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Some Other and Wider Destiny Wakefield Grammar School Foundation and the Great War

Merckx Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9781912174010, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
416 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 46 colour illus., 209 black&white illus.

The First World War demanded one of the most sustained and extraordinary efforts ever made by the British people. It was made possible by a multitude of individuals and by the communities of which they were a part. This study is a celebration one of...

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Asia

Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...

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Africa

Sri Lanka

ISBN: PB: 9781849045735, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Even though Sri Lanka's protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longer waging military campaigns and the separatist Liberation...

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America

Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

Dallam Melillo Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...

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America

Business & Economics

Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America

Sklansky Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...

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America

Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis

Doyle Amanda E., Adams Melanie A.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones

The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...

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Military

Skull of Alum Bheg The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857

Wagner Kim A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849048705, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in south-east England. The handwritten note found inside revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who had been blown from a cannon for his role in...

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America

Education

School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Steffes Tracy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...

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America

Sarah Osborn's World The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America

Brekus Catherine A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226911, ISBN: HB: 9780300182903, Yale University Press, August 2017
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir Sarah created that year survives to...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 12 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with USAAF - in the MTO

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437112, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 133 illus.

Not for sale in Europe! North American P-51 Mustang, famed for its service in the US Army Air Force as a long-rage escort fighter over western Europe, was no less successful in the other three major combat areas of World War Two: the Mediterranean,...

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