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Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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Parables of Coercion Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

Kimmel Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780226278285, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unl...

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Politics of Cultural Retreat Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867

Vushko Iryna

ISBN: HB: 9780300207279, Yale University Press, August 2015
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Gal...

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America

Power to Die Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Snyder Terri L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226280561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 table

The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they j...

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Asia

Partition The Long Shadow

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones

The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...

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World

Political Science

Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to Al-Qaeda

Macrakis Kristie

ISBN: PB: 9780300212600, Yale University Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

"Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies" is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked,...

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Middle East

Pakistan A New History

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781849043700, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country – the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth – it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping eas...

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History

World

Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Black Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...

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Europe

World

Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Barthas Louis, Strauss Edward M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212488, Yale University Press, May 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceas...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 19 Char Leclerc

Robinson M. P., Guillemain Thiery

ISBN: PB: 9788364596353, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 313 photographs, 10 painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! The Leclerc is the only battle tank serving in operational combat units in the French Army. Designed as a Cold War era tank killer that could take on numerically superior enemies, the Leclerc has served the armies of France...

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