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Russian World War 2 Dictionary A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions, and Soldiers' Slang

Kobylyanskiy Isaak, Britton Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9781907677335, ISBN: HB: 9781909384064, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2011
48 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known as the Eastern Front of World War II, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occup...

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Ancient World

Anthropology

Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Davidson James N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137438, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 2 maps, 8 halftones

As any reader of the "Symposium" knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he ref...

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Europe

Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

McNeill William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561523, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier", acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill b...

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History

Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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America

American Neoconservatism The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary Idealism

Drolet Jean-Francois

ISBN: PB: 9781849041249, ISBN: HB: 9781849041232, Hurst Publishers, June 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "American Neoconservatism" moves beyond recent debates over the intricacies of the Bush administration's foreign policy to offer a deeper look at the philosophical premises of this "new" conservatism in light of the historical...

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Military

Resisting Genocide The Multiple Forms of Rescue

Semelin Jacques, Andrieu Claire, Gensburger Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781849040594, Hurst Publishers, June 2011
456 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Every genocide in history has been notable for the minority of brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to rescue its would be victims. Based on three case studies – the genocides of the Armenians, the Jews...

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Military

Music

Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

Crawford Dorothy Lamb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

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Africa

Islam

Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

Peterson Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...

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Europe

Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House

Clarke Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300170405, Yale University Press, May 2011
152 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour illus.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkabl...

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Current Affairs

America

Prison and the American Imagination

Smith Caleb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171495, Yale University Press, May 2011
258 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particular...

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