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America

Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Zakim Michael, Kornblith Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451107, ISBN: HB: 9780226451091, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 4 line illus.

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, "Capitalism Takes Comma...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Air Battles, No. 08 Hellcat: The Legend of the Pacific

Zbigniewski Andre Z.

ISBN: PB: 9788361220145, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
56 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 56 black&white photos , 4 sheets, 8 profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Highly illustrated combat history of the Hellcat. The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy service. Although the F6F bore a family resemb...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Air Miniatures, No. 31 421 Nfs: 1943-1947

Zbigniewski Andre Z.

ISBN: PB: 9788389088475, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
80 pp., 23.7x17 cm, 85 black&white photos, 9 profiles

Not for sale in Poland! A comprehensive and fascinating history of this USAAF P-61 Black Widow unit, which operated in the Pacific theatre, detailing its various combat exploits. The squadron was activated on May 1, 1943, as the 421st Night Fighter...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Air Miniatures, No. 32 345 Bg, Volume I

Zbigniewski Andre Z.

ISBN: PB: 9788389088468, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
88 pp., 23.7x17 cm, 84 black&white photos, 9 profiles

Not for sale in Poland! A further title in this well-established series looks at the history of this USAAF B-25 Mitchell 345 Bomb Group unit, which operated mainly in the Pacific Theatre. The unit was formed in late 1942 and finally entered the Pac...

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Europe

Polonica

Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226993041, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 39 halftones

In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended we...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Under His Very Windows The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

Zuccotti Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300093100, Yale University Press, February 2002
434 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.

Pope Pius XII has often been criticized for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. In his defense, some have alleged that the pope was doing a great deal to help the Jews but that his efforts were necessarily behi...

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Political Science

Middle East

Asad's Legacy Syria in Transition

Zisser Eyal

ISBN: PB: 9781850654506, Hurst Publishers, November 2000
228 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad is one of the Middle East's most prominent leaders, under whose stewardship Syria became a regional power determined to exert its influence, if not hegemony, over the Middle East. Yet three de...

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