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Aviation

Stefano Cosci

ISBN: PB: 9788875650032, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 56 colour illus., 43 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

An excellent monography on the Lockheed F104! A unique and revolutionary aircraft in its field, which influenced many military choices of the Aeronautica Militare and played and important role in the Italian aerospace industry. In the first part of t...

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Current Affairs

Libya The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

Pargeter Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300139327, Yale University Press, May 2012
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.

For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader", his repressive regime, sponsorship of terrorist violence, unique vision of the...

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Europe

Political Science

Last Dictatorship in Europe Belarus Under Lukashenko

Bennett Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849041676, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Belarus is an isolated country dominated by one man. Few tourists go there, despite its fascinating, cultured past and beautiful countryside. Belarussians are friendly and hospitable yet they rarely have the chance to speak the...

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Asia

Libertine's Friend Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China

Vitiello Giovanni

ISBN: HB: 9780226857923, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
312 pp., 23x16 cm, 18 halftones

Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, "The Libertine's Friend" uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era....

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America

Last Colonial Massacre Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

Grandin Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780226306902, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
336 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 23 halftones

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and p...

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Military

World

Legacy of the Second World War

Lukacs John

ISBN: PB: 9780300171389, Yale University Press, March 2011
208 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm

Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliant...

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America

Liberty Bell

Nash Gary B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171426, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 20.1x13.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has su...

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Medieval

Legend of the Middle Ages Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Brague Remi

ISBN: PB: 9780226070810, ISBN: HB: 9780226070803, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinke...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Lenin's Jewish Question

Petrovsky-Shtern Yohanan

ISBN: HB: 9780300152104, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

In this first examination of Lenin's genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and...

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Europe

Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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