New York Society Library

APRIL 2001 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

  • Affron, Charles - Lillian Gish
  • Athill, Diana - Stet
  • Bisson, Terry - On a move: the story of Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • Burns, James MacGregor - The three Roosevelts: patrician leaders who transformed America
  • Cottrell, Robert - Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union
  • Farrell, John A. - Tip O'Neill and the democratic century
  • Gallagher, Dorothy - How I came into my inheritance
  • Gorn, Elliott J. - Mother Jones: the most dangerous woman in America
  • Halliday, E.M. - Understanding Thomas Jefferson
  • Hoagland, Edward - Compass points: how I lived
  • House, Adrian - Francis of Assisi
  • Justesen, Benjamin - George Henry White: an even chance in the race of life
  • Martin, Valerie - Salvation: scenes from the life of St. Francis
  • Monk, Ray - Bertrand Russell, vol. 2: the ghost of madness, 1921-1970
  • Sallis, James - Chester Himes
  • Sheilds, Carol - Jane Austen (Penguin Lives series)
  • Tomasky, Michael - Hillary's turn: inside her improbable, victorious Senate campaign

FICTION

  • Benedict, Helen - The sailor's wife
  • Bradford, Barbara Taylor - The triumph of Katie Byrne
  • Brown, Sandra - The devil's own
  • Conde, Maryse - Desirada
  • Darrieussecq, Marie - Undercurrents
  • Dibdin, Michael - Thanksgiving
  • Fleming, Thomas - When this cruel war is over
  • Gay, William - Provinces of night
  • Goodman, Allegra - Paradise Park
  • Hannah, Kristin - Summer island
  • Hay, Elizabeth - A student of weather
  • King, Stephen - Dreamcatcher
  • Llywelyn, Morgan - 1921
  • Lussier, Paul - The last refuge of scoundrels
  • McCabe, Patrick - Emerald germs of Ireland
  • McFarland, Dennis - Singing boy
  • Roberts, Nora - The villa
  • Searles, John - Boy still missing
  • Shreve, Anita - The last time they met
  • Wilentz, Amy - Martyrs' crossing

MYSTERY

  • Barnard, Robert - Unholy dying*
  • Beaton, M.C. - Death of a dustman*
  • Beaton, M.C. - The skeleton in the closet*
  • Bernhardt, William - Murder one
  • Bowen, Peter - Cruzatte and Maria
  • Brown, Rita Mae - Claws and effect
  • Buchanan, Edna - You only die once
  • Burke, Jan - Flight
  • Chang, Leonard - Over the shoulder
  • Douglas, Carole Nelson - Cat in a leopard spot
  • Egleton, Clive - Honey trap*
  • Hecht, Daniel - The babel effect
  • Jennings, Maureen - Poor Tom is cold
  • King, Laurie R. - Folly
  • Lewin, Michael - Cutting loose
  • McClendon, Lisa - One o'clock jump
  • McGown, Jill - Scene of crime*
  • Nava, Mark - Rag and bone
  • Padgett, Abigail - The last blue plate special
  • Parker, Robert B. - Potshot
  • Patterson, James - 1st to die
  • Rosen, Dorothy - Death and strudel
  • Scottoline, Lisa - The vendetta defense
  • Silvis, Randall - On night's shore
  • Smith, Frank - Thread of evidence*
  • Van Gieson, Judith - Vanishing point
  • Wright, Eric - Death of a hired man
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGUED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Kincaid, Jamaica - Talk stories 828K
  • Lodge, David - 20th century literary criticism: a reader (1972) 801T
  • Lowe, N.J. - The classical plot and the invention of Western narrative 880.9L
  • Mallon, Thomas - In fact: essays on writers and writing 823M
  • Morrow, Bradford - American poetry: states of the art 821.08A
  • Smith, Andrew - Gothic radicalism: literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century 823S
  • Yoshida, Kenko - Essays in idleness: the Tsurezuregusa of Kenko (1967) 895.6Y

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Dante Alighieri - Inferno, translated by Robert & Jean Hollander 851A
  • Euripides - Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus, translated by James Morwood (1999) 882.3E

ARTS

  • Bjelajac, David - American art: a cultural history 701B
  • Chadwick, Whitney - Amazons in the drawing room: the art of Romaine Brooks 759.1R
  • Haskell, Francis - The ephemeral museum: Old Master paintings and the rise of the art exhibition 708H
  • Natter, Tobias - Klimt's women 759.36K
  • Redgrave, Richard - A century of British painters (1947) 759.2R
  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin - The light of nature: landscape drawings and watercolours by Van Dyck and his contemporaries (1999) 759.9R

MUSIC

  • Boyd, Malcolm - Bach. 3rd ed. 780.92B
  • Filene, Benjamin - Romancing the folk: public memory & American roots music 784.4F
  • MacAdams, Lewis - Birth of the cool: beat, bebop, and the American avant-garde 780.973M
  • Stokes, W. Royal - Living the jazz life: conversations with forty musicians about their careers in jazz 780.973S

LIBRETTOS

  • Bach, Johann Sebastian - The complete church and secular cantatas 782B
  • Gottlieb, Robert - Reading lyrics 784.8R

THEATRE

  • Krasner, David - Method acting reconsidered: theory, practice, future 792M
  • Kustow, Michael - Theatre@risk 792K
  • Rodenburg, Patsy - The actor speaks: voice and the performer 792R
  • Winton, Calhoun - John Gay and the London theatre (1993) 822.09G

DRAMA

  • Coward, Noel - Collected plays, 8 vols. 822C
  • Gao Xingjian - The other shore: plays 895.1G
  • Honig, Edwin - Calderon de la Barca: six plays (1993) 862C

LANGUAGE

  • Jakobson, Roman - Language in literature (1987) 809J
  • Smith, Jeremy - Essentials of early English (1999) 420.9S

HISTORY

  • Blight, David - Race and reunion: the Civil War in American memory 973.7B
  • Burstein, Andrew - America's jubilee 973.36B
  • Deetz, James - The times of their lives: life, love, and death in Plymouth Colony 974.48D
  • Meyer, Michael - The Oxford history of Mexico 972O
  • Muller, Jan-Werner - Another country: German intellectuals, unification, and national identity 943.086M
  • Parson, Timothy - The British imperial century, 1815-1914: a world history perspective (1999) 942.08P
  • Reynolds, David - One world divisible: a global history since 1945 909.82R
  • Roberts, J.A.G. - A concise history of China (1999) 951R
  • Sawyer, Peter - The Oxford illustrated history of the Vikings (1997) 948O
  • Shimoni, Gideon - The Zionist ideology (1997) 956.94S
  • Walsh, Dermot - Bloody Sunday and the rule of law in Northern Ireland 941.5W
  • Wilson, Andrew - The Ukranians: unexpected nation 947.7W

THE HOLOCAUST

  • Bauer, Yehuda - Rethinking the Holocaust 940.5318B
  • Cole, Tim - Selling the Holocaust: from Auschwitz to Schindler: how history is bought, packaged, and sold (1999) 940.5315C
  • Greene, Joshua - Witness: voices from the Holocaust 940.5315W
  • Phayer, Michael - The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 282P

NATIVE AMERICANS

  • DeSersa, Esther Black Elk - Black Elk lives: conversations with the Black Elk family 970.2B
  • LaDow, Beth - The medicine line: life and death on a North American borderline (Montana) 978.6L
  • Sullivan, Robert - A whale hunt (Makah Indians) 639.2S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Maier, Karl - This house has fallen: midnight in Nigeria 966M
  • Masur, Louis - 1831, year of eclipse 973.5M
  • Nagy, Piroska Mohacsi - Meltdown of the Russian state 947.086N
  • Scott, Jonathan - England's troubles: seventeenth-century English political instability in European context 942.06S
  • Smart, Nick - The national government, 1931-40 (1999) 320.9S
  • Zhang Liang - The Tiananmen papers 951T

ANTIQUITIES

  • Burns, Ross - Monuments of Syria (1992) 913.39B
  • Finkelstein, Israel - The Bible unearthed: archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts 221.9F
  • Hawass, Zahi - Valley of the golden mummies 913.32H Overzise

CIVILIZATION

  • Bordieu, Pierre - Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste (1984) 944.082B
  • Bouwsma, William - The waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 940.21B
  • Buckle, Henry Thomas - On Scotland and the Scotch intellect (1970) 941B
  • Chaudhuri, Nirad - Three horsemen of the new apocalypse (1999) 901C
  • Davidson, Eugene - Reflections on a disruptive decade: essays on the sixties 909.82D
  • Mungello, David - The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 (1999) 951M
  • Ribeiro, Darcy - The Brazilian people: the formation and meaning of Brazil 918.1

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE

  • Bringhurst, Robert - A story as sharp as a knife: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world (1999) 398.2B
  • Jung, Emma - The grail legend (1998) 809J
  • Lum, Peter - The stars in our heaven: myths & fables (1948) 398L
  • Murphy, G. Ronald - The owl, the raven & the dove: the religious meaning of the Grimms' magic fairy tales 398M

CITIES

  • Nead, Lynda - Victorian Babylon: people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London (942.1N)
  • Raymond, Andre - Cairo 962R
  • Staccioli, R.A. - Ancient Rome: past and present 937S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Cook, Clarence - A description of the New York Central Park (1979 reprint of 1869 ed.) 917.471C
  • Dunlop, M.H. - Gilded city: scandal and sensation in turn-of-the-century New York 974.7D
  • Oja, Carol - Making music modern: New York in the 1920s 780.973O
  • Olmstead, Andrea - Juilliard: a history (1999) 780.7O

MUSEUMS

  • Kaplan, Rachel - Little-known museums in and around Berlin (1999) 914.56K
  • Kaplan, Rachel - Little-known museums in and around London (1997) 914.21K
  • Kaplan, Rachel - Little-known museums in and around Paris 914.315K
  • Tiradritti, Francesco - Egyptian treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (1999) 709.32E Oversize

TRAVEL

  • Fleming, Fergus - Killing dragons: conquest of the Alps 914.94F
  • Guadalupi, Gianni - The discovery of the Nile (1997) 962G
  • Hessler, Peter - River town: two years on the Yangtze 915.1H
  • Holland, Henry - The Iceland journal of Henry Holland, 1810 (1987) 914.91H
  • Roberts, David - Points unknown: a century of great exploration 910P

ECONOMICS

  • de Soto, Hernando - The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else 330.1S
  • Glancey, Keith - Entrepreneurial economics 338G

LAW

  • Auletta, Ken - World War 3.0: Microsoft and its enemies 343.1A
  • Bernstein, Nina - The lost children of Wilder: the epic struggle to change foster care 362.7B
  • Garner, Bryan - Black's law dictionary 7th ed. Ref. 340B
  • Levine, Martin - Law and psychology (1995) 340.6L

SCIENCE

  • Croswell, Ken - Magnificent universe (1999) 523.1C Oversize
  • Devlin, Keith - The math gene: how mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip 510D
  • Krauss, Lawrence - Quintessence: the mystery of missing mass in the universe 523.1K
  • North, Gerald - Observing the moon: the modern astronomer's guide 523.3N

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Caplow, Theodore - The first measured century 306C
  • Coclanis, Peter - Ideas, ideologies, and social movements: the United States experience since 1800 (1999) 309.1I
  • Durkheim, Emile - The rules of sociological method (1982) 301D
  • Geertz, Clifford - Available light: anthropological reflections on philosophical topics 306G
  • Hsu, Francis - Under the ancestors' shadow: Chinese culture and personality (1949) 915.1H
  • Kittredge, William - The nature of generosity 333.7K
  • Olson, Lynne - Freedom's daughters: the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830-1970 323.4O
  • Srinivas, M.N. - The remembered village (1980) 307.72S
  • Takaki, Ronald - Double victory: a multicultural history of America in World War II 940.5373T
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa - Report. 5 vols. (1999) 323.4S
  • Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi - American project: the rise and fall of a modern ghetto 363.5V
  • Willett, Julie - Permanent waves: the making of the American beauty shop 306.4W

GENDER STUDIES

  • Glenn, Susan - Female spectacle: the theatrical roots of modern feminism 792.0973G
  • McElvaine, Robert - Eve's seed: biology, the sexes, and the course of history 305.4M
  • Mendelson, Sara - Women in early modern England, 1550-1720 (1998) 305.4M
  • Shoemaker, Robert - Gender in English society, 1650-1850: the emergence of separate spheres? (1998) 306S

PHILOSOPHY

  • Brunschwig, Jacques - Greek thought: a guide to classical knowledge 913.38S
  • Deleuze, Gilles - Spinoza, practical philosophy (1988) 170D
  • Graham, John T. - A pragmatist philosophy of life in Ortega y Gasset (1994) 196G
  • Kingwell, Mark - In pursuit of happiness: better living from Plato to Prozac (1998) 171K

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Carlson, Laurie - A fever in Salem: a new interpretation of the New England witch trails (1999) 133.4C
  • Chessick, Richard - Great ideas in psychotherapy (1987) 616.8C
  • Coyne, James - Essential papers on depression (1985) 616.8E
  • Radden, Jennifer - The nature of melancholy: from Aristotle to Kristeva 152.4N
  • West, Thomas - In the mind's eye: visual thinkers, gifted people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, computer images, and the ironies of creativity (1997) 152W

RELIGION

  • Carroll, James - Constantine's sword: the church and the Jews 261C
  • Chadwick, Owen - A history of Christianity (1995) 270C
  • Geertz, Clifford - Islam observed: religious development in Morocco and Indonesia (1971) 297G
  • Smith, Huston - Why religion matters: the fate of the human spirit in an age of disbelief 215S

DOGS

  • Bass, Rick - Colter: true story of the best dog I ever had 636.7B
  • Grenier, Roger - Difficulty of being a dog 636.7G

DISASTERS

  • Carrier, Jim - The ship and the storm: Hurricane Mitch and the loss of the Fantome 910.4C
  • Steinberg, Theodore - Acts of God: the unnatural history of natural disaster in America 363.3S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Attig, Thomas - The heart of grief: death and the search for lasting love 155.9A
  • Elkins, James - How to use your eyes 612.8E
  • Schwab, Charles - You're fifty - now what?: investing for the second half of your life 332S

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Knox, Ronald - Let dons delight: being variations on a theme in an Oxford common-room (1958) 378O
  • Lieberson, Stanley - A matter of taste: how names, fashions, and culture change 929.4L
  • Mansfield, Howard - The same ax, twice: restoration and renewal in a throway age 973M
  • Rickards, Maurice - Encyclopedia of ephemera 090R Oversize


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