263 pages | PDF | 1.8 MB
In the past three hundred years, Shi'i Islam has grown impressively in Iraq, northern India and what is now Pakistan. Juan Cole explores the little known history of Shi'i communities as far afield as Bahrain and India, giving attention as well to important centres such as Lebanon, Iraq and, of course, Iran.
389 pages | 2000 | PDF | 2 Mb
...a complete summary of the latest applications & developments, now updated to reflect IEEE 1451 smart sensor standards...includes many new chapters & an extensive list of acronyms & a glossary.
272 pages | 2005 | PDF | 1,7 Mb
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
296 pages | PDF | 2.5 MB
While ID has been proposed as a scientific alternative to evolutionary biology, Shanks argues that ID is in fact "old creationist wine in new designer label bottles" and moreover is a serious threat to the scientific and democratic values that are our cultural and intellectual inheritance from the Enlightenment.
624 pages | PDF | 4.3 MB
Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion.