New York Society Library

FEBRUARY 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


BIOGRAPHY

  • American National Biography 24 vols. Ref. 920 A5126A
  • Brokaw, Tom - The greatest generation 940.548B
  • Carter, Harvey Lewis - "Dear old Kit": the historical Christopher Carson, with a new edition of the Carson memoirs (1990) 978C
  • Galbraith, John Kenneth - Letters to Kennedy 92 G1485G
  • Kaltman, Al - Cigars, whiskey, and winning: leadership lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant 658.3K
  • Reemtsma, Jan Philipp - More than a champion: the style of Muhammad Ali 92 A3979R
  • Riddick, John - Who was who in British India 920 R5435W Oversize
  • Severin, Timothy - The Spice Islands voyage: the quest for Alfred Wallace, the man who shared Darwin's discovery of evolution 959S
  • Stein, Gertrude - Paris, France (1996) 92 S9194S

BELLES LETTRES

  • Bell, Millicent - The Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton (1995) 823W
  • Carroll, David - French literary fascism: nationalism, anti- Semitism, and the ideology of culture (1995) 840.9C
  • Corns, Thomas - The Cambridge companion to English poetry, Donne to Marvell (1993) 821.09C
  • Curran, Stuart - The Cambridge companion to British romanticism (1993) 820.9C
  • Donoghue, Denis - The practice of reading 820.9D
  • Eco, Umberto - Serendipities: language and lunacy 401E
  • Greenspan, Ezra - The Cambridge companion to Walt Whitman (1995) 821.09W
  • Hustvedt, Siri - Yonder: essays 824H
  • Mackie, C.J. - The characterisation of Aeneas (1988) 873.1M
  • Pizer, Donald - The Cambridge companion to American realism and naturalism: Howells to London (1995) 820.9C
  • Robinson, Forrest - The Cambridge companion to Mark Twain (1995) 828.09T
  • Sinaiko, Herman - Reclaiming the canon: essays on philosophy, poetry, and history 809S
  • Vendler, Helen - Seamus Heaney 821.09H

ART

  • Adelson, Warren - Sargent abroad: Figures and landscapes 759.1S
  • Ahl, Diane Cole - Benozzo Gozzoli (1996) 759.5B
  • Avery, Charles - Bernini: genius of the baroque 730.92B
  • Livingston, Jane - The art of Richard Diebenkorn 759.1D
  • Miller, Jonathan - On reflection 708M
  • Muller, Sheila - Dutch art: an encyclopedia 709.492D Closed Stack
  • Storr, Robert - Chuck Close 759.1C
  • Thornton, Peter - Form & decoration: innovation in the decorative arts, 1470-1870 745T

THEATRE

  • Copeau, Jacques - Copeau: texts on theatre (1990) 792C
  • Fuchs, Elinor - The death of character: perspectives on theater after modernism (1996) 792F
  • Pereira, John - Opening nights: 25 years of the Manhattan Theatre Club (1996) 792.0973P

MUSIC

  • Giddins, Gary - Visions of jazz: the first century 780.973G
  • Kivy, Peter - The fine art of repetition: essays in the philosophy of music (1993) 780.1K
  • Porter, Susan - With an air debonair: musical theatre in America, 1785-1815 792.0973P
  • Somerset-Ward, Richard - The story of opera 782.1S

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Cohen, Morton - Reflections in a looking glass: a centennial celebration of Lewis Carroll, photographer 778C
  • Hallmark Photographic Collection - An American century of photography: from dry-plate to digital (1995) 770H
  • Van Vechten, Carl - The dance photography of Carl Van Vechten (1981) 793.3V

ARCHITECTURE

  • Bedford, Steven - John Russell Pope: architect of empire 720.92P
  • Favier, Jean - The world of Chartres (1990) 726.6F Oversize
  • Moravanszky, Akos - Competing visions: aesthetic invention and social imagination in Central European architecture, 1867- 1918 720.94M
  • Van Bruggen, Coosje - Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 720.92G
  • Zerbst, Rainer - Gaudi, 1852-1926 720.92G

CITIES

  • Economakis, Richard - Acropolis restoration: the CCAM interventions (1994) 938A Oversize
  • Grabar, Oleg - The shape of the holy: early Islamic Jerusalem (1996) 956.94G Oversize
  • Hall, Peter - Cities in civilization 307.76H
  • Moss, Roger - Historic houses of Philadelphia: a tour of the region's museum homes 728M
  • Sugrue, Thomas - The origins of the urban crisis: race and inequality in postwar Detroit (1996) 305.8S

MUSEUMS

  • Bock, Henning - The complete catalogue of the Gemaldegalerie, Berlin (1986) 708.3G
  • Fressly, William - A catalogue of paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: " as imagination bodies forth" (1993) 704.948P

CIVILIZATION

  • Beer, Gillian - Open fields: science in cultural encounter (1996) 820.9B
  • Schwarcz, Vera - Bridge across broken time: Chinese and Jewish cultural memory 305.8S
  • Steinberg, Jonathan - Why Switzerland? (1996) 949.4S
  • The world of Athens: an introduction to classical Athenian culture (1984) 938W

ENVIRONMENT

  • Mergen, Bernard - Snow in America 551.5M
  • Nash, Roderick - The rights of nature: a history of environmental ethics (1989) 179N
  • Worster, Donald - Nature's economy: a history of ecological ideas (1994) 574.5W

HISTORY

  • The Christopher Columbus encyclopedia. 2 vols. (1992) 970C
  • Glennon, Lorraine - Our times: the illustrated history of the 20th century (1995) 909.82O Oversize
  • Kitchen, Martin - The Cambridge illustrated history of Germany 943K
  • Moynahan, Brian - The Russian century: a photographic history of Russia's 100 years (1994) 947.08M Oversize
  • Read, Anthony - The proudest day: India's long road to independence 954R
  • Spence, Jonathan - The Chinese century: a photographic history of the last hundred years (1996) 951S Oversize
  • Thornton, John - Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680 (1992) 303.4T
  • Trevelyan, George Macaulay - A shortened history of England (1987) 942T
  • Weinstein, Allen - The haunted wood: Soviet espionage in America - the Stalin era 327.12W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Dershowitz, Alan - Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the emerging constitutional crisis 342.73D
  • Gourevitch, Philip - We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda 364.1G
  • Hutchinson, Earl - Betrayed: a history of presidential failure to protect Black lives (1996) 364H
  • Skocpol, Theda - Protecting soldiers and mothers: the political origins of social policy in the United States (1992) 360S
  • Skocpol, Theda - Social revolutions in the modern world (1994) 303.6S
  • Vazsonyi, Balint - America's thirty years war: who is winning? 973V

PHILOSOPHY

  • Cassirer, Ernst - Platonic renaissance in England (1970) 140C
  • Griffiths, A. Phillips - A.J. Ayer memorial essays (1991) 192A
  • Hook, Sidney - From Hegel to Marx: studies in the intellectual development of Karl Marx (1994) 335.4H
  • Kristeller, Paul - Eight philosophers of the Italian Renaissance (1966) 195K
  • Magnus, Bernd - The Cambridge companion to Nietzsche 193C
  • Ricoeur, Paul - Fallible man (1986) 128R
  • Sluga, Hans - Cambridge companion to Wittgenstein (1996) 193C
  • Zuckert, Catherine - Postmodern Platos (1996) 190Z

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Eysenck, H.J. - Genius: the natural history of creativity (1995) 151E
  • Neu, Jerome -Cambridge companion to Freud (1991) 150C

SCIENCE

  • Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. - The history and geography of human genes (1994) 573C Oversize
  • Ellis, Richard - The search for the giant squid 594E
  • Lemonick, Michael - Other worlds: the search for life in the universe 523.1L
  • Lloyd, G.E.R. - Methods and problems in Greek science (1991) 509L
  • Maddox, John - What remains to be discovered: mapping the secrets of the universe, the origins of life, and the future of the human race 500M
  • Netter, Frank - Atlas of human anatomy LSR 611N
  • Nuland, Sherwin - How we live 612N
  • Raeburn, Paul - Uncovering the secrets of the red planet Mars 523.4R Oversize
  • Sokal, Alan - Fashionable nonsense: postmodern intellectuals' abuse of science 501S

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Bethell, Leslie - Ideas and ideologies in twentieth century Latin America (1996) 300I
  • Callahan, Daniel - False hopes: why America's quest for perfect health is a recipe for failure 362.1C
  • Cannadine, David - The rise and fall of class in Britain 305.5C
  • Castells, Manuel - The information age: economy, society, and culture. 3 vols. 303.4C
  • Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth - All you need is love: the Peace Corps and the spirit of the 1960s 361.6C
  • Gubar, Susan - Racechanges: white skin, black face in American culture 305.8G
  • Ingram, Gordon - Queers in space: communities, public places, sites of resistance 306.76Q
  • Mazur, Allan - A hazardous inquiry: the Rashomon effect at Love Canal 363.7M
  • Menchaca, Martha - The Mexican outsiders: a community history of marginalization and discrimination in California (1995) 305.96M
  • Shreve, Susan Richards - How we want to live: narratives on progress 303.4H
  • Suro, Roberto - Strangers among us: how Latino immigration is transforming America 305.85S

GENDER STUDIES

  • Bly, Robert - The maiden king: the reunion of masculine and feminine 398.2B
  • Hall, Catherine - White, male, and middle-class: explorations in feminism and history (1992) 305.4H
  • Rowbotham, Sheila - A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States 305.4R

EDUCATION

  • Bowen, William - The shape of the river: long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions 378B
  • Rashdall, Hastings - The universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. New ed. 3 vols. 378R

RELIGION

  • Benedict, Saint - The rule of St. Benedict (1975) 250B
  • Finegan, Jack - The archeology of the New Testament: the life of Jesus and the beginning of the early church (1992) 225.9F Oversize
  • Wilber, Ken - The marriage of sense and soul: integrating science and religion 215W

HEALTH and HOME

  • McFarlane, Rodger - The complete bedside companion: no- nonsense advice on the caring for the seriously ill 649.8M
  • Pruitt, David - Your child: what every parent needs to know about childhood development from birth to preadolescence 305.23Y

NEW YORK CITY

  • Levine, Ed - New York eats (more) 381L
  • Lowe, David - Beaux arts New York 720.973L
  • Sussman, Elisabeth - Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan fantastica (1995) 759.1S

TRAVEL

  • Alexander, Caroline - The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition 919.9A
  • Archbold, Rick - Hindenburg: an illustrated history (1994) 629.13A Oversize
  • Carr, Tim - Antarctic oasis: under the spell of South Georgia 919.9C Oversize
  • Day, A. Grove - Mad about islands: novelists of a vanished Pacific (1987) 823D
  • Hutchinson, Robert - When in Rome: a journal of life in Vatican City 945.6H
  • McNeill, W.K. - Ozark country (1995) 976.7M
  • Whitfield, Peter - New found lands: maps in the history of exploration 910.9W Oversize


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