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Название:Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught between North Korea and the United States (Strategic Thought in Northeast Asia)
Автор: Gilbert Rozman
Издательство: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 275
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Язык: English

Often lost in the discussion about the nuclear crisis are its regional dynamics.  From 2002 China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea struggled to navigate between the unsettling belligerence of North Korea and the unilateral insistence of the United States. This book focuses on their strategic thinking over four stages of the crisis.

Название: Woodworker's Guide to Joinery: Straight Talk for Today's Woodworker
Автор: Skills Institute Press
Издательство: Fox Chapel Publishing
Серия: Back To Basics
ISBN: 1565234626
Год: 2010
Страниц: 192
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 59.3 MB

Get Back to Basics with the core information you need to succeed. Learn what is important to know in Woodworker's Guide to Joinery from Butt Joints, Miter Joints, and Lap and Groove Joints, to Mortise-and-Tenon, Dovetail, and Box Joints. Learn how to master the various families of joinery - from themost basic butt joints to half-blind dovetails, tongue-and -groove joints, and beyond.

Название:Maya cosmos: three thousand years on the shaman’s path
Автор: David Freidel, Linda Schele, Joy Parker
Издательство: William Morrow
Год: 1993
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 288
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Размер: 47 MB
Язык: English

"Maya Cosmos takes this Creation myth from its first expression three thousand years ago by the Olmecs, the first civilization in Central America, to its living expression in a Ch'a-Chak ceremony held in Yukatan a few years ago. As an archaeologist, David Freidel shows how using the myth and understanding its effect on the artifacts and architecture created by the ancients help explain what we excavate from the ground. As an epigrapher and iconographer, Linda Schele reads the texts and scenes that preserve the myth for the modern world.

Название:The Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Автор: Matthew Karp
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Год: 2016
Формат: epub
Страниц: 362
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Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders.

Название:American Writers, Supplement IX
Автор: Jay Parini
Издательство: New York, N.Y. : Scribner
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 597
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Размер: 51 MB
Язык: English

Among the 18 authors included in this supplement are Rachel Carson, Zelda Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, Tony Kushner, Jean Toomer, David Wagoner and more.

Название:An Introduction to Folk Music in the United States
Автор: Bruno Nettl
Издательство: Wayne State University Press
Год: 1962
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 131
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With more than 315,000 copies sold, this is the story of the church for today’s readers. The fourth edition of Shelley’s classic one-volume history of the church brings the story of Christianity into the twenty-first century. This latest edition of the book takes a close look at the rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity in the southern hemisphere, addresses the decline in traditional mainline denominations, examines the influence of technology on the spread of the gospel, and discusses how Christianity intersects with other religions in countries all over the world.

Название:Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy
Автор: Lewis H. Lapham
Издательство: Verso
Год: 2016
Формат: epub
Страниц: 400
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Язык: English

America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terrorIn twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions of omnipotence allowed the market to climb to virtual heights, while society was divided between the selfish and frightened rich and the increasingly debt-ridden and angry poor. The new millennium saw the democratic election of an American president nullified by the Supreme Court, and the pretender launching a wasteful, vainglorious and never-ending war on terror, doomed to end in defeat and the loss of America’s prestige abroad.

Название:Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 B.C. to 1492 A Heretical History of Who Was First
Автор: Patrick Huyghe
Издательство: Anomalist Books
Год: 1992
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 273
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In this provocative examination of the popular misconceptions of history, Patrick Huyghe takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through the substantial body of evidence that places Christopher Columbus last in a long and diverse line of explorers. What better time than the quincentennial anniversary of Columbus's arrival on this continent to take a closer look, without prejudice or prior assumptions, at the story of the discovery of America? In this engrossing narrative, the assembled research of archeologists, geographers, geologists, oceanographers, linguists, folklorists, ethnobotanists, and other scholars is used to paint a far more complex canvas than the one most of us were shown in our schooldays. As we travel back through history with Huyghe, the simplistic legend that Columbus was the first to land on these shores is quickly and convincingly dispelled.

Название:The Underground Empire - Where Crimes and Governments Embrace
Автор: James Mills
Издательство: Sidgwick & Jackson
Год: 1987
Формат: epub
Страниц: 1152
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Reports on a first-hand investigation of three international criminal networks trafficking in drugs and the elite force charged with bringing them to justice

Название:The First Americans: The Pre-Columbian Civilizations
Автор: G.H.S. Bushnell
Издательство: Thames and Hudson
Год: 1968
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 146
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Размер: 22 MB
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When Columbus arrived in America in 1492 he found a culture possessing many features which the Spanish invaders understood: hierarchical states rulers living in splendour, fine buildings, specialist craftsmen and a religion that dominated the lives of the population. Yet the Spaniards must have been astonished that so civilized a people lacked iron, the wheel, the plough, an alphabet and domestic animals. Our knowledge of the ancient American civilizations (from prehistory to 1492) has been transformed during the last 25 years.