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Free Download Douglas W. Smith, "Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park"
English | ISBN: 022672834X | 2020 | 344 pages | AZW3 | 82 MB
In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world’s first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated after the park was established, then absent for seventy years, these iconic carnivores returned to Yellowstone in 1995 when the US government reversed its century-old policy of extermination and-despite some political and cultural opposition-began the reintroduction of forty-one wild wolves from Canada and northwest Montana. In the intervening decades, scientists have studied their myriad behaviors, from predation to mating to wolf pup play, building a one-of-a-kind field study that has both allowed us to witness how the arrival of top predators can change an entire ecosystem and provided a critical window into impacts on prey, pack composition, and much else.

Free Download Jane L. Chapman, "Writing Resistance in the Second World War: Secrecy and Participation in Newspapers "
English | ISBN: 3031607414 | 2024 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 575 KB + 3 MB
This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War. Uniquely, it is framed by an awareness of contemporary requirements for both secrecy and deception, which, it is argued, were nevertheless characterised by a rare participatory inclusivity in terms of writers and audiences – that has hitherto only been perceived as a characteristic of ‘citizen’s journalism’ in the internet age. Comparative cases of resistance using newspapers during the Second World War comprise original and clandestine sources from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Britain – analysed for the effect that intelligence and planned deception had on local publications as well as on readers of resistance broadsheets.

Free Download World-Beat & Funk Grooves: Playing a Drumset the Easy Way By Alan Dworsky, Betsy Sansby, Toni Pawlowsky
1999 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0963880136 | EPUB | 10 MB
Unlike any other how-to-play book available, this book’s method is based on a style of playing called "linear drumming," which means playing one note at a time. Instead of having to learn separate parts for hands and feet and then layering them on top of each other, the student only needs to learn a single pattern that moves note by note from limb to limb.

Free Download Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi – World War II Airplanes Volume 2 (Color Illustrated Guides)
Rand McNally | 1980 | ISBN: 052888171X | English | 324 pages | PDF | 135.52 MB
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Free Download Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi – World War II Airplanes Volume 1 (Color Illustrated Guides)
Rand McNally | 1984 | ISBN: 0528881701 | English | 324 pages | PDF | 128.11 MB
Full-color illustrations, technical summaries, line drawings, and historical and descriptive comments cover the aircraft of Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France and other nations.

Free Download Pieter Vanhove, "World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War "
English | ISBN: 103204456X | 2023 | 212 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective. Contributing to recent debates on world literature, the postcolonial, and translatability, the book presents a series of interdisciplinary and multilingual case studies spanning Europe, the United States, and China. The case studies illustrate how individual anti-imperialist writers and artists set out to remake the conception of the world in their own image by offering a different perspective centered on questions of race, gender, sexuality, global inequality, and class. The book also discusses how international cultural organizations like the Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau, UNESCO, and PEN International attempted to shape this debate across Cold War divides.

Free Download Christopher Chant – World Encyclopaedia of Modern Air Weapons
Patrick Stephens Ltd | 1988 | ISBN: 1852600284 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 218.86 MB
This book, and much of the information it contains, are now out of date. Many of the weapons described within (particularly older AAMs) have now been retired, some of them have had their true performance statistics severely refined in the wake of the fall of the Iron Curtain (many scribbles will be needed in the margins), and there are a lot of gaps which National Security concerns probably never allowed to be filled and maybe never will. Not just that, but many current weapons were mere gleams in the eyes of their inventors when it came out.

Free Download United Nations, "World Economic and Social Survey 2008: Overcoming Economic Insecurity"
English | 2008 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 9211091578 | PDF | 16,0 mb
Offers a different approach with a strong ‘social contract’ and more integrated and pragmatic economic and social policy. This survey shows that economic insecurity arises from the exposure of individuals, communities and countries to adverse events, and from their inability to cope with and recover from the downside losses.

Free Download Norman Polmar – World Combat Aircraft Directory
Doubleday & Company | 1976 | ISBN: 0385121466 | English | 392 pages | PDF | 139.35 MB
A 1970’s ready reference to contemporary air forces’ order of battle together with the characteristics of combat aircraft then in service throughout the world, with comparisons of their strengths in hypothetical conflicts.

Free Download World Accumulation 1492-1789 By Andre Gunder Frank
2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0875862047 | PDF | 4 MB
This book studies the effects of cyclical fluctuations in the process of capital accumulation – the sixteenth-century expansion, the seventeenth-century depression, the cyclical swings between the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, the Depression and the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions between 1762 and 1789. Frank connects the downswings or crises in accumulation to the changing leadership positions as they shifted from Italy to Spain and Portugal and then to Holland and Britain. He devotes particular attention to the successive incorporation into the single world system of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, whose economies and societies were transformed to contribute to the accumulation of capital in Western Europe and later in North America through exploitation, dependence, and unequal exchange.