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Vital Minimum Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France

Simmons Dana

ISBN: HB: 9780226251561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 tables

What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs. These scientists did not trust in a providential economy to di...

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Asia

Political Science

Fragments of an Unfinished War Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China

Mengin Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9781849044707, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, independence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing m...

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Africa

Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

Snedden Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849043427, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) – popularly called 'Kashmir' – and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India...

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Asia

Business & Economics

Hungry Bengal War, Famine and the End of Empire

Mukherjee Janam

ISBN: HB: 9781849044318, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...

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Military

Africa

Rebels in a Rotten State Understanding Atrocity in the Sierra Leone Civil War

Mitton Kieran

ISBN: PB: 9781849044226, ISBN: HB: 9781849044233, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can we ever truly understand such...

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Europe

Polonica

Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution

Michnik Adam, Gross Irena Grudzinska, Matynia Elzbieta, Marczyk Agnieszka, Czarny Roman S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...

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World

Political Science

Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to Al-Qaeda

Macrakis Kristie

ISBN: PB: 9780300212600, Yale University Press, July 2015
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

"Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies" is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked,...

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Military

Three Republics One Navy A Naval History of France 1870-1999

Clayton Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9781911096740, ISBN: HB: 9781909982994, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In the 1870s, to supplement their early steam engines, French warships were still rigged for sail. In the 1970s the Marine Nationale's ships at sea included aircraft carriers operating supersonic jets, and intercontinental ballistic missile submarine...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 62 Arado Ar 234 Blitz, Volume 2

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596650, Casemate, Kagero, July 2015
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 35 archival photos, 100 redenders, 24 pages pages A4, and 3 pages format A2 drawings with technical data, 2 drawings sheets A4, scale 1:72, 1 double B2 sheet with drawings sheets, scale 1:32

Not for sale in Poland! Tests with the Arado Ar 234 prototypes demonstrated that straight wings retained their good aerodynamic characteristics only at speeds below 800 kph. Near-supersonic flights demanded a completely new approach to wing geometr...

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Military

Aviation

Gott Strafe England Volume 1: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918

Parker Nigel J.

ISBN: HB: 9781909982710, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2015
424 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus., maps

"Gott Strafe England" is the definitive account detailing the German air attacks against Great Britain during the First World War. This method of attack was a totally new concept, taking the war away from the battlefield and into the previously safe...

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