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Political Science

General

Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation

Fisher Williamson Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

William the Conqueror

Bates David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234169, Yale University Press, May 2018
616 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach...

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Military

Africa

We Dared to Win The SAS in Rhodesia

Wessels Hannes

ISBN: HB: 9781612005874, Casemate, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour and black&white photos

In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker...

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Military

War from the Ground Up Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics

Simpson Emile, Howard Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849049481, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
304 pp., 21.6x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, "War Fr...

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Military

Psychology

Why We Fight

Martin Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781849048897, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
328 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why are we willing to die for our countries? How can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. But Mike Martin boldly argues that the opposite is...

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America

Wellington Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300232820, ISBN: HB: 9780300187861, Yale University Press, April 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

Wellington's momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington's achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat...

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America

Travel

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

Bockstoce John R., Barr William

ISBN: HB: 9780300221794, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy,...

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Philosophy

Europe

What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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Military

Middle East

Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror

Salazar Philippe-Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...

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Europe

Culture Studies

We Are Not Amused Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of "Punch"

Crystal David

ISBN: HB: 9781851244782, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2017
96 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 54 black&white illus.

Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about...

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