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Free Download Shannon Brincat, "Dialectics in World Politics"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 113808526X | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.4 mb
This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their own research by showcasing its effectiveness for understanding and transforming world politics. Contributions demonstrate a number of innovative ways in which dialectical thinking can be of benefit to the study of world politics by covering three thematic concerns: (i) conceptual or meta-theoretical dimensions of dialectics; (ii) methodological features and general principles of dialectical approaches; and (iii) applications and/or case studies that deploy a dialectical approach to world politics. Canvassing a diverse range of dialectical approaches on key issues in world politics – from global security to postcolonial resistances, from the theoretical problems of reification and complexity, to the study of the global futures and the intercultural historical expressions of dialectics – Dialectics and World Politics offers key insights into the social forces and contradictions that are generative of transformation in world politics and yet routinely downplayed in orthodox approaches to international relations. Each chapter demonstrates how dialectics can be utilized more broadly in the discipline and deployed in a critical fashion as part of an emancipatory project.

Free Download Dancin’ with Dollies: A Memoir of World War II by Edwin Dwight Ledbetter, Beverly LaVigne Ledbetter
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1956271090 | 178 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
Edwin Dwight Ledbetter was born on March 9, 1924 in Conway, Arkansas, was a B-17 pilot in WWII shot down over France, POW, recipient of France’s Legion of Honor award, Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, graduate of Harvard Law School 1953, a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. This war memoir is published posthumously, seven years after his demise. These are his words, a war memoir he had been working on for many years. He became so involved and charmed by it that it grew like Topsy and he began to insert other people’s stories. As his loving wife, upon rereading his memoir, I have decided to omit other people’s war stories and stay with his alone, or those with whom he shared that experience.

Free Download John Hudson, "Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad"
English | ISBN: 0750960280 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
By December, 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy-inflicted deaths of the war, when German warships bombarded three northeast coastal towns; meanwhile, the recently invented airplane was being put to deadly use in raids over the southeast. In France that month, the Battle of the Marne gave a taste of the devastating power of modern warfare-a reality to which troops in the trenches on both sides tried to turn a blind eye in the famous Christmas truce. This book uses contemporary newspapers and magazines, diaries, and other records to present a comprehensive image of this extraordinary Christmas, both at home and abroad.

Free Download Richard Wadge, "Arrowstorm: The World Of The Archer In The Hundred Years War"
English | ISBN: 0752449516 | 2009 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book chronicles the overwhelming importance of the military archer in the late medieval period. The longbow played a central role in the English victory at the battles of Crecy and Agincourt. Completely undermining the supremacy of heavy cavalry, the longbow forced a wholesale reassessment of battlefield tactics. Richard Wadge explains what made England’s longbow archers so devastating, detailing the process by which their formidable armament was manufactured and the conditions that produced men capable of continually drawing a bow under a tension of 100 pounds. Uniquely, Wadge looks at the economics behind the supply of longbows to the English army and the social history of the military archer. Crucially, what were the advantages of joining the first professional standing army in England since the days of the Roman conquest? Was it the pay, the booty, or the glory? With its painstaking analysis of contemporary records, Arrowstorm paints a vivid portrait of the life of a professional soldier in the war which forged the English national consciousness.

Free Download Richard Knott, "The Trio: Three War Correspondents of World War Two"
English | ISBN: 0750955937 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The first book to focus on the men behind the headlines of the famous "Trio" of World War II reporting

Free Download The Man Who Disappeared (Oxford World’s Classics) By Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson
2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0199601127 | PDF | 1 MB
Entering New York harbor, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, "her arm with the sword stretched upward." This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka’s narrative about an innocent European astray in an ultra-modern America that is both a fantasy and an object of social satire. Full of incident and blackly humorous, Kafka’s first novel portrays American civilization with horrified fascination, in a biting satire which gives fresh meaning to the term "Kafkaesque." Ritchie Robertson’s sensitive and natural translation is both faithful to Kafka’s style and highly readable. Moreover, this is the only edition to provide a full introduction and explanatory notes. The introduction explains why Kafka set the novel in America, a country he had never visited, what his sources of information were, and how he distorts his fictional America for satirical purposes. The notes incorporate the most recent Kafka scholarship to illuminate difficult parts of the text. In addition, a Biographical Preface provides an account of Kafka’s life. The book also includes an up-to-date bibliography and a chronology.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Free Download Otto Korfes, "The German 66 Regiment First World War: The German Perspective"
English | ISBN: 0750962003 | 2016 | 320 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
German Infantry Regiment 66 fought in most of the great battles on the Western Front in the First World War: Le Cateau, First Marne, Arras 1915, the Somme, Chemin des Dames 1917, the German March 1918 offensive, Chemin des Dames 1918, Second Marne and the Siegfried Line. This is the official regimental history, written in 1930 by Major Dr Otto Korfes, an officer in the regiment for most of the war and a Reichsarchiv historian.The German 66th Regiment in the First World War presents a unique insight into the German Army during the Great War, showcasing a perspective all too often ignored. Translated by German Army expert Terence Zuber, it includes maps and pencil sketches by the famed German war artist Döbrich-Steglitz. Containing a viewpoint that will add balance to anyone’s knowledge of the events of 1914-1918, this volume is a must-read for military historians and enthusiasts alike.

Free Download The Botanic Garden: The world’s greatest botanical sanctuaries by Ambra Edwards
English | August 27, 2024 | ISBN: 0711282269 | 256 pages | MOBI | 55 Mb
This rich and beautiful guide from best-selling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world.

Free Download The Argentine Navy and the First World War, 1914-1928: Defence and Maritime Interests
by Agustín Daniel Desiderato
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031676513 | 246 Pages | True PDF | 3.37 MB

Free Download Probability Theory and Statistics with Real World Applications: Univariate and Multivariate Models Applications (De Gruyter Textbook) by Peter Zörnig
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 3111332209 | MOBI | 2.52 Mb
The idea of the book is to present a text that is useful for both students of quantitative sciences and practitioners who work with univariate or multivariate probabilistic models. Since the text should also be suitable for self-study, excessive formalism is avoided though mathematical rigor is retained. A deeper insight into the topics is provided by detailed examples and illustrations. The book covers the standard content of a course in probability and statistics. However, the second edition includes two new chapters about distribution theory and exploratory data analysis. The first-mentioned chapter certainly goes beyond the standard material. It is presented to reflect the growing practical importance of developing new distributions. The second new chapter studies intensively one- and bidimensional concepts like assymetry, kurtosis, correlation and determination coefficients. In particular, examples are intended to enable the reader to take a critical look at the appropriateness of the geometrically motivated concepts.