回顾整个第二次世界大战，给人留下深刻印象的大多是陆上交锋，但在海上，特别是远海，一场生死搏斗更是惊心动魄。德国海上舰只，无论是在规模上还是在火力上，都要比英国海军弱。然而，它们通过灵活的战术，给盟军以沉重的，仅1941年4月，盟军舰只损失吨位就达70万吨。随着战争的推，第三帝国崩溃了，海军也随之消亡。可那段历史，至今仍让人心有余悸。

本书以建党以来重要历史时期和事件为线索，系统回顾了领导干部选拔的发展历程，全面总结了领导干部选拔工作在一个世纪的历史变迁中积累的成功经验，深探讨了领导干部选拔工作的制度演变、体系发展、比较优势、探索创新等内容，为一步推动干部人事制度改革走向深、推干部管理工作科学化和国家治理能力现代化建言献策。

本书是露营者、徒步旅行者、探险者、极限运动者、向导以及其他需要熟悉野外活动的人士的手册，也是日常生活中每个人都能用得上的生存知识手册。在荒岛上我们如何生火？怎样去找到水源并净化水源？我们怎么样去获得食物？在沙漠中求生的时候，怎么样去辨别方向，发出求救信号？如何搭建避身所？怎样行基本的医疗自救？这些问题都能从本书中找到答案。书中配有清晰的图解说明，记录了美军在各种气候和地形下的生存技能训练法则，从非常专业的角度，为读者详细介绍了野外生存的装备选择、体能训练、心理训练、饮食营养、医疗救治、工具制造、寻找食物和水、野外动植物的食用与药用知识、搭建避身场所、辨别方向、发信号等野外生存活动必须了解的基本知识和的各种技能。这一系列生存技巧都是经过实际检验的，也都已经被无数次证明是非常有效的，在人迹罕至的偏远地区可能会决定人的生死存亡。阅读本书，你就可以在任何地、任何气候、任何条件下生存下去！

　　亲历见证51区秘史的先驱之作 　　大量从未破解的机密信息 　　51区，是美国政府从未承认其存在的军事禁地。 　　很多人以为51区的命名出于*，实际上它与1947年罗斯威尔坠毁飞碟的残骸有关。机舱内印着一行从未对外公的文字，残骸旁还有几具畸形尸体，它们是外星人还是飞行员？安妮对此深调查，竟然牵扯出第三种触目惊心的答案…… 　　雅可布森走访74位拥有“按需知密”权的官员、军事情报人员、科学家、飞行员以及工程师等，首度披露51区秘史。 　　21 二战后，美苏大肆掠夺前纳粹科学家，为何德国工程师霍顿兄弟是关键猎物？ 　　22 51区竟与古巴导弹危机有着极深的渊源？将二者联系起来的竟是领先时代40年、惊世骇俗的新型飞机？ 　　23 1969年以前，每九架美军飞机就有一架被苏联米格战斗机落，让美军闻风丧胆的米格-23缘何出现在51区的跑道上？ 　　24 当51区附近的居民投诉，当地供水系统中出现核裂变的致命放射性物质，原子能委员会竟将其归咎于中国人？ 　　25 21世纪的高空侦察成了无人机的天下，但技术的高速发展缘何又给五角大楼和中情局带来新的“有害问题”？ 　　无疑，51区已经变成一个举世瞩目的符号。经由此书，严守60年的国家机密就此炸……

中国悠久灿烂的历史文化是一座智慧的宝藏，是我们祖先用智慧的双手和头脑历经数千年的风雨创造和积累而成的，它如同河蚌中的沙粒经受了痛苦的磨炼和时间的考验，终升华为闪闪发光的珍珠。作为华夏儿女我们没有理由不去阅读这些历史，没有理由不继承这些智慧精华并把它运用于实际。而今天我们所呈现给广大读者的是这其中忠臣良将的谏议谋略与锐利檄文。 中国悠久的历史中涌现出了许许多多的优秀官员，他们刚正不阿，清正廉洁，无私奉献的精神很值得现代人学习和借鉴，而能体现他们这些精神的就是他们对当时朝政的谏议。 古代官场有所谓的“伴君如伴虎”之说，伴君是一门高深的艺术，一个臣子如果既想保住性命又不失其忠心，善于进谏就必不可少，这就使其文章充满了高超的技巧和可昭日月的忠诚。当然，很多时候，这臣子的忠诚已盖过对生命的爱惜，因此这样的一些谏议更是正义凛然，其情感之真诚坚毅，其道理之苦口婆心，让人不得不为之深深动容。 而至于檄文，则多为讨伐类的文章，古代著名的檄文就是陈琳对曹操的讨檄，骆宾王对武则天的讨檄，这两篇檄文读来酣畅淋漓，让人不由得大呼痛快。就连所招讨的对象曹操、武则天都能对其人其文深加折服，其文之精彩可想而知。而我们这里所选编的则是更全面，更系统的古代檄文，虽不能说篇篇都如这两篇檄文那样精彩绝伦，但也都有其可圈可点之处。这些文章由于往往都是有的放矢，故其语言也往往是精辟独道，一针见血，甚而是入木三分，置所讨对手于哑口无言，更对自己的这一方有着极其巨大的鼓动性。 《古代经典谏议檄文》的选编花费了编者大量心力。当然，由于水平和条件所限，肯定还会有所漏。另外，由于时代现实的局限，这些文章中不可避免地暴露出来一些不健康的思想，比如对皇帝的愚忠，动辄以战等等，这是我们必须要注意的，希望读者朋友们能吸其精华，而不为其中那些消极思想所影响。

本书静心提炼出“荣誉”、“忠诚”、“纪律”、“信念”、“意志力”、“团队”、“冒险精神”等26条西军校的经典法则，通过对西人及其案例的解读，详细阐述了每一条西法则所蕴含的深刻内容和重要价值，对个人而言可以从中获得人生启示。

中国古代官德文化具有悠久的历史和丰富的内容，是历代政治家和思想家不断总结为官从政的经验教训而逐步形成的，在一定程度上揭示了国家治理和官员道德建设的基本规律，凝聚了中华民族丰富的人生智慧和治国理政经验，是当代干部为官从政和修身养德的有益资材。作者立足现代视角，以虔敬、辩证和扬弃的理念，梳理了中国古代官德规范的主要内容，归纳了古代官德的培养与建设方法，总结了古代官德的积极作用，分析了继承古代官德应有的态度，探讨了古代官德建设的启示和当代新型官德建设的途径，从而发挥古代官德文化资政育人的作用。

  一场战争悲剧，一段生存奇迹 1943年5月的一个下午，一架美军轰炸机坠太平洋，从此失去踪迹，海面上只留下一堆飞机残骸、油料和血迹。不久，一名中尉浮出海面，他拼命游向一只救生筏，爬了上去，从此展了第二次世界大战中*非凡的一段旅程。 这名中尉便是路易•赞贝里尼。少年时期，他曾是不可救药的小魔头；青年时期，他将不服输的精神融赛跑项目中，展现出惊人天赋，并参加了1936年的柏林奥运会。二战爆发后，路易•赞贝里尼愤而从军，但一次寻常的飞行任务却将他引向了未知的深渊。 等待路易•赞贝里尼的，是万里无垠的汪洋大海和不时跃出水面的鲨鱼，饥饿、干渴、敌机不断威胁着他的生命；更为可怕的，是在日军战俘营中度过的700多个日日夜夜。他的命运，都悬在那根已渐渐磨损的意志之弦上……

本书汇集了从公元前15世纪至现代多场经典战役，全面讲解战役的过程，重介绍战争双方在战役中的军队部署、战术运用、智慧得失，并对战役的影响行分析和总结。全书再现了3500多年中不同时代、不同国家和地区所经历的血与火的洗礼。

《暗算：震惊世界的暗杀事件解密》是继《潜伏：国际间谍高手档案解密》《暗战：大国秘密战档案解密》《无间道：世界双面间谍档案解密》之后推出的又一新作。本书的主题有些特殊，其中的每一个故事都投射着权力与利益的角逐，浸透着火剑与鲜血的交锋，充满着真相与迷雾的较量……这就是本书编选的自1939 年至今这20 多次重大国际暗杀事件所描绘的真实历史。这些故事包括二战时期日本针对斯大林的两次暗杀计划、美国针对日本的“复仇计划”、英国针对纳粹德国的“类人猿计划”，也包括近年发生的“利特维年科事件”、美国猎杀本? 拉登等重大历史事件，它们都来自真实的历史，但是很多真相却还被掩盖在迷雾之下。虽然是过往，但人们对这些历史事件的思考远远没有结束，或许才刚刚开始，你说呢？

A historical play by William Shakespeare describing the life and death of Richard III. The play begins with Richard describing the accession to the throne of his brother, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York. Richard plots to have his brother Clarence, who stands before him in the line of succession, conducted to the Tower of London over a prophecy he bribed a soothsayer to finagle the suspicious King with.

The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether in trade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families and individuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristine strength and freedom. The New Freedom is only the old revived and clothed in the unconquerable strength of modern America. I have not written a book since the campaign. I did not write this book at all. It is the result of the editorial literary skill of Mr. William Bayard Hale, who has put together here in their right sequences the more suggestive portions of my campaign speeches.And yet it is not a book of campaign speeches. It is a discussion of a number of very vital subjects in the free form of extemporaneously spoken words. I have left the sentences in the form in which they were stenographically reported. I have not tried to alter the easy-going and often colloquial phraseology in which they were uttered from the platform, in the hope that they would seem the more fresh and spontaneous because of their very lack of pruning and recasting. They have been suffered to run their unpremeditated course even at the cost of such repetition and redundancy as the ex-temporaneous speaker apparently inevitably falls into. WOODROW WILSON. ABOUT WOLSON: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, known as Woodrow Wil-son (1856 –1924), was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson earned a PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and served as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being chosen as President of Princeton University, a position he held from 1902 to 1910. In the election of 1910, he was the gubernatorial candidate of New Jersey's Democratic Party, and was elected the 34th Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1911 to 1913. Running for president in 1912, Wilson benefited from a split in the Republican Party, which enabled his plurality of just over forty percent to win him a large electoral college margin. He was the first Southerner elected as president since 1848, and Wilson was a lea-ding force in theProgressive Movement, bolstered by his Democratic Party's winning control of both the White House and Congress in 1912. In office, Wilson reintroduced the spoken State of the Union, which had been out of use since 1801. Leading the Congress, now in Democratic hands, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. Included among these were the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. Having taken office one month after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in theRevenue Act of 1913, reintroducing an income tax and lowering tariffs. Through passage of the Adamson Act, imposing an 8-hour workday for railroads, he averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis. Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality, while pursuing a more aggressive policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war. ***

Cu o precizie remarcabil?, George Friedman a prognozat tendin?e viitoare ?n politica, tehnologia, cultura ?i demografia global?. ?n Puncte de presiune, Friedman se concentreaz? asupra Europei – centrul cultural ?i de putere al lumii ?n ultimele cinci secole... p?n? acum. Analiz?nd cele mai instabile, imprevizibile ?i fascinante linii de grani?? ale Europei ?i Rusiei – ?i liniile de falie care au existat vreme de secole ?i care au fost motivul a numeroase r?zboaie catastrofale – Friedman scoate ?n eviden??, ?ntr-o modalitate inedit?, punctele de presiune care au ?nceput din nou s? cedeze. Uniunea European? de ast?zi a fost construit? ?n mare parte pentru a reduce la minimum tensiunile geopolitice care au sf??iat continentul de-a lungul istoriei. Dup? cum demonstreaz? Friedman, folosindu-se de o bogat? analiz? istoric? ?i cultural?, acest model a ?nceput s? ??i arate limitele. Puncte de presiune relateaz? istoria vie a Europei ?i explic?, cu mult? claritate, care sunt cele mai volatile regiuni ale acesteia: teritoriul agitat ?i mereu ?n schimbare dintre Occident ?i Rusia (o zon? mare care include, ?n prezent, Ucraina, Belarus ?i Lituania); vechea linie de grani?? dintre Germania ?i Fran?a ?i zona Mediteranei, care este leag?nul iudaismului ?i al cre?tinismului ?i care a devenit un centru al vie?ii islamice. Din paginile scrise de Friedman se desprinde o imagine clar? a regiunilor ?i ??rilor, iar istoria ?ncepe s? se contureze precis. Puncte de presiune este o analiz? cuprinz?toare a Europei moderne, a trecutului s?u remarcabil ?i a faliilor care s-au trezit la via?? ?i care vor fi fundamentale ?n viitorul apropiat. Aceasta este cea mai oportun? ?i, p?n? la urm?, cea mai fascinant? carte a lui Friedman. ?... ?n preajma lui George Friedman, exist? mereu tenta?ia de a-l confunda cu un glob de cristal, capabil s? ??i arate viitorul.“ — The New York Times Magazine ?Friedman descrie ?n culori vii o regiune unde amintirile sunt vechi, vulnerabilit??ile omniprezente ?i amenin??rile apar rapid ?i pe nea?teptate...“ — Publishers Weekly ?Kronika“ este colec?ia ?n care umanitatea este reconstruit? prin c?r?i care ne ajut? s? p?trundem ?n culisele celor mai interesante evenimente politice, sociale sau financiare de ieri ?i de ast?zi.

Ce greu este orice nceput! Dar necesar, de neocolit. Nu tim cum va fi sfritul, nu tim nici mcar ce form va lua drumul, dect n linii mari; dar pentru c suntem aici, pe acest pmnt i pe acest continent, Europa, trebuie s re-ncepem, moralitatea noastr va fi cea a luptei i a onestitii n lupt. Avem libertatea, adevrat, n sfrit o avem, a sosit att de trziu nct, dei o pipim i o simim, pare incredibil. Dar ea nu este mai mult dect o form, o form goal ce va trebui umplut...“ (Nicolae Breban)

Volumul constituie o introducere normativ? ?n sfera de interes reprezentat? de politicile publice aferente spa?iului administrativ, adres?ndu-se at?t speciali?tilor, c?t ?i factorilor de decizie din acest domeniu. Autoarea evoc? problemele actuale din c?mpul politicilor publice, oferind modele decizionale ?i indic?nd provoc?rile cele mai importante la adresa paradigmelor clasice.

O parte, o bun parte, poate chiar cea mai consistent i interesant parte a dizidenei ori rezistenei scriitorilor romni n raporturile lor cu puterea comunist zace n arhive: Arhivele Securitii, Arhivele Naionale, Arhivele Comitetului Politic Executiv al C.C. al P.C.R., arhivele Consiliului Culturii i Educaiei Socialiste, arhivele i documentele Direciei pentru Pres i Tiprituri .a. Gem arhivele de atta rezisten. Scriitorii i condeierii romni, n marea lor majoritate, i-au dobndit o trainic celebritate n partea noastr de lume, prin scrisori. n lumea lui Caragiale, tradiia petiiei este la ea acasa. Partidul Comunist Romn, Nicolae Ceauescu nusi au ncurajat aceasta form de rezisten, printr-o rubrica special aprut sptmnal n oficiosul partidului, Scnteia. Rubrica se intitula Scrisori adresate conducerii Partidului, tovarului Nicolae Ceauescu, personal“ i ea, aceast rubric, devenise un fel de zid al plngerii unde oamenii se spovedeau sptmnal semnalnd primului dizident al rii“ neregulile din viaa lor de zi cu zi, apsrile pe care le ndurau eroic din partea stpnilor din satrapiile n care era mprit Romnia i pe timpul dictaturii comuniste.“O culegere de documente n care figureaz eroi, mai puin eroi ai zilelor noastre i alte personaje greu ncadrabile n categorii distincte, aidoma unor personaje dostoievskiene. O carte fundamental, de istorie direct care ateapt s fie scris.

Volumul reprezint? o binevenit? interogare a reziden?ei adev?ratului spirit democratic, tezaurizat nu ?n institu?iile reprezentative ale statului, ci ?n societate. Numai aici se afl? garan?ia reu?itei democratice a unui popor, pentru c? nimic nu poate asigura libertatea perpetu? a na?iunii mai mult dec?t permanenta responsabilizare a cet??enilor cu privire la destinul politic al comunit??ii ?n care tr?iesc.

Volumul este o culegere de articole publicate ini?ial pe platformele Contributors.ro ?i LaPunkt.ro, precum ?i ?n revista de cultur? contemporan? Timpul, ce au ?n vedere realitatea politic?, social? ?i literar? actual? sau recent?. Cititorii vor avea ocazia rememor?rii unor importante evenimente din aceste zone, cum ar fi ?nfruntarea politic? ocazionat? de alegerile preziden?iale din 2014, protestele legate de Ro?ia Montana, drama din clubul ?Colectiv“, dar ?i controversele generate de acordarea Premiului Na?ional ?Mihai Eminescu“ – Opera Omnia.

The “Manifesto of the Communist Party” was written by Marx and Engels as the Communist League’s programme on the instruction of its Second Congress (London, November 29-December 8, 1847), which signified a victory for the followers of a new proletarian line during the discussion of the programme questions. ??When Congress was still in preparation, Marx and Engels arrived at the conclusion that the final programme document should be in the form of a Party manifesto (see Engels’ letter to Marx of November 23-24, 1847). The catechism form usual for the secret societies of the time and retained in the “Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith” and “Principles of Communism,” was not suitable for a full and substantial exposition of the new revolutionary world outlook, for a comprehensive formulation of the proletarian movement’s aims and tasks. See also “Demands of the Communist Party in Germany,” issued by Marx soon after publication of the Manifesto, which addressed the immediate demands of the movement. ??Marx and Engels began working together on the Manifesto while they were still in London immediately after the congress, and continued until about December 13 when Marx returned to Brussels; they resumed their work four days later (December 17) when Engels arrived there. After Engels’ departure for Paris at the end of December and up to his return on January 31, Marx worked on the Manifesto alone. ??The first edition of the Manifesto was a 23-page pamphlet in a dark green cover. In April-May 1848 another edition was put out. The text took up 30 pages, some misprints of the first edition were corrected, and the punctuation improved. Subsequently this text was used by Marx and Engels as a basis for later authorised editions. Between March and July 1848 the Manifesto was printed in the Deutsche Londoner Zeitung, a democratic newspaper of the German emigrants. Already that same year numerous efforts were made to publish the Manifesto in other European languages. A Danish, a Polish (in Paris) and a Swedish (under a different title: “The Voice of Communism. Declaration of the Communist Party”) editions appeared in 1848. The translations into French, Italian and Spanish made at that time remained unpublished. In April 1848, Engels, then in Barmen, was translating the Manifesto into English, but he managed to translate only half of it, and the first English translation, made by Helen Macfarlane, was not published until two years later, between June and November 1850, in the Chartist journal The Red Republican. Its editor, Julian Harney, named the authors for the first time in the introduction to this publication. All earlier and many subsequent editions of the Manifesto were anonymous.

The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This same state of society has, moreover, engendered amongst them a multitude of feelings and opinions which were unknown amongst the elder aristocratic communities of Europe: it has destroyed or modified all the relations which before existed, and established others of a novel kind. The—aspect of civil society has been no less affected by these changes than that of the political world. The former subject has been treated of in the work on the Democracy of America, which I published five years ago; to examine the latter is the object of the present book; but these two parts complete each other, and form one and the same work. I must at once warn the reader against an error which would be extremely prejudicial to me. When he finds that I attribute so many different consequences to the principle of equality, he may thence infer that I consider that principle to be the sole cause of all that takes place in the present age: but this would be to impute to me a very narrow view. A multitude of opinions, feelings, and propensities are now in existence, which owe their origin to circumstances unconnected with or even contrary to the principle of equality. Thus if I were to select the United States as an example, I could easily prove that the nature of the country, the origin of its inhabitants, the religion of its founders, their acquired knowledge, and their former habits, have exercised, and still exercise, independently of democracy, a vast influence upon the thoughts and feelings of that people. Different causes, but no less distinct from the circumstance of the equality of conditions, might be traced in Europe, and would explain a great portion of the occurrences taking place amongst us. I acknowledge the existence of all these different causes, and their power, but my subject does not lead me to treat of them. I have not undertaken to unfold the reason of all our inclinations and all our notions: my only object is to show in what respects the principle of equality has modified both the former and the latter. Some readers may perhaps be astonished that—firmly persuaded as I am that the democratic revolution which we are witnessing is an irresistible fact against which it would be neither desirable nor wise to struggle—I should often have had occasion in this book to address language of such severity to those democratic communities which this revolution has brought into being. My answer is simply, that it is because I am not an adversary of democracy, that I have sought to speak of democracy in all sincerity. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it. I trust that my readers will find in this Second Part that impartiality which seems to have been remarked in the former work. Placed as I am in the midst of the conflicting opinions between which we are divided, I have endeavored to suppress within me for a time the favorable sympathies or the adverse emotions with which each of them inspires me. If those who read this book can find a single sentence intended to flatter any of the great parties which have agitated my country, or any of those petty factions which now harass and weaken it, let such readers raise their voices to accuse me. The subject I have sought to embrace is immense, for it includes the greater part of the feelings and opinions to which the new state of society has given birth. Such a subject is doubtless above my strength, and in treating it I have not succeeded in satisfying myself. But, if I have not been able to reach the goal which I had in view, my readers will at least do me the justice to acknowledge that I have conceived and followed up my undertaking in a spirit not unworthy of success. A. De T.

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