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Polonica

Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution

Michnik Adam, Gross Irena Grudzinska, Matynia Elzbieta, Marczyk Agnieszka, Czarny Roman S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...

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Travel

Europe

Tripoli A History

Wright John

ISBN: PB: 9781909930193, Signal Books, February 2015
288 pp., 20.5x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! It has been called a "Noble Possession", abused as "A Nest of Corsairs" and extolled as "The Pearl of the Mediterranean". This city of Tripoli, one of the oldest on both the Mediterranean and the fringes of the Sahara, and neve...

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Military

Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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Business & Economics

America

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226491493, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 8 tables, 12 halftones

In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies – in...

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Europe

Mathematics

Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

McGrayne Bertsch Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

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Europe

Trieste Adriatic Emporium and Gateway to the Heart of Europe

Kent Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781850658399, Hurst Publishers, August 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Neil Kent's portrait of Trieste fills a major gap in contemporary writing on Italy, an important task bearing in mind that the city is now one of Western Europe's major gateways to the Balkans. It focuses in particular on the l...

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Europe

Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184395, ISBN: HB: 9780226184388, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
350 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 halftones, 2 line illus.

Natural right – the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin – is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right", Dan Edelstein argues...

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Europe

Terror by Quota State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study)

Gregory Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300134254, Yale University Press, January 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citi...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow

Dwork Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226511863, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
280 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 124 colour illus.

"With simple means, without any 'title', this book should in distant times always be in your memory". An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienst...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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