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

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.

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

Albert Jackson, David Day - Manual de Modelismo
Tursen | 1991 | ISBN: 8487756042 | Spanish | 345 pages | PDF | 94.14 MB
Un manual ilustrado con más de 1000 técnicas de construcción de todo tipo de maquetas, miniaturas y dioramas.

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.

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.

Christopher W. Close, «The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525-1550»
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521760208 | September 30, 2009 | PDF | 296 pages | 2.08 MB

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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