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Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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America

From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

Gordon Leah N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419411, ISBN: HB: 9780226238449, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intell...

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America

Founders as Fathers The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

Glover Lorri

ISBN: PB: 9780300219746, ISBN: HB: 9780300178609, Yale University Press, August 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's great Founding Fathers – men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and int...

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Europe

First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

Kelsey Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...

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Europe

Medieval

Frederick Barbarossa The Prince and the Myth

Freed John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122763, Yale University Press, June 2016
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany's most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d'etat in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end...

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Military

Faith, Unity, Discipline The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan

Kiessling Hein

ISBN: HB: 9781849045179, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an...

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Aviation

Flashpoint China Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance

Rupprecht Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780985455484, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, May 2016
80 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

From the South China Sea to the mountains of Nepal, the continued economic rise of the People's Republic of China has led to a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the region. As a result, the relationship between China and its neighbours, as we...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Military

French Infantryman Collection 1914-1918

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815102797, Casemate, OREP, April 2016
32 pp., 24x17 cm

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of...

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Flying Tigers Colors Camouflage and Markings of the American Volunteer Group and the USAAF 23rd Fighter Group, 1941-1945

Molesworth Carl

ISBN: PB: 9788360672266, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2016
64 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 38 colour illus., 105 black&white illus.

No aircraft markings in history are more iconic than the distinctive shark's mouths applied to the noses of American Volunteer Group and 23rd Fighter Group P-40s and P-51s that fought in the skies over Asia during World War II. This book covers the c...

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