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Icon Curtain The Cold War's Quiet Border

Komska Yuliya

ISBN: HB: 9780226154190, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The Iron Curtain did not exist – at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historica...

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Africa

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Accounts and Drawings from Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: HB: 9780857422057, Seagull Books, February 2015
196 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 61 colour plates

Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", Kentridge and Rosali...

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Military

Useful Enemies When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them

Keen David

ISBN: PB: 9780300205435, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...

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Middle East

Beyond the Arab Spring The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: PB: 9781849043472, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new and inchoate system that redefines sources of aut...

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Europe

Weimar From Enlightenment to the Present

Kater Michael H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170566, Yale University Press, August 2014
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a centre of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German...

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Europe

Spanish Inquisition A Historical Revision

Kamen Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780300180510, Yale University Press, July 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, he incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new – and thought-provoking – view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notoriou...

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Asia

Compelling Ideal Thought Reform and Prison in China, 1901-1956

Kiely Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300185942, Yale University Press, July 2014
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Ze...

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Military

Aviation

Night Raiders of the Air

Kingsford A. R.

ISBN: HB: 9781612001487, Casemate, July 2014
222 pp., 19x12.7 cm

One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squad...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 19 Battleship HMS Duke of York

Koszela Witold

ISBN: PB: 9788364596025, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
32 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 4 double A2 sheet with colour schem, colour profiles, drawings sheets

Not for sale in Poland! HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5...

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Europe

Secrets in a Dead Fish The Spying Game in the First World War

King Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781851242603, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.

How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement for a dog in "The Times" have to do with the movement of British troops into Egypt? And why did Britis...

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