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Europe

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

Pippidi Andrei

ISBN: HB: 9781849041997, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How the great minds of the West formed an image of the Ottoman Empire and of Eastern Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intellectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of Pippidi's...

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Military

Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941 The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon

Lopukhovsky Lev

ISBN: HB: 9781908916501, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2012
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths an...

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Middle East

Political Science

Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes Algeria, Iraq and Libya

Martinez Luis

ISBN: HB: 9781849041744, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! During the 1970s, owing to their oil 'rents', Algeria, Iraq and Libya all seemed engaged in a swift modernisation process. Oil was the godsend that would enable these states to catch up economically. Algeria was a 'Mediterranea...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Victorian Bloomsbury

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780300154474, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped a...

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Middle East

Violent Image Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries

Bolt Neville

ISBN: HB: 9781849041911, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Fast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutionised the way ideas, messages and images are disseminated, and the speed with whic...

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Nature

History of Art

Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Ancient World

Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300159073, Yale University Press, March 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B. C. ? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us...

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Europe

Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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History

Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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America

Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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