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America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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America

Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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America

Caribbean Winter

Morand Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781909930681, Signal Books, October 2018
176 pp., 21.5x16 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1927, Paul Morand – a French diplomat and noted European author – made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience o...

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Middle East

Military

Cauldron NATO's Campaign in Libya

Weighill Rob, Gaub Florence

ISBN: HB: 9781849048828, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without troops on the ground; it also...

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Military

Middle East

Cold War in the Islamic World Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy

Hiro Dilip

ISBN: HB: 9781849049948, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni–Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis...

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Africa

Cyril Ramaphosa The Path to Power in South Africa

Hartley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9781787380158, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led...

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Europe

Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Willes Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300238686, Yale University Press, August 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

<p>Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd,...

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Medieval

Castles Fortresses of Power

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612006130, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Fortified structures have been in existence for thousands of years. In ancient and medieval times castles were the ultimate symbol of power, dominating their surroundings, and marking the landscape with their imposing size and impregnable designs. Af...

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Political Science

Asia

Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 A Self-Portrait

Ladany Laszlo, Elegant Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781849049108, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
592 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Without an understanding of the Communist Party no one can understand the China in which the Party has dominated the country. This book follows the development of the Communist Party and of Marxism in China from the early years...

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America

Cherokee Diaspora An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

Smithers Gregory D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234671, ISBN: HB: 9780300169607, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one...

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