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Who Should You Have Sex With?
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2010; US$ 18.99How can you have a better sex life? more...
The White War
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 14.57The compelling and moving account of an unknown campaign of the First World War. more...
The White War
Basic Books 2009; US$ 18.95In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.... more...
A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos
Transworld 2013; US$ 22.66To the beginner, the star-filled night sky can seem mysterious and unfathomable. But with this book as a guide the awesome nature of the Cosmos is brought down to Earth. Over the course of twelve chapters Mark Thompson, one of the presenters on BBC One's Stargazing Live and the resident astronomer on ITV's The Alan Titchmarsh Show , will... more...
American Character
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 5.82Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times. By the time of his death in 1928, the 3,500 mile "tramp across the continent" was just a footnote in his astonishingly varied career: crusading journalist, author of nearly two dozen books, editor of the influential... more...
Democratic Revolutions
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 41.95Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there are striking similarities between the peaceful, spontaneous, urban-based and cross-class democratic uprisings against unyielding dictatorships that have occurred in the two regions. The book explores the kind of non-democratic regimes that are particularly vulnerable to democratic... more...
The Contest for the Delaware Valley
LSU Press 2013; US$ 38.00In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America. For most of the seventeenth century, the lower Delaware Valley remained a marginal area under no state?s complete control. English, Dutch, and Swedish... more...
F-117 Stealth Fighter Units of Operation Desert Storm
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95During the final years of the 20th century, the most significant break-through in military weaponry was the concept of Stealth technology, and the first mass-produced weapon to utilize this to perfection was the F-117 Nighthawk. Originally delivered in 1982, its existence was officially denied until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, when it entered... more...
P-61 Black Widow Units of World War 2
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95The first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfigher, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in the years 1940/41 of World War II (1939-1945). Built essentially around the bulky Radiation Laboratory SCR-720 radar, which was mounted in the aircraft's nose,... more...
F4U Corsair Units of the Korean War
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95The definitive account of F-4 Corsair Units deployed in the Korean War (1950-1953), this book tells the story of the 26 US Navy Squadrons, most of which were carrier based, and the 6 Marine Corps F-4 squadrons that flew combat missions against the North Koreans. Drawing from a vast repository of personal interviews with F-4 pilots, the author paints... more...









