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America

Integrating the Inner City The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation

Chaskin Robert J., Joseph Mark L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226478197, ISBN: HB: 9780226164397, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment – via the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation" – has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban la...

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Africa

Little Mogadishu Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub

Carrier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781849044752, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nairobi's Eastleigh estate has undergone profound change over the past two decades. Previously a quiet residential zone, the arrival of vast numbers of Somali refugees catalysed its transformation into 'Little Mogadishu', a glo...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Hawker Hunters at War Iraq and Jordan, 1958-1967

Cooper Tom, Salti Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096252, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 113 black&white photos, 12 colour photos, 15 colour profiles

Designed by Sydney Camm as a swept wing, daytime interceptor with excellent manoeuvrability, the Hunter became the first jet aircraft manufactured by Hawker for the Royal Air Force. It set numerous aviation records and saw widespread service with a l...

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Europe

August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

Cabanes Professor Bruno, O'Hara Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...

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Military

Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War

Connery David

ISBN: PB: 9781925520194, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
136 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

We Are All Flourishing The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter JJ Coats MC 1914-1919

Chojecki Jan, LoCicero Michael Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781911096399, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 photos

"There have been moments during the last week or so when I had grave doubts as to whether I should see tomorrow". Compiled from the almost daily letters home and a diary written in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, We are all Flourishin...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1: The Victory Years, 1939-1942

Cony Christophe, Roba Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781612004082, Casemate, October 2016
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour illus.

This remarkable work pulls the lid off one of the legendary air forces in history at the very peak of its power-unveiling the and machines as they truly existed day-to-day, underneath the propaganda of their own regime and the scare stories of their...

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Military

Hear their Footsteps King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and the Old Edwardians in the Great War 1914-18

Cornwell John

ISBN: PB: 9781911096269, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
76 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 photos

The book recounts the story of an elite Yorkshire day school – and its "Old Boys" who joined the forces – in the First World War. The school was founded by Sheffield City Council in 1905, who finessed an amalgamation of two much older institutions as...

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Aviation

Flying The Icon Spitfire

Cotter Jarrod

ISBN: HB: 9780993212987, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2016
160 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 200 illus

The Supermarine Spitfire is not only one of the most famous British icons, but it is arguably the most widely-recognised and popular aircraft in the history of aviation. For many generations it was said to be "every schoolboy's dream" to fly a Spitfi...

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Asia

General

Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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