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| Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
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Robert L. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering, & Liu Wulin. Jimmy Carter, foreword.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393061178. Daedalus Item Code: 01922 |
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| Presented in color photographs, captions, and a detailed narrative travelogue, this book depicts the staggering beauty and diversity of Tibet, from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from ... (Read More)
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| Are We There Yet?: A Zen Journey Through Space and Time
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Peter Matthiessen. Peter Cunningham, photos. Bernie Glassman, intro.
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| Publisher: Counterpoint. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781582436302. Daedalus Item Code: 30005 |
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| A Dharma of the Soto and Rinzai schools of Japanese Buddhism and a founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, Maezumi Roshi installed an American from Brooklyn, Bernie Tetsugen Glassman, as Abbott of ... (Read More)
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| Asian Islam in the 21st Century
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John L. Esposito, John O. Voll & Osman Bakar, eds.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780195333039. Daedalus Item Code: 30731 |
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| Although more than half of the world's Muslims live in Asia, most books on contemporary Islam focus on the Middle East, broadly overlooking the dynamic and diverse presence of Asian Islam in regional ... (Read More)
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| Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev: Justice Without Government
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Clinton Bailey.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300153248. Daedalus Item Code: 31831 |
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| In the absence of any organized government or law enforcement agency, the nomadic desert-dwelling society of Bedouins must provide its own law and order. A research fellow on Bedouin culture at ... (Read More)
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| Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures
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Margo Hammond & Ellen Heltzel.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780738212296. Daedalus Item Code: 01255 |
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| The Ebert & Roeper of the bibliophile world, Margo Hammond (longtime book editor for the St. Petersburg Times) and Ellen Heltzel (a member of the National Book Critics Circle) here recommend ... (Read More)
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| Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers
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Lesley McDowell.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781590202388. Daedalus Item Code: 22284 |
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| Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? And why did Simone de ... (Read More)
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| Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
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Ekow Eshun.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375424182. Daedalus Item Code: 83654 |
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| At the age of 33, Ekow Eshun leaves a London that has never felt like home and travels to Ghana, in order to search for his roots. Along the way he reflects on others who have made the same journey, ... (Read More)
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| A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
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Michael Holroyd.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374115586. Daedalus Item Code: 30558 |
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| On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone, a place of pretense and make-believe at the center of a family with too many secrets, hidden lives, and uncelebrated ... (Read More)
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| Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings
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Elizabeth Eger & Lucy Peltz.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300141030. Daedalus Item Code: 32187 |
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| During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind, helping to forge new roles ... (Read More)
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| Buddha: Father of Buddhism
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Anna Carew-Miller. Paolo d'Altan, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841372. Daedalus Item Code: 30980 |
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| In the shadow of the Himalayas, some 2500 years ago, there lived a great spiritual teacher. Siddhartha was born into a noble family and lived in tranquil luxury until he was 29, when his curiosity ... (Read More)
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| Cape of Storms
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Nina Berberova.
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| Publisher: New Directions. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811214162. Daedalus Item Code: 23904 |
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| On the eve of World War II, three Russian émigré sisters try to adjust to their new lives in Paris, in this novel by the author of The Tattered Cloak and The Ladies from St. Petersburg. ... (Read More)
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