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Middle East

Political Science

Transnational Shia Politics Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf

Louer Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781849042147, Hurst Publishers, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This timely book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are t...

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America

Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

Welky David

ISBN: HB: 9780226887166, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones

In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a milli...

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Europe

Trieste Adriatic Emporium and Gateway to the Heart of Europe

Kent Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781850658399, Hurst Publishers, August 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Neil Kent's portrait of Trieste fills a major gap in contemporary writing on Italy, an important task bearing in mind that the city is now one of Western Europe's major gateways to the Balkans. It focuses in particular on the l...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 13 IIyushin II-2 AM-38 - All Models

Noszczak Maciej

ISBN: PB: 9788361220886, Casemate, Kagero, July 2011
28 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! The Ilyushin Il-2 was a World War II ground-attack aircraft, produced by the Soviet Union in very large numbers. In combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, over 40,000 were built, making it the single most produc...

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World

Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

Subrahmanyam Sanjay

ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...

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Europe

Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184395, ISBN: HB: 9780226184388, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
350 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 halftones, 2 line illus.

Natural right – the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin – is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right", Dan Edelstein argues...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Topshots M3 A1 Stuart

McPherson Ian, Koening Michael

ISBN: PB: 9788389088918, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
36 pp., 23.7x16.7 cm, 116 colour photos, 2 black&white photos

Not for sale in Poland! The M3 Stuart, formally Light Tank M3, was an American light tank of World War II. It was used by British and Commonwealth forces prior to the entry of the USA into the war, and thereafter by US and Allied forces until the e...

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Aviation

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Topshots Spitfire Lf Mk. XVIE

Szymanowski Grzegorz, Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788389088895, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
44 pp., 23.7x16.7 cm, 139 colour photos, 2 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The Spitfire Mk XVI was the same as the Mk IX in nearly all respects except for the engine, a Merlin 266. All Mk XVI aircraft produced were of the Low-Altitude Fighter variety. This was determined by the engine, which had be...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Topshots Su-57 Self Propeller Gun

Okonski Grzegorz

ISBN: PB: 9788360445747, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
44 pp., 23.7x16.7 cm, 149 photos

Not for sale in Poland! The SU-57 is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, armed with two 57 mm autocannons. It was the first Soviet mass produced tracked self-propelled ant-aircraft gun. In the USSR it had the unofficial nickname"Sparka", m...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Topshots BM-13N Katyusha on ZIS-6

Osinski Albert

ISBN: PB: 9788389088949, Casemate, Kagero, January 2010
36 pp., 23.7x16.7 cm, 116 colour photos, 2 black&white photos

Not for sale in Poland! Katyusha multiple rocket launchers are a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Compared to other artillery, these multiple rocket launchers deliver a devastating amount of expl...

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