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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
John Stauffer.
Publisher: Twelve.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780446580090.  Daedalus Item Code: 30050
 
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 Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Cullen Murphy.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780618091560.  Daedalus Item Code: 29134
 
Instituted by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826; the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this ... (Read More)
 
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Cullen Murphy.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547844589.  Daedalus Item Code: 29463
 
Instituted by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826; the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this ... (Read More)
 
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Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life
William Howard Adams.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300099805.  Daedalus Item Code: 31827
 
A frank, urbane, even racy politician, who kept his own counsel and spoke exactly his mind, New York aristocrat Gouverneur Morris was a significant player in the American Revolution, yet was later an ... (Read More)
 
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The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America
Robert Love.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670021758.  Daedalus Item Code: 30329
 
Stumbling upon the forgotten origins of yoga in America when he moved to the former grounds of the Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, New York, former Rolling Stone managing editor Robert Love ... (Read More)
 
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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Joseph Lelyveld.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780307389954.  Daedalus Item Code: 29146
 
A former executive editor at the New York Times and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Move Your Shadow, Joseph Lelyveld presents this "deeply insightful analysis" (Amartya Sen) of ... (Read More)
 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393317558.  Daedalus Item Code: 38539
 
This Pulitzer Prize-winning sweep of human history considers why Europeans were able to conquer, displace, and decimate Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse. ... (Read More)
 
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A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution
Charles Duff.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752460680.  Daedalus Item Code: 30440
 
Originally published in 1928, this treatise by a former merchant navy officer and linguist with the Foreign Office satirically pays tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization, the ... (Read More)
 
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Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II
Richard Goldstein.
Publisher: Free Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416589969.  Daedalus Item Code: 21334
 
"New York is big, and much of this swaggering, nostalgic history recounts the sheer size of the city's contribution to the Allied victory: the prodigies of shipbuilding and repair at the Brooklyn ... (Read More)
 
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Stephen Budiansky.
Publisher: Plume.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780452287471.  Daedalus Item Code: 31101
 
Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this tight-lipped Puritan was England's first modern spymaster, as military historian and Atlantic ... (Read More)
 
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Historic Gardens of Dorset
Timothy Mowl.
Publisher: Tempus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752425351.  Daedalus Item Code: 30120
 
Secretive, aristocratic, and remote, the gardens of Dorset exist in a world of their own. Until 1900 this southern county remained the semi-feudal society that Thomas Hardy knew, and its gardens ... (Read More)
 
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The History of Modern Warfare: A Year-by-Year Illustrated Account from the Civil War to the Present Day
Paul Brewer.
Publisher: Carlton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781847324771.  Daedalus Item Code: 22511
 
Presented as a series of headline reports illustrated with archival photographs, this visual chronicle of modern warfare combines the excitement of daily newspaper reporting with the drama of world ... (Read More)
 
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