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Free Download David Wragg – The World Sea Power Guide
Pen & Sword | 2012 | ISBN: 184884879X | English | 288 pages | PDF | 101.5 MB
Compiled by the author of Jane’s Air Forces of the World, this book is a must for naval experts and enthusiasts. In one volume the reader will find the composition and details of all naval elements of a staggering 137 nations’ armed forces including paramilitary organizations as the US Coast Guard Service. The book starts with an introduction based on the situation today and the response of the leading maritime powers. This is an interesting period with considerable uncertainty for the Royal Navy following the Strategic Defense Review. Many other countries, including Australia and Spain are boosting their naval strength to achieve strategic reach, while piracy has become a major problem in at least four different areas of the world. In each case, the history is followed by details of current fleet sizes, composition and deployments.

Free Download William Green – The World Guide to Combat Planes Volume 2
Macdonald & Co. | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | 222 pages | PDF | 127.19 MB
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Free Download Yxta Maya Murray, "The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could: Stories (Volume 1) "
English | ISBN: 1948908697 | 2020 | 274 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
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Free Download Reverend Becca Stevens, "The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World’s Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History"
English | 2015 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1455519049 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
What started as an impossible dream-to build a café that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars.

Free Download Máiréad Nic Craith, "The Vanishing World of The Islandman: Narrative and Nostalgia"
English | 2019 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 3030257746 | PDF | 2,4 mb
Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O’Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages-considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms-Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

Free Download The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2011 By Bob Sehlinger, Len Testa
2010 | 864 Pages | ISBN: 047061529X | PDF | 11 MB
Unofficial Guides field tested touring plans can save as much as four hours of standing in line in a single day. In 2008, combined Walt Disney World Resort theme park attendance reached over 51 million, with the Magic Kingdom alone drawing over 17 million visitors. (Orlando Convention and Visitor Bureau) Despite signifcant downturns in the economy Disney theme parks have maintained attendance rates and made gains in attendance at some parks. Walt Disney World Resort theme parks are rated best in the world. earning high marks for things outside of the traditional theme park experience. Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival, which takes place for six weeks every fall and showcases food from twenty-five countries, was rated by Forbes Traveler as one of the Best U.S. Food and Wine Festivals.

Free Download Gerald Ashley, Terry Lloyd, "The Tangled World: Understanding human connections, networks and complexity"
English | 2011 | pages: 48 | ASIN: B0060KQUJE | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Every form of life in the world is connected: individuals, groups, businesses, governments. There is no such thing as total isolation. Many of these connections are plain to see, and it is a commonplace to say we live in a global village. Crucially, though, the various links and relationships have been difficult for classical analysis to understand and predict.As networks and connectivity are central to the human experience, there has been a long history of trying to understand these linkages and to predict their influences and impacts; but the traditional approaches have yielded unsatisfactory explanations.Many attempts at analysis have centred round ideas of describing the world in terms of free independent agents. But it is agents’ ‘linkages’, both strong and weak, that underpin much of human activity. Whether it is stock market moves, sudden adoption of new technologies, or the unexpected consequences of long chains of events, the inter-connectivity of life appears to defy simple explanation.In this revealing work the authors draw on multiple sources to uncover the answers to the big questions about group behaviour, connections and the complex relationships that drive our world. In particular:- What happens when agents interact?- Is it possible to make sense of all these connections? – Why are some connections more important than others?- In a world of hugely complex and intricate links, what are ‘super spreaders’, and why are they critical?- Can we measure and model ’emergence’? – What are the new approaches and thinking we need to embrace and understand the world around us?

Free Download Bob Carruthers – The Spitfire (World War II from Original Sources)
Pen & Sword | 2013 | ISBN: 1781591148 | English | 148 pages | PDF | 57.32 MB
This unique contemporary account produced from contemporary reports and debriefs provides a primary source insight into reality of being a fighter pilot in World War II. Fascinating reading for military enthusiasts and anyone interested in the true story of World War II.

Free Download The Second World War In The East By H.P. Willmott
1999 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0304352470 | PDF | 85 MB
The Second World War in the East

Free Download The Second World War: A Military History By Gordon Corrigan
2010 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 1843548941 | EPUB | 5 MB
This is a landmark reassessment of the Second World War, of its origins and prosecution. It looks set to become the definitive single-volume military history. In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and North Africa; the other against Japan in the Far East and Pacific. Each conflict had distinct causes and had to be fought in different ways against very different enemies, who rarely, if ever, coordinated their efforts. This is a new and cogent account of an immense, exhausting six-year conflict that continues to fascinate. Corrigan examines the agendas of the warring nations and offers fresh and vivid interpretations; Britain’s own part in the war comes in for particularly close scrutiny: militarily, the British suffered an agonising series of defeats before the tide turned. The country emerged economically broken, with the loss of her empire a virtual certainty. "The Second World War" is vast in its erudition and epic in its execution. It will change forever the way we think about the titanic conflicts that dominated the years 1939 to 1945. It is suitable for fans of Gordon Corrigan’s "Mud, Blood and Poppycock" and "Blood, Sweat and Arrogance", and Andrew Roberts’ "The Storm of War", as well as Anthony Beevor, Max Hastings, and Richard Holmes.