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Instruments of Battle The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day

Tanner James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003696, Casemate, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Instruments of Battle" examines in detail the development and role of the British Army's fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle (an...

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Asia

Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India

Tharoor Shashi

ISBN: HB: 9781849048088, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Inglorious Empire" tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Bri...

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Criminology

Inside the Enemy's Computer Identifying Cyber-Attackers

Guitton Clement

ISBN: HB: 9781849045544, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Attribution – tracing those responsible for a cyber attack – is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a t...

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World

In Space We Read Time On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics

Schlogel Karl

ISBN: HB: 9781941792087, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2017
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlogel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlogel relishes space th...

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Europe

General

Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Thrush Coll

ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

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Military

International Civil War Greece, 1943-1949

Gerolymatos Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780300180602, Yale University Press, January 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in th...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes Back, June 1982 - December 1986

Hooton E. R., Nadimi Farzin, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096573, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 maps, 5 charts

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history u...

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America

Integrating the Inner City The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation

Chaskin Robert J., Joseph Mark L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226478197, ISBN: HB: 9780226164397, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment – via the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation" – has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban la...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980 - May 1982

Hooton E. R., Nadimi Farzin, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096566, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 maps, 5 charts

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history u...

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Anthropology

Asia

Inheritance of Loss China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire

Koga Yukiko

ISBN: PB: 9780226412139, ISBN: HB: 9780226411941, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With "Inherita...

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