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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Public Health

Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

Osborne Michael A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226114521, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was i...

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Women Studies

Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

Herbert Amanda E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...

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Middle East

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Rubin Barry, Schwanitz Wolfgang G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140903, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impac...

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Plague of Informers Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England

Weil Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300171044, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or l...

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Africa

History of South Africa

Thompson Leonard, Berat Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300189353, Yale University Press, February 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations...

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Christianity

Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

German Fighters: 1936-1945 Volume 1: The Messerschmitt Bf 109

Breffort Dominique

ISBN: PB: 9782352503323, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2014
192 pp., 30x23 cm, 600 colour profiles

Gathered in these two volumes is the legendary Luftwaffe aircraft: the Messerschmitt 109 and 110, the Focke-Wulf 190 and the jets that appeared at the end of the conflict. More than 600 color profiles detail a wide variety of insignia and camouflage...

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Aviation

German Fighters: 1939-1945 Volume 2: Bf 110, Me 210, Me 410, Fw 180, Me 282, Me 183, He 182

Breffort Dominique

ISBN: PB: 9782352503347, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2014
192 pp., 30x23 cm, 600 colour profiles

Gathered in these two volumes is the legendary Luftwaffe aircraft: the Messerschmitt 109 and 110, the Focke-Wulf 190 and the jets that appeared at the end of the conflict. More than 600 color profiles detail a wide variety of insignia and camouflage...

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Military

Photosniper, No. 09 Volume 1: Challenger 1 - Main Battle Tank

Griffin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788362878956, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 280 archive photos

Not for sale in Poland! The Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank was Great Britain's second purpose-designed Main Battle Tank and served as the spear point of the Royal Armoured Corps for nearly 20 years. The Challenger 1 proved to be an excellent combat...

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