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General

Who Speaks for the Negro?

Warren Robert Penn, Blight David W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...

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Europe

Artists Under Hitler Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Petropoulos Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197471, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime? Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948

Halperin Liora R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...

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Europe

Stalin's World Dictating the Soviet Order

Davies Sarah, Harris James

ISBN: HB: 9780300182811, Yale University Press, December 2014
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world – both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offi...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Military

Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

Mansoor Peter R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209372, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 2 maps

In February 2007, U.S. Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the...

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Political Science

America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 21 Battlecruiser Haruna

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596216, Casemate, Kagero, December 2014
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 22 A4 sheets of technical drawings, 10 colour images, the scales of the drawings are: 1: 100, 1: 200, 1: 250, 1: 400

Not for sale in Poland! The book contains 3D drawingsof the battleship Haruna as she appeared in 1944. They represent the individual items of equipment and parts of the battleship construction including illustrations of the command tower divided in...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 15 Konigstiger

Szafranski Jacek, Koening Mike, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596230, Casemate, Kagero, December 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Weighing in at nearly 70 tons the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B, now known as Konigstiger was the largest mass-produced tracked combat vehicle, which was sent to the units of the Third Reich. Armed with a 88 mm caliber gun, th...

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America

Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...

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