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| American Accents: Visual Culture as History
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Daniell Cornell.
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| Publisher: Fine Arts Museums SF. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780884011040. Daedalus Item Code: 00720 |
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| Arguing that a unique visual accent—comparable to a spoken one—exists in American fine arts, this exhibit catalog presents and discusses 87 works, spotlighting 24 of them in large color plates, from ... (Read More)
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| The American Barn
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David Plowden, photog.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393025576. Daedalus Item Code: 23876 |
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| Presented here in 140 haunting duotone images that could have been made at any time in the past century and a half, David Plowden gives us a remarkable portrait of the barn as an icon of our ... (Read More)
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| American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
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David O. Stewart.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439157183. Daedalus Item Code: 22203 |
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| In this vivid biography of an enigmatic founding father, David Stewart depicts Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring, perhaps deluded figure who shook the nascent United States. In 1805 ... (Read More)
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| The American Future: A History
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Simon Schama.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060539238. Daedalus Item Code: 14049 |
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| In this perspective on the 2008 presidential campaign and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning historian Simon Schama looks at the ... (Read More)
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| American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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Jon Meacham.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812976663. Daedalus Item Code: 31260 |
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| The American gospel—literally, the good news about America—is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it, posits historian and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham. From John ... (Read More)
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| Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band
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Alicia Castro, Ingrid Kummels & Manfred Schafer. Steven T. Murray, trans.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781843542421. Daedalus Item Code: 03464 |
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| Havana, 1932. To help her bankrupted father Matias Castro support his 13 children, eldest daughter Cuchito decides to start an all-girl orchestra to bring in some cash. Dubbed Anacaona, the group ... (Read More)
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| Ancient Architecture: History of World Architecture
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Seton Lloyd & Hans Wolfgang Muller.
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| Publisher: Electa. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781904313281. Daedalus Item Code: 10618 |
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| This book traces the earliest known history of architecture at its birthplace in ancient Mesopotamia (largely in modern Iran and Iraq) and Egypt. Profusely illustrated with drawings and black and ... (Read More)
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| Ancient World Commanders: From the Trojan War to the Fall of Rome
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Angus Konstam.
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| Publisher: Compendium. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781906347291. Daedalus Item Code: 23762 |
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| Sumptuously illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of period art, up to 16 x 8 inches, this petite coffee table book is a visual encyclopedia of more than 160 great leaders in the ... (Read More)
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| And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
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Alan Riding.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307268976. Daedalus Item Code: 23494 |
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| On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. Yet Paris remained undamaged, and soon a ... (Read More)
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| Android Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy & Ben H. Winters.
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| Publisher: Quirk. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781594744600. Daedalus Item Code: 13763 |
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| The "co-author" of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Ben Winters here collaborates with Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy to give us Android ... (Read More)
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