьи художественные изделия подтверждают славу Златоуста как уникального центра оружейного искусства России и всего мира.

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Explaining Civil War: A Rational Choice Approach By Syed Mansoob Murshed
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub 2010-01 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 1847208088 | PDF | 1.3 MB
`Conflict is now identified as one of the most significant sources of development failure and thus of growing income divergence between nations. Dr. Murshed's book addresses the issues of weak institutions, conflict, and slow growth. It presents a synthesis of the existing theories, and provides many new insights. It will certainly be much consulted and read by academics, policy-makers and all those who are interested in the causes of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction...

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Carol J. Pierce Colfer, "The Politics of Decentralization: Forests, Power and People (Earthscan Forestry Library)"
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. | 2005 | ISBN 1844072053 | PDF | 331 pages | 10.5 MB
* Examines the huge global and local impacts of decentralization on forests, biodiversity, conservation, and the livelihoods of people
* In-depth case studies covering Europe/U.K., North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa
* Research supported by the major international forestry and conservation organizations including CIFOR, IUCN, WWF, UNFF, ITTO, FAO, USFS, World Bank, and ProForest.
Decentralization is sweeping the world and having dramatic and far-reaching impacts on resource management and livelihoods, particularly in forestry. This book is the most up-to-date examination of the themes, experiences and lessons learned from decentralization worldwide. Drawing on research and support from all of the major international forestry and conservation organizations, the book provides a balanced account that covers the impact of decentralization on resource management worldwide and provides comparative global insights with wide implications for policy, management, conservation, and resource use and planning. This is state-of-the-art coverage of the critical issue of decentralization, vital for practitioners, academics, and policymakers across forestry and the full spectrum of natural resource management.

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Michael E. Latham, "Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2000 | ISBN 0807825336 | PDF | 152 pages | 18.2 MB
Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.

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James Robertson, "The New Economics of Sustainable Development: A Briefing for Policy Makers"
Publisher: Kogan Page | 2000 | ISBN 0749430931 | PDF | 114 pages | 11 MB
The main message of this important and provocative new book, commissioned by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, is that conventional economics thinking does not provide the framework to support sustainable development. In its place, application of the new economics, itself in a state of constant change, is needed to meet the needs of the Earth and its populations. This book explains what the new economics is all about, its connection with sustainable development and its key policy implications. Included are discussions of policies for taxation and public expenditure, changes in the monetary and financial system, and new ways of measuring and accounting for economic activity.

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Amoryl Lovins , L. Hunter, "Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (Hardcover)"
Publisher: Brick House Pub Co | 1982 | ISBN 093179028X | PDF | 400 pages | 10.5 MB
The professional fraternity of those who deal regularly with questions of national security has its own language, its own rituals, its own stylized forms of well-worn argument. Most strategic analysts, for example, obligingly sort themselves out into two herds—those who advocate only an “assured destruction” mission for our strategic forces and those who support a “counterforce” capability. They then find some specific piece of new hardware about which they can conveniently disagree, and they do, interminably—ringing all the changes on a ritualized dispute while the public looks on with a mixture of boredom, fear, and confusion. Look out, fraternity, here come Hunter and Amory Lovins. The authors of this fascinating, disturbing, and—in its own way—hopeful book disrupt this well-worn debate in a number of healthy ways. They insist on taking seriously one of our society’s most troubling vulnerabilities—the extremely fragile nature of the way it acquires, transmits, and energy.

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Kusuma Snitwongse, "Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia"
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | 2005 | ISBN 9812303375 | PDF | 187 pages | 11.7 MB
This volume examines different ethnic configurations and conflict avoidance and resolution in five different Southeast Asian countries. Tin Maung Maung Than traces the history and impossibility of the current Myanmar regime's quest to integrate the various ethnic groups in the border regions while insisting on a unitary state with all real power kept to themselves. Rizal Sukma divides conflicts in Indonesia into horizontal (Kalimantan, Maluku and Sulawesi) and vertical ones (the Madurese versus the Dayaks) and assesses the prospects for peaceful resolution if the country's fledgling democracy does not properly address them. Miriam Coronel Ferrer examines the conflicts in Mindanao against the apparent lack of willingness of Manila to come to terms with the root causes as well as the infusion of arms and ideology from outside. Zakaria Haji Ahmad and Suzaina Kadir analyse Malaysia's relatively successful handling of an ethnically divided society, which has permitted impressive stability since 1969. Chayan Vaddhanaphuti focuses on the non-Thai border peoples of northern Thailand, noting the legacy of the government's policy of selective citizenship. "Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia" will be an invaluable resource for scholars of contemporary Southeast Asia as well as in other regions, policy-makers and others, who wish to assess and develop strategies to prevent, modulate, and resolve such conflicts.

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Glenn Douglas Beamer, "Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System"
Publisher: University of Michigan Press | 1999 | ISBN 0472110209 | PDF | 187 pages | 10.4 MB
State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy preferences with the preferences of their constituents, but they must consider the impact of actions taken by both the federal government and competing states. Glenn Beamer uses a series of in-depth case studies in eleven states to show how legislators made decisions dealing with taxation, economic development, education financing, and Medicaid. Beamer identifies six factors that influence legislators' decisions: accountability, dependability, equity, obscurability, and horizontal and vertical transferability. Within the context created by citizen demands, intergovernmental politics, policy histories, court interventions, and state constitutions, this study analyzes how legislators employ these principles to develop and enact policies. In addition to modeling state politics within the context of federalism, Creative Politics, reflecting the author's extensive interviews with legislators, is novel in its focus on politicians' views about public services, the strategies to finance them, and efforts to develop and maintain political support for them. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, economics, and public administration, and, more specifically, of federalism, state politics and policy, and legislative decision-making. Glenn Beamer is Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of California, Berkeley, and Assistant Professor of Government, University of Virginia.

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George Rupp, Jagdish Bhagwati, "Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)"
Publisher: Columbia University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0231139306 | PDF | 128 pages | 10.2 MB
In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. While he acknowledges the threat of "resurgent fundamentalism," Rupp also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize or acknowledge the role of religion and its ideological equivalents in influencing public policy. All views, he asserts, are subject to comparative appraisal. The challenge is to develop ways to evaluate different approaches responsibly, leading to a greater understanding of one's own convictions as well as the positions of others. Rupp reinforces his critical and theoretical analysis with dramatic accounts of recent events in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan& mdash;places where the International Rescue Committee operates. He then addresses the role of globalization in fueling instability worldwide. Inadequately regulated privatization has compromised health care, education, and social programs in many countries, whereas an inclusive community would encourage a more equitable distribution of resources. Essays by Jagdish Bhagwati, Jeremy Waldron, and Wayne Proudfoot expand Rupp's arguments, and in a final chapter Rupp responds to the issues they raise. Essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the roots of today's geopolitical tensions, Globalization Challenged asks that we shed our complacency, recognize the legitimate role of conviction, and take actions to shape a more just and inclusive society.

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Robert Cox, "Political Economy of a Plural World: Critical Reflections on Power, Morals and Civilizations (Routledge/Ripe Studies I Global Political Economy)"
Publisher: Routledge | 2002 | ISBN 0415252903 | PDF | 257 pages | 10.6 MB
In this collection, one of the leading critical thinkers in international political economy, Robert W. Cox examines the major themes that have characterized his work over the past three decades and explores the main topics that affect the globalized world at the start of the twenty-first century. The book addresses such core issues as global civil society, power and knowledge, the covert world, multilateralism and civilizations and world order. Michael Schechter has written an introductory essay that addresses current critiques of Coxian theory, enabling the author to enter into a stimulating dialogue with critics of his work.

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Richard Peet, "Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO"
Publisher: Zed Books | 2003 | ISBN 184277073X | PDF | 135 pages | 19.2 MB
Our lives are all affected by three hugely powerful and well financed, but undemocratic, organizations: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. These institutions share a common ideology. They aggressively promote "corporate" capitalism, neoliberalism, giving free rein to the interests of a small number of transnational corporations. This book presents the history and fundamental ideas of this economic ideology. Describing each member of the "unholy trinity," it shows how neoliberalism hijacked the IMF, World Bank and WTO in relation to their global financial, development and trade management roles.

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Flames of War: The World War II Miniatures Game
Battlefront Miniatures | 2006 | ISBN: 0958253692 | 264 Pages | PDF | 117,4 MB
Flames of War let you fight the battles in Europe and Africa during WWII using 15mm miniatures. All players of Games Workshop games will instantly feel at home in this historical miniature game. Currently shifting to 2nd edition the range of playable nations expands not only limiting the players to Germany, USSR, USA and Great Britain. Finns, Hungarians, Italians and other participating nations and units are added to the game. Being a historical game, great focus is put on the realism regarding units, gear, training, experience and vehicles. This is done by dividing the war into distinct periods and using a point system letting the players building their own armies to pit against the opposition.

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Robert Nozick, "Anarchy, State and Utopia"
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited | 2001 | ISBN 063119780X | PDF | 191 pages | 16.2 MB
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions oaf our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative.

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П.Р. Дубягин На Средиземноморской эскадре
Андреевский флаг | 2006 | ISBN: 5955300538 | 359 pages | PDF | 84 MB
Деятельность 5-й Средиземноморской эскадры ВМФ СССР (1967-1992) - ярчайшая страница истории нашего флота. Созданная как противовес 6-му американскому флоту она принимала участие в многочисленных военно-политических конфликтах средиземноморского региона. Контр-адмирал П.Р. Дубягин, в 1973-1976 гг. начальник политотдела 5-й оперативной эскадры, в своей книге рассказывает о боевой службе советских кораблей, вспоминает события, в которых участвовал сам, своих товарищей, своих командиров.

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Тяжелые истребители танков Jagdtiger. "Дитя" Нибелунгов (Из истории бронетехники)
Вече | 2009 | ISBN: 5953343763 | 90 Pages | PDF | 50 MB

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The NeXt Revolution: What Gen X Women Want at Work and How Their Boomer Bosses Can Help Them Get it By Charlotte Shelton, Laura Shelton
Publisher: Intercultural Press 2005-11-25 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0891062009 | PDF | 2.2 MB
Written by a Boomer mother and Gen X daughter, this perceptive book explores the deep satisfaction that professional Gen Xers are experiencing at work-especially women who expected to enter the equal-opportunity workplace their feminist mothers fought for.

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The Journey of the Magi By Richard C. Trexler
Publisher: Princeton University Press 1997-05-23 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0691011265 | PDF | 53 MB
Matthew's Gospel reveals little about the three wealthy visitors said to have presented gifts to the infant Jesus. Yet hundreds of generations of Christians have embellished that image of the Three Kings or Magi for a myriad of social and political as well as spiritual purposes...

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The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus By Paul Zanker
Publisher: University of Michigan Press 1989 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 0472101013 | PDF | 31 MB

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Science-Fiction - The Gernsback Years by Everett F Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press | Date: August 1998 | ISBN: 0873386043 | Pages: 730 | siPDF in RAR | 221 mb

Complementing "Science-Fiction: The Early Years", which surveys Science Fiction books from its beginnings through to 1930, this volume covers all science-fiction printed in the genre magazines - "Amazing", "Astounding" and "Wonder", along with offshoots and minor magazines - from 1926 through 1936.

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Zvlastni zarizeni na komunikacich v letech 1936-38 (Pevnosti sv.31)
FortPrint | PDF | Czech | ISBN: 9788086011400 | 231 pages | 144 MB | 2009

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Giulio M. Gallarotti, "The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: The Classical Gold Standard, 1880-1914".
Publisher: Oxford University Press | english | ISBN: 0195089901 | edition: 1995 | PDF | 368 Pages | 27 Mb
Widely considered the crowning achievement in the history of international monetary relations, the classical gold standard (1880- 1914) has long been treated like a holy relic. Its veneration, however, has done more to obscure than to reveal the actual nature of the era's monetary system. In The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime, Giulio M. Gallarotti addresses the nature of the classical gold standard in its international context, offering the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the subject.Three fundamental questions are essential to the discussion: How did the regime originate? How did it work? Why did it persist? Gallarotti uses an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon politics, economics, and ideology to explain the answers.

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Charlie Martin, "Battle Diary: From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and Ve".
Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd | english | ISBN: 155002213X | edition: 1994 | PDF | 191 Pages | 13 Mb
In this book, Sergeant-Major Charles Cromwell recounts his own first-hand experiences of the Canadian arms of the D-Day landings. Like the hit movie "Saving Private Ryan", this book is told in vivid, easy to understand - "readable" english. Here he vividly recreates the horrors of the landings, and how these (like the American landing at Ohmaha), went wrong. He then takes us past the landings and on a journey through the next few months. He takes us through the sweep into France and through the push into Germany.

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Edward S. Rogers, "Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 155002230X | edition: 1994 | PDF | 448 Pages | 31 Mb
Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume review the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of Ontario thousands of years ago. It includes a comprehensive account of the archaeologists' contributions to our knowledge of the material culture of the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans.

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Eleanor Darke, "A Mill Should Be Build Thereon: An Early History of Todmorden Mills".
Publisher: Natural History/Natural Heritage | english | ISBN: 0920474896 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 116 Pages | 7 Mb
It is difficult for Todmorden Mills Museum visitors to imagine that this site so close to the busy Don Valley Parkway was once home to an important mill. As early as 1793 Governor Simcoe recognised the industrial potential of this portion of the Don River. By 1795 Skinner's sawmill was under construction, initiating an era of technological development that spread beyond the valley of the Don into what was then Muddy York. Today, Todmorden serves to remind us of Toronto's industrial heritage and the spirit of the time.

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Richard T. Arndt, "The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century".
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. | english | ISBN: 1574885871 | edition: 2005 | PDF | 608 Pages | 18 Mb
During the last five decades, U.S. cultural diplomacy programs have withered because of politics and accidents of history that have subordinated cultural diplomacy to public relations campaigning, now called "public diplomacy." With anti-Americanism on the rise worldwide, cultural diplomacy should become an immediate priority, but politicians continue to ignore this relatively inexpensive, age-old tool for promoting understanding among nations. Richard Arndt probes the history of American cultural diplomacy to demonstrate its valuable past contributions and to make a plea for reviving it for the future.

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Mary Beacock Fryer, "Our Young Soldier".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 1550022709 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 192 Pages | 11 Mb
Through journals and personal letters, Our Young Soldier charts the brief life and career of Francis Simcoe, the eldest son of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.

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Peter H. Aykroyd, "Anniversary Compulsion".
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd | english | ISBN: 1550021850 | edition: 1993 | PDF | 214 Pages | 18 Mb
It's December 31, 1966. Nighttime. A few hours to go before midnight. The scene is Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The seat of the Government of Canada.A foot of snow covers the broad sweep in front of the Parliament Buildings. The sky is overcast and a steady north wind whistles in over the white-coated Gatineau Hills. The Pre-Cambrian Shield. Oldest exposed rocks in the world. On the weather map in U.S.A. Today, this part of North America would show up purple from November to April. This is North.

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Келли Фрэнсис, Швабе Рэндольф История костюма и доспехов. От крестоносцев до придворных щеголей
Центрполиграф | 2007 | ISBN-13: 9785952428690 | 216 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Авторы рассматривают историю развития костюма и военного об¬лачения в Англии и Западной Европе со времен Крестовых походов до начала XIX столетия. Вы получите представление как о доспехах, в которые были облачены воины в битве при Гастингсе в 1066 году, так и о пышных английских нарядах эпохи Регентства. Тенденции развития гражданского костюма прослеживаются на примере одежды представителей высшего света, а эволюция боевых доспехов на примере рыцарского облачения. Авторы создали настоящую картинную галерею прошлого, прогулка по которой доставит удовольствие читателю, инте¬ресующемуся историей костюма и доспехов.

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Astrobiology of Earth: The Emergence, Evolution and Future of Life on a Planet in Turmoil (Oxford Biology) By Joseph Gale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2009-05-15 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0199205809 | PDF | 3.2 MB
The study of life in our universe has been given the name 'astrobiology'. It is a relatively new subject, but not a new discipline since it brings together several mature fields of science including astronomy, geology, biology, and climatology...

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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square By Ned Sublette
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books 2008-01-01 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1556527306 | PDF | 12.3 MB
Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune...

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Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge By Rob Roggema
Publisher: Springer 2009-11-18 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 1402093586 | 16.1 MB
As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990’s, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate. So far, extensive research has been carried out on several issues including the coastal defence or shifting ecozones. However, the role spatial design and planning can play in adapting to climate change has not yet been focused on...

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The Atlantic Wall (2): Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway (Fortress 89) By Steven J Zaloga
Publisher: Osprey 2009 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 1846033934 | PDF | 25 MB

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Armored Car: A History Of American Wheeled Combat Vehicles
Presidio Press | PDF | ISBN: 089141777X | 342 pages | 64 MB | 2002

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War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and Present
Publisher: Routledge | pages: 256 | 2008 | ISBN: 0415421195 | PDF | 10,3 mb
With new and existing evidence being reconsidered, this edited collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to discussing the Qajar system within the context of the wars that engulfed it and the periods of peace that ensued. It throws new light on the decision-making processes, the restraints on action, and the political exigencies at play during the Qajar years.

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В.Г. Ригмант Дальний перехватчик Ту-128
Моделист-Конструктор | 2007 | ISBN: N/A | 36 pages | PDF | 27.38 MB
Описаны история создания, серийное производство, модификации, конструкция, эксплуатация, применение и окраска советского дальнего перехватчика Ту-128.

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Dion Holswich - The Art of War: A Hobby Enthusiasts Guide to Flames of War Painting and Modeling Issue 1
Battlefront Miniatures | 2007 | ISBN: 0958275599 | 88 pages | PDF | 18.86 MB

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Paul Gootenberg, "Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2009 | ISBN 0807832294 | PDF | 463 pages | 11.5 MB
Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the global influences that have shaped the history of cocaine. But Gootenberg decenters the familiar story to uncover the roles played by hitherto obscure but vital Andean actors as well—for example, the Peruvian pharmacist who developed the techniques for refining cocaine on an industrial scale and the creators of the original drug-smuggling networks that decades later would be taken over by Colombian traffickers. Andean Cocaine proves indispensable to understanding one of the most vexing social dilemmas of the late twentieth-century Americas: the American cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and, in its wake, the seemingly endless U.S. drug war in the Andes.

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Touré F. Reed, "Not Alms but Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2008 | ISBN 0807832235 | PDF | 273 pages | 10.5 MB
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the National, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century.. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. Reed traces the Urban League's ideology to the famed Chicago School of Sociology. The Chicago School offered Leaguers powerful scientific tools with which to foil the thrust of eugenics. However, Reed argues, concepts such as ethnic cycle and social disorganization and reorganization led the League to embrace behavioral models of uplift that reflected a deep circumspection about poor Afro-Americans and fostered a preoccupation with the needs of middle-class blacks. According to Reed, the League's reform endeavors from the migration era through World War II oscillated between projects to "adjust" or even "contain" unacculturated Afro-Americans and projects intended to enhance the status of the African American middle class. Reed's analysis complicates the mainstream account of how particular class concerns and ideological influences shaped the League's vision of group advancement as well as the consequences of its endeavors.

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Louis A., Jr. Pérez, "Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Caravan Book)"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2008 | ISBN 0807832162 | PDF | 348 pages | 15.9 MB
For more than two hundred often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images—Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island. Pérez analyzes the dominant images and their political effectiveness as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Pérez argues that metaphor was central to the U.S. imperial project as a way of transforming the pursuit of national self-interest into the lofty, disinterested purpose of moral duty. With particular focus on the pivotal eras of the war of 1898 and the 1959 Cuban revolution, Pérez demonstrates that these descriptions served the foreign policy interests of the United States. As charged and coded modes of persuasion and mediation, these images sanctioned and sustained the moral logic of U.S. power over Cuba. Pérez further argues that the metaphors in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba were subsequently projected over the world at large.

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Hannah Rosen, "Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture)"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2008 | ISBN 0807832022 | PDF | 420 pages | 12.8 MB
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively argues that in this critical moment of Reconstruction, contests over the future meaning of race were often fought on the terrain of gender. Sexual violence—specifically, white-on-black rape—emerged as a critical arena in postemancipation struggles over African American citizenship. Analyzing the testimony of rape survivors, Rosen finds that white men often staged elaborate attacks meant to enact prior racial hierarchy. Through their testimony, black women defiantly rejected such hierarchy and claimed their new and equal rights. Rosen explains how heated debates over interracial marriage were also attempts by whites to undermine African American men's demands for suffrage and a voice in public affairs. By connecting histories of rape and discourses of "social equality" with struggles over citizenship, Rosen shows how gendered violence and gendered rhetorics of race together produced a climate of terror for black men and women seeking to exercise their new rights as citizens. Linking political events at the city, state, and regional levels, Rosen places gender and sexual violence at the heart of understanding the reconsolidation of race and racism in the postemancipation United States.

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Mohammed A. Bamyeh, "Anarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity (World Social Change)"
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | 2009 | ISBN 0742556735 | PDF | 251 pages | 10.1 MB
This original and impressively researched book presents the concept of anarchy--"unimposed order"--as the most humane and stable form of order in a chaotic world. Mohammed A. Bamyeh traces the historical foundations of anarchy and convincingly presents it as an alternative to both tyranny and democracy. He shows how anarchy is the best manifestation of civic order, of a healthy civil society, and of humanity's noblest attributes. A cogent and compelling critique of the modern state, this provocative book clarifies how anarchy may be both a guide for rational social order and a science of humanity.

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James H. Charlesworth, Craig A. Evans, "The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation (Jsp Supplement)"
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press | 1994 | ISBN 1850754438 | PDF | 320 pages | 12.4 MB

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Gary Land, "Growing Up with Baseball: How We Loved and Played the Game"
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | 2004 | ISBN 0803229755 | PDF | 207 pages | 11.5 MB
Long, leisurely summer days playing pick-up games in the neighborhood sandlot; that first, awe-inspiring glimpse of a major league field; playing catch in the backyard; collecting baseball cards; pouring over box scores—for many, baseball is the stuff of an American childhood. The thirty personal recollections in this book reflect the great variety of this uniquely American experience as well as the common spirit that unites all fans of baseball. An anecdotal history of America’s pastime from the 1930s to the 1990s, Growing Up with Baseball shows us how it was watched, played, and lived not by superstar athletes and multimillionaire owners but by everyday people. A missionary’s son learns to read by comparing the sports reports in Time Magazine with Mel Allen’s announcing over Armed Forces Radio; a young girl reaches puberty at approximately the same time that the Red Sox get their “impossible dream” pennant; boys gather by day to play ball on an old Pittsburgh tennis court, then camp there at night while listening to the Pirates on the radio; a young man encounters the Fogarty brothers, of Credence Clearwater Revival, on the sandlots of Berkeley.

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Сексуальная жизнь в древнем Китае
2000 | Роберт ван Гулик | Петербургское Востоковедение | ISBN: 5858031153 | руcский | PDF | 400 pages | 14.4 Mb
Роберт ван Гулик (1910-1967) -- голландский ученый, дипломат и писатель, человек сложной судьбы и разнообразных интересов. В 1935 г. Гулик был принят на работу в Министерство иностранных дел Нидерландов и получил назначение в Токио. Будучи в Японии, он, несмотря на большую загруженность дипломатической работой, находит время для научных занятий, область которых чрезвычайно разнообразна: от изучения каллиграфии и дальневосточной живописи до музыки и литературы. С 1942 г. ван Гулик живет в Китае, в стране, которая давно занимала его воображение, и изучает там традиционные верования.

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Ме-262. Первенец реактивной эры
Яуза, Эксмо | Russian | PDF | ISBN: 9785699376841 | 118 pages | 130 MB | 2009

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Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism By Michael C. Desch
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2008-03-06 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0801888018 | PDF | 1.1 MB
Since 1815 democratic states have emerged victorious from most wars, leading many scholars to conclude that democracies are better equipped to triumph in armed conflict with autocratic and other non-representative governments...

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James D. Szalontai, "Teenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck: Major League Baseball in 1945"
Publisher: McFarland | 2009-01-19 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 0786437944 | PDF | 2 MB

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Hal Marcovitz, "The Munich Olympics (Great Disasters, Reforms and Ramifications)"
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications | 2002 | 113 Pages | ISBN: 0791067378 | PDF | 2,7 MB

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Время танковых атак
2009 | Архипов Василий | Яуза | ISBN: 978 5699325528 | руcский | DJVU | 352 pages | 8.8 Mb
Дважды Герой Советского Союза В.С.Архипов прошел путь от красноармейца до генерал-полковника, командующего бронетанковыми войсками военного округа.
Свою первую Золотую Звезду капитан Архипов получил еще во время Финской войны, за бой 26 февраля 1940 г., когда его рота сожгла 14 вражеских танков, не потеряв ни одного своего. Великую Отечественную командир разведбата танковой дивизии майор Архипов встретил на Украине...

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Повседневная жизнь публичных домов во времена Золя и Мопассана
2005 | Лаура Адлер | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 5235027396 | руcский | DJVU | 272 pages | 13.2 Mb
С того самого момента, как на планете возник вид homo sapiens, женщины и мужчины торговали своим телом. Но все наблюдатели - врачи, историки, моралисты, полицейские, идеологи, художники, романисты - соглашаются в том, что в XIX веке проституция радикально изменила свой облик...

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Y. Gordon, D. Komissarov
Antonov's Jet Twins: The An-72/-74 Family [Red Star 21]
Midland | 2005 | ISBN: 1857801997 | 130 pages | PDF | 109 Mb

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Y. Gordon, D. and S. Komissarov
Antonov's Turboprop Twins An-24/An-26/An-30/An-32 [Red Star 12]
Midland | 2003 | ISBN: 1857801539 | 130 pages | PDF | 128 Mb

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Викинги. Потомки Одина и Тора
2007 | Гвин Джонс | Центрполиграф | ISBN: 978 5952430952 | руcский | PDF | 445 pages | 28.3 Mb
На Руси их звали варягами, в Западной Европе - норманнами, а в историю они вошли как викинги, совершившие беспрецедентную экспансию на запад в поисках неведомых земель. Отправляясь в далекие походы с грандиозными целями, они последовательно, терпеливо, с нордической выдержкой и неистовой отвагой претворяли их в жизнь. Поэтому в памяти человечества викинги остались непобедимыми воинами, которые превыше всего ценили доблесть, богатство и славу.

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Пушки для боевых самолетов (3-е изд.)
НТЦ "Информтехника" | Russian | PDF | ISBN: N/A | 206 pages | 117 MB | 1993

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Carol Thysell, "The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2000 | ISBN 0195138457 | PDF | 192 pages | 10.4 MB
In this innovative study, Carol Thysell provides an in-depth examination of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. While this collection of tales is traditionally considered to be secular in nature, Thysell argues that Marguerite de Navarre used it as a vehicle for a constructive theological programme.

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Lindsey Williams, "Syndrome of control"
Publisher: Worth Pub. Co | 1987 | ISBN B00072ZAZQ | PDF | 210 pages | 10.5 MB
Syndrome of Control - the book by Lindsey Williams Congressman George Hansen for the first time in print tells the true story of the Iran Crisis. Lindsey Williams reveals the mental plot of the International financiers. Anyone for a dynasty? Here's how you can build one! An enlightening comparison of a Republic vs. a Democracy...Freedom vs. slavery This easily could be the most controversial book of our time. This unique book includes contributions from a number of outside sources...each with a specialized area of expertise, making this publication all the more fascinating, in many cases alarming, and certainly enlightening. If this book does not make you want to wake up "the sleeping giant" and do something to stop the slipping away of our feedoms...probably nothing will!

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Peter W. Cohausz - Deutsche Flugzeugcockpits und Instrumentenbretter Teil 8. Zweiter Weltkrieg Messerschmitt - Winter
Flugzeug Publikations GmbH | 2008 | ISBN: N/A | German | 52 pages | PDF | 53.22 MB
Cockpit Profile 8
Featuring mainly Messerschmitt types - interior views and drawings of the Bf110, Bf161, Me163, Me209, Me210, Me262, Me263, Me264, Me321, Me323, Me410 and Si204. German captions, English summary. Drawings. 22 colour & 50 b/w photos.

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Arthur Ransome, "Russia in 1919"
Publisher: IndyPublish.com | 2004 | ISBN 1414224079 | PDF | 125 pages | 10 MB
This book describes the economic, social and political situation Arthur Ransome saw during his visit to Russia in February and March of 1919. Underlining the description of these events is the wrenching famine in Russia caused by the Civil War. In this work Ransome interviews several prominent members of the Soviet government as well as ordinary citizens of Soviet Russia. While Ransome's support of the Soviet society is evident in his critical but encouraging look at this new government struggling through a civil war, what is not evident is that Arthur Ransome was a British Secret agent working with MI6! (Biography) Nevertheless, in some ways this only increases the historical value of this work; being an apolitical individual in the search for information. Note that the author refers to dates before 1918 in the European, not Russian, sense. Before 1918 Russia used the Julian calendar . After 1918 the Soviet government switched Russia to the Gregorian calendar . Thus, when the author refers to the March revolution, in Russia it was the February revolution; and similarly when he refers to the November revolution, in Russia it was the October revolution.

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William S. Jevons, "Theory of Political Economy (Reprints of Economic Classics)"
Publisher: Harvard University Press | 1965 | ISBN 0678000840 | PDF | 171 pages | 11.4 MB
The publication of this work in 1871--almost simultaneously with the treatises of Menger and Walras--opened a new period in economic theorizing which would become later known as the "marginal revolution." In Keynes' assessment, this was the "first modern book on economics," "simple, lucid, unfaltering," "chiseled in stone where Marshall knits in wool."

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Кельты: истоки, история, миф
2007 | Джон Коллис | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953318556 | руcский | PDF | 288 pages | 18.4 Mb
Кем были на самом деле кельты - этот овеянный легендами народ, подаривший миру загадочное учение друидов? Где искать истоки полузабытой цивилизации, разгромленной Римом два тысячелетия назад, однако доныне живущий не только в трудах ученых и молениях друидов-неоязычников, но и в безбрежном море популярной литературы жанра "фэнтези"?

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Stephen Mileson Parks in Medieval England (Medieval History and Archaeology)
Oxford University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0199565678 | 132 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB
Parks were prominent and, indeed, controversial features of the medieval countryside, but they have been unevenly studied and remain only partly understood. Stephen Mileson provides the first full-length study of the subject, examining parks across the country and throughout the Middle Ages
in their full social, economic, jurisdictional, and landscape context.
The first half of the book investigates the purpose of these royal and aristocratic reserves, which have been variously claimed as hunting grounds, economic assets, landscape settings for residences, and status symbols. An emphasis on the aristocratic passion for the chase as the key motivation for park-making provides an important challenge to more recent views and allows for a deeper appreciation of the connection between park-making and the expression of power and lordship.
The second part of the book examines the impact of park creation on wider society, from the king and aristocracy to peasants and townsmen. Instead of the traditional emphasis on the importance of royal regulation, greater attention is paid to the effects of lordly park-making on other members of the landed elite and ordinary people. These widespread enclosures interfered with customary uses of woodland and waste, hunting practices, roads and farming; not surprisingly, they could become a focus for aristocratic feud, popular protest and furtive resistance.
Combining historical, archaeological, and landscape evidence this ground-breaking study provides fresh insight into contemporary values and how they helped to shape the medieval landscape.

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J.A. Guerrero - Fiat CR-32 Chirri
Editorial San Martin | 1976 | ISBN: 8471401347 | Spanish | 34 pages | PDF | 17.48 MB
Aviones famosos 3
De la colección, Aviones Famosos de la Editorial San Martín publicado en el año 1976, profusamente ilustrado con planos, fotografías, bocetos y dibujos a color del famoso biplano italiano, utilizado en la Guerra Civil Española de 1936-1939.

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Paul G. Zinn, John G. Zinn, "The Major League Pennant Races of 1916:The Most Maddening Baseball Melee in History"
Publisher: McFarland | 2009-01-19 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 0786436301 | PDF | 3,2 MB

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Clay McShane, Joel Tarr, "The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Animals, History, Culture)"
The Johns Hopkins University Press (May 31, 2007) | English | 0801886007 | 242 pages | PDF | 3.49 MB

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Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting By John Maxwell Hamilton
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press 2009-09-14 | 655 Pages | ISBN: 0807134740 | PDF | 19 MB
In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take for granted--facility with the local language, for instance, or an understanding of local cultures...

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A Kid's Guide to Native American History: More than 50 Activities (A Kid's Guide series) By Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene Hirschfelder
Publisher: Chicago Review Press 2009-11-01 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1556528027 | PDF | 10 MB
Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Native American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have helped shape America, past and present. Nine geographical areas cover a variety of communities like the Mohawk in the Northeast, Ojibway in the Midwest, Shoshone in the Great Basin, Apache in the Southwest, Yupik in Alaska, and Native Hawaiians, among others...

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Film History: An Introduction By Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages 2002-08-06 | 808 Pages | ISBN: 0070384290 | PDF | 161 MB
Written by two leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive survey of film-from the backlots of Hollywood, across the United States, and around the world...

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Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature By Roger French
Publisher: Routledge 1994 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0415088801 , 0415115450 | PDF | 4 MB

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Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time (Forgotten Books) By Lee McCann
Publisher: Forgotten Books 2008-01-09 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 1605065080 | PDF | 12 MB
"Interest in Nostradamus goes through cycles, usually coinciding with periods of uncertainty and conflict. At the beginning of World War II people turned to Nostradamus for clues as to how and when that conflict would be resolved, and to look for indications that somehow he had prophesized it. Some used Nostradamus for propaganda, or profit, or publicity. Of course, this was also the case after the attacks of September 11th, 2001...

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"Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership" by David N. Spires
Air University Press | 422 pages | English | 2002 | ISBN: 1585660604 | PDF | 21,6 MB
Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership is a study of the United States Air Force in space. Of all the military services, the Air Force has been preeminently involved for the past fifty years in initiating, developing, and applying the technology of space-based systems in support of the nation's national security. Yet there has been no single-volume overview of the Air Force space story to serve as an introduction and guide for interested readers.

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Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide By Jerry Beck
Publisher: DK CHILDREN 2003-10 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0789497581 | PDF | 25 MB
Featuring all the favorite Looney Tunes characters, from Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, this is the first visual history of the groundbreaking animated classics. Gathered from the Warner Bros. archives with illustrations by Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, and Mel Blanc, the film stills, sketches, story boards, and more in the Looney Tunes Ultimate Visual Guide are sure to enthrall cartoon fans both young and old.

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"Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities"
Chicago Review | 144 pages | English | 2000 | ISBN: 1556523742 | PDF | 15,6 MB
Join Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery as they navigate the muddy Missouri River and begin a great adventure set against the background of the vast North American continent. Lewis and Clark for Kids takes children from President Jefferson's vision of an exploratory mission across a continent full of unique plants and animals through their dangerous and challenging journey into the unknown to the expedition's triumphant return to the frontier town of St. Louis. Twenty-one activities bring to life the Native American tribes they encountered, the plants and animals they discovered, and the camping and navigating techniques they used. A glossary of terms and listings of Lewis and Clark sites, museums, and related Web sites round out this comprehensive activity book.

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The Power Of Knowledge, The Resonance Of Tradition By Luke Taylor
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press 2005-04 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0855754842 | PDF | 3 MB
This book offers a ground-breaking critique of the concept of 'tradition' as it has been applied in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context. The authors offer a refreshing new style of analysis...

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Коростенский УкрепРайон №5
Коростень | Russian | PDF | ISBN: N/A | 33 pages | 13,4 MB | 2008

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"The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto 7 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)" by Jonathan Buckley
Rough Guides | 448 pages | English | 2007 | ISBN: 1843538083 | PDF | 20,9 MB
The Rough Guide to Venice & Veneto is your definitive handbook to this splendour-aching European City. From the water-lapped palaces along the Canal Grande to the buzzing Rialto market, the full-colour section introduces all of the regions highlights.

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Наша история. 100 великих имён. Выпуск 4 Петр Чайковский
2010 | Де Агостини | руcский | PDF or DjVu | 32 pages | 20.6 Mb or 9.1 Mb
Описание:
Родившийся в уральской глуши и достигший мировой славы, Петр Ильич Чайковский (1840-1893) прошёл путь, полный вдохновения и тяжелого труда, знал взлеты и падения, минуты счастья и мучительных переживаний. Признанный гениальным мелодистом, именно в музыке он искал и находил ту гармонию, которой так часто не хватало ему в жизни.

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David Johnston, "Roman Law in Context (Key Themes in Ancient History)"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | PDF | 1999 | ISBN 0521630460 | 165 pages | 10.8 Mb
This book explains the rules of Roman law in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. The main topics discussed are the family and inheritance, property and the use of land, commercial transactions and the management of businesses, litigation and how easily the Roman citizen could assert his or her legal rights in practice. The book involves a minimum of legal technicality and is intended to be accessible to students and teachers of Roman history.

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Соколов А.Н. Советский ракетный крейсер. Зигзаги эволюции
Военная книга | 2006 | ISBN: 5902863090 | 48 pages | PDF | 78,6 MB
В монографии повествуется о сложном пути становления ракетного крейсера, как класса боевого корабля.
Автор, Соколов Алексей Николаевич - инженер-кораблестроитель, оружейник с сорокалетним опытом практической работы, в своем труде повествует о сложном пути становления ракетного крейсера, как класс боевого корабля. В книге содержатся сведения о разработках советских конструкторов в области создания ударной ракетной единицы, способной действовать автономно в отделенных районах Мирового океана, представлен богатый графический материал, многое из которого автором разработано лично. Данная монография не оставит равнодушным читателя, интересующегося Отечественным Военно-Морским Флотом, его прошлым и настоящим.

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Lynn Davis, "The U.S. Army and the New National Security Strategy"
Publisher: RAND Corporation | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0833033476 | 318 pages | 10.7 Mb
This book examines the Army's role in the war on terrorism; the Army's homeland security needs; the implications of increased emphasis on Asia; the Army's role in coalition operations; the unfinished business of jointness-the lessons learned from operations and how to prepare for the future; the Army's deployability, logistical, and personnel challenges; and whether the Army can afford its Transformation. These examinations are bracketed by an introduction, a description of the Army's place in the new national security strategy, and a summary of the authors' conclusions.

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David E. Bloom, "Demographic Dividend: New Perspective on Economic Consequences Population Change (Population Matters)"
Publisher: RAND Corporation | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0833029266 | 119 pages | 10.7 Mb
Examines the debate on how population growth affects national economies and synthesizes current research on the topic. The authors, led by Harvard economist David Bloom, conclude that population age structure, more than size or growth per se, affects economic development, and that reducing high fertility can create opportunities for economic growth if the right kinds of educational, health, and labor-market policies are in place. The report also examines specific regions of the world and how their differing policy environments have affected the relationship between population change and economic development.

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Mary Masi, "Pase El Examen de Ciudadania Americana"
Publisher: Learning Express | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 1576853942 | 298 pages | 10.9 Mb
This new translation is designed to help native Spanish speakers pass the U.S. Citizenship exam. It offers key information on the citizenship process in Spanish, as well in simple English. With this book, candidates can gain the confidence they need to pass the exam the first time by practicing the skills necessary to master the dictation, written, and oral sections of the exam. Pase el Examen De Ciudadania Americana features short, manageable lessons about U.S. government and history. Plus, you'll get essential practice for all parts of the INS interview including background, civics and history questions, and dictation exercises.

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Mark Tungate, "Luxury World: The Past, Present and Future of Luxury Brands"
Kogan Page | 2009-11-28 | ISBN: 0749452633 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

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Digby Smith, Kevin F. Kiley
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms from 1775-1783: The American Revolutionary War
Lorenz Books | 2008 | ISBN: 075481761X | 264 pages | PDF | 168 Mb

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Handbook of American Indians: North of Mexico (Part 2)
The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30
Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge
Government Printing Office | 1910 | ISBN: N/A | 1234 pages | PDF | 170 Mb
Includes illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words.

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Handbook of American Indians: North of Mexico (Part 1)
The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30
Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge
Government Printing Office | 1907 | ISBN: N/A | 992 pages | PDF | 150 Mb
Includes illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words.

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Ю.С. Крючков Адмирал Алексей Самуилович Грейг
Дельта-лоцман | 2001 | ISBN: N/A | 158 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Книга посвящена жизни и деятельности почетного академика, адмирала А. С. Грейга.
Мореплаватель и флотоводец, участник многих морских сражений, он был известен также своей научной и инженерной деятельностью в области морского дела, кораблестроения, астрономии
С именем А. С. Грейга связано развитие теории и практики отечественного кораблестроения первой половины XIX в., строительство астрономических обсерваторий в Николаеве и Пулкове, организация гидрографических работ на Черном море и т. д.

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Кельтская Шотландия
2008 | Агнес Мак-Кензи | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953327671 | русский | PDF | 336 pages | 8.1 Mb
Что мы знаем о Шотландии? Пожалуй, немного. Кое-что из романов Вальтера Скотта да яркий кинематографический образ шотландского "Горца" - Дункана Мак-Лауда... Эта книга представит вам древнюю страну на севере Британии в исчерпывающей исторической конкретности...

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Дети Арктиды. Северные истоки Руси
2009 | Александр Тулупов | Алгоритм–Книга | ISBN: 978 5699383948 | русский | PDF | 384 pages | 18 Mb
Что заставило человечество отказаться от земледельческой традиции Гипербореи, от "амброзии и нектара" райского сада и пасть до мертвечины, превратившись в скотоводов? Каин и Авель, разрушение арийского Рая, гибель Гипербореи, исход Ариев, битва Атлантиды и Арктиды - это всего лишь ничтожная доля вопросов, на которые ответил автор этой книги.

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The History of Russia (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) By Charles E. Ziegler
Publisher: Greenwood 2009-10-13 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0313363072 | PDF | 1 MB
When first published, Charles ZieglerÕs The History of Russia was acclaimed as a source of information not easily found elsewhere, and as Òclear, balanced, and insightful,Ó by Rajan Menon of Lehigh University. Now ZieglerÕs remarkable volume returns, fully updated to be the work of choice for readers looking for an introduction to the history of the worldÕs largest country...

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Edward JFernand Braudel The Mediterranean: And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (Volume II)
University of California Press | 1996 | ISBN: 0520203305 | 725 pages | PDF | 26,3 MB
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders
Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

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Edward JFernand Braudel The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1
University of California Press | 1996 | ISBN: 0520203089 | 642 pages | PDF | 29,3 MB
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders
Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

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Edward J. Erickson Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War (Contributions in Military Studies)
Praeger | 2000 | ISBN: 0313315167 | 304 pages | PDF | 14,3 MB
The first general history in English of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Ordered to Die is based on newly available Turkish archival and official sources. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Ottoman Army performed astonishingly well in the field and managed to keep fighting until the end of the war, long after many other armies had quit the field. It fought a multi-front war against sophisticated and capable enemies, including Great Britain, France, and Russia. Erickson challenges conventional thinking about Ottoman war aims, Ottoman military effectiveness, and the influence of German assistance.

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Charles Boutell
English Heraldry
Cassell, Petter and Galpin | 1867 | ISBN: N/A | 368 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
This little Volume, specially prepared for the use of students at an early period of their study of English Heraldry, commends itself also to those inquirers who may desire to obtain some information on the same general subject, without having any intention to devote to Heraldry much either of their time or of their serious regard. ~ from Preface
Contains about 450 illustrations.

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Bill Gunston - Cazas y aviones de ataque alemanes de la segunda guerra mundial
Folio | 1995 | ISBN: 8475838286 | Spanish | 80 pages | PDF | 15.59 MB
Guía ilustrada No. 5
Arado Ar 68 - Arado Ar 234 Blitz - Arado Ar 240 - Bachem Ba 349 Natter - Blohm und Voss BV 40 - Blohm und Voss BV 155 - Dornier Do 335 Pfeil - Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu - Focke Wulf Fw 190 y Ta 152 - Focke Wulf Ta 154 - Heinkel He 51 - Heinkel He 100 - Heinkel He 112 - Heinkel He 162 Salamander - Heinkel He 219 Uhu - Heinkel He 280 - Henschel Hs 123 - Henschel Hs 129 - Henschel Hs 132 - Junkers Ju 87 - Junkers Ju 88 - Junkers Ju 388J - Messerschmitt Bf 109 - Messerschmitt Bf 110 - Messerschmitt Me 210 y Me 410 Hornisse - Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet - Messerschmitt Me 262.

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Histoire de l'Art Égyptien - Atlas 2
Bertrand | 1878 | ISBN: n/a | 101 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Émile Prisse d'Avesnes (d'Avennes) (1807-1879) was an important mid-19th century French Egyptologist. He was a soldier, engineer, writer, illustrator and talented linguist.

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Histoire de l'Art Égyptien - Atlas 1
Bertrand | 1878 | ISBN: n/a | 68 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Émile Prisse d'Avesnes (d'Avennes) (1807-1879) was an important mid-19th century French Egyptologist. He was a soldier, engineer, writer, illustrator and talented linguist.

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A Description of New Netherland
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | ISBN: 0803210884 | edition 2008 | PDF | 208 pages | 10,9 mb
If you've been waiting for centuries for a full translation of Adriaen van der Donck's 1655 work A Description of New Netherland, your wait is over. In this work, edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, one of the colony's most astute observers ruminates on flora and fauna (his six-foot-long lobster sounds like the subject of a proverbial fish story), including meditations on "the amazing ways" of beavers and sightings of beached whales near Albany.

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The XPlanes of Imperial Japanese Army & Navy 1924-45 (Illustrated Warplane History 8)
Japanese | 1999 | ISBN: 476633292X | 297 Pages | PDF | 187,4 MB

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Великий путь из варяг в греки
2009 | Юрий Звягин | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953341691 | русский | PDF | 240 pages | 9.5 Mb
Согласно всем учебникам, Русь складывалась вокруг великого торгового пути из варяг в греки, соединявшего Балтийское море с Черным. Через Неву - Ладожское озеро - Волхов - Ильмень - Ловать - Днепр шли с севера на юг за византийским золотом и товарами норманны-варяги, подчинявшие славян...

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История Европы с древнейших времен до наших дней. ТОМ V. От французской революции конца XVIII века до первой мировой войны
2000 | Москва, Наука | ISBN: 502010065X | руcский | DJVU | 676 pages | 11.1 Mb
В томе предпринята попытка, используя проблемно-хронологический подход при изложении материала, по-новому, с рубежа второго и третьего тысячелетий, взглянуть на события "долгого XIX века"

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The Social Economy: Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era (Rethinking Globalizations) By Hasmet M. Uluorta
Publisher: Routledge 2009-02-04 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0415775930 | PDF | 1.3 MB
Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy...

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Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics (American Political Landscape Series) By Jeffrey D. Schultz, John G. West, Iain Maclean
Publisher: Greenwood 1998-12-14 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 1573561304 | PDF | 54 MB
Today, such issues as abortion, capital punishment, sex education, racism, prayer in public schools, and family values keep religion and politics closely entwined in American public life...

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Повседневная жизнь советского разведчика, или Скандинавия с черного входа
2004 | Б.Н. Григорьев | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 523502706Х | руcский | PDF | 500 pages | 23.2 Mb
Читатель не найдет в "ностальгических воспоминаниях" Бориса Григорьева сногсшибательных историй, экзотических приключений или смертельных схваток под знаком плаща и кинжала. И все же автору этой книги, несомненно, удалось, основываясь на собственном оперативном опыте и на опыте коллег, дать максимально объективную картину жизни сотрудника советской разведки 60-90-х годов хх века.

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Iоаннъ Гоффертъ "Иллюстрированная Отечественная война 1812 года"
1887 | Типографiя Ф. С. Сущинского, Санктъ-Петербургъ | Русский (старая орфография) | PDF | 25 ст. | 71.51 Mb
Книга представляет собой иллюстрированный рассказ о нашествии наполеоновских войск в Россию - от начала до битвы при Березине, после которой отступление французской армии превратилось в бегство. Содержит 12 фотогравюр с картин П. Гесса. Каждая фотогравюра снабжена пояснительным текстом на отдельном листе, составленным генерал-майором Н.Ф. Дубровиным.

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Benton Rain Patterson, "The Great American Steamboat Race"
Publisher: McFarland | 2009-05-13 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 0786442921 | PDF | 2,3 MB
Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race.

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Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide (Children and Youth: History and Culture) By Lori Askeland
Publisher: Greenwood Press 2005-12-30 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0313331839 | PDF | 11.2 MB
Adoption and foster care is a new and burgeoning area of historical and interdisciplinary research. Too often, however, birth parents, adoptive parents and foster parents, social workers, and the children themselves have been either ignored or demonized. This authoritative and accessible work is the first comprehensive introductory resource that gives a fuller portrait of the many individuals and groups that have contributed to the perceptions of what children are in need of care...

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История Европы с древнейших времен до наших дней. ТОМ IV Европа нового времени
1994 | Москва, Наука | ISBN: 5020097942 | руcский | DJVU | 509 pages | 15.2 Mb
Том посвящен событиям полуторастолетнего периода, с середины XVII до конца XVIII в., времени очень сложного, ознаменованного противоречивыми процессами развития капиталистической мануфактуры на Западе и закрепощения крестьянства на Востоке Европы

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Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII By Thomas Mayer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0521521289 | PDF | 8 MB

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В.А. Леняшин "Портретная живопись В.А. Серова 1900-х годов"
1986 | "Художник РСФСР", Ленинград | русский | PDF | 260 ст. | 66.5 Mb
Исследование портретного творчества Валентина Александровича Серова (1865-1911), в особенности 1900-х годов,несомненно, имеет важное значение для советского искусствоведения. Углубленно анализируя большое число портретов Серова,, автор выявляет связи творчества Серова с русским портретом XIX века и с передвижничеством в часности, а также с искусством начала XX века, как русским, так и зарубежным.

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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended / Исправленная хронология древних царств
2009 | Sir Isaaс Newton / Исаак Ньютон | РИМИС | ISBN: 978 5699346080 | english / руcский | PDF | 648 pages | 6.1 Mb
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms is an approximately 87,000-word composition written by Sir Isaac Newton, first published posthumously in 1728 in limited supply, but since republished in mass paperback format. The work represents one of Newton's forays into the topic of chronology, detailing the rise and history of various ancient kingdoms throughout antiquity.
Сегодня далеко не все знают, что Исаак Ньютон, великий английский ученый XVIII века, много лет своей жизни отдал изучению исторической хронологии. Ошибочность общепринятой хронологической версии Скалигера-Петавиуса стала ясна Ньютону после длительного и кропотливого изучения.

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The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation By Robert Whiting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1991 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0521424399 | PDF | 7 MB

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Jordan in the 1967 War By Samir A. Mutawi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0521528585 | PDF | 6 MB

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A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia
Publisher: Greenwood | ISBN: 031330159X | edition 2003 | PDF | 562 pages | 16,2 mb
Mary Shelley is famous as, first, the author of Frankenstein and, second, as the wife of a famous poet and daughter of a famous novelist and philosopher. Due in no small part to Frankenstein's place on high-school and college reading lists, her other works have been reprinted in recent years. This has resulted in a reassessment and an emergence of Shelley from the shadows of her great work and her family. Exploring these other works leaves one with a sense of an incredible life story and intellect that Frankenstein barely revealed.
This encyclopedia provides readers of Shelley's works with a context--it offers information on her family, friends, residences, and more, as well as entries on her works, characters, influences, and themes. It boasts in the introduction of containing "textual footnotes to nearly all aspects of Shelley and her works." For example, the entry Prometheus mentions the Greek mythological figure but also the uses the myth was put to by Percy Bysshe Shelley (in, for example, Prometheus Unbound, 1820) and the reinvention of the myth by Mary in her most famous novel

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Россия. Погружение в бездну
2009 | И.Я. Фроянов | Алгоритм-Книга | ISBN: 978 5699346080 | руcский | PDF | 448 pages | 8.8 Mb
Превращение России из мировой сверхдержавы в нищую страну — одно из самых трагических событий в истории человечества. Это крушение произошло в мирное время всего за несколько лет. По темпам и масштабу этот крах не имеет в мировой истории прецедента.

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Banu AVAR - Böl ve Yut Batı'nın Politikaları Bugün de Aynı
Publisher: Remzi Kitapevi | 2009 | Turkish | ISBN: 9789751413147 | PDF | 302 pages | 9,82 MB

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Highest Duty CD: My Search for What Really Matters (Audiobook) By Chesley B. Sullenberger, Michael Mcconnohie
Publisher: HarperAudio 2009 | 8 hours and 47 mins | ISBN: 0061953253 | MP3 | 171 MB

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Who Rules America? Power, Politics and Social Change (5th ed) By G. William Domhoff
Publisher: McGrawHill, 2006. 5th edition 2006-01-01 | 265 Pages | ISBN: 0072876255 | PDF | 12 MB
Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, Domhoff’s classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. Domhoff argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S...

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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 By Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2001 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0674006372 | PDF | 1 MB

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Москва в свете Новой Хронологии
2010 | Г.В. Носовский, А.Т. Фоменко | Аст, Астрель | ISBN: 978 5271244094 | руcский | PDF or DJVU | 546 pages | 180 Mb or 64.3 Mb
В ходе наших исследований по новой хронологии под давлением многочисленных фактов возник новый, достаточно неожиданный взгляд на историю города Москвы и его место в русской и мировой истории. Старые памятники Москвы - в первую очередь Московский Кремль - с новой точки зрения становятся еще более интересными и значимыми. Они приобретают новое, общемировое звучание.

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The Israeli Peace Movement: A Shattered Dream By Tamar S. Hermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009-09-14 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0521884098 | PDF | 1.5 MB
This books deals with the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which, paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility...

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W.S.F. Pickering, "Durkheim and Representations (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 22)"
Publisher: Routledge | 1999 | ISBN 0415190908 | PDF | 181 pages | 10.3 MB
By arguing that his use of representations at the core of Durkheim's sociological thought, this book makes a unique contribution to Durkheimian studies which have recently been dominated by postivist and functionalist interpretaions, and reveals a thinker very much in tune with contemporary developments in philosophy, linguistics and sociology.

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Carlton Stoiber, "Handbook on Nuclear Law"
Publisher: United Nations Publications | 2003 | ISBN 9201057032 | PDF | 174 pages | 10.2 MB
This handbook responds to the growing demand from many governments for assistance in the development of nuclear legislation and the need to harmonize their own legal and institutional arrangements with international standards. It contains concise and authoritative instructional material for teaching professionals such as lawyers, scientists, engineers, health and radiation workers, diplomats and government administrators, the basic elements of a sound legal framework for managing and regulating nuclear energy.

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Gary North, "The War on Mel Gibson: The Media vs. The Passion"
Publisher: American Vision | 2004 | ISBN 0915815478 | PDF | 234 pages | 11.3 MB
The War On Mel Gibson explains why Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ has stirred such a furor. Isn't it just another Jesus movie? Evidently not and Dr. North reveals who Mel Gibson's persecutors are, what they did, how they did it, and why they lost this battle - a battle they knew they had to win. How bad did they lose? The movie made more money in the final five days of February than any movie had ever made in February. The movie then made more money in March than any movie had ever made in March. Before the release of the DVD it had earned over $368 million, making it #7 in American box office earnings history. Those that opposed the release of this movie lost pretty badly. Beyond the financial success of the movie, more important, was the human and spiritual success of the movie. People came to Christ and others found new depth for their faith after viewing the film. Relationships were restored and crimes were confessed as criminals turned themselves in. What a demonstration of the power of the Gospel of Christ! The film has proved to be a phenomenon. Dr. Gary North shares why he believes that The Passion of the Christ was not just another movie about Jesus. Its release was a watershed event heralding a coming change. Beyond the detailing of the opposition to Mel Gibson, The War on Mel Gibson also presents a winning strategy for Bible-believing Christians to take back lost cultural territory.

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Lyndon Larouche, "The Power of Reason, 1988"
Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review | 1987 | ISBN 0933488513 | PDF | 121 pages | 10.5 MB

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Marco A. Ferroni, "International Public Goods : Incentives Measurement and Financing"
Publisher: Springer | 2002 | ISBN 0821351109 | PDF | 211 pages | 10.3 MB
Increasingly, the consequences of globalisation call for the involvement not only of national governments, but also of the international development community as a whole. Such involvement needs to occur within a comprehensive framework that encompasses stakeholders from government, non-governmental organizations, and businesses acting together in partnership. This requires the leveraging of general aid and country-focused development resources along with encouraging private financing participation. International Public Goods explains different ways that this type of framework might be structured and focuses on different financing strategies that can be developed. It acknowledges the value of country specific efforts while recommending a multi-national approach to addressing problems resulting from globalisation. This book evaluates the concepts fundamental to the term "public goods" and details alternative governance structures including the role of incentives.

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Takahisa Oishi, "The Unknown Marx: Reconstructing a Unified Perspective"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2001 | ISBN 0745316980 | PDF | 236 pages | 10.7 MB
The Unknown Marx is an incisive critique of the way the West has revised and interpreted Marxist theory. Takahisa Oishi argues that Engels' and Lenin's summaries of Marx's system have now been taken by Western societies to represent the sum total of Marx's philosophy. By returning Marx's original writings, Oishi reveals the essential limitations of Engels' and Lenin's interpretations, and presents a fresh reexamination of the theories of one of the world's most influential political philosophers. By departing from Western and Stalinist approaches to Marxism, Oishi attempts to see Marx's writing in the way Marx saw it. In doing so, Oishi gives unique insight into the essence of what we think we know about Marx, evaluating the systematic forms of interpretation which have emerged along with encroaching capitalism. An insightful, highly controversial interpretation of the grand narratives about Marx.

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Theodore H. Moran, "International Political Risk Management: The Brave New World (v. 2)"
Publisher: World Bank Publications | 2003 | ISBN 0821356496 | PDF | 252 pages | 10.4 MB
International Political Risk Management, Volume 2: The Brave New World is the latest in a series based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management. Volumes in this series offer leading-edge assessments of needs and capabilities in the international political risk insurance industry. These assessments come from 18 experts in the fields of international investment, finance, insurance, and academe. Contributors to this volume consider 'The Brave New World of the political risk insurance industry in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Argentine economic crisis, and other upheavals. The book begins with the supply-side perspective of insurers and then turns to the concerns of investors and lenders, in particular those involved in large infrastructure projects in emerging markets. It concludes with in-depth assessments of new challenges to definitions and coverage of currency transfer, expropriation, breach of contract, and political force majeure. The diverse and detailed arguments collected here come together in a surprising consensus: recent changes, contractions, and even losses are fueling the search for creative solutions and will ultimately prove beneficial for participants in the industry. An in-depth analysis from the front lines of international political risk management, this book will be a valuable guide to those who are considering private sector investments and privatizations in the developing world, whether as equity sponsors, lenders, or insurers. It should also be of interest to independent analysts and scholars working in the field of political risk management.

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Louise Brown, "The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District".
Publisher: Fourth Estate | english | ISBN: 0060740426 | edition: 2005 | PDF | 320 Pages | 29 Mb
The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.

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Lance Hill, "The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement".
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | english | ISBN: 0807828475 | edition: 2004 | PDF | 400 Pages | 12 Mb
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent strategy and a rallying point for a militant working-class movement in the South.

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Aline Coudouel, Stefano Paternostro, "Analyzing the Distributional Impact of Reforms: a Practitioners' Guide: Trade, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy, Utility Provision, Agricultural Markets, Land, and Education"
Publisher: World Bank Publications | 2005 | ISBN 0821361813 | PDF | 318 pages | 10.3 MB
The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, particularly on the poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. In recent years this type of work has been labeled as Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and is increasingly implemented to promote evidence-based policy choices and foster debate on policy reform options. While information is available on the general approach, techniques and tools for distributional analysis, each sector displays a series of specific characteristics. Each chapter of this volume provides an overview of the specific issues arising in the analysis of the distributional impacts of policy and institutional reforms in selected sectors. Each chapter then offers guidance on the selection of tools and techniques most adapted to the reforms under scrutiny, and offers examples of applications of these approaches.

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William Byrd, "State Building, Sustaining Growth, and Reducing Poverty in Afghanistan (World Bank Country Study) (World Bank Country Study)"
Publisher: World Bank Publications | 2005 | ISBN 0821360957 | PDF | 224 pages | 10.8 MB
Afghanistan has come a long way since emerging from major conflict in late 2001. The economy has recovered strongly, growing by nearly 50% cumulatively in the last two years (not including drugs). Some three million internally and externally displaced Afghans have returned to their country. More than four million children, a third of them girls, are in school, and immunization campaigns have achieved considerable success. The Government has supported good economic performance by following prudent macroeconomic policies and it has made extraordinary efforts to develop key national programs and to revive social services like education and health. Nevertheless, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world in terms of both per-capita incomes and social indicators, with large gender gaps. The difficult challenge of poverty reduction is made even more difficult by continuing insecurity, weak rule of law, and narcotics. Afghanistan - State Building, Sustaining Growth, and Reducing Poverty provides a greater understanding of the core challenges that lie ahead for Afghanistan and key priorities for national reconstruction. The Afghan economy has been shaped by more than two decades of debilitating conflict and has some very unusual features which this study analyzes. The authors argue that the country must break out of the vicious cycle that would keep it insecure, fragmented politically, weakly governed, poor, dominated by the illicit economy, and a hostage to the drug industry. The study presents key elements for a breakthrough in the next two years but the daunting agenda will require strong commitment, actions, and persistence on the part of the Government and robust support from the international community.

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K. Lee Lerner, "Social Policy:: Essential Primary Sources (Social Issues Primary Sources: Social Policy)"
Publisher: Thomson Gale | 2006 | ISBN 1414403283 | PDF | 561 pages | 15 MB

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История Европы с древнейших времен до наших дней. ТОМ II Средневековая Европа
1992 | Москва, Наука | ISBN: 5020090360 | руcский | DJVU | 808 pages | 32.05 Mb
Том охватывает два первых этапа истории средневековой Европы: раннее средневековье (V - XI вв.), когда во взаимодействии позднеантичного и варварского миров начал формироваться новый общественный строй - феодальный; и период развитого феодализма (XI - XV вв.), когда феодальная система достигла своего расцвета и когда постоянно складывалась политическая карта Европы.

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Levinas and Lacan: The Missed Encounter By Sarah Harasym
Publisher: State University of New York Press 1998 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0791439593 | PDF | 11 MB

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Peter W. Cohausz - Deutsche Flugzeugcockpits und Instrumentenbretter Teil 2. Dreissiger Jahre - AGO - Gotha
Flugzeug Publikations GmbH | 1997 | ISBN: N/A | German | 44 pages | PDF | 70.09 MB
Cockpit Profile 2
Second part of this German-language work describes and illustrates cockpits of German aircraft of the 1930s, including Arado biplanes, Bu131/CASA 1.131, Do18, D026, Fw44 and Fw200. English summary. 8 colour and 66 black/white photos.

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Akbar (Makers of the Muslim World) By Andre Wink
Publisher: Oneworld Publications 2008 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1851686053 | PDF | 1 MB

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Война на море №31 - Субмарины Японии 1941-1945
АРС | 2006 | ISBN: none | 59 Pages | PDF | 33 MB

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Чингисиана. Свод свидетельств современников
2009 | А. Мелехин | Эксмо | ISBN: 978 5699320493 | руcский | PDF | 736 pages | 19.5 Mb
Место и роль Чингисхана в истории масштабны и многогранны. Собиратель монгольских земель, создатель единого Монгольского государства, он признан величайшим полководцем, равных которому не было ни до, ни после него. Как и много веков назад, интерес к эпохе Чингисхана не ослабевает и в наше время.

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Война на море №29 - Корабли пиратов 1660-1730
АРС | 2006 | ISBN: none | 40 Pages | PDF | 20 MB

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La Bible dévoilée : Les Nouvelles révélations de l'archéologie
Bayard | 2002-04-11 | ISBN: 222713951X | 431 pages | PDF | 58 MB
La plus tonique et la plus audacieuse des synthèses sur la Bible et l'archéologie depuis cinquante ans.
Quand et pourquoi la Bible a-t-elle été écrite? Que savons-nous des premiers patriarches? Quand le monothéisme est-il apparu? Comment le peuple d'Israël est-il entré en possession de la Terre promise? Jérusalem a-t-elle toujours été le centre de l'ancien Israël?

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Повседневная жизнь Букингемского дворца при Елизавете II
2007 | Бертран Мейер-Стабли | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 978 5235030114 | руcский | PDF | 448 pages | 21.8 Mb
Французский журналист Бертран Мейер-Стабли, хорошо знакомый с жизнью дворца, открывает нам тайны огромного сложного механизма, в котором повседневность противостоит традициям, и отвечает на многие вопросы, приподнимающие завесу тайны, окутывающей большие и малые секреты семейства Виндзоров.

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"The Gateway Arch (Symbols of American Freedom)" by Chelsey Hankins
Chelsea House Publications | English | October 30, 2009 | ISBN: 1604135131 | PDF | 8,0 MB
As the country grew, settlers pushed westward across the Mississippi River to claim land and begin new lives. From Lewis and Clark's famed expedition to the uncharted western lands to the trials faced by early pioneers, The Gateway Archillustrates the persevering spirit of the Americans exploring the western frontier. The tallest national monument at 630 feet, the Gateway Arch, constructed in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1960s, symbolizes how the city served as a meeting area, resting place, and starting point for thousands of settlers during the 19th century.

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"Mount Rushmore (Symbols of American Freedom)" by William David Thomas
Chelsea House Publications | English | October 30, 2009 | ISBN: 1604135158 | PDF | 6,7 MB
The monument on Mount Rushmore stands as a record of the first 150 years of U.S. history. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln remind visitors that these presidents each had a role in preserving the Republic and expanding its territory. Mount Rushmoretraces the importance of the site throughout American history, beginning with its place as a sacred site for the Lakota Sioux to its current role as the major tourist attraction of South Dakota.

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Thomas Paine was arguably the single most influential political writer during the American and French Revolutions. For this revised and updated edition the distinguished intellectual historian Bruce Kuklick brings together an expanded collection of the classic Paine texts--Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason--as well as the first of Paine's papers on The Crisis of 1776. A brief chronology, updated notes for further reading, and a succinct and lucid introduction to the principal themes of each text give further help to the student reader.

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"Independence Hall (Symbols of American Freedom)" by Hilarie Staton
Chelsea House Publications | English | October 30, 2009 | ISBN: 1604135212 | PDF | 6,3 MB
When the 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they knew that they were making history. When it was read aloud outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a new nation was founded. Independence Hallcolorfully illustrates the many historical acts that took place within the red brick walls of this landmark building. Informative sidebars, a timeline of events, a bibliography for further reference, and a glossary of unfamiliar terms aid young readers as they explore the establishment of the United States of America.

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"Fort McHenry (Symbols of American Freedom)" by Michael Burgan
Chelsea House Publications | English | October 30, 2009 | ISBN: 1604135204 | PDF | 7,0 MB
As American troops in Fort McHenry successfully fended off attacks from the British navy during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," a poem that eventually formed the lyrics of the American national anthem. Fort McHenry's vibrant presentation and highlighted primary sources illustrate the fort's vital role in the War of 1812, providing the context for the nation's most famous song and explaining the importance of the fort as a national monument.

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"Ellis Island (Symbols of American Freedom)" by Hilarie Staton
Chelsea House Publications | English | October 30, 2009 | ISBN: 1604135190 | PDF | 7,0 MB
As the main entry facility for immigrants coming to the United States for more than half a century, Ellis Island was the last stop before a move to freedom in America. About 12 million people from Europe and elsewhere entered teh United States through this portal. The fascinating Ellis Island uses immigrants' own words, photographs, and full-color illustrations to explore the significance to those who wished to pursue the American Dream.

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Предания русского народа
2008 | И. Кузнецов | Вече | ISBN: 978 5953328074 | русский | PDF | 352 pages | 19.2 Mb
Неспешные и мудрые, добрые и уютные легенды о Волге-матушке и брате ее - Днепре, о самородных ключах с живою водой и о святых горах Китежских, о том, как сотворил Бог Землю Русскую, о заре-зарянице и частых звездушках, о заветных кладах Стеньки Разина и потаенных пещерах под Жигулями...

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Peter W. Cohausz - Deutsche Flugzeugcockpits und Instrumentenbretter Teil 1. Pionierzeit - Erster Weltkrieg - Zwanziger Jahre
Flugzeug Publikations GmbH | 1997 | ISBN: N/A | German | 52 pages | PDF | 6.15 MB
Cockpit Profile 1
A highly-illustrated, German-language part-work describes and illustrates the cockpits, controls and instrumentation of early German aircraft, from First World War Fokker, Aviatik to 1930s Messerschmitt M18a. Brief English summary. 2 colour, 110 black/white photos.

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Nick Taylor - Famous Fighters to Color, Cut Out and Fly
Bellerophon Books | 1990 | ISBN: 0883880644 | 37 pages | PDF | 22.14 MB
Reading level: Ages 9-12. Planes can be cut out of book, assembled and will fly. Includes Curtiss P-40, Grumman Hellcat, Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, Mitsubishi Zero, Messerschmitt Bf 109, and Focke-Wulf Fw 190.

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The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners By Deborah Ann Schmitt
Publisher: Praeger Publishers 2005 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 0275979059 | PDF | 16 MB

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Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus By Augustus, P. A. Brunt, J. M. Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press 1969 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 0198317727 | PDF | 3 MB

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The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide By Christopher Gair
Publisher: Oneworld Publications 2008 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1851685421 | PDF | 6 MB

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Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line By Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger
Publisher: Praeger Publishers 2005 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0275988953 | PDF | 16 MB

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Grande Dame Guignol Cinema: A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother By Peter Shelley
Publisher: McFarland 2009 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 0786445696 | PDF | 6 MB

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Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Play By John R. Ford
Publisher: Greenwood Press 2005 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0313317003 | PDF | 11 MB

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When the King Took Flight By Timothy Tackett
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2003 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 067401054X | PDF | 1 MB

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Тысячелетняя битва за Царьград
2005 | А.Б. Широкорад | Вече | ISBN: 5953307705 | руcский | DJVU | 670 pages | 41.6 Mb
Борьба за Константинополь и за контроль над Черноморскими проливами длиться уже свыше 1000 лет. Византийские императоры , а затем турецкие правители, препятствовавшие свободному выходу России в Средиземное море, сделали Константинополь "болевой точкой" нашей страны.

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Аустерлиц. Наполеон, Россия и Европа, 1799-1805 гг.
2006 | О.В. Соколов | Русский импульс | ISBN: 5902525217 | руcский | PDF | 584 pages | 29.5 Mb
Эта книга об интереснейшем периоде нашей истории - первой войне Наполеона против коалиции государств, возглавляемых Российской империей.
Автор книги использует в своем исследовании обширнейший материал...

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The New Woman in Print and Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography By Marianne Berger Woods
Publisher: McFarland 2009 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0786436247 | PDF | 4 MB

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An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World By Frances Larson
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0199554463 | PDF | 4 MB

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The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History By Kevin M. Sullivan
Publisher: McFarland 2009 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0786444266 | PDF | 3 MB

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Ahmad al-Mansur (Makers of the Muslim World) By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal
Publisher: Oneworld Publications 2008 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 185168610X | PDF | 5 MB

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Panzerwaffe - Poland 1944 (Kagero Topcolors 15005)
Kagero | 2008 | ISBN: 8361220008 | 49 Pages | PDF | 13,2 MB
Opens with a brief overview of the German panzer troops in Poland during 1944 and their vehicle colour schemes followed by an extensive range of full colour profiles for 46 vehicles. Includes: Pz.Kpfw.IV; Pz.Kpfw.V Panther; Sd.Kfz.251/1/3/7/9; Sd.Kfz.162 Jagdpanzer IV; Sd.Kfz.142/2 Sturmgeschütz III; Pz.Kpfw.VI Tiger II, Tiger; Sd.Kfz.142/2 Sturmhaubitz 42; Sd.Kfz.165 Hummel; Pz.Kpfw.III; Sd.Kfz.166 Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär; Pkw Type 166 Schimmwagen; Sd.Kfz.233 and Pz.Kpfw.II. Also Includes bonus decals in 1/48 and 1/35 scales.

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Miranda Brown, "The Politics of Mourning in Early China (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)"
Publisher: State University of New York Press | 2007 | ISBN 0791471578 | PDF | 222 pages | 10.5 MB
Looks at mourning practices during the Han dynasty to reassess whether filial piety was the overriding model for society and governance in early China.

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Peter J. Kastor, "The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2004 | ISBN 0300101198 | PDF | 326 pages | 10.4 MB
In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans--Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States. The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood, Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.

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The Maltese Cross: A Strategic History of Malta By Dennis Castillo
Publisher: Praeger 2005 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0313323291 | PDF | 14 MB

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Jay Winter, "Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2006 | ISBN 0300106653 | PDF | 272 pages | 10.7 MB
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century’s “minor utopias” whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.

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David Schoenbrod, "Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (RN)"
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2005 | ISBN 0300106211 | PDF | 308 pages | 10.3 MB
Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake. Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules—those that have done the most good—have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA. With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for “bottom-up” environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home.

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Lawrence, J., "Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (SBL - Academia Biblica)"
Publisher: BRILL | 2007 | ISBN 9004146709 | PDF | 315 pages | 11 MB
Although most scholars recognize that Christian baptism is related to Jewish ritual bathing, many assume that Christians transformed and rejected Jewish bathing practices. To correct this overly simplistic view, Lawrence mines archaeological and textual materials to outline a larger context for Jewish and Christian bathing. Using archaeological data from Jerusalem, Judea, Qumran, and the Galilee, as well as his own close reading of the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other Second Temple literature, Lawrence identifies a spectrum of functions—ritual, metaphorical, or initiatory—that bathing served during the Second Temple period. He thus offers a new approach to the study of ritual bathing and suggests that, despite the polemics of later Christian and Jewish texts, the earliest Christians drew on a tradition shared with the Qumran community and other Jewish groups, in which each group chose its own emphases for ritual bathing. Jonathan D. Lawrence is Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Theology at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He has excavated at Sepphoris in Israel and has held fellowships in Israel and Jordan.

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My Other Wife Is a Car: Confessions of a Car Tragic By John Wright
Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2009 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 174175660X | PDF | 6 MB

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Giovanni Garbini, "Myth and History in the Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 362)"
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press | 2003 | ISBN 082646260X | PDF | 161 pages | 10.6 MB
The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This title argues that the only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought, whereas what is narrated in the Bible is only myth. However, this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the actual text, and obviously more ancient. These essays follow in the spirit of this controversial history and ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological research, a wide knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature and biblical archaeology - and a radical way of understanding what the biblical text is really telling us.

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Wireless for Wehrmacht in Detail (Special Museum Line 10)
Wings & Wheels Publications | 1999 | ISBN: 8086416151 | 68 Pages | PDF | 82 MB

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Joseph de Maistre: Considerations on France By Joseph de Maistre, Richard A. Lebrun, Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1995 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 0521466288 | PDF | 3 MB

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Gramsci: Pre-Prison Writings By Antonio Gramsci, Richard Bellamy, Virginia Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1994 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0521423074 | PDF | 7 MB

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Wilbur Applebaum, "The Scientific Revolution and the Foundations of Modern Science (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900)"
Greenwood Press; annotated edition (April 30, 2005) | English | 0313323143 | 268 pages | PDF | 2.84 MB

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Война на море №24 - Сверхмалые субмарины и человеко-торпеды. Часть IV
АРС | 2005 | ISBN: none | 52 Pages | PDF | 22 MB

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Война на море №23 - Сверхмалые субмарины и человеко-торпеды. Часть III
АРС | 2005 | ISBN: none | 52 Pages | PDF | 23 MB

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Война на море №22 - Сверхмалые субмарины и человеко-торпеды. Часть II
АРС | 2005 | ISBN: none | 52 Pages | PDF | 27 MB

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Война на море №21 - Сверхмалые субмарины и человеко-торпеды. Часть I
АРС | 2005 | ISBN: none | 52 Pages | PDF | 26 MB

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David Kahn, "The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking"
Yale University Press (February 9, 2004) | English | 0300098464 | 368 pages | PDF | 1.28 MB

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Мы дрались с "Тиграми"
2010 | Артем Драбкин, Петр Михин | Яуза, Эксмо | ISBN: 978 5699396610 | русский | PDF or DJVU | 696 pages | 46 Mb or 12.7 Mb
Два бестселлера одним томом! Лучший памятник советским противотанкистам! В данном издании книга Артема Драбкина "Я дрался с Панцерваффе" впервые дополнена мемуарами П.А.Михина, прошедшего с боями от Ржева до Праги и Порт-Артура.

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"Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present "
Oxford University Press | English | November 2, 2009 | ISBN: 0199552010 | PDF | 5,0 MB
Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, it has helped to shape the world we live in.

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Louise Foxcroft, "The Making of Addiction: The 'use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-century Britain (The History of Medicine in Context)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | PDF | 2007 | ISBN 0754656330 | 208 pages | 10.3 Mb
What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society, the idea of drug addiction is a fixed and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that shaped the creation and the various interpretations of addiction as a disease, and of addiction to opiates in particular. It delves into the treatments, regimes, and prejudices that surrounded the condition, a newly emerging pathological entity and a form of 'moral insanity' during the nineteenth century. The source material for this book is rich and surprising. Letters and diaries provide the most moving material, detailing personal struggles with addiction and the trials of those who cared and despaired. Confessions of shame, deceit, misery and terror sit alongside those of deep sensual pleasure, visionary manifestations and blissful freedom from care. The reader can follow the lifelong opium careers of literary figures, artists and politicians, glimpse a raw underworld of hidden drug use, or see the bleakness of urban and rural poverty alleviated by daily doses of opium. Delving into diaries, letters and confessions, this book exposes the medical case histories and the physician's mad, lazy, commercial, contemptuous, desperate, altruistic and frustrated attempts to deal with drug addiction. It demonstrates that many of the stigmatising prejudices arose from false 'facts' and semi-mythical beliefs and thus has significant implications, not only for the history of addiction, but also for how view the condition today.

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Peter Coss, Maurice Keen, "Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England"
Publisher: Boydell Press | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 0851158501 | 289 pages | 11.7 Mb
Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The objects studied include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins. PETER COSS is Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University. MAURICE KEEN is Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN AND MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON, JOHN WATTS.

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Marilyn Hegarty, "Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II"
Publisher: NYU Press | PDF | 2007 | ISBN 0814737048 | 265 pages | 10.5 Mb
Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a counter-narrative to the story of Rosie the Riveter, the icon of female patriotism during World War II. With her fist defiantly raised and her shirtsleeves rolled up, Rosie was an asexual warrior on the homefront. But thousands of women supported the war effort not by working in heavy war industries, but by providing morale-boosting services to soldiers, ranging from dances at officers’ clubs to more blatant forms of sexual services, such as prostitution. While the de-sexualized Rosie was celebrated, women who used their sexuality — either intentionally or inadvertently — to serve their country encountered a contradictory morals campaign launched by government and social agencies, which shunned female sexuality while valorizing masculine sexuality. This double-standard was accurately summed up by a government official who dubbed these women “patriotutes”: part patriot, part prostitute. Marilyn E. Hegarty explores the dual discourse on female sexual mobilization that emerged during the war, in which agencies of the state both required and feared women’s support for, and participation in, wartime services. The equation of female desire with deviance simultaneously over-sexualized and desexualized many women, who nonetheless made choices that not only challenged gender ideology but defended their right to remain in public spaces.

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John M. Najemy, "Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400"
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr | PDF | 1982 | ISBN 0807815063 | 359 pages | 10.5 Mb

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Robert Johnson, "British Imperialism (Histories and Controversies)"
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0333947258 | 301 pages | 10.3 Mb
This essential guide offers a succinct, easy-to-read introduction to the key issues and historiography of British imperialism from the late 18th century to the present. Each chapter addresses questions posed by the nature of imperialism in its various military, economic, political, and cultural forms, while current controversies--including the impact of Orientalism and post-colonialism--are explained and set in the context of previous debates. The first book in Palgrave Macmillan's new Histories and Controversies series, British Imperialism enables readers to rapidly assimilate both historiography and key aspects of Britain's imperial power and influence.

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Victor H. Matthews, "Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series. Supplement Series, 262)"
Publisher: Sheffield | PDF | 1998 | ISBN 1850758867 | 257 pages | 12.1 Mb
What roles does gender play in the formulation of ancient law and custom? The answers contribute to feminist scholarship and legal history. This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near Eastern law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the significance of gender in the formulation of ancient law and custom? Feminist scholarship is enriched by these studies in family history and the status of women in antiquity. At the same time, conventional legal history is repositioned, as new and classical texts are interpreted from the vantage point of feminist theory and social history. Papers from the SBL Biblical Law Section form the core of this collection.

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Allen Brown West, "Latin Inscriptions, 1896-1926 (Corinth vol.8.2)"
Publisher: AmericanSchool of Classical Studies | PDF | 1931 | ISBN 0876610823 | 179 pages | 10.3 Mb
The ancient site of Corinth dominates the land corridor between central Greece and the Peloponnese and was occupied continuously from at least the 10th century B.C. Corinthians profited from their geographical position to take a leading part in Greek trade and colonization in the West, and the city later became the capital of Roman Greece. American excavations at the site began in 1896 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Corinth volume presenting "Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens" appeared in 1929 and, as scholars complete their research, further titles continue to be published. Each volume covers a particular building or set of buildings, or class of material culture. The series includes studies of lamps, sculpture, coins, inscriptions, and pottery. Because most of these ancient finds can be dated stratigraphically, these typological catalogues are invaluable reference works for archaeologists around theMediterranean.

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Benjamin D. Merritt, "Greek Inscriptions, 1896-1927 (Corinth vol.8.1)"
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies | PDF | 1931 | ISBN 0876610815 | 186 pages | 10.6 Mb
The ancient site of Corinth dominates the land corridor between central Greece and the Peloponnese and was occupied continuously from at least the 10th century B.C. Corinthians profited from their geographical position to take a leading part in Greek trade and colonization in the West, and the city later became the capital of Roman Greece. American excavations at the site began in 1896 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Corinth volume presenting "Results of Excavations Conducted by the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies at Athens" appeared in 1929 and, as scholars complete their research, further titles continue to be published. Each volume covers a particular building or set of buildings, or class of material culture. The series includes studies of lamps, sculpture, coins, inscriptions, and pottery. Because most of these ancient finds can be dated stratigraphically, these typological catalogues are invaluable reference works for archaeologists around the Mediterranean.

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Brendan January, "The Iranian Revolution (Pivotal Moments in History)"
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT) | 2007 | ISBN 0822575213 | PDF | 164 pages | 10.7 MB
In the Middle Eastern nation of Iran, discontent simmered for decades. The Iranian people despised their leader, Reza Shah, who catered to foreign businesses while ruling Iran as a dictator. In 1979 discontent boiled up into all-out revolution. Led by the charismatic Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian people seized control and created a new government based on the Islamic religion. The Iranian Revolution quickly became a showdown between the ideas and values of Islam and those of the West--particularly the United States. The most dramatic event in this showdown occurred in late 1979, when Iranian students captured a group of U.S. Embassy staff, holding them hostage for more than a year. During the following decades, the revolution recast the face of the Middle East: it set in motion a movement of Islamic fundamentalism--a movement that has taken center stage in world events in the twenty-first century. The Iranian Revolution is an ongoing story. However the story ends, the revolution is surely one of world history's most pivotal moments.

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Jodi Campbell, "Monarchy, Political Culture And Drama in Seventeenth-century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2006 | ISBN 0754654184 | PDF | 182 pages | 10.2 MB
In early modern Spain, theater reached the height of its popularity during the same decades in which Spanish monarchs were striving to consolidate their power. Jodi Campbell uses the dramatic production of seventeenth-century Madrid to understand how ordinary Spaniards perceived the political developments of this period. Through a study of thirty-three plays by four of the most popular playwrights of Madrid (Pedro Caldern de la Barca, Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Juan de Matos Fragoso, and Juan Bautista Diamante), Campbell analyzes portrayals of kingship during what is traditionally considered to be the age of absolutism and highlights the differences between the image of kingship cultivated by the monarchy and that presented on Spanish stages. A surprising number of plays performed and published in Madrid in the seventeenth century, Campbell shows, featured themes about kingship: debates over the qualities that make a good king, tests of a king's abilities, and stories about the conflicts that could arise between the personal interests of a king and the best interest of his subjects. Rather than supporting the absolutist and centralizing policies of the monarchy, popular theater is shown here to favor the idea of reciprocal obligations between subjects and monarch. This study contributes new evidence to the trend of recent scholarship that revises our views of early modern Spanish absolutism, arguing for the significance of the perspectives of ordinary people to the realm of politics.

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Marjaana Niemi, "Public Health and Municipal Policy Making (Historical Urban Studies)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2007 | ISBN 0754603342 | PDF | 243 pages | 11.7 MB
The power which medical knowledge has had in legitimising the rhetoric that surrounds municipal policy making is the focus of this study. Marjaana Niemi looks at two early twentieth-century public health campaigns concerned with infant welfare and the prevention of tuberculosis, which were aimed at improving health but which also served to regulate urban life and mediate social conflicts. Firstly, the book analyses the processes whereby different political aims became embedded in these 'apolitical' health campaigns, and, secondly, the role which the campaigns played in urban politics and governance. The political aims which public health campaigns advanced are explored by comparing health policies in Britain and Sweden. British and Swedish public health officials were part of one public health community, enjoying close links, attending the same conferences and contributing to the same journals. The problems they dealt with were often similar and in both countries health authorities claimed scientific grounds for their programmes. Yet the policies they pursued were often strikingly different. Through examination of two different national approaches, the book gives justice to the full complexity of the policy-making process and illuminates the wide range of factors that affected municipal policies.

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Ross Macmillan, "The Structure of the Life Course: Standardized? Individualized? Differentiated? (Advances in Life Course Research)"
Publisher: JAI Press | 2005 | ISBN 0762311932 | PDF | 381 pages | 11.3 MB
Current debates in life course studies increasingly reference theories of individualization, standardization, and differentiation in the structure of the life course. This volume brings together leading scholars from a variety of fields to assess the theoretical underpinnings, the empirical evidence, and the implications of existing arguments. The contributions include comparative-historical work, demographic analysis, and detailed survey research. The topics covered include historical, cross-cultural, and racioethnic variation in the transition to adulthood, the school-to-work transition, educational careers, retirement, activity characteristics over the life span and the life course context of psychological well-being. The various contributions expand our understanding of the contemporary life course and its implications. The authors offer innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that demonstrate the utility of holistic approaches to conceptualizing the life course and understanding its implications for modern society.

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Steven V. Tracy, "The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia Supplement vol 15)"
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies | 1975 | ISBN 0876615159 | PDF | 197 pages | 25.5 MB
This book combines two functions, as a technical handbook for training epigraphists to recognize an individual mason's hands, and a social study of a skilled artisan in Hellenistic Athens (referred to as "B"), a native of Salamis who worked in Athens and at Delphi. The methodology developed by the author to isolate 28 out of hundreds of inscriptions as the work of "B" represents a major step forward in the assigning of fragments to individual masons, previously a very impressionistic exercise.

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Канонерские лодки типа "Гиляк"[Мидель-шпангоут №-17]
«Гангут» | Russian | PDF | ISBN: 9785904180010 | 119 pages | 137 MB | 2009

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Richard Smith, "A Concise Coptic-English Lexicon (Resources for Biblical Study)"
Publisher: Scholars Press | 1999 | ISBN 0788505610 | PDF | 76 pages | 10.7 MB

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Alistair Black;Dave Muddiman;Helen Plant, "The Early Information Society"
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co | 2007 | ISBN 0754642798 | PDF | 303 pages | 10.3 MB
Whether termed the 'network society', the 'knowledge society' or the 'information society', it is widely accepted that a new age has dawned, unveiled by powerful computer and communication technologies. Yet for millenia humans have been recording knowledge and culture, engaging in the dissemination and preservation of information. In "The Early Information Society", the authors argue for an earlier incarnation of the information age, focusing upon the period 1900-1960. In support of this they examine the history and traditions in Britain of two separate but related information-rich occupations - information management and information science - repositioning their origins before the age of the computer and identifying the forces driving their early development. "The Early Information Society" offers an historical account which questions the novelty of the current information society. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in the library and information science field, and for sociologists and historians interested in the information society.

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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?
Publisher: Earthscan Ltd | ISBN: 1853839175 | edition 2002 | PDF | 272 pages | 12 mb
Economic scholars Drahos and Braithwaite painstakingly trace the history of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the international accord that has become a standard for resolving disputes over intellectual property rights, whether over bootleg videocassettes or unlicensed use of patented pharmaceutical processes. As corporations increasingly recognize copyrightable or patentable knowledge as a source of profit, they've exerted political influence to ensure that the financial reins stay within their hands. The authors clearly show how lobbyists from the entertainment industry, for example, use their clout with Washington to exert pressure on foreign markets so the U.S. industry can reap the most from films and compact discs. But these government-sanctioned "patent regimes" have resulted in an economic imbalance, which Drahos and Braithwaite depict as a "threat to liberty," where developing countries cannot afford access to medicine and technology without resorting to piracy. The authors carefully explain how copying software or making cheaper versions of patented drugs became equated with plunder on the high seas.

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Barbara J. Shapiro, "A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720"
Publisher: Cornell University Press | 2000 | ISBN 0801436869 | PDF | 284 pages | 12.7 MB
Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the emerging "culture of fact" shaped the epistemological assumptions of each intellectual enterprise. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of research, Shapiro probes the fact's changing identity from an alleged human action to a proven natural or human happening. The crucial first step in this transition occurred in the sixteenth century when English common law established a definition of fact which relied on eyewitnesses and testimony. The concept widened to cover natural as well as human events as a result of developments in news reportage and travel writing. Only then, Shapiro discovers, did scientific philosophy adopt the category "fact." With Francis Bacon advocating more stringent criteria, the witness became a vital component in scientific observation and experimentation. Shapiro also recounts how England's preoccupation with the fact influenced historiography, religion, and literature--which saw the creation of a fact-oriented fictional genre, the novel.

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T. Leslie Shear Jr., "Kallias of Sphettos and the Revolt of Athens in 286 B.C. (Hesperia Supplement vol 17)"
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies | 1978 | ISBN 0876615175 | PDF | 130 pages | 16.7 MB
The long honorary decree for Kallias of Sphettos, found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora in 1971, is here published for the first time, illustrated with general and detailed photographs, with a translation and line-by-line commentary. The author has further explored the wealth of information to be gathered from the inscription, which adds greatly to our understanding of Athenian history between the battle of Ipsos in 301 and the battle of Kouroupedion in 286 B.C., the ensuing peace with Demetrios, and the acquisition of foreign aid for the nationalist regime. These discussions are followed by an appendix giving the Greek texts of the literary and epigraphic testimonia, and a chronological table, which provides a historical summary at a glance for this troubled period.

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Alan Atkinson, "The Europeans in Australia (Vol 1)"
Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand | 1998 | ISBN 0195507088 | PDF | 448 pages | 15.4 MB
Among the ancient stories told by people of the Australian north coast is one of the Shark that left its ocean home to make its mark on the shore. The ocean-borne power of the first Europeans in Australia, in and after 1788, had some of the savage mystery of the Ancestral Shark. In this major new multi-volume history of Australia, the award-winning historian Alan Atkinson explores the imagery and technique of European power as it made its first impact on Australia. He urges that the Europeans were not simply conquerors motivated by brutal or short term colonizing imperatives. Their own culture was ancient and infinitely complex, thickly woven with ideas about spirituality, authority, self and land, all of which influenced the development of Australia. Among the European's art and weapons none was more remarkable than writing: pens, paper, printing presses and books. The Shark which came ashore in 1788 enforced its will mainly through the written word. And yet poorer Europeans, like the Aborigines, were still a people largely unfamiliar with literacy in their daily lives. Theirs was an oral world - a world of speaking and listening. The possession of land, the conflict with the Aborignes, were at issue, but so were the ancient habits of Europeans themselves. This first volume tells how homes were made and souls reshaped during the first 25 years of the Europeans in Australia.

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This Time The World By George Lincoln Rockwell
Publisher: Liberty Bell Publications 2004-03-28 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 1593640145 | PDF | 1 MB
Summary: Although Commander Rockwell's life was tragically cut short, he lived long enough to leave some incredibly valuable contributions to the racial situation in his country...

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Kant: Political Writings By Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss, H. B. Nisbet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1991 | 325 Pages | ISBN: 0521398371 | PDF | 5 MB

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George P. Fletcher, "Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism"
Princeton University Press | 2002-09-16 | ISBN: 0691006512 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

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Загадки первых русских князей
2002 | А.С. Королев | Вече | ISBN: 5945380962 | русский | PDF or DJVU | 482 pages | 25.2 Mb or 13.1 Mb
Книга представляет собой попытку разобраться в самых запутанных вопросах русской истории IX -X вв., ведь по существу Киевская Русь - это иная цивилизация; мышление человека Средневековья отличалось от сегодняшнего. Временная удаленность событий русской древности, малый круг первоисточников, их ошибочные интерпретации предшествующими исследователями поставили массу вопросов перед современными учеными.

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Ki-46III Dinah in detail (Special Museum Line 41)
Wings & Wheels Publications | 2007 | ISBN: 8086416632 | 78 Pages | PDF | 123 MB

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Ludo Martens, "Another View of Stalin"
Editions EPO | 1994 | ASIN: B000RQH906 | ISBN: 2872622055 | 327 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

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Авторский коллектив под ред. М.Д. Борисюка - Изделия, разработанные ХКБМ. Танки и Бронетранспортёры / Vehicles Developed by the KMDB. Battle Tanks and Armoured Personnel Carriers
ХКБМ | 2002 | ISBN: N/A | Russian / English | 80 pages | PDF | 7.68 MB
Танки БТ, Т-34 и Т-64, созданные в Харькове в разные годы, были не только основой бронетанковых и механизированных частей советской армии, но и являлись отправной точкой при создании последующих образцов военной техники на других заводах и в КБ. Танки и тягачи, разработанные Харьковским конструкторским бюро и изготовленные ХПЗ - заводом им. Малышева, всегда составляли основу и гордость отечественных бронетанковых войск. Из их стен вышли изделия, во многом определившие пути развития мирового танкостроения. Предлагаемый материал в хронологическом порядке показывает процесс развития специальной техники на этих предприятиях, обобщает опыт 75летней работы в данной области и интересен тем, что пока, как показывает анализ последних военных конфликтов, альтернативы танку как боевому средству не существует.
The Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (KMDB) is a state-owned enterprise, which is now Ukraine's leading design authority for armoured fighting vehicles and used to play a key role in the development of armoured tracked vehicles in the former Soviet Union.

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Otto Demus - Die byzantinischen Mosaikikonen
Publisher: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1991 | ISBN: 3700119194 | PDF | 98 pages | 62.49 MB

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Frommer's Germany 2010 (Frommer's Complete) By Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Publisher: Frommers 2009-12-02 | 720 Pages | ISBN: 0470470739 | PDF | 11.5 MB
•Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's Germany features gorgeous color photos of the dazzling baroque architecture, picturesque villages, and beer gardens that await you. Come along with us and discover some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, from the medieval towns and half-timbered houses along the Romantic Road to lovely vineyards along the Rhine River...

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Frommer's Provence & the Riviera (Frommer's Complete) By Darwin Porter
Publisher: Frommers 2009-11-23 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0470470658 | PDF | 10 MB
•France remains the most popular tourist destination worldwide with nearly 80 million visitors a year...

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Frommer's Nicaragua and El Salvador (Frommer's Nicaragua & El Salvador) By Charlie O'Malley
Publisher: Frommers 2009-10-26 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0470160276 | PDF | 6.1 MB
El Salvador's Pacific Coast is famous for its excellent surfing. See chapter 18 for where to catch the best waves...

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Frommer's Honolulu, Waikiki and Oahu (Frommer's Complete) By Jeanette Foster
Publisher: Frommers 2009-11-23 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0470497645 | PDF | 4.7 MB
You can experience the floral parade for Hawaii's King Kamehameha Celebration...

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Leslie Holmes, "Communism: A Very Short Introduction"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-09-21 | ISBN: 0199551545 | 144 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

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Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle For Power
Publisher: Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1855323958 | edition 1995 | PDF | 103 pages | 43,1 mb
Sekigahara was the most decisive battle in Japanese history. Fought against the ritualised and colourful backdrop of Samurai life, it was the culmination of a long-standing power struggle between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hashiba Hideyoshi, two of the most powerful men in Japan. Armies of the two sides met on the plain of Sekigahara on 21 October 1600, in thick fog and deep mud. By the end of the day 40,000 heads had been taken and Ieyasu was master of Japan. Within three years the Emperor would grant him the title he sought – Shogun. This title describes the campaign leading up to this great battle and examines Sekigahara, including the forces and personalities of the two major sides and that of the turncoat Kobayakawa Hideaki.

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Wehrmacht The Illustrated history of the German Army in WWII
1997 | John Pimlott | Aurum Press | ISBN: 1854104659 | english | PDF | 178 pages | 49.5 Mb
Here is a full and powerful pictorial record of Hitler's German Army, one of the most formidable military formations the world has ever seen, preparing for war in the 1930s and in action in every battle and campaign of World War II.

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Information and Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity By A. D. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1993-08-27 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 052139256X | PDF | 11 MB
During late antiquity the Roman empire faced serious threats from the peoples to the east and to the north. This book is concerned with the role played by information and intelligence in the empire's relations with these peoples, how well-informed about them the empire was, and how such information was acquired...

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Kretschmer, M.T., "Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages (Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte)"
Publisher: BRILL | 2007 | ISBN 9004157107 | PDF | 441 pages | 10.8 MB
The Bamberg version of the Historia Romana represents a fascinating witness to the transition from Latin to vernacular literature, which the author relates to the intellectual and ideological milieu of the Ottonians. This book presents the first edition of the paraphrase contained in the manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3.

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Simon R. Doubleday, "The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain (Harvard Historical Studies)"
Harvard University Press | 2001-09-14 | ISBN: 0674006062 | 208 pages | PDF | 1.97 MB

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Dio Cassius, "Roman History, IV: Books 41-45 (Loeb Classical Library)"
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1916 | ISBN 0674990730 | PDF | 524 pages | 21.7 MB
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150– 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. He was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of Dalmatia and then of Pannonia; and consul again in 229.
Of the eighty books of Dio's great work Roman History, covering the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus (222–235 CE), we possess Books 36–60 (36 and 55–60 have gaps), which cover the years 68 BCE–47 CE. The missing portions are partly supplied, for the earlier gaps by Zonaras, who relies closely on Dio, and for some later gaps (Book 35 onwards) by John Xiphilinus (of the eleventh century). There are also many excerpts. The facilities for research afforded by Dio's official duties and his own industry make him a very vital source for Roman history of the last years of the republic and the first four emperors.

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Richard Alston, "Aspects Of Roman History AD 14 - 117"
Publisher: Routledge | 1998 | ISBN 0415132363 | PDF | 285 pages | 10.5 MB
Aspects of Roman History charts the history of the Roman Imperial period, from the establishment of the Augustan principate to the reign of Trajan, providing a basic chronological framework of the main events and introductory outlines of the major issues of the period. The book details the development of the Roman Imperial rule, emperor by emperor, and discusses the important themes in the period, including the political, military, religious, economic and social functioning of the Roman Empire.

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Philip Gould, "Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the (18th) Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Harvard University Press | 2003-11-27 | ISBN: 067401166X | 272 pages | PDF | 1.02 MB

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Columella, "Columella: On Agriculture, Volume I, Books I-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 361)"
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1941 | ISBN 0674993985 | PDF | 512 pages | 14.9 MB
Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the most comprehensive, systematic and detailed of Roman agricultural works. Book I covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of crops. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs. VIII: Poultry; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: Duties of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm work; more on gardening. XII: Duties of the overseer's wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a separate treatise, Trees (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before On Agriculture.

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H. Boyd, "Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella On Agriculture. Volume I. Res Rustica I-IV"
Publisher: William Heinemann Medical Books | 1948 | ISBN B001ALX4EM | PDF | 512 pages | 17.3 MB

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Diodorus Siculus, "Dio Chrysostom. Volume IV"
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1946 | ISBN 0674994132 | PDF | 500 pages | 15.6 MB
Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.

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Jimmy Carter, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)"
Publisher: Simon & Schuster | 2006 | ISBN 0743285026 | PDF | 372 pages | 11.6 MB
The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of Israel's peace with its neighbors--in particular, how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist permanently and peacefully with Palestinian nationhood. It's a rare honor to ask questions of a former president, and we are grateful that President Carter was able to take the time in between his work with his wife, Rosalynn, for the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity and his many writing projects to speak with us about his hopes for the region and his thoughts on the book.

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Colin Gordon, "Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | 2003 | ISBN 0691058067 | PDF | 334 pages | 10.2 MB
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.

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Cottrell, "From the Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro (Studies in Banking and Financial History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2007 | ISBN 0754653897 | PDF | 211 pages | 10.5 MB
With the introduction of the Euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the Euro's achievements in harmonising Europe's financial dealings, it is often forgotten that it is by no means the first pan-national currency to enter circulation. Indeed, as the various contributions to this volume make plain, the Euro can in many ways be regarded as a step 'back to the future', that is, a further international currency in a long historical tradition that includes the Athenian tetradrachm, the Spain escudo and the French franc. Covering a timespan of some two and a half millennia, the contributions within this volume fall within four broad chronological sections, the first comprising three contributions that consider aspects of the European experience from classical antiquity until the high middle ages. The discussion then leaps forward chronologically to the modern age, given a focus by three contributions devoted to nineteenth-century European developments. These, in turn, are set within a wider spatial perspective by two essays that review, first, the classical gold standard, primarily in terms of peripheral economies' experience, and, second, the Bretton Woods system. Fourth, and lastly, the Euro's origins and birth are explored in three further contributions. By taking such a long term view of supra-national currencies, this volume provides a unique perspective, not only to the introduction and development of the Euro, and its predecessors, but also on the broader question of the relationship between trade and common currencies.

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The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II By James Dawes
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2002 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0674006488 | PDF | 1 MB

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History's Memory: Writing Americas Past, 1880-1980 By Ellen Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2002 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 067400731X | PDF | 1 MB

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The Assassins: Holy Killers of Islam By Edward Burman
Publisher: Inner Traditions International 1988 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 1852740272 | PDF | 46 MB

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Истребитель МИГ-29 в строевых частях (История, Символика, Окраски)
N/A | Russian | PDF | ISBN: N/A | 223 pages | 60 MB | 2009

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Panzer Color: Камуфляж и обозначения германских танков. Часть 5
Tornado | Russian | 64 pages | PDF | 34,2 Mb

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Panzer Color: Камуфляж и обозначения германских танков. Часть 4
Tornado | Russian | 56 pages | PDF | 29,4 Mb

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Panzer Color: Камуфляж и обозначения германских танков. Часть 3
Tornado | Russian | 55 pages | PDF | 27,4 Mb

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Panzer Color: Камуфляж и обозначения германских танков. Часть 2
Tornado | Russian | 54 pages | PDF | 61,9 Mb

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Panzer Color: Камуфляж и обозначения германских танков. Часть 1
Tornado | Russian | 54 pages | PDF | 28,1 Mb

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Мифы Северной Европы
2008 | Хелен Гербер | Центрполиграф | ISBN: 978 5952438842 | руcский | PDF | 400 pages | 30 Mb
Это необычная коллекция мифов, саг и легенд суровых народов Северной Европы в доступном и ярком изложении. Она поведает вам о славных делах их богов и героев. Вы побываете в сверкающем дворце Одина и в ледяных замках злых великанов, в чудесном саду богини молодости Идунн и в мрачном подземном царстве богини Хель.

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Alexander Cowan, Jill Steward, "The City And the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500 (Historical Urban Studies)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2007 | ISBN 0754605140 | PDF | 260 pages | 10.8 MB
How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature.

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Victor Houliston, "Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)"
Publisher: Ashgate | 2007 | ISBN 0754658406 | PDF | 229 pages | 10.4 MB
Amongst ecclesiastical historians, there has been increased interest in English Catholicism over the past twenty years as a result of the re-evaluation of religious conflicts in early modern England, especially the role of the Jesuits. Speculation about Shakespeare's Catholicism has focused the attention of literary scholars on the experience of Elizabethan Catholics. This book bridges the gap between historical and political studies of the career of the Jesuit Robert Persons on the one hand and literary studies of Shakespeare and other authors, by concentrating on Persons' contribution as a writer to the polemical culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Offering a study of the writing career of Robert Persons, leader of the Elizabethan Jesuits, seen as an apostolate as well as a polemical contestation, this book relates Persons' interventions in various controversies during the period 1580-1610 to the formative purposes of the "Christian Directory" (1582), his famous and phenomenally successful work of devotion. This book was originally known as the "Book of Resolution", which also refers to Persons' indefatigability as a writer. The study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the polemical context of post-Reformation Catholicism in England, and to the Jesuit notion of the 'apostolate of writing'.

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Professor Ruth Wodak, Professor Rudolf de Cillia, Professor Martin Reisigl, Professor Karin Liebhart, "The Discursive Construction of National Identity"
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press | 2009 | ISBN 0748637346 | PDF | 287 pages | 10.4 MB
Which topics, discursive strategies, and linguistic devices are employed in the construction of national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand and difference to other national collectives on the other? This volume examines European discourses of national identity, paying particular attention to Austria. The authors interpret ongoing transformations of the self and the other through a combination of historical theory and methodology and political science. They consider the rhetorical promotion of national identification and the linguistic construction and reproduction of national difference multiple levels within the nation state. This expanded and revised edition covers the impact of socio-political changes in Austria and in the European Union and the attempt to construct hegemonic national identities.

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Simon Featherstone, "Englishness: Twentieth Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity"
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press | 2009 | ISBN 0748623655 | PDF | 209 pages | 11.3 MB
Performing Englishness examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as literature and film. 'High' and 'popular' cultures are brought together in dialogue, and the diversity as well as the problematic nature of English identity is emphasised. The case studies are linked by their interests in different kinds of performances of being English, and by a particular focus upon the voice and the body as key sites for the struggles of modern England. The book is a lively contribution to current interdisciplinary debates about Englishness, national cultures and postcolonial identities. It is relevant to undergraduate students of literature, drama, film, politics and sociology, and will also appeal to a general readership.

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Tim Mchugh, "Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France (The History of Medicine in Context)"
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co | 2007 | ISBN 0754657620 | PDF | 202 pages | 11.3 MB
The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to confine the able bodied and existing hospitals sheltering the sick poor contracted new medical staff and shifted their focus towards offering more medical services. Whilst these moves have often been regarded as a coherent state led policy, recent scholarship has begun to question this assumption, and pick-up on more localised concerns, and resistance to centrally imposed policies. This book engages with these concerns, to investigate the links between charitable health care, poor relief, religion, national politics and urban social order in seventeenth-century France. In so doing, it revises our understanding of the roles played in these issues by the crown and social elites, arguing that central government's social policy was conservative and largely reactive to pressure from local elites. It suggests that Louis XIV's policy regarding the reform of poor relief and the creation of General Hospitals in each town and city, as enshrined in the edict of 1662, was largely driven by the religious concerns of the kingdom's devout and the financial fears of the Parisian elites that their city hospitals were overburdened.

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Gabrielle Mogannam, Hayat Nadar, Chris Yalonis, "Arab Perceptions Of The West, A Study Of Public Opinion, Foreign Policy And The Role Of The Media In The Middle East"
Publisher: The Communique Partners | 2005 | ASIN R20090608D | PDF | 169 pages | 12.1 MB

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Betty Bailey, Alison Hilliard, "Living Stones Pilgrimage: With the Christians of the Holy Land"
Publisher: Cassell | 2001 | ISBN 0304704660 | PDF | 145 pages | 12.1 MB
The Holy Land has always had a magnetic attraction for Christians. Every year, hundreds of thousands tread the crowded streets of Jerusalem, or walk by the quiet waters of Galilee. There are hundreds of guidebooks deisgned for pilgrims and other visitors. The encounter with the stones which Jesus saw and touched has been, for many, a powerful spiritual experience. But the Christian presence is not just history. There are living, worshipping Christian communities in the Holy Land today. This unique guidebook is designed to help you encounter those communities, and to walk, talk and pray with contemporary Christians in Israel, the Palestinian and Occupied Territories; the 'living stones' os the book's title. Written half a century after the creation of the state of Israel, with the co-operation of all the Christian traditions in the Holy Land, it is a key companion for visitors who want to share for a while the thoughts and the life, witness and pressence of those who now live the faith of the apostles in this troubled land.

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Alec M. Gallup, "The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index: Public Opinion, 1998-2007"
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | 2008 | ISBN 0742563146 | PDF | 279 pages | 12 MB
The Gallup Poll is the most comprehensive single source of American public opinion. It is the only work that captures the constantly shifting opinions and perceptions of Americans. The Cumulative Index allows researchers easy access to the results of polls conducted between 1998 and 2007.

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Valentine Baker, "Clouds In The East: Travels And Adventures On The Perso-Turkoman Frontier"
Publisher: Chatto and Windus | 1876 | ISBN 054824829X | PDF | 395 pages | 11 MB
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1876 edition by Chatto and Windus, London.

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Бронепоезда. Часть II (Железная дорога 4)
АРС | 2010 | ISBN: none | 68 Pages | PDF | 37 MB

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Бронепоезда. Часть I (Железная дорога 3)
АРС | 2010 | ISBN: none | 68 Pages | PDF | 36 MB

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Паровозы Америки (Железная дорога 2)
АРС | 2005 | ISBN: none | 68 Pages | PDF | 39 MB

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Германские паравозы Br 52 крупным планом (Железная дорога 1)
АРС | 2005 | ISBN: none | 84 Pages | PDF | 41 MB

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High Stakes: Britain's Air Arms in Action 1945-1990
Pen and Sword | 2009 | ISBN: 1844158152 | 418 Pages | PDF | 158 MB

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Robin M. Jensen, "Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity"
Fortress Press | 2004-11-01 | ISBN: 0800636783, 0800660927 | 260 pages | PDF | 23,4 MB

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Ukradene pevnosti (Fotoalbum ceskoslovenskeho lehkeho opevneni)
MGR. ALEŠ HORÁK | PDF | Czech | ISBN: 9788023997392 | 178 pages | 61 MB | 2007

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Robert Allen, "His Majesty's Indian Allies: British Indian Policy in the Defence of Canada 1774-1815".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 1550021753 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 296 Pages | 17 Mb
His Majesty's Indian Allies is a study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, with particular focus on Canada.

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Edward Butts, "The Desperate Ones: Forgotten Canadian Outlaws".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 1550026100 | edition: 2006 | PDF | 240 Pages | 12 Mb
They were among Canada's most desperate criminals, yet their names have been all but forgotten in the annals of history - until now! In their day these lawless men made headline news. Author Ed Butts has rescued their stories from dusty newspaper pages and polished them up for today's readers in this fascinating volume.

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Donald E. Graves, "Red Coats & Grey Jackets: The Battle of Chippawa, 5 July 1814".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 1550022105 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 216 Pages | 13 Mb
Mr.Graves does an excellent job descirbing an obscure, yet compelling battle of the War of 1812. Winfield Scott professionally trained and lead his famed brigade at Chippewa where he managed to get the better of the British in a brief, but hard fought firer-fight. The book correctly dispels many of the myths associated with this battle. Contrary to popular opinion, the British did not attack in column, as many histories of the war have asserted. The British were a linear army, they generally deployed and fought in a two rank line. This is how they fought and defeated Napeolean in Spain. It would have been illogical of them to have fought any other way at this battle.

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Robert Ascah, "Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit".
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press | english | ISBN: 0888643063 | edition: 1999 | PDF | 216 Pages | 11 Mb
Focusing on the Depression, Second World War, and early post-War period, Robert Ascah examines the interaction of politics and capital markets in Canada from the perspective of the debt management function. Ascah's insightful study explores the Dominion Government's dealings with domestic and international finance capital and their reaction to the policies of Alberta's Social Credit government, and in particular the April 1936 default.

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Stan Hoig, "Jesse Chisholm: Ambassador Of The Plains".
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press | english | ISBN: 080613688X | edition: 2005 | PDF | 226 Pages | 19 Mb
My own ancestery is represented in this book (Jack Harry I) as he is called by our family. The uncle of our Great Grandfather Jack Harry II. I am from Anadarko, OK and this finally explains many of the stories and locations we all heard about as a kid, from Shirley Hill to the Tonkawa hills masssacre sites, and the understanding of how some of our people have the name Chisolm. The narrow tightrope of turmoil the tribes walked to wind up in Binger / Anadarko / Apache and Lawton is made visible and helps greatly to understand stories that we heard as kids.

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Randall White, "Ontario 1610-1985 (Ontario Heritage Foundation Local History Series, No 1)".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 0919670989 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 352 Pages | 17 Mb
If Ontario is the land that is ours to discover then surely Randall White has written a book of discovery. Ontario 1610-1985 fulfills the need for a comprehensive text that chronicles the history of one of the founding provinces of Confederation, a province that has provided a vital legacy for Canada.

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J.M.S. Careless, "Careless at Work: Selected Canadian historical studies".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 1550020676 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 360 Pages | 18 Mb
This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada's best-known historians. In Careless's own words, History is dated. Its very claim is that the past does not fade into nothing but continues to matter, whether or not the purely present-minded are able to recognize that basic fact.

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Timothy C. Brown, "The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua".
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press | english | ISBN: 0806132523 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 321 Pages | 18 Mb
The Contra War and the Iran-Contra affair that shook the Reagan presidency were center stage on the U.S. political scene for nearly a decade. According to most observers, the main Contra army, or the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), was a mercenary force hired by the CIA to oppose the Sandinista socialist revolution.The Real Contra War demonstrates that in reality the vast majority of the FDN's combatants were peasants who had the full support of a mass popular movement consisting of the tough, independent inhabitants of Nicaragua's central highlands. The movement was merely the most recent instance of this peasantry's one-thousand-year history of resistance to those they saw as would-be conquerors.

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Scott L. Cameron, "Frances Smith: Palace Steamer of the Upper Great Lakes 1867-1896".
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books | english | ISBN: 1897045042 | edition: 2006 | PDF | 288 Pages | 18 Mb
The Frances Smith was not only the first steamboat to be built in Owen Sound, but also the largest vessel on Georgian Bay at that time. By far the most luxurious vessel to sail the Upper Great Lakes from a Canadian port, she was known as a 'palace steamer'. In the mid-to-late-19th century, the Frances Smith set the standard for speed, spacious accommodation and quality service on Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. The story of the Frances Smith, full of adventure and courageous actions, and even including disreputable behaviour, is a genuine story of life on the Great Lakes in the latter part of the 1800s.

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Повседневная жизнь королевских мушкетеров
2008 | Е. Глаголева | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 978 5235031616 | руcский | PDF | 356 pages | 19.0 Mb
Людовик XIII отбирал их среди самых храбрых и проверенных воинов; при Людовике XIV один вид голубых плащей с серебряными крестами наводил ужас на врага. На протяжении двух столетий роты королевских мушкетеров были гордостью французских королей и одним из национальных символов Франции.

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Повседневная жизнь этрусков
2009 | Жак Эргон | Молодая гвардия | ISBN: 978 5235032514 | руcский | PDF | 336 pages | 18.8 Mb
Этруски - один из самых загадочных народов древности, чья высокоразвитая цивилизация процветала в Италии в VIII-III веках до н.э. Происхождение этрусков до сих пор неясно, их письменность не расшифрована, но ученым известно многое о их истории, религии и обычаях. Впитав многое из наследия греческой культуры, они в свою очередь оказали большое влияние на становление Древнего Рима, подчинившего впоследствии этрусские города-государства.

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Sturmgeschutze (Militarfahrzeuge, Band 13)
Motorbuch Verlag | 1997 | ISBN: 3613013568 | 255 Pages | PDF | 33,1 MB

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Fiona Beddall "A History of Britain CD for Pack: Level 3"
Penguin | English | 2008-03-10 | ISBN: 1405861703 | MP3 | 65 MB

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Символы и регалии России
2006 | ACT | ISBN: 5170365306 | русский | PDF | 255 ст. | 58.2 Mb
В книге подробно рассказано о символах, регалиях и государственных наградах нашей Родины. И это не просто предметы коллекционирования или объект исследований для узкого круга специалистов. Все они несут печать своего времени, в них отражается «социальное лицо» эпохи, особенности конкретного исторического времени.

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Brian McGinty "Lincoln and the Court"
Harvard University Press | English | 2008-02-28 | ISBN: 0674026551 | 384 pages | PDF | 1 MB

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Daniel W. Howe "Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln"
Harvard University Press | English | 1997-04-30 | ISBN: 0674165551 | 342 pages | PDF | 1 MB

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Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle, "Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy"
Harvard University Press | 2005-04-15 | ISBN: 0674016955, 0674017471 | 384 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

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Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates: Copyright and Conan Doyle in America 1890-1930 By Donald A. Redmond
Publisher: Greenwood Press 1990 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0313272301 | PDF | 28 MB

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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2005 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 0521845432 | PDF | 27 MB

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Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages
Publisher: Thomson Gale | ISBN: 0787675857 | edition 2006 | PDF | 2689 pages | 26,5 mb
Gale and Yorkin Publications broke new ground with the publication of the Dartmouth Medal-winning set, Women in World History. Now, with the release of Dictionary of Women Worldwide, Gale is again teaming with Yorkin Publications to offer something similarly extraordinary.
Unlike other women-focused dictionaries, most of which focus on a small number of famous women, this two-volume dictionary contains 25,000 brief biographical entries. In addition, Dictionary of Women Worldwide provides thousands of entries on non-U.S. figures, another unique characteristic. Includes an occupation index, ethnicity/nationality index and a chronological index.

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From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union By Minxin Pei
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1998 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 067432563X | PDF | 14 MB

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H. F. D. Sparks, "The Apocryphal Old Testament"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1985 | ISBN 0198261772 | PDF | 1014 pages | 24.3 MB
This collection of translations of the more important non-canonical Old Testament books is designed for popular rather than strictly academic use. The translations are accompanied by introductions and brief bibliographies.

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Dr. Jeffrey R. Cooper, Vice President for Technology, Science Applications International Corporation, "The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis: Curing Analytic Pathologies, Recruiting, Training, Educating, and Developing"
Publisher: The CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence | 2005 | ASIN B0017UGJHU | PDF | 81 pages | 10.3 MB
A new study published by the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence calls for a fundamental reconceptualization of the process of intelligence analysis in order to overcome the “pathologies” that have rendered it increasingly dysfunctional. This study is fundamentally about what I would call the intellectual professionalization of intelligence analysis. It is about standards and practices and habits of mind. It is about inductive (evidence-based) analytical reasoning balanced against deductive (hypothesis-based and evidence-tested) reasoning. It extols the value of truly scientific modes of thinking, including respect for the role of imagination and intuition, while warning against the pitfalls of "scientism," a false pretense to scientific standards or a scientific pose without a scientific performance. It talks about peer review and challenging assumptions and the need to build these therapeutic virtues into the analytical process.

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Arthur John Booth, "Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions"
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. | 1902 | ASIN B001A8HRWA | PDF | 482 pages | 11.4 MB

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Jutta Schwarzkopf, "Unpicking Gender: The Social Construction of Gender in the Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry, 1880-1914 (Studies in Labour History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2004 | ISBN 0754609804 | PDF | 242 pages | 10.7 MB
Investigating the radicalizing effects of gender in the Lancashire cotton mills between 1880 and 1914, this provocative work challenges the received wisdom that women were passive victims of a sexually segregated workplace. Instead it brings to the fore the proactive efforts of female workers to secure workplace equality, the successes of which led them to question and challenge their assigned position in wider society.

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Joseph Harrison, David Corkill, "Spain: A Modern European Economy (Modern Economic and Social History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2004 | ISBN 0754601455 | PDF | 256 pages | 11.4 MB
Perhaps more than any other European country, Spain has undergone a remarkable transformation in the post-war period. To the surprise of many, it has succeeded in making the leap from a predominantly agricultural and politically repressed country, to a modern European democracy with a diversified economy containing important manufacturing and service sectors. Yet, despite the fact that at the beginning of the twenty-first century Spain is the world's eighth largest economy, old stereotypes that see the Iberian nation as an inflexible, unchanging society, persist. As such, scholars will welcome this new study which challenges the picaresque and outdated notions of Spanish economic development, replacing them with a picture of rapid and profound modernization. Building upon the recent work of historians and economists, the authors provide a thoughtful and compelling overview of the subject that clearly elucidates both the positive and negative aspects of modern Spanish development. Thus, as well as charting the undoubted successes achieved, persistent problems - most notably high unemployment - are also explored. Written in a straightforward and engaging manner, this book engages with research from a wide variety of disciplines, and will be of interest to anyone with a specific interest in modern Spain, or a wider interest in economic development within the framework of the European Union.

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Derek H. Aldcroft, "Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years (Modern Economic and Social History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2006 | ISBN 075460599X | PDF | 230 pages | 11.3 MB
Economic historians have perennially addressed the intriguing question of comparative development, asking why some countries develop much faster and further than others. Focusing primarily on Europe between 1914 and 1939, this present volume explores the development of thirteen countries that could be said to be categorised as economically backward during this period: Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia. These countries are linked, not only in being geographically on Europe's periphery, but all shared high agrarian components and income levels much lower than those enjoyed in western European countries. The study shows that by 1918 many of these countries had structural characteristics which either relegated them to a low level of development or reflected their economic backwardness, characteristics that were not helped by the hostile economic climate of the interwar period. It explores, region by region, how their progress was checked by war and depression, and how the effects of political and social factors could also be a major impediment to sustained progress and modernisation.

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John Saliba, "Understanding New Religious Movements"
Publisher: AltaMira Press | 2003 | ISBN 0759103569 | PDF | 310 pages | 15.6 MB
This balanced textbook looks at emerging religions through the lenses of history, psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. The Second Edition is updated throughout and includes a new foreword by J. Gordon Melton.

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David Yeadon, "At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula"
Publisher: Harper Perennial | 2009 | ISBN 0061151270 | PDF | 429 pages | 10 MB
In recent years, Ireland has enjoyed a newfound prosperity as Europe's most affluent nation. But tucked away in a far corner of the so-called "Celtic Tiger," that other enduring and authentic country—that small, hidden place of simple magic and romance—still exists. Acclaimed travel writer David Yeadon and his wife, Anne, set out to find it. On the Beara Peninsula of southwest Ireland, the Yeadons discovered their own "little lost world," an enticing Brigadoon of soaring mountain ranges and spectacular coastal scenery, far removed from the touristic hullabaloo of Dublin, Killarney, and the Ring of Kerry. Here is the fabled "Old Ireland," alive and well with music seisuins, hooley dances, and seanachai storytellers—a haven for searchers, healers, artists, and poets hardy enough to have braved the same narrow and winding mountain roads that keep the package-tour coaches out. Bursting with color and life, At the Edge of Ireland is an intrepid wanderer's celebration of a magical, unspoiled, and unforgettable Éire.

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Elizabethanne Boran, Crawford Gribben, "Enforcing Reformation in Ireland And Scotland, 1550–1700 (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2006 | ISBN 0754655822 | PDF | 277 pages | 10.6 MB
The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in the study of the Reformation period within the three kingdoms of Britain, revolutionizing the way in which scholars think about the relationships between England, Scotland and Ireland. Nevertheless, it is a fact that the story of the British Reformation is still dominated by studies of England, an imbalance that this book will help to right. By adopting an international perspective, the essays in this volume look at the motives, methods and impact of enforcing the Protestant Reformation in Ireland and Scotland. The juxtaposition of these two countries illuminates the similarities and differences of their social and political situations whiles qualifying many of the conclusions of recent historical work in each country. As well as investigating what 'reformation' meant in the early modern period, and examining its literal, rhetorical, doctrinal, moral and political implications, the volume also explores what enforcing these various reformations could involve. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a fascinating insight into how the political authorities in Scotland and Ireland attempted, with varying degrees of success, to impose Protestantism on their countries. By comparing the two situations, and placing them in the wider international picture, our understanding of European confessionalization is further enhanced.

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Peter Marshall, "Religious Identities In Henry VIII's England (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History) (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2006 | ISBN 0754653900 | PDF | 307 pages | 10.7 MB
Henry VIII's decision to declare himself supreme head of the church in England, and thereby set himself in opposition to the authority of the papacy, had momentous consequences for the country and his subjects. At a stroke people were forced to reconsider assumptions about their identity and loyalties, in rapidly shifting political and theological circumstances. Whilst many studies have investigated Catholic and Protestant identities during the reigns of Elizabeth and Mary, much less is understood about the processes of religious identity-formation during Henry's reign. In this volume Peter Marshall explores a wide range of evidence that underlines the complex web of overlapping and competing identities that people were forced to assume as a religiously conservative king sought to take control of his national church. Investigating broad issues of conversion, polemic and propaganda, scripture, exile, forgery and miracles, as well as looking at specific cases of individuals and events, a rich picture is built up of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the early reformation process in England. Consisting of three entirely new chapters, and eight previously published but updated, essays, this volume provides a fascinating insight into the complex religious developments of early sixteenth-century England. As Tudor religious history enters a 'post-revisionist' phase that acknowledges the strength and vitality of traditional religious culture, whilst reasserting the broad appeal of the evangelical message, this volume provides a timely reassessment and critique of the subject.

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