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Europe

Prince of Tricksters The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

Houlbrook Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226133157, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters – royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery – his changing names an...

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Law

America

Policing Immigrants Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines

Provine Doris Marie, Varsanyi Monica W., Lewis Paul G., Decker Scott H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363189, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 maps, 4 figures, 13 tables

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency – more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief". Yet despite...

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Europe

Pocket Magna Carta 1217 Text and Translation

ISBN: HB: 9781851244522, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm,

"No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed... except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land". "To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice" "Magna Carta" (or "Great Char...

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Military

Aviation

Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 Volume 1: The Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934

Meredith Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781910294505, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 3 tables, 115 black&white illus.

Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple description of famous air battles and operations the overall work draws extensively on original documents, s...

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Architecture

World

Practicing Utopia An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

Wakeman Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780226346038, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones

The typical town springs up around a natural resource – a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor – or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns", which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are of...

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Political Science

America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Political Science

America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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Africa

Political Science

Petro-Developmental State in Africa Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea

Ovadia Jesse Salah

ISBN: HB: 9781849044769, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and arg...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 07 Chieftain Main Battle Tank - Development And Active Service From Prototype To Mk.11

Griffin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788362878529, Casemate, Kagero, January 2016
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 137 colour photos, 20 painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! The Chieftain was a radical evolutionary development of the successful Centurion line of tanks that had emerged at the end of the Second World War. The British had learned during the war that their tanks often lacked suffici...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 20b Volume 2: Panzer IV Ausf. H and Ausf. J

Karmieh Samir, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596919, Casemate, Kagero, January 2016
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 58 black&white illus., 74 colour photographs

Not for sale in Poland! The Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. H and Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. J tanks were produced in the largest numbers in the range known as Sonderkraftfahrzeug 161 in German terminology – 7,000 vehicles. This means that a significant quantity of these...

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