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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...

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Asia

Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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America

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Eltis David, Richardson David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212549, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 30.7x23.9 cm, 189 colour maps, 5 black&white illus., 61 colour graphs, 36 colour illus.

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12. 5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up...

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Beyond Redemption Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War

Emberton Carole

ISBN: PB: 9780226269993, ISBN: HB: 9780226024271, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worke...

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Asia

External Mission The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

Ellis Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781849045063, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the unbanning of the African National Congress following thirty years during which the ANC...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Medea

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...

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Hercules in the Cradle War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867

Edling Max M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226181578, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings, 18 tables

Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. T...

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Military

Canada's Bastions of Empire Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918

Elson Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9781459503267, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, October 2014
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for t...

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Europe

Children and War Volume 1: Past and Present

Embacher Helga, Prontera Grazia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096719, ISBN: HB: 9781909384477, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2013
298 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Mary I England's Catholic Queen

Edwards John

ISBN: PB: 9780300194166, ISBN: HB: 9780300118100, Yale University Press, April 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The life story of Mary I – daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon – is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the bur...

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