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| A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
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Neil Sheehan.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780679422846. Daedalus Item Code: 21510 |
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| "As he did unforgettably in A Bright Shining Lie, [Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Neil] Sheehan here tells the story both of a warrior and of a war, in this case a cold one. The ... (Read More)
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| The Finger: A Handbook
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Angus Trumble.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374154981. Daedalus Item Code: 20448 |
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| From the author of A Brief History of the Smile comes this complete index of the digit. Art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle in this mix of art and ... (Read More)
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| Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia
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Bernd Roeck.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300095159. Daedalus Item Code: 31851 |
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| By the end of the 19th century, Florence hosted a vibrant community of creative expatriates; such writers as Wilde, Rilke, and Mann, and painters like Degas and Klee, flocked there to revel in the ... (Read More)
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| For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
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Frederick Brown.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307266316. Daedalus Item Code: 30048 |
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| "Nobody outside France writes better about French history and culture in the late 19th century than Frederick Brown.... It is a period of artistic triumph and of political turmoil, the latter ... (Read More)
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| The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal
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Charles Van Onselen.
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| Publisher: Walker & Company. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802716415. Daedalus Item Code: 03045 |
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| "Award-winning South African historian [Charles] Van Onselen has crafted a riveting narrative portraying the life and crimes of Joseph Silver (1868–1918), a violent man whose story is almost too ... (Read More)
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| George Washington: A Life
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Willard Sterne Randall.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805027792. Daedalus Item Code: 31967 |
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| More than two centuries after his death, George Washington has been transformed from a brilliant general and statesman into a semimythical founding father whose somber face adorns the dollar bill. A ... (Read More)
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| Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
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Renee Winegarten.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300119251. Daedalus Item Code: 12775 |
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| When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their 20s, both married, and both outsiders. Their passionate and productive ... (Read More)
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| The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
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James Bradley.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316008952. Daedalus Item Code: 23346 |
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| In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's ... (Read More)
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