New York Society Library

JULY 1999 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Barrett, Marvin - Second chance: a life after death
  • Beatty, Laura - Lillie Langtry: manners, masks, and morals
  • Crane, David - Lord Byron's jackal (Edward John Trelawny)
  • Dallas, Roland - King Hussein: a life on the ledge
  • Foreman, Amanda - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Fry, Stephen - Moab is my washpot
  • Gay, Peter - Mozart
  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) - The gift: the complete text
  • Jay, Karla - Tales of the lavender menace: a memoir of liberation
  • Lees-Milne, James - Through wood and dale: diaries, 1975-78
  • Lord, Ruth - Henry F. Du Pont and Winterthur: a daughter's portrait
  • Mason, Bobbie Ann - Clear springs
  • Mellow, James - Walker Evans
  • Ricketts, Harry - The unforgiving minute: life of Rudyard Kipling
  • Robinson, Paul - Homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette
  • Ronda, Bruce - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: a reformer on her own terms
  • Stallworthy, John - Singing school: the making of a poet
  • Wills, Garry - St. Augustine

FICTION

  • Auster, Paul - Timbuktu
  • Bank, Melissa - Girl's guide to hunting and fishing
  • Buckley, William F., Jr. - The redhunter: a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy
  • Collins, Jackie - Dangerous kiss
  • Delinsky, Barbara - Lake news
  • Dobyns, Stephen - Boy in the water
  • Ellison, Ralph - Juneteenth
  • Esaki-Smith, Anna- Meeting Luciano
  • Harris, Thomas - Hannibal
  • Johnston, Jennifer - Two moons
  • Kennedy, A.L. - Everything you need
  • King, Stephen - The girl who loved Tom Gordon
  • Lehane, Dennis - Prayers for rain
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - Pearl Cove
  • Mount, Ferdinand - Jem (and Sam)
  • Rautbord, Sugar - The chameleon
  • Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon
  • Uris, Leon - God in ruins
  • Waters, Sara - Tipping the velvet

SHORT STORIES

  • Dixon, Stephen - Sleep
  • Hoffman, Alice - Local girls
  • Jen, Gish - Who's Irish?
  • Melville, Pauline - The migration of ghosts
  • Wallace, David F. - Brief interviews with hideous men

MYSTERIES

  • *Aird, Catherine - Stiff news
  • Appinganesi, Lisa - The dead of winter
  • Aubert, Rosemary - Feast of Stephen
  • Barre, Richard - Blackheart Highway
  • Brady, James - The house that ate the Hamptons
  • Coben, Harlan - The final detail
  • Coffey, Tom - Serpent club
  • Crais, Robert - L.A. requiem
  • *Dickinson, Peter - Some deaths before dying
  • *Edwards, Ruth D. - Publish and be murdered
  • Fergusson, Bruce - The piper's sons
  • George, Anne - Murder shoots the bull
  • Grace, Tom - Spyder web
  • Harris, Thomas - Hannibal
  • Hunter, Fred - Capital queers
  • Huston, James W. - The price of power
  • *King, Laurie - O Jersusalem
  • Lardo, Vincent - The Hampton affair
  • *McDermid, Val - Star struck
  • Mahoney, Dan - Black and white
  • Maxim, John - Mosaic
  • McGarrity, Michael - Hermit's Peak
  • Morgenroth, Kate - Kill me first
  • *Niles, Chris - Spike it
  • Peters, Elizabeth - The falcon at the portal
  • Pineiro, R.J. - 01-01-00
  • Raphael, Lev - The death of a constant lover
  • Reichs, Kathy - Death du jour
  • *Rogow, Roberta - Problem of the spiteful spiritualist
  • Seymour, Gerald - Dead ground
  • Shames, Laurence - Welcome to paradise
  • *Spring, Michelle - Nights in white satin
  • Tanenbaum, Robert K. - Act of revenge
  • Thayer, James - Terminal event
  • *Todd, Charles - Search the dark
  • *Tremayne, Peter - The spider's web
  • *Wright, Eric - Death on the rocks
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Aldrich, Marcia - Girl rearing (daughters) 92 A365A
  • Dunn, Richard - Geoffrey Scott and the Berenson circle: literary and aesthetic life in the early 20th century 920 D9238G
  • Joseph Conrad: interviews and recollections (1990) 92 C754J
  • Nevin, Thomas - Ernst Junger and Germany: into the abyss, 1914- 1945 (1996) 92 J958N
  • Owen, Felicity - Collector of genius: a life of Sir George Beaumont (1988) 709.2B
  • Super, R.H. - The chronicler of Barsetshire: a life of Anthony Trollope (1990) 92 T8474S
  • True relations: essays on autobiography and the postmodern 809.9T
  • Vallin, Marlene - Margaret Chase Smith: model public servant
  • Wagner, Gottfried - Twilight of the Wagners: the unveiling of a family's legacy 780.92W

BELLES LETTRES

  • Beckett, Samuel - No author better served: the correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider 822.09B Books of the century: a hundred years of authors, ideas and literature: from the New York Times 028.1B
  • Budd, Louis J. - On Henry James (1990) 823J
  • Burt, Richard - Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: queer theory and American kiddie culture 822.33C
  • Cady, Edwin H. - On Emerson (1988) 824.09E
  • Cady, Edwin H. - On Hawthorne (1990) 823H
  • Duras, Marguerite - No more 848D
  • Gross, John - The new Oxford book of English prose 828.08N
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome - Keeping literary company: working with writers since the sixties 820.9K
  • Masters, Anthony - Literary agents: the novelist as spy (1987) 823M
  • White, Laura M. - Critical essays on Jane Austen 823A

BOOKS & WRITING

  • Follett, Wilson - Modern American usage: a guide 423F
  • Hall, David - Cultures of print: essays in the history of the book (1996) 028H
  • McKitterick, David - A history of Cambridge University Press
  • Safire, William - Good advice on writing: writers past and present on how to write well (1992) 808.8G

ARTS

  • Belting, Hans - The Germans and their art: a troublesome relationship 709.43B
  • Blanchard, Mary W. - Oscar Wilde's America: counterculture in the gilded age 709.73B
  • George, Nelson - Hip hop America 780.973G
  • Miller, D.A. - Place for us: essay on the Broadway musical 782M
  • Reeves, Eileen - Painting in the heavens: art and science in the age of Galileo (1997) 758R
  • Robinson, Harlow - Selected letters of Sergei Prokofiev 780.92P
  • Schapiro, Meyer - Mondrian: on the humanity of abstract painting (1995) 759.9M
  • Schneemann, Carolee - More than meat joy; performance works and selected writings (1997) 709.2S
  • Schneider, Andrea - Creating the Musee d'Orsay: the politics of culture in France 708.4S
  • Singer, Irving - Reality transformed: film as meaning and technique 791.4S
  • Sterritt, David - Mad to be saved: the Beats, the '50s, and film 791.4S
  • Storr, Robert - Tony Smith: architect, painter, sculptor 730.92S

LANGUAGE

  • Gordon, Karen - The disheveled dictionary: a curious caper through our sumptuous lexicon (1997) 423G
  • Knowles, Elizabeth - The Oxford dictionary of new words (1997) 423O
  • Price, Glanville - Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe 401E

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Baseler, Marilyn - "Asylum for mankind": America, 1607-1800 325.73B
  • Breindel, Eric - A passion for truth: the selected writings of Eric Breindel 320.9B
  • Erickson, Charlotte - Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth century (1994) 325.73E
  • Hobsbawm, Eric - Uncommon people: resistance, rebellion and jazz 331H
  • Hoffman, Bruce - Inside terrorism 364H
  • Hurwitz, Jon - Perception and prejudice: race and politics in the United States 325.26P
  • Lichter, Linda - Simple social graces: the lost art of gracious Victorian living 395L
  • Mingay, G.E. - Rural life in Victorian England (1991) 323.3M
  • Patterson, Cynthia - The family in Greek history 306.8P
  • Patterson, Orlando - Rituals of blood: consequences of slavery in two American centuries 325.26P
  • Perelman, Michael - Class warfare in the information age 303.6P
  • Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. - The disuniting of America: reflections on a multicultural society. Rev.ed. 305.8S
  • Sennett, Richard - The corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism 305.5S
  • Walker, Samuel - The rights revolution: rights and community in modern America 323.4W
  • Winter, Alison - Mesmerized: powers of mind in Victorian Britain 134W
  • Zunz, Olivier - Why the American century? 303.4Z

FEMINIST STUDIES

  • Greer, Germaine - The whole woman 305.4G
  • Henrion, Claudia - Women in mathematics: the addition of difference (1997) 510.9H
  • Wunder, Heide - He is the sun, she is the moon: women in early modern Germany 396W

CIVILIZATION

  • Crunden, Robert - Brief history of American culture (1994) 973C
  • Guizot, Francois - History of civilisation in Europe (1997) 940G
  • Marwick, Arthur - The sixties: cultural revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c1958-c1974 940.55M
  • Paine, Jeffrey - Father India: how encounters with an ancient culture transformed the modern West 954P
  • Robertson, Douglas - The new renaissance: computers and the next level of civilization 303.4R
  • Stumpf, Bill - The ice palace that melted away 301.2S

HISTORY

  • Babits, Lawrence - A devil of a whipping: the Battle of Cowpens 973.33B
  • Davis, William - Lincoln's men: how President Lincoln became father to an army and a nation 973.7D
  • Evans, Richard - In defence of history (1997) 907E
  • Idinopulos, Thoma - Weathered by miracles: a history of Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti 915.69I
  • O'Brien, Brendan - The long war: the IRA and Sinn Fein, 1985 to today (1995) 941.5O
  • Poirteir, Cathal - The great Irish famine (1997) 941.4G
  • Raven, Susan - Rome in Africa (1993) 961R
  • Record, Jeffrey - The wrong war: why we lost in Vietnam 959R
  • Schulze, Hagen - Germany: a new history 943S
  • Thistlethwaite, Frank - Our war, 1938-1945 (1997) 940.548T
  • Whittemore, Katharine - The sixties: recollections of the decade from Harper's magazine (1995) 973.923S
  • Zelizer, Barbie - Remembering to forget: Holocaust memory through the camera's eye 940.5315Z

MILITARY

  • Dann, Sam - Dachau 29 April, 1945: the Rainbow liberation memoirs 940.548D
  • Dunnigan, James - The Pacific war encyclopedia (2 vols) 940.54D
  • Peebles, Curtis - The Corona project: America's first spy satellites (1997) 327.12P
  • Reid, Brian H. - Studies in British military thought: debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart 355R

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Bauman, Zygmunt - Globalization: the human consequences 303.4B
  • Glassner, Martin - The United Nations at work 341.1U
  • Hoopes, James - Community denied: the wrong turn of pragmatic liberalism 320.9H
  • Kloppenberg, James - The virtues of liberalism 320.9K
  • Martin, James - Gramsci's political analysis: a critical introduction 335.4M
  • Pitkin, Hanna F. - The attack of the blob: Hannah Arendt's concept of the social 301P
  • Rabinovich, Itamar - The brink of peace: the Israeli-Syrian negotiations 327.56R
  • Rodgers, Daniel - Atlantic crossings: social politics in a progressive age 306R
  • Schuparra, Kurt - Triumph of the right: the rise of the California conservative movement, 1945-1966 324.9S
  • Soyinka, Wole - The burden of memory: the muse of forgiveness 960S

ECONOMICS

  • Brooks, John - The go-go years: the drama and crashing finale of Wall Street's bullish 60s 332.6B
  • Puttnam, David - Movies and money 384P
  • Reti, Steven - Silver and gold: the political economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867-1892 332.4R

INDUSTRY

  • Gregor, Neil - Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich 338.7G
  • Ortega, Bob - In Sam we trust: the untold story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is devouring America 3810

TECHNOLOGY

  • Cooper, Gail - Air-conditioning America: engineers and the controlled environment, 1900-1960 697C
  • Hughes, Thomas - Rescuing Prometheus 303.4

SCIENCE

  • Casti, J.L. - The Cambridge quintet: a work of scientific speculation 001.6C
  • Dennett, Daniel C. - Brainchildren: essays on designing minds 128D
  • Gullberg, Jan - Mathematics: from the birth of numbers 510G
  • Koertge, Noretta - A house built on sand: exposing postmodernist myths about science 501H

CLONING

  • Nussbaum, Martha C. - Clones and clones: facts and fantasies about human cloning 176C
  • Silver, Lee - Remaking Eden: cloning and beyond in a brave new world (1997) 174S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Collingwood, R.G. - An essay on philosophical method (1995) 112C
  • Gadamer, Hans Georg - Truth and method (1995) 121G
  • Kagan, Jerome - Three seductive ideas 150K
  • Quine, W.V. - Set theory and its logic (1963) 160Q

HEALTH and HOME

  • Ban Breathnach, Sarah - Simple abundance (1995) 158B
  • Powell, Douglas - The nine myths of aging: maximizing the quality of later life 305.2P
  • Prescott, Heather - A doctor of their own: the history of adolescent medicine 616P
  • Roberts, Patricia - Language arts and environmental awareness: 100+ integrated books and activities for children 016.3R

ANIMALS

  • Scanlan, Lawrence - Wild about horses: our timeless passion for the horse 636.1S
  • Coren, Stanley - Why we love the dogs we do: how to find the dog that matches your personality 636.7C
  • Devine, Bob - Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants 575.3D
  • Kean, Hilda - Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800 179K
  • Mitchell, W.J. T. - The last dinosaur book: the life and times of a cultural icon 306M

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Alden, Peter - National Audubon Society field guide to the Mid- Atlantic states 508N
  • Alden, Peter - National Audubon Society field guide to New England 508N
  • Alden, Peter - National Audubon Society field guide to the Pacific Northwest 508N

MAPPING

  • Monmonier, Mark - Drawing the line: tales of maps and cartocontroversy (1995) 912M
  • Richards, E.G. - Mapping time: the calendar and its history 529R

TRAVEL

  • Beauvoir, Simone de - America day by day 917.3B
  • Boatswain, Tim - A traveller's history of Greece 938B
  • Cole, Robert - A traveller's history of France 944C
  • Cole, Robert - A traveller's history of Paris 944.36C
  • Lalaguna, Juan - A traveller's history of Spain (1994) 946L
  • Lintner, Valerio - A traveller's history of Italy 945L
  • Taylor, Patrick - The garden lover's guide to Britain 712T

CITIES

  • Gronberg, Tag - Designs on modernity: exhibiting the city in 1920s Paris 725G
  • Sheppard, F.H.W. - London: a history 942.1S
  • Wakeman, Rosemary - Modernizing the provincial city: Toulouse, 1945-1975 (1997) 711W

NEW YORK CITY & ENVIRONS

  • Pierson, Mary Louise - The Rockefeller family home, KyKuit 728.8P
  • Sanjek, Roger - The future of us all: race and neighborhood politics in New York City 305.8S
  • Scherzer, Kenneth - The unbounded community: neighborhood life and social structure in New York City, 1830-1875 (1992) 307S

UNABRIDGED BOOKS ON TAPE

  • Eliot, George - The mill on the floss (14 tapes) #802
  • Greene, Graham - The heart of the matter (8 tapes) #804
  • Lord, Walter - A night to remember (4 tapes) #801
  • Marsh, Ngaio - Artists in crime (7 tapes) #799
  • Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead revisited (8 tapes) #810
  • Wodehouse, P.G. - Jeeves and the tie that binds (4 tapes) #803


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