Catalog: North American New Book Catalog Spring/Summer 2008
Company/Brand: International Publishers Marketing
the book war in North American New Book Catalog Spring/Summer 2008 by International Publishers Marketing
characterisation and plotting are the hallmarks of all his books the past is ... colours who needs more guardian the first in a series of adventure novels ... man and career soldier involved in the campaigns of the duke of marlborough ... during the war of the spanish succession 1685 the young bevis ... witnesses the regiment of his fierce protestant ... father being destroyed by the troops of the royal army s second-in-command john ... dutch mother narrowly avoiding rape at the hands of a soldier from the same ... and his mother leave devon and sail for the netherlands 1688 rawson returns to ... england as a soldier in the dutch army among those who flock to ... in his bid to replace james ii on the throne is john churchill rawson and the ...
10/2/07 10:05 am page 27 the american university in cairo press new ... titles may 2008 a major early novel by the egyptian nobel laureate published for ... the first time in english the novelist s camera pans from the dome of ... university to students streaming out of the campus focusing on four students in ... their twenties each representing a different ... trend in egypt in the 1930s finally the camera comes to rest on mahgub abd al- ... al-qanatir a dusty provincial town on the nile that is also a popular destination ... naguib mahfouz has a hard time finding the correct setting on his ambition gauge ... emotional life also fluctuates between the extremes of a street girl who makes her ... own corruption published in arabic in the 1940s this cautionary morality tale ... foreign philosophies comes from the same period as one of the writer s ...
10/2/07 10:06 am page 29 the american university in cairo press new ... titles a novella and short stories by the author of the bestselling novel of ... cairo life the yacoubian building nine short stories ... offering by alaa al aswany author of the yacoubian building as in that novel al ... and reveals with skill and detachment the hypocrisy violence and abuse of power ... of a world in moral crisis here though the focus has shifted from the broad ... historical canvas to the minute stitches of pain that hold ... a family a school classroom or the relationship between a man and a woman ... over human decency can a man put the thought of a delicious dish of beans ... to mourn his father s death alongside these wry questions other less mordant ... perspectives also have their place an aging cabaret dancer bestows ...
10/2/07 10:06 am page 32 the american university in cairo press new ... colla new new titles a libyan novel of the sahara desert from the author of anubis ... rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed ukhayyad and ... his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate tuareg deserts of the sahara ... between bloody wars against the italians in the north and famine raging ... in the south ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of jebel hasawna ... there he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion ... disease lust and loneliness alone in the desert haunted by the prophetic cave ... paintings of ancient hunting scenes and the cries of jinn in the night ukhayyad ... awaits the arrival of his pursuers and their insatiable hunger for blood and gold ...
well researched and handsomely designed the life× library of biography ... authors profiling famous people and the culture that shaped them illustrated in ... few years after queen victoria came to the throne and died just a few years before ... of germany his life spanned both the precipitous rise and gradual decline of ... industrial britain the ages of capital and empire and the ... that was so brutally shattered by the first world war as a contemporary of ... meredith tennyson and browning he was the last of the great victorians and among ... the moderns ahead of his time he influenced ... events artistic concerns ideas the literary and cultural world and the ... great dramas of the age democracy women s rights mass ... society science imperialism and war in doing so it will reveal a different ...
judged in a highly controversial way on the one hand he is admired as the founder ... of the reich and as a gifted diplomat others ... nobleman and as a stubborn enemy of the socialist movement since the unexpected ... union of the two german states which were the ... remnants of the original reich founded by bismarck ... people have started to think anew about the role of the iron chancellor ullrich ... unbiased judgment of bismarck far from the common clichés that have distorted his ... image and legacy over the last decades dr volker ullrich was born ... been in charge of a department called `the political book at the hamburg-based ... newspaper die zeit his most recent book was the nervous great power ascent and ... decline of the german empire 1871-1918 may 2008 paper ...
selected backlist selected titles in the armchair traveller series now available ... along the ganges ilja trojanow cloth us $19.95 ... .50 isbn 978-1905791-03-3 named one of the 86 top travel books of all time by cond ... é nast traveler an emigrant from cold war bulgaria now living in cape town ... on asia and in his journey from the ganges s source to the chaotic cities ... along its course he treats the river and its hindu devotees with ... nominated by nuruddin farah on foot to the end of the world rene freund cloth us $ ...
and key figure in early american and the elizabethan-era british imagination new ... smith was a remarkable man in the great tradition of the elizabethan ... oxford his area of specialist study is the era of exploration and discovery in the ... seventeenth centuries his biography of the `english marco polo peter mundy ... traveller biography history rommel the end of a legend ralf george reuth new ... much different and much darker than the fawning accounts the desert fox s ... will be extremely uncomfortable when they meet the real rommel in the pages of ... reuth s must-read new book armchair general magazine field ... marshal erwin rommel was the most popular soldier of world war ii ... under his leadership the german afrika korps advanced all the ...
from our fall catalog struik publishers the largest general trade publisher in ... researched and elegantly designed books of africa while many of our illustrated ... titles strive to capture the visual essence of africa our zebra ... provides a more text based view of the world of africa including fiction ... from our fall catalog through the darkness a life in zimbabwe judith ... 002-7 anatomy of south africa who holds the power richard calland paper us $24.00 ... .85 isbn 978-1-86872-903-6 an unpopular war voices of south african national ... a kitchen safari stories recipes from the african wilderness dumi ndlovu and ... .00 can $18.95 isbn 978-1-77007-375-3 the larger illustrated guide to birds of ...
10/2/07 10:08 am page 65 the national archives new titles elizabeth ... and philip 20 november 1947 the national archives march april 2008 new ... new titles an inside view of the drama pageantry and protocol behind the ... elizabeth and prince philip celebrate their 60 years of marriage the national ... archives presents a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the royal wedding of 1947 the ... magnificence of the occasion captured the nation s imagination and brought ... thousands on to the streets to cheer its norman hartnell ... a temporary escape from a ration-book economy and the worries of an unstable ... world using the unparalleled original material in the ... archives elizabeth and philip charts the round-the-clock efforts of those high ...
10/2/07 10:08 am page 66 the national archives new titles army ... william spencer an accessible up to the minute guide for all those interested ... in the british army or ancestors with an army ... past the national archives exceptional ... of military material includes the personal files of hundreds of thousands ... of first world war soldiers as well as army nursing ... services the waac prisoners of war from the second world war and korea and a wide ... orders decorations and medal rolls from the napoleonic wars to the falklands this ... and accessible guide to records in the archives and the british library s ... history william spencer has been the military specialist at london s ... since 1996 he formerly served in the royal navy and holds an ma in war ...
10/2/07 10:08 am page 67 the national archives new titles air force ... titles newly revised extended and up to the minute guide for all those interested ... past including expanded section on the interwar years including records of raf ... air forces and ancestors who served in them through the wealth of material a tht ... it covers air forces as varied as the royal engineers balloon section the ... royal flying corps the raf and wraf,j fleet air arm glider ... naval air service in campaigns spanning the boer war and two world wars to korea ... by a military specialist who served in the fleet air arm it considers all aspects ... force records from operational record books and unit war diaries to individual ... genealogy military history first world war army service records a guide for family ...
n family 70 fayoum and wadi el-rayan the 38 field guide to the insects of south ... africa 58 field guide to the rocks minerals of southern africa 58 ... final night 32 first world war army service records 67 fit in 10 flag ... of truce a 15 french romantics the 60 friendly fire 29 friends of ... hunger 31 liontooth 81 liquid continent the 46 london fragments 48 london stage in ... the 20th century 40 loss of innocence 80 ... loved ones the 25 i in search of eden 48 infallibility ... of the church in orthodox theology the 76 inheritance the 25 inside the night ... 20 into the world you love 79 islamic art in cairo ... and regency architecture 60 going up the potomac 4 gold dust 32 golden step the ... 40 gordon brown 49 graduate 3 grammar book for you and i oops me a 9 11 great ...
am page 86 title index o y o oases the 38 on foot to the end of the world 48 ... open door the 25 savvy woman patient the 11 science fiction 75 seashells of the ... a 81 seeing red 73 p painted lady the 13 pankhurst 43 paris along the nile 23 ... photographic guide to the birds of the indian ocean islands a 55 poor 20 ... seventh heaven the 27 shakespeare 40 shells of the red sea ... 2009 calendar 39 shot down and in the drink 62 shot rolling ship a 15 simone ... de beauvoir 43 sinai 38 sky above the kingdom below the 45 sleeping with your ... business partner 8 smiles of the saints the 20 smither s mammals of ... and courtesans 65 questions within the 74 south africa s great white shark 52 ... 81 r r a t real-world aptitude test the 3 11 railway viaduct the 12 rainbow ...
