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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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| An Incautious Man: The Life of Gouverneur Morris
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Melanie Randolph Miller.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781933859729. Daedalus Item Code: 31152 |
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| The editor of the Gouverneur Morris Papers: Diaries Project and the author of Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution, Melanie Miller here provides an elegant, ... (Read More)
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| John Adams: A Life
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John Ferling.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780195398663. Daedalus Item Code: 30749 |
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| The author of A Leap in the Dark and Adams vs. Jefferson as well as the biographer of George Washington, John Ferling here offers a compelling portrait of the man who succeeded George ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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| The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
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Mark Logue & Peter Conradi.
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| Publisher: Quercus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780857381118. Daedalus Item Code: 22188 |
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| Lionel Logue was a self-taught and virtually unknown speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost singlehandedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of ... (Read More)
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| The Latter Days at Colditz
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P.R. Reid.
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| Publisher: Cassell. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781407214665. Daedalus Item Code: 01624 |
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| In his classic escape account The Colditz Story, Pat Reid told the story of the escape academy that sprang up inside the most impregnable German POW camp of World War II, ending appropriately ... (Read More)
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| Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
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Alison Maloney.
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| Publisher: Thomas Dunne. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781250017659. Daedalus Item Code: 29793 |
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| Upstairs, an aristocratic Edwardian home in early 20th-century England would have been a picture of elegance and order, a place for social gatherings and extravagantly arranged dinner parties. ... (Read More)
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| Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession
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Russell McClintock.
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| Publisher: UNC Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780807831885. Daedalus Item Code: 22801 |
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| When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. From small towns to major cities, from state capitals to ... (Read More)
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