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Islam

Current Affairs

From Independence to Revolution Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power

Kennedy Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9781849047050, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "From Independence to Revolution" tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Egyptian population and the nation's most prominent political opposition – the Islamist movement. Most commentators focus on the Musl...

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Military

To War with the 4th A Century of Frontline Combat with the US 4th Infantry Division, from the Argonne to the Ardennes to Afghanistan

King Martin, Collins Michael, Nulton Jason

ISBN: HB: 9781612003993, Casemate, December 2016
200 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

The 4th Infantry Division has always been there in America's modern wars. On 14 September 1918 the men of the "Ivy" Division stood up in their trenches and prepared to attack. It would be one of the first times that American troops would operate auto...

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Anthropology

Asia

Inheritance of Loss China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire

Koga Yukiko

ISBN: PB: 9780226412139, ISBN: HB: 9780226411941, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With "Inherita...

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Middle East

Political Science

Gateways to the World Port Cities in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: PB: 9781849045636, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world's fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. "Gateways to the World" presents an in-depth, systematic, and multi-disciplinary appr...

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Military

Daring All Things The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)

Kendall George

ISBN: HB: 9781911096627, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Daring All Things" is a unique and extraordinary autobiography, which was published for the first time 55 years after its completion (shortly before The Rev George Kendall died suddenly in 1961, aged 79). The book is the life story of a man born int...

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America

Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran

Kinder John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420714, ISBN: HB: 9780226210094, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The p...

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Ecology

America

Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

Kelly Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...

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Europe

First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

Kelsey Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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