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| Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699–1839
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Alan Gurney.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393329049. Daedalus Item Code: 23872 |
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| In a wonderfully written book that "will delight both the armchair traveler and the intellectual tourist" (Chicago Tribune), former yacht designer Alan Gurney tells of the first Herculean ... (Read More)
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| Benjamin Franklin
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Edmund S. Morgan.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300095326. Daedalus Item Code: 22089 |
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| (Finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award; a New York Times Notable Book; and named a Best Book of 2002 by Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book ... (Read More)
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| Berkeley Bohemia: Artists and Visionaries of the Early 20th Century
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Ed Herney, Shelley Rideout & Katie Waddell.
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| Publisher: Gibbs Smith. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781423600855. Daedalus Item Code: 30779 |
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| The concept of bohemia, or a place of unconventional lifestyles, swept through Berkeley, California, at the turn of the 20th century. It was a city of scholars and visionaries and a crossroads of ... (Read More)
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| The Besieged: A Story of Survival
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Caroline Walton.
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| Publisher: Biteback Publishing. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781849541473. Daedalus Item Code: 32028 |
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| On September 8, 1941, Hitler's forces began a siege of Leningrad that was to last for 872 days. By the end, in January 1944, half a million soldiers, and as many as a million of the city's starving ... (Read More)
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| The Best American History Essays on Lincoln
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Sean Wilentz, ed.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780230609143. Daedalus Item Code: 30654 |
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| Ranging from assessments of Abraham Lincoln's political leadership to explorations of his enigmatic character, as well as reflections on the mythos that has become inseparable from the man, the ... (Read More)
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| Best Little Stories from the American Revolution
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C. Brian Kelly.
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| Publisher: Cumberland House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781581820065. Daedalus Item Code: 30931 |
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| This journalistic history of the young United States chronicles the story of the Revolutionary War in the form of more than 100 vignettes depicting soldiers and civilians, loyalists and patriots, ... (Read More)
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| Betsy Ross and the Making of America
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Marla R. Miller.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805082975. Daedalus Item Code: 20167 |
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| This book is both a richly woven biography of patriot Betsy Ross and a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Revolution-era Philadelphia. A prize-winning historian of the colonial era and a ... (Read More)
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| The Bicycle Runner: A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance
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G. Franco Romagnoli.
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| Publisher: Thomas Dunne. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780312554545. Daedalus Item Code: 30041 |
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| Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 40s, Franco Romagnoli was expected to join the Balilla, Italy's fascist youth organization. But with political divisions running deep in the ... (Read More)
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| Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
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Todd DePastino.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393334883. Daedalus Item Code: 21111 |
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| During World War II, the truest glimpse that most Americans got of the "real war" came through the drawings of 22-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army ... (Read More)
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