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America

Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

Tyrrell Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...

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Africa

Understanding Namibia The Trials of Independence

Melber Henning

ISBN: PB: 9781849044110, ISBN: HB: 9781849044127, Hurst Publishers, December 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism – the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scen...

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Asia

Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)

Teissier Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...

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Europe

Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

Morris Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300208450, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 14 Volume 1: Panzerjager 38 (t) Hetzer & G13

Michalski Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9788364596131, Casemate, Kagero, November 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The new format of the book – A4 80 pages archive photos color profiles matte coated paper soft cover binding

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 57 Junkers Ju 88, Volume I

Murawski Marek J., Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788364596117, Casemate, Kagero, November 2014
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white photos, 120 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The first volume of the Monograph Junkers Ju 88 describes the genesis and development of the construction of the most modern German bomber in early period of the Second World War. The author presents the history of the vario...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 13 Sturmgeschutz IV

Jaszczolt Marek, Idzikowski Tomasz, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596209, Casemate, Kagero, November 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The new format of the book – A4 80 pages archive photos color profiles matte coated paper soft cover binding

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America

Hercules in the Cradle War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867

Edling Max M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226181578, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings, 18 tables

Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. T...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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