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Bibi The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

Pfeffer Anshel

ISBN: HB: 9781849049887, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world...

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Islam

Middle East

Boko Haram Reader From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State

Kassim Abdulbasit, Nwankpa Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849048842, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if an...

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America

Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

Walker Anders

ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...

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Military

By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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Military

Battle of the Dnepr The Red Army's Forcing of the East Wall, September-December 1943

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781912174171, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
272 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 3 maps

"The Battle of the Dnepr: The Red Army's Forcing of the East Wall, August-December 1943", details a critical period in the Red Army's advance along the southwest strategic direction during the general offensive that followed the fighting in the area...

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Military

Battalions at War The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War

Dillon John

ISBN: HB: 9781912174058, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white photos, 20 maps, 3 tables

The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict are now all dead. Three generations on, public perceptions of the war are formed from books, films and photographs. In the last two decades, revisionist historians have attempted to...

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Africa

Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

Venter Al J.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877

Dailey Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 1 A Narrative History to 1877

Watson Harry L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226300511, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
640 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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General

America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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