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D. Duxbury, R. Ewing, R. Macpherson
Aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Heinemann | 1987 | ISBN: 0868634123 | 66 pages | PDF | 58 Mb
This book is expanded and updated version of New Zealand Military Aircraft 1913-1977, which was written by the authors and published in 1977.
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High Speed Tractor: A Visual History of the U.S. Army’s Tracked Artillery Prime Movers
Ampersand Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 0977378101 | English | 114 Pages | PDF | 41,9 MB
More than 100 pages with 120 plus photos of the U.S Army’s high speed artillery tractors. Features photographic coverage of the M2 Cletrac, M4, M5, M6 and M8. Factory photos, wartime photos, tech manual illustrations and contemporary restorations. Contains many photographs published for the first time since the Second World War.
James L. Peacock, “The American South in a Global World”
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | PDF | 2005 | ISBN 0807855898 | 336 pages | 11.1 Mb
Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity, and organizing for social justice; and the assimilation of foreign-born professionals. From portraits of the political and economic positions of Latinos in Miami and Houston to the effects of mountaintop removal on West Virginia communities, these snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being reshaped by globalization in the twenty-first century.
Michael Angold, “The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204: A Political History (2nd Edition)”
Publisher: Longman | PDF | 1997 | ISBN 0582294681 | 374 pages | 17 Mb
A fully updated second edition of this acclaimed political history of the Byzantine Empire which weaves social, economic, cultural trends and foreign politics into its broad narrative. Michael Angold has enriched his original study with the findings of a decade of new scholarship, provides a fuller treatment of Byzantium from Western perspectives and has included a new discussion of the primary sources for the period.
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Sijbren Cnossen, “Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century (CESifo Seminar Series)”
Publisher: The MIT Press | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0262033046 | 565 pages | 12.3 Mb
The sixteen essays in this book were written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Richard Musgrave and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CES, the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Musgrave is considered to be a founding father of modern public economics. He belongs to the intellectual tradition that views government as an instrument that can be used to correct market failure and to establish the society that people want. Although his work fits within the individualistic framework of modern economics, he also draws on principles of moral philosophy. The essays take stock of and extend the theory and practice of public finance and public policy. They address the evolving role of government and the welfare state, the interaction between taxation and markets, the future of pension and health care systems, and international tax issues and fiscal federalism.
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Ahmed Galal, “Arab Economic Integration: Between Hope and Reality”
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0815730314 | 170 pages | 11.4 Mb
Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Meeting these challenges requires finding ways to overcome political obstacles that impede socially beneficial economic reforms. Despite fifty years of repeated attempts at Arab economic integration, the results in terms of intraregional trade and investment flows have been very modest. This book explains why and discusses possible ways forward. The authors draw especially on the success of the European Union to assess the scope of Arab economic integration as an instrument for narrowing the persistent gap between the region’s economic potential and its performance.
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Reinhard Schulze, “A Modern History of the Islamic World”
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd | PDF | 2002 | ISBN 1860648223 | 400 pages | 11 Mb
The Islamic world—defined as those regions in which Islam is the dominant or single most important religion—covers territories as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia, and Bosnia and includes an extraordinary range of societies and cultures. In A Modern History of the Islamic World, eminent scholar Reinhard Schulze charts the history of these societies in the twentieth century, revealing what they have in common as well as their equally profound differences. Rather than stringing together individual studies of different countries, the book is structured chronologically, tracing political change in the context of culture and society. Schulze opens with a survey of the impact of colonialism and its attendant modernizing effects on the Islamic world. He then moves on to examine the rise of bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, the era of independence movements, the relationship between Islamic cultures and the “republican” political culture of the Third World, the reassertion of Islamic ideologies in the 1970s and 1980s and, finally, the issues surrounding the relationship between Islamic culture and civil society that dominated debate in the 1990s.
Alberto Alesina, Enrico Spolaore, “The Size of Nations”
Publisher: The MIT Press | PDF | 2003 | ISBN 0262012049 | 271 pages | 10.5 Mb
The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as “exogenous,” or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country’s borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other man-made institution. In The Size of Nations, they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way.
Matt Cole, “Democracy in Britain (Politics Study Guide)”
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press | PDF | 2006 | ISBN 0748623124 | 160 pages | 10.5 Mb
This textbook brings together an introduction to the political theory of democracy since Ancient times and a critical picture of its place in Britain today. The author examines the work of Plato and Aristotle, Rousseau and Mill, Marx and Weber, and locates them and others in the debate about what democracy means. He then scrutinises Britain’s claim to be a developing democracy, from the power of the Prime Minister and the role of political parties to the influence of pressure groups and the media, as well as recent constitutional changes. In the context of declining public trust in political institutions and increasing reluctance to vote, crucial questions are tackled: do we have a democracy, and why does it matter?
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Janice E. Thomson, “Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe”
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pres | PDF | 1994 | ISBN 0691086583 | 236 pages | 10.4 Mb
The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries. Tracing the activities of mercenaries, pirates, mercantile companies, and sovereigns from the Mediterranean to the Northwest Territories, the author addresses compelling questions: Why do we have centralized bureaucracies– states–which claim a monopoly on violence? Why is this monopoly based on territorial boundaries? Why is coercion not an international market commodity? Thomson maintains that the contemporary monopolization of violence by sovereign states results from the collective practices of rulers, all seeking power and wealth for their states and themselves, and all competing to exploit extraterritorial nonstate violence to achieve those ends. She examines the unintended consequences of such acts, and shows how individual states eventually fell victim to nonstate violence.
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