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U.S. Army Tractor Trucks and Semitrailers


In the late 1930s, the U.S. Army began a significant overhaul of its vehicle fleet, shaping the logistics backbone of World War II. Affecting this effort were two major schools of thought regarding logistical support: some experts proposed the trailer or semitrailer, which had a physical separation between the mechanical part of the truck and the rear technical part containing supplies or specialist equipment; opponents encouraged the use of compact and inseparable assemblies to save time in the field. Both types of trucks would be used during World War I, complete trucks intended for the front and its immediate rear, the lines of communications and the staging area being the domain of tractors and semitrailers.This book examines all the different weight categories of tractor trucks and semitrailers used by the U.S. Army during World War II. Illustrated with hundreds of period photographs, illustrations, and diagrams, the text discusses all variants including an array of specialized vehicles for units such as commissary, engineering, aviation, and cavalry.
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Lancaster Moor Hospital


The Moor Hospital, its Gothic grandeur shaping the city’s eastern skyline, has been a place of curiosity and mystery for generations of Lancastrians for almost two centuries. Author Gary Bradshaw grew up in Lancaster and trained as a Mental Health Nurse at the Moor. Upon retirement, he decided to delve into the archives to piece together the story of the hospital, and to put faces to the names of some of those who passed through its doors. In the early days, the Asylum adopted methods which we find quite shocking today, with their brutality and emphasis on containment and control, rather than treatment and cure. But, although we can be horrified by such practices, they must be seen within their historical context. These were different times, with little insight into the human body and mind. Over the years, care gradually improved, and for certain periods, Lancaster was even seen as a model of good practice. This excellent history of the Moor Hospital is set against a background of changing attitudes, developing medical knowledge and pioneering treatments. It is a fascinating and informative read for everyone.
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Spitfire Pilot Flight Lieutenant Julian Zuromski


Julian Zuromski was on the verge of becoming a fighter pilot when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. He witnessed the Luftwaffe''s bombings and the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, eventually escaping to Romania. After being imprisoned, he fled to France, where he fought in the Battle of France before escaping to Great Britain after France’s surrender. There, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.Zuromski served as an instructor at RAF Dumfries and later flew operational patrols, claiming his first aerial victory in 1942 while flying a Spitfire with 308 Squadron. He went on to achieve two more victories, including the destruction of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 with 66 Squadron in 1943. On that same day, Zuromski was shot down, captured, and sent to Dulag Luft, where he wrote anti-Bolshevik propaganda, later being moved to a special camp in Berlin.Zuromski escaped captivity during an Allied bombing raid, eventually making his way to Poland and reuniting with his fiancée. Although suspected of collaboration due to his wartime activities, he was exonerated and later served in the Royal Pakistan Air Force. This book also explores the fate of Zuromski’s father, a victim of the Katyn massacre, and the contributions of other Polish pilots in WWII.
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Celtic Mythology


Delve into the myths and legends of Celtic folklore in this classic text, written by Arthurian expert Charles Squire.From King Arthur to Gaelic gods, this authoritative study explores the characters found in Celtic myth and epic poetry. These tales are not only extensively researched but beautiful and moving, with sections on Celtic paganism, druidism and the giants of ancient Briton. The gods are honored in the animated telling of their stories and only give way to heroes such as Cuchulain, Blodeuweek, Branwen, and Finn.Drawing on the early writings of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in Celtic culture and how its beliefs and traditions have survived in modern day Britain.
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Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?


In 1912 the unthinkable happened - the supposedly unsinkable Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, or so it was thought. In this bestselling book author Robin Gardiner claims that it was not in fact the Titanic but the sister ship, the Olympic, which finished its days sinking in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on that fateful night. His contention is that what happened was an insurance scam perpetrated by the White Star line which may have involved the possible collusion by the British government in the cover-up. On 20 September 1911, the Olympic was involved in a collision with the Royal Navy Warship HMS Hawke in Southampton Water. Olympic was found to be to blame in the collision. Because of this finding, White Star''s insurers allegedly refused to pay out on the claim. As this would amount to a serious financial loss for the company, it is alleged that, to make sure at least one vessel would be earning money, the badly damaged Olympic was patched up and then converted to become the Titanic. The real Titanic when complete would then quietly enter service as the Olympic. To dispose of the Olympic, which had allegedly been damaged beyond economic repair in a way that would allow White Star to collect the full insured value of a brand new ship, the plan was to open the seacocks at sea to slowly flood the ship. Numerous ships were stationed nearby to take off the passengers, the shortage of lifeboats would not matter as the ship would sink slowly and the boats could make several trips to the rescuers. The controversy which this theory has generated, and some of the evidence used to support it is compelling, has made this book into a bestseller in the years since it was first published. Regardless of whether you choose to believe in this version of the events that took place on that terrible night in 1912, which still resonate so strongly well over a century afterwards, Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? is a fascinating, well written and absorbing read.
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The Tombs of Forefathers


Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia were long neglected by archaeologists due to their destruction by modern intensive agricultural activity. This new analysis, resulting from a threeyear interdisciplinary research project, of the phenomenon of Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia and Central Europe presents entirely new findings and data and tackles a number of previously unresolved questions. New discoveries, based primarily on remote sensing and targeted excavations, together with the revision of earlier archaeological records, allow us to define more accurately the construction and chronological development of these monuments, and to advance our knowledge of the southeastern boundary of this phenomenon''s spread together with reconstruction of the social and religious significance of these monuments for the agricultural communities of Central Europe. At the sacred places defined by the long barrows, ceremonies and rituals took place over millennia that confirmed the cohesion of the living with the ancestors and their faith in the gods. People, even many generations later, continued to venerate these ancient monuments, not as places of final rest for their direct ancestors but as places dedicated to mythical time, where the living meet the dead and honour the gods. It is not surprising, therefore, that people added the burials of their own ancestors to the embankments of ancient barrows and established their own funerary areas nearby even after several millennia.All long barrows excavated within our project contained only one primary burial: in Bohemia these were not collective graves as found, for example, in the British Isles or Scandinavia. Given the monumentality of barrow construction, it can be presumed that the buried individuals represented a form of social elite, though not necessarily due to their individual social power. It seems that the primary burial played the role of an initiation sacrifice: a ritual of consecration of the ancestor sanctuary, which then no longer served for further burials that may have been taboo. Subsequent activities may have been related to forms of ancestral cult, but the primary burial was not followed by other funerary events. All evidence of later burials is at least 1000 years later than barrow construction.In the region around the Czech mythical Mountain Říp, burial monuments from various prehistoric periods, including the Late Neolithic, abound. Residential and economic activities on the plains appear later. It can be assumed that this area was perceived as a ritual landscape in earlier prehistory in which long barrows played a significant role in structuring the farming landscape and as significant landmarks. Their monumentality initiated a longstanding tradition creating palimpsests of funerary and sacred sites near Mount Říp. The places where the long barrows were built played an important role in the lives of prehistoric communities, and their placement and orientation in the landscape was not random, indicating significant symbolic connotations with the surrounding landscape. The rituals and festivities held here allowed people to connect with the spiritual legacy of their ancestors, thus creating a significant spiritual tradition inscribed in the agriculturally colonised landscape.
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Angels


How often we use expressions like, ‘thank you for doing that, you’re such an angel’, without really thinking about it, referring to angels as helpful and rather sweet, possibly with a picture in mind of a tall female with big feathery wings. Despite this typecasting, scripture reveals angels as somewhat fearsome messengers from God who must constantly reassure people not to be afraid. The messages they bring are for the benefit of God's people, for salvation and healing. In this exploration of angels, Sister Raphael reflects on her reading of Bible passages and related texts to examine how angels might lead us into a greater understanding of God's love and purposes for us all.
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Hitler’s Order Police 1936–1942


The Ordnungspolizei or Order Police was one of the main apparatus for the security of Nazi Germany. During the 1930s, Heinrich Himmler, Head of the SS, along with the Commander-in-Chief of the Order Police, Kurt Daluege, totally reconstructed the police force of the Weimar Republic into a number of strong militarized formations. Those that served in this new police force were more than ready to carry out any order that the Nazi''s required of them including persecution of Jews and anyone deemed inferior to the regime. In fact, in 1938, police units participated in the annexation of Austria and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. A year later when Germany invaded Poland, the role of the police changed forever. Police units were deployed alongside the German military including the special murder squads of the Einsatzgruppen. In Poland, Order Police were transformed into militarized police battalions and participated in combat operations which included carrying out security duties behind enemy lines. These duties were often sinister and alongside some Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and Einsatzgruppen, the police battalions engaged in the systematic murder and annihilation of Poles and Jews.Following the conquest of Poland the Nazi leadership created a massive recruitment drive conscripting more than 95,000 men in their thirties. Another 26,000 younger men were also recruited and indoctrinated into Nazi ideology and trained for combat. These new recruits would now take part not only in military operations but would be an integral part of the Holocaust, responsible for mass murders and guarding some of the Jewish ghettos. They would also assist in the destruction of the ghettos and helping in the transport of Jews to concentration camps. During the summer of 1941 these Police units were involved in mass killings of Babi Yar, Rumbula and Stanislaviv. Yet after the war, many of the Order Policemen claimed never to have been involved in Nazi crimes.
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Rome in the Tenth Century


This is the third and final volume in a series examining the history of Rome in the early Middle Ages (700?1000 CE) through the primary lens of the city''s material culture. The previous volumes examined the eighth and the ninth centuries respectively. John Osborne uses buildings (both religious and domestic), their decorations, other works of painting and sculpture, inscriptions, manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, and coins as ''documents'' to supplement what can be gleaned from more traditional written sources such as the Liber pontificalis. The overall approach is particularly appropriate for tenth-century Rome, which has traditionally been considered a ''dark age'', given recent research on standing monuments and the large amount of new material brought to light in archaeological excavations undertaken over the last four decades. This magnificent and beautifully illustrated volume provides a triumphant conclusion to a series which will be indispensable for all those interested in early medieval Rome.
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114,49 €

New Hebrews


The literature on Zionism as a political ideology is extensive, but this book takes a different approach by focusing on the cultural dimensions of the movement and their profound impact on the history of Israel and the Jewish people. New Hebrews explores the cultural history of Zionism, starting from the meeting of the first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, and culminating with the establishment of the State of Israel 51 years later in 1948. Yaron Peleg explores how innovative approaches in language, literature, architecture, art, music, and body culture transformed modern Jewish culture. His study delves into the contentious facets of early Zionist culture, such as colonialism, social engineering, minority discourse, and Jewish-Arab relations. New Hebrews presents an interdisciplinary examination of nationalism, drawing from a diverse array of primary sources to uncover the psychology of modern Israel. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Royal Favourites of Medieval England


All monarchs have need of those to whom they give their trust. Never was this more essential than for the kings of Medieval England. From the Norman victory of 1066 to the bloody demise of Richard III in 1485, the stings and arrows of royal life bred relentless vigilance, distrust, and paranoia.This volume covers a period of 419 years. It starts with a bloody battle and ends with a bloody battle. To understand the lives and actions of court favourites, one must also know about the monarchs they served. In this book, you will read short biographies of each monarch, followed by a few of those courtiers to whom they gave their trust, not always deserved.You will read about the vicious actions of William the Conqueror, who, despite his victory on Senlac Hill, took five years to subdue the English, but who could not have achieved his victories without trusted lieutenants like William Fitz Osbern. How Stephen’s innate indolence almost lost him England, had it not been for William of Ypres, and how Matilda’s half-brother, Robert of Gloucester, kept her hopes of finally sitting on the throne bequeathed to her by her father Henry I alive.The Plantagenet kings changed the face of England, often bringing riches to those who hitched their wagons to the monarchy. Men still revered today, like William Marshal, known as The Greatest Knight, who faithfully served five kings. Various younger brothers held high church offices. Not all served to enrich themselves. John Beauchamp became a favourite of Edward III but was not overtly mercenary.The Wars of the Roses left England virtually bankrupt. The favourites on either side, the Lancastrian Somersets and the Yorkist Nevilles, gained enormous wealth and power, determined to fight to the death. The death that ended it was Richard III’s on 22nd August 1485, when Henry Tudor grabbed the throne, and the Tudor Age began.
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Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature


The book investigates lines of connection and shared literary heritage between the Persianate and Malay-Indonesian worlds over many centuries. Majid Daneshgar provides a critical and comparative study of Persianate-Malay stories, with specific focus on Durr al-Majalis, or Pearl of Gatherings – a classical Islamic text produced by Sayf Zafar (late thirteenth–mid-fourteenth centuries CE), a writer and scholar of Central Asian background, during the Delhi Sultanate. The book illustrates how the Durr al-Majalis contains various legal, theological-philosophical, metaphysical, chivalrous and mystical accounts. In addition, it traces how the book travelled beyond the so-called ‘Balkans-to-Bengal’ borders and was copied, translated and annotated across Eastern Africa, Eastern Turkistan, Mongol-dominated China, Arabic-speaking Egypt and South East Asia. It demonstrates how this Persian collection of stories shaped the idea of Islam, Islamic teachings and stories across the Muslim World, and in the Malay-Indonesian World in particular.
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Právo EÚ


Právo EÚ, Inštitucionálny systém a systém práva je učebnica napísaná kolektívom autorov pod vedením doc. M. T. Patakyovej, na ktorej sa podieľali vyučujúci pôsobiaci na Ústave európskeho práva Právnickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave. Učebnica špecificky k právu EÚ z tejto ustanovizne bola naposledy vydaná v roku 2011, čo vytvorilo veľký dopyt po novom texte. Text je oproti iným podobným učebniciam rozsiahlejší a ašpiruje na to osloviť nielen študentov bakalárskeho štúdia v odbore právo, ale aj odborníkov z právnej praxe a akademickej sféry. Učebnica sa zameriava na základné otázky práva EÚ, jej právomocí, prameňov, inštitucionálneho systému, súdneho systému a charakteristiky aplikácie tohto práva, pričom tieto inštitúty popisuje aj analyticky rozoberá. Pridáva aj úvod do medzinárodného práva verejného, historický kontext, pojednanie o hodnotách EÚ, demokracii a EÚ a o ochrane ľudských práv. Poskytnuté sú výňatky z judikátov a iných potrebných materiálov. Na početných miestach uvádza ilustračné príklady, čo je zavŕšené dvanástou kapitolou, ktorá uvádza dve prípadové štúdie aj so vzorovými riešeniami. Autorský kolektív v zložení doc. M. T. Patakyová, prof. O. Blažo, doc. H. Kováčiková, doc. A. Beleš, dr. A. Máčaj, dr. S. Kiššová a dr. Nosa, doplnený recenziami doc. M. Petra a doc. M. Jánošíkovej, poskytuje záruku kvalitne spracovanej problematiky práva EÚ.
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Krušnohorské osudy II


Krušnohorské osudy II přinášejí dalších dvacet příběhů z historie Krušných hor, které přibližují nelehký život v tomto jedinečném pohraničním pohoří. Stejně jako v prvním díle se i zde snoubí obrazy nádherné krajiny, cenné přírodní lokality evropského významu, s popisy technických památek, odkazujících na bohatou hornickou historii regionu, i vylíčením rušného života někdejších obcí, po nichž dnes zbyla jen tichá údolí. Dozvíte se také o rozhlednách, které zde stavěli první propagátoři turistiky, o výletních hostincích, jimž nebylo souzeno stát na vrcholech do dnešních dnů, nebo o věhlasu dávno neexistujících krušnohorských podniků. Kniha, jež přináší příběhy významných osobností, událostí a míst Krušných hor, je doplněna množstvím unikátních historických i současných fotografií.
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25,45 €

Storočie dynastických vojen (1648-1791)


Monografia Storočie dynastických vojen (1689 – 1791) mapuje závažné historické medzníky a udalosti po skončení tridsaťročnej vojny, a to od vojny o falcké dedičstvo, španielske dedičstvo cez vojnu o poľské dedičstvo a niekoľko vojen o rakúske (habsburské) dedičstvo až po vojnu o bavorské dedičstvo, ako aj ďalšie ozbrojené konflikty najmä vojny proti Osmanskej ríši a Francúzsku v uvedenom časovom období. Všíma si pritom nielen priebeh týchto vojnových konfliktov, ale aj ich dosah na vývoj a dianie v habsburskej monarchii, v Uhorsku a osobitne na Slovensku. Ponúka čitateľovi mnohé zaujímavosti o priebehu najdôležitejších bitiek aj o každodennom vojenskom živote mužov v uniformách, a to od radových vojakov až po slávnych vojvodcov. Udalosti vizuálne dokresľuje množstvo súdobých obrázkov. Autorovi sa podarilo skĺbiť erudovaný historický prístup s populárnym štýlom literatúry faktu, takže táto priekopnícka a atraktívna kniha nepochybne osloví nielen záujemcov o politické a vojenské dejiny, ale aj širokú čitateľskú verejnosť.
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Praktická učebnica trestného práva hmotného


Praktická učebnica trestného práva hmotného je jedinečnou publikáciou, ktorá svojim čitateľom ponúka ucelený model praktickej výučby trestného práva hmotného založenej na priblížení a aplikácii teoretických poznatkov na praktické prípady. „Sumarizačne je možné uviesť, že predložená učebnica predstavuje nespochybniteľný prínos výučby trestného práva hmotného praktickým spôsobom, keďže štúdium na jednej strane uľahčuje, na druhej strane však vhodne a nenásilne prepája trestnoprávnu teóriu a príslušnú aplikačnú prax a v neposlednom rade podnecuje kritické myslenie svojich adresátov.“ doc. JUDr. Martin Štrkolec, PhD. „V celom rozsahu posudzovanej publikácie zodpovedá odborný text aktuálnej právnej úprave a ustálenej aplikačnej praxi. Autori v celej učebnici priliehavo a vhodne pracujú so súdnou judikatúrou. Autormi použité modelové prípady sú originálne, neobmedzujúce sa len na tradične zaužívané príklady, pričom sú zasadené do súčasnosti.“ JUDr. Matúš Kováč, PhD.
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Psychosomatika pro lékaře, psychoterapeuty i laiky, 3. vydání


Proč a jak reaguje tělo na psychickou zátěž? Proč své tělo zneužíváme? Kdo nese vinu za psychosomatické onemocnění? Proč máme strach z psychoterapie? Rozhodují o vzniku psychosomatických onemocnění individuální problémy pacienta a genetické dispozice, nebo také civilizační vlivy a společenské podmínky? Na všechny tyto otázky odpovídá MUDr. PhDr. Jan Poněšický, Ph.D. – lékař, psycholog, psychoterapeut a psychoanalytik. Nastiňuje souvislosti mezi biologickým fungováním našeho těla a psychikou v reakci na zátěžové situace. Pacienti i lékaři se často omezují na hledání tělesných příčin onemocnění. K harmonizaci pak používají léky působící pouze na výsledné symptomy. Skutečná duševní podstata nemoci však zůstává skryta a neléčena. Budeme tedy hledat příčiny úporných bolestí hlavy v kostech a svalech, nebo spíše v nevyřešených osobních problémech? Jan Poněšický přináší psychoterapeuticky odborné, přesto však všeobecně srozumitelné vysvětlení. Kniha shrnuje dosavadní názory lékařů a psychologů, zabývajících se psychosomatickými souvislostmi nemocí, a zároveň předává autorovy dlouholeté zkušenosti v tomto nejstarším (a zároveň nejmodernějším) oboru medicíny, jehož krédem je: Nemocí netrpí jenom postižený orgán, ale celý člověk.
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Rozšírte svoje vedomosti z nových oblastí ako ekonómia, manažment a marketing. Zaujímate sa o vesmír a jeho fungovanie, správanie živočíchov či históriu času? Správny smer do života a pozitívnu psychológiu prinesie motivačná literatúra. Knihy odborné - z oblasti práva, pedagogiky, sociológie či medicíny - ukrýva práve táto sekcia.

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