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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

Totten Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...

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Europe

Prague Palimpsest Writing, Memory, and the City

Thomas Alfred

ISBN: HB: 9780226795409, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...

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Islam

Medieval

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati Houari

ISBN: HB: 9780226808772, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures – touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North...

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America

Defying Empire Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

Truxes Thomas M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164251, ISBN: HB: 9780300118407, Yale University Press, February 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed...

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Middle East

Pakistan A Modern History

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781850659891, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
460 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This study offers a detailed analysis of the problems which have beset Pakistan's nation-building enterprise since its birth in 1947. It explores why authoritarianism has prevailed over attempts to establish democracy and how f...

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Europe

Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...

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Asia

State in Myanmar

Taylor Robert H.

ISBN: PB: 9781850659099, ISBN: HB: 9781850658931, Hurst Publishers, January 2009
540 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The State in Myanmar" is a totally revised and expanded and updated version of "The State in Burma" (1987), with additional chapters covering the last twenty years of Myanmar's political history. It attempts to explain the cou...

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Military

Life and Death in the Balkans A Family Saga in a Century of Conflict

Tomasevic Bato

ISBN: HB: 9781850659136, Hurst Publishers, April 2008
544 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This compellingly written autobiography covers the past century and more in the life of Bato Tomasevic's Montenegrin family in the harsh and ever-turbulent mountains of southern Yugoslavia. The narrative begins some fifty years...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Pots and Plays Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

Taplin Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780892368075, Getty Publications, November 2007
304 pp., 28x28 cm, 76 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases – mostly from...

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Political Science

Asia

Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan

Talbot Ian, Tatla Darshan Singh

ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...

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