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Africa

Africa's "Agitators" Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939

Derrick Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781850659365, Hurst Publishers, October 2008
496 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The period between the two World Wars were the peak years of the colonial empires, but they were not unchallenged. Individuals and organisations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contribu...

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Judaism

Europe

Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

Rosenberg Yudl

ISBN: PB: 9780300143201, Yale University Press, August 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to...

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Europe

Matters of Exchange Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300143218, Yale University Press, August 2008
578 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Coo...

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World

Little Histories

Little History of the World

Gombrich E. H., Harper Clifford, Mustill Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300143324, ISBN: HB: 9780300108835, Yale University Press, August 2008
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschic...

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Aviation

Stipa Caproni The Italian Flying Jet Barrel

Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650636, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2008
104 pp., 24x17 cm, 4 colour illus., 48 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Amonography dedicated to the troubled projects related to the realization of the ducted propeller vehicle. Luigi Stipa was in fact one of the first engineers to study the application of Venturi duct as the base of the development of the future jet ai...

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Sign Language

Europe

Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France

Quartararo Anne T.

ISBN: HB: 9781563683671, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 photos

Since the French Revolution in1789, Deaf French people have struggled to preserve their cultural heritage, to win full civil rights, and to gain access to society through their sign language. Anne T. Quartararo depicts this struggle in her new book "...

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Asia

Political Science

China Returns to Africa A Superpower and a Continent Embrace

Alden Chris, Large Daniel, de Oliveira Ricardo Soares

ISBN: PB: 9781850658863, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The geopolitical landscape of contemporary China-Africa relations has provoked wide media interest. After being conspicuously overlooked during the G8's purported 'Year of Africa', the topic generated wider debate in the build-...

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Africa

Understanding Somalia and Somaliland Culture, History, Society

Lewis Ioan M.

ISBN: PB: 9781850658986, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cu...

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Military

Darfur Sultanate A History of Contested Identities

O'Fahey R. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781850658535, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This text presents an analytical narrative of Darfur, from the beginnings of its recorded history to the present. Three themes dominate: Darfur's complex history and its equally complex ethnic and ecological issues. The various...

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Europe

Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

Bagley Tennent H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300136241, Yale University Press, May 2008
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this rapidly paced book, a former CIA chief of counter intelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the N...

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