New York Society Library

JANUARY 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Agosin, Marjorie - Uncertain travelers: conversations with Jewish women immigrants to America
  • Basinger, Jeanine - Silent stars
  • Cameron, Crowe - Conversations with Wilder
  • Clymer, Adam - Edward M. Kennedy
  • Cuthbertson, Ken - Nobody said not to go (Emily Hahn)
  • Eyman, Scott - Print the legend (John Ford)
  • Gutman, Roger - Mozart: a cultural biography
  • Horne, Philip - Henry James: a life in letters
  • Isaacs, Jeremy - Never mind the moon: my time at the Royal Opera House
  • James, P.D. - Time to be in earnest
  • Johnson, George - Strange beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the revolution in twentieth century physics
  • Keane, John - Vaclav Havel
  • Klemperer, Victor - To the bitter end: the diaries, 1942-1945
  • Langum, David - William M. Kunstler
  • Lees-Milne, James - Ancient as the hills: diaries, 1973-1974
  • Lenox-Conyngham, Melosina - Diaries of Ireland, 1590-1987
  • Massingberd, Hugh - The Daily Telegraph fifth book of obituaries: 20th century lives
  • McElheny, Victor - Insisting on the impossible: the life of Edwin Land, inventor of instant photography
  • Melanson, Yvette - Looking for lost bird: a Jewish woman discovers her Navajo roots
  • Miller, John - Judi Dench: with a crack in her voice
  • Nicol, John - Life and adventures of John Nicol, Mariner
  • Partridge, Frances - Life regained: diaries, January 1970- December 1971
  • Pearson, Michael - Dreaming of Columbus: a boyhood in the Bronx
  • People of the century: 100 men and women who shaped the last 100 years
  • Robinson, Ray - Rockne of Notre Dame: the making of a football legend
  • Spence, Jonathan - Mao Zedong
  • Stuart, Gloria - I just kept hoping
  • Williams, Jeannie - Jon Vickers: a hero's life
  • Xu, Mei Hung - Daughter of China
  • Zackheim, Michelle - Einstein's daughter: the search for Lieserl

MYSTERIES

  • *Bannister, Jo - The hireling's tale
  • *Beaton, M.C. - Agatha Raisin and the witch of Wyckbadden
  • *Beechley, Alan - Murdering ministers
  • Blank, Hannah - Murder of convenience
  • Block, Lawrence - Master's choice: mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them
  • Burcell, Robin - Every move she makes
  • *Goddard, Robert - Set in stone
  • *Hammond, Gerald - Twice bitten
  • *Herbert, James - Others
  • *James, Bill - Eton crop
  • Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Hidden and other stories
  • Kellerman, Jonathan - Monster
  • Lindsey, Davis - Two for the lions
  • McInerny, Ralph - Irish tenure
  • Santangelo, Elena - By blood possessed
  • Soos, Troy - Hanging curve
* indicates a British mystery

NEW TO US- classics you may have missed!

  • Hunter, Alan - Gently to the summit F/H
  • Petrie, Rhona - Dead loss F.P

FICTION

  • Barker, A.L. - The haunt
  • Begiebing, Robert - The adventures of Allegra Fullerton
  • Blaine, Michael - The desperate season
  • Brown, Dale - Battle born
  • Brown, Sandra - In a class by itself
  • Brown, Sandra - Tiger prince
  • Cussler, Clive - Atlantis found
  • Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones: the edge of reason
  • Grass, Gunther - My century
  • Hoban, Russell - Angelica's grotto
  • Jones, Gayle - Mosquito
  • Lippincott, Robin - Mr. Dalloway
  • Michael, Ib - Prince
  • Nichols, Peter - Voyage to the North Star
  • Nielsen, Elizabeth - Sweet geraniums and soda bread too
  • Reuss, Frederick - Henry of Atlantic City
  • Roberts, Nora - The Donovan legacy
  • Steel, Danielle - Irresistible forces
  • Tremain, Rose - Music & silence

SHORT STORIES

  • Billman, Jon - When we were wolves
  • Kowabata, Yasunari - First snow on Fuji
  • Nakagami, Kenji - The cape and other stories from the Japanese ghetto

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Elliott, J.H. - The world of the [royal] favourite 920 W67W
  • Epton, Nina Consuelo - Victoria and her daughters (1971) 920 V235E
  • Freeman, Sarah - Isabella and Sam: the story of Mrs. Beeton (1978) 92 B4156F
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Diaries, 1879-1935 2 vols. (1994) 92 G4872G
  • Hamilton, Elizabeth - The Warwickshire scandal 92 M8345H
  • Hamilton, Elizabeth - William's Mary: a biography of Mary II (1972) 92 M3935H
  • Lichtenstein, Rachel - Rodinsky's room 305.8L
  • Weber, Nicholas Fox - Balthus 92 B1964W
  • Young, Michael B. - Charles I (1997) 92 C475Y

BELLES LETTRES

  • Barthes, Roland - Criticism and truth (1987) 840.9B
  • Beasley, Faith - Revising memory: women's fiction and memoirs in seventeenth-century France (1990) 843B
  • Cloonan, William - The writing of war: French and German fiction and World War II 843C
  • Gregory, Alyse - Wheels on gravel (1938) 804G
  • Hayes, Kevin - Melville's folk roots 823M
  • Madariaga, Salvador de - Essays with a purpose (1954) 864M
  • Miller, Nina - Making love modern: the intimate public worlds of New York's literary women 820.9M
  • Sales, Roger - Jane Austen and representations of Regency England (1996) 823A
  • Stephen, Leslie - Men, books, and mountains: essays (1956) 824S
  • Swanson, Jean - Killer books: a reader's guide to exploring the popular world of mystery and suspense 016.82S

ARTS

  • Crow, Thomas - Modern art in the common culture (1996) 709.04C
  • Davenport-Hines, Richard - Gothic: 400 years of excess, horror, evil and ruin 700D
  • Kirstein, Lincoln - Memorial to a marriage: an album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery commissioned by Henry Adams in honor of his wife, Marian Hooper Adams (1989) 92 A2158K Oversize
  • Library of Congress - Walker Evans, photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938 (1973) 770L
  • Lynes, George Platt - Portrait: the photographs of George Platt Lynes, 1927-1955 (1994) 770L Oversize
  • Morris, Jan - Architecture of the British Empire (1986) 720.942A

NEW YORK CITY

  • Collings, Matthew - It hurts: New York art from Warhol to now 709.7471C
  • Grumet, Robert Steven - Native American place names in New York City (1981) 917.471G
  • Haden-Guest, Anthony - Studio 54: the legend (1997) 792.7S
  • Linder, Marc - Of cabbages and Kings County: agriculture and the formation of modern Brooklyn 974.71L
  • Snow, Richard - Coney Island: a postcard journey to the city of fire (1984) 974.71S
  • Stern, Robert A.M. - New York 1880: architecture and urbanism in the gilded age 720.973S
  • Turner, Hy B - When giants ruled: the story of Park Row, New York's great newspaper street 070T

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Buchanan, Patrick - A republic, not an empire: reclaiming America's destiny 327.73B
  • Heymann, Philip - Terrorism and America: a commonsense strategy for a democratic society 364H
  • Louis, Wm. Roger - More adventures with Britannia: personalities, politics, and culture in Britain 942.082M
  • McChesney, Robert - rich media, poor democracy: communication politics in dubious times 302M
  • Nash, George - The conservative intellectual movement in America, since 1945 320.9N
  • Pipes, Richard - Property and freedom 323.4P
  • Posner, Richard - An affair of state: the investigation, impeachment, and trial of President Clinton 342.73P
  • Weber, Cynthia - Faking it: U.S. hegemony in a "post-phallic" era 327.73W

FINANCE

  • Chancellor, Edward - Devil take the hindmost: a history of financial speculation 332.6C
  • Geisst, Charles - 100 years of Wall Street 332.6G
  • Lo, Andrew - A non-random walk down Wall Street 332.6L

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

  • Lewis, Michael - The new new thing: a Silicon Valley story 338.7L
  • Nathan, John - SONY: the private life 338.7N
  • Norris, Floyd - The New York Times century of business 330.9N
  • Spencer, Miles - Money hunt: 27 new rules for creating and growing a breakaway business 658S
  • Underhill, Paco - Why we buy: the science of shopping 658.8U

FILM & THEATRE

  • Brunette, Peter - Roberto Rossellini (1996) 791.4B
  • Canby, Vincent - The New York Times guide to the best 1000 movies ever made 791.43C
  • Carringer, Robert - The making of Citizen Kane (1996) 791.4C
  • Howard, Jean - The stage and social struggle in early modern England (1994) 792.0942H
  • Springer, John - Forgotten films to remember: and a brief history of fifty years of the American talking picture (1980) 791.4S
  • Yates, W.E. - Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, and the Austrian theatre (1992) 832.09Y

COOKERY

  • Bastianich, Lidia - Lidia's Italian table 641.5B
  • Bittman, Mark - How to cook everything 641.5B

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Brunner, R. Scott - Due South: dispatches from down home 975B
  • Frazier, E. Franklin - Black bourgeoisie (1997) 325.26F
  • Gies, Frances - Life in an medieval village (1990) 306G
  • Henaff, Marcel - Claude Levi-Strauss and the making of structural anthropology 306H
  • Kessler, Ronald - The season: inside Palm Beach and America's richest society 975.9K
  • Smith, Patricia - The queer sixties 820.9Q
  • Smith, Roger - Norton history of the human sciences (1997) 300S
  • Thomas, Keith - The Oxford book of work 301O
  • Tiger, Lionel - The decline of males 305.3T

HISTORY

  • Ambrose, Stephen - What if?: the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been 355.45W
  • Brady, Thomas A. - Handbook of European history, 1400-1600. 2 vols. (1996) 940.2H
  • Butterfield, Herbert - The origins of history (1981) 907B
  • Ferguson, Niall - Virtual history: alternatives and counterfactuals 909V
  • Haynes, John Earl - Calvin Coolidge & the Coolidge era 973.91C
  • Heer, Friedrich - Europe, mother of revolutions (1972) 940.28H
  • Hintze, Otto - The historical essays of Otto Hintze (1975) 901H
  • Lukacs, John - Five days in London, May 1940 940.532L
  • Mosse, George L. - The crisis of German ideology: intellectual origins of the Third Reich 323.1M
  • Pollard, A.J. - The Wars of the Roses (1995) 942.04W
  • Shandler, Jeffrey - While America watches: televising the Holocaust 940.5315S
  • Stern, Fritz - Einstein's German world 943.085S
  • Tsering Shakya - The dragon in the land of snows: a history of modern Tibet since 1947 951.5T
  • Vital, David - A people apart: Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 909.4V

ANTIQUITIES

  • Carver, Martin - Sutton Hoo: burial ground of kings? 914.26C
  • Lengyel, A. - The archaeology of Roman Pannonia (1980) 939A
  • Rich, Anthony - A dictionary of Roman and Greek antiquities (1893) 913.38R Closed Stack

POETRY

  • Belitt, Ben - This scribe, my hand: the complete poems 821B
  • Blyth, R.H. - Senryu: Japanese satirical verses (1949) 895.6B
  • Clancy, Thomas Owen - The triumph tree: Scotland's earliest poetry, 550-1350 821.08T
  • Heaney, Seamus - North (1996) 821H
  • Laughlin, James - Poems, new and selected 821L
  • Mamet, David - The Chinaman 821M
  • Merwin, W.S. - East window: the Asian translations 808.81M

CIVILIZATION

  • Berman, Antoine - The experience of the foreign: culture and translation in romantic Germany (1992) 418B
  • Lebovics, Herman - Mona Lisa's escort: Andre Malraux and the reinvention of French culture 944.082L
  • Wasserman, Earl - Aspects of the eighteenth century (1965) 901W

CITIES

  • Betjeman, John - Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs (1971) 914.21B
  • Betjeman, John - Victorian and Edwardian Oxford from old photographs (1971) 914.257B
  • Schneer, Jonathan - London 1900: imperial metropolis 942.1S
  • Suarez, Ray - The old neighborhood: what we lost in the great suburban migration, 1966-1999 307S
  • Turnbull, C.M. - History of Singapore, 1819-1988 (1989) 959T
  • Ungers, Oswald - Oswald Mathias Ungers: the dialectic city (1997) 720.943U

TRAVEL

  • King, John - Czech & Slovak republics (Lonely Planet guidebook) 914.37K
  • Moore, Roy - Thomas Jefferson's journey to the south of France 914.4M
  • Peterson, Dale - Storyville, USA 917.3P
  • Roddis, Miles - Walking in Spain (Lonely Planet guidebook) 914.6W
  • Rowthorn, Chris - Malaysia, Singapore & Brunel (Lonely Planet guidebook) 915.9M
  • Simonis, Damien - Barcelona (Lonely Planet guidebook) 914.6S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Dickstein, Morris - The revival of pragmatism: new essays on social thought, law, and culture 140R
  • Farrington, Benjamin - The faith of Epicurus (1967) 187F
  • Lowith, Karl - From Hegel to Nietzsche: the revolution in nineteenth century thought (1991) 190L
  • Ricoeur, Paul - The conflict of interpretations (1974) 121R
  • Whitehead, Alfred North - Process and reality: an essay in cosmology (1978) 113W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Damasio, Antonio - The feeling of what happens: body and emotion in the making of consciousness 153.7D
  • Groddeck, Georg - The meaning of illness: selected psychoanalytic writings (1977) 616.8G
  • Hoffman, Donald - Visual intelligence: how we create what we see 152H
  • Jamison, Kay - Night falls fast: understanding suicide 616.8J
  • McCrone, John - Going inside: a tour round a single moment of consciousness 612.8M
  • Rhodes, Richard - Why they kill: the discoveries of a maverick criminologist 364R
  • Shengold, Leonard - Soul murder revisited: thoughts about therapy, hate, love, and memory 616.8S

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Maas, Peter - The terrible hours: the man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history 910.4M
  • Restad, Penne L. - Christmas in America (1996) 394.26R
  • Sheldrake, Rupert - Dogs that know when their owners are coming home 133.8S
  • Singh, Simon - The code book: the evolution of secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to quantum cryptography 358.2S
  • Strasser, Susan - Waste and want: a social history of trash 363.7S

RELIGION

  • Blenkinsopp, Joseph - Wisdom and the law in the Old Testament (1995) 221.6B
  • Fox, Matthew - Sins of the spirit, blessings of the flesh 233F
  • Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of world religions LSR 203M
  • Minkowitz, Donna - Ferocious romance: what my encounters with the right taught me about sex, God, and fury 277.3M
  • Winston, Diane - Red-hot and righteous: the urban religion of the Salvation Army 289.9W

ETHICS

  • Andrews, Lori B. - The clone age: adventures in the new world of reproductive technology 174A
  • Cavell, Stanley - The claim of reason: Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy 121C
  • Dewey, John - Principles of instrumental logic: John Dewey's lectures in ethics and political ethics, 1895-1896 170D

SCIENCE

  • Cook, Noble David - Born to die: disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 614.4C
  • Duncan, David - Calendar: humanity's epic struggle to determine a true and accurate year 529D
  • Feynman, Richard P. - The pleasure of finding things out 530F
  • Gleick, James - Faster: acceleration of just about everything 529C
  • Goddard, Robert - The papers of Robert H. Goddard. 3 vols. (1970) 92 G5777G
  • Kaplan, Robert - The nothing that is: natural history of zero 510K
  • Littmann, Mark - The heavens on fire: the great Leonid meteor storms 523.5L
  • Sarton, George - The life of science (1948) 504S

UNABRIDGED AUDIO CASSETTES

  • Kerouac, Jack - On the road (8 tapes) #849
  • McCullough, David - Mornings on horseback (10 tapes) #851
  • Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone (6 tapes) #850
  • Toibin, Colm - Irish short stories (4 tapes) #848
  • Wainwright, Alfred - Memoirs of a fellwanderer (3 tapes) #847

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