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Free Download The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East by Steven A. Cook
English | June 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0197578578 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 1.2 MB
A clear-headed vision for the United States’ role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of US national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Free Download Brian Fagan, "The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels"
English | ISBN: 1608196925 | 2013 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The past fifteen thousand years-the entire span of human civilization-have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines.

Free Download Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion edited by Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey Stone
English | February 27, 2024 | ISBN: 019776035X, 0197760368 | True EPUB/PDF | 498 pages | 0.8/37 MB
With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end-once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation’s leading constitutional scholars, historians, philosophers, and medical experts to share their views on whether there should be a constitutional right to abortion and what the consequences of Dobbs might be.

Free Download Shyam Kanhaiya, "Rivers of India: Past, Present and Future"
English | ISBN: 3031491629 | 2024 | 282 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This volume presents geological, geographical, environmental, and agriculture related studies on rivers, focusing on basins of the three geomorphic divisions of India, i.e. peninsular India, Indo-Gangetic plain and extra-peninsular India. The book compiles data on both the small and large river systems of India, the large rivers include Jhelum, Ghaghara, Narmada, Son, Krishna and Godavari; and the small scale, rain-fed and groundwater-fed rivers such as Gomti have been studied. The chapters comprehensively provide assessments of geomorphological aspects, river sediment supply, clean water availability for human population, ground water recharge, flood management and irrigation. The information presented in this book will appeal to students, teachers, researchers and planners engaged in river development, management and conservation.

Free Download Out of the World (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Corey A. Dansereau, Gill Zimmermann
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1503633292, 1503639002 | True EPUB | 246 pages | 1.5 MB
In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity’s tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the "world-alien" (Weltfremdheit) in man that was formerly institutionalized in religions, but is increasingly dealt with in modern times through practices of psychotherapy.

Free Download Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present by Dylan Riley
English | September 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 1839768401 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.34 MB
Short essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and culture

Free Download Francis P Hyland, "Armenian Terrorism: The Past, The Present, The Prospects"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 081338124X, 0367015854, 0367165724 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 0.5 mb
Arising seemingly out of nowhere, Armenian terrorist groups in the last two decades have carried out over 200 attacks in some two dozen countries around the world. Although this wave of terror at first appears to have sprung up without warning, a closer look at Armenian history, especially since World War I, shows that it is only the most recent in a series of outbreaks of ethnic violence. In this study, the author examines the social and political background of Armenian terrorism and its similarities to and differences from other terrorist movements, and he carefully dissects the organizational methods of these groups. An important feature of the work is an extensive and detailed chronology of Armenian terrorism from 1915 to the present. Each entry provides essential information concerning the date and time of the attack, location, victims, weapons used, terrorist groups and individual commandos responsible for the attack, and a list of sources for further reference. A resource for specialists studying terrorism and ethnic violence, Armenian Terrorism should also be useful to those interested in the tragic and difficult history of Armenia and Turkey.

Free Download Managing European Coasts: Past, Present and Future By Laure Ledoux, Jan E. Vermaat, Laurens M. Bouwer, Wim Salomons (auth.), Jan Vermaat, Wim Salomons, Laurens Bouwer, Kerry Turner (eds.)
2005 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 3540234543 | PDF | 4 MB
Coastal zones play a key role in Earth System functioning and form an "edge for society" providing a significant contribution to the life support systems. Goods and services derived from coastal systems depend strongly on multiple transboundary interactions with the land, atmosphere, open ocean and sea bottom. Increasing demands on coastal resources driven by human habitation, food security, recreation and transportation accelerate the exploitation of the coastal landscape and water bodies. Many coastal areas and human activities are subject to increasing risks from natural and man-induced hazards such as flooding resulting from major changes in hydrology of river systems that has reached a global scale. Changes in the hydrological cycle coupled with changes in land and water management alter fluxes of materials transmitted from river catchments to the coastal zone, which have a major effect on coastal ecosystems. The increasing complexity of underlying processes and forcing functions that drive changes on coastal systems are witnessed at a multiplicity of temporal and spatial scales.

Free Download Thomas Newdick – Carrier Aircraft: 1917-Present (The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide)
Amber Books | 2011 | ISBN: 1907446974 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 161.04 MB
Illustrated with detailed artworks of naval aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Carrier Aircraft 1917-Present: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide is an extensively researched review of the equipment and organization of the world’s carrier-based air arms and their deployment in conflicts since the end of World War I. Featuring front-line fighters, bombers and attack aircraft as well as anti-submarine aircraft and helicopters, support aircraft and electronic warfare platforms, this book details the models of aircraft in service with each unit along with their individual and squadron markings. Chapters are divided by nation, profiling the carrier aircraft of the US, the UK, France and Russia, as well as the smaller carrier-capable nations, including Canada and Australia. Tables include full lists of operating units for key aircraft (such as the F-14 Tomcat and Sea Harrier), and each chapter details combat operations (such as Korea, Vietnam, and the Falklands). Illustrated with more than 250 specially commissioned and up-to-date artworks, the book is an essential reference guide for modellers and any enthusiast with an interest in military aviation.

Free Download G. R. Berridge, "British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the Present: A Study in the Evolution of the Resident Embassy"
English | 2009 | pages: 385 | ISBN: 900417639X | PDF | 2,8 mb
This book describes the evolution of the component elements of the British Embassy in Turkey up to the First World War. It then explains why, without changing radically except in its communications, it remained indispensable to British diplomacy in Turkey afterwards.