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Justice in the Balkans Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal

Hagan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226312286, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
304 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 7 illus.

Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U. N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 empl...

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Catastrophe and Meaning The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century

Postone Moishe, Santner Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226676111, ISBN: HB: 9780226676104, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? Thes...

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Europe

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...

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Europe

Polonica

Women and the Nazi East Agents and Witnesses of Germanization

Harvey Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300100402, Yale University Press, September 2003
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 37 illus.

This book examines the role of women in Nazi Germany's "nationality struggle" during the 1930s and in measures to Germanize occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on previously untapped material from Polish and German archives, as well as memoi...

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Middle East

Paradoxical Kingdom Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform

Champion Daryl

ISBN: PB: 9781850656685, ISBN: HB: 9781850656470, Hurst Publishers, August 2003
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Saudi Arabia remains a closed society with its own interpretation of Islamic Law, an insistence on royal privilege and an uneven record on human rights. This study examines the paradoxes and considers the pressure for reform.

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America

Deaf President Now! The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University

Christiansen John B., Barnartt Sharon N.

ISBN: PB: 9781563681523, Gallaudet University Press, July 2003
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Deaf President Now!" reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet University seized the campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors inter...

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Europe

Search for Greater Albania

Kola Paulin

ISBN: PB: 9781850655961, Hurst Publishers, July 2003
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In this topical text Paulin Kola challenges the accepted notion that there is widespread support for a 'Greater Albania' among the Albanian-speaking people of the Balkans, and argues that Albanians do not wish to join a single,...

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Aviation

Macchi MC 202 Folgore, Part 1

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815420, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2003
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 18 colour illus., 55 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The first part of the monography is dedicated to an aircraft that is the one of the most researched between those that partecipated in the II World War. The text is bilingual (Italian/English) and the volume deals with the history and the modelling s...

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Aviation

A129 Mangusta Italian Attack Helicopter

Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650018, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2003
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 31 colour illus., 41 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The eight title of the Aviolibri Special, series, dedicated to the A129 Mangusta, an helicopter built only in Italy. This monography is addressed especially to modellers and historians. The text is entirely bilingual (Italian/English). The author pro...

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Poetry

Ancient World

Amores

Ovid

ISBN: PB: 9781857546897, Carcanet, June 2003
112 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm

Five booklets that Ovid first penned now are three; he preferred to emend. So if we don't please you, at least we can ease you presenting two less to offend. Ovid (c. 43 BC-AD17), a daring, original and passionate poet, has been an enduring influenc...

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