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Military

Theirs is the Glory Arnhem, Hurst and Conflict on Film

Truesdale David, Esler Smith Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781911096634, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
392 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 65 colour photos, 275 black&white photos, 10 maps

Theirs is the Glory – the story of the Battle of Arnhem – was the biggest-grossing UK war film for a decade. Made by veterans of the battle in the late summer of 1945, it tells their story day by day: the pre-operation briefing, the drop, the race to...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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Europe

Corporate Commonwealth Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651

Turner Henry S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226363356, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Corporate Commonwealth" traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance period and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fi...

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Asia

Colonel Who Would Not Repent The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy

Tripathi Salil

ISBN: HB: 9780300218183, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian Subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. As religion alone could not keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fou...

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Europe

Culture Studies

European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

Turner Frank M., Lofthouse Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219487, Yale University Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures – lucid, accessi...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Telo Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226309699, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn i...

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Political Science

America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Africa

Gaza as Metaphor

Tawil-Souri Helga, Matar Dina

ISBN: PB: 9781849046244, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, "Gaza" immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza:...

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Political Science

Asia

China and Tibet The Perils of Insecurity

Topgyal Tsering

ISBN: PB: 9781849044714, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China's sense of insecurity, its perception of itself as a socio-polit...

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Asia

History of Modern South Asia Politics, States, Diasporas

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300196948, Yale University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history...

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