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Middle East

Near East A Cultural History

Cotterell Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9781849047968, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilisation in the fo...

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Europe

Nazis The Hidden History

Moore Jonathon J.

ISBN: PB: 9781742579733, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2017
312 pp., 24.3x15.3 cm, black&white illus.

"The Nazi's: The Hidden History" draws on the latest research to answer many of the unanswered questions about the Nazi state and provides many fascinating and original insights into the period. The book places in perspective how early racial and eug...

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Military

Nanoweapons A Growing Threat to Humanity

Del Monte Louis A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348964, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nanoweapons just might render humanity extinct in the near future – a notion that is frightening and shocking but potentially true. In Nanoweapons Louis A. Del Monte describes the most deadly generation of military weapons the world has ever encounte...

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Military

Normandy Battlefields Bocage and Breakout: From the Beaches to the Falaise Gap

Forty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781612004198, Casemate, March 2017
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day & the Bridgehead ended as the Allies fought to expand their D-Day foothold. In Bocage and Breakout, Leo Marriott and Simon Forty take the story forward as the success of the invasion continued into the Cotentin, with...

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Africa

Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994

Clarno Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226430096, ISBN: HB: 9780226429922, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and...

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Asia

North Korea's Hidden Revolution How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society

Baek Jieun

ISBN: HB: 9780300217810, Yale University Press, February 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is...

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Europe

Northern Conquest Vikings in Britain and Ireland

Holman Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781904955344, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conqu...

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Military

No Armour But Courage Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648

Jones Serena

ISBN: HB: 9781911096474, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
408 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 photos, 11 illus.

Few army officers of King Charles I shone as bright as George Lisle during the English Civil Wars, yet have drawn so little attention from subsequent historians. Born in London in 1615, Lisle's father was a well-connected publisher and monopolist, an...

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America

New Math A Political History

Phillips Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421490, ISBN: HB: 9780226184968, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 196...

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Photography

America

North of Dixie Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

Speltz Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781606065051, Getty Publications, October 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 black&white illus.

The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Spe...

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