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Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Scorched Earth Stalin's Reign of Terror

Baberowski Jorg, Gilbert Steven, Komljen Ivo, Taber Samantha Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300136982, Yale University Press, January 2017
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts S...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Barkan Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps

What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...

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Real Lives of Roman Britain

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...

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Photography

Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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Political Science

Military

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace

Bennett Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...

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Military

Europe

For God and Kaiser The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918

Bassett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300219678, Yale University Press, March 2016
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps

Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's "For God and Kaiser" is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, t...

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Europe

Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day

Baumeister Martin, Sala Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

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Heroic Failure and the British

Barczewski Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300180060, Yale University Press, February 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, histori...

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Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform

Berkowitz Carin

ISBN: HB: 9780226280394, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 13 halftones

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform – an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the...

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