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Название: Making the World Safe for Capitalism: How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed
Автор: Christopher Doran
Издательство: Pluto Press
ISBN: 0745332226
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.

Название: The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
Автор: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Издательство: NYRB Classics
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 15 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here we watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broad avenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasant and the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drum bands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havana’s Carnival, and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous curiosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from his subsequent classic accounts A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.

Название: Combat Aircraft 2022-09
Издательство: Key Publishing
Формат: True PDF
Cтраниц: 102
Размер: 27 Mb
Язык: English

Combat Aircraft

Название: 111 Places in York That You Shouldn't Miss
Автор: Chris Titley
Издательство: Emons Publishers
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 97 Мб
Язык: английский / English

What sort of curious place would give its shortest street the longest name? Or build a dazzling gold-lined dome - and hide it from view? The same mixed-up metropolis that was once the capital of England - and also birthplace of its most infamous terrorist. Even if you were the world's most imaginative storyteller, you couldn't make York up. The city is stranger than any fiction. But to find its oddities and secrets you'll need to step off the beaten tourist path and explore its footstreets and alleys, known locally as snickelways. Be warned, the journey might throw up a few dark moments, from the Bitchdaughter Tower to the spikes upon which traitors heads were impaled. Yet you'll also encounter the traces of many local colorful characters, from an Oscar-winning actor to a dastardly plotter, from assorted stone cats to a rather rude ghost. You can browse the shops in the street that inspired Harry Potter's Diagon Alley and tour remarkable retailers like Duttons For Buttons, and the Banana Warehouse - which sells pretty much everything - except bananas; or celebrate in the city that hosted Britain's first Christmas and is home to Ulph's Drinking Horn. With 2,000 years of history to discover, there is a surprise around every corner - if you know where to look.

Название: Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It - Live La Bella Vita and Look Great, Too!
Автор: Teresa Giudice, Heather Maclean
Издательство: Hyperion
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

To many of us, "diet" is a four-letter word. And rightfully so. Starving yourself thin or keeping track of each bite like pennies in your checkbook is no way to live. So what's a girl with skinny jean dreams supposed to do. Teresa Giudice has the answer. In fact, she was born with it. The first-generation Italian-American mom of four and svelte star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey credits her knockout figure to her Old World upbringing. And now, in her fun, encouraging, and budget-friendly cookbook, she skewers the myth that looking fabulous has to be a chore. In Skinny Italian, she reveals how to: substitute tedious meal plans with simple, flavorful recipes choose fresh, flavorful ingredients instead of counting calories slow down and enjoy a faster metabolism replace starvation with celebration by adopting an Italian attitude to cooking, eating, and entertain in glove food, love eating, and still love your body afterward.

Название: Гимнастика для лица. Натуральный подход к сохранению красоты, молодости и здоровья кожи
Автор: Катрин Пез
Язык: русский
Издательство: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус
Год: 2022
Страниц: 168
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,2 Мб

В книге-бестселлере французского автора Катрин Пез, выдержавшей множество переизданий на языке оригинала, представлены эффективные комплексы упражнений, адаптированные для разных форм лица - овальной, квадратной, круглой, вытянутой и треугольной. Все они снабжены подробными пошаговыми инструкциями и наглядными иллюстрациями. Помимо этого показаны различные техники самомассажа, включая разглаживающий массаж для снятия напряжения, массаж для улучшения цвета лица, массаж для подтяжки кожи, а также азиатский и щипковый массаж.

Название: Русское общество в зеркале революционного террора
Автор: Сафронова Юлия
Издательство: Новое литературное обозрение
Серия: Historia Rossica
ISBN: 978-5-4448-0141-3
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 369
Размер: 37,97 Мб
Язык: Русский

Автор монографии ищет образ русского общества в зеркале событий, потрясших Российскую империю в последние годы царствования Александра II. Революционный террор 1879-1881 годов рассматривается как процесс коммуникации, своего рода диалог между террористами и обществом. Исследование информационного поля позволяет Ю. Сафроновой рассказать не только об отношении общества к проблеме терроризма, но и об изменении самого русского общества, остро ощутившего убийственную силу динамита.

Название: Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
Автор: James R. Clapper
Издательство: Viking
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

New York Times bestseller. The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America. When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the U.S. intelligence community through a period that included the raid on Osama bin Laden, the Benghazi attack, the leaks of Edward Snowden, and Russia's influence operation during the 2016 U.S. election campaign. In Facts and Fears, Clapper traces his career through the growing threat of cyberattacks, his relationships with presidents and Congress, and the truth about Russia's role in the presidential election.

Название: Gardening Complete: How to Best Grow Vegetables, Flowers, and Other Outdoor Plants
Автор: Editors
Издательство: Cool Springs Press
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 71 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Gardening Complete is the most up-to-date and complete guide to gardening for homeowners. Inside, eight of North America’s top gardening experts—and Cool Springs Press authors—present 19 subjects of critical interest to anyone who wants to learn or broaden gardening skills. Whether your main interest is in designing landscapes and gardens, ornamental gardening to make your yard more attractive, or gardening to provide nutritious edibles for the family table, this book will become your definitive source of information. It is intended for serious beginning to intermediate gardeners, but even veteran gardeners will be intrigued by what these experts have to say about core gardening skills and common horticultural subjects.

Название: Learn to Sail: The Simplest Way to Start Sailing
Автор: Tim Hore
Издательство: Fernhurst Books
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 48 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Get afloat and start having fun with step-by-step advice, photo sequences and diagrams. This jargon-free guide allows complete novices to get out on the water with the minimum of fuss. One- and two-person dinghies are covered, along with rigging, knots, safety, handling and much more.