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Jewish Studies

Europe

Cultural Revolution in Berlin Jews in the Age of Enlightenment

Feiner Shmuel, Naimark-Goldberg Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9781851242917, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2011
104 pp., 24x16 cm, 84 colour illus.

The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions and ideology led to the movement known as the Enlight...

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Europe

Medieval

Nuns Behaving Badly Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226534725, ISBN: HB: 9780226534619, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
264 pp., 22x14 cm, 25 halftones

Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superi...

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Fiction

Europe

Stricken Field A Novel

Gellhorn Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226286969, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
328 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...

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America

Media Studies

What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Hendershot Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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Military

Arc of War Origins, Escalation, and Transformation

Levy Jack S., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226476292, ISBN: HB: 9780226476285, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 tables, 11 line illus.

In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups,...

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America

War Stories Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North

Clarke Frances M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108629, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 7 halftones

The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in high...

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America

When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Gun Power, No. 35 Volume 2: Half-Track

Janda Patryk

ISBN: PB: 9788372372215, Casemate, AJ Press, August 2011
240 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 119 black&white photos, 40 col photos, 3D graphics

Not for sale in Poland! This second volume opens with a description of the Half-Track's incarnation as a weapons carrier, with all variants and versions presented on 75 pages of drawings along with a collection of photographs. The next chapter disc...

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