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Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery. Originally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the country's terrain, ethnic groups, and history for American troops and now updated and expanded for the general public, Afghanistan Declassified fills in these gaps. Historian Brian Glyn Williams, who has traveled to Afghanistan frequently over the past decade, provides essential background to the war, tracing the rise, fall, and reemergence of the Taliban. Special sections deal with topics such as the CIA's Predator drone campaign in the Pakistani tribal zones, the spread of suicide bombing from Iraq to the Afghan theater of operations, and comparisons between the Soviet and U.S. experiences in Afghanistan. To Williams, a historian of Central Asia, Afghanistan is not merely a theater in the war on terror. It is a primeval, exciting, and beautiful land; not only a place of danger and turmoil but also one of hospitable villagers and stunning landscapes, of great cultural diversity and richness. Williams brings the country to life through his own travel experiences—from living with Northern Alliance Uzbek warlords to working on a major NATO base. National heroes are introduced, Afghanistan's varied ethnic groups are explored, key battles—both ancient and current—are retold, and this land that many see as only a frightening setting for prolonged war emerges in three dimensions.

By using his Cantos for storing, "making new," and transmitting historical documents, Pound was returning the epic to its ancient function as a tribal archive for the "luminous details" of history that define a culture's past and shape its future. So argues this book, which does not overlook the poem's brilliant lyrical passages but for the first time focuses on those vast stretches of Pound's epic composed not of literary touchstones but of that most unpoetic of literary forms, historical documents. Pound's task as epic poet was complicated by the fact that the documents he wished to renew and transmit to his culture were largely unknown, often because in his mind they had been suppressed by a widespread conspiracy throughout the ages which he termed the "historical black-out." His Cantos therefore, he believed, must be a counter-conspiracy to rescue vital documents from that black-out, renew them, and then recirculate them to combat the economic and political forces behind the black-out. Drawing on recent research by numerous scholars, Furia traces the arcane documents Pound unearthed from libraries around the world and shows how he transmuted this documentary mass into poetry, first by framing passages of prose to highlight their poetic texture and then by weaving these shards and fragments into a collage of intricate structure. Among the documents Furia "declassifies" are Chinese edicts, Italian bank charters, British factory commission reports, Byzantine guild regulations, American Presidential papers, municipal records, judicial writs, parliamentary statutes, legislative codes, contracts, deeds, mandates, treaties, diary entries, and correspondence by such diverse figures as Lorenzo de' Medici, Martin Van Buren, Napoleon, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mustapha Kemal, and Kubla Khan. Pound's Cantos Declassified traces the poet's struggle to shape the content of the epic poem that absorbed most of his creative life.

Poradnik do gry The Bureau: XCOM Declassified to kompletna solucja, zawierajaca opis wszystkich misji glownych i pobocznych oraz uwzgledniajaca lokalizacje poszczegolnych znajdziek. W tekscie opisano tez wszystkie mozliwe wybory fabularne, a do tego dodano szereg przydatnych porad dotyczacych walki z przeciwnikami (nie tylko bossami). Gracze poszukujacy optymalnego buildu rowniez znajda cos dla siebie, poniewaz w poradniku zawarto opisy dostepnych broni i zdolnosci. Calosc dopelnia kompletna i szczegolowa lista wrogich kosmitow (uwzgledniajaca ich mozliwosci) oraz szereg ilustracji, obrazujacych najtrudniejsze fragmenty rozgrywki. Podsumowujac, poradnik zawiera: Opis wszystkich misji glownych [Major], pobocznych [Operation], sledztw [Investigation] i zadan odwracajacych uwage [Distraction]; Zestawienie opcji dialogowych i ich konsekwencji dla fabuly gry; Liste wszystkich znajdziek: tasm, zdjec, plecakow oraz dokumentow; Porady dotyczace walki z przeciwnikami; Liste wszystkich rodzajow wrogow (wraz ze stosownym opisem); Zestawienia broni oraz umiejetnosci; Setki ilustracji, ulatwiajacych zrozumienie tresci poradnika. Oznaczenia kolorystyczne Aby ulatwic czytelnikom nawigacje po poradniku i orientowanie sie w jego tresci, wprowadzilismy do tekstu wygodne oznaczenia kolorystyczne. Oto one: Brazowy – przeciwnicy i postaci; Zielony – bronie, skrzynki z amunicja, uzywalne przedmioty; Niebieski – zdolnosci; Pomaranczowy – znajdzki. Poradnik do gry The Bureau: XCOM Declassified poza szczegolowa solucja zawiera lokalizacje wszystkich znajdziek, a takze liczne porady dotyczace starc, opisy wszystkich wyborow fabularnych, dostepnych przeciwnikow oraz broni i zdolnosci. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified – poradnik do gry zawiera poszukiwane przez graczy tematy i lokacje jak m.in. Inzynier (Klasy postaci i umiejetnosci) Bron 1 – Inwazja! (Misje – opis przejscia) Agent Carter (Klasy postaci i umiejetnosci) Wsparcie (Klasy postaci i umiejetnosci) 1 – Wizyta w bazie I – Witamy w XCOM (Misje – opis przejscia) Sugerowana druzyna (Klasy postaci i umiejetnosci) 1 – Dochodzenie – Zaklocenia radiowe (Misje – opis przejscia) Misje odwracajace uwage Przeciwnicy