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Jewish Studies

Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston

Dwyer-Ryan Meaghan, Porter Susan L., Fagin Davis Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...

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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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Political Science

Africa

Africa's "Agitators" Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939

Derrick Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781850659365, Hurst Publishers, October 2008
496 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The period between the two World Wars were the peak years of the colonial empires, but they were not unchallenged. Individuals and organisations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contribu...

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Military

Europe

Elusive Compromise A History of Interwar Yugoslavia

Djokic Dejan

ISBN: PB: 9781850658641, ISBN: HB: 9781850658511, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
310 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...

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Aviation

Macchi MC 205 Veltro

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815550, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2007
64 pp., 24x17 cm, 22 colour illus., 37 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Unmissable Italian/English volume that tells the story of the Macchi MC205, the II WW Italian aircraft that was meant to take the place of MC202. Complete and rich of technical details, with coloured photos both wartime and current (the modern shots...

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Military

Political Science

Iran and the Bomb The Abdication of International Responsibility

Delpech Therese

ISBN: HB: 9781850658443, Hurst Publishers, March 2007
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Iranian regime is in the midst of a dangerous nuclear poker game with the West, playing for the highest possible stakes. Iran, ruled today by Ali Khamenei, the Guide of the Revolution, and the recently elected President Ahm...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Ivan the Terrible

de Madariaga Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...

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Aviation

De Havilland Vampire in Italian Service

Di Terlizzi Maurizio, Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650209, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
248 pp., 24x17 cm, 60 colour illus., 159 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Thanks to these aircrafts Italy entered into the jet era. The De Havilland DH.100 Vampire was in fact the second jet engine fighter to be used in service in Great Britain and at the same time the first single-engine jet plane of the type mass-produce...

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Ancient World

Vesuvius A.D. 79 The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum

De Carolis Ernesto, Patricelli Giovanni

ISBN: HB: 9780892367191, Getty Publications, March 2006
124 pp., 24x16.8 cm, 120 colour illus.

Mount Vesuvius, in what is now southern Italy, erupted in AD 79, spewing volcanic rock, clouds of fine ash, and deadly gases over surrounding towns and farms, burying every trace of their existence. In nearby Pompeii, nearly 2000 people died. Rain fa...

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Ancient World

Herculaneum Italy's Buried Treasure

Deiss Joseph Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780892361649, Getty Publications, March 2006
222 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 118 black&white illus.

A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.

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