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Italian Venice A History

Bosworth R. J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216127, Yale University Press, September 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice – not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the bel...

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Women Studies

Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance

Hurlburt Holly S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...

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Ancient World

Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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Polonica

Salvaged Pages Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust

Zapruder Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300205992, Yale University Press, September 2015
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprison...

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German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era

Laney Monique

ISBN: HB: 9780300198034, Yale University Press, September 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his...

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Middle East

Political Science

Taliban Revival Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: PB: 9780300216165, ISBN: HB: 9780300178845, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliba...

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World

I Was a Spy! The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War

McKenna Marthe

ISBN: HB: 9781910860038, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2015
288 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm

"The Greatest War Story of All – Takes rank with All Quiet on the Western Front. She fulfilled in every respect the conditions which made the terrible profession of a spy dignified and honourable. Dwelling behind the German line within sound of canno...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Heer and SS Visor Caps and Uniforms

Meland Jan M., Elvan Trond A.

ISBN: HB: 9788269012606, Casemate, Mort Homme Books, September 2015
230 pp., 35.2x21.8 cm, 736 colour illus.

The book has hardcover (US legal format), 230 pages with 736 color photographs of over 50 visor caps of the Heer (army) and the SS. The book shows has also a chapter with 9 uniforms of the Heer and the SS The chapter of the SS caps contains among ot...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Light Cruiser Yahagi

Motyka Mariusz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596667, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 118 renders, 18 anaglyphs 3D, double sheet A2 with the plans

Not for sale in Poland! Yahagi, the second Japanese warship of that name, was the third of the four Agano-class vessels (the other three being Agano, Noshiro and Sakawa). Construction of the Agano-class cruisers was approved by the Japanese parliam...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 25 Sd.Kfz. 161 Panzer IV - Ausf. H/J

Mucha Krzysztof

ISBN: PB: 9788364596704, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
40 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 31 drawings sheets A4, 18 colour profiles, 1 double sheet B2 with the scheme 1:16

Not for sale in Poland! In June 1943 the production of Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. H began in order to increase the armour piercing capabilities of its main armament. Although the new model received the modified 75-mm KwK43 L/48 tank gun, the Ausf. H was sti...

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