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Italian Folgore Parachute Division North African Operations 1940-43

Morisi Paolo

ISBN: HB: 9781911096245, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
192 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 9 maps, 4 plates

The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army – and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance – is frequently overlooked. In...

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Africa

Ivory Power and Poaching in Africa

Somerville Keith

ISBN: HB: 9781849046763, Hurst Publishers, November 2016
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in n...

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Military

I Confess A Memoir of the Siege of Tobruk

Murray Joseph J.

ISBN: PB: 9780987057488, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 21x14.8 cm

"I Confess" is an intimate portrayal of command in the crucible of war. Major General John Joseph Murray fought in the AIF in both the First and Second World Wars. He won the Military Cross as a company commander during the disastrous Battle of Frome...

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America

Political Science

Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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Political Science

America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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Political Science

America

Inside the Presidential Debates Their Improbable Past and Promising Future

Minow Newton N., LaMay Craig L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434322, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 tables

Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a "vast wasteland", thus inaugur...

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Middle East

Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: HB: 9780300215625, Yale University Press, April 2016
312 pp., 21x14 cm

The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never ris...

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Asia

Islam

Islam Translated Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Ronit Ricci

ISBN: PB: 9780226380537, ISBN: HB: 9780226710884, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 3 maps, 4 halftones

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporati...

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Middle East

Islam

Islam in Liberalism

Massad Joseph A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379548, ISBN: HB: 9780226206226, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship...

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America

Law

Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens

Manaster Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226350103, ISBN: HB: 9780226502434, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In "Illinois Justice", Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice's...

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