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Aviation

Air Fighter's Scrapbook

Jones Ira

ISBN: HB: 9781612001500, Casemate, July 2014
338 pp., 19x12.7 cm

Ira "Taffy" Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the w...

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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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America

American Zion The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War

Shalev Eran

ISBN: PB: 9780300205909, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous Ameri...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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Middle East

Military

Afghan Way of War Culture and Pragmatism: A Critical History

Johnson R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781849043762, ISBN: HB: 9781849041065, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Included in the narrative are the wider Pashtun population that lived astride the British Imperial/Pakistan border, not just those Pashtuns resident in the modern state of Afghanistan. The literature on the Afghan wars and fro...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian

Hall Jonathan M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096988, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
280 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 26 halftones, 29 line drawings, 10 tables

Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To ans...

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America

American Capitals A Historical Geography

Montes Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226080482, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables

State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committin...

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Ancient World

Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...

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Political Science

Africa

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...

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