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Criminology

Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

Bew John, Frampton Martyn, Gurruchaga Inigo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...

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Military

Scientific Way of Warfare Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity

Bousquet Antoine

ISBN: PB: 9781850659457, Hurst Publishers, February 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Bousquet's book considers the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and chaos on the battlefield. It spans the entire modern era, from...

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Aviation

Boeing 707, Kc-135 In Civilian and Military Versions

Breffort Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9782352500759, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2008
212 pp., 29.6x21 cm, illustrated throughout

Although the Boeing 707 is known worldwide as the machine which took civil aviation from the piston engine era into that of the jet engine, what is very often not known is that its existence was only made possible by the success of its immediate pred...

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Europe

Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

Bagley Tennent H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300136241, Yale University Press, May 2008
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this rapidly paced book, a former CIA chief of counter intelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the N...

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Asia

Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past

Breen John

ISBN: HB: 9781850659075, Hurst Publishers, March 2008
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book is the first authoritative volume in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. Twelve convicted and two suspected Class A war criminals are enshrin...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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Culture Studies

Philosophy

Prison Manuscripts Socialism and its Culture

Bukharin Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9781905422227, ISBN: HB: 9781905422210, Seagull Books, April 2007
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

Bukharin's "Prison Manuscripts" were written in Moscow's Lubyanka prison during 1937-1938 while awaiting his inevitable liquidation. Like Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Bukharin's Manuscripts too have their central emphasis on issues such as cul...

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Europe

Kremlin Rising Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (Updated Edition)

Baker Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781597971225, Casemate, Potomac Books, March 2007
478 pp., 23x15 cm

With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor – Vladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan...

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Europe

One Must Also Be Hungarian

Biro Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226052120, University of Chicago Press, February 2007
168 pp., 20.7x15.3 cm, 29 halftones, 1 figure

The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past and its future", Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darke...

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Architecture

America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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