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America

Trying Biology The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools

Shapiro Adam R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226273440, ISBN: HB: 9780226029450, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In "Trying Biology", Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the imp...

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Europe

Invisible Hands Self-Organization in the Eighteenth Century

Sheehan Jonathan, Wahrman Dror

ISBN: HB: 9780226752051, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems – natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others – whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteen...

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Europe

Stalin and the Lubianka A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953

Shearer David R., Khaustov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780300171891, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization and fortunes of the politica...

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Literary Criticism

Asia

Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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Europe

Paris Summit, 1377-78 Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

Smahel Frantisek

ISBN: HB: 9788024625225, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
680 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeting with deft narrative talent, Frantisek Smahel tra...

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Asia

China-Pakistan Axis Asia's New Geopolitics

Small Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849043410, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipe...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 15 Konigstiger

Szafranski Jacek, Koening Mike, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596230, Casemate, Kagero, December 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Weighing in at nearly 70 tons the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B, now known as Konigstiger was the largest mass-produced tracked combat vehicle, which was sent to the units of the Third Reich. Armed with a 88 mm caliber gun, th...

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America

Psychology

Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

Staub Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...

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Middle East

Current Affairs

Among the Ruins Syria Past and Present

Sahner Christian C.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044004, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. "Among the Ruins" blends history, memoir and repo...

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