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Free Download Martyn Chorlton – British Aircraft Carriers of WW2 (Ships Illustrated)
Ships Monthly | I2014 | ISBN: 1909786276 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 101.31 MB
Each issue focuses on a theme or significant historic ship, their stories complemented with archive photography and artwork. A real collectors item and great read for anyone with an interest in the development of naval, passenger and transportation shipping.

Free Download An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMY861KW | 2023 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Christian R. Burset
Narrator: Perry Daniels
For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years’ War as the world’s most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some colonies remained under English law, while others retained much of their previous legal regimes. As legal historian Christian R. Burset argues, determining how much English law a colony received depended on what kind of colony Britain wanted to create.

Free Download Christos P. Ioannides, "Cyprus under British Colonial Rule: Culture, Politics, and the Movement toward Union with Greece, 1878-1954"
English | ISBN: 1498582028 | 2019 | 340 pages | EPUB | 531 KB
This is a unique book that combines a political narrative with poetry to examine the role of culture and the fusion of religion and politics during the struggle against colonialism. The context is Britain’s geopolitical interests in the Middle East. The author utilizes a vital cultural source echoing the authentic voice of the people, Cypriot folk poems, which has remained virtually unknown to the English reader until now. Translated into English, they are interwoven into the book’s narrative to reflect the yearning for social justice and the political sentiments of the vast majority of the population, the peasants, in a rural society. Lawrence Durrell’s literary masterpiece, Bitter Lemons, his politico-cultural chronicle on British-ruled Cyprus, is also discussed critically. The Greek Orthodox Church led the anti-colonial movement revolving around union with Greece. Through his intimate knowledge of Greek Orthodox practices, the author elucidates how religious customs and rituals were intertwined with the nationalist ideology to lead to political mobilization. In the process, culture, with its religious underpinnings, shaped politics. This dynamic has been the case from the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa, to Eurasia and South East Asia. Prime examples are the Iranian revolution and the more recent Arab Spring, both of which caught the West by surprise. In Cyprus, the British, with their sense of superiority, remained alien to the local culture and discounted popular sentiment. The two rebellions that ensued caught Britain totally by surprise. This is a valuable case study on the convergence of religion and politics. Academics, students and non-specialists will find a captivating narrative on Britain’s colonial encounter in an idyllic but strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Free Download Dave Cohen, "Build A Script: Writing Comedy For The British Market"
English | ASIN : B0CH3S1CD3 | 2023 | pages | EPUB | 1263 KB
"There are few more experienced comedy writers than Dave. Take heed of his wise words." Jim Howick (Ghosts, Horrible Histories)

Free Download Joint Formulary Committee, "British National Formulary Ed 85"
English | ISBN: 0857114581 | 2023 | 1904 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The British National Formulary (BNF) is the first choice for concise medicines information. Trusted by health professionals across the world to support confident decision-making at the point of care. The new edition (BNF 85) provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines, plus legal and professional guidelines. Extensive content updates in the BNF 85 edition include: New monographs for: * Aklief® (trifarotene) for acne vulgaris * Drovelis® (drospirenone with estetrol) for hormonal contraception * Ducressa® (dexamethasone with levofloxacin) for prophylaxis or treatment of postoperative inflammation, or prevention of infection, following cataract surgery * Kerendia® (finerenone) for chronic kidney disease associated with type 2 diabetes * Magnesium citrate for treatment and prevention of magnesium deficiency * Netildex® (dexamethasone with netilmicin) for local treatment of eye inflammation and bacterial infection * Nettacin® (netilmicin) for local treatment of eye infection * Sibnayal® (potassium citrate with potassium bicarbonate) for distal renal tubular acidosis * Tenkasi® (oritavancin) for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections * Vydura® (rimegepant) for treatment or prophylaxis of migraine * Xerava® (eravacycline) for complicated intra-abdominal infections MHRA advice on: * Anagrelide: risk of thrombosis, including cerebral infarction, if treatment discontinued abruptly * Denosumab (Prolia®): should not be used in patients under 18 years due to the risk of serious hypercalcaemia * Dexmedetomidine: clinical trial finds increased risk of mortality in intensive care unit patients aged 65 years or younger * Metformin hydrochloride: reduced vitamin B12 levels and new advice for monitoring patients at risk * Methylphenidate hydrochloride long-acting (modified-release) preparations: caution if switching between products due to differences in formulations * Nebulised asthma rescue therapy in children: home use of nebulisers in paediatric asthma should be initiated and managed only by specialists * Rucaparib (Rubraca®): withdrawal of third-line treatment indication * Topiramate (Topamax®): start of safety review triggered by a study reporting an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities in children with prenatal exposure Other significant changes include updated guidance on: * Antibacterials for the prevention of secondary cases of diphtheria, and addition of guidance for the prevention of intra-uterine infection in preterm prelabour rupture of membranes * Contraceptive interactions * Prescribing of drugs associated with dependence and withdrawal * COVID-19 vaccines * Management of depression * Diphtheria vaccine * Management of epilepsy * Management of gout * Post-exposure prophylaxis of herpesvirus infections * Hydrocortisone: addition of children’s dosing for adrenal crisis * Management of hypertension in patients with type 1 diabetes * Management of multiple sclerosis * Obstetrics: preterm labour * Tacrolimus: updated pregnancy, breast-feeding and monitoring advice * Type 1 diabetes: inclusion of continuous glucose monitoring in aims of treatment * Type 2 diabetes: use of non-insulin antidiabetic drugs * Valaciclovir: update to indication and doses in line with UK Health Security Agency recommendations on post-exposure prophylaxis for chickenpox and shingles Order your copy and get: * Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines * Authoritative, independent guidance on best practice enabling you to select safe and effective medicines * Information you can trust for quality and reliability * Everything you need at your fingertips, all in one book

Free Download British Foreign Policy in former Yugoslavia 1989-1999: Brotherhood and Unity Lost by John P McCumiskey
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 377 Pages | ISBN : 3031452097 | 20.2 MB
British Foreign Policy in former Yugoslavia 1989-1999: Brotherhood and Unity Lost, gives a broad analysis of Britain’s foreign policy during the wars of Yugoslav secessions from 1992 to 1999. Normative approaches to Britain’s foreign policy during this period ‘have tended to place it’ in to two halves. The notion, there was a new morality in Britain’s foreign policy appeared after New Labour’s election landslide on 1 May 1997. Robin Cook declared shortly after the victory there would be an ‘ethical dimension’ to Labour’s foreign policy, and this appeared to chart new territory. As a result, this would be a departure from what former US Assistant Secretary of State, James Rubin, believed was the hyper-realism of the traditional British kind under British Prime Minister, John Major. The book includes interviews with key actors, provides new archive material and re-examines claims by the ‘New Orthodoxy’ which became prevalent after 1999.

Free Download Michael Brown, "Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323"
English | ISBN: 0748633324 | 2008 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The battle of Bannockburn, fought on the fields south of Stirling at midsummer 1314, is the best known event in the history of Medieval Scotland. It was a unique event. The clash of two armies, each led by a king, followed a clear challenge to a battle to determine the status of Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the fourteenth century, the battle has been extensively discussed, but Bannockburn was also a pivotal event in the history of the British Isles. This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in both its context and legacy the battle had a central significance in the shaping of nations and identities in the late Medieval British Isles.

Free Download Emily Horton, "21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1350286567 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 624 KB + 7 MB
In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, including Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by contemporary writers to address the cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change.

Free Download Ken Wharton, "Wasted Years, Wasted Lives: The British Army in Northern Ireland: Volume 1 – 1975-77"
English | 2015 | pages: 430 | ISBN: 1910777412, 1909384550 | EPUB | 47,5 mb
Over the past several years, Ken Wharton, himself a former soldier, has been prolific in his coverage of the Troubles which spread their tentacles far from the streets and fields of Northern Ireland. Over 4,000 people died in or as a consequence of them and it cost the lives of over 1,300 British soldiers – a fact which is unacknowledged by the MOD – and the lives of over 300 policemen and women. This is Ken’s sixth book about the period and he draws on meticulous and detailed research, firsthand testimony of the soldiers who trod the same streets as himself, and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the near 30 year period of murder, violence and civil war. The firsthand accounts help us to understand and examine the fears of the young soldiers who patrolled the dangerous streets of the Ardoyne and New Lodge, of Andersonstown, Turf Lodge and Ballymurphy and of the Creggan in Londonderry and the Derrybeg in Newry. He looks at the Loyalist paramilitaries and treats their sectarianism and mindless murder with the same contempt with which he treats the Republicans. He does not mince words about the Irish-Americans and their political stooges in the US Government, judicial system and the ordinary ‘7th generation Irishmen of the American East Coast.’ This is a book not just for soldiers, but for anyone who wishes to look back and try and understand the madness inflicted upon several generations of innocent Irish and British people. In years to come, historians – both social and military – will reflect on this period of insanity with a greater knowledge than hitherto. If you wish to know how it felt to be an innocent sectarian victim, or an off-duty soldier or policeman or a young lad from Leeds, Liverpool or London hard targeting through the Lower Falls, then this book is a must read.

Free Download Craig Murray, "Murder in Samarkand: a British Ambassador’s controversial defiance of tyranny in the War on Terror"
English | 2006 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 1845961943 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
Craig Murray was the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of President Islam Karimov. In this candid and at times shocking memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror.