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Middle East

Iraq's Democratic Moment

Hadid Foulath

ISBN: HB: 9781849042185, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1920, a massive uprising took place against British occupation of Mesopotamia. This initiated a struggle for democracy that pitted nationalist leaders against the British, their local political allies and a newly-installed m...

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Islam

Middle East

Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East

Hroub Khaled

ISBN: PB: 9781849041331, ISBN: HB: 9781849041324, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! During the decade prior to the Arab Spring dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels were established across the Middle East, advocating different forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through thei...

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Europe

Mathematics

Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

McGrayne Bertsch Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

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Macaulay and Son Architects of Imperial Britain

Hall Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300160239, Yale University Press, September 2012
420 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking t...

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World

Military

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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America

Media Studies

Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America

Goldberg Robert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...

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Europe

World

December 1941 Twelve Days That Began a World War

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187878, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.

In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these d...

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Europe

Citizen Portrait Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Cooper Tarnya

ISBN: HB: 9780300162790, Yale University Press, September 2012
240 pp., 27x22 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. But in the second half of the 16th century...

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Culture Studies

Europe

How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying

Mead Shepherd

ISBN: HB: 9781851242795, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying", came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of Brit...

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Middle East

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Bowersock G. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683219, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2012
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the gro...

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