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History of Art

Medieval

Pilgrimage and Pogrom Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria

Merback Mitchell B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520193, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
416 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 122 halftones, 20 colour illus.

In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation fostered tensions between Christians and Je...

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Middle East

Military

Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Lefevre Raphael

ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

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Asia

Central Asia in International Relations The Legacies of Halford Mackinder

Megoran Nick, Sharapova Sevara

ISBN: HB: 9781849042437, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The republics of Central Asia re-emerged as independent actors in the global interstate system in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, their varied histories and geographies offering many different possible opportuniti...

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Europe

Polonica

Midnight Train to Siberia A Polish Family's Courage in Surviving the Wartime Hell Created by Stalin

Radomska Teresa, Goral Alicja

ISBN: PB: 9781909544765, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, March 2013
182 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They w...

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Europe

Petersburg Fin De Siecle

Steinberg Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191981, Yale University Press, March 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

<p>The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described...

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Europe

It Was a Long Time Ago, and it Never Happened Anyway Russia and the Communist Past

Satter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300192377, Yale University Press, March 2013
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Russia today is haunted by deeds that have been unexamined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the communist experience has not been undertaken and millions of victims of Soviet communism are all but f...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Sicily Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome

Lyons Claire, Bennett Michael, Marconi Clemente

ISBN: HB: 9781606061336, Getty Publications, March 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 144 colour illus., 23 black&white illus., 1 map

This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. I...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Mini Topcolors, No. 34 Messerschmitt Bf 109s over the Mediterranean, Part I

Goralczyk Maciej, Wrobel Arkadiusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878581, Casemate, Kagero, March 2013
16 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 8 painting schemes in 3 scales, and 32 artworks

Not for sale in Poland! A big decal sheet with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:32 individual markings for 8 Bf 109s which served in the MTO. The decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn 4-view colour profiles and...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Mini Topcolors, No. 33 P-38 Lightning at War, Part 2

Sadlo Andrzej, Goralczyk Maciej

ISBN: PB: 9788362878482, Casemate, Kagero, March 2013
16 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containin...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Super Model International, No. 3

Chacewicz Tomasz, Wajnkaim Tomasz, Rosiak Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788362878543, Casemate, Kagero, March 2013
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, highly illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! "Super Model International" presents the best modellers from around the world profiling their great models, with hints and tips, step-by-step instructions for building, reports from model kit shows and modelling competitions...

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