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We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World
ISBN: HB: 9780300230031, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interview...
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£18,99
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Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of the Time Capsule
ISBN: HB: 9780226574134, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones
Time capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things P...
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£34,00
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Future of Iran's Past Nizam al-Mulk Remembered
ISBN: HB: 9781849048200, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Future of Iran's Past" is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), celebrated Persian vizier and stalwart figure of power and authority in medieval Islamic society. He became the de facto ru...
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£40,00
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Sharpshooters Marksmen through the Ages
ISBN: PB: 9781612004860, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
From the Middle Ages on the most precise shooters have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters, and equipped with the best available weapons. The German states made the first serious use of sharpshooters on the battlefield during the Seven Years W...
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£7,00
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World War I From Mobilisation to the Armistice
ISBN: PB: 9782815103565, Casemate, OREP, March 2017
32 pp., 24x17 cm
This short book is a chronological and non-exhaustive study of photographs, letters, stories, weapons, and uniforms of soldiers. This study gives the opportunity to access the very private lives of soldiers who participated in various operations on t...
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£6,00
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Honoring Those They Led Decorated Field Commanders of the Third Reich: Command Authorities, Award Parameters, and Ranks
ISBN: HB: 9781911512226, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
264 pp., 27.6x21.9 cm, 300 black&white illus.
"Honoring Those They Led" examines specific points and groups within a massive subject; Commanding Generals of WW II German field commands with those primarily studied being among those presented one or more of their highest combat decorations by Ado...
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£59,00
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Loving and Leaving Washington Reflections on Public Service
ISBN: HB: 9781612348247, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2016
296 pp., 23x15 cm
John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through...
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£20,00
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Learned Patriots Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780226184203, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the "Great Powers" of Europe. The Ottoman Empire was no exception: Ottomans from all walks of life – e...
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£40,00
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Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849042604, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In "Advice for the Sultan" Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the longue duree. Her aim is to...
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£37,50
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Deciphering Sun Tzu How to Read "The Art of War"
ISBN: HB: 9781849042420, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In "Deciphering Sun Tzu", Derek Yuen...
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£25,00
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