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Aviation

Technology & Engineering

Sailplane Design A Guide for Students and Designers, from Drafting to Flight Test

Pajno Vittorio

ISBN: PB: 9788875650926, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
480 pp., 24x17 cm, 200 colour illus.

The book, enterely in English, gives constructors and designers all the necessary notions for building a sailplane. The volume starts with a project phase, passing then to aerodynamic and stability. The Author explains it all with a series of formula...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

After Germanwings The Life of an Airline Pilot

Chialastri Bartocci

ISBN: PB: 9788875654115, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
218 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

The Germanwings airline disaster, on 24 March 2015, has shaken the public opinion worldwide, since the pilot deliberately crashed his aircraft full of passengers into the French Alps. An analysis of the Germanwings crash is the starting point for the...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Ecologies of Witnessing Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony

Pollin-Galay Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780300226041, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the...

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America

Swindler Sachem The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England

Pulsipher Jenny Hale

ISBN: HB: 9780300214932, Yale University Press, June 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

According to his kin, John Wompas was "no sachem", although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English – even visiting and securing the support of Ki...

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Medieval

Castles Fortresses of Power

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612006130, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Fortified structures have been in existence for thousands of years. In ancient and medieval times castles were the ultimate symbol of power, dominating their surroundings, and marking the landscape with their imposing size and impregnable designs. Af...

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Military

Days of Battle Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45

Szamveber Norbert

ISBN: PB: 9781912174263, ISBN: HB: 9781907677649, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 16 maps

"Days of Battle" describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing from files and documentation from German, Hungarian and Soviet sources, presents det...

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Military

Ancient World

Roman Legionary Soldiers of Empire

Elliott Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612006116, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously t...

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Military

Amphibious Warfare Battle on the Beaches

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: PB: 9781612006154, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

One of the most difficult types of warfare to master, landing on a hostile beach requires scrupulous planning and intense coordination between the forces in the air, sea and land. With a history reaching back to the Persians landing on the Greek s...

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America

Slaughterhouse Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226566030, ISBN: HB: 9780226123097, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

From the minute it opened – on Christmas Day in 1865 – it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the...

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Europe

Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France

Schechter Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226499574, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as "terroristic". But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In "A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France", Ronald Schechter tells the sto...

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