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Название: Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, And Institutional Design
Автор: Paul D'Anieri
Издательство: M.E. Sharpe
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 313
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Ukraine made headlines around the world during the winter of 2004-05 as the colorful banners of the Orange Revolution unfurled against the snowy backdrop of Kyiv, signaling the bright promise of democratic rebirth. But is that what is really happening in Ukraine? In the early post-Soviet period, Ukraine appeared to be firmly on the path to democracy. The peaceful transfer of power from Leonid Kravchuk to Leonid Kuchma in the election of 1994, followed by the adoption of a western-style democratic constitution in 1996, seemed to complete the picture. But the Kuchma presidency was soon clouded by dark rumors of corruption and even political murder, and by 2004 the country was in full-blown political crisis. A three-stage presidential contest was ultimately won by Victor Yushchenko, who took office in 2005 and appointed Yulia Tymoshenko as premier; but the turmoil was far from over. The new government quickly faltered and splintered. This introduction to Ukrainian politics looks beyond these dramatic events and compelling personalities to identify the actual play of power in Ukraine and the operation of its political system. The author seeks to explain how it is that, after each new beginning, power politics has trumped democratic institution-building in Ukraine, as in so many other post-Soviet states. What is really at work here, and how can Ukraine break the cycle of hope and disillusionment?

Название: The Humanitarian Conscience: Caring for Others in the Age of Terror
Автор: W. R. Smyser
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 322
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

umanitarian action has become an omnipresent element in international affairs. It now shapes our world and will have an increasingly important impact on the way decisions are made in international crises. W. R. Smyser looks at the history of humanitarian activity and its growth since the horrors of World War II, tracing its early links to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the present day, when human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch are as influential as modern nation states in influencing the course of international events. This is a monumental portrait of the way in which individuals who are not officially part of any govern-ment work to alleviate human suffering and physical destruc-tion around the world. It is also a call to arms at a time when humanitarian efforts are frequently missing or simply misguided.

Автор: К.А. Иванов
Название: Средневековый монастырь и его обитатели
Издательство: Петроград : Типо-литогр. М. П. Фроловой
Год: 1915
Формат: DjVu
Страниц: 218
Размер: 4,43 Мb
Язык: русский

Цель настоящей книги показать положительные стороны монашества, как исторического учреждения, заслуги его в области человеческой культуры. В виду преобладающего культурного наследия бенедиктинского ордена, автор останавливает внимание своих читателей исключительно на нем, при чем имеет в виду период времени с VI по XIII вв.

Название: Architectum
Издательство: Wienerberger AG
Год / месяц: 2018
Номер: #24 (2/2018)
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12.9 Mb
Язык: German

Internationales magazin fur ziegel architektur.

Название: Вязание ваше хобби №12 2013
Год издания: 2013
Номер: 12
Страниц: 41
Язык: русский
Формат: jpg
Размер: 50 мб

«Вязание — ваше хобби» — журнал по вязанию на спицах, который начал издаваться в 2002 году. В каждом номере 30 моделей суперхитов вязаной моды каждого сезона — самых модных, самых элегантных, самых экстравагантных, из новых видов пряжи, с эксклюзивным декором.

Название: Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future
Автор: Michael Krepon
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 307
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

In this book, Michael Krepon analyzes nuclear issues such as missile defenses, space warfare, and treaties, and argues that the United States is on a dangerous course. During the Cold War, Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, facilitated strategic arms control. Now that the Cold War has been replaced by asymmetric warfare, treaties based on nuclear overkill and national vulnerability are outdated and must be adapted to a far different world. A new strategic concept of Cooperative Threat Reduction is needed to replace MAD. A balance is needed that combines military might with strengthened treaty regimes.

Название: Кулинарные шедевры народов мира. Итальянская кухня
Автор: коллектив
Издательство: Информационная группа "Медиасеть
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 98
Размер: 10.8 Мб
Язык: русский

В кулинарной сфере Италию можно назвать настоящей королевой. Кухня этой страны разнообразна, неповторима и незабываема. Она дарит радость и наслаждение. Недаром именно в этой стране существует настоящий культ еды. Интересно, какой такой секрет есть в итальянской тарелке, что поедая гигантское количество теста, жители Аппенин сохраняют стройность и грацию?

Название: Мой друг компьютер
Издательство: Газетный мир
Год / месяц: 2018/8
Номер: 17
Формат: PDF
Размер: 51 Мб




«Мой друг компьютер» - журнал для обычных пользователей компьютера расскажет вам простыми словами о сложном: как выбрать компьютерную технику, установить и настроить разные программы, модернизировать компьютер с минимальными финансовыми затратами, защитить от вирусов и не стать жертвой хакеров.

Название: The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions
Автор: Andrew E. Barshay
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 348
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of ''development'' or ''rationalization'' have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.

Название: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Автор: Lawrence Otis Graham
Издательство: Harper Perennial
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 458
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.