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Free Download Dwight R. Messimer – Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I
Naval Institute Press | 2001 | ISBN: 1557504474 | English | 360 pages | PDF | 161.12 MB
World War I was the crucible of antisubmarine warfare (ASW), and the years of trial and error between 1914 and 1918 gave rise to the weapons and tactics used by today’s ASW forces. With this study, military historian Dwight Messimer examines the weapons, tactics, and organization used by all the belligerents during the war and provides some surprising findings. Because he draws heavily from personal accounts as well as from official records, his book will appeal to both serious readers seeking hard facts and to general readers who like stories about war at sea.

Free Download Dwight R. Messimer – Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I
Naval Institute Press | 2001 | ISBN: 1557504474 | English | 360 pages | PDF | 161.12 MB
World War I was the crucible of antisubmarine warfare (ASW), and the years of trial and error between 1914 and 1918 gave rise to the weapons and tactics used by today’s ASW forces. With this study, military historian Dwight Messimer examines the weapons, tactics, and organization used by all the belligerents during the war and provides some surprising findings. Because he draws heavily from personal accounts as well as from official records, his book will appeal to both serious readers seeking hard facts and to general readers who like stories about war at sea.

Free Download Philip Trewhitt, Chris McNab – Fighting Vehicles of the World: Over 600 Tanks and AFVs
Amber Books | 2004 | ISBN: 1904687032 | English | 616 pages | PDF | 305.52 MB
Features over 600 tanks and armored fighting vehicles, each illustrated with full-color artwork. Contains detailed specifications for each vehicle, with all measurements given in imperial and metric.

Free Download Michael Sharpe, Chris Chant – Fighting Aircraft of the World: Over 600 Fighters, Bombers & Transporters
Amber Books | 2004 | ISBN: 1904687024 | English | 616 pages | PDF | 218.25 MB
Features over 600 aircraft, each illustrated with full-color artwork – Contains detailed specifications for each aircraft, with all measurements given in imperial and metric.

Free Download Robbie Shaw – F-4 Phantom: Guardian of the Free World
Motorbooks International | 1989 | ISBN: 0879383917 | English | 152 pages | PDF | 127.23 MB
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Free Download Nancy Simmons, "Exploring the World of Mammals"
English | 2008 | pages: 415 | ISBN: 0791096513 | PDF | 48,7 mb
Articles describe specific groups of mammals-such as bears, cats and dogs-and families of carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores, and cover their life cycles and their hunting, feeding, and breeding habits.

Free Download Europe’s Last Summer: Why the World Went to War in 1914 By David Fromkin
2005 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0099430843 | EPUB | 5 MB
The Great War not only destroyed the lives of over twenty million soldiers and civilians, it also ushered in a century of huge political and social upheaval, led directly to the Second World War and altered for ever the mechanisms of governments. And yet its causes, both long term and immediate, have continued to be shrouded in mystery. In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin reveals a new pattern in the happenings of that fateful July and August, which leads in unexpected directions. Rather than one war, starting with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, he sees two conflicts, related but not inseparably linked, whose management drew Europe and the world into what The Economist described as early as 1914 as ‘perhaps the greatest tragedy in human history’.

Free Download Vander Tavares, "Empowering Language Learners in a Changing World through Pedagogies of Multiliteracies"
English | ISBN: 3031518888 | 2024 | 293 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book presents conceptual and empirical studies on how pedagogies of multiliteracies can empower language learners, teachers, and teacher educators in an increasingly globalized yet unequal world, with a focus on social justice in language education. The chapters offer critical and innovative pedagogical insights that contribute to re-envisioning language and literacy education in the 21st century in a number of educational contexts, including post-secondary, community, refugee, science, language, and teacher education. From a raciolinguistic critique of monoglossic education in the United States to drama-based pedagogies for refugee learners in Iceland, this book contextualizes language learner empowerment by identifying and confronting ideologies of race, gender, nationality, and language. Creative multimodal and multisensorial pedagogies are enacted through learner-designed plurilingual portfolios, infographics, picturebooks, identity texts, performance, andmuseum-based learning. This book diversifies and enriches current approaches to language education based on pedagogies of multiliteracies that cultivate learner agency, identity, and critical reflection, and it will be of interest to readers with backgrounds in second/foreign language education, TESOL/ESL, sociology of education, and applied linguistics.

Free Download Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes By Paul Bairoch
1995 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0226034631 | PDF | 5 MB
Paul Bairoch sets the record straight on twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these are that free trade and population growth have historically led to periods of economic growth; that a move away from free trade caused the Great Depression; and that colonial powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became rich through the exploitation of the Third World. Bairoch argues that these beliefs are based on insufficient knowledge and misguided interpretations of the economic history of the United States, Europe, and the Third World."A challenging and readable introduction to some major controversial themes in modern international economic history."-Peter J. Cain, International History Review"Paul Bairoch sheds fascinating light on many of the accepted truths of modern economic history: an intriguing account, well executed."-Alfred L. Malabre, Jr., Economics Editor, Wall Street Journal

Free Download Mark R. Royce, "Ecclesiology, Idealism, and World Polity: The Concordats of the Apostolic See "
English | ISBN: 3031570324 | 2024 | 301 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides the only comprehensive analysis of concordats, the international treaties of the Apostolic See in Rome. Identifying the 167 treaties between the papacy and civil commonwealths from 1865 to 2022 at the intersection of canon, comparative, and international law, Royce indicates an overall relationship between the dominance or inferiority of Roman Catholic canon law within the contracting party and the respective ecclesiological or ideational norms of its concordat. Successive case chapters analyzing the concordats with fascist Europe, the German Länder, Latin American countries, France and Austria, the states of the Second Vatican Council, and Third World states illustrate that the norms of concordats with polities of long-standing, entrenched, continuous, or otherwise dominant Roman Catholic canon law concern the Church as an institution, whereas those with polities of new, precarious, inconstant, or otherwise inferior canon law status concern the Church as anadherent to values. This contractual law of the Apostolic See most closely aligns with the tenets of the English School of international theory. As a result, this book posits significant theoretical, legal, and empirical advances in existing knowledge of the international relations and law of the Catholic Church.