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Women Studies

Wildcat Women Narratives of the Women Breaking Ground in Alaska's Oil and Gas Industry

Williams Carla

ISBN: PB: 9781602233546, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats".Wildcat Women" is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's Nor...

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Asia

Singapore, Singapura From Miracle to Complacency

Walton Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781787380103, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this...

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Military

Africa

We Dared to Win The SAS in Rhodesia

Wessels Hannes

ISBN: HB: 9781612005874, Casemate, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour and black&white photos

In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker...

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Europe

Eleanor Crosses The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy

Warrington Decca

ISBN: PB: 9781909930650, Signal Books, May 2018
196 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Eleanor Crosses" begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to t...

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Military

Spies in the Congo The Race for the Ore that Built the A-Bomb

Williams Susan

ISBN: PB: 9781849049528, ISBN: HB: 9781849046381, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
400 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book is the true story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War, which until now has never been researched or told. It is set against the background of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the war – Americ...

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America

Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

Walker Anders

ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...

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Christianity

Ancient World

Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians

Wheeler-Reed David

ISBN: HB: 9780300227727, Yale University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Challenging the long-held assumption that American values – be they Christian or secular – are based on "Judeo-Christian" norms, this provocative study compares ancient Christian discourses on marriage and sexuality with contemporary ones, maintainin...

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Military

America

Hundred Thousand Sons of St Louis The French Campaign in Spain April to October 1823

Weaver Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781912174096, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour & 25 black&white illus., maps

This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the 'Sons of St. Louis' and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerou...

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Military

Other Side of the Wire Volume 3: With the XIV Reserve Corps - The Period of Transition 2 July 1916 - August 1917

Whitehead Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781911512479, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 maps, 160 black&white illus.

Volume 3 carries the story of the XIV Reserve Corps through the momentous Battle of the Somme and into 1917, a period of transition for the German Army. The old tactics and strategy of trench warfare would undergo great changes as the German Army was...

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Military

Pouring with Rain - Troops Fed Up British Second Army and the Liberation Offensive in Flanders 1918

Williams Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096559, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 60 maps

A lost story now told – of a forgotten British Army in a forgotten campaign achieving against the odds... During the final months of the war, the British Second Army fought a successful War of Liberation alongside French and Belgian forces in the Gro...

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