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Film Studies

America

Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226352206, ISBN: HB: 9780226352176, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the...

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Military

Rollback The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777176, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2016
412 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps

"Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43" covers the period from mid-December 1942 to mid-February 1943, one of the most critical periods of the war on the Eastern Front. It was here that followin...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Russia's Warplanes Volume 1: Russian-made Military Aircraft and Helicopters Today

Butowski Piotr

ISBN: PB: 9780985455453, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, December 2015
256 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Russia's Warplanes is set to become the standard reference work on the subject. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this will serve as an exhaustive directory of the latest products of Russia's military aviation industry. As well as outli...

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Middle East

Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226251875, ISBN: HB: 9780226481968, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in "Religion, Empire, and Torture", Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Per...

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Culture Studies

Riotous Flesh Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

Haynes April R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226284620, ISBN: HB: 9780226284590, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death".Riotous Flesh" explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and p...

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Military

Africa

Rebels in a Rotten State Understanding Atrocity in the Sierra Leone Civil War

Mitton Kieran

ISBN: PB: 9781849044226, ISBN: HB: 9781849044233, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can we ever truly understand such...

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Middle East

Reading Clocks, Alla Turca Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire

Wishnitzer Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780226257723, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was incr...

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Middle East

Revolt in Syria Eye-Witness to the Uprising

Starr Stephen Z.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044509, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
176 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was "stable" and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the stre...

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Military

Rebuilding Britain The Aftermath of the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294451, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Undoubtedly, the Second World War was one of the darkest periods of history. With untold losses and countless with physical and mental scars, there was little to celebrate except the relief of closure. Yet what happened once the noise of the shelling...

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Military

Race to the Rhine Liberating France and the Low Countries, 1944-1945

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781612002941, Casemate, March 2015
192 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944 – this time with American forces – the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruct...

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