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Africa

Birmingham David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045193, ISBN: HB: 9781849045148, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resour...

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America

Secularism in Antebellum America

Lardas Modern John

ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...

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Asia

South China Sea The Struggle for Power in Asia

Hayton Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300216943, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's backyard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smouldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpower...

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America

Sovereignty for Survival American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

Allison James Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300206692, Yale University Press, October 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Soviet Autogyros 1929-1942

Maslov Mikhail

ISBN: PB: 9781910294659, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 186 black&white and colour photos, profiles

The material presented in this book describes the history of the development, testing and limited operations of early Soviet autogyros. As in the rest of the world, autogyros appeared in the Soviet Union in a period of full exploration of the skies b...

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Europe

Polonica

Salvaged Pages Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust

Zapruder Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300205992, Yale University Press, September 2015
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprison...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Light Cruiser Yahagi

Motyka Mariusz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596667, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 118 renders, 18 anaglyphs 3D, double sheet A2 with the plans

Not for sale in Poland! Yahagi, the second Japanese warship of that name, was the third of the four Agano-class vessels (the other three being Agano, Noshiro and Sakawa). Construction of the Agano-class cruisers was approved by the Japanese parliam...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 11 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with the USAAF - European Theater of Operations

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596681, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 131 black&white photos, 14 colour photos, 11 colour profiles of the 12 throws

Not for sale in Poland! The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fighter of the World War Two era. Entering service in November 1943, it curtaile...

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America

Sister's Memories The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott

Sorensen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226209616, ISBN: HB: 9780226209586, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in...

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Military

General

Social Science Goes to War The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan

McFate Montgomery, Laurence Janice H.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044219, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed...

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