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Political Science

Biography & Memoires

Eltchaninoff Michel

ISBN: PB: 9781849049344, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing...

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Political Science

Biography & Memoires

Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

Eltchaninoff Michel

ISBN: PB: 9781849049337, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
208 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders...

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Popular Science

Biography & Memoires

Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Tesla Nikola

ISBN: HB: 9781435167957, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, February 2018
512 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

"The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla" is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technolog...

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Biography & Memoires

History

Longing for Wide and Unknown Things The Life of Alexander von Humboldt

Meinhardt Maren

ISBN: HB: 9781849048903, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the hi...

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Biography & Memoires

Claudio Ranieri T[h]inkerman

Gatas Aris

ISBN: PB: 9781782551287, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, December 2017
280 pp., 20.5x13.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

How does a team and a coach, who were nearly forgotten three years ago, achieve the impossible? How do they rise to the top and conquer the Premier League, the toughest league in the world? Everyone is entitled to dream big after Claudio Ranieri's mi...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys

Gnys Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated

Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865

Robertson Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images

Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau

Waters Davis W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213508, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 images, 2 maps

"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads". Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer – he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop...

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Jewish Studies

Biography & Memoires

Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back

Zadoff Noam

ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...

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Biography & Memoires

Law

Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet

Rosen Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...

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