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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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

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.

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

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

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

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

Radinger / Schick - Me 262 - Entwicklung, Erprobung und Fertigung
Aviatic | 1992 | 58 MB | Pages: 114 | ISBN: 3925505210 | PDF/rar | German