New York Society Library

APRIL 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


BIOGRAPHY

  • Barea, Arturo - The forging of a rebel (Spain) (1972) 92 B248B
  • Darwin, Charles - The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809- 1882: with original omissions restored (1993) 92 D2284D
  • Dickinson, Emily - Open me carefully: Emily Dickinson's intimate letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson 92 D553D
  • Durso, Joseph - DiMaggio: the last American knight (1995) 92 D5821D
  • Merton, Thomas - The other side of the mountain: the end of the journey 92 M5755M
  • Miller, Anita - Uncollecting Cheever: the family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers 92 C5151M
  • Siepmann, Jeremy - Chopin: the reluctant romantic (1995) 780.92C
  • Ware, Susan - Forgotten heroes: inspiring American portraits from our leading historians 920 F721F

BELLES LETTRES

  • Brink, Andre - The novel; language and narrative from Cervantes to Calvino 809.3B
  • Canetti, Elias - Notes from Hampstead: the writer's notes, 1954- 1971 838C
  • Caserio, Robert - Plot, story, and the novel: from Dickens and Poe to the modern period (1979) 823C
  • Garelick, Rhonda - Rising star: dandyism, gender, and performance in the fin de siecle 840.9G
  • McCormack, Jerusha - Wilde the Irishman 828.09W
  • Orr, John - The making of the twentieth-century novel: Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner, and beyond (1987) 823O
  • Quindlen, Anna - How reading changed my life 824Q

MUSIC

  • Goehr, Lydia - The quest for voice: on music, politics, and the limits of philosophy: the 1997 Ernest Bloch lectures 781G
  • Grant, Mark - Maestros of the pen: a history of classical music criticism in America 780.9G
  • Kington, Miles - The Jazz anthology (1992) 780.973K

COMMUNICATION

  • Clanchy, M.T. - From memory to written record: England, 1066- 1307 (1993) 016.4C
  • Goody, Jack - The interface between the written and the oral (1993) 011G
  • Lieberman, Philip - Eve spoke: human language and human evolution 401L
  • O'Donnell, James - Avatars of the world: from papyrus to cyberspace 302O

INTERNET and WORLD WIDE WEB

  • Gralla, Preston - How the internet works 004.678G
  • Rosenfeld, Louis - Information architecture for the World Wide Web 004.678R
  • Williams, Robin - The non-designer's Web book: an easy guide to creating, designing, and posting your own Web site 004.678W

MEDIA

  • Bourdieu, Pierre - On television 070.1B
  • Fritzsche, Peter - Reading Berlin 1900 (newspapers) (1996) 070.1F
  • Schorr, Daniel - Forgive us our press passes: selected works 1972-1998 070S
  • Stephens, Mitchell - The rise of the image, the fall of the word 302S
  • Trow, George - My pilgrim's progress: media studies, 1950-1998 302T

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Cohen, Mark - Culture of intolerance: chauvinism, class, and racism in the United States 305.8C
  • Garland, Joseph - The North Shore: a social history of summers among the noteworthy, fashionable, rich, eccentric, and ordinary on Boston's Gold Coast 974.4G
  • Gomez, Michael - Exchanging our country marks: the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South 305.88G
  • Kumar, Krishan - Utopias and the millennium (1993) 321.07U
  • Linden, Eugene - The future in plain sight: nine clues to the coming chaos 303.4L
  • Reinarman, Craig - Crack in America: demon drugs and social justice 362.293C
  • Roszak, Theodore - America the wise: the longevity revolution and the true wealth of nations 305.26R
  • Rowbotham, Sheila - A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States 305.4R
  • Schell, Jonathan - The gift of time: the case for abolishing nuclear weapons now 341.6S
  • Sharp, Andrew - The English Levellers 320E
  • Shields, David - Civil tongues & polite letters in British America 306S
  • Spitzer, Leo - Hotel Bolivia: the culture of memory in a refuge from Nazism 984S
  • Suro, Roberto - Strangers among us: how Latino immigration is transforming America 305.85S

BUSINESS

  • Brenner, Joel - The emperors of chocolate: inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars 338.7B
  • Endlich, Lisa - Goldman Sachs: the culture of success 332.6E
  • Peiss, Kathy - Hope in a jar: the making of America's beauty culture 391.6P
  • Smith, Duane - Mining America; the industry and the environment, 1800-1980 (1993) 363.7S
  • Swisher, Kara - AOL.COM: how Steve Case beat Bill Gates, nailed the netheads, and made millions in the war for the Web 338.7S

CITIES

  • Baring, Rose - Moscow & St. Petersburg (1995) 914.7B
  • Ellis, Richard - Imagining Atlantis 572.4E
  • Meier, Christian - Athens: a portrait of the city in its Golden Age 938M
  • Rodenbeck, Max - Cairo: the city victorious 962R
  • Wassenaer, Cornelie de - A visit to St. Petersburg, 1824-1825 (1994) 914.74W

CIVILIZATION

  • Fagan, Brian - People of the earth: an introduction to world prehistory 930F
  • Gilmour, Robin - The Victorian period: the intellectual and cultural context, 1830-1890 (1993) 820.9G
  • Kurzweil, Ray - The age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence 001.6K
  • Robinson, Marilynne - The death of Adam: essays on modern thought 973.918R

HISTORY

  • Carsten, F.L. - Essays in German history (1985) 943C
  • Ceaser, James - Reconstructing America: the symbol of America in modern thought 973C
  • Gordon, Bertram (ed.) - Historical dictionary of World War II France: the Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938-1946 940.5344H
  • Hoge, James F., Jr. - The American encounter: the United States and the making of the modern world 327.73A
  • Judt, Tony - The burden of responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French twentieth century 944.08J
  • Kammen, Michael - In the past lane: historical perspectives on American culture 973K
  • Limerick, Patricia - Trails: toward a new western history (1991) 978T
  • McPhilemy, Sean - The Committee: political assassination in Northern Ireland 941.5M
  • Peters, F.E. - Mecca: a literary history of the Muslim Holy Land (1994) 953P
  • Rae, Noel - Witnessing America: the Library of Congress book of firsthand accounts of life in America 1600-1900 (1996) 973W
  • Taylor, Peter - Behind the mask: the IRA and Sinn Fein 941.5T

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Foucault, Michel - The politics of truth 320.9F
  • Greenberg, Stanley - The new majority: toward a popular progressive politics 324.273N
  • Humes, James - Nixon's ten commandments of statecraft 973.924H
  • McCarthy, Eugene - No-fault politics: modern presidents, the press and reformers 973.929M
  • Schudson, Michael - The good citizen: a history of American civic life 323.6S vSewall, Gilbert - The eighties: a reader 306E
  • Shklar, Judith - Political thought and political thinkers 320.9S
  • Shklar, Judith - Redeeming American political thought 320.9S

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Berra, Tim - A natural history of Australia 574H
  • McPhee, John - Annals of the former world 557.3M
  • Terrie, Philip - Contested terrain: a new history of nature and people in the Adirondacks 974.7T
  • Wessels, Tom - Reading the forested landscape: a natural history of New England 574W

SCIENCE

  • Denton, Michael - Nature's destiny: how the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe 124D
  • Gribbin, John - The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything 530G
  • Lux, David - Patronage and royal science in seventeenth-century France (1989) 506L
  • Rees, Martin - Before the beginning: our universe and others 523.1R Silvers, Robert - Hidden histories of science (1995) 610.9H

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Golden, Stephanie - Slaying the mermaid: women and the culture of sacrifice 155.6G
  • Martin, Paul - The sickening mind: brain behaviour, immunity and disease 131M

CRIME

  • Malcolm, Janet - The crime of Sheila McGough 364M
  • Moore, Lucy - The thieves' opera: the mesmerizing story of two notorious criminals in eighteenth-century London 364.1M
  • Stracher, Cameron - Double billing: a young lawyer's tale of greed, sex, lies, and the pursuit of a swivel chair 347.5S

HEALTH and HOME

  • Arnot, Robert - The breast cancer prevention diet: the powerful foods, supplements, and drugs that can save your life 616.9A
  • Martin, Judith - Miss Manners' basic training: the right thing to say 395M
  • Owen, David - Around the house: reflections on life under a roof 643O Sheffield, Anne - How you can survive when they're depressed: living and coping with depression fallout 616.8S

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

  • Gillick, Muriel - Tangled minds: understanding Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 616.8G
  • Rozelle, Ron - Into that good night 92 R8935R

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Borges, Jorge Luis - Selected fictions (4 tapes) #747
  • Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 (5 tapes) #722
  • Chesterton, G.K. - Saint Francis of Assisi (4 tapes) #702
  • Dante Alighieri - The inferno of Dante (4 tapes) #730
  • Tuchman, Barbara - The first salute (9 tapes) #704


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