Tag: Danger

Bolshevism An International Danger


Free Download Paul Miliukov, "Bolshevism: An International Danger"
English | 2010 | pages: 149 | ISBN: 0415589398 | PDF | 1,4 mb
First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov’s book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917. This reissue is a must for anyone interested in the rise of Bolshevism as an international force.

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Mountain World in Danger Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe (Sustainable Development Set)


Free Download Sten Nilsson, David Pitt, "Mountain World in Danger: Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe"
English | 2013 | pages: 324 | ISBN: 0415849632 | PDF | 1,6 mb
The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests are damaged and the whole fragile ecosystem of ranges like the Alps and the Caucasus is threatened. Nilsson and Pitt present the evidence and assess the probable effects of these changes on mountain society, tourism, water, flora and fauna. They also examine the uncertainties. Above all they look, too, at the best possible strategies in response to What is happening and at what the next steps should be.

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Flirting with Danger The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy [Audiobook]


Free Download Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNR2ZJND | 2023 | 9 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Janet Wallach
Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars. Born a privileged child of America’s Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother’s ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed at thirty-seven, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. She arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right.

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