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Ancient World

Multiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures

Klaniczay Gabor, Werner Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783593391014, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2011
450 pp., 21.2x14.2 cm

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past...

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Military

Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires Private Violence in Historical Context

Colas Alejandro, Mabee Bryan

ISBN: PB: 9781849041492, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Mini Topcolors, No. 23 Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb

Goralczyk Maciej, Szlagor Tomasz, Swiatlon Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878116, Casemate, Kagero, July 2011
20 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, colour profiles of featured aircraft

Not for sale in Poland! 1:72, 1:48 and 1:32 individual markings for 8 various Spitfires, each depicted on beautifully drawn 4-view colour profiles. The selection contains profiles of the following aircraft: - Spitfire Mk Vb (R6923) coded QJ-S of N...

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Europe

History

Martian Stranded on Earth Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science

Krementsov Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9780226454122, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones

Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the worke...

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Political Science

Middle East

Mobilizing the Faithful Militant Islamist Groups and Their Constituencies

Malthaner Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593394121, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
260 pp., 22x14 cm

One of the keys to dealing with militant Islamic groups is understanding how they work with, relate to, and motivate their constituencies".Mobilizing the Faithful" offers a pair of detailed case studies – of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya...

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Medieval

Europe

Memory's Library Medieval Books in Early Modern England

Summit Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226781709, ISBN: HB: 9780226781716, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
354 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 8 halftones

In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, wh...

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Military

Making War in Cote d'Ivoire

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781850658160, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama – the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and the self-destructive path each is following is clearly visible to all but themselv...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Modelmania, No. 09 F4u-1, -4 Corsair

Jarski Adam, Zywczyk Maciej

ISBN: PB: 9788372372048, Casemate, AJ Press, December 2010
128 pp., 29.5x21 cm, black&white and colour photos, drawings, scale plans, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The book starts with a brief historical description of the airplane, its design, development and combat service history and numerous photos covering both wartime shots and preserved aircraft in full-colour. Worth attention a...

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