Tag: Present

Rifles & Muskets From 1450 to the Present Day


Free Download Michael E. Haskew – Rifles & Muskets: From 1450 to the Present Day
Amber Books | 2014 | ISBN: 1782741518 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 139.07 MB
Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; muzzle-loading and breech-loading; revolving and rifling – the history of muskets and rifles is a fascinating journey through the development of firearms technology. From early matchlocks of the 15th century to the latest hunting rifles and assault rifles, Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets traces the development of these small arms through their technical revolutions. From a 16th century wheel-lock to today’s Knight MK-85 muzzleloader, from the Winchester to the Ak-47 to the latest sporting rifles, Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Throughout there are technical specifications for featured firearms. Illustrated with more than 260 color and black-and-white artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

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Present For Impact


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Published 1/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.65 GB | Duration: 1h 15m
Where storytelling meets data, visuals inspire, and confidence transforms fear

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Past Lives, Present Miracles


Free Download Denise Linn, "Past Lives, Present Miracles"
English | ISBN: 1401916821 | 2008 | 300 pages | EPUB | 441 KB
*Originally published in 1997 under the title Past Lives, Present Dreams Miracles can occur in your life, easily and effortlessly. It’s simply a matter of remembering who you are-and to do this it’s necessary to clear the blockages that stand between you and your soul. Almost all of these obstacles have their roots in your distant past, so it’s valuable to travel back in time to release them. However, most of us are so caught up in limiting beliefs about who we are that it’s almost impossible to take that journey. In this book, you’ll learn how to travel back to your previous incarnations to release buried obstructions so you can create the miracles in your life that you deserve! It’s safe, easy, and fun . . . and anyone can do it! You’ll learn how to discover your past lives without ever doing a regression, remove limitations regarding your relationships, abundance, and health that came from your past lives, uncover the symptoms of past-life traumas and how to clear them, even if you don’t believe in reincarnation, understand the roles that loved ones played in your previous incarnations, find your personal guides, spirit guardians, and angels and receive their help . . .and much, much more!

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Ecological Restoration in the Midwest Past, Present, and Future


Free Download Christian Lenhart, "Ecological Restoration in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future "
English | ISBN: 160938573X | 2018 | 296 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
Most people do not realize it, but the Midwest has been at the forefront of ecological restoration longer than perhaps any other region in the United States, dating back to the 1930s. Because of its industrial history, agricultural productivity, and natural features such as the Great Lakes, the Midwest has always faced a unique set of ecological challenges.

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Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)


Free Download Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present) By Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle
2000 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0804734054 | PDF | 2 MB
These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something of an institution over the years, the place where he presents the ongoing evolution of his thought in a remarkable combination of thoroughly mapped-out positions, sketches of new material, and exchanges with students and interlocutors. As has become a pattern in Derrida’s recent work, the form of this presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book consists of two texts on facing pages. "Invitation" by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida’s "response" on the right. The interaction between them not only enacts the "hospitality" under discussion, but preserves something of the rhythms of teaching. The volume also characteristically combines careful readings of canonical texts and philosophical topics with attention to the most salient events in the contemporary world, using "hospitality" as a means of rethinking a range of political and ethical situations. "Hospitality" is viewed as a question of what arrives at the borders, in the initial surprise of contact with an other, a stranger, a foreigner. For example, Antigone is revisited in light of the question of impossible mourning; Oedipus at Colonus is read via concerns that also apply to teletechnology; the trial of Socrates is brought into conjunction with the televised funeral of François Mitterrand.

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Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present)


Free Download Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present) By Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle
2000 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0804734054 | PDF | 2 MB
These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something of an institution over the years, the place where he presents the ongoing evolution of his thought in a remarkable combination of thoroughly mapped-out positions, sketches of new material, and exchanges with students and interlocutors. As has become a pattern in Derrida’s recent work, the form of this presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book consists of two texts on facing pages. "Invitation" by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida’s "response" on the right. The interaction between them not only enacts the "hospitality" under discussion, but preserves something of the rhythms of teaching. The volume also characteristically combines careful readings of canonical texts and philosophical topics with attention to the most salient events in the contemporary world, using "hospitality" as a means of rethinking a range of political and ethical situations. "Hospitality" is viewed as a question of what arrives at the borders, in the initial surprise of contact with an other, a stranger, a foreigner. For example, Antigone is revisited in light of the question of impossible mourning; Oedipus at Colonus is read via concerns that also apply to teletechnology; the trial of Socrates is brought into conjunction with the televised funeral of François Mitterrand.

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US Navy 1945 to the Present


Free Download Paul Silverstone – US Navy 1945 to the Present
Arms & Armour Press | 1991 | ISBN: 0853689210 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 113.82 MB
Culled from official and private sources this photo collection represents a visual record of the vessels which have been at the forefront of postwar design and technological advance in the navy which has seen more operational duty than any other.

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