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Free Download Palazzos of Power: Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930 by Aaron V. Wunsch, Joseph E. B. Elliott
English | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1616895004 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 20.3 MB
"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey 'solidity and immensity' in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a blight in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers.

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English | ISBN: 1780768176 | 2014 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Over a distinguished career in cultural leadership, management and journalism spanning almost 30 years, John Tusa has amassed a unique experience of the arts world, the political controversies it faces and the battles it continues to fight. His new book is a fearless and passionate defense of the performing and visual arts at a time of increasing 'Pain in the Arts'.

Free Download Melissa Yeager, "Pacts and Alliances in History: Diplomatic Strategy and the Politics of Coalitions "
English | ISBN: 184885773X | 2012 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Agreements between nations are the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history. A unique collaboration by historians and political scientists, Pacts and Alliances in History explores some of the fundamental questions of diplomacy: what are the common denominators shared by successful alliances? Why do pacts and alliances disintegrate? And is the eventual demise of pacts and alliances inevitable? Eleven empirical case-studies across five continents, including three chapters devoted to US alliances around the world, are used to illustrate entirely new diplomatic concepts and political theories - arguing for a more nuanced understanding of how agreements work. This study will be important reading for the next generation of policymakers and will become the starting point for the future debate on coalitions, multi-lateral organizations, and diplomacy in History and International Relations.

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English | ISBN: 0804745471 | 2002 | 497 pages | PDF | 22 MB
This is the first comprehensive biography in any language of Russia's leading statesman in the period following the Revolution of 1905. Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911 (when he was assassinated), P. A. Stolypin aroused deep passions among his contemporaries as well as subsequent historians. In the twilight of Nicholas II's reign he was virtually the only man who seemed to have a clear notion of how to reform the socioeconomic and political system of the empire. His efforts in that direction-in agriculture, local administration, religious freedom, social legislation, the legal system-were radically new departures for the Russian state. His detractors disdained him as a power-hungry, coldhearted politician who was unscrupulous in pursuing his own career and would use any means to restore the tsarist autocracy following the frightening turbulence of 1905. Stolypin's admirers, however, argued that he was a man of vision who pursued policies that would have transformed the country into a modern state with social and political institutions comparable to those of the West. Lenin's celebrated denunciation of Stolypin as "hangman-in-chief" set the tone for official Soviet work on his career. In the West, some historians and émigré writers, most notably Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, erred in the opposite direction. By contrast, this book-on the basis of extensive Russian archival documentation only recently available to historians-seeks to provide a balanced portrait of Stolypin that encompasses the complex, even divergent, impulses that motivated him. Although Stolypin did not shrink from the use of force to stamp out unrest, he lamented the shedding of blood and much preferred nonviolent means to curb the opposition. In foreign affairs, he was uncompromising in his insistence that Russia should avoid entanglements that could lead to military conflict. To be sure, he was deeply committed to monarchical rule, but he did not consider it advisable to abolish the elected legislature or to deprive it of its authority. Stolypin's program, a blend of reformism, authoritarianism, and nationalism, was more likely than any other to lead Russia toward social and political stability. But Tsar Nicholas II, his entourage, and ultra-conservatives could not bring themselves to yield a portion of their privileges and prerogatives in return for a reduced, though still significant, role in a changed Russia. They succeeded in undermining the Prime Minister's attempts at fundamental reform and thus scuttled Imperial Russia's last such attempt before its demise.

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Français | 30 avril 2025 | ISBN: 2415011991, 9782415012007 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.7 MB
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Free Download Oxota: A Short Russian Novel by Lyn Hejinian
English | March 5, 2019 | ISBN: 0819578762 | True EPUB | 292 pages | 3.2 MB
A verse novel composed of 14-line stanzas inspired by Pushkin's Evgeny Onegin

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English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1510782338, 9781510782389 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 1.3 MB
Out of Sightis both an investigative deep dive into the meat industry's treatment of farm animals, and a story of resilience and, ultimately, professional and personal triumph.

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English | August 22, 2023 | ISBN: 0300276524, 0300268270, 9780300271775 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 6.6 MB
An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival-and the people who have kept it running

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English | February 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1804250406 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 45.8 MB
James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men from different starting-points, ended up in the same battleground at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by Franco's forces.

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English | April 1, 2025 | ISBN: 0063385708 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 3.3 MB
"I highlighted just about every line in this book, and I can't think of a better novel to make sense of our current era." -Molly Odintz,CrimeReads