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| Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's Most Daring Spy
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Gavin Mortimer.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802717696. Daedalus Item Code: 31887 |
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| After an elderly man jumped from New York's World Building in 1911, his death made the front page of the New York Times: "World Dome Suicide a Famous War Spy." Although British expatriate and ... (Read More)
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| An Edible History of Humanity
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Tom Standage.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802715883. Daedalus Item Code: 31888 |
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| "[Tom] Standage's previous book, A History of the World in 6 Glasses, theorized that the titular six drinks were reflections of the eras in which they were created. In this new work, he ... (Read More)
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| The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story
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Mary-Kay Wilmers.
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| Publisher: Verso. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781844676422. Daedalus Item Code: 32047 |
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| In this stunning family saga that mixes the fur trade, psychoanalysis, and Trotsky, Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, ... (Read More)
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| The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
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Victor Davis Hanson.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608191659. Daedalus Item Code: 31891 |
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| "War," Victor Davis Hanson writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented, but human nature is constant across time and space, and the ... (Read More)
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| Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
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Simon Reid-Henry.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802715739. Daedalus Item Code: 31892 |
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| Creating a dual portrait from historical sources in Cuba, Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Russia, and from interviews he conducted during several lengthy stays in Cuba, University of ... (Read More)
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| A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood
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Rosemary Penfold.
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| Publisher: Orion. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781407235370. Daedalus Item Code: 32518 |
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| Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this evocative memoir, she provides a moving testament to a forgotten world, ... (Read More)
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| The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood
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Eve Petulengro.
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| Publisher: Pan. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780330519991. Daedalus Item Code: 32312 |
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| Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, astrologer Eva Petulengro enjoyed an idyllic childhood. She describes traveling the country with her family in a painted caravan and spending evenings by the ... (Read More)
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| The Great Swim
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Gavin Mortimer.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780802717498. Daedalus Item Code: 31898 |
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| "In 1926, when Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, the event was publicized around the world, and she was celebrated as an American hero in a series of public events, ... (Read More)
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| Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
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Douglas Hunter.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596916807. Daedalus Item Code: 31899 |
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| The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over ... (Read More)
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| Henan Museum
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Zhang Wenjun, ed.
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| Publisher: Scala. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781857596335. Daedalus Item Code: 31778 |
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| In this superb introduction to the Henan Museum in Zhengzhou City, China's oldest museum, director Zhang Wenjum presents 200 pieces that represent the Henan's impressive holdings, from 4,000-year-old ... (Read More)
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| History's Worst Predictions: And the People Who Made Them
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Eric Chaline.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752459622. Daedalus Item Code: 32475 |
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| Since the dawn of history, human civilization has had its great prophets. But whether they claim divine inspiration, employ scientific forecasting or computer modeling, or just use their own fertile ... (Read More)
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