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Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America

Barnett Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9780226059600, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past – often called "association items" – may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued b...

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Women Studies

Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War

Milanetti Gian Piero

ISBN: PB: 9788875651466, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2013
280 pp., 24x17 cm, 505 black&white illus.

A pictorial history on the contribution that Soviet airwomen brought to the II World War. The Author retraces meticulously the role that these young women played during what they called themselves the "Great patriotic War". He went several times to R...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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SMI Library, No. 07 P-47 Thunderbolt with the USAAF in the MTO, Asia and Pacific

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878673, Casemate, Kagero, June 2013
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 130 black&white photos, 6 colour photos

Not for sale in Poland! P-47 Thunderbot's service outside western Europe, in three other major theaters of World War II – the Mediterranean, Asia and Pacific – although perhaps not as publicized, was no less colorful and varied, which makes it an e...

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America

Slaves Waiting for Sale Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

McInnis Maurie D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055060, ISBN: HB: 9780226559339, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 125 halftones, 12 colour illus.

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culmi...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Sicily Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome

Lyons Claire, Bennett Michael, Marconi Clemente

ISBN: HB: 9781606061336, Getty Publications, March 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 144 colour illus., 23 black&white illus., 1 map

This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. I...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Super Model International, No. 3

Chacewicz Tomasz, Wajnkaim Tomasz, Rosiak Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788362878543, Casemate, Kagero, March 2013
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, highly illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! "Super Model International" presents the best modellers from around the world profiling their great models, with hints and tips, step-by-step instructions for building, reports from model kit shows and modelling competitions...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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SMI Library, No. 05 P-47 Thunderbolt with the USAAF - European Theater of Operations

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878505, Casemate, Kagero, March 2013
84 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 93 grayscale photos, 12 colour photos

Not for sale in Poland! The P-47 Thunderbolt was the largest, heaviest, and most expensive fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single piston engine. Heavily armed with eight.50-caliber machine guns, four per wing when fully loaded, the P...

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Europe

Statesmanship and Party Government A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke

Mansfield Harvey C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226022178, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
294 pp., 23x15 cm

In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C. Mansfield examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke and the followers of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke during the mid-eighteenth century. In response to works...

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Military

Photography

Second World War In Pictures

ISBN: PB: 9781907708893, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, February 2013
300 pp., 16.5x16.5 cm, black&white illus.

Only 20 years after the First World War, the "war to end all wars", the Second World War broke out in Europe in 1939 and spread rapidly around the globe, involving most of the world's nations and all of the great powers, who formed two opposing milit...

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America

Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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