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Neven Andjelic

"The Bosnian war is often explained in terms of ancient hatred or the inability of post-communist society to go through a peaceful transition. Both arguments tend to omit the decade immediately prior to the war, which inevitably led to a bloody collapse of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The author covers this period - which was characterized by strong communist rule, beginning in 1972 and ending in the 1980s - as a consequence of a series of political and economic scandals. It was the 'Agrokomerc Scandal' (uncovered in 1987) which brought down the political and economic elite of communist Bosnia. This changed the political scene completely, the economy deteriorated, and the society that had been suppressed during communist rule, emerged. New, inexperienced and weak leadership - under conditions of unprecedented economic crisis - led to the liberalized Bosnia of 1989. A wave of nationalism from Serbia, and later from Croatia, fell on fertile ground, although it was mainly resisted by the single-party system. However, it was democracy that finally allowed nationalism to gain a foothold in Bosnia."--Jacket.

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Gregory Lee

As the Nazis come to power in Germany, a violent argument over a secret key causes young Johann to lose the only parent he has left. Worse, it is his half-brother, Dieter, who commits this horrific act of betrayal. Though their fragile family bonds are irrevocably destroyed, the brothers' paths are destined to cross again. Years later, in 1945, Hitler's army is on the verge of defeat as Soviet forces enter Germany. Hiding in plain sight, Johann works to save German lives, secretly despising the F'hrer to whom Dieter has sworn his allegiance. Yet now it is Dieter who holds a terrible secret that threatens not just Johann and his family, but an entire city unsuspecting of the enemy within. As Germany falls before the Allies? merciless advance, Johann and Dieter are locked in their own furious battle while the fate of the entire city of Berlin rests in their hands.

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John A. Lane

"The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gille, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's archives help to document the origins of many specimens." "This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown." "Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiast and printing historians."--BOOK JACKET.

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Michael Wood

The author places the landmark novel into the context of modern Colombia's violent history, exploring the complex vision of Gabriel García Márquez.