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Gaillard in Deaf America A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard

Gaillard Henri

ISBN: PB: 9781563681226, Gallaudet University Press, May 2002
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1917, Henri Gaillard journeyed to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ASD had been confounded by renowned deaf French teacher Laurent Clerc, th...

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America

Imperial Skirmishes War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America

Graham-Yooll Andrew, Jenkins Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781902669212, Signal Books, May 2002
220 pp., 22.7x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! Notorious for its recent military dictatorships, South America is less well known for its wars. But since the dawn of independence in the early nineteenth century, the continent has witnessed a series of conflicts, some short a...

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Military

Ploesti The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943 (Revised Edition)

Marlo Francis H.

ISBN: PB: 9781574885101, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2002
336 pp., 23x15 cm

On August 1, 1943, an enormous armada of America B-24 Liberator bombers roared at nearly treetop level over the peaceful farms and villages of Romania. This mission was Operation Tidal Wave. Its target – "the taproot of German might", Hitler's giant...

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Ancient World

Roman Republic in Political Thought

Millar Fergus

ISBN: PB: 9781584651994, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2002
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is a fact that the very long-lived Roman Republic has consistently played a surprisingly slight role in political theory and discussions about the nature of democracy, forms of government, and other matters, particularly when compared to the enorm...

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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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Europe

Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter

Rotem Simha

ISBN: PB: 9780300093766, Yale University Press, February 2002
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 illus.

This memoir tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defied the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik and his fellow Jews smuggled in arms and explosives, performed acts of resistance, held off the Nazi army for almos...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...

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Middle East

Jordan in Transition, 1900-2000

George Joffe

ISBN: PB: 9781850654889, Hurst Publishers, November 2001
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A discussion of transition in Jordan between 1990-2000, showing it to be a multi-faceted process, in which each facet interacts with the other, forming a coherent interdependent system. Economic transition has been a consequenc...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent

Healey Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226322346, University of Chicago Press, October 2001
376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 5 tables

The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, "Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia" investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik R...

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Aviation

Fiat G. 55 Centauro

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815352, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2001
64 pp., 24x17 cm, 32 colour illus., 49 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The narrative text and the captions are both in English and Italian. The book starts with a brief story of the origin and use of the G.55 design. The technical part is rich of colour detailed interior pictures and of technical details of the exterior...

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