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Siberia A History of the People

Hartley Janet M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246421, Yale University Press, January 2019
322 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores t...

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Christianity

Europe

Atlas of Religions in Czechia

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

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Military

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Berlin Operation 1945 Soviet General Staff

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390496, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2018
420 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 4 maps

Berlin Operation, 1945, tells the story of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts (Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian) forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of t...

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Military

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Battle of Moscow 1941-42 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390458, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
476 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 12 maps

Written by the Soviet General Staff in 1943 Reveals the strategy and tactics that went into the Soviet defence of Moscow Edited and translated by one of the world's experts on the Soviet contribution to World War II "The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942:...

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Anthropology

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Day at Home in Early Modern England Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700

Hamling Tara, Richardson Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300195019, Yale University Press, October 2017
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging...

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Europe

Tales from the Long Twelfth Century The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire

Huscroft Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228700, ISBN: HB: 9780300187250, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or...

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Northern Conquest Vikings in Britain and Ireland

Holman Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781904955344, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conqu...

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Europe

Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953

Heinzen James

ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...

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Europe

Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Prince of Tricksters The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

Houlbrook Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226133157, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters – royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery – his changing names an...

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