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| Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
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Jeffrey A. Lockwood.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780199733538. Daedalus Item Code: 30766 |
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| The author of Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier, Pushcart Prize and John Burroughs Award winner Jeffrey Lockwood here ... (Read More)
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| A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230108936. Daedalus Item Code: 31998 |
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| Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, and became part of the Madison household staff at the White House. After he was finally emancipated by ... (Read More)
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| Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity
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Robert Tavernor.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780300143348. Daedalus Item Code: 01792 |
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| Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. Tavernor urges us ... (Read More)
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| Storm from the Sea
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Peter Young.
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| Publisher: Greenhill. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781853675119. Daedalus Item Code: 00651 |
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| First published in 1958 and reappearing in 1989 with additional material, this classic account is a vivid record of life in a British Commando unit, written by an intrepid, intelligent, and ... (Read More)
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| The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death
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Nigel Cawthorne.
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| Publisher: Arcturus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781848588417. Daedalus Item Code: 24036 |
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| With chapters on Heinrich Himmler, the "Night of the Long Knives," the Waffen SS, the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials, and ODESSSA, the organization of former SS members, Nigel Cawthorne provides a ... (Read More)
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| Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance
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Lauro Martines.
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| Publisher: Johns Hopkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801873164. Daedalus Item Code: 12163 |
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| This book offers a social history of the Italian Renaissance (1300–1560) in a cultural mien. Using tales, poems, prayers, and letters as primary sources, history professor Lauro Martines probes ... (Read More)
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| The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West
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Christiane Bird.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780345469403. Daedalus Item Code: 21864 |
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| A story virtually unknown in the West, about two of the Middle East's most remarkable figures—Oman's Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme—comes to life in this narrative from the ... (Read More)
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| Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World
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Bevin Alexander.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393078138. Daedalus Item Code: 23895 |
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| Imagine the impact on the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Civil War, if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill ... (Read More)
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| Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Brief History of Ancient Egypt
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Barbara Mertz.
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| Publisher: Robinson. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781849012805. Daedalus Item Code: 31044 |
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| Elizabeth Peters, author of the Amelia Peabody series of archaeological mysteries, is in fact the internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz. In this book, originally published in the 1960s ... (Read More)
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| Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land
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Sven Lindqvist. Sarah Death, trans.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781847080059. Daedalus Item Code: 23627 |
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| Stretching from the formation of the Australian continent 600 million years ago to the 2002 hunger strikes in the Woomera detention camp, this is both a beautifully described journey across ... (Read More)
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