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Juvenescence A Cultural History of Our Age

Pogue Harrison Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226381961, ISBN: HB: 9780226171999, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst o...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Aircraft Carriers Soryu and Hiryu

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788364596520, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
100 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 82 archive photos, 30 drawings, 16 colour profiles, 1 map

Not for sale in Poland! Soryu meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship, Hiryu, was intended to follow Soryu, but Hiryu's design was heavily modified and...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848

Rose Sven-Erik

ISBN: PB: 9781611685794, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

Friling Tuvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611685879, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the...

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Asia

Japan The Paradox of Harmony

Hirata Keiko, Warschauer Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300186079, Yale University Press, May 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

For centuries, people in the West have been fascinated, enchanted and perplexed in equal measure by Japan and its culture. Following a crushing defeat in the Second World War, this small, proud country rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to be...

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Medieval

Christianity

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities

Lassner Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...

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America

John Brown's Spy The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

Lubet Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300180497, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Brown's "Spy" tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armoury in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a woman...

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America

Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Junkers Ju-87 From 1936 to 1945

Leonard Herbert, Journeau Andre

ISBN: PB: 9782913903531, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
80 pp., 23.9x19.8 cm, fully illustrated

The symbol of Blitzkrieg in the air is detailed here in 200 colour profiles, illustrating a career which began as a terror plane in Spain and ended up as a tankbuster in the Russian sky.

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Aviation

Junkers Ju.87 Picchiatello

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815581, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 18 colour illus., 88 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

This Italian publication has a bilingual text and it deals with the Italian Ju 87, a bombing aircraft of the IIWW widely used by the Regia Aeronautica. The text is supplemented with interesting photos, one of which is in World War II vintage colour....

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