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German Generation An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century

Kohut Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192452, ISBN: HB: 9780300170030, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and m...

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Aviation

Legends of Aviation, No. 07 Pfalz: Fighter Aircraft from Rheinland the Wine Country

Kowalski Tomasz J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878611, Casemate, Kagero, April 2013
72 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 73 photos

Not for sale in Poland! Fighters made in a Bavarian GmbH Flugzeugwerke factory were the third most common type of fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Army Air Service (Luftstreitkrنfte). Although having elegant lines, they turned out to be inferi...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Dreaming in French The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226054872, ISBN: HB: 9780226424385, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

A year in Paris... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision – and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light".Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives o...

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Europe

Watchful Clothier The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist

Kadane Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300169614, Yale University Press, January 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provides...

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America

Nation's Crucible The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194616, Yale University Press, January 2013
326 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans-Native Americans, African Americans, an...

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America

Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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Europe

Ambition, a History From Vice to Virtue

King William

ISBN: HB: 9780300182804, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

From log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to office of the CEO, ambition drives the American Dream. Americans are a nation of people driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous v...

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Africa

Political Science

Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution

Knudsen Are, Kerr Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849042499, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ancient times, a small multi-denominational state still recovering from a bloody civil war in its search for political autonomy and stability....

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Europe

Travel

Oxford Past Times The Changing Face of City and County

Koenig Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781908493651, Signal Books, November 2012
288 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! For more than ten years Chris Koenig's "Past Times" column has been a regular favourite in the Oxford Times , bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and county's history. Ranging over Oxford and i...

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World

Culture Studies

Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Klemek Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...

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