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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim al-Khalili.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594202797.  Daedalus Item Code: 31228
 
The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been obscured in the West, even though the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations preceded—and in many ways enabled—the European ... (Read More)
 
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Ashley Kahn.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393330717.  Daedalus Item Code: 21064
 
Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through the 1960s and 70s, producing politically charged avant-garde jazz. Here three-time ASCAP/Deems ... (Read More)
 
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom: A Complete Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Buddhism
Gill Farrer-Halls.
Publisher: Quest.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780835607865.  Daedalus Item Code: 31361
 
With color photos, works of art, or other illustrations on nearly every page, this visual introduction to Buddhism explains it as a way of life and state of mind. The author of The World of the ... (Read More)
 
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India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
Anand Giridharadas.
Publisher: Times Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780805091779.  Daedalus Item Code: 30555
 
Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returned to India and discovered an old country making itself new, in this book from International Herald Tribune and New ... (Read More)
 
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford.
Publisher: Ballantine.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780449904961.  Daedalus Item Code: 31279
 
"Beginning with a clever title and continuing throughout the book, [anthropologist Jack] Weatherford lists the tremendous contributions which have been made by the Indian civilizations of the ... (Read More)
 
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An Irish Christmas Feast: The Best of John B. Keane
John B. Keane.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781616084301.  Daedalus Item Code: 22408
 
Full of good cheer for the Christmas season and the long nights of winter, this playful collection of more than 50 tales by Irish pub owner and playwright John Keane revisits the Christmases ... (Read More)
 
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Japanese Papers

Publisher: Pepin Press.   Format: flexi-binding & podcast.
ISBN: 9789057681103.  Daedalus Item Code: 20011
 
Ranging from hand-laid papers with embedded colored fibers or subtle monochrome patterns to vividly colorful motifs similar to kimono silks, these close-up images of Japanese papers reveal a mastery ... (Read More)
 
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Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet
Trent Pomplun.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195377866.  Daedalus Item Code: 30748
 
Based on close readings of a wide range of primary sources in Tibetan, Italian, and Latin, this book follows the 1715–21 journey of Jesuit missionary Ippolito Desideri across the great Western ... (Read More)
 
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393061994.  Daedalus Item Code: 23881
 
In a brilliant narrative history full of rich character studies, Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac trace today's troubles in the so-called Middle East back to the imperial overreaching of Great ... (Read More)
 
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Colm Toibin.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780330520959.  Daedalus Item Code: 24022
 
The author of Booker Prize–shortlisted fiction like The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, Colm Tóibín is also renowned for such essay collections as Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives ... (Read More)
 
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Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales
Howard Schwartz.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780199754380.  Daedalus Item Code: 20793
 
A three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the editor of such story collections as Elijah's Violin, Miriam's Tambourine, and Tree of Souls, Howard Schwartz here ... (Read More)
 
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Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed. Donald Yacovone, coeditor.
Publisher: Princeton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780691142340.  Daedalus Item Code: 21448
 
Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, ... (Read More)
 
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