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Parables of Coercion Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

Kimmel Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780226278285, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unl...

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Law

Europe

Czech Law in Historical Contexts

Kuklik Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024628608, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The legal system of the present-day Czech Republic cannot be understood without sufficient knowledge of its historical roots and evolution. Kuklik traces the development of Czech law from...

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America

Golden Rules The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush

Kanazawa Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226258676, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings, 5 tables

Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. At the same time, options for increasing that supply look to be ever more limited...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 23 Battleship USS Alabama

Koszela Witold

ISBN: PB: 9788364596377, Casemate, Kagero, June 2015
32 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! The battleship USS Alabama is one of the very few "big ones" that saw service in World War II and survive to this day as museum ships. A recipient of nine Battle Stars for her wartime service, Alabama was a South Dakota clas...

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Military

Death of Mehdi Army The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq's Most Powerful Militia

Krohley Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781849044349, Hurst Publishers, May 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Mehdi Army militia was a towering force in Iraq during the early years of the post-Saddam era. As an aggressive opponent of foreign occupation and one of the principal antagonists in Iraq's brutal sectarian civil war, the m...

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Military

Photosniper, No. 18 Sturmpanzer IV Brummbar

Karmieh Samir, Mucha Krzysztof, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596322, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 20 sheets a4 sheet with scale drawings, 68 colour photos, 10 archival photos, 65 renders, 8 painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! Germans had been produced many specialistic armoured vehicles. Storm tanks are among them. They were used as infantry support heavy vehicles. They destroyed buildings, fortifications, barricades etc.STURMPANZER IV BRUMMBAR b...

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America

My Dear Molly The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love

Kodner Molly

ISBN: HB: 9781883982829, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 140 halftones

The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when archivist M. E. Kodner came across the James Love letters, she knew she had discovered something extrao...

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Europe

Latvia A Short History

Kalnins Mara

ISBN: PB: 9781849044622, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinc...

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Africa

Out of the Mountains The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

Kilcullen David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045117, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where a...

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Aviation

Legends of Aviation, No. 01 Fokker Dr. I - The Aces' Aircraft

Kowalski Tomasz J., Rys Marek

ISBN: HB: 9788364596292, Casemate, Kagero, March 2015
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 9 anaglyphs, 182 renders, 49 photos

Not for sale in Poland! The Fokker Dr. I was built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke in 1917 and saw service during World War I. Manfred Von Richthofen, better known as the the Red Baron, is perhaps the most widely recognised Fokker pilot, gaining his final...

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