Myron J., Jr. Smith,"The Timberclads in the Civil War" Publisher: McFarland | ISBN: 078643578X | edition: 2008 | PDF | 560 Pages | 9,6 Mb In the most detailed history of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga.
Watchmen 2009 DVDRip x264 | MKV | 608 x 256 | 2.35 kbps | 23.976 fps | English | 02:36:01 | 550 Mb Genre : Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller “ Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. ...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 95 min | Xvid 720 x 432 | 1799 kbps | 23.976 fps | 256 kb/s 6-chn AC3 | 1.36 GB + 3% recovery record English | Subtitles: French, Italian and Spanish .srt | Genre: Black Comedy U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the"precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is...
Michael D. Pierson"Mutiny at Fort Jackson" The University of North Carolina Press | 2009-01-01 | ISBN : 0807832286 | Pages: 264 | PDF | 2.19 MB New Orleans was the largest city—and one of the richest—in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell to Union forces soon thereafter. Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical turning point in the Union's campaign to regain control of ...
Adolph H. Grundman,"The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball: The AAU Tournament." Publisher: Bison Books | ISBN: 0803271174 | 2004 edition | PDF | 327 Pages | 1,48 MB The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has long symbolized the idealism of amateur athletic competition. For basketball especially, the AAU provided an opportunity for athletes to showcase their skills for the benefit of the team and the sport, not the bottom line. In The Golden Age of Amateur Basketball, Adolph H. Grundman recounts the history of the AAU National Tournament during its golden age, 1921 through 1968.Grundman a...
Toivo Tulev - Songs (Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier) Classical | EAC (APE, CUE& LOG) | 222 MB Toivo Tulev, as one of the principal figures in Estonian music today, contributes to a wide range of styles. Like Arvo Pärt, Tulev studied Gregorian chant and early polyphony and its influence on his music has been profound, though not always obvious. But unlike his Estonian predecessor, he has seen the world change with the fall of the Soviet Union right at the time when his music was beginning to be performed, andhe has contributed strongly to the stylistic pluralism that ...
Money Matters Edward Elgar Publishing | 2004-04 | ISBN: 1843764431 | 361 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB Combining theoretical analysis with policy evaluation, this book touches on a whole spectrum of issues ranging from monetary union and exchange rate regimes, to credit rationing and policy games. The book focuses on the problems of modelling the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, and setting optimal policies for the future. It concludes with two stimulating panel discussions, one questioning whether the UK should join the Euro and the other discussing the appropriate targets of monetary policy. ...
Forensic Chemistry of Substance Misuse: A Guide to Drug Control Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry | Pages: 250 | 2009-05-19 | ISBN 0854041788 | PDF | 2 MB This book provides a chemical background to the domestic and international legal controls on drugs of abuse and related substances and includes coverage of 'designer drugs' and generic/analogue controls from the US, UK, and New Zealand perspectives. General chapters cover the recent history of the drug classification debate and a proposal for consolidating a wide range of legal controls on chemical substances. An account is prov...
Autor: Michael Wheatley,"Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland 1910-1916." Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 019927357X | 2005 edition | PDF | 296 Pages | 1.59 MB John Redmond's constitutional, parliamentary, Irish Party went from dominating Irish politics to oblivion in just four years from 1914-1918. The goal of limited Home Rule, peacefully achieved, appeared to die with it. Given the speed of the party's collapse, its death has been seen as inevitable. Though such views have been challenged, there has been no detailed study of the Irish Party in the last...
Blind White Fish in Persia Publisher: Readers Union/George Allen | ISBN: B0023XA32M | edition 1954 | PDF | 275 pages | 24.0 mb One knows these modern travelers, these overgrown prefects and pseudo-scientific bores despatched by congregations of extinguished officials to see if sand dunes sing when snow is cold. Unlimited money, every kind of official influence support them; they penetrate the furthest recesses of the globs; and beyond ascertaining that sand dunes do sing and snow is cold,what do they observe to enlarge the human mind?
Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Konstantina E. Botsiou,"The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2009 (The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series)" Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg | ISBN: 3642006205 | edition: 2009 | PDF | 113 Pages | 1,2 Mb The year 2009 finds Europe at a crossroads. The European Union faces the challenges posed by the Lisbon Treaty under the impact of a major international financial and economic crisis. Transatlantic relations are stimulated by the change of administration in Washington. On both sides of the Atlantic...
Firebird - Grand Union (2009) EAC | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 359 Mb | Covers Hard Rock, Stoner Rock | 2009 | UK | | Label: Rise Above | Catalog: CDRISE122 | RAR 3% Rec | RS The album was recorded and mixed over a two-week period in May 2008 at Berno studios in Malmö, Sweden where FIREBIRD's second album, 2001's"Deluxe", was conceived."Grand Union" features a couple of tracks that are"way heavier than the stuff from the last two records," according to Steer, plus no less than three cover versions: JAMES TAYLOR's"Fool for You", DUSTER BENNETT's"Worri...
Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865 Publisher: Stackpole Books | ISBN: 0811710491 | edition 2000 | PDF | 384 pages | 2,38 mb In this first of a two-volume survey of the Union and Confederate cavalries, primary sources abound. Historian Edward G. Longacre has consulted 50 manuscript collections pertaining to general officers of cavalry as well as the unpublished letters and diaries of 200 officers and enlisted men, representing almost every mounted unit in the Army of the Potomac. Well known for interrogating"conventional wisdom,&qu...
Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Publisher: World Bank Publications | ISBN: 0821379003 | edition 2009 | PDF | 102 pages | 2,70 mb The past two decades in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been times of tremendous change, with countries undergoing rapid transformation from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies. While poverty increased during the initial years of transition, primarily on account of the sharp economic contraction, the resurgence of economic growth in the region since 1998 has resulted in a rebound i...
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