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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 10:25pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 10:23pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 10:16pm CET
John Clare's Religion By Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher: Ashgate 2009 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0754665143 | PDF | 2 MB
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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 7:42pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 7:19pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:29pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:26pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:22pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:18pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:15pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:12pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:08pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:04pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 6:00pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 5:57pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 4:25pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 3:13pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 2:00pm CET
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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Posted: March 27th, 2010, 1:25pm CET
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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