New York Society Library

FEBRUARY 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Attenborough, David - Life on air
  • Botsford, Gardner - A life of privilege, mostly
  • Brennan, Maeve - The Philip Larkin I knew
  • Burr, Chandler - The emperor of scent: a tale of obsession, perfume and the last mystery of the senses
  • Butts, Mary - The journals of Mary Butts
  • Chenoweth, Neil - Rupert Murdoch
  • Crane, Nicholas - Mercator: the man who mapped the planet
  • Ferguson, Kitty - Tycho and Kepler
  • Forna, Aminatta - The devil that danced on the water
  • Hicks, Ashley - David Hicks: designer
  • Hillier, Bevis - John Betjeman: new fame, new love
  • Holmes, Rachel - Scanty particulars: the scandalous life and astonishing secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's most eminent military doctor
  • Kaufman, David - Ridiculous: biography of Charles Ludlam
  • Lee, Gus - Chasing Hepburn: ...a memoir of a Chinese family's fight for freedom
  • Morreau, Annette - Emanuel Feuermann
  • Nasarina, Tasalima - Meyebela: my Bengali girlhood
  • Nuland, Sherwin - Lost in America: a journey with my father
  • Randall, Willard - Alexander Hamilton: a life
  • Smith, Andrew F. - Rescuing the world: the life and times of Leo Cherne
  • Solnit, Rebecca - River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west
  • Sorin, Gerald - Irving Howe: a life passionate dissent
  • Szwed, John - So what: the life of Miles Davis
  • Thompson, Hunter S. - Kingdom of fear
  • Waller, Maureen - Ungrateful daughters: the Stuart princesses who stole their father's crown
  • Winner, Lauren - Girl meets God

FICTION

  • Archer, Jeffrey - Sons of fortune
  • Antunes, Antonio Lobo - The inquisitor's manual
  • Baker, Calvin - Once two heroes
  • Baker, Nicholson - A box of matches
  • Benson, Ann - Thief of souls
  • Bradbury, Ray - Let's all kill Constance
  • Brookner, Anita - Making things better
  • Brown, Sandra - The Rana look
  • Busch, Frederick - A memory of war
  • Chalmer, Robert - Who's who in hell
  • Child, Lincoln - Utopia
  • Cohen, Paula - Jane Austen in Boca
  • Dickinson, Charles - A shortcut in time
  • Emmons, Cai - His mother's son
  • Feldman, Ellen - Lucy
  • Fermine, Maxence - Snow: a novel
  • Garlock, Dorothy - A place called Rainwater
  • Gerber, Merrill Joan - Anna in the afterlife
  • Goodman, Carol - Seduction of water
  • Goytisolo, Juan - State of siege
  • Hall, Brian - I should be extremely happy in your company
  • Hong, Ying - K: the art of love
  • Horch, Daniel - Angel with one hundred wings
  • Iyer, Pico - Abandon
  • Killham, Nina - How to cook a tart
  • Kim, Suki - The interpreter
  • King, Roger - A girl from Zanzibar
  • Koontz, Dean - By the light of the moon
  • Lawton, John - Old flames
  • Mapson, Jo Ann - Along came Mary
  • Mawer, Simon - The fall
  • Mills, Magnus - Scheme for full employment
  • Moon, Elizabeth - Speed of dark
  • Nye, Robert - Voyage of the Destiny
  • Powers, Richard - Time of our singing
  • Reed, John - Snowball's chance
  • Spencer, LaVyrle - Sweet memories
  • Stone, Katherine - The other twin
  • Taibo, Paco Ignacio - Returning as shadows
  • Tennant, Emma - Felony
  • Tolstaia, Tatiana - The slynx

SHORT STORIES

  • Braver, Adam - Mr. Lincoln's wars
  • Carlson, Ron - At the Jim Bridger
  • Fleming, Anne Taylor - Marriage: a duet
  • Robinson, Lewis - Officer friendly and other stories

MYSTERIES

  • Aird, Catherine - Amendment of life *
  • Cleverly, Barbara - Ragtime in Simla
  • Ehrman, Kit - At risk
  • Fairstein, Linda - The bone vault
  • Ferrigno, Robert - Scavenger hunt
  • Flora, Kate - Liberty or death
  • Frey, Stephen - Silent partner
  • Garcia, Eric - Matchstick men
  • Gill, Bartholomew - Death in Dublin
  • Haig, Brian - The kingmaker
  • Hall, Patricia - Deep freeze *
  • Hecht, Daniel - City of masks
  • Jennings, Maureen - Let loose the dogs
  • Knode, Helen - The ticket out
  • Krentz, Jayne Ann - Light in shadow
  • Lansdale, Joe R. - A fine dark line
  • Linscott, Gillian - Dead man riding *
  • Martini, Steve - The arraignment
  • McBain, Ed - Fat Ollie's book
  • McCall Smith, R.A. - Morality for beautiful girls
  • Moore, Laurie - Lady Godiva murder
  • Mosley, Walter - Six easy pieces
  • Muller, Eddie - Shadow boxer
  • Newman, Sharan - Heresy
  • Perry, Thomas - Dead aim
  • Price, Richard - Samaritan
  • Pronzini, Bill - Spook
  • Robb, Candance - Cross - legged knight: an Owen Archer mystery *
  • Roberts, David - Hollow crown *
  • Rosenberg, J.C. - The last Jihad
  • Sheard, Timothy - Some cuts never heal
  • Starr, Jason - Tough luck
  • Stroud, Carsten - Cuba strait
  • Thompson, Christian - That which doesn't kill you *
  • Tursten, Helene - Detective Inspector Huss
  • Walters, Minette - Fox evil *
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Ayckbourn, Alan - The crafty art of playmaking 808.2A
  • Bold words: a century of Asian American writing 820.8B
  • Davis, Philip - The Oxford English literary history. Volume 8, the Victorians, 1830 - 1880 820.9D
  • Dear editor: a history of Poetry in letters: the first 50 years, 1912 - 1962 820.5D
  • Kataev, V.B. - If only we could know: an interpretation of Chekhov 891.73C
  • Lloyd, Rosemary - Baudelaire's world 841.09B
  • Lodge, David - Consciousness and the novel 823L
  • Melton, Jeffrey Alan - Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism: the tide of a great popular movement 828.09T
  • On modern British fiction (edited by Zachary Leader) 823.09O
  • Rosslyn, Felicity - Tragic plots: a new reading from Aeschylus to Lorca 809.2R
  • Shaw, Donald Leslie - A companion to modern Spanish American fiction 863S
  • Welty, Eudora - On writing 808.3W

POETRY

  • Ackerman, Diane - Origami bridges: poems of psychoanalysis and fire 821A
  • Dennis, Carl - Practical gods 821D
  • Langley, R.F. - Collected poems 821L
  • Maxwell, Glyn - The nerve 821M
  • Wright, Charles - A short history of the shadow 821W

ARTS

  • Appel, Alfred - Jazz modernism: from Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce 780.973A
  • Ebert - Schifferer, S. - Deceptions and illusions: five centuries of trompe l'oeil painting 750E
  • Fisher, Sally - The square halo and other mysteries of Western art: images and the stories that inspired them (1995) 704.94F
  • Kauffmann, Jean - Paul - The struggle with the angel: Delacroix, Jacob and the God of good and evil 759.4D
  • Lewis - Williams, J. David - The mind in the cave: consciousness and the origins of art 709.011L
  • Waldman, Diane - Joseph Cornell: master of dreams 709.04C

MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS

  • American Folk Art Museum - American anthem: masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum 745.5A
  • Blom, Philipp - To have and to hold: an intimate history of collectors and collecting 708B
  • Casa Mañana: the Morrow collection of Mexican popular arts 745C
  • Tate Modern: the handbook 709.4T

PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Morell, Abelardo - A book of books 778 M CS
  • Stack, Trudy Wilner - Christenberry reconstruction: the art of William Christenberry (1996) 770C
  • Warren, Beth Gates - Margrethe Mather & Edward Weston: a passionate collaboration 920 W288 M

MUSIC

  • Kahn, Ashley - A Love Supreme: the story of John Coltrane's signature album 780.973K
  • Schoenberg, Arnold - Letters (1987)
  • Thompson, Emily Ann - The soundscape of modernity: architectural acoustics and the culture of listening in America, 1900 - 1933 781T

DANCE

  • Cunningham, Merce - Other animals: drawings and journals 793.3C
  • Jamison, Judith - Dancing spirit: an autobiography (1993) 92 J324 J
  • Joseph, Charles - Stravinsky & Balanchine: a journey of invention 781.5J

CINEMA

  • Andrew, James Dudley - The major film theories: an introduction (1976) 791.4A
  • Buhle, Paul - A very dangerous citizen: Abraham Polonsky and the Hollywood left 791.4B
  • Chayefsky, Paddy - The Screenplays (2 volumes) 822C
  • Cocteau, Jean - Three screenplays: L'eternel retour, Ophée, La Belle et la bête 842C CS
  • Conrad, Peter - The Hitchcock murders 791.4C
  • Lane, Anthony - Nobody's perfect: writings from the New Yorker 791.4L

BIOGRAPHY

  • Arthur, Anthony - Literary feuds: a century of celebrated quarrels 920 A59 L
  • Gussow, Mel - Conversations with Miller (Arthur Miller) 92 M6467 G
  • Leavitt, June O. - Storm of terror: a Hebron mother's diary 92 L44 L
  • McPheeters, William - I acted from principle: the Civil War diary (Confederate army surgeon) 92 M1723 M
  • Porterfield, Nolan - Last cavalier: the life and times of John A. Lomax (1996) 92 L8397 P
  • Rieder, William - A charmed couple: the art and life of Walter and Mathilda Gay 920 G32 R
  • Smyth, Alfred P. - King Alfred the Great (1995) 92 A392 S
  • Zimmermann, Warren - First great triumph: how five Americans made their country a world power 920 Z46 F

HISTORY

  • Bagley, Will - Blood of the prophets: Brigham Young and the massacre at Mountain Meadows 979.2B
  • Cannadine, David - In Churchill's shadow 942.082C
  • Dalrymple, William - White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth - century India 954D
  • Elon, Amos - The pity of it all: a history of Jews in Germany, 1743 - 1933 943.05E
  • Figes, Orlando - Interpreting the Russian Revolution: the language and symbols of 1917 947F
  • Glantz, David M. - The battle for Leningrad, 1941 - 1944 940.542G
  • Jones, Colin - The great nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715 - 99 944.03J
  • Moloney, Ed - A secret history of the IRA 941.5M
  • Oxford history of Byzantium 949.5O
  • Popock, Tom - The terror before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon and the secret war 940.27P
  • Reid, Anna - The shaman's coat: a native history of Siberia 957R
  • Schama, Simon - A history of Britain. Volume 3, The fate of empire, 1776 - 2000 942.07S
  • Taliaferro, John - Great white fathers: the story of the obsessive quest to create Mount Rushmore 978.3T
  • What is history now? (edited by David Cannadine) 901W
  • Wilson, A.N. - The Victorians 942.08W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Conniff, Richard - The natural history of the rich: a field guide 305.5C
  • The Free Speech Movement: reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s 378F
  • Illick, Joseph E. - American childhoods 305.23I
  • M'Levy, James - McLevy: the Edinburgh detective (19th century Scotland criminal investigations) 364M
  • Naimark, Norman F. - Fires of hatred: ethnic cleansing in 20th century Europe 305.8N
  • Nicholson, Virginia - Among the Bohemians: experiments in living, 1900 - 1939 942.082N
  • Walton, Stuart - Out of it: a cultural history of intoxication 394.1W

CIVILIZATION

  • Drysdale, Helena - Mother tongues: travels through tribal Europe 940D
  • Manifesto: a century of isms 909.82M
  • Rheingold, Howard - Smart mobs: the next social revolution 301.2R
  • The Survival of culture: permanent values in a virtual age 901S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Berner, Nancy - Garden guide: New York City 712B
  • Folpe, Emily Kies - It happened on Washington Square 974.71F
  • Harrison, Helen A. - Hamptons bohemia: two centuries of artists and writers on the beach 974.72H
  • Homberger, Eric - New York City: a cultural and literary companion 974.71H
  • Khandelwal, Madhulika - Becoming American, being Indian: an immigrant community in New York City 305.87K

TRAVEL

  • Allen, Benedict - The Faber book of exploration: an anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages 910.9A
  • Halkin, Hillel - Across the sabbath river: in search of a lost tribe of Israel 909H
  • Meloy, Ellen Ditzler - The anthropology of turquoise: meditations on landscape, art, and spirit 917.9M
  • Whitlock, Monica - Beyond the Oxus: the Central Asians 915.8W

RELIGION

  • Afonsky, Gregory - Christ and the church: in Orthodox teaching and tradition 262A
  • Carroll, Colleen - The new faithful: why young adults are embracing Christian orthodoxy 277.3C
  • Freeman, Charles - The closing of the western mind 270F
  • Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah - A moral reckoning: the role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust 282G
  • Mencken, H.L. - H.L. Mencken on religion 201M
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein - The heart of Islam 297N
  • Noll, Mark - America's God: from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln 230N

PHILOSOPHY

  • Adorno, Theodor - Negative dialectics 110A
  • Derrida, Jacques - A taste for the secret 194D
  • Fox, Marvin - Interpreting Maimonides (1994) 181.3F
  • Heidegger, Martin - Discourse on thinking (1993) 153H
  • Horkheimer, Max - Eclipse of reason (1999) 193H
  • Kimball, Roger - Lives of the mind: the use and abuse of intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse 190K
  • McEvilley, Thomas - The shape of ancient thought: comparative studies in Greek and Indian philosophies 180M

ETHICS

  • Blackburn, Simon - Being good: an introduction to ethics 170B
  • Smith, Wesley J. - Culture of death: the assault on medical ethics in America 174S
  • Thomson, Judith Jarvis - Goodness & advice 170T

SCIENCE

  • De Duve, Christian - Life evolving: molecules, mind and meaning 576D
  • Devlin, Keith J. - The millennium problems: the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time 510D
  • Levin, Janna - How the universe got its spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space 523.1L
  • Pakenham, Thomas - Remarkable trees of the world 582P
  • Rees, Martin J. - Our cosmic habitat 523.1R
  • Teresi, Dick - Lost discoveries: the ancient roots of modern science 509T
  • Wharton, David - Life at the limits: organisms in extreme environments 590W

NATURAL HISTORY

  • Askins, Renée - Shadow Mountain: a memoir of wolves, a woman and the wild 639.97A
  • De Villiers, Marq - Sahara: a natural history 916.5D
  • Lott, Dale F. - American bison: a natural history 599L
  • Schooler, Lynn - The blue bear: a true story of friendship, tragedy and survival in the Alaskan wilderness 599S
  • Walker, John Frederick - A certain curve of horn: the 100 - year quest for the giant sable antelope of Angola 591.5W

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Aunger, Robert - The electric meme: a new theory of how we think 302A
  • Cameron, Julia - Walking in this world: the practical art of creativity 155C
  • Miller, Nancy K. - But enough about me: why we read other people's lives 305.4M
  • Pinker, Stephen - The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature 155.2P

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Carney, John T. - No room for error: the covert operations of America's special tactics units from Iran to Afghanistan 355.34C
  • D'Souza, Dinesh - Letters to a young conservative 320.1D
  • Enemies of the state: personal stories from the Gulag 365E
  • Greenberg, Daniel - Science, money, and politics: political triumph and ethical erosion 338.973G
  • Skinner, Quentin - Visions of politics (3 volumes) 320S
  • Weaver, Mary Anne - Pakistan: in the shadow of jihad and Afghanistan 954.9W

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Anderson, Jon Lee - The lion's grave: dispatches from Afghanistan 958A
  • Longman, Jere - Among the heroes: United Flight 93 and the passengers and crew who fought back 303.6L
  • Scruton, Roger - The West and the rest: globalization and the terrorist threat 327S

LAW

  • Crier, Catherine - The case against lawyers: how the lawyers, politicians, and bureaucrats have turned the law into an instrument of tyranny...347C
  • Dorfman, Ariel - Exorcising terror: the incredible unending trial of General Augusto Pinochet 364.13D
  • Kochavi, Arieh - Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied war crimes policy and the question of punishment 940.5405K

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

  • Blackburn, Robin - Banking on death: or, investing in life (pensions) 331.25B
  • Bryce, Robert - Pipe dreams: greed, ego, and the death of Enron 338.7B
  • Cramer, James - You got screwed: why Wall Street tanked and how you can prosper 332.6C
  • Dyer, Christopher - Making a living in the Middle Ages: the people of Britain, 850 - 1520 330.942D
  • Murphy, Liam B. - The myth of ownership: taxes and justice 336.2M

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Dos Passos, John - The 42nd parallel (10 cassettes) AC D
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The eternal husband (6 cassettes) Lobby AC D
  • Mason, Daniel - The piano tuner (8 cassettes)AC M
  • Toole, John Kennedy - A confederacy of dunces (10 cassettes) Lobby AC T
  • Waugh, Evelyn - Scoop (8 cassettes) AC W

LANGUAGE

  • Bremner, John B. - Words on words: a dictionary for writers and others who care about words (1980) 423B
  • Décharné, Max - Straight from the fridge, dad: a dictionary of hipster slang 427D


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