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Decorative Arts

Ancient World

Causey Faya

ISBN: PB: 9781606060827, Getty Publications, December 2011
144 pp., 22.4x17.4 cm, 63 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This title offers a fascinating look at the one of the ancient world's most prized substances. Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and lege...

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Literary Criticism

Asia

Korean Treasures, Volume 1 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University

Chung Minh

ISBN: HB: 9781851242870, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2011
112 pp., 25x21 cm, 82 colour illus.

Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spec...

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Military

Aviation

Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map

This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...

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Jewish Studies

America

New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...

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General

America

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Peel Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...

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Jewish Studies

Middle East

River Jordan The Mythology of a Dividing Line

Havrelock Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226319575, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studi...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel, Jordan, and Palestine The Two-State Imperative

Susser Asher

ISBN: PB: 9781611680393, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed...

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Asia

Political Science

China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?

Meyer Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781849042154, ISBN: HB: 9781849041720, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the world's four mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book aims to open a debate on the question of leadership in...

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Europe

Serbs History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia

Judah Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300158267, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 40 black&white illus

"The Serbs" was published in hardcover in 1997, and paperbacked in 1998. It was reissued as a NB paperback in 2000, and reprinted regularly since then. There is a lot to catch-up on in this second edition. It covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow...

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Europe

Counter-Revolution The Second Civil War and Its Origins, 1646-1648

Ashton Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300184075, Yale University Press, November 2011
552 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

While much has been written on the subject of the English Civil War, the Second Civil War has been largely neglected. Robert Ashton, author of the standard history, The English Civil War, now provides a detailed and erudite account of the origins of...

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