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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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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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Military

Confronting the Colonies British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency

Cormac Rory

ISBN: HB: 9781849042932, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, "Confronting the Colonies" considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of st...

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Europe

Northern Ireland The Reluctant Peace

Cochrane Feargal

ISBN: HB: 9780300178708, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process ended in political agreement in 1998, sectarian attitud...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Super Model International, No. 3

Chacewicz Tomasz, Wajnkaim Tomasz, Rosiak Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788362878543, Casemate, Kagero, March 2013
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, highly illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! "Super Model International" presents the best modellers from around the world profiling their great models, with hints and tips, step-by-step instructions for building, reports from model kit shows and modelling competitions...

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America

Long View Dispatches on Alaska History

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9780974922171, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
225 pp., 20x12.7 cm, 53 halftones

Too often the history of a place is reduced to a list of dates and a handful of major events, ignoring the daily stories that help shape its legacy".In The Long View", Ross Coen stops to explore the smaller yet extremely meaningful moments in Alaska'...

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Military

Warrior Geeks How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way we Fight and Think About War

Coker Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781849042543, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Warrior Geeks" examines how technology is transforming the way we think about and fight war, taking three major changes that are driving this process: cybernetic technologies that are folding soldiers into a cybernetic system...

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Europe

Polonica

Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Cienciala Anna M., Lebedeva Natalia S., Materski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...

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History

Earth Sciences

Watching Vesuvius A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Cocco Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226923710, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco revea...

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America

Fur Farms of Alaska Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede

Crawford Isto Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231719, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2012
230 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 50 halftones

After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being s...

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