2015 World Factbook
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Maps: Their Untold Stories
Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes
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A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time -...
Miners' Battalion: A History of the 12th (Pioneers) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1914 - 1918
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'The true nature and functions of a pioneer battalion were never fully understood during the war...
Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare
Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos
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More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military...
The Fortifications of Arkadian City-States in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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This illustrated study comprises a comprehensive and detailed account of the historical development...
The Ottoman Age of Exploration
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first...
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
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The shocking story of how America became one of the world’s safest postwar havens for Nazis ...
Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America
Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
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For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the...
Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
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"Telepresence" allows us to feel present -- through vision, hearing, and even touch -- at a remote...
A Most Secret War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45
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The history of scientific intelligence - its birth, its importance during the Second World War and...