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Japan The Paradox of Harmony

Hirata Keiko, Warschauer Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300186079, Yale University Press, May 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

For centuries, people in the West have been fascinated, enchanted and perplexed in equal measure by Japan and its culture. Following a crushing defeat in the Second World War, this small, proud country rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to be...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 10 AMX-30, Volume 1: Char de Bataille 1966-2006

Robinson M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878994, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 colour and black&white illus., 8 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The AMX-30 was France's principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French Army in later forms even to this day. In this first work of a two volume study examining the history of the AMX-30 battle tank...

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Military

Photosniper, No. 11 Volume 2: Challenger 1 - Main Battle Tank

Griffin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788364596001, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 185 archive photos, 10 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! In Challenger 1 Volume 2 Robert Griffin outlines the service career of the Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank and Challenger Repair and Recovery Vehicle. This exciting Photosniper title includes numerous period photographs in col...

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Military

Polonica

Armoured Hussars Volume 1: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1939-47

Jarzembowski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9781909384439, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2014
148 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 black&white illus.

This wonderful album is a brilliant pictorial history of the 1st Polish Armoured Division composed of about 250 photographs, documents and publications largely collected by WO1 Alexander Leon "Manka" Jarzembowski, a veteran of 2nd Armoured Regiment,...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 19 Battleship HMS Duke of York

Koszela Witold

ISBN: PB: 9788364596025, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
32 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 4 double A2 sheet with colour schem, colour profiles, drawings sheets

Not for sale in Poland! HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5...

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Military

D-Day Through French Eyes Normandy 1944

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226136998, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings

"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges". Silent parachutes dotting the night sky – that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasio...

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America

Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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America

Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

Nickerson Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...

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History

Europe

Science and Emotions after 1945 A Transatlantic Perspective

Biess Frank, Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126487, ISBN: HB: 9780226126340, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rati...

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