Kenneth J. Arrow, M.D. Intriligator, “Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 3″
North Holland | 1986 | ISBN: 0444861289 | 486 pages | PDF | 20,7 MB

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Kenneth J. Arrow, M.D. Intriligator, “Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 2″
North Holland | 1987 | ISBN: 0444861270 | 712 pages | PDF | 32 MB

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Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity+Military Intelligence Blunders
Publisher: University of Georgia+Carroll & Graf Publishers | ISBN: 0820327654+0786707151 | edition 2005+2000 | PDF | 254+372 pages | 10,5 mb
Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study.
This book tells the stories behind some of the world’s most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders who won’t listen to what they are told. It is an analysis of the “intelligence cycle” that turns raw data into useful information about capabilities and intentions and then brings it to the attention of the decision-makers. Who uses many examples of all kinds of extraordinary decisions and deceptions from history to show how often and badly things can go wrong

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Jane C. Lambert, «Five in a Row: Volume 1»
Five in a Row | ISBN: 1888659009 | 1997-03 | PDF | 159 pages | 8.60 MB
“While Five In A Row cannot be described as a complete curriculum, it IS a fantastic resource. The lessons included for each story are great “jumping-off” points. I don’t typically do all of the suggested activities but use the activities as a place to start. Then we take off in whatever direction we choose, following the interests of my 5yr old.”

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Kenneth J. Arrow, M.D. Intriligator, “Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 1″
North Holland | 1987 | ISBN: 0444861262 | 398 pages | PDF | 15,5 MB

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Stephen Andors, “China’s industrial revolution: Politics, planning, and management, 1949 to the present (The Pantheon Asia library)”
Publisher: Pantheon Books | 1977 | ISBN 0394492501 | PDF | 182 pages | 18.4 MB
An excellent and detailed book on China’s economy under Mao.

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Arie Morgenstern, “Hastening Redemption: Messianism and the Resettlement of the Land of Israel”
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN 0195305787 | PDF | 299 pages | 10.3 MB
Accounts of the history of Zionism usually trace its origins to the late nineteenth century. In this groundbreaking book, Arie Morgenstern argues that its roots go back even further. Morgenstern argues compellingly that the Jewish community in Israel may be traced back to a large-scale wave of immigration during the first half of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an expectation for the coming of the Messiah in the year 1840, thousands of Jews from throughout the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and Eastern Europe relocated to Jerusalem. Morgenstern describes the messianic awakening in all these lands but focuses primarily on the concept of redemption through messianic activism that prevailed among the disciples of Rabbi Elijah, the Ga’on of Vilna. These immigrants believed that the Messiah’s arrival would bring about the redemption of the Jews, but also that, in order for this redemption to come about, they needed to prepare the way for the Messiah by fulfilling the commandment to dwell in the land of Israel. Morgenstern offers a dramatic account of their relocation, their efforts to renew rabbinic ordination, their reestablishment of the Ashkenazi community, and the building of Jerusalem. He also explores the crisis of faith that followed the Messiah’s failure to appear as expected, and its effects on the community. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, Morgenstern sheds important new light on the history of messianic Judaism and on the ideological trends that preceded, and eventually gave birth to, modern political Zionism.

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Procopius, “History of the Wars: Books 3-4 (Vandalic War) (Loeb Classical Library)”
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1916 | ISBN 0674990900 | PDF | 504 pages | 16.2 MB
Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer. In 527 CE he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the Ostrogoths. Sometime after 540 he returned to Constantinople. He may have been that Procopius who was prefect of Constantinople in 562, but the date of his death (after 558) is unknown.
Procopius’s History of the Wars in 8 books recounts the Persian Wars of emperors Justinus and Justinian down to 550 (2 books); the Vandalic War and after-events in Africa 532–546 (2 books); the Gothic War against the Ostrogoths in Sicily and Italy 536–552 (3 books); and a sketch of events to 554 (1 book). The whole consists largely of military history, with much information about peoples and places as well, and about special events. He was a diligent, careful, judicious narrator of facts and developments and shows good powers of description. He is just to the empire’s enemies and boldly criticises emperor Justinian. Other works by Procopius are the Anecdota or Secret History—vehement attacks on Justinian, Theodora, and others; and The Buildings of Justinian (down to 558 CE) including roads and bridges as well as churches, forts, hospitals, and so on in various parts of the empire.

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Michael Angold, “Byzantine Aristocracy (BAR international series)”
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports | 1985 | ISBN 0860542831 | PDF | 266 pages | 15.5 MB
The notion of aristocracy has been a godsend to modern historians : it is so admirably imprecise. It literally means the rule of the beat, but it leaves in doubt who are the best-fitted to rule; the assumption being that those who have power are best-fitted to exercise it. Aristocracy has therefore come to mean little more than a ruling class, but, because power so often descends within a family fro one generation to the next, the word is usually given hereditary overtones. Aristocracy and nobility are therefore often taken to be no more than different sides of the same coin. The formwer deals in the exercise of power, the latter in the qualities and the qualifications needed. A shift in the meaning of nobility will alter the character of aristocracy and vice versa.

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David Marsh, «Guardian Style»
Guardian Newspapers Ltd | ISBN: 0852650868 | 2007-11-06 | PDF | 362 pages | 3,85 MB
“Guardian Style will help you distinguish between so-called rules of grammar that are an aid to good writing and those that you can cheerfully ignore. It’s also a mine of information from the essential to the arcane, from the useful to the things you never realised you needed to know.”

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