This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labo...

Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, as a part of the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. The landings ...

During WWII, Gino was active with the Italian resistance movement, building radios for the partisans. He was arrested, imprisoned, and ended up in the concentration camp in Bolzano on his way to Dachau. It is the story of how his technical knowledge avoided him the otherwise fatal leg of the trip, how the German com...

This book is open access under a CC BY license. In this book, Nika Gilauri reveals his formulas for government reform and economic recovery, including how to fight against corruption, reform fiscal policy and tax systems, privatize state-owned enterprises, build a welfare system for those most in need, create a comp...

Combat in Russian Forests and Swamps, is prepared by a committee of former German generals and general staff officers, and it deals with the principles of combat in the vast woodlands and swamps of European Russia. The main author and all other contributors have drawn upon their own extensive experience on the Easte...

"Billy Dixon was a typical frontiersman of the highest order. The perils and hardships of border life were exactly suited to his stoical and imperturbable nature. This does not mean that Billy was not a kind-hearted, generous and hospitable man, for he possessed all these admirable qualities to a high degree but he ...

"These records are taken from a diary kept during my service in the Confederate Army, under Generals Morgan and Bedford Forrest, and are, therefore, simply my personal experiences and recollections. I have confined my narrative largely to my brother’s career, to his final fate as a Federal prisoner after the war, an...

This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book begins by profiling the post-Apartheid period in South Africa's history when the sampling frame and...

上海人看上海，告訴你不知道的那些人、那些事！書中所談的為二、三○年代上海社會。包括食、衣、住、行、育、樂種種方面，至於煙、賭、娼、匪也是有所記載。因此它成了研究當年上海生活史不可或缺的珍貴材料。「風華篇」主要是描述當時的租界生活，隨著華、洋接觸，各種「洋化」、「洋玩意」也接踵引進，豐富了人民生活。十里洋場的光鮮亮麗、...

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the...

In 1895–96, William Matthew Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below the ‘Ramesseum’, the funerary temple of Ramses II at Thebes, Egypt. This is most famous for having the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri – also known as the Ramesseum Papyri – found in a single spot together with ...

An Economist Best Book of 2023 | One of The New York Times’ 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg | Finalist for the 2024 Hayek Book Prize “Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, there’s a lot to learn from this book. More than a biograph...

Edward Heawood's 'A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' is a comprehensive exploration of the significant journeys and expeditions that shaped the understanding of the world during this time period. Heawood meticulously examines the geographical discoveries made by explorer...

组织者：熬吧读书会 地点：湖南长沙 时间：2014年10月18日 整理者：三马兄 原稿整理时间：2014年11月 修复重制时间：2018年8月 封面制作：冬川豆 约两万八千字

India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military ...

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume in...