Беглый огонь! Записки немецкого артиллериста 1940-1945
2009 | Вильгельм Липпих | Яуза-Пресс | ISBN: 978 5995500414 | руcский | PDF | 304 pages | 7.0 Mb
Серия: Вторая мировая война: Жизнь и смерть на Восточном фронте
Помимо передовой тактики блицкрига, помимо сокрушительных танковых клиньев и грозных пикировщиков, наводивших ужас на врага, к началу Второй мировой войны Вермахт обладал еще одним "чудо-оружием" - так называемой Infanteriegeschutzen ("пехотной артиллерией"), чьи орудия сопровождали немецкую пехоту непосредственно в боевых порядках, чтобы при необходимости поддержать огнем, прямой наводкой подавить вражеские огневые точки, обеспечить прорыв обороны противника или отражение его атаки. "Пехотные артиллеристы" всегда находились на самых опасных участках фронта, несли самые тяжелые потери; неудивительно, что их мемуары - большая редкость. И эта книга - среди лучших.

Bf 109 Aces of the Russian Front
Publisher: Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1841760846 | edition 2001 | PDF | 99 pages | 16,4 mb
The highest scoring aces of any aerial conflict were the Luftwaffe pilots involved in the bloody combats on the Russian Front. The most common fighter used by these pilots was the Bf 109, which was involved in the action from Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, through to the doomed Defence of the Reich in 1945. Units like JGs 5, 52 and 54 all flew the Messerschmitt fighter, progressing from Emil to Gustav variants. This volume includes all the high-scoring aces, and explains just how difficult a job the Jagdwaffe faced on the Russian Front, and how its experts achieved such overwhelming scores. Aircraft of the Aces 6 and 37 are also available in a single volume as ‘German Aces of the Russian Front’.

Юности честное зерцало или Показаниiе къ жiтеiскому обхожденiю
1717г. | DjVu
Книга "Юности честное зерцало" впервые была напечатана в 1717г. по личному указанию Петpa I. Она представляет собой наставление для молодежи, собранное, как сказано в заголовке, "от разных авторов".

Шарлотта Зелинг "Мода. Век модельеров. 1900-1999"
Konemann, 2000 г. | 656 стр. | ISBN 3829054149 | PDF | 26.5Mb
Автор рассказывает о творцах моды - кутюрье, модельерах, дизайнерах, об их творческом пути, о созданных ими моделях. Это издание - не только энциклопедический словарь по истории моды, куда вошли все знаменитые имена модельеров XX столетия, но одновременно красочный рассказ о многих звездах подиума. Завершает эту прекрасно иллюстрированную книгу справочный аппарат, где читатель может найти подробный глоссарий, а также адреса крупнейших международных школ моды.

История костюма, составленная Наталией Будур
Олма-Пресс, 2001 г. | 480 стр. | ISBN 5224020123 | DjVu | 20Mb
В книге рассказывается об истории костюма с древнейших времен до конца XIX века, когда произошла реформа одежды. Особое внимание в книге уделяется русскому костюму. Все описания костюмов сопровождаются старинными черно-белыми раскрашенными вручную гравюрами.

Gérard Garier - Duquesne & Tourville
Wydawnictwo Okręty Wojenne | 1999 | ISBN: 8390227495 | Polish | 64 pages | PDF | 29.96 MB
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Colin Robinson, "Successes and Failures in Regulating and Deregulating Utilities: Evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA"
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing | PDF | 2004 | ISBN 1843767708 | 241 pages | 10.3 Mb
This book is the latest annual review of utility regulation and deregulation, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School. It contains a series of chapters from leading practitioners in the field which comment on the most significant and up-to-date developments. Topics include US telecoms deregulation, road network regulation, UK competition policy, Ofcom and light touch regulation, railway regulation, the liberalization of European utility markets, postal regulation, investment and regulation, and energy regulation in the UK. Two papers are presented on each issue: the first by a distinguished academic or industry expert and the second, a shorter comment, usually by the relevant regulator. Together they show how regulation and deregulation are evolving, and highlight the successes which have been achieved and the failures which must be overcome. This book will be of considerable value to practitioners, policymakers and academics involved in regulatory reform and regulatory economics. It will also be of interest to anyone wishing to gain an overview of international regulatory policies.

Valerie Marcel, John V. Mitchell, "Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East"
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press | PDF | 2006 | ISBN 0815754744 | 332 pages | 10.2 Mb
Ninety percent of the worlds oil reserves are entrusted to state-owned companies. Originally created as political instruments, these so-called national oil companies (NOCs) face new demands amid todays dwindling oil reserves and simmering social pressures. Increasingly, state-owned oil firms--particularly in the Middle East--must balance the political demands of their governments with the need to be commercially competitive. In this ground-breaking new volume, Valerie Marcel draws on unprecedented access to the politicians, engineers, and businessmen directing five Middle Eastern state oil companies to illuminate one of international industrys most secretive yet powerful sectors. The author tells the stories of Saudi Aramco, the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, the National Iranian Oil Company, Sonatrach of Algeria, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Taken together, these oil titans produce one quarter of the worlds oil and hold half of the worlds known oil and gas reserves. Marcel explains the complex bond between each state and its oil company, tracing evolution of the companies from the politically charged days of foreign concessions to todays world of profit-driven decisionmaking. Drawing on numerous and extensive interviews with company executives, middle managers, and oil ministry officials, Marcel identifies a number of surprising new trends in NOC strategy. She also paints a picture of their operating culture, capturing their nascent sense of corporate identity. Contributor John V. Mitchell, a renowned oil industry analyst, puts the operations and culture of NOCs into a wider macroeconomic context. He shows how the hydrocarbon sector fits into the overall national economies and discusses how it must adapt to rapidly changing circumstances in order to offset economic weaknesses elsewhere. Oil Titans provides rare and timely insight into how state-owned companies are striking a new balance between their national mission and their commercial needs. It provides an insiders guide to their unique culture while demonstrating the critically important role they plan in developing and maintaining their countrys economic welfare.

Yan Sun, "The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | PDF | 1995 | ISBN 0691029989 | 365 pages | 10.6 Mb
A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao Zedong have seen a profound reexamination of a more basic question: to what extent are the root problems of the system due to Chinese socialism and Marxism generally? Here Yan Sun gathers a remarkable group of primary materials, drawn from an unusual range of sources, to present the most systematic and comprehensive study of post-Mao reappraisal of China's socialist theory and practice. Rejecting an assumption often made in the West, that Chinese socialist thought has little bearing on politics and policymaking, Sun takes the arguments of the post-Mao era seriously on their own terms. She identifies the major factions in the debate, reveals the interplay among official and unofficial forces, and charts the development of the debate from an initially parochial concern with problems raised by Chinese practice to a grand critique of the theory of socialism itself. She concludes with an enlightening comparison of the reassessments undertaken by Deng Xiaoping with those of Gorbachev, linking them to the divergent outcomes of reform and revolution in their respective countries.

Yoram Dinstein, "War, Aggression and Self-Defence"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | PDF | 2001 | ISBN 0521793440 | 330 pages | 10 Mb
Yoram Dinsteins seminal textbook is an essential guide to the legal issues of war and peace, armed attack, self-defence and enforcement measures taken under the aegis of the Security Council. This third edition incorporates new material on the Kosovo air campaign, humanitarian intervention, recent resolutions adopted by the Security Council, the latest pronouncements of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Also discussed are new treaties including the 1998 Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court and current studies of the International Law Commission. In addition, supplementary sections consider, for example, enforcement action carried out by regional organizations under the authority of the Security Council. War, Aggression and Self-Defence remains a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the legal issues surrounding war and self-defence, and continues to provide an indispensable tool for students and practitioners of international law, international relations and military studies.

Raymond Van Dam, "The Roman Revolution of Constantine"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | PDF | 2007 | ISBN 0521882095 | 458 pages | 10.4 Mb
The reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and the Middle East. The foundation of Constantinople as a new imperial residence and the rise of Greek as the language of administration previewed the establishment of a separate eastern Roman empire.

Edward C. Page, Bill Jenkins, "Policy Bureaucracy: Government with a Cast of Thousands"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | PDF | 2005 | ISBN 019928041X | 241 pages | 10.8 Mb
Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. Long before laws are drafted, policy commitments made, or groups consulted on government proposals, officials will have been working away to shape the policy into a form in which it can be presented to ministers and the outside world. Policy bureaucracies - parts of government organizations with specific responsibility for maintaining and developing policy - have to be mobilized before most significant policy initiatives are launched. This book describes the range of work policy officials do. The 140 civil servants interviewed for this study included officials who helped originate policies which were subsequently taken over as manifesto commitments by the Labour Party; officials who helped devise the formula by which billions of pounds are allocated to local government in grants; and also officials who recommended to the Secretary of State that a controversial publisher be allowed to take over a national newspaper. The background and career paths of middle-ranking officials show them to be a diverse group who do not tend to develop long-term subject specialisms. The instructions to which these officials work - whether coming from ministers or senior officials - are often very broad and leave much to personal interpretation. Policy Bureaucracy goes on to examine how ministers and senior officials affect the work of middle ranking officials and the cues policy bureaucrats use to develop policy. The analytical approach adopted in the book is derived from Alvin Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy and his elaboration of Max Weber's notion that hierarchy and expertise place a fundamental tension at the heart of modern bureaucracies. In the UK this tension is handled by combining 'invited authority' with 'improvised expertise'. The book also explores other models of handling this tension in political systems in Europe and the USA.

Derek Gregory, Allan Pred, "Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence"
Publisher: Routledge | PDF | 2006 | ISBN 041595147X | 402 pages | 10.6 Mb
Derek Gregory and Allan Pred's Violent Geographies gathers together a group of young and well established geographers to look at how territory and space delimit and shape both terrorism and political violence in wide range of places, from the Middle East to Latin America. In short, the book shows how physical violence, especially terrorism, disrupts the distinction between the global and the local by injecting transnational politics into the intimacies of everyday life. Violent Geographies also shows how terrorism is not simply used by nonstate groups --states use it as well, including many of America's allies. It goes far beyond 9/11 moving backward in history and across the globe to other locales to get at the heightened states of emergency that are occurring everywhere.

Adalbert Evers, Jean-Louis Laville, "The Third Sector in Europe (Globalization & Welfare)"
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing | PDF | 2004 | ISBN 1843764008 | 279 pages | 10.1 Mb
This book explores Europe's third sector - the non-profit organizations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organizations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary socio-economics and social policy. The pathbreaking contributions examine the third sector in Europe within a framework which seeks to conceptually integrate two hitherto separate debates: that concerning the `social economy' of co-operatives and mutuals, and the debate on voluntary, civil society and non-profit organizations. Theoretical concepts are developed and debated, and the relationship between the development of national societies, public welfare and the third sector are explored. The book goes on to discuss the crucial role of the state and public policies - including measures that have been introduced at the European Union level. The contributions reveal the need for policy perspectives and forms of governance that respect the added value of third sector organizations, without separating them. It is argued that, in future European welfare models, it is not the size of a third sector that matters, but rather the overall impact of its civic principles. With its informative contributions about the third sector in various EU countries, the theoretical approaches offered and the ways in which policy issues are dealt with, this book will be of great interest to a wide-ranging audience including: social policy scholars, economists, political scientists and policymakers with an interest in the evolution of the third sector.

David M. Guss, "The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance"
Publisher: University of California Press | PDF | 2000 | ISBN 0520202899 | 254 pages | 10.5 Mb
If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings. Guss investigates "the ideology of tradition," combining four case studies in a radical multisite ethnography to demonstrate how in each instance concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined.
In a narrative as colorful as the events themselves, Guss presents the Afro-Venezuelan celebration of San Juan, the "neo-Indian" Day of the Monkey, the mestizo ritual of Tamunangue, and the cultural policies and products of a British multinational tobacco corporation. All these illustrate the remarkable fluidity of festive behavior as well as its importance in articulating different cultural interests.

Dean Kotlowski, "European Union: From Jean Monnet To The Euro"
Publisher: Ohio University Press | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 0821413317 | 243 pages | 10.7 Mb

Myths & Legends Explained By Neil Philip
Publisher: DK Publishing 2007 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0756628717 | PDF | 15 MB

Steets, Hans - Gebirgsjaeger zwischen Dnjepr und Don
Scharnhorst | 1957 | 32,7 MB | Pages: 103 | PDF/rar | German