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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Guy Deutscher.
Publisher: Metropolitan.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780805081954.  Daedalus Item Code: 30566
 
(A New York Times "Editor's Choice"; named one of the Best Books of 2010 by The Economist, Financial Times, and Library Journal) While a simple view of language ... (Read More)
 
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Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems
Harold Bloom, ed.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061923050.  Daedalus Item Code: 22324
 
In this thoughtful anthology, Harold Bloom has meticulously curated the last poems of one hundred influential poets. These poems—sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a ... (Read More)
 
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To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead. Margaret M. Caffrey & Patricia A. Francis, eds. Mary Catherine Bateson, foreword.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465008155.  Daedalus Item Code: 80204
 
A prolific letter-writer, often far from home and loved ones, Margaret Mead nearly always used her correspondence to hone her writing and her ideas and this collection presents 60 years of personal ... (Read More)
 
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Townie: A Memoir
Andre Dubus III.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393064667.  Daedalus Item Code: 23897
 
(A Finalist for the 2012 Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year and a New York Times Editor's Choice for 2011) The author of the National Book Award Finalist House of Sand ... (Read More)
 
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The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay
Louis Begley.
Publisher: Atlas & Co.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781934633069.  Daedalus Item Code: 11151
 
The PEN/Hemingway Award– and Prix Médicis–winning author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt here offers a biography of Western literature's most iconic writer. The very term "Kafkaesque" ... (Read More)
 
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The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones.
Publisher: Back Bay.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780316836319.  Daedalus Item Code: 21313
 
(National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, a single family has controlled America's newspaper of record, setting the agenda not only for the ... (Read More)
 
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Type and Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles
John D. Berry & John Randle, intro.
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780971568761.  Daedalus Item Code: 03659
 
This beautifully typeset and illustrated book offers a singular collection of 35 in-depth articles on typography and the printing arts, from the earliest type design techniques to the latest in ... (Read More)
 
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The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
Bill Morgan.
Publisher: Free Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416592426.  Daedalus Item Code: 21339
 
"[Bill] Morgan brings a productive career of chronicling the mid-20th-century writers known as the Beats to a fine point with this thorough popular history that eschews criticism to concentrate on ... (Read More)
 
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Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece
Declan Kiberd.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393070996.  Daedalus Item Code: 21117
 
A professor of Anglo-Irish literature at University College Dublin and Ireland's premier literary historian, Declan Kiberd offers this audacious new take on James Joyce's modernist masterpiece. ... (Read More)
 
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Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin. Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare, eds.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670022465.  Daedalus Item Code: 31232
 
The author of such brilliant travel-themed works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose restless desire for adventure and enlightenment was wholly evident in ... (Read More)
 
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Unlocked: A Journey from Prison to Proust
Louis Ferrante.
Publisher: Harper/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061133855.  Daedalus Item Code: 93662
 
"A former New York Mafia soldier, [Louis] Ferrante was known for being a solid guy, a thug with a specialty in safecracking, truck heists and loan-sharking collections. With this book of his personal ... (Read More)
 
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Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales of the Weirdly Departed
Cynthia Ceilan.
Publisher: Lyons Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781599219103.  Daedalus Item Code: 22940
 
Nothing makes it quite so satisfying to embrace the loveliness of life's ordinary moments than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death, says Cynthia Ceilán. In her follow-up to Thinning the ... (Read More)
 
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