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Military

Anarchic Sea Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century

Sloggett Dave

ISBN: HB: 9781849041003, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Maritime security covers many issues including disputes over ownership of the continental shelf and of the boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zones, as well as protecting citizens from ballistic missile attacks using sea-based pl...

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America

Accidental Diarist A History of the Daily Planner in America

McCarthy Molly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226033358, ISBN: HB: 9780226033211, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 34 halftones

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner – variously called th...

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Europe

Athene Palace Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania

Waldeck R. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086330, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 map

On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opp...

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Europe

General

Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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Ancient World

Ancient Greece From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300160055, Yale University Press, May 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.E. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and arch...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

Parry Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300194098, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book – the first full-l...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Air Battles, No. 19 Luftwaffe versus USAAF 8th Air Force, Volume I

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878604, Casemate, Kagero, April 2013
80 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 109 photos

Not for sale in Poland! Luftwaffe versus USAAF 8th Air Force Vol. I – Another remarkable book in Air Battles series gives its readers exceptional chance to follow the history of relentless combat fought between Luftwaffe and USAF in the skies over...

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Middle East

Military

Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Lefevre Raphael

ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

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America

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780226004181, ISBN: HB: 9780226075976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 halftones, 9 line illus.

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California...

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Culture Studies

Middle East

Afghan Rumour Bazaar Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life of the Absurd

Arbabzadah Nushin

ISBN: PB: 9781849042314, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ironic and humorous, witty and self-deprecatory, "The Afghan Rumour Bazaar" reveals the quotidian absurdities of lives framed against the backdrop of a savage war. Offering daringly new perspectives on a country readers may err...

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