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Pilot's Guide Review - General Knowledge - Interview Preparation

Francati Valerio

ISBN: PB: 9788875652876, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2017
204 pp., 24x17 cm, colour and black&white illus.

A smart guide suitable for all pilots seeking a general aeronautical knowledge, a review, or an interview preparation. Main aeronautical subjects explained in 12 major chapters easy to read and understand, with more than 80 illustrations and 100 tech...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 42 March 1 through August 15, 1784

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222692, Yale University Press, June 2017
648 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

The forty-second volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. In the spring of 1784, Franklin, John Jay, and British negotiator David Hartley exchanged ratificatio...

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America

Power without Victory Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

Throntveit Trygve

ISBN: PB: 9780226459905, ISBN: HB: 9780226459875, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a na??ve idealist or cynical imperialist abroad. Historians' harsh judgments of Wilson are understandable. He won two electio...

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Military

Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: HB: 9781849047159, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book provides a comprehensive account of the mysterious story of Pakistan's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the face of severe odds. Hassan Abbas profiles the politicians and scientists involved, and the role of Chin...

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Political Science

America

Presidents' Secrets The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power

Graham Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300223743, Yale University Press, May 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power. Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting – the Constitutional Convention – presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necess...

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Christianity

Project Eagle The American Christians of North Korea in World War II

Kim Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348698, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of the forgotten alliance between that...

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Political Science

Police in Africa The Street Level View

Beek Jan, Gopfert Micro, Owen Olly, Steinberg Jonny

ISBN: PB: 9781849045773, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This book brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, pol...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Churchill Alexandra, Holmes Andrew, Dyer Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512301, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
224 pp., 24.2x27.5 cm, 8 maps, 130 black&white illus.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

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Europe

Petrograd, 1917 Witnesses to the Russian Revolution

Pinfold John

ISBN: HB: 9781851244607, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike....

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Travel

Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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