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

Iran, Israel and Nuclear War, Anthony H. Cordesman Arleigh A. Burke
Center for Strategic and International Studies | English | ISBN N/A | 77 pages | PDF | 2.19 MB | 2007

Acquire, Deploy, Fight, Impact: Future “What if” Options

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

Piotr Wiśniewski, Jerzy Mościński - Nelson, Rodney
AJ-Press | 1999 | ISBN: 8372370214 | Polish | 116 pages | PDF | 63.49 MB
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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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