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| Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
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Robin Waterfield.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393065275. Daedalus Item Code: 21047 |
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| A renowned classicist and the translator of such thinkers as Plutarch, Plato, and Xenophon, Robin Waterfield here reconsiders the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization. As ... (Read More)
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| Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
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James Le Fanu.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375421983. Daedalus Item Code: 12145 |
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| The triumph of science in explaining man's unique place in the universe might seem almost complete. But in this lucid and provocative book, physician and columnist James Le Fanu describes how science ... (Read More)
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| Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Jeanette Winterson.
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| Publisher: Grove. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802120106. Daedalus Item Code: 29168 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2012) The Whitbread Prize–winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Lighthousekeeping, and The ... (Read More)
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| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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Jim Holt.
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| Publisher: Liveright. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780871404091. Daedalus Item Code: 29537 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2012) Whether framed philosophically ("Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?") or more colloquially ("But, Mommy, ... (Read More)
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| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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Jim Holt.
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| Publisher: Liveright. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780871403599. Daedalus Item Code: 38561 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2012) Whether framed philosophically ("Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?") or more colloquially ("But, Mommy, ... (Read More)
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| A Widow's Story: A Memoir
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Joyce Carol Oates.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780062015532. Daedalus Item Code: 22330 |
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| In this wrenching memoir, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates describes the unexpected death in 2008 of her husband of 46 years and its surprising aftermath. A Widow's Story ... (Read More)
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| The Widows of Eastwick
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John Updike.
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| Publisher: Knopf/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307269607. Daedalus Item Code: 01081 |
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| After more than three decades, the witches of Eastwick—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, all now widowed after the deaths of the perfect men they conjured up—return for the summer to the Rhode Island ... (Read More)
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| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307476074. Daedalus Item Code: 38645 |
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| (Oprah Book Club 2.0 Selection, June 2012; Best Book of 2012: NPR, St. Louis Dispatch, Vogue; Best Nonfiction Book of 2012, Boston Globe) At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she ... (Read More)
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| A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun
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Kathleen A. Meyers & Amanda Powell, eds.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780253335814. Daedalus Item Code: 31954 |
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| A mystic, chronicler, and cofounder of an Augustinian convent, Madre Maria de San José (1656–1719) inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa ... (Read More)
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| Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman
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Chloe Schama.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802717368. Daedalus Item Code: 31930 |
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| In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, 19-year-old Theresa Longworth met a soldier, William Charles Yelverton, later the Viscount of Avonmore. Their flirtation became an epistolary affair, and ... (Read More)
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| The Wild Washerwomen
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John Yeoman. Quentin Blake, illus.
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| Publisher: Andersen. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780761351528. Daedalus Item Code: 32077 |
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| "Once upon a time there were seven washerwomen," begins this off-kilter fairy tale for readers 4 to 8, and these ladies launder mountains of clothes at the behest of their merciless employer, Mr. ... (Read More)
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