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Mexico Democracy Interrupted

Tuckman Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300160314, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover – after 71 years of PRI dominance – was hailed as the beginning of a ne...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Victorian Bloomsbury

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780300154474, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped a...

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Europe

Beyond the Tower A History of East London

Marriott John

ISBN: PB: 9780300187755, ISBN: HB: 9780300148800, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first th...

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Military

World

Limits of Detente The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973

Daigle Craig

ISBN: HB: 9780300167139, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis,...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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Military

Polonica

Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

50 Fighter Planes

Fresno Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9788496935419, Casemate, Quiron, July 2012
336 pp., 34x32 cm, 543 colour and black&white illus.

This fantastic new volume from Quiron covers 50 fighter planes from around the world in stunning detail. "50 Fighter Planes" is an indispensable guide for modellers and aviation enthusiasts alike.

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Military

1st Bedfordshires Part One: Mons to the Somme

Fuller Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780956269652, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In August 1914 the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment were amongst the small professional British Army who gathered and prepared for a war that would "be over by Christmas". With a long and proud history, dating back to 1688, the regiment's fighting...

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Media Studies

America

Theater of the Mind Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama

Verma Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226853512, ISBN: HB: 9780226853505, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "theater of the mind". This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In "Theater...

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Africa

South Sudan From Revolution to Independence

Arnold Matthew, LeRiche Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849041959, Hurst Publishers, July 2012
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independence was driven by the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement, a primarily...

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