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| Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance
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Lauro Martines.
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| Publisher: Johns Hopkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801873164. Daedalus Item Code: 12163 |
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| This book offers a social history of the Italian Renaissance (1300–1560) in a cultural mien. Using tales, poems, prayers, and letters as primary sources, history professor Lauro Martines probes ... (Read More)
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| The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West
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Christiane Bird.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780345469403. Daedalus Item Code: 21864 |
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| A story virtually unknown in the West, about two of the Middle East's most remarkable figures—Oman's Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme—comes to life in this narrative from the ... (Read More)
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| Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World
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Bevin Alexander.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393078138. Daedalus Item Code: 23895 |
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| Imagine the impact on the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Civil War, if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill ... (Read More)
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| Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
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Jeff Shesol.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393064742. Daedalus Item Code: 21059 |
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| In the years before World War II, Franklin Roosevelt's fiercest, most unyielding opponent was neither a foreign power nor "fear itself"; it was the U.S. Supreme Court. In a series of devastating ... (Read More)
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| Talking to Rudolf Hess
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Desmond Zwar.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752455228. Daedalus Item Code: 23169 |
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| Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's Deputy Führer until, in May 1941, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to negotiate peace between Germany and Britain. Captured by the British, he was held for the rest of ... (Read More)
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| Team of Rivals: Lincoln Film Tie-In Edition
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Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451688092. Daedalus Item Code: 38768 |
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| (Winner of the Lincoln Prize) In this multifaceted history—the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's epic film Lincoln, due to premiere after the 2012 election—Doris Kearns Goodwin ... (Read More)
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| Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
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David Arnold & Stuart Blackburn, eds.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780253217271. Daedalus Item Code: 31953 |
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| Life histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal, but what does it mean to narrate the story of a life—whether one's own or someone else's? Which lives are worth telling, and who should be ... (Read More)
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| Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Brief History of Ancient Egypt
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Barbara Mertz.
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| Publisher: Robinson. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781849012805. Daedalus Item Code: 31044 |
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| Elizabeth Peters, author of the Amelia Peabody series of archaeological mysteries, is in fact the internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz. In this book, originally published in the 1960s ... (Read More)
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| Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land
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Sven Lindqvist. Sarah Death, trans.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781847080059. Daedalus Item Code: 23627 |
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| Stretching from the formation of the Australian continent 600 million years ago to the 2002 hunger strikes in the Woomera detention camp, this is both a beautifully described journey across ... (Read More)
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