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America

Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century

Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Anti-Semitic Moment A Tour of France in 1898

Birnbaum Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780226052069, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy. In Paris and provincial villages throughout the country, angry crowds paraded through the streets, threatening to attack Jews and destroy Jewish-owned businesses. Anger about...

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Middle East

Business & Economics

Abu Dhabi Oil and Beyond

Davidson Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849041539, ISBN: HB: 9781850659785, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Abu Dhabi is a new economic superpower that will soon wield enormous influence across both developing and developed worlds. The principal emirate of the United Arab Emirates federation commands over 8 percent of global oil rese...

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Military

Amazons of Black Sparta The Women Warriors of Dahomey

Alpern Stanley B.

ISBN: PB: 9781849041089, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a "small black Sparta", residents of Dahomey shared with the...

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Ancient World

Ancient Oracles Making the Gods Speak

Stoneman Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300140422, Yale University Press, March 2011
224 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For more than a thousand years, Greeks in all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colourful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosop...

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Europe

Travel

At the Kremlin Gates A Historical Portrait of Moscow

Skinner Gerald R.

ISBN: PB: 9781904955818, Signal Books, March 2011
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! By tradition, Moscow is the easternmost bastion of western civilisation. Moscow has stood against invasion and war, pestilence and fire. It has been rejected by its own rulers, and its destruction has been planned by its dreame...

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Asia

Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169171, Yale University Press, January 2011
464 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 7 maps, 2 black&white illus.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them – slavery, co...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Air Battles, No. 14 The Luftwaffe Over El-Alamein

Murawski Marek J., Wrobel Arkadiusz

ISBN: PB: 9788361220688, Casemate, Kagero, December 2010
56 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 56 black&white photos, 10 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two. Primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders of World War Two, Rommel and Montgomery,...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Air Battles, No. 15 Thunderbolts of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force: March 1943 - February 1944

Szlagor Tomasz, Swiatlon Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9788361220718, Casemate, Kagero, December 2010
78 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 80 black&white photos, 10 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Book contents: - Cross-Channel Ventures - Extended Range - Change of Strategy - The Big Week "Thunderbolts of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force" describes the use of P-47 Thunderbolt fighters in many air operations over Europe bet...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

At Leningrad's Gates The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North

Lubbeck William, Hurt David B.

ISBN: PB: 9781935149378, Casemate, November 2010
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck was 19 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 19...

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