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Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 1: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781907677663, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2012
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 140 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known t...

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Military

Bring Me Men Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire

Belkin Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9781849041775, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to be indisputable, yet it is full of contradictions. To become a warrior, one must renounce those things in life that are perceived to be unmasculine. Yet...

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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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Medieval

Anglicanus ortus A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century

Black Winston

ISBN: HB: 9781851242849, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2012
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (1088-1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental "Historia Anglorum". The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as ont...

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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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Culture Studies

America

Hollywood Sign Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon

Braudy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300181456, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 20.7x14.1 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents th...

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Europe

Propaganda State in Crisis Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror Under Stalin, 1927-1941

Brandenberger David

ISBN: PB: 9780300155372, Yale University Press, January 2012
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, the schools, and the cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party pro...

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Europe

Political Science

Last Dictatorship in Europe Belarus Under Lukashenko

Bennett Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849041676, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Belarus is an isolated country dominated by one man. Few tourists go there, despite its fascinating, cultured past and beautiful countryside. Belarussians are friendly and hospitable yet they rarely have the chance to speak the...

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Military

Political Science

Riot Politics Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State

Berenschot Ward

ISBN: PB: 9781849041362, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught fire just outside a small-town railway station in Gujarat, Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim vi...

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General

America

Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America

Brown Richard Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...

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