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Aviation

SMI Library, No. 11 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with the USAAF - European Theater of Operations

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596681, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 131 black&white photos, 14 colour photos, 11 colour profiles of the 12 throws

Not for sale in Poland! The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fighter of the World War Two era. Entering service in November 1943, it curtaile...

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Military

Hold at All Costs! The Epic Battle of Delville Wood 1916

Uys Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781910294376, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour maps, 200 black&white illus.

Delville Wood in the Somme was the most famous battle ever fought by South Africans. Through this action other nations learnt to respect the fighting qualities of the men from the fledgling Union of South Africa. Erstwhile foes, Boer and Briton, foug...

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Education

America

University of Chicago A History

Boyer John W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226242514, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
704 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 1...

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America

Political Science

Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...

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America

Sister's Memories The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott

Sorensen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226209616, ISBN: HB: 9780226209586, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in...

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America

Boundaries of the State in US History

Sparrow James T., Novak William J., Sawyer Stephen W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226277783, ISBN: HB: 9780226277646, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Yet c...

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America

Culture Studies

Riotous Flesh Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

Haynes April R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226284620, ISBN: HB: 9780226284590, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death".Riotous Flesh" explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and p...

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World

Human Shore Seacoasts in History

Gillis John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324296, ISBN: HB: 9780226922232, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones

Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun...

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Culture Studies

Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Bennett Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226323794, ISBN: HB: 9780226042930, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Our traditional image of Chicago – as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends – is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to no...

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Education

More than Lore Reminiscences of Marion Talbot

Talbot Marion

ISBN: HB: 9780226316703, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms". In a time when...

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