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Performing Arts

America

America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Pugh Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...

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Europe

Law

Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom

Schneider Wendie Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...

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Medieval

Medieval Christianity A New History

Madigan Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780300216776, Yale University Press, December 2015
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign – a miraculous, brutal and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the inquisition, the crusades and the domination of the "Holy Land" come to mind. Yet the medi...

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Asia

History of Modern South Asia Politics, States, Diasporas

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300196948, Yale University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history...

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America

G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

Ebel Jonathan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...

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Military

Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300205381, ISBN: HB: 9780300195538, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 4: Atlas

Glantz David M.

ISBN: HB: 9781909982833, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2015
272 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 120 colour maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...

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Military

Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars Air Power in Kosovo and Libya

Gregory Robert H.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347318, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2015
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 illus.

On March 24th, 1999, President Clinton announced that the United States, along with NATO allies, had initiated air strikes against the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo. After seventy-eight days of bombing, Milosevic agreed to withdraw h...

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Military

Fall of the Double Eagle The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary

Schindler John R.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347653, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2015
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the Battle for Galicia in August 1914?and the unprecedented carnage that resulted?effectively doomed the...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Russia's Warplanes Volume 1: Russian-made Military Aircraft and Helicopters Today

Butowski Piotr

ISBN: PB: 9780985455453, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, December 2015
256 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Russia's Warplanes is set to become the standard reference work on the subject. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this will serve as an exhaustive directory of the latest products of Russia's military aviation industry. As well as outli...

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