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| Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust
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Ronald Florence.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020720. Daedalus Item Code: 30328 |
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| This gripping history of a little-known and desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population in World War II tells how Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest bargained with Adolf ... (Read More)
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| The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel
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Gregory Mobley.
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| Publisher: Doubleday. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300140125. Daedalus Item Code: 12534 |
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| In this work of literary archaeology, Gregory Mobley brings a highly original eye to the biblical stories found in Judges, which depict Israel's frontier era, and in First and Second Samuel, which ... (Read More)
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| Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum
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Edna R. Russman et al.
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| Publisher: California. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780520230866. Daedalus Item Code: 30490 |
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| An ideal introduction to the enormous and varied legacy of ancient Egypt, this oversized book presents more than 140 objects in detailed descriptions and color photographs, many with multiple views. ... (Read More)
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| Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965
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Audreen Buffalo, ed.
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| Publisher: Studio Museum of Harlem. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780942949124. Daedalus Item Code: 31257 |
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| Just as African American authors and musicians in the mid-20th century found an acceptance in Paris that remained elusive in their homeland, artists like Lois Mailou Jones, Herbert Gentry, Harold ... (Read More)
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| Gandhi: Spiritual Leader
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Diane Cook. Robert Ingpen, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841433. Daedalus Item Code: 30987 |
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| Beautifully illustrated in realistic watercolors by Hans Christian Andersen Award winner Robert Ingpen, this oversized visual biography for readers 8 and up describes how the young Mohandas Gandhi ... (Read More)
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| Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
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John Stauffer.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780446580090. Daedalus Item Code: 30050 |
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| The author of The Black Hearts of Men, a co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and runner-up for the Lincoln prize, Harvard literature professor John Stauffer offers this ... (Read More)
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| God's Gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place
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James G. Lochtefeld.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195386141. Daedalus Item Code: 13720 |
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| A celebrated Hindu pilgrimage site, Hardwar lies on the river Ganges at the edge of the Himalayas; its identity as a holy place is inextricably tied to the mythology and reality of the sacred river. ... (Read More)
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| Heroic Wives: Rituals, Stories, and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood
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M. Whitney Kelting.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195389647. Daedalus Item Code: 10918 |
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| Although in Hinduism it is often used to refer to widow immolation, the term sati means "true woman"—a female hero. Here Whitney Kelting explains that in Jainism satis appear as ... (Read More)
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| The Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire
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Arthur Cotterell.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781590200070. Daedalus Item Code: 22294 |
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| From the Shang Emperor's obsessive attempts to engage the Immortals with cosmologically pleasing urban planning in the 3rd century BC, Chinese emperors have designed their various imperial capitals ... (Read More)
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| In a Dark Wood
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Marcel Moring. Shaun Whiteside, trans.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780066212418. Daedalus Item Code: 21757 |
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| In a tapestry of writing styles, fantasy, and philosophical speculations, the Dutch author of Mendel, In Babylon, and The Dream Room leads us on a vivid exploration of loss and ... (Read More)
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