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Sculptures of Jeddah An Encounter with a Rare Collection of 20th-Century Public Art

ISBN: HB: 9781861543387, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x23.3 cm, full-colour illus.

When Mohamed Said Farsi became Mayor of Jeddah in 1972, at a pivotal moment in the Saudi Arabian city's history, he set himself the task of not only creating a modern city, but also to include in the concept a plan for public art: "To bring delight t...

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Aviation

SMI Library, No. 09 Grumman F6F Hellcat, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596056, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 135 photos, 5 colour photos, 4 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the World War Two era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy. There is no doubt that Hellcats won complete air superiority for the Americans over the vast ar...

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Biography & Memoires

Soviet Women Snipers of the Second World War

Obraztsov Youri, Anders Maud

ISBN: PB: 9782352503880, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, September 2014
145 pp., 25x21 cm, illus.

The commitment of Soviet women to their country during World War II was unprecedented, both in terms of their sheer numbers and also in terms of their unique roles. More than 100,000 of them would join the regular army, or the partisans. Of all the j...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Lutzow

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596070, Casemate, Kagero, August 2014
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 140 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The text part of this book describes technical specifications of the ship and her operational history in detail. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing Lutzow's appearance during Operation Rosselspr...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Story of ESCI 1968-1999

Carbonel Jean-Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782352503101, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2014
84 pp., 24x20 cm

This well-known Italian brand will remain famous for having introduced many innovations in the world of modelling, starting with the wide dissemination of board designs. ESCI were originally known for their offerings in the very popular 1/72 scale. T...

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Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946

Skulski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878901, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photographs, scale line drawings

Not for sale in Poland! Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The My?k? had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Taka...

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Contemporary Art

Architecture

Stretching Thoughts

Karam Nadim

ISBN: HB: 9781861543417, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, February 2014
304 pp., 21x15 cm, fully Illustrated

Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam is renowned for his public art and work in urban regeneration and his interventions have been seen in cities as diverse as Melbourne, Prague, Dubai, Beirut, London and Nara, Japan. These interventions often t...

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Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788362878864, Casemate, Kagero, January 2014
96 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 176 graphics

Not for sale in Poland! An enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany during World War II, Prinz Eugen was launched on 22 August 1938 and commissioned on 1 August 1940. She survived to the end of the w...

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Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Destroyer Kagero

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788362878857, Casemate, Kagero, January 2014
68 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 132 cgi images

Not for sale in Poland! The Japanese destroyers truly made their mark during the war in the Pacific. Fast, heavily armed and manned by well-trained crews, they took part in some of the most memorable surface and air-sea battles of the Pacific War,...

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Contemporary Art

Samia Halaby Five Decades of Painting and Innovation

Farhat Mayamanah

ISBN: HB: 9781861543424, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
360 pp., 38.1x31.8 cm, fully Illustrated

"Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation" offers an unprecedented look at one of the world's leading abstract painters. Born in Jerusalem in 1936, Halaby now lives and works in New York. Spanning more than five decades of the Palestinia...

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