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Susan Polgar

Rebel Queen

A real life Queen’s Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women…

Anders Stephanson

American Imperatives

A radical reinterpretation of the Cold War by its most iconoclastic historian.

Kirill Chunikhin

Shared Images

Who organized numerous exhibitions of American art in the Cold War Soviet Union - and why? Did Americans truly want to "subvert" the Soviet regime with abstraction, and were the Soviets really "afraid" of…

Thomas Parks

Southeast Asia's Multipolar Future

Southeast Asia is rapidly becoming a competitive space for geopolitical rivalries. The growth in China-U.S. strategic competition is creating deep anxiety among Southeast Asia leaders, China's rising powe…

Ulrik Skotte

The Umbrella Murder

September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge, London with a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the C…

Distant Early Warning Systems

Anhand der "DEW Line" als Symbol gleichermaßen für Vergangenheit und Zukunft untersucht die Publikation die Ideologien von Warnsystemen. Ursprünglich als Gefahrenmelder in politischen Auseinandersetzungen…

Andreas Killen

Nervous Systems

In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-…

Michael Rom

Brazilian Belonging

"Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The home of the largest Jewish communit…

Stejarel Olaru,

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police

2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner - Silver Medal, World History Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppress…

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Budd Boetticher’s collaborations with star Randolph Scott are ostensibly small-scale B-movies, but are now revered as some of the finest adult westerns produced in that period. Tom Buchanan (Scott) is a…

Orango

Mohican

The Godfathers

Best Of Shot Live

Godfathers spielen ihre größten Hits live. Band Line-Up: Peter Coyne: Vocals; Chris Coyle: Bass/Vocals;´Del Bartle: Guitar/Vocals; Grant Nichols: Drums/Percussion/Vocals; Live aufgenommen im 100 Club, Lon…

Richard Crowder

Détente

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United St…

Erica Sheen

Geopolitical Shakespeare

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attem…

Akiko Takenaka

Mothers Against War

"Mothers against war examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women's rights in the decades following Japan's defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, general…

Alfredo Thiermann Riesco

Radio-Activities

"This book sets out to investigate the political, technological, and environmental dimensions of architecture at a moment when buildings began to interact with the emergent medium of radio. More especiall…

Yakov Feygin

Building a Ruin

Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer so…

Zsuzsa Millei, Nelli Piattoeva, Iveta Silova

(An)Archive

What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futur…

Zsuzsa Millei, Nelli Piattoeva, Iveta Silova

(An)Archive

What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futur…