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Europe

Edward III

Ormrod W. Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300194081, Yale University Press, April 2013
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by h...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy

Schaeper Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187458, Yale University Press, October 2012
352 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a sc...

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America

Media Studies

Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America

Goldberg Robert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...

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Middle East

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Bowersock G. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611683219, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2012
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the gro...

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Military

Empires of Mud Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan

Giustozzi Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781849042253, ISBN: HB: 9781850659327, Hurst Publishers, September 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Warlords, namely charismatic military leaders who exploit the weakness of central authorities to seize control of and autonomously rule a sub-national area, have earned much notoriety in recent years on account of the excesses...

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America

Eighteen-Day Running Mate McGovern, Eagleton, and the Nation's Fear of Depression

Glasser Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300176292, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

No skeletons were rattling in his closet, Thomas Eagleton assured George McGovern's political director. But only eighteen days later – after a series of damaging public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings – McGovern rescinded his...

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Europe

End of Byzantium

Harris Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187915, Yale University Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years unti...

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Political Science

Military

Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict

Eric D. Patterson

ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...

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America

Endowed by Our Creator The Birth of Religious Freedom in America

Meyerson Michael I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166323, Yale University Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Was...

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