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Middle East

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Rubin Barry, Schwanitz Wolfgang G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140903, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impac...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 08 Jagdpanther

Rejmak Adam

ISBN: PB: 9788362878833, Casemate, Kagero, January 2014
108 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 17 archive photos, 71 colour photos

Not for sale in Poland! Self-propelled tank destroyers constituted an essential component of the Third Reich's armored arm. Vehicles, which were especially useful in defensive warfare, in which the German army found itself after losing strategic in...

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Middle East

Bride and the Dowry Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

Raz Avi

ISBN: PB: 9780300198508, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its...

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Europe

Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars

Roberts Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 51 Focke-Wulf Ta 154 "Moskito"

Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788362878727, Casemate, Kagero, September 2013
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 2 painting schemes, 129 renders, 60 photos

Not for sale in Poland! This monograph is dedicated to the German Ta 154 night fighter which supposed to be an answer to the British Mosquito. The book covers both Ta 154 development history and the combat record of only few of those fighters ever...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Oedipus and the Sphinx The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

Renger Almut-Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780226048086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 1 table

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle – he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myt...

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America

Gender Studies

Nature's Noblemen Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West

Rico Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300136067, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...

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America

Rush to Gold France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854

Rohrbough Malcolm J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181401, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west". However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers travelled by land. The other half travelled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolum Rohrbough in his...

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Europe

Polonica

Midnight Train to Siberia A Polish Family's Courage in Surviving the Wartime Hell Created by Stalin

Radomska Teresa, Goral Alicja

ISBN: PB: 9781909544765, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, March 2013
182 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They w...

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