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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.