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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Vipin Narang
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Vipin Narang [Narang, Vipin]

FRANCE AFTER THE COLD WAR: ASYMMETRIC ESCALATION TOUS AZIMUTS After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, France was faced with a choice of how to operationalize its nuclear forces. The ...
( Category: Military November 18,2017 )
Summers in France by Kathryn Ireland
epub |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:Kathryn Ireland

With the swimming pool built and now more guests than the main house could handle, my brother Robert spent from February to June of 1995 rebuilding and renovating the Pigeonnier. ...
( Category: Europe November 18,2017 )
The Ruler's Guide: China's Greatest Emperor and His Timeless Secrets of Success by Chinghua Tang
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Chinghua Tang [Tang, Chinghua]

PERSONAL FEELINGS Taizong said to the crown prince, “Don’t punish a person if he goes against your will, yet what he does is good for the country. Don’t reward a ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 18,2017 )
Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire by Junne George;
epub |eng | | Author:Junne, George;

From many accounts of the time, Moralı Beşir Ağa wielded a lot of influence but used it primarily for personal gain. He loved money and made a fortune illegally. He ...
( Category: Middle East November 18,2017 )
Forget Chineseness by Allen Chun
epub |eng | 2017-11-18 | Author:Allen Chun

What Is (Post)Colonial “Modernity”? The history of Hong Kong, both in its evolution as a colonial city-state and its post-1997 transformation as special administrative region of China, should have relevant ...
( Category: Management & Leadership November 18,2017 )
Rome by Matthew Kneale
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Matthew Kneale

Rome, 1849 CHAPTER SIX FRENCH I THESE DAYS THE QUIRINAL PALACE in the heart of Rome is a busy place. Tall uniformed Corazziere – the personal guards of the president ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 17,2017 )
The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe
epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Lawrence M. Principe

Figure 6.6. A modern “emblem” expressing the secret of the third key. Gold dissolves in acid, forming gold chloride; when the acid is distilled off, the gold chloride is decomposed ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 17,2017 )
Time and Narrative, Volume 1: 001 (Time & Narrative) by Ricoeur Paul
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Ricoeur, Paul [Ricoeur, Paul]

6 Historical Intentionality INTRODUCTION The aim of the present chapter is to examine the indirect connection that must be maintained, in my opinion, between history and our narrative competence, as ...
( Category: Philosophy November 17,2017 )
Time and Narrative, Volume 3 (Time & Narrative) by Ricoeur Paul
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Ricoeur, Paul [Ricoeur, Paul]

9 Should We Renounce Hegel? The confrontation with Hegel that I am about to undertake has been made necessary by the emergence of a problem resulting from the very conclusion ...
( Category: Philosophy November 17,2017 )
How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual by Dan Bouk
epub |eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Dan Bouk [Bouk, Dan]

88 Fisher and Fisk, How to Live, ix–x. 89 Hirshbein, “Masculinity, Work, and the Fountain of Youth,” 96. Hirshbein argues that LEI focused its efforts on middle-class white men. Veit ...
( Category: Insurance November 17,2017 )
Political Theology by Carl Schmitt
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Schmitt

In contrast to traditional presentations, I have shown in my study of dictatorship that even the seventeenth-century authors of natural law understood the question of sovereignty to mean the question ...
( Category: Philosophy November 17,2017 )
Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill
epub |eng | 1962-12-31 | Author:William H. McNeill [McNeill, William H.]

* * * Meanwhile, two major centers of high culture had developed in the Americas—one in the highlands of Central America, the other in the coastal valleys and uplands of ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 17,2017 )
American Nietzsche by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
epub |eng | 2011-11-17 | Author:Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Nietzsche as Problem Thinker Throughout his study, Kaufmann sought to make clear his agenda to reverse all trends in Nietzsche interpretation on both sides of the Atlantic, which cast him ...
( Category: Philosophy November 17,2017 )
Beauty and the Beast by Taussig Michael
mobi |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Taussig, Michael [Taussig, Michael]

Till all that is divine in woman Grows cruel, courteous, smooth, inhuman, Crucified ’twixt a smile and whimper3 To bring sex into the fray is to engage with that “immense ...
( Category: Medicine November 17,2017 )
Democracy in America by de Tocqueville Alexis
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:de Tocqueville, Alexis [de Tocqueville, Alexis]

ON REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES; WHAT ARE THEIR CHANCES OF LONGEVITY? The Union is only an accident.—Republican institutions have more of a future.—The republic is, for the present, ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 17,2017 )

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