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Ancient World

Cultural Identity In the Ancient Mediterranean

Gruen Erich S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892369690, Getty Publications, January 2011
572 pp., 25.2x18 cm, 97 black&white illus.

This is an illuminating collection of essays that explore the idea of cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the collective self-consciousness among people or nations, it b...

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Czechoslovakia The State that Failed

Heimann Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300172423, Yale University Press, January 2011
432 pp., 23.2x15.6 cm, 20 illus.

This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992 – from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, i...

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America

Culture Studies

Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition

Jackson Kenneth T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.

Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...

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Unfinished Revolution Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central Eastern Europe

Mark James

ISBN: HB: 9780300167160, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.8x16.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.

While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new dem...

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Jewish Studies

Death of the Shtetl

Bauer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm

In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...

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Military

Jewish Studies

Escape from the Nazis The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland

Mandelkern Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781550280555, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, January 2011
211 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm

Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war his one concern was survival. Like other Polish Jews, Ben and his young wife, Helena, came face to face with the evil of Nazism...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Junkers Ju-87 From 1936 to 1945

Leonard Herbert, Journeau Andre

ISBN: PB: 9782913903531, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
80 pp., 23.9x19.8 cm, fully illustrated

The symbol of Blitzkrieg in the air is detailed here in 200 colour profiles, illustrating a career which began as a terror plane in Spain and ended up as a tankbuster in the Russian sky.

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Aviation

Great American Combat Aircraft, No. 02 Volume 1: F-16 - Fighting Falcon A + B

Lert Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9782352501299, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 150 photos, 56 profiles

A multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force, the F-16 has been in service for an incredible 36 years, with no sign of retiring. At a time when other planes retire to museums, General Dynam...

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Business & Economics

America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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Europe

Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184395, ISBN: HB: 9780226184388, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
350 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 halftones, 2 line illus.

Natural right – the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin – is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right", Dan Edelstein argues...

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