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 James A. Brundage, "The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0226077608, 0226077594 | 607 pages | True PDF | 10 MB In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a body of ethical obligations on those who practiced law. James Brundage's The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession traces the history of legal practice from its genesis in ancient Rome to its rebirth in the early Middle Ages and eventual resurgence in the courts of the medieval church.  Dmitry Orlov, "The Meat Generation" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1708070060 | 352 pages | PDF | 7.4 MB To the globalist elites who are still attempting to control your fate, you are either milk or meat. The moment they can no longer milk you for debt payments or rent, you and your children will be asked to report to the abattoir. But you have to volunteer to be milked or slaughtered; otherwise, processing you would be too difficult to do efficiently and profitably. Therefore, it is possible to think of ways to make yourself too expensive for them to exploit, so that they might give up on trying to use you for further self-enrichment and leave you in peace.  Andrew Meier, "The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0393335356, 0393060977 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 0.6 mb "Utterly fascinating, a sad and sinuous study."―Richard Schickel, Los Angeles Times
 William F. Stark, Peter Stark, "The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir" English | 2003 | ISBN: 0786712333, 0786714611 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 3.9 mb In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn-the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.  Jane Leavy, "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0060883537, 0060883529 | EPUB | pages: 512 | 4.8 mb Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle.
 George Gilder, "The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy" English | ISBN: 1594036128 | 2012 | 320 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 316 KB + 383 KB In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel's sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish "culture of mind" and in part from Judaism itself, which, "perhaps more than any other religion, favors capitalist activity and provides a rigorous moral framework for it." Critics of Israel-in the U.S., in the surrounding countries of the Middle East and in Western European nations that are facing socialist decline-have failed the "Israel Test" because they seek to tear down this country's success rather than emulate it. America's ability and desire to defend Israel will define our future survival as a nation: "If Israel is destroyed," he says, "capitalist Europe will likely die as well, and America, as the epitome of productive and creative capitalism spurred by Jews, will be in jeopardy."
 Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War" English | 2020 | pages: 512 | ISBN: 0190614897 | EPUB | 3,1 mb In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies?  The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: Functional Neuroanatomy and Dissection Guide by Lennart Heimer English | PDF | 1983 | 396 Pages | ISBN : 0387907416 | 89.2 MB This book was written to serve both as a guide for the dissection of the human brain and as an illustrated compendium of the functional anatomy of the brain and spinal cord. In this sense, the book represents an updated and expanded version of the book The Human Brain and Spinal Cord written by the author and published in Swedish by Scandinavian University Books in 1961. The complicated anatomy of the brain can often be more easily appreciated and understood in relation to its development. Some insight about the coverings of the brain will also make the brain dissections more meaningful. Introductory chapters on these subjects constitute Part I of the book.  Chris Patten, "The Hong Kong Diaries" English | ISBN: 0241560497 | 2022 | 532 pages | EPUB | 4 MB The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover  Maya Angelou, "The Heart of a Woman" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0812980328 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.9 mb In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. In the meantime, her personal life takes an unexpected turn. She leaves the bail bondsman she was intending to marry after falling in love with a South African freedom fighter, travels with him to London and Cairo, where she discovers new opportunities. |
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