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Europe

From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan The Making of National Homeland in Turkey

Ozkan Behlul

ISBN: PB: 9780300172010, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

How do people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "hom...

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Europe

Funding Loyalty The Economics of the Communist Party

Belova Eugenia, Lazarev Valery

ISBN: PB: 9780300164367, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the party's role in the Soviet institutiona...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Fighting Units in Color, No. 03 VF-17 Jolly Rogers - Early US Navy Corsair Units: VF-12 and VF-17

Jarski Adam, Kolacha Zbigniew

ISBN: PB: 9788372372291, Casemate, AJ Press, June 2012
48 pp., 28x21 cm, 122 black&white photos, 31 colour photos, 22 drawings

Not for sale in Poland! This book was published as part of the "war" against what is probably the most permanent myth of the US Navy aviation units: the myth of red outlines on US national markings of VF-17 aircraft during the first (October – Nove...

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America

Travel

Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...

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America

General

Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

O'Malley Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...

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Middle East

Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

Marsden Magnus, Hopkins Benjamin D.

ISBN: HB: 9781849040723, Hurst Publishers, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Despite the long and intimate history of engagement along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's North-West, this area and its relationship to the world remains poorly understood in the West's popular imagination. Throug...

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America

Culture Studies

Foul Bodies Cleanliness in Early America

Brown Kathleen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171556, Yale University Press, March 2011
464 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that...

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Military

Fortress Ploesti The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply

Stout Jay A.

ISBN: PB: 9781935149392, Casemate, February 2011
224 pp., 24x15.9 cm, black&white illus.

Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war ma...

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Asia

From Mao to Market China Reconfigured

Porter Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849040839, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the past thirty years, China has been entering inexorably onto the world stage, and into the world's imagination. From now on, there will be a 'China dimension' to almost everything we do. "From Mao to Market" is intended...

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Business & Economics

America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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