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| Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Asti Hustvedt.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393025606. Daedalus Item Code: 23885 |
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| Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève were each admitted to the hysteria ward of the Salpêtrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. ... (Read More)
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| Medicine Women: A Pictorial History of Women Healers
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Elisabeth Brooke.
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| Publisher: Quest. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780835607513. Daedalus Item Code: 31357 |
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| From Egyptian priestess-healers in the temples of Isis to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval Europe, from the midwives and nurses of later centuries to the physicians, researchers, and ... (Read More)
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| Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400044603. Daedalus Item Code: 93768 |
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| On the eve of his 90th birthday a scholarly bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin, in this latest novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of ... (Read More)
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| A Ned Rorem Reader
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Ned Rorem. J.D. McClatchy, foreword.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300089844. Daedalus Item Code: 11742 |
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| This anthology of composer Ned Rorem's acerbic musings on music, people, and life—a co-winner of the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in the Symphonic Books Category—surveys the full range of his ... (Read More)
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| Nueva York 1613–1945
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Edward J. Sullivan, ed.
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| Publisher: New York Historical Society. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781857596397. Daedalus Item Code: 30850 |
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| The population of New York City is now nearly one-third Hispanic, marking a demographic transformation that will have a huge impact on the city's culture, daily life, and its future, notes art ... (Read More)
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| Once on a Moonless Night
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Dai Sijie.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307271587. Daedalus Item Code: 13688 |
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| The author of the internationally acclaimed Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and the Prix Femina winner Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch, Dai Sijie here spins a remarkable, ... (Read More)
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| Pacific Pattern
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Susanne Kichler & Graeme Were. Glenn Jowitt, photos.
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| Publisher: Thames & Hudson. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780500512371. Daedalus Item Code: 13921 |
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| Many of the oldest and most appealing designs of the human imagination have been expressed in patterns. This is evident in the South Pacific, where patterns in weaving and decoration record an ... (Read More)
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| The Painter from Shanghai
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Jennifer Cody Epstein.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393065282. Daedalus Item Code: 01969 |
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| Reminiscent in many ways of Memoirs of a Geisha, this sweeping novelization of the life of painter Pan Yuliang follows her life in early 20th-century China after losing her parents and being ... (Read More)
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| A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival: Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
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Richard H. Davis.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195378528. Daedalus Item Code: 30763 |
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| The Mahotsavavidhi, a 12th-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Saiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival" for the god Siva. Its author, Aghorasiva, is ... (Read More)
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| Ramses II: An Illustrated Biography
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Christiane Desroches Noblecourt.
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| Publisher: Flammarion. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9782080300430. Daedalus Item Code: 13476 |
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| More than three thousand years ago, the pharaoh Ramses II was revered in Egypt as the incarnation of a god, during an extraordinary 67-year reign that produced many monuments and an enduring legacy ... (Read More)
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| Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
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Cameron McWhirter.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805089066. Daedalus Item Code: 30928 |
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| After World War I, black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War, ... (Read More)
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