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Political Science

Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries

Cramer Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781850658214, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
342 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is there so much violence in the developing countries? What does it have to do with economic development? What does it have to do with globalisation? In addressing these and other questions, Christopher Cramer takes a broad...

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Middle East

Rescuing Afghanistan

Maley William

ISBN: HB: 9781850658467, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Compared to post-invasion Iraq, Afghanistan seems a success story; but first impressions can be misleading. The country remains on a knife-edge, and the loss of momentum in its transition from the Taliban regime puts Afghanista...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Ivan the Terrible

de Madariaga Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...

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Military

Shopping for Bombs Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network

Corera Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9781850658269, Hurst Publishers, July 2006
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Shopping for Bombs" presents the first detailed account of the emergence of Pakistan's nuclear hero A.Q. Khan as the world's leading black market salesman of nuclear weapons technology. It reveals the inside story of how he so...

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Aviation

De Havilland Vampire in Italian Service

Di Terlizzi Maurizio, Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650209, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
248 pp., 24x17 cm, 60 colour illus., 159 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Thanks to these aircrafts Italy entered into the jet era. The De Havilland DH.100 Vampire was in fact the second jet engine fighter to be used in service in Great Britain and at the same time the first single-engine jet plane of the type mass-produce...

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Aviation

Aermacchi: Flashes of War MC.200 - MC.202 - MC.205/V

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: HB: 9788875650308, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
256 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 513 colour and black&white illus.

IBN Editore presents a masterpiece by N. Malizia dealing with the Macchis of the II WorldWar that even though went through dramatic times, still represent the fame of the A. M. I. The author recalls the fighters delivering a sequence of photographs,...

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Aviation

Starfighter Colours

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788875650346, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
224 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 235 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

The most beautiful colour photograps of the Lockheed F/RF-104G/ TF-104G/F-104S/ ASA/ ASA/ M/ TF-104/ G-M. Special Colours The authour goes through the genesis, the history of the F-104Gs, the F-104S, the F-104S-ASA, the Alenia in the A. M. I. and the...

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Political Science

Middle East

Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History

Mayaram Shail, Skaria Ajay

ISBN: PB: 9781905422128, ISBN: HB: 9781905422111, Seagull Books, June 2006
350 pp., 21.2x14 cm

How have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or 'Untouchables"? Taking a subaltern approach – the view from below – "Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of H...

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Polonica

Europe

When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption

Adamczyk Wesley

ISBN: PB: 9780226004440, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 maps

Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...

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Europe

Armenians From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars

Panossian Razmik

ISBN: PB: 9781850657880, Hurst Publishers, May 2006
442 pp., 21.5x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The book traces the evolution of Armenia and Armenian collective identity, in the homeland and in the diaspora, from its beginnings to the eve of the Armenian nationalist movement over Gharabagh in 1988. The emphasis is on the...

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