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The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation
David Grayson Allen.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781555536794.  Daedalus Item Code: 30158
 
"Whether it's the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Central Park in New York City, the Capitol Grounds in Washington, D.C., or countless other beautiful urban parks in cities across America, we have ... (Read More)
 
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Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
Gordon Thomas.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780312569938.  Daedalus Item Code: 30343
 
Here the author of Voyage of the Damned gives us a fast-paced, riveting chronicle of Jewish refugees desperately seeking a home after World War II, and how their flight to Palestine on the ... (Read More)
 
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Operation Heartbreak/The Man Who Never Was
Duff Cooper & Ewen Montagu.
Publisher: Spellmount.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752457758.  Daedalus Item Code: 23163
 
One of the great deceptions of World War II took place in April 1943 when a body wearing a Royal Marines uniform was found off the coast of Fascist Spain. With him was a courier's briefcase ... (Read More)
 
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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
Linda Colley.
Publisher: Pantheon/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780375421532.  Daedalus Item Code: 92943
 
In this reconstruction of an 18th-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of a woman ahead of her time, she also opens a window onto the ... (Read More)
 
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama.
Publisher: Profile.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781846682568.  Daedalus Item Code: 32041
 
"Political theorist [Francis] Fukuyama presents nothing less than a unified theory of state formation, a comparative study of how tribally organized societies in various parts of the world and ... (Read More)
 
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Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense: How Editorial Writers Have Taken on the Great American Issues of the Past 150 Years
Michael Gartner and the Newseum.
Publisher: National Geographic.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780792241973.  Daedalus Item Code: 30893
 
Mining newspaper files and the archives of the interactive Newseum located in Washington, D.C., this book examines decisive issues and events in U.S. history, as well as the flavor of American life, ... (Read More)
 
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
Ian W. Toll.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393068139.  Daedalus Item Code: 23887
 
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Only six months later, in a sea fight north of the ... (Read More)
 
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Pagan Spain
Richard Wright.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061450198.  Daedalus Item Code: 23401
 
A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. Francisco Franco's Spain in ... (Read More)
 
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Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change, 1870–1945
Philip Davies. Dan Cruickshank, foreword.
Publisher: Transatlantic Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781907176722.  Daedalus Item Code: 23633
 
The previous catalog of historic photographs by London town planner and conservationist Philip Davies, Lost London 1870–1945, captivated modern audiences with what the Sunday Times ... (Read More)
 
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Paper War: Nazi Propaganda in One Battle, on a Single Day: Cassino, Italy, May 11, 1944
Randall L. Bytwerk, intro.
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9780976224501.  Daedalus Item Code: 03653
 
Propaganda is as much a weapon as guns and tanks, and it was deployed by German forces at the ferocious Battle of Cassino in May 1944 in hopes of impelling members of the multinational Allied forces ... (Read More)
 
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The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise & On Paradise Drive
David Brooks.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781451643152.  Daedalus Item Code: 31742
 
This omnibus edition collects two popular nonfiction titles by New York Times Op-Ed columnist and public television and radio commentator David Brooks, whose insightful, engaging, and ... (Read More)
 
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Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
Jeffrey H. Jackson.
Publisher: Palgrave.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780230108042.  Daedalus Item Code: 31995
 
In the winter of 1910, the river that normally brings life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created conditions that soon ... (Read More)
 
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