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Asia

China Visions through the Ages

Niziolek Lisa C., Bekken Deborah A., Feinman Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226385372, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
354 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour plates, 1 table

At the entrance of The Field Museum's Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion's paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cu...

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America

Military

Blue & Gray Almanac The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang

Nofi Albert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005522, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 21x15 cm

Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know... - During the final days of the war some Richmond citizens were wont to throw "Starvation Parties", at which elegantly attired...

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Europe

Tiger in the Smoke Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

Nead Lynda

ISBN: HB: 9780300214604, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, "The Tiger in the Smoke" provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Brit...

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Military

Imperial Bayonets Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations (New Edition)

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512233, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
296 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 7 charts, 94 tables, 132 illus.

"Imperial Bayonets" examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers, and artillery. It is THE definitive work on Napoleonic t...

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Military

Lutzen and Bautzen Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512271, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, maps, 100 illus.

One army lost in the Russian winter, Napoleon raised another to keep his grip on Europe. A tired Russian Army and a raw Prussian force marched to meet him. "Lutzen and Bautzen" is a detailed and masterful study of a misunderstood and little covered c...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Wings Over Sinai The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956

Nicolle David, Ali Gabr Gabr, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096610, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white illus. 3 colour illus., 15 colour profiles

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or "Suez Crisis", as it is known in the West). Based on research...

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Africa

Short History of Mozambique

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781849048330, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This comprehensive history traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil war that followed independence...

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America

Political Science

Hero's Curse The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela

Norman Kajsa

ISBN: HB: 9781849047951, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolivar, to stir popular support. While Bolivar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his affinity for dictatorial rule...

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Ancient World

Classicisms

Norman Larry F., Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573572, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2017
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 105 colour plates

As an aesthetic ideal, classicism is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum. As a result, it is sometimes viewed as rigid, outdated, or stodgy. But in actuality, cla...

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World

Gathering the Ashes

Nagar Amritlal

ISBN: HB: 9780857423924, Seagull Books, November 2016
396 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 halftones

Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, the nawab of Awadh, and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What has remained missing from thi...

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