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Asia

Understanding Bangladesh

Ali S. Mahmud

ISBN: PB: 9781850659983, ISBN: HB: 9781850659976, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a population of some 154 million people, receives little notice in the West, other than when political upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our attention. In "Understanding Banglad...

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Europe

Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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Africa

Curse of Berlin Africa After The Cold War

Adebajo Adekeye

ISBN: PB: 9781849040969, ISBN: HB: 9781849040952, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose historical and structural importance continues to affect and shape Africa's contemp...

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Asia

Technology & Engineering

Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India

Anderson Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones

In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...

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Europe

Engineering the Revolution Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Alder Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780226012643, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 32 halftones

"Engineering the Revolution" documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "technological life". Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of...

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Africa

Sport

African Soccerscapes How a Continent Changed the World's Game

Alegi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849040389, ISBN: HB: 9781849040372, Hurst Publishers, April 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. Football may obey global rules,...

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Ancient World

Caesar's Druids Story of an Ancient Priesthood

Aldhouse-Green Miranda

ISBN: HB: 9780300124422, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.

Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids' day-to-day lives were far less lu...

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Political Science

Middle East

Dubai Gilded Cage

Ali Syed

ISBN: PB: 9780300152173, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 illus.

In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration,...

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America

Conservatives Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

Allitt Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300164183, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William F. Buckley, Jr. and Irving Kristol. Conservatism has assumed a variety of forms, historian Patrick Allitt argues, because it has be...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

F/Rf-4e Phantom II

Anestis Alexandros, Papadimitriou George

ISBN: PB: 9789606740756, Casemate, Periscopio Publications, March 2010
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 400 colour photos, 30 colour profiles, 8 scale plans

We are glad to introduce to you the third volume of Periscopio's series of modelling and historical reference publications under the title "PHOTO GALLERY & PROFILES". This volume covers in 140 pages the most successful versions of an aeroplane that r...

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