Tag: Country

Free Download Cardinal Wolsey: For King and Country by Phil Roberts
English | October 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1399089021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 6.07 Mb
The Wolseys of Suffolk date to Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest notice of a Wolsey as inhabitant of Ipswich is Thomas Wolsey’s father, Robert. He was a successful small businessman and married a Joan Daundy. Thomas was probably born in 1471 in an inn and was almost certainly baptized in St Mary at the Elms church, Ipswich.

Free Download Steven L. Taylor, "A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective"
English | ISBN: 0300198086 | 2014 | 392 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
American democracy differs greatly from other democracies around the world. But is the American way more or less efficacious than comparable democracies in Asia, Latin America, or Europe? What if the United States had a prime minister instead of (or in addition to) a president, or if it had three or more parties in Congress instead of two? Would there be more partisan animosity and legislative gridlock or less? These are the kinds of questions that thinking about U.S. government in comparative perspective helps us to analyze.

Free Download Dimitar Bechev, "Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West"
English | ISBN: 0300247885 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An incisive account of Erdoğan’s Turkey-showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived

Free Download The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980 to 1984 By Ian Glasper
2007 | 375 Pages | ISBN: 1901447707 | EPUB | 7 MB
If the bands in Burning Britain were loud, political, and uncompromising, those examined in Ian Glasper’s new book were even more so. With Crass and Poison Girls opening the floodgates, the arrival of bands like Zoundz, Flux of Pink Indians, Conflict, Subhumans, Dirt, The Mob, Omega Tribe, and Icons of Filth heralded a new age of honesty and integrity in the 1980s underground music scene. It was a time when punk stopped being merely a radical fashion statement, and became a force for real social change. Anarchy in punk rock no longer meant "cash from chaos"-it meant "freedom, peace, and unity." Comprehensively covering all the groups and names, big and small, The Day the Country Died also features exclusive interviews and hundreds of never-before-published photos.

Free Download One Country, Two International Legal Personalities: The Case of Hong Kong By Roda Mushkat
1997 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 9622094279 | PDF | 2 MB
This book is to examine the key relevant issues within a single framework, highlighting the interconnections in as broad as possible a context.

Free Download Claudia J. Taller, "Ohio’s Canal Country Wineries"
English | 2015 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1467114448 | PDF | 149,5 mb
In the early 18th century, pioneers cleared land in Ohio’s Western Reserve and found it suitable for farming, but until the Ohio-Erie Canal opened, it was difficult for them to share the fruit of their labor. Ohio’s Canal Country Wineries captures the spirit of those who lived off the land from Cleveland to New Philadelphia along the Cuyahoga River and down to the Muskingum River-the path that the Ohio-Erie Canal took when it was built in 1832. As canal country began opening up, wineries along the Ohio River and the shores and islands of Lake Erie produced so much wine that Ohio became known as "Vinland." Now, the rich and fertile farmland along the canal has also been cultivated with vineyards, and the region is home to close to 50 wineries.

Free Download Tim Tate, "For Team and Country: Sport on the Frontlines of the Great War"
English | 2014 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1782199209 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
Imagine Wayne Rooney, Andy Murray, and Mo Farah exchanging the glamour of their careers for the brutality of war-and quietly giving their lives for their country. Today the news would be dominated by the sacrifice of Britain’s most famous sporting icons. A century ago the brightest sporting stars of their generation did just that: hundreds of thousands of sports stars rallied to their country’s colors: many never returned from the mechanised carnage of World War I. The names of Walter Tull, Edgar Mobbs, and Percy Jeeves are unfamiliar today-lost in the terrible lists of the dead of World War I. But they belong among the pantheon of true British sporting heroes. All were-quite literally-at the top of their game; all made the ultimate sacrifice in "the greatest game of all"-war. For Team and Country reveals how sport itself was Britain’s first and most vital recruiting sergeant in the fight against Germany, and tells the remarkable and inspiring stories of the sportsmen whose prowess on the field was matched only by their bravery in the King’s uniform.

Free Download Alexander Kent, "For My Country’s Freedom"
English | 2000 | pages: 307 | ISBN: 0935526846 | PDF | 1,2 mb
War with Britain’s former colony looms on the horizon, and Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho must lead a squadron against the powerful new ships of the United States navy. Supported by his loyal crew, Bolitho must use all his ingenuity to defeat one of America’s great naval commanders, Nathan Beer.

Free Download Dave Parsons, Derek Nelson – Fighter Country: The F-14 Tomcats of NAS Oceana
Motorbooks International | 1992 | ISBN: 0879384425 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 131.1 MB
Fighter Country is a grand tribute to NAS Oceana, Virginia, and its Tomcats. Within are more than 190 full-color photos of F-14s and other aircraft from all of Oceana’s fighter squadrons – on the base and on the boat in action around the world. It takes you through a year in the life of the Tomcat driver or radar intercept officer (RIO): study at the RAG, soaking up the lore of the fighter community in the officers’ club, air combat maneuverings, carrier qualifications, workups, deployment on a cruise, and into combat during Operation Desert Storm. Fighter Country is also the first-ever history of Oceana and of each of the fleet fighter squadrons currently stationed there: the VF-14 Tophatters, VF-32 Swordsmen, VF-33 Starfighters, VF-41 Black Aces, VF-74 De-Devilers, VF-84 Jolly Rogers, VF-102 Diamondbacks, VF-103 Sluggers, VF-142 Ghostriders, and VF-143 Pukin’ Dogs. Also included are the VF-101 Grim Reapers (the F-14 RAG), the VF-43 Challengers (Oceana’s resident bandits), and the VF-11 Red Rippers and VF-31 Tomcatters (squadrons that transferred to NAS Miramar in early 1992). The base and squadron histories are brought to life by dozens of color and black-and-white historical photos showing most of the great US Navy fighters of the past in the colorful and unique markings of these squadrons.

Free Download Elizabeth Morrison, "Engines of Influence: Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840- 1890 (Academic Monographs)"
English | 2005 | pages: 380 | ISBN: 052285155X | PDF | 3,2 mb
Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria’s country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison’s Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns.