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Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Marcon Federico

ISBN: PB: 9780226479033, ISBN: HB: 9780226251905, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones, 2 tables

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the...

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Biography & Memoires

Asia

King Never Smiles A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

Handley Paul M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300228304, Yale University Press, February 2017
520 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and at the time of his death, in October 2016, was the world's longest serving monarch. Now out in paperback with a new preface by...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Kubelwagen and Schwimmwagen A Visual History of the German Army's Multi-Purpose Vehicle

Doyle David

ISBN: PB: 9781944367039, Casemate, The Ampersand Group, January 2016
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 250 illus.

The vehicle that was to become the Type 82 Kubelwagen had its roots in the development of the Volkswagen "People's Car". With war clouds gathering over Europe, the efforts of the Volkswagen facility were turned to the production of military vehicles....

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Military

Kangzhan Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-1945

Ness Leland, Shih Bin

ISBN: PB: 9781910294420, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
624 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 maps, 100 tables, 300 black&white illus.

"Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examin...

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America

Kiska The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Coyle Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232372, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour plates, 77 halftones

Alaska's windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportu...

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Middle East

Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

Gayer Laurent

ISBN: PB: 9781849043113, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, whic...

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Military

Kosova Liberation Army Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001

Pettifer James

ISBN: PB: 9781849043748, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) was the first successful insurgent movement in Europe since the Second World War. In the struggle against Milosevic's Serbia it developed from a tiny group in the Swiss political underground in...

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Africa

Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007 An African Modernism

Kwami Atta

ISBN: HB: 9781849040877, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western approaches to Africa's visual culture have until recently separated 'traditional' from 'modern' as if the two categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was authentically African. Yet 'tradition' is also...

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Europe

Polonica

Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Cienciala Anna M., Lebedeva Natalia S., Materski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...

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Military

Kharkov 1943

Naud Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782352502371, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2013
80 pp., 24x20 cm, illustrated throughout

Between February and March 1943 Ukraine's second town, Kharkov, was the scene of a fierce struggle between the Red Army and Axis troops. Feeling optimistic after the Stalingrad triumph, Stalin thought that his adversaries were in full flight. But Fel...

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