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Europe

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

Pippidi Andrei

ISBN: HB: 9781849041997, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How the great minds of the West formed an image of the Ottoman Empire and of Eastern Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intellectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of Pippidi's...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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Military

Polonica

Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Current Affairs

Libya The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

Pargeter Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300139327, Yale University Press, May 2012
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.

For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader", his repressive regime, sponsorship of terrorist violence, unique vision of the...

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Political Science

Middle East

Across the Line of Control Inside Pakistan-Administered Kashmir

Puri Luv

ISBN: HB: 9781849041737, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Kashmir issue has been a subject of international attention ever since the subcontinent was partitioned in1947. The clash between India and Pakistan over the coveted territory led to the emergence of Indian-administered and...

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Culture Studies

America

Havana Habit

Perez Firmat Gustavo

ISBN: PB: 9780300177893, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 20x13.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U. S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging "H...

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America

Black Gotham A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Peterson Carla L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181746, Yale University Press, February 2012
446 pp., 22.5x14.7 cm, 2 maps, 36 black&white illus.

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham" is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbours...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Stalin Cult A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Plamper Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300169522, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 21 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

12th & 15th Air Forces

Paloque Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9782352502104, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2012
128 pp., 25x21 cm, 400 colour profiles, 50 photographs

Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch on November 8, 1942. The unit served with the Northwest African Air Forces from February to December 19...

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General

America

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Peel Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...

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