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America

Pox of Liberty How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection

Troesken Werner

ISBN: HB: 9780226922171, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 7 tables

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth – behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others....

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Middle East

Pakistan Paradox Instability and Resilience

Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9781849043298, Hurst Publishers, May 2015
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Padre, Prisoner and Penpusher The World War One experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke

Howson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781910294703, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 12 black&white illus.

Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. A regular army chaplain who had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilised with 54 other chaplains at the start of hostilities. He went to Franc...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 18 Sturmpanzer IV Brummbar

Karmieh Samir, Mucha Krzysztof, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596322, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 20 sheets a4 sheet with scale drawings, 68 colour photos, 10 archival photos, 65 renders, 8 painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! Germans had been produced many specialistic armoured vehicles. Storm tanks are among them. They were used as infantry support heavy vehicles. They destroyed buildings, fortifications, barricades etc.STURMPANZER IV BRUMMBAR b...

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Military

Psychology of Strategy Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War

Payne Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781849043373, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne...

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Military

Playing the Game The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-1918

Moore-Bick Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781910294758, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The British Army expanded significantly during the First World War, creating a huge demand for new officers to lead the infantry through the horrors and privations of trench warfare. Thousands of civilians accepted commissions with little or no previ...

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Military

Photosniper, No. 17 Panzerjager 38(t) Hetzer & G-13

Motyka Mariusz, Michalski Hubert, Gladysiak £ukasz, Draminski Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9788364596285, Casemate, Kagero, March 2015
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 42 archive photos, 9 painting schemes, scale drawings

Not for sale in Poland! This book is soft bound of 76 pages in English. It comes with a hand-held pair of cardboard glasses that have one red lends and one blue one, to use to see pictures in the book in 3D. The book contains 42 black and white wa...

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Ancient World

Persius A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: HB: 9780226241845, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metapho...

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America

Patriotic Betrayal The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism

Paget Karen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300205084, Yale University Press, February 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used – often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly – as undercover agents inside America and...

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Europe

Pagan Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300205466, Yale University Press, February 2015
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 103 black&white illus.

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughl...

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