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Jewish Studies

Europe

Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...

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Middle East

Jordan in Transition, 1900-2000

George Joffe

ISBN: PB: 9781850654889, Hurst Publishers, November 2001
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A discussion of transition in Jordan between 1990-2000, showing it to be a multi-faceted process, in which each facet interacts with the other, forming a coherent interdependent system. Economic transition has been a consequenc...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent

Healey Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226322346, University of Chicago Press, October 2001
376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 5 tables

The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, "Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia" investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik R...

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Aviation

Fiat G. 55 Centauro

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815352, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2001
64 pp., 24x17 cm, 32 colour illus., 49 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The narrative text and the captions are both in English and Italian. The book starts with a brief story of the origin and use of the G.55 design. The technical part is rich of colour detailed interior pictures and of technical details of the exterior...

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Aviation

Reggiane RE 2005 Sagittario

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815383, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2001
64 pp., 24x17 cm, 18 colour illus., 55 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The author illustrates one of the most beautiful aircrafts of the II World War, starting with an historical outline of the Re2005 design with black and white photographs. The following chapters are dedicated to a technical description of the type (wi...

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Aviation

Bell P-39 Aircobra in Italian Service

Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788886815857, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2001
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 21 colour illus., 55 black&white (including threeviews and profiles)

The authour explains clearly and precisely the chronological operational history of the P-39, describing the pilots? missions during the II World War. The text is both English and Italian and suits the aviation history lovers as well as modellers, to...

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Europe

South Pole The Norwegian Expedition in The Fram, 1910-1912

Amundsen Roald

ISBN: PB: 9781850654698, Hurst Publishers, March 2001
844 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of explorati...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Handbook of WWII German Military Symbols & Abbreviations, 1943-45

Booth Terry

ISBN: PB: 9781874622857, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2001
120 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm

To the uninitiated, German military symbols appearing on documents, maps, orders-of-battle, and throughout postwar German WWII military literature, can appear indecipherable. Yet an understanding of their meaning is key to being able to seriously rea...

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