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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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America

Across the Shaman's River John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North

Lee Henry Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233294, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 1 map

"Across the Shaman's River" is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and John Muir. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alas...

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Europe

Medieval

Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

Champion Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...

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Political Science

America

Despot's Apprentice Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

Klaas Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781849049436, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

For sale in CIS only! Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like a despot's apprentice. Whether it's attacking the press, threatening the rule of law, or staffing the White House with family members and cronies, Trump is borrowi...

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Africa

Sri Lanka

ISBN: PB: 9781849045735, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Even though Sri Lanka's protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longer waging military campaigns and the separatist Liberation...

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America

Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

Dallam Melillo Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...

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America

Political Science

Progressives' Century Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

Ackerman Bruce A., Engel Stephen M., Skowronek Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230499, Yale University Press, November 2017
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government....

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Ancient World

Antiquity Matters

Raphael Frederic

ISBN: HB: 9780300215373, Yale University Press, November 2017
376 pp., 21x14 cm

This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition t...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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