New York Society Library

MARCH 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


BIOGRAPHY

  • Bach, C.P.E. - The letters of C.P.E. Bach, translated and edited by Stephen L. Clark 780.92B
  • Brooke, Rupert - Friends and apostles: the correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914 920 B8722C
  • Cornog, Evan - The birth of empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828 974.7C
  • Horowitz, Daniel - Betty Friedan and the making of the feminine mystique 92 F8998H
  • Jones, J.R. - Marlborough (1993) 92 M347J
  • Kennedy, Robert F - Make gentle the life of the world: the vision of Robert F. Kennedy, edited by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy 92 K365K
  • The Scribner encyclopedia of American lives. 2 vols. Ref. 920 S4342S
  • Sprigg, June - Simple gifts: a memoir of a Shaker village 289.8S
  • Walsh, John - Tears of rage; from grieving father to crusader for justice (America's Most Wanted) 364.1W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Ciociola, Gail - Wendy Wasserstein: dramatizing women, their choices and their boundaries 822.09W
  • DeKoven, Marianne - Rich and strange: gender, history, modernism (1991) 823D
  • Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century. 3rd ed. 4 vols. Ref. 803E
  • Farrell, John - Revolution as tragedy: the dilemma of the moderate from Scott to Arnold (1980) 820.9F
  • Fuller, John - W.H. Auden: a commentary 821.09A
  • Hamburger, Philip - Friends talking in the night: sixty years of writing for The New Yorker 824H
  • Price, Reynolds - Learning a trade: a craftsman's notebooks, 1955- 1997 828P
  • Pritchard, William - Talking back to Emily Dickinson and other essays 820.9P
  • Rosen, Charles - Romantic poets, critics, and other madmen 809R
  • Rosenberg, Beth Carole - Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: common readers (1995) 823W
  • Taylor, D.J. - After the war: the novel and English society (1993) 823T
  • Tuttleton, James - A fine silver thread: essays on American writing and criticism 823T
  • Vidal, Gore - The essential Gore Vidal 828V
  • Walcott, Derek - What the twilight says: essays 824W

ARTS

  • Bishop, Elizabeth - Changing hats: paintings 759.1B
  • Davenport, Guy - Objects on a table: harmonious disarray in art and literature 704D
  • Fenton, James - Leonardo's nephew: essays on art and artists 709F
  • Gabler, Neal - Life the movie: how entertainment conquered reality 302G
  • Gleeson, Janet - The arcanum: the extraordinary true story (Meissen porcelain) 738G
  • Jobert, Barthélémy - Delacroix 759.4D
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude - Look, listen, read 701L
  • López-Rey, José - Velázquez 2 vols. (1996) 759.6L
  • Richardson, Lawrence - Pompeii: an architectural history 722R
  • Steyn, Mark - Broadway babies say goodnight: musicals then and now 782.6S

AESTHETICS

  • Adorno, Theodor - Aesthetic theory 111A
  • Bloch, Ernst - The utopian function of art and literature: selected essays (1988) 701B
  • Fowler, Barbara - The Hellenistic aesthetic (1989) 881.09F

READING

  • Saenger, Paul - Space between words: the origins of silent reading 028S
  • Scholes, Robert - Protocols of reading (1989) 028S
  • Trelease, Jim - The read-aloud handbook (1995) 372.4T

POETRY

  • Ashbery, John - Wakefulness 821A
  • Carver, Raymond - All of us: the collected poems 821C
  • Dante Alighieri - Inferno: translated into English verse, with notes and introduction by Elio Zappulla 851D
  • Merwin, W.S. - The folding cliffs: a narrative 821.08M
  • Montale, Eugenio - Satura: 1962-1970, translated with notes by William Arrowsmith 851M
  • Niatum, Duane - Harper's anthology of 20th century Native American poetry (1988) 821.08H
  • Rich, Adrienne - Midnight salvage: poems, 1995-1998 821R

DRAMA

  • Esslin, Martin - The genius of the German theater (1968) 832G Fo, Dario - The tricks of the trade (1991) 792F
  • Hare, David - Amy's view 822H
  • Starkie, Walter - Eight Spanish plays of the golden age (1964) 862S
  • Wasserstein, Wendy - An American daughter 822W

HISTORY

  • Bar-Zohar, Michael - Beyond Hitler's grasp: the heroic rescue of Bulgaria's Jews 949.7B
  • Breitman, Richard - Official secrets: what the Nazis planned, what the British and Americans knew 940.54B
  • Cannon, John - Blackwell dictionary of historians (1988) 903B
  • Fromkin, David -The way of the world: from the dawn of civilizations to the eve of the twenty-first century 909F
  • James, Lawrence - Raj; the making and unmaking of British India 954J
  • Jennings, Peter - The century 909.82J
  • Lacey, Robert - The year 1000: what life was like at the turn of the first millennium: an Englishman's world 942.01L
  • Lampe, John - Yugoslavia as history: twice there was a country (1996) 949.7L
  • Mamdani, Mahmood - Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism (1996) 960M
  • Mazower, Mark - Dark continent: Europe's twentieth century 940.5M
  • Phillips, Kevin - The cousins' wars: religion, politics, and the triumph of Anglo-America 973.3P
  • Reporting Vietnam 2 vols. 070.4R Closed Stack

ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUITIES

  • Barber, Elizabeth - The mummies of Ürümchi 393B
  • Cambridge illustrated history of archaeology 930.1C
  • Kendall, Calvin - Voyage to the other world: the legacy of Sutton Hoo (1992) 914.26V

CIVILIZATION

  • Nora, Pierre - Realms of memory: rethinking the French past, English language edition edited by Lawrence Kritzman. 3 vols. 944L
  • Sowell, Thomas - Conquests and cultures: an international history 325.3S
  • Traxel, David - 1898: the birth of the American century 973.89T
  • White, G. Edward - The Eastern establishment and the western experience: the West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister (1989) 978W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Bundy, William - A tangled web: the making of foreign policy in the Nixon Presidency 327.73B
  • Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain - Negotiating Arab-Israeli peace: patterns, problems, possibilities 956.94E
  • Finegold, Kenneth - State and party in America's New Deal (1995) 338.973F
  • A historical guide to the U.S. government 353H
  • Kammen, Michael - Sovereignty and liberty: constitutional discourse in American culture (1988) 342.73K
  • Lapham, Lewis - Waiting for the barbarians 973.929L
  • Mack Smith, Denis - Modern Italy: a political history 945.09M

FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

  • Knowledge Exchange business encyclopedia 650K
  • Louis, Paul - Ancient Rome at work: an economic history of Rome from the origins to the empire (1927) 937L
  • Mintz, Steven - Beyond Wall Street: the art of investing 332.6M
  • Soros, George - The crisis of global capitalism: open society endangered 332.6S

SCIENCE

  • Baer, Eugen - Medical semiotics (1988) 610B
  • Biddle, Wayne - A field guide to the invisible 500B
  • Conway Morris, Simon - The crucible of creation: the Burgess Shale and the rise of animals 560C
  • Encyclopedia of the solar system 523.2E Oversize
  • Oldstone, Michael - Viruses, plagues, and history 614O
  • Paulos, John Allen - Once upon a number: the hidden mathematical logic of stories 510P
  • Pickover, Clifford - Time: a traveler's guide 530.1P
  • Porter, Roy - Gout: the patrician malady 616.3P
  • Riddle, John - Eve's herbs: a history of contraception and abortion in the West 613.9R
  • Shenton, Joan - Positively false: exposing the myths around HIV and AIDS 616.97S

ZOOLOGY

  • McIntyre, Judith - The common loon: spirit of northern lakes (1988) 598.2M
  • Allin, Michael - Zarafa: a giraffe's true story, from deep in Africa to the heart of Paris 599A
  • Widmaier, Eric - Why geese don't get obese (and we do) 575.7W
  • Hyland, Ann - Equus: the horse in the Roman world (1990) 357H

PHILOSOPHY

  • Hookway, Christopher - Quine: language, experience, and reality (1988) 191H
  • Kearney, Richard - Paul Ricoeur: the hermeneutics of action (1996) 194P
  • Monroe, Kristen - The heart of altruism: perceptions of a common humanity (1996) 171M
  • Quine, Willard - Elementary logic (1965) 160Q
  • Ricoeur, Paul - Freedom and nature: the voluntary and the involuntary (1966) 194R

RELIGION

  • Cobb, Jennifer - Cybergrace: the search for God in the digital world 215C
  • Cupitt, Don - After God: the future of religion 201C
  • Heschel, Abraham - Man is not alone: a philosophy of religion (1976) 201H
  • Lamott, Anne - Traveling mercies: some thoughts on faith 823L
  • Lawrence, Bruce - Shattering the myth: Islam beyond violence 297L

ETHICS

  • Bradley, Bill - Values of the game (basketball) 796.3B
  • Jungreis, Esther - The committed life: principles for good living from our timeless past 296.3J
  • Shalit, Wendy - A return to modesty: discovering the lost virtue 305.4S
  • Simpson, Joe - Dark shadows falling (mountaineering) 796.52S

SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Brook, Stephen - Class: knowing your place in modern Britain 305.5B
  • Coan, Peter - Ellis Island interviews: in their own words 325.73C
  • Djilas, Milovan - Fall of the new class: a history of communism's self-destruction 335.4D
  • Faderman, Lillian - I begin my life all over: the Hmong and the American immigrant experience 305.87F
  • Graham, Lawrence - Our kind of people: inside America's Black upper class 305.8G
  • Gutiérrez, Ramón - When Jesus cam, the Corn Mothers went away: marriage, sexuality, and power in Mexico, 1500-1846 (1991) 306.8G
  • Mills, Kay - Something better for my children: the history and people of Head Start 372.2M
  • Robb, Peter - Midnight in Sicily (Mafia) 366R

RACE RELATIONS

  • Carby, Hazel - Race men 305.3C
  • Casas, Bartolomé de las - In defense of the Indians (translation. 1552 Latin ms. In the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) 973.1C
  • Hale, Grace Elizabeth - Making whiteness: the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940 305.8H
  • Steele, Shelby - A dream deferred: the second betrayal of Black freedom in America 305.8S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Lopate, Phillip - Writing New York: a literary anthology 809.9W
  • Markel, Howard - Quarantine!: East European Jewish immigrants and the New York City epidemics of 1892 614M
  • Matson, Cathy - Merchants & empire: trading in colonial New York 381M
  • The neighborhoods of Brooklyn 974.71N
  • Schoener, Allon - New York: an illustrated history of the people 974.71S Oversize
  • Widmer, Edward - Young America: the flowering of democracy in New York City 974.71W

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Adams, Douglas - The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (5 tapes) #711
  • Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey (7 tapes) #724
  • Chopin, Kate - The awakening (5 tapes) #712
  • Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo (13 tapes) #700
  • McCourt, Malachy - A monk swimming (6 tapes) #727


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