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Military

Fortress Ploesti The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply

Stout Jay A.

ISBN: PB: 9781935149392, Casemate, February 2011
224 pp., 24x15.9 cm, black&white illus.

Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war ma...

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Medieval

Legend of the Middle Ages Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Brague Remi

ISBN: PB: 9780226070810, ISBN: HB: 9780226070803, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinke...

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Political Science

America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Asia

From Mao to Market China Reconfigured

Porter Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849040839, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the past thirty years, China has been entering inexorably onto the world stage, and into the world's imagination. From now on, there will be a 'China dimension' to almost everything we do. "From Mao to Market" is intended...

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Europe

Will to Survive A History of Hungary

Cartledge CartledgeBryan

ISBN: PB: 9781849041126, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
600 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Will to Survive" describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its even...

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America

Political Science

In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Fellman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...

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Asia

Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169171, Yale University Press, January 2011
464 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 7 maps, 2 black&white illus.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them – slavery, co...

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America

Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion

Malcolm Joyce Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...

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World

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Herf Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300168051, ISBN: HB: 9780300145793, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused...

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America

William Clark's World Describing America in an Age of Unknowns

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139013, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 41 black&white illus.

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through the...

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