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 Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13 - November 6, 1944 By Mark Zuehlke 2007 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 1553652274 | EPUB | 4 MB On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe's largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of little value unless the West Scheldt Estuary linking it to the North Sea was also in Allied hands. In his greatest blunder of the war, Field Marshal Montgomery turned his back on the port, leaving the First Canadian Army to fight its way up the long coastal flank. By the time the Canadians and others serving with them reached the area, it had been transformed into a fortress manned by troops ordered to fight to the death. Crushing the Nazi defenders required all of the Canadians' courage, endurance and skill. The battle that raged until November was Canada's bloodiest of World War ii, costing more than 6,000 casualties.  Techno-Societal 2018: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications - Volume 2 by Prashant M. Pawar English | EPUB | 2020 | 968 Pages | ISBN : 3030169618 | 143.6 MB This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.  Susan Johnston Graf, "Talking to the Gods: Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune " English | ISBN: 1438455550 | 2015 | 178 pages | PDF | 3 MB Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.  Ramin Jahanbegloo, "Talking Politics: Bhikhu Parekh in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo" English | ISBN: 019807154X | 2011 | 178 pages | PDF | 416 KB One of the most distinguished political philosophers of our time, British-Indian academic and peer Lord Bhikhu Parekh's work continues to deeply influence our understanding of identity, politics, and multiculturalism.  Hourly History, "Taiping Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End" English | 2021 | ASIN: B08SNZNQ7L, B08SMGRSH1 | EPUB | pages: 56 | 0.2 mb Discover the remarkable history of the Taiping Rebellion...  Ernst Badian - Studies in Greek and Roman History Basil Blackwell Press | 1964 | ISBN: N/A | English | 296 pages | PDF | 9.35 MB Great book, difficult to get, for the specialist of Greek and Roman history. Each chapter is unrelated to the others. Badian is simply taking issues that he wants to clarify and works on them, with no regards to actual chronology. Greek themes (Alexander the Great) and Roman themes (Sulla) are intermixed. Therefore you pick and choose which chapter and when to read it. I read it for the chapters on Greek history: Antiochus and Alexander the Great, and other Macedonian issues. Badian is one of these scholars that stresses the fact that the ancient Greeks did not accept the Macedonians as their kin, and he is correct on that in most respects, politically at least though not necessarily culturally (the religion, mythology and language tied the southern Greeks to the Macedonians as much as politics and different economic systems separated them). A great little book by a great Graeco-latinist.  Judith Vallely, "Struggle and Suffrage in Glasgow: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality" English | ISBN: 1526718294 | 2019 | 128 pages | EPUB | 5 MB On a dark January night in 1914, Glasgow's iconic Kibble Palace at the Botanic Gardens became the target of a bomb attack which shattered 27 large panes of glass. The police concluded it was the work of militant suffragettes after discovering footprints of ladies' shoes...and an empty champagne bottle and cake.  Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings By Alice Tavares, Dina D'Ayala, Aníbal Costa (auth.), Aníbal Costa, João Miranda Guedes, Humberto Varum (eds.) 2014 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 3642396852 | PDF | 20 MB This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.  Tim Bergfelder, Lisa Shaw, João Luiz Vieira, "Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1785338439, 1785332988 | PDF | pages: 303 | 2.7 mb Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in "star studies," Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume demonstrates, however, the richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda. Among the studies assembled here are fascinating explorations of figures such as Eliane Lage (the star attraction of São Paulo's Vera Cruz studios), cult horror movie auteur Coffin Joe, and Lázaro Ramos, the most visible Afro-Brazilian actor today. At the same time, contributors interrogate the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.  Florence M. Jumonville, "Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries" English | ISBN: 0807170194 | 2019 | 272 pages | EPUB | 5 MB In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every parish by 1969. |
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