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Haunted City Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
ISBN: HB: 9780300101072, Yale University Press, November 2008
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Nuremberg – a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher – has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Naz...
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£30,00
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Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow
ISBN: HB: 9780226511863, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
280 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 124 colour illus.
"With simple means, without any 'title', this book should in distant times always be in your memory". An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienst...
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£26,50
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Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
ISBN: PB: 9780300143201, Yale University Press, August 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to...
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£19,00
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Matters of Exchange Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300143218, Yale University Press, August 2008
578 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Coo...
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£35,00
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Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: HB: 9781563683671, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 photos
Since the French Revolution in1789, Deaf French people have struggled to preserve their cultural heritage, to win full civil rights, and to gain access to society through their sign language. Anne T. Quartararo depicts this struggle in her new book "...
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£48,00
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Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
ISBN: PB: 9780300136241, Yale University Press, May 2008
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this rapidly paced book, a former CIA chief of counter intelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the N...
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£19,00
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Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story
ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...
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£13,00
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From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success
ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...
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£22,50
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£30,00
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Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe
ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones
This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...
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£26,50
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