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Military

Confronting the Colonies British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency

Cormac Rory

ISBN: HB: 9781849042932, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, "Confronting the Colonies" considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of st...

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Europe

Children and War Volume 1: Past and Present

Embacher Helga, Prontera Grazia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096719, ISBN: HB: 9781909384477, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2013
298 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Asia

Central Asia in International Relations The Legacies of Halford Mackinder

Megoran Nick, Sharapova Sevara

ISBN: HB: 9781849042437, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The republics of Central Asia re-emerged as independent actors in the global interstate system in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, their varied histories and geographies offering many different possible opportuniti...

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Europe

Polonica

Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990

Grubbauer Monika, Kusiak Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...

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Military

Crucible of Combat Germany's Defensive Battles in the Ukraine 1943-44

Hinze Rolf

ISBN: PB: 9781908916907, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 105 maps

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Fro...

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Political Science

Asia

Change

Yan Mo

ISBN: PB: 9780857421609, Seagull Books, February 2013
117 pp., 18.3x11.9 cm

In "Change", Mo Yan – China's foremost novelist – personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice-versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are...

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Law

America

Colorado Doctrine Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier

Schorr David

ISBN: HB: 9780300134476, Yale University Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the "appropriation doctrine", a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid...

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Ancient World

Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk

Doty L. Timothy, Wallenfels Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300185270, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 28.7x21.6 cm, 194 black&white illus.

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the "Yale Babylonian Collection", begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to th...

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History of Art

America

Civil War and American Art

Jones Harvey Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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