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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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| Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution
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Jane Dunn.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400042838. Daedalus Item Code: 14204 |
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| When Sir William Temple (1628–99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627–95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, ... (Read More)
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| Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
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Kathryn S. Olmsted.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195183535. Daedalus Item Code: 30764 |
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| A surprising number of Americans believe that their own government is guilty of such shocking hoaxes and crimes as shooting the president, faking the moon landing, and deliberately allowing the ... (Read More)
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| Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
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Michael D. Gordin.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374256821. Daedalus Item Code: 20455 |
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| On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the Kazakh desert. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the ... (Read More)
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| Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
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Alex von Tunzelmann.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805090673. Daedalus Item Code: 30498 |
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| Through the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean crises of the Cold War era are explored in depth in this riveting account of clashing ideologies, the politics of fear, the ... (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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| Resistance
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Agnes Humbert. Barbara Mellor, trans.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596915596. Daedalus Item Code: 23403 |
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| As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, art historian Agnès Humbert took a leap of faith and courage, and with a handful of her colleagues at the Musée de ... (Read More)
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| Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
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Deborah Rudacille.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375423680. Daedalus Item Code: 23529 |
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| The science writer who gave us The Riddle of Gender here returns to her hometown roots to portray the rusting steel industry in America. When Deborah Rudacille was growing up in Dundalk, ... (Read More)
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| Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
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Noah Feldman.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780446580571. Daedalus Item Code: 30348 |
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| "After the court-packing fiasco of 1937, Supreme Court vacancies gave FDR his opportunities to install liberals on the tribunal. What happened next propels [Noah] Feldman's narrative, which centers ... (Read More)
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| Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea
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Richard Kluger.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375413414. Daedalus Item Code: 93773 |
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| As Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Kluger has it in this sweeping history, America's surge to dominion was equally admirable and appalling. The nation's pioneer generations were, to be sure, blessed ... (Read More)
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| The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
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Greil Marcus.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374104382. Daedalus Item Code: 90547 |
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| "[Greil] Marcus, perhaps America's most imaginative social critic, here attempts to define America as 'a story told more in art than in politics' by yoking together the works of several disparate ... (Read More)
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