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Ancient World

Variety The Life of a Roman Concept

Fitzgerald William

ISBN: HB: 9780226299495, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature an...

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Islam

Middle East

Al-Shabaab in Somalia The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012

Hansen Stig Jarle

ISBN: PB: 9781849045100, ISBN: HB: 9781849042505, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...

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Political Science

Middle East

Missionaries of Modernity Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony, from the 1940s to Afghanistan

Giustozzi Antonio, Kalinovsky Artemy

ISBN: HB: 9781849044806, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1940s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet...

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Africa

Gaza as Metaphor

Tawil-Souri Helga, Matar Dina

ISBN: PB: 9781849046244, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, "Gaza" immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza:...

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Europe

Heroic Failure and the British

Barczewski Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300180060, Yale University Press, February 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, histori...

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Ancient World

Design

Household Gods Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome

Sofroniew Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9781606064566, Getty Publications, February 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could ha...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle And The First And Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096092, ISBN: HB: 9781906033729, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2016
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 107 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Lavi The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet

Golan John W.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347226, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
456 pp., 23x15 cm

The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-performance aircraft. In a controversial strategy, Israel Aircraft Industries intended to develop and manufac...

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Political Science

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

Worley Robert D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347202, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
432 pp., 23x15 cm

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the...

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Political Science

Africa

Eat the Heart of the Infidel The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram

Walker Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781849045582, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Boko Haram's appetite for violence and kidnapping women has thrust them to the top of the global news agenda. In a few years, they have all but severed parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state and largest economy, from th...

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