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Military

Investment in Blood The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300205268, ISBN: HB: 9780300190625, Yale University Press, August 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost – both financial and human – of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom o...

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Military

Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945

LoCicero Michael, Mahoney Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781911096702, ISBN: HB: 9781909384460, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 tables

Between 1792 and 1945, the character of warfare changed. Battalions standing shoulder to shoulder during the Napoleonic era gave way to the industrialised, modern armies of the First and Second World Wars. The organisation and operational methods of...

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Ancient World

What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Lehoux Daryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226143217, ISBN: HB: 9780226471143, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about t...

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Europe

Great Plague A People's History

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300173819, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.

During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. Though the murderous contagion even...

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Europe

If England Were Invaded

Le Queux William

ISBN: PB: 9781851244027, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2014
224 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 2 black&white illus.

...No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour. Eight years before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria over the supposed presence of German spies in England gr...

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Medieval

Christianity

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities

Lassner Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...

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America

War's Waste Rehabilitation in World War I America

Linker Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226143354, ISBN: HB: 9780226482538, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
304 pp., 23.4x16 cm, 20 halftones

With U. S. soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper so...

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Cartography

Africa

Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery

Lambert David

ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...

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Current Affairs

General

End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future

Lemos Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...

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Political Science

Africa

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...

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