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America

City Water, City Life Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

Smith Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226151595, ISBN: HB: 9780226022512, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the peopl...

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Political Science

America

How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000

Springer Melanie Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables

The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...

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America

Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City

Schultz Nancy Lusignan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205893, ISBN: HB: 9780300118469, Yale University Press, March 2014
288 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 24 illus.

In the spring of 1824 in the young capital city of Washington, D. C. , Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sic...

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Europe

Christianity

Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946

Skulski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878901, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photographs, scale line drawings

Not for sale in Poland! Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The My?k? had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Taka...

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Military

Political Science

Purify and Destroy The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide

Semelin Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9781849043939, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, "Purify and Destroy" demonstrates that it is indeed possible to...

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Europe

Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives

Bidlack Richard, Lomagin Nikita, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198164, Yale University Press, December 2013
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 74 black&white illus.

<p>Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-1944 siege o...

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World

Ship of Death A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World

Smith Billy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300194524, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, one small British ship that circled the Atlantic Ocean in 1792 and 1793, transformed Atlantic World history. This extraordinary book tells the just-uncovered story of the Hankey, from its altruistic begin...

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Photography

Military

In Flanders Fields The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914-1918

Stichelbaut Birger

ISBN: HB: 9780300196580, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, December 2013
396 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 532 black&white illus.

Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over th...

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Aviation

SMI Library, No. 08 The B-17 Flying Fortress in Combat Over Europe

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878918, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
92 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 130 black&white illus., 11 colour photos, 4 colour profiles, decal sheets

Not for sale in Poland! The B-17 Flying Fortress epitomized the American airpower for most of the Second World War. It was by far the most effective weapon to carry out the strategic, daylight bombing campaign in Europe. The battles fought by B-17...

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