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Accounts and Drawings from the Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: HB: 9780857428523, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 colour plates

In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporat...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Third Walpurgis Night The Complete Text

Kraus Karl, Bridgham Fred, Timms Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300236002, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's "Third Walpurgis Night" was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews...

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Europe

Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance

Kramer Nathaniel, Stewart Jon

ISBN: HB: 9788763546706, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
279 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Danish Golden Age was marked by several key events: the Napoleonic Wars, the bombardment of Copenhagen, the state bankruptcy in 1814 and the ensuing financial crisis, the revolution of 1848, and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1...

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Europe

Culture in Nazi Germany

Kater Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300253375, Yale University Press, March 2020
472 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During...

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Christianity

Ancient World

Christ's Associations Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City

Kloppenborg John S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217049, Yale University Press, January 2020
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in sma...

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America

Political Science

America's Inequality Trap

Kelly Nathan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...

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Middle East

Political Science

Arafat and Abbas Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed

Klein Menachem

ISBN: HB: 9781787381438, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 26.1x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination....

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Military

Bletchley Park and D-Day

Kenyon David

ISBN: HB: 9780300243574, Yale University Press, May 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 2 maps

Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelli...

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Asia

Under Red Skies The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial

Kan Karoline

ISBN: HB: 9781787381759, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understa...

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Bombay Before Mumbai Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos

Kidambi Prashant, Kamat Manjiri, Dwyer Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9781787381483, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "City of Gold", "Urbs Prima in Indis", "Maximum City": no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay....

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