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| The Qur'an: A Biography
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Bruce Lawrence.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781843543992. Daedalus Item Code: 23859 |
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| Set down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an is understood to be the unmediated word of Allah—a ritual, political, and legal authority, an ethical and spiritual guide, and ... (Read More)
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| Rene Blum & the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life
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Judith Chazin-Bennahum.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195399332. Daedalus Item Code: 30727 |
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| (A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2011) This biography of a fascinating cultural hero by a former ballet dancer uncovers the life of a brilliant writer and producer who perished ... (Read More)
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| River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt
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Paul William Roberts.
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| Publisher: Raincoast. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781551929637. Daedalus Item Code: 21163 |
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| Egypt is as old as history itself, home to some of the world's greatest treasures, a pantheon of gods and kings, and the roots of the civilized world. Today it is the political and cultural heart of ... (Read More)
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| Robert Burns and the Hellish Legion
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John Burnett.
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| Publisher: NMS Publishing. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781905267316. Daedalus Item Code: 21378 |
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| Recognizing that folk takes and beliefs are as important a part of cultural history as novels or organized religion, this book examines the lives and the supernatural beliefs of the country people of ... (Read More)
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| Role of the State in the Economy: An Islamic Perspective
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Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi.
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| Publisher: Islamic Foundation. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780860372523. Daedalus Item Code: 12586 |
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| A former professor of Islamic Economics at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1982, Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi here ... (Read More)
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| Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War
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Carrie Brown.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781555535353. Daedalus Item Code: 30160 |
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| The iconic Rosie the Riveter may have plied the airplane assembly lines during World War II—but what about World War I? Who assembled all those wood and fabric biplanes? Who shaped and filled the ... (Read More)
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| Running the Rift
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Naomi Benaron.
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| Publisher: Algonquin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781616201944. Daedalus Item Code: 29479 |
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| (Winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction) Through the eyes of one unforgettable boy, this "ambitious, beautiful, unapologetically passionate" novel (Barbara Kingsolver) ... (Read More)
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| The Second Book of the Tao: Unabridged
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Stephen Mitchell.
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| Publisher: Penguin Audio. Format: 3 audio CDs.
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| ISBN: 9780143144373. Daedalus Item Code: 23405 |
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| The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is a classic manual on the art of living. Stephen Mitchell, whose ... (Read More)
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| Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
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Joanne Passet.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780786718221. Daedalus Item Code: 21516 |
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| Jeannette Howard Foster was to lesbians in the mid-20th century what such authors as Gore Vidal and James Baldwin were to gay men. She unapologetically blew the lid off Cold War sexual repression in ... (Read More)
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| Shuhei Endo: Paramodern Architecture
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Hiroyuki Suzuki, ed.
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| Publisher: Electa. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781904313434. Daedalus Item Code: 10624 |
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| Japanese architect Shuhei Endo can be defined as an architect of steel, since he distinctly favors this material in his buildings and continually experiments with its design possibilities. His ... (Read More)
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| Silent Stories: A Photographic Journey through Lebanon in the Sixties
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Marilyn Stafford, photog. Venus Khoury-Ghata, preface.
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| Publisher: SAQI. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780863560996. Daedalus Item Code: 30480 |
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| A portrait photographer who has created memorable images of Indira Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and Italo Calvino, Marilyn Stafford spent more than a year in Lebanon in the early 1960s and became ... (Read More)
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| The Song of Arthur: Celtic Tales from the High King's Court
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John Matthews.
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| Publisher: Quest. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780835608091. Daedalus Item Code: 31363 |
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| This companion volume to Celtic folklorist John Matthews' Benjamin Franklin Award winner The Song of Taliesin presents 19 rare Arthurian tales drawn from medieval and earlier sources, ... (Read More)
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