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Название: Love of Quilting
Издательство: Fons & Porter's
Год издания: September/October 2021
Номер: Vol.26 No.155
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 108
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский

Журнал предназначен для рукодельниц, которые увлечены лоскутным шитьём. В журнале много интересных проектов с использованием современных и классических приемов в создании лоскутных одеял, панно, подушек. Кроме этого в журнале предложены интересные статьи и советы опытных мастеров. Каждый проект, предложенный в номере, сопровождается красочными фотографиями и описанием работы.

Название: Truth to Power: A History of the U.S. National Intelligence Council
Автор(ы): Hutchings Robert, Treverton Gregory F.
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2019
Страниц: 257
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10,24 MB


Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), is told through the reflections of its eight Chairs in the period from the end of the Cold War until 2017. Co-editors Robert Hutchings and Gregory Treverton add a substantial introduction placing the NIC in its historical context going all the way back to the Board of National Estimates in the 1940s, as well as a concluding chapter that highlights key themes and judgments. This historic mission of this remarkable but little-known organization, now forty years old, is strategic intelligence assessment in service of senior American foreign policymakers. Its signature inside products, National Intelligence Estimates, are now accompanied by the NIC's every-four-years Global Trends. Unclassified, Global Trends has become a noted NIC brand, its release awaited by officials, academics and private sector managers around the world. Truth to Power tracks the NIC's role in providing strategic analysis on every major foreign policy issue confronting the United States during this consequential period. Chapters provide insider insights on the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the nuclear weapons programs in Iran and North Korea, upheaval in the Middle East including the rise and fall of the Islamic State, the rise of China, and the Russia's turn toward aggression under Vladimir Putin. The book also assesses the NIC's newly expanded role in direct support to meetings of the National Security Council as well as its longstanding role in producing longer-range strategic intelligence.

Название: Small Projects Handbook, 2nd Edition
Автор: Nigel Ostime
Издательство: RiBA Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 297
Размер: 46 Mb
Язык: English

This hands-on, no-nonsense guide to running smaller projects – most under £250,000 in value – will become your 'bible' in day-to-day practice. Smaller practices often find it hard to turn a profit as they spend too much time and money, especially on the design stages, trying to compete and are unsure as to what they can safely dispense with whilst still being rigorous and delivering quality. This book provides reassurance as to how to achieve great results on a budget, utilising stripped-back and efficient solutions, while following the principles and stages of the RIBA Plan of Work.

Название: No Moon as Witness: Missions of the SOE and OSS in World War II
Автор(ы): Stejskal James
Издательство: Casemate
Год: 2021
Страниц: 208
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 2,92 MB


Complete with rare photographs, diagrams and glossary, follow author James Stejskal as he covers the establishment of these agencies and their intense training regimens leading into World War II. Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to “Set Europe ablaze!” Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous training before making their way, undetected, into Occupied Europe. Working alone or in small cells, often cooperating with local resistance groups, agents undertook missions behind enemy lines involving sabotage, subversion, organizing resistance groups and intelligence-gathering. The SOE’s notable successes included the destruction of a power station in France, the assassination of Himmler’s deputy Reinhard Heyrich, and ending the Nazi atomic bomb program by destroying the heavy water plant at Vemork, Norway. OSS operatives established anti-Nazi resistance groups across Europe, and managed to smuggle operatives into Nazi Germany, including running one of the war's most important spies, German diplomat Fritz Kolbe. All of their missions were incredibly dangerous and many agents were captured, tortured, and ultimately killed – the life expectancy of an SOE wireless operator in occupied France was just six weeks. In No Moon as Witness, historian James Stejskal examines why these agencies were established, the training regimen and ingenious tools developed to enable agents to undertake their missions, their operational successes, and their legacy.

Название: Автоматический пистолет Браунинга. 1-го образца 1900 года, калибра 7,65 мм
Издательство: СПб.: Товарищество Художественной печати
Страниц: 16
Язык: Русский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 4,61 MB


Устройство, разборка, сборка и уход за пистолетом

Название: The Purpose of the First World War: War Aims and Military Strategies
Автор(ы): Afflerbach Holger
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Год: 2015
Страниц: 268
Язык: English
Формат): DJVU
Размер: 2,47 MB


Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.

Название: Польский театр. Катастрофы
Автор: Низёлек Г.
Издательство: Новое литер-ное обозрение
Год: 2021
Формат: ePUB, PDF
Страниц: 624
Размер: 35,5 Mb
Язык: Русский

Трагедия Холокоста была крайне болезненной темой для Польши после Второй мировой войны. Несмотря на известные факты помощи поляков евреям, большинство польского населения, по мнению автора этой книги, занимало позицию «сторонних наблюдателей» Катастрофы. Такой постыдный опыт было трудно осознать современникам войны и их потомкам, которые охотнее мыслили себя в категориях жертв и героев. Усугубляли проблему и цензурные ограничения, введенные властями коммунистической Польши.

Название: Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography Since 1945
Автор(ы): Moran Christopher R., Murphy Christopher J. (eds.).
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press
Год: 2013
Страниц: 337
Язык: English
Формат): PDF
Размер: 3,02 MB


From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposes and spy novels, the intelligence services' secrecy has never stopped people from writing about espionage. Now, this is the first introduction to these official and unofficial histories. Each chapter showcases new archival material, looking at a particular book or series of books and considering issues of production, censorship, representation and reception. Contributors include: Richard Aldrich, intelligence historian; Nicholas Dujmovic, CIA Staff Historian; Matthew Jones, novelist; Jo Wippl, Former CIA operations officer; Keith Jeffery, author of the first official history of MI6 and Chapman Pincher, journalist.

Название: Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
Автор(ы): MacDonald Myra
Издательство: Hurst
Год: 2017
Страниц: 320
Язык: English
Формат): EPUB
Размер: 385,88 КБ


When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan went on to lose decisively to India. It lost any ability to stake a serious claim to Kashmir, a region it called its jugular vein. Its ability to influence events in Afghanistan diminished. While India's growing economy won it recognition as a rising world power, Pakistan became known as a failing state. Pakistan had lost to India before but the setbacks since 1998 made this defeat irreversible. Defeat is an Orphan follows the rollercoaster ride through post-nuclear India-Pakistan, from bitter conflict in the mountains to military confrontation in the plains, from the hijacking of an Indian plane to the assault on Mumbai. Nuclear weapons proved to be Pakistan's undoing. They encouraged a reckless reliance on militant proxies even as the jihadis spun out of control outside and inside Pakistan. By shielding it from retaliation, the nuclear weapons also sealed it into its own dysfunction -- so much so that the Great South Asian War, fought on-and-off since 1947, was not so much won by India as lost by Pakistan.

Название: Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis: Testing the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Method
Автор(ы): Whitesmith Martha
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press
Год: 2020
Страниц: 304
Язык: English
Формат: DJVU
Размер: 2,50 MB


Tests whether the analysis of competing hypotheses reduces cognitive bias, and proposes a more effective approach Reveals that a key element of current training provided to the UK and US intelligence communities (and likely all 5-EYES and several European agencies) does not have a proven ability to mitigate cognitive biases Demonstrates that judging the credibility of information from human sources means that intelligence analysis faces greater complexity and cognitive strain than non-intelligence analysis Explains the underlying causes cognitive biases, based on meta-analyses of existing research Shows that identifying the ideal conditions for intelligence analysis is a more effective way of reducing the risk of cognitive bias than the use of ACH Recent high-profile intelligence failures - from 9/11 to the 2003 Iraq war - prove that cognitive bias in intelligence analysis can have catastrophic consequences. This book critiques the reliance of Western intelligence agencies on the use of a method for intelligence analysis developed by the CIA in the 1990s, the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH). The author puts ACH to the test in an experimental setting against two key cognitive biases with unique empirical research facilitated by UK's Professional Heads of Intelligence Analysis unit at the Cabinet Office, and finds that the theoretical basis of the ACH method is significantly flawed. Combining the insight of a practitioner with over 11 years of experience in intelligence with both philosophical theory and experimental research, the author proposes an alternative approach to mitigating cognitive bias that focuses on creating the optimum environment for analysis, challenging current leading theories.