Engineering
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Marr, Andrew [Marr, Andrew]

There were worse worlds for revolutionaries, and more serious revolutionaries too. In the final days of a freezing November in 1923 in a grimy street in Pollockshaws, just outside Glasgow, ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Ronald Glasser M.D.

13. THE BLEEDING WARS In its view, the “bleeding wars” offer the best opportunity to defeat the United States. Enlarging the war in Afghanistan is exactly what Al Qaeda wants, ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

EARLY CHINESE BOWS Despite its primal importance in Chinese warfare, there has been a surprising dearth of articles on the bow and arrow. However, from the few attempts,40 numerous archaeological ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Steven Solomon

By every measure, the canal was a stupendous success. Within a decade, some 5,000 vessels were passing through it every year, as many as through Suez. By 1970, over 15,000 ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-04 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson

Why We Fight as We Do WHAT, THEN, IS the American way of war? Without a national religion or a common race or ethnic culture, Americans are united first by ...
( Category: Military Technology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-09-15 | Author:Jared M. Diamond

MY EXAMPLES SO far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Robert Tine

10 Spencer had left for work by the time Jillian awoke. She was pleased to realize that she had no hangover, no effects from the evening before except for a ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-03-14 | Author:Marc Reisner

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Annie Jacobsen

Three months later, on a balmy spring day in May of 1967, Colonel Slater decided he was going to take the Oxcart for a last ride. Some of the pilots ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:John Heilemann

Chapter Thirteen Obama Agonistes THE OBAMAS ATE BREAKFAST in silence at their hotel in San Antonio the morning after Ohio and Texas. Their friends Jarrett and Whitaker tried to cheer ...
( Category: Elections March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Chapter 5 Supporting Evidence: The Middle East Beyond declarations of leaders, and the self-refuting case of Iraq, several additional bits of evidence have been adduced to justify the faith in ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Sanger, David E. [Sanger, David E.]

GEN. JAMES MATTIS is no one to be trifled with. The burly head of CENTCOM spent the last year bolstering defenses in case war breaks out with Iran. He has ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )