New York Society Library

JUNE 2000 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Brinkley, Douglas - Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives Series)
  • Buechner, Frederick - Eyes of the heart
  • Cohen, Adam - American pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley
  • Coward, Noel - Noel Coward: a life in quotes
  • Dalley, Jan - Diana Mosley
  • Friedan, Betty - Life so far
  • Harper, Kenn - Give me my father's body: the life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
  • Hartigan, Frances - Bill W.: a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson
  • Herr, Michael - Kubrick
  • Jones, Cleve - Stitching a revolution: the making of an (AIDS) activist
  • Kanfer, Stefan - Groucho
  • Kerouac, Jack - Door wide open: a beat love affair in letters
  • Koch, Edward - I'm not done yet
  • Leveridge, Brett - Men my mother dated, and other mostly true tales
  • McKenzie, Steven - King David
  • Nasaw, David - The chief: William Randolph Hearst
  • O'Brien, Conor Cruise - Memoir
  • Osborne, Richard - Herbert von Karajan
  • Philby, Rufina - The private life of Kim Philby
  • Rohl, John - Young Wilhelm: the Kaiser's early life
  • Thomas, Abigail - Safekeeping: some true stories
  • Tolan, Sandy - Me and Hank (Aaron)
  • Waitzkin, Fred - The last marlin
  • Walker, Martin - America reborn: a twentieth-century narrative in twenty-six lives
  • Wheen, Francis - Karl Marx

FICTION

  • Bacon, Charlotte - Lost geography
  • Baxter, Charles - Feast of love
  • Bellow, Saul - Ravelstein
  • Bohjalian, Chris - Trans-sister radio
  • Bram, Christopher - The notorious Dr. August
  • Brown, Rosellen - Half a heart
  • Crouch, Stanley - Don't the moon look lonesome
  • Drury, Tom - Hunts in dreams
  • Ellis, Alice Thomas - Pillars of gold
  • Ephron, Delia - Big city eyes
  • Fast, Howard - Greenwich
  • Gilson, Chris - Crazy for Cornelia
  • Goldberg, Myla - Bee season
  • Grimes, Martha - The train now departing: two novellas
  • Hannah, Kristin - Angel Falls
  • Harrison, Kathryn - The binding chair, or, a visit from the foot emancipation society
  • Kirshenbaum, Binnie - Pure poetry
  • Lindsey, Johanna - The heir
  • Malouf, David - Dream stuff (stories)
  • Michaels, Fern - Listen to your heart
  • Moggach, Deborah - Tulip fever
  • Morris, Mary McGarry - Fiona Range
  • Nelson, Antonya - Living to tell
  • Nunez, Elizabeth - Bruised hibiscus
  • Ondaatje, Michael - Anil's ghost
  • Pelevin, Victor - Buddha's little finger
  • Preston, Caroline - Lucy Crocker 2.0
  • Robbins, Tom - Fierce invalids home from hot climates
  • Roth, Philip - The human stain
  • Shaara, Jeff - Gone for soldiers
  • Shields, Carol - Dressing up for the carnival (stories)
  • Woiwode, Larry - What I think I did

MYSTERIES

  • Andrews, Donna - Murder with putting
  • Bette, Janet - Unnatural causes*
  • Brown, Sandra - Standoff
  • Cleary, Jon - Dilemma
  • Crais, Robert - Demolition angel
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - Empty chair
  • Doughty, Louise - An English murder*
  • Fraser, Caro - Judicial whispers*
  • Freemantle, Brian - The iron cage
  • French, Nicci - Beneath the skin*
  • Golob, Aaron - The big cut
  • Hall, Patricia - The Italian girl*
  • Higgins, George V. - At end of day
  • Horn, Stephen - In her defense
  • Hunter, Fred - National Nancys
  • Massey, Swata - Floating girl
  • Mills, Kyle - Free fall
  • O'Connor, Gemma - Farewell to the flesh
  • O'Marie, Carol - Requiem at a friendly place
  • Parker, Barbara - Suspicion of malice
  • Pattison, Eliot - The skull mantra
  • Peters, Elizabeth - He shall thunder in the sky
  • Pineiro, R.J. - Shutdown
  • Porter, Henry - Remembrance Day*
  • Pyper, Andrew - Lost girls
  • Randisi, Robert - Blood on the arch
  • Sandford, John - Easy prey
  • Thompson, Charlene - In the event of my death
  • Walker, Robert - Blind instinct*
  • Wood, Stuart - Run
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Bowles, Jane - Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970 (1990) 92 B7873B
  • Brillstein, Bernie - Where did I go right: you're no one in Hollywood unless someone wants you dead 92 B85878B
  • Erlanger, Philippe - Richelieu: thrust for power (1968) 92 R5282E
  • Friel, Brian - Brian Friel: essays, diaries, interviews, 1964-1999 92 F91F
  • Hearst, William Randolph - The Hearsts (1991) 920 H4367
  • Lefebure, Molly - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1974) 92 C693L
  • Mullins, Eustace - This difficult individual, Ezra Pound (1961) 92 P877M

BELLES LETTRES

  • Boardman, Gwen - Graham Greene: the aesthetics of exploration (1971) 828.09G
  • Brown, Peter - Reading dreams: the interpretation of dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare 820.9R
  • Bryant, John - Melville's evermoving dawn (1997) 823M
  • Budd, Louis - On Mark Twain (1987) 828.09T
  • Closs, August - Twentieth century German literature (1969) 830.9C
  • Craig, Patricia - Oxford book of Ireland 820.8O
  • Delbanco, Nicholas - The lost suitcase: reflections on the literary life 804D
  • Hainsworth, J.B. - The idea of epic (1991) 871.09H
  • Irwin, Robert - The Arabian nights: a companion (1995) 398I
  • James, D.G. - Scepticism and poetry (1937) 808.1J
  • Jones, David - Epoch and artist: selected writings (1959) 828J
  • Josipovici, Gabriel - On trust: art and the temptations of suspicion 801J
  • Kerouac, Jack - Atop an Underwood: early stories and other writings 828K
  • Mikalson, Jon - Honor thy gods: popular religion in Greek tragedy (1991) 809.2M
  • Mitchell, Mark - Pages passed from hand to hand: the hidden tradition of homosexual literature in English from 1748-1914 (1997) 820.8P
  • Pascal, Roy - The German Sturm und Drang (1953) 830.9P
  • Pippin, Robert - Henry James and modern moral life 823J
  • Rupp, Richard - Celebration in postwar American fiction, 1945-1967 (1970) 823R
  • Scholes, Robert - Structuralism in literature (1974) 801S
  • Schur, Norman - British English A to Zed (1987) 423S
  • Stanford, W.B. - The Ulysses theme: a study in the adaptability of a traditional hero (1992) 809.9S
  • Tate, Mary Jo - F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z 823F Oversize
  • Woodring, Carl - Literature: an embattled profession 807W

ARCHITECTURE

  • Cathers, David - Stickley style: arts and crafts homes in the craftsman tradition 728S
  • Ching, Frank - Architecture, form, space & order (1979) 720C
  • Clifton-Taylor, Alec - Pattern of English building (1987) 721C
  • Hart, Vaughan - Paper palaces: the rise of the Renaissance architectural treatise 720P
  • Lees-Milne, James - People and places: country house donors and the National Trust (1992) 942L
  • Tournikiotis, Panayotis - The Parthenon and its impact in modern times (1996) 726P

BOOKS & PRINTING

  • Crutchley, Brooke - Two men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge (1968) 655.5C
  • Dreier, Thomas - The power of print - and men (1936) 655.2D
  • Phillips, James - Printing and bookselling in Dublin, 1670-1800 Ref Cat 016.6P
  • Powers, Alan - Living with books 747P

COOKERY

  • Davidson, Alan - Oxford companion to food 641D Oversize
  • Kasper, Lynne - The Italian country table 641.5K
  • Kriendler, H. Peter - 21: everyday was New Year's Eve 647.9K
  • Sokolov, Raymond - Great recipes from the New York Times (1973) 641.5S

ARTS

  • Baer, Eva - Islamic ornament 745B
  • Brown, David - Leonardo da Vinci 759.5L
  • Chastel, Andr3/4 - French art, v.1 (1994) 709.44C
  • Daugherty, James- Heroic America: James Daugherty's mural drawings from the 1930s 751.1D
  • Eisler, Colin - D(rer's animals (1991) 759.3D
  • Fine, Ruth - Helen Frankenthaler: prints (1993) 769F
  • Giannachi, Gabriella - On directing 792O
  • Gilbert, Pamela - John Abbot: birds, butterflies and other wonders 751.42A
  • Hertz, David - Angels of reality: Emersonian unfoldings in Wright, Stevens, and Ives (1993) 709.73H
  • Laskowski, Birgit - Piero della Francesca, 1416/17-1492 759.5P Oversize
  • Petropoulos, Jonathan - Art as politics in the Third Reich (1996) 709.43P
  • Pisano, Ronald - The Tile Club and the aesthetic movement in America 745
  • Schulman, Sarah - Theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America 782.1S
  • Staggs, Sam - All about 'All about Eve" 791.4S
  • Varnedoe, Kirk - Jackson Pollock: new approaches 759.1P

CITIES

  • Heyerdahl, Thor - Pyramids of Tucume: the quest for Peru's forgotten city (1995) 985H
  • Longstreth, Richard - City center to regional mall: architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 381L
  • Von Hagen, Adriana - The cities of the ancient Andes 980.1V

CARTOGRAPHY

  • National Geographic Society - Atlas of the world LSR 912N
  • Surez, Thomas - Early mapping of Southeast Asia 911S Oversize

CIVILIZATION

  • Collcutt, Martin - Cultural atlas of Japan (1988) 952C Oversize
  • Dillon, Matthew - Ancient Greece: social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Socrates (1996) 938D
  • Hobsbawm, Eric - On the edge of the new century 909.83H
  • Kleinhenz, Christopher - Fearful hope: approaching the new millennium 236F

MUSIC

  • Atwood, William - The Parisian worlds of Fr3/4d3/4ric Chopin 780.92C
  • Jablonski, Edward - Harold Arlen: rhythm, rainbows, and blues (1996) 780.92A
  • Palmer, Roy - Everyman's book of English country songs (1979) 784.4E
  • Peyser, Joan - To Boulez and beyond: music in Europe since the rite of spring 780.9P
  • Randel, Don - Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians LSR 780.3H

EDUCATION

  • Sizer, Theodore - The students are watching: schools and the moral contract 373S
  • Crainer, Stuart - Gravy training: inside the business of business schools 658C

HISTORY

  • Andrew, Christopher - The sword and the shield: the Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB 327.47A
  • Berger, Stefan - Writing national histories: Western Europe since 1800 940.2B
  • Fitzhugh, William - Vikings: the North Atlantic saga 948V
  • Halperin, Charles - Russia and the Golden Horde: the Mongol impact on medieval Russian history (1985) 947H
  • Harvey, A.D. - Britain in the early nineteenth century 942.07H
  • Holzer, Harold - The Union preserved: a guide to the Civil War records in the New York State Archives 016.973N
  • Keylin, Arleen - The Sixties: as reported by the New York Times (1980) 909.82S Oversize
  • Radin, Max - The Jews among Greeks and Romans (1916) 933R
  • Royster, Charles - The fabulous history of the Dismal Swamp Company: a story of George Washington's times 975.5R
  • Sachar, Abram - The redemption of the unwanted: from the liberation of the death camps to the founding of Israel (1983) 940.5315S
  • Schivelbusch, Wolfgang - In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 943S
  • St(rmer, Michael - The German century 943.08S Oversize
  • West, Elliott - The way to the West (1995) 978W

POETRY

  • Adoff, Arnold - I am the darker brother: an anthology of modern poems (1969) 821.08I
  • Davenport, Guy - Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age (1980) 881.08A
  • Gl(ck, Louise - Vita Nova 821G
  • Laforgue, Jules - Selected poems 841L
  • Lehman, David - The KGB Bar book of poems 821.08K
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti - The complete poetry of Michelangelo, translated by Sidney Alexander (1991) 851M
  • Miller, Jane - Wherever you lay your head 821M
  • Perillo, Lucia - The oldest map with the name America 821P

FASHION

  • Olian, JoAnne - Everyday fashions of the sixties: as pictured in Sears catalogs 391E Oversize
  • Piponnier, Fran(oise - Dress in the Middle Ages (1997) 391.094P
  • van den Beukel, Dorine - Modeentw(rfe=Dise(os de la moda=Design di moda (1997) 746.92F

GARDENS

  • Garmey, Jane - The writer in the garden 710W
  • Kincaid, Jamaica - My garden (book) 635K
  • Nold, Robert - Penstemons 635N

ECONOMICS

  • Bluestone, Barry - Growing prosperity: the battle for growth with equity in the twenty-first century 339.2B
  • Dash, Mike - Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused 635D
  • Jacobs, Jane - The nature of economies 330J
  • Olson, Mancur - Power and prosperity: outgrowing communist and capitalist dictatorships 330.9O
  • Shiller, Robert - Irrational exuberance 332.6S

JOURNALISM

  • Baldasty, Gerald - E.W. Scripps and the business of newspapers 92 S434B
  • Herd, Harold - The march of [British] journalism (1952) 070H
  • Kynaston, David - The Financial Times (1988) 072K

HEALTH & HOME

  • Greer, Colin - A call to character: a family treasure (1995) 808.8C
  • Isaacs, Susan - Troubles of children and parents (1948) 649I
  • Weil, Andrew - Eating well for optimum health 613.2W

CRIME

  • Bourke, Angela - The burning of Bridget Cleary 364.1B
  • Cooper, George - Poison widows: a true story of witchcraft, arsenic, and murder 364.1C
  • McFeely, William - Proximity to death 343.1M
  • Protess, David - A promise of justice 343.1P
  • Rule, Ann - A rage to kill 364.1R

SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Anderson, Mark - Hitler's exiles: personal stories of the flight from Nazi Germany to America 305.8H
  • Fisher, Julie - Nongovernments: NGOs and the political development of the Third World 338.9F
  • Freeman, Michael - Railways and the Victorian imagination 385F
  • Gerhardt, Uta - German sociology 301G
  • Gillis, John - A world of their own making: myth, ritual, and the quest for family values (1996) 306.8G
  • Homer-Dixon, Thomas - Environment, scarity, and violence 303.6H
  • Jacobson, Matthew - Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race 305.8J
  • Jiler, John - Sleeping with the mayor (homelessness) (1997) 362.5J
  • Mosley, Walter - Workin' on the chain gang: shaking off the dead hand of history 325.26M
  • Wolfe, Alan - One nation, after all 305.5W

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • Curtis, Edward - The North American Indians (1972) 970.1C
  • Lauderdale, John Vance - After Wounded Knee (1996) 973.8L

RELIGION

  • Armstrong, Karen - The battle for God 201A
  • Bocking, Brian - A popular dictionary of Shint( (1996) 299.6B
  • Buchmann, Christina - Out of the garden: women writers on the Bible (1995) 221.6O
  • Charpentier, Etienne - How to read the Bible (1991) 220.6C
  • Dershowitz, Alan - The Genesis of justice: ten stories of biblical injustice that led to the ten Commandments and modern law 222D
  • Gillis, Chester - Roman Catholicism in America 282.73G
  • Holbein, Hans - Holbein's Dance of Death and Bible: woodcuts (1947) 761H
  • Jaspers, Karl - Myth and Christianity (1969) 201J
  • Kaplan, Mordecai - The meaning of God in modern Jewish religion (1994) 296.3K
  • Seager, Richard - Buddhism in America 294S
  • Werblowsky, R.J. Zwi - Oxford dictionary of the Jewish religion (1997) 296O

LAW

  • Cole, David - No equal justice: race and class in the American criminal justice system 343C
  • Collin, P.H. - Dictionary of law Ref. 340D
  • Ginzburg, Carlo - The judge and the historian: marginal notes on a late-twentieth-century miscarriage of justice 343.1G
  • Hall, Kermit - Oxford guide to United States Supreme Court decisions LSR 342.73O
  • Maine, Henry Sumner - Lectures on the early history of institutions (1966) 340M

MUSEUMS

  • Bjurstrom, Per - the art of drawing in France, 1400-1900: drawings from the National Museum, Stockholm (1987) 740B
  • Faggin, Giorgio - Art History Museum, Vienna, Picture Gallery (1969) 708.36K
  • Marks, Richard - The Burrell collection (Glasgow) (1983) 708.2G
  • Ragghianti, Carlo - National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City (1970) 708M

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Gould, Stephen Jay - The lying stones of Marrakesh 500G
  • Isenberg, Andrew - The destruction of the bison 591.9I
  • Rumpf, Georg - The Ambonese curiosity cabinet 595R Oversize
  • Woodford, Arthur - Charting the inland seas: a history of the US Lake Survey (1994) 526.9W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Collingwood, R.G. - Speculum mentis, or, the map of knowledge (1924) 192C
  • Gelb, Michael - How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci 155G
  • Heidegger, Martin - What is philosophy? (1958) 100H
  • Josipovici, Gabriel - On trust 801J
  • Mitcham, Carl - Philosophy and technology (1983) 601P
  • Pitcher, George - Wittgenstein: the philosophical investigations (1968) 193W
  • Toulmin, Stephen - The uses of argument (1964) 160T
  • Wolfson, Harry - The philosophy of Spinoza (1983) 199W

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Barber, James - South Africa in the twentieth century 968B
  • Birnbaum, Pierre - Jewish destinies: citizenship, state, and community in modern France 305.86B
  • Conroy, John - Unspeakable acts, ordinary people: the dynamics of torture 323.4C
  • Freeman, Charles - The Greek achievement 938F
  • Freeman, Kathleen - Greek city-states (1950) 938F
  • Fritzsche, Peter - Germans into Nazis 943.085F
  • Karabell, Zachary - The last campaign: how Harry Truman won the 1948 election 324K
  • Ledeen, Michael - Machiavelli on modern leadership 320.1M
  • Manicas, Peter - War and democracy (1989) 321.8M
  • Searls, G.R. - The Liberal Party: triumph and disintegration, 1886-1929 (1992) 329.9S
  • Toobin, Jeffrey - A vast conspiracy (Clinton) 973.929T

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Beck, Aaron - Prisoners of hate 616.8B
  • Buss, David - The dangerous passion: why jealousy is as necessary as love and sex 152B
  • Flanagan, Owen - Dreaming souls: sleep, dreams, and the evolution of the conscious mind 135F
  • Freud, Sigmund - The interpretation of dreams, translated by Joyce Crick 135F
  • Lewis, Thomas - A general theory of love 157L
  • Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth - Cherishment 157Y

SHAKESPEARE

  • Cunningham, J.V. - Woe or wonder: the emotional effect of Shakespearean tragedy (19510 822.33C
  • Hall, Grace - The Tempest as mystery play 822.33C
  • Kerrigan, William - Shakespeare's promises 822.33C
  • Lings, Martin - Shakespeare in the light of sacred art (1966) 822.33L
  • Norwich, John Julius - Shakespeare's kings 822.33E
  • Sanders, Wilbur - The dramatist and the received idea: studies in the plays of Marlow & Shakespeare (1968) 822.09S

REFERENCE

  • Blackburn, Bonnie - Oxford companion to the year 529B
  • Ferber, Michael - A dictionary of literary symbols Ref. 809F
  • MacKillop, James - Dictionary of Celtic mythology 299.16M
  • Ramsdell, Kristin - Romance fiction Ref. 016.8R

TRAVEL

  • Crathorne, James - Royal Crescent book of Bath 942.3C Oversize
  • Mackintosh-Smith, Tim - Yemen 915.3M
  • O'Byrne, Denis - Outback Australia (Lonely Planet Guide) 914.4O
  • Rothman, Hal - Devil's bargains: tourism in the twentieth-century American West 338.4R
  • Tammita-Delgoda, SinhaRaha - A traveller's history of India (1995) 954T

NEW YORK CITY

  • Clay, Stephen - A secret location on the Lower East Side: adventures in writing, 1960-1980 016.82C
  • Fabend, Firth - Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and new Jersey in the age of revivals 285.7F
  • Freeman, Joshua - Working-class New York: life and labor since World War II 305.5F
  • Kao, Deborah Martin - Ben Shahn's New York 770S
  • Page, Max - The creative destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 309.2P


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