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From Byron to Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers by Nir Arielli
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:Nir Arielli

In conclusion, while de jure there was, and still is, an international norm of preventing the departure of foreign volunteers, de facto the situation has been, and remains, much more ...
( Category: Engineering January 19,2020 )
Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature by Tatiana Prorokova
epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Tatiana Prorokova

The scene overtly demonstrates the difference between the two men, the “good” and “bad” Americans. Whereas Jackson tries to help in every situation, West prefers to stay indifferent to what ...
( Category: Performing Arts January 19,2020 )
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner
epub |eng | 2019-04-19 | Author:Beth Gardiner

8 Reluctant Innovators Air and the Automakers Smoke billows into the chamber, thick and hot, laden with poisons. It wafts into tiny channels, hundreds of them, a honeycomb of passageways. ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism by Andrew J. Mitchell & Peter Trawny
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Andrew J. Mitchell & Peter Trawny

A SECOND SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM Heidegger’s next idea is easily understood against this backdrop. Up until now his philosophy had only managed to set one ontology against another. Put ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
Gershom Scholem by David Biale
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:David Biale [Biale, David]

7 Kabbalah and Catastrophe BY 1937, Scholem’s personal life had regained stability, his marriage to Fania providing him with an intellectual and domestic helpmeet. But the situation in Germany continued ...
( Category: Kabbalah & Mysticism January 19,2020 )
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by André Laks
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:André Laks [Laks, André]

CHAPTER 5 Origins THE TERM “BREAKTHROUGH” (IN GERMAN, DURCHBRUCH) WAS used by K. Jaspers in his The Origin and Goal of History, first published in German in 1949, to refer ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 19,2020 )
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander A. Cooley Ph.d. & John Heathershaw
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Alexander A. Cooley Ph.d. & John Heathershaw [Cooley, Alexander A. Ph.d. & Heathershaw, John]

Step three: banking the profits Maxim’s standing, and that of the regime, was dependent on a third element which was crucial for the Bakiyevs’ corruption. Seizing assets and centralising control ...
( Category: Fascism January 19,2020 )
The Sputnik Challenge by Divine Robert A.;
epub |eng | 1993-01-15 | Author:Divine, Robert A.; [Divine, Robert A.;]

II In the early months of 1958, Dwight Eisenhower went through his winter of discontent. He could not seem to shake off a nagging cold. His throat was sore and ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Confessions by Saint Augustine
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Saint Augustine

1 Simplicianus succeeded Ambrose as bishop of Milan in 397 and died c.400; so he was still living when the Confessions were published. 2 1 Cor. 7: 7 (of married ...
( Category: Religious January 19,2020 )
Two Solitudes by MacLennan Hugh;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:MacLennan, Hugh; [MacLennan, Hugh;]

PART TWO 1919 – 1921 TWENTY-SEVEN The war had been over for six months, and now the first battalions were coming home. Some of them had lived through half a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
The Enlightenment that Failed by Jonathan I. Israel
epub |eng | 2019-11-06 | Author:Jonathan I. Israel

18.3. The Vonckiste Revolution Overwhelmed The main Belgian institutional bodies, Congress, the provincial States of Brabant, Flanders, and Hainault, and the city governments, divided over the nobility’s privileges, magistracies, and ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2020 )
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Paul Hanebrink

Czechoslovakia was not an obvious location for an antisemitic show trial. Unlike its Hungarian, Romanian, and Polish counterparts, the Czechoslovak Communist Party emerged from the war with genuine popular support. ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
Viet Nam by Kiernan Ben;
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Kiernan, Ben;

French rule also brought to Cochinchina a massive expansion of the cultivation and export of rice and, to a lesser extent, of its import of manufactured goods. The colony’s economy ...
( Category: Asia January 19,2020 )
Petrified Forest National Park by George M. Lubick
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:George M. Lubick

Painted Desert Inn, 1940, following the renovation by the Civilian Conservation Corps (Photograph courtesy of Petrified Forest National Park) By the end of the following year, renovation was nearly finished. ...
( Category: Natural Resources January 19,2020 )
The Battle for North Africa by Glyn Harper
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Glyn Harper [Harper, Glyn]

Frontline troops 220,476 110,000 (53,736 Germans) Tanks 1,020 (170 Grants, 252 Shermans, 216 Crusader II, 78 Crusader III, 119 Stuarts, 194 Valentines) 600 (249 German, of which only 129 were ...
( Category: North Africa History January 19,2020 )

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