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Matters of Exchange Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300143218, Yale University Press, August 2008
578 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Coo...

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Sign Language

Europe

Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France

Quartararo Anne T.

ISBN: HB: 9781563683671, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 photos

Since the French Revolution in1789, Deaf French people have struggled to preserve their cultural heritage, to win full civil rights, and to gain access to society through their sign language. Anne T. Quartararo depicts this struggle in her new book "...

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Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

Bagley Tennent H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300136241, Yale University Press, May 2008
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this rapidly paced book, a former CIA chief of counter intelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the N...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story

Vittorio Segre Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...

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Europe

From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success

Frusztajer Boruch B.

ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...

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Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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Military

Europe

Elusive Compromise A History of Interwar Yugoslavia

Djokic Dejan

ISBN: PB: 9781850658641, ISBN: HB: 9781850658511, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
310 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...

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Europe

German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940

ISBN: HB: 9781851243563, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
80 pp., 17x11 cm, 12 maps, 24 black&white illus.

"I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it" – Adolph Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a pl...

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Culture Studies

Europe

Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944

ISBN: HB: 9781851243518, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm

Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. Two years earlier, work had already started on a guide to assist them in negotiating everyday life in what then was still enemy terr...

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Culture Studies

Philosophy

Prison Manuscripts Socialism and its Culture

Bukharin Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9781905422227, ISBN: HB: 9781905422210, Seagull Books, April 2007
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

Bukharin's "Prison Manuscripts" were written in Moscow's Lubyanka prison during 1937-1938 while awaiting his inevitable liquidation. Like Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Bukharin's Manuscripts too have their central emphasis on issues such as cul...

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