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Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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Political Science

Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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Military

Thunder at Prokhorovka A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943

Schranck David

ISBN: HB: 9781909384545, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2013
612 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour maps, 7 fold-out colour maps, 9 tables

After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfil that objective. If successful a number of Soviet armies would be destroyed and the front line shor...

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America

Time No Longer Americans After the American Century

Smith Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300176568, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice: b...

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Asia

Middle East

Tibet A History

Van Schaik Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780300194104, Yale University Press, May 2013
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

<p>Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history. Sam va...

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Business & Economics

America

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226491493, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 8 tables, 12 halftones

In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies – in...

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Europe

Mathematics

Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

McGrayne Bertsch Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

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World

Military

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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World

Culture Studies

Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Klemek Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...

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Media Studies

America

Theater of the Mind Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama

Verma Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226853512, ISBN: HB: 9780226853505, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "theater of the mind". This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In "Theater...

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