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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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| 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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| Challenge of the Modern: African–American Artists 1925–1945
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Lowery Stokes Sims.
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| Publisher: Studio Museum of Harlem. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780942949247. Daedalus Item Code: 31256 |
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| This catalog from a 2003 exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem—"one of the most ambitious shows this museum has produced ... [and] also one of the more stimulating," according to the New York ... (Read More)
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| Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh
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Lisa I. Knight.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199773541. Daedalus Item Code: 30718 |
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| In literature and popular imagination, the Bauls of India and Bangladesh are characterized as musical mystics—orange-clad nomads of both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds. They wander the countryside and ... (Read More)
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| Conversations with Myself
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Nelson Mandela. Barack Obama, foreword.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312611682. Daedalus Item Code: 31990 |
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| Not many figures could inspire the President of the United States to pen a foreword for a memoir, but Nelson Mandela certainly is one. This singular record collects key items from Nelson Mandela's ... (Read More)
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| Egypt: A Short History
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Robert L Tignor.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691147635. Daedalus Item Code: 31824 |
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| A cradle of civilization, ancient Egypt developed a unique and influential culture that featured a centralized monarchy, sophisticated art and technology, and monumental architecture in the form of ... (Read More)
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| Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965
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Audreen Buffalo, ed.
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| Publisher: Studio Museum of Harlem. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780942949124. Daedalus Item Code: 31257 |
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| Just as African American authors and musicians in the mid-20th century found an acceptance in Paris that remained elusive in their homeland, artists like Lois Mailou Jones, Herbert Gentry, Harold ... (Read More)
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| The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martydom of Zimbabwe
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Peter Godwin.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316051736. Daedalus Item Code: 31665 |
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| (Named a Best Book of 2011 by The New Yorker, The Economist, and Publishers Weekly) This is Peter Godwin's stunning account of the siege of terror that dictator Robert ... (Read More)
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| The Granta Book of the African Short Story
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Helon Habila, ed.
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| Publisher: Granta. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781847082473. Daedalus Item Code: 32034 |
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| This anthology introduces a group of African writers described by editor Helon Habila as "the post-nationalist generation." Disdaining the narrowly nationalist and political preoccupations of ... (Read More)
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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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