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Aviation

Stefano Cosci

ISBN: PB: 9788875650032, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 56 colour illus., 43 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

An excellent monography on the Lockheed F104! A unique and revolutionary aircraft in its field, which influenced many military choices of the Aeronautica Militare and played and important role in the Italian aerospace industry. In the first part of t...

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General

Europe

Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New

Kete Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...

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Political Science

Military

Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict

Eric D. Patterson

ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...

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America

Endowed by Our Creator The Birth of Religious Freedom in America

Meyerson Michael I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166323, Yale University Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Was...

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America

Culture Studies

Statue of Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Berenson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300149500, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York harbour, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty wou...

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Europe

Funding Loyalty The Economics of the Communist Party

Belova Eugenia, Lazarev Valery

ISBN: PB: 9780300164367, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the party's role in the Soviet institutiona...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Fighting Units in Color, No. 03 VF-17 Jolly Rogers - Early US Navy Corsair Units: VF-12 and VF-17

Jarski Adam, Kolacha Zbigniew

ISBN: PB: 9788372372291, Casemate, AJ Press, June 2012
48 pp., 28x21 cm, 122 black&white photos, 31 colour photos, 22 drawings

Not for sale in Poland! This book was published as part of the "war" against what is probably the most permanent myth of the US Navy aviation units: the myth of red outlines on US national markings of VF-17 aircraft during the first (October – Nove...

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Anthropology

America

Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Safier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226733623, ISBN: HB: 9780226733555, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...

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America

Travel

Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...

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Political Science

America

American Diplomacy Fiftieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition

Kennan George F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226431482, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
224 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm

For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of a...

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