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| Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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John Freely.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307277831. Daedalus Item Code: 09143 |
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| A physicist and historian who has written more than 40 books on such topics as Istanbul, Athens, and the 15th-century Ottoman pretender Jem Sultan, John Freely here looks at the founding and ... (Read More)
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| American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
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Walter Isaacson.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439180648. Daedalus Item Code: 02401 |
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| Here the biographer of Einstein, Franklin, and Kissinger asks, what are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history? In ... (Read More)
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| The American Civil War: A Military History
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John Keegan.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307263438. Daedalus Item Code: 99415 |
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| British historian John Keegan—former senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, author of The First World War, The Face of Battle, and The Second World ... (Read More)
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| Ancient Rome
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Nigel Rodgers.
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| Publisher: J.G. Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781572154384. Daedalus Item Code: 02409 |
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| Seen in nearly 1000 color photographs, including large images over 13 x 11 inches, this is a visually striking tour of ancient Rome, much of which exists as ruins within the modern city and in the ... (Read More)
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| Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock
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Pete Fornatale.
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| Publisher: Touchstone. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416591191. Daedalus Item Code: 02403 |
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| A fixture of New York City's airwaves for over 40 years, disc jockey Pete Fornatale celebrates the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in this browsable, hard-to-close book of original interviews with ... (Read More)
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| The Battle of Poitiers, 1356
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David Green.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752445939. Daedalus Item Code: 02774 |
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| This is the story of one of the great battles of the Hundred Years War, often overshadowed by the celebrated battles at Crécy and Agincourt. Yet the victory at Poitiers on September 19th, 1356, of an ... (Read More)
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| The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
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Julie Greene.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143116783. Daedalus Item Code: 02445 |
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| "Many books will tell you that Theodore Roosevelt built the Panama Canal, but don't believe them; in fact it was working men and women from all over the world. In vivid prose, Julie Greene explains ... (Read More)
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| Cannabis: A History
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Martin Booth.
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| Publisher: Picador/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312424947. Daedalus Item Code: 02325 |
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| "In this densely packed, wide-ranging history, [Martin] Booth draws on religion, history, ecology, horticulture, linguistics, pop culture, and medical research to correct the falsehoods surrounding ... (Read More)
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| Churchill at War 1940–45
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Lord Moran.
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| Publisher: Robinson. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781841196084. Daedalus Item Code: 02854 |
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| In January 1940, at Scapa Flow on the northern tip of Scotland, when the United States committed its support to England and Winston Churchill, his personal physician and confidant Charles McMoran ... (Read More)
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| Cleopatra
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Michael Grant.
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| Publisher: Phoenix. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781898799696. Daedalus Item Code: 02798 |
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| Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was also a scholar, murderer, love of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and one of the most remarkable women in history. Distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant ... (Read More)
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