New York Society Library

MAY 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Auchincloss, Louis - Woodrow Wilson
  • Auerbach, Nina - Daphne du Maurier, haunted heiress
  • Beinecke, William - Through mem'ry's haze
  • Carter, W.C. - Marcel Proust
  • Clarke, Gerald - Get happy (Judy Garland)
  • Craig, Gordon - Theodor Fontane: literature and history in the Bismarck Reich
  • Davis, Lennard - My sense of silence: memoirs of a childhood with deafness
  • Diedrich, Maria - Love across color lines: Ottile Assing and Frederick Douglass
  • Gordon, Mary - Joan of Arc
  • Guelzo, Alan - Abraham Lincoln: redeemer president
  • Hart, Henry - James Dickey: the world as a lie
  • Him, Chanrithy - When broken glass floats: growing up under the Khmer Rouge
  • Johnston, William - William & Henry Walters, reticent collectors
  • Kaplan, Alice - The collaborator: the trial and execution of Robert Brasillach
  • Laurents, Arthur - Original story by: a memoir of Broadway and Hollywood
  • Lennig, Arthur - Stroheim
  • Lyotard, Jean Francois - Signed, Malraux
  • Merrill, Lisa - When Romeo was a woman: Charlotte Cushman and her circle of female spectators
  • Murray, Nicholas - World enough and time (Andrew Marvell)
  • Poitier, Sidney - The measure of a man
  • Rickerts, Harry - Rudyard Kipling
  • Rosenblum, Constance - Gold digger: outrageous life and times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce
  • Sheperd, Cybill - Cybill disobedience
  • Tyson, Neil - The sky is not the limit: adventures of an urban astrophysicist
  • Wight, Jim - The real James Herriot
  • Wroe, Ann - Pontius Pilate

MYSTERIES

  • Albert, Susan Wittig - Hangman's root
  • Andrews, Sarah - Bone hunter
  • Aubert, Brigitte - Death from the woods
  • Barton, Dan - Killer material
  • Baxter, Clare - Bleeding out
  • Black, Ethan - Irresistible
  • Clark, Mary Higgins - Before I say goodbye
  • Conant, Susan - Creature discomforts
  • Connolly, John - Dark hollow
  • Dibdin, Michael - Blood rain
  • Elkins, Aaron - Skeleton dance
  • Fesperman, Dan - Lie in the dark
  • Fowler, Earlene - Seven sisters
  • Gash, Jonathan - A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair*
  • George, Elizabeth - Evidence exposed (stories)*
  • Girdner, Jacqueline - Murder, my dear
  • Hillerman, Tony - Best American mystery stories of the century
  • Kerr, Philip - The shot
  • Leon, Donna - Friends in high places
  • Maron, Margaret - Storm track
  • Melo, Patricia - In praise of lies
  • Mercer, Judy - Blind spot
  • O'Brien, Maureen - Dead innocent*
  • Palmer, Michael - The patient
  • Parker, Robert - Hugger mugger
  • Parker, T. Jefferson - Red light
  • Perry, Anne - Half Moon Street*
  • Rankin, Ian - Set in darkness*
  • Rowland, Laura J. - Samurai's wife
  • Saylor, Steven - A twist at the end
  • Stabenow, Dana - Midnight come again
  • Wager, Walter - The tunnel
  • Wright, Sally - Pursuit and persuasion*
*indicates a British mystery.

FICTION

  • Banks, Iain - The business
  • Bialik, Hayyim Nahman - Random harvest: the novellas of Bialik
  • Bird, Carmel - The Penguin century of Australian stories
  • Bolger, Dermot - Ladies night at Finbar's Hotel (stories)
  • Bragg, Melvin - The soldier's return
  • Brown, Larry - Fay
  • Clark, Martin - The many aspects of mobile home living
  • Clarke, Breena - River, cross my heart
  • Conrad, James - Making love to the minor poets
  • Cookson, Catherine - Kate Hannigan's girl
  • Coomer, Joe - Apologizing to dogs
  • Cooper, Dennis - Period
  • Danielewski, Mark - House of leaves
  • Djebar, Assia - So vast the prison
  • Dunant, Sarah - Mapping the edge
  • Foden, Giles - Ladysmith
  • Forster, Margaret - Memory box
  • Frame, Ronald - Lantern bearers
  • Hamid, Mohsin - Moth smoke
  • Jakes, John - A century of great Western stories
  • Johnson, Diane - Le mariage
  • Kranz, Rachel - Leaps of faith
  • Kureishi, Hanif - Midnight all day (stories)
  • McCabe, Patrick - Mondo desperado
  • Oates, Joyce Carol - Blonde
  • O'Brien, Edna - Wild Decembers
  • Parks, Tim - Destiny
  • Parry, Owen - Faded coat of blue
  • Plain, Belva - After the fire
  • Prose, Francine - Blue angel
  • Quick, Amanda - Wicked widow
  • Ratushinskaya, Irina - Fictions and lies
  • Robbins, Harold - The secret
  • Smiley, Jane - Horse heaven
  • Smith, Carol - Family reunion
  • Steel, Danielle - The wedding
  • Toibin, Colm - The Penguin book of Irish fiction
  • Trollope, Joanna - Marrying the mistress
  • Varni, Steven - The inland sea
  • Yglesias, Helen - The girls
  • Zigman, Laura - Dating big bird

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Adler, Renata - Gone: the last days of the New Yorker 050N
  • Blakiston, Georgiana - Lord William Russell and his wife, 1815-1846 (1972) 920 R963B
  • Goldman, William - Which lie did I tell?: more adventures in the screen trade 791.4G
  • Ivins, Molly - Shrub: the short but happy political life of George W. Bush 92 B9783I
  • Pierson, Joan - The real Lady Byron (1992) 92 B9961P

BELLES LETTRES

  • Erlich, Gloria - The sexual education of Edith Wharton (1992) 823W
  • Gordimer, Nadine - Living in hope and history 820.9G
  • Grozinger, Karl - Kafka and kabbalah (1994) 833K
  • Hearn, Lafcadio - The selected writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1949) 820.81H
  • Hirsch, David - The deconstruction of literature: criticism after Auschwitz (1991) 801H
  • McPherson, James Alan - A region not home 824M
  • Missac, Pierre - Walter Benjamin's Passages (1995) 944.08B
  • Pierpont, Claudia - Passionate minds: women rewriting the world 820.9P
  • Porte, Joel - Emerson and Thoreau: transcendentalists in conflict (1966) 820.9P
  • Poulet, Georges - The interior distance (French literature) (1959) 840.9P
  • Schipper, Mineke - Beyond the boundaries: text and context in African literature (1990) 896.9S
  • Spencer, Theodore - Death and Elizabethan tragedy: a study of convention and opinion (1936) 822.09S

ARCHITECTURE

  • Jackson-Stops, Gervase - The English country house: a grand tour (1998) 728.8J
  • Salzman, L.F. - Building in England down to 1540: a documentary history (1992) 690S

CITIES

  • Frug, Gerald - City making: building communities without building walls 307.76F
  • Humphreys, Andrew - Jerusalem (1997) 915.694H
  • Poisson, Michel - Paris: buildings and monuments 914.436P
  • Storey, Robert - Beijing (1998) 915.1S

ANTIQUITIES

  • Blair, Sheila - Islamic inscriptions (1998) 909B
  • Daniel, Glyn - Writing for Antiquity: an anthology of editorials from Antiquity (1992) 913D
  • Wacher, J.S. - The towns of Roman Britain (1975) 936W

CIVILIZATION

  • Susser, Bernard - Choosing survival: strategies for a Jewish future 305.8S
  • Powell, Kevin - Keepin' it real: post-MTV reflections on race, sex, and politics (1997) 824P
  • Johnson, Michael - Macmillan encyclopedia of Native American tribes 970.1J Oversize

ARTS

  • Braun, Emily - New York collects: drawings and watercolors, 1900-1950 740N
  • Eschenfelder, Chantal - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 (1998) 759.5T Oversize
  • Hanfmann, George - Roman art: a modern survey of the art of imperial Rome (1975) 709.37H
  • Hewison, Robert - John Ruskin: the argument of the eye (1976) 709H
  • Hollingsworth, Mary - Patronage in sixteenth-century Italy (1996) 759.5H
  • Kerman, Joseph - Concerto conversations 785.1K
  • Phillips, Duncan - The eye of Duncan Phillips: a collection in the making 708.1P
  • Rosenblum, Robert - On modern American art 709.73 R
  • Schulz, Charles - Peanuts: a golden celebration: the art and the story of the world's best-loved comic strip 741.5S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Koeppel, Gerard - Water for Gotham: a history 628.1K
  • Morgan, Bill - The beat generation in New York: a walking tour of Jack Kerouac's city (1997) 917.471M
  • Mushabac, Jane - A short and remarkable history of New York City 974.7M
  • Robinson, Ray - Yankee Stadium: 75 years of drama, glamor, and glory (1998) 796.3R
  • Stansell, Christine - American moderns: bohemian New York and the creation of a new century 974.7S

MEDIA

  • Lacey, Nick - Image and representation: key concepts in media studies (1998) 302L
  • Lasar, Matthew - Pacifica Radio: the rise of an alternative network 384L
  • Moshkovitz, Moshe - Dictionary of television and audiovisual terminology (1998) 791.4M
  • Scheuer, Jeffrey - The sound bite society: television and the American mind 329S
  • Seabrook, John - Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture 302S

LANGUAGE

  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice - The prose of the world (1991) 401M
  • Pinker, Steven - Words and rules: ingredients of language 401P

COMMUNICATIONS

  • Pool, Ithiel de Sola - Politics in wired nations (1998) 303.4P
  • Standage, Tom - The Victorian internet: the remarkable story of the telegraph & the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers 384S

LIBRARIES

  • Barker, Nicolas - Treasures from the libraries of National Trust country houses 026B Oversize
  • Founders and followers: literary lectures given on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the London Library (1992) 026F
  • Hassall, A.G. - Treasures from the Bodleian Library (1976) 757.1H
  • Rochell, Carlton - In praise of libraries (1989) 021I

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Baxandall, Rosalyn - Picture windows: how the suburbs happened 307.74B
  • Bush, Rod - We are not what we seem: Black nationalism and class struggle in the American century 325.26B
  • Giroux, Henry - The mouse that roared: Disney and the end of innocence 791.4G
  • Gladwell, Malcolm - The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference 302G
  • Jacobs, Jane - The nature of economies 330J
  • Kuper, Adam - Culture: the anthropologists' account 306K
  • Lewis, Katherine - Young medieval women 305.4Y
  • Olsen, Kirstin - Daily life in 18th-century England 942.07O
  • Schmitt, Jean Claude - Ghosts in the Middle Ages: the living and the dead in Medieval society (1998) 133.1S
  • Sharpe, James - The bewitching of Anne Gunter: a horrible and true story of football, witchcraft, murder and the King of England 133.4S

POETRY

  • Atwood, Margaret - Selected poems (1976) 821A
  • Murray, Les - Learning human: selected poems 821M
  • Paterson, Don - The eyes: a version of Antonio Machado 821A
  • Yang, Mu - No trace of the gardener (1998) 895.1Y

RELIGION

  • Austin, James - Zen and the brain: toward an understanding of meditation and consciousness (1998) 294A
  • Dodds, E.R. - Pagan and Christian in an age of anxiety: some aspects of religious experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (1990) 291.4D
  • Doniger, Wendy - Splitting the difference: gender and myth in ancient Greece and India 291D
  • Florescano, Enrique - The myth of Quetzalcoatl 299.7F
  • Schaff, Philip - The creeds of Christendom (1993) 3 v. 270S

NATURAL SCIENCE

  • Hauser, Marc - Wild minds: what animals really think 591.5H
  • Matthiessen, Peter - Tigers in the snow 599M
  • Pepperberg, Irene - The Alex studies: cognitive and communicative abilities of grey parrots 598.2P
  • Grzimek, Bernhard - Four-legged Australians (1967) 591.9G

PETS IN HISTORY

  • Engels, Donald - Classical cats:rise & fall of the sacred cat 398.2E
  • MacDonogh, Katharine - Reigning cats and dogs 636M

HISTORY

  • Abreu, Joao Capistrano de - Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800 (1998) 981A
  • Anderson, Fred - Crucible of war: the Seven Year's War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766 973.2A
  • Beasley, W.G. - The Japanese experience: a short history of Japan 952B
  • Cantor, Norman F. - The encyclopedia of the Middle Ages 909E
  • Heather, P.J. - Goths and Romans, 332-489 (1994) 937.06H
  • Keay, John - India: a history 954K
  • Limerick, Patricia Nelson - Something in the soil: legacies and reckoning in the new West 978L
  • Roberts, J.M. - Twentieth century: the history of the world, 1901-2000 909.82R

MEDICINE

  • Biro, David - One hundred days: my unexpected journey from doctor to patient 92 B6195B
  • Gottlieb, Lori - Stick figure: a diary of my former self 92 G687G
  • Groopman, Jerome - Second opinions: stories of intuition and choice in a changing world of medicine 610G
  • Morantz-Sanchez, Regina - Conduct unbecoming a woman: medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn 618M
  • Murray, Michael - Encyclopedia of natural medicine Ref. 615M

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Gaylin, Willard - Talk is not enough: how psychotherapy really works 616.8G
  • Gopnik, Alison - The scientist in the crib: minds, brains, and how children learn 153G
  • Roszak, Theodore - The gendered atom: reflections on the sexual psychology of science 501R

SCIENCE

  • Crouch, Tom - Aiming for the stars 629.4C
  • Derry, Gregory - What science is and how it works 500D
  • Rees, Martin - Just six numbers: the deep forces that shape the universe 523.1R
  • Ridley, Matt - Genome: the autobiography of a species 575.1R
  • Ward, Peter - Rare earth: why complex life is uncommon in the universe 576W

LAW

  • Diamond, Norman - A practice almost perfect: the early days at Arnold, Fortas & Porter (1997) 340D
  • London, Ephraim - The world of law: a treasury of great writing about and in the law (1960) 2 v. 820.9W
  • Perez Diaz, Victor - Spain at the crossroads: civil society, politics, and the rule of law 323.4P

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Conason, Joe - The hunting of the President 973.929C
  • Kaiser, David - American tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the origins of the Vietnam War 959K
  • Kaplan, Robert - The coming anarchy: shattering the dreams of the post Cold War 909.82K
  • Noonan, Peggy - The case against Hillary Clinton 92 C6417N
  • Shattan, Joseph - Architects of victory: six heroes of the Cold War 327.73S
  • Singer, Peter - A Darwinian left: politics, evolution and cooperation 320S
  • Wright, Robin - The last great revolution (Iran) 955W

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

  • Ashworth, William - An economic history of England, 1870-1939 (1960) 330.942A
  • Berg, Maxine - The age of manufactures: industry, innovation, and work in Britain, 1700-1820 (1985) 338.4B
  • Clarke, Peter - Understanding decline: perceptions and realities of British economic performance (1997) 330.942U
  • Dunbar, Nicholas - Inventing money: the story of Long-term Capital Management and the legends behind it 332.1D
  • Strange, Susan - The retreat of the state: the diffusion of power in the world economy (1996) 337S

SPORTS

  • Gilbert, Brad - Winning ugly: mental warfare in tennis (1994) 796.3G
  • McGuane, Thomas - The longest silence: a life in fishing 799.1M

TRAVEL

  • Bickel, Lennard - Shackleton's forgotten men 919.9B
  • Cohan, Tony - On Mexican time: a new life in San Miguel 917.2C
  • Cookman, Scott - Ice blink: the tragic fate of Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition 919.8C
  • Iyer, Pico - The global soul: jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home 910.4I
  • Piccard, Bertrand - Around the world in 20 (ballooning) 629.13P


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