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The first single volume history of prisons in Britain from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day

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Claire Henty-Gebert, born in 1930, was four years old when she was taken to the Bungalow mission in Alice Springs. She was the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman. Much of her young life was spent on Croker Island mission. Inspired by others, she traced her Aboriginal family but was never to meet her mother.

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This report reviews and assesses current U.S. policy in the region, treating the challenges in Pakistan and Afghanistan as connected but also distinct.

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Interviews and photographic essays highlight the spirit of the 70's New York-based organization of Puerto Rican radicals, the Young Lords.

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This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in socialist organizing and of socialism in the struggle to free Palestine.

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The US invasion of Panama, Operation "Just Cause", in December 1989 was the most complex US military operation since Vietnam. This book details the forces involved in toppling General Noriega, widely considered Central America's most notorious hard-man and drug baron.

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A comprehensive work offering a new paradigm for an anarchism rooted in decolonisation.

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The Panther medium tank was produced to counteract the threat of the Soviet T-34/76 which outclassed the Panzer in battle during the invasion of Russia in 1941. Rushed into service at Kursk, it proved to be one of the best all round tanks of World War II.

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Offers a study of a successful but little-known German tank of World War II, the Panzer 38(t). This title gives an account of the technical history and combat record of one of the most successful early World War II tanks.

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This volume charts the recruitment, training, service conditions and combat experience of a typical World War II German tank crewman, serving on various fronts - from the scorching heat of the Western Desert to the frozen tundra of the Eastern Front.

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Hitler's lightning invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. This book evaluates the qualities and idiosyncrasies of each tank, giving a stark and arresting crewman's-eye-view of the brutal armoured combat at the height of the invasion of Poland.

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The armour clashes in May 1940 were the biggest the world had yet seen, as the sweeping German advances of that period came to epitomize Blitzkrieg. The Wehrmacht's Panzer III was well matched by the French Somua S35 tanks. Fully illustrated, this work draws on research to provide a definitive analysis of the clash between these two tank designs.

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Two of World War II's most distinctive weapons, the Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck offered German and other infantrymen the ability to destroy enemy tanks singlehandedly at close ranges. This book reveals the development history of these two feared weapons and assesses the tactics that were employed by the soldiers using them.

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Beginning with the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, and continuing through the barrage of voter initiatives, the state tumbled to the bottom of the nation's "quality of life" rankings. In "Paradise Lost", Peter Schrag examines the relationship between the politics of that retrenchment and the great demographic changes in the state.

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Part of the "Men-At-Arms" series, this book looks at the Partisan forces of World War II.

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This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new view of the decades around federation.

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Terrifying and touching, Patpong Sisters is a gripping account of one woman s personal experience with the prostitutes, managers, and clients at the throbbing heart of Bangkok s thriving sex industry.

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The author, a young American anthropologist, spent three years studying Bangkok's red-light district, Patpong, an area of a few blocks teeming with bars and explicit sex shows. In this book, she concludes that some of the Patpong people, far from being downtrodden and exploited, reveal themselves to be intelligent, and highly entrepreneurial.

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A feminist exploration of the works of Karl Marx and Marxist thinking.