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Ancient World

Shock of the Ancient Literature and History in Early Modern France

Norman Larry F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591483, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

he cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most ofte...

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Liberty Bell

Nash Gary B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171426, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 20.1x13.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has su...

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Rethinking France Les Lieux de memoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

Nora Pierre, Jordan David P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591353, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
504 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 77 halftones

The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the histor...

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War, Revolution and Society In the Rio De La Plata, 1808-1810 Thomas Kinder's Narrative of a Journey to Madeira, Montevideo And Buenos Aires

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781904955696, Signal Books, January 2010
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! The year 2010 witnessed the official celebration of the bicentenary of the revolutions in the Rio de la Plata. This book contains the narrative that Thomas Kinder wrote of his voyage to that region in 1808-10 and of his stay in...

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Aviation

Lockheed T/RT-33A The Story of a Trainer

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788886815925, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2009
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 35 colour illus., 92 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The text is bilingual (Italian/English), rich in colour and b&n photos and colour profiles. In the monography the author illustrates 30 years of aeronautical history, lived by the T-Bird itself in its use by the Italians. This aircraft, like the RT-3...

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Haunted City Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

Neil Gregor

ISBN: HB: 9780300101072, Yale University Press, November 2008
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Nuremberg – a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher – has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Naz...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 02 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe - A-1a/B-1a Models

Noszczak Maciej

ISBN: PB: 9788361220077, Casemate, Kagero, October 2008
28 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft.Design work started before World War II began, but engine problems prevented the aircraft from attaining operational status unt...

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Aermacchi: Flashes of War MC.200 - MC.202 - MC.205/V

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: HB: 9788875650308, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
256 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 513 colour and black&white illus.

IBN Editore presents a masterpiece by N. Malizia dealing with the Macchis of the II WorldWar that even though went through dramatic times, still represent the fame of the A. M. I. The author recalls the fighters delivering a sequence of photographs,...

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Starfighter Colours

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788875650346, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
224 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 235 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

The most beautiful colour photograps of the Lockheed F/RF-104G/ TF-104G/F-104S/ ASA/ ASA/ M/ TF-104/ G-M. Special Colours The authour goes through the genesis, the history of the F-104Gs, the F-104S, the F-104S-ASA, the Alenia in the A. M. I. and the...

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Fiat G.59

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788875650186, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
183 pp., 24x17 cm, 6 colour illus., 147 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

After the bitter defeat suffered by Italy in the II post war stage, the engineer Giuseppe Gabrielli has been able to build an authentic jewel of the sky. Born from the "ribs" of the FIAT G.55, the last Italian fighter of the II WW, the FIAT G.59 was...

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