New York Society Library

MARCH 2003 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


NEW BOOKS

BIOGRAPHY

  • Appleby, Joyce - Thomas Jefferson
  • Burstein, Andrew - Passions of Andrew Jackson
  • Burt, Stephen - Randall Jarrell and his age
  • Cohn, Marthe - Behind enemy lines: the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany
  • Downer, Leslie - Madame Sadayakko: the geisha who bewitched the west
  • Dubner, Stephen - Confessions of a hero worshipper
  • Fisher, Andrew - William Wallace
  • Flam, Jack - Matisse and Picasso: the story of their rivalry and friendship
  • Grodzins, Dean - American heretic: Theodore Parker and transcendentalism
  • Hynes, Samuel Lynne - Growing seasons: an American boyhood before the war
  • Jardine, Lisa - On a grander scale: the outstanding life of Sir Christopher Wren
  • Lee, Carol Ann - The hidden life of Otto Frank
  • Martin, Jay - Education of John Dewey
  • Nasijj - The boy and the dog are sleeping
  • Newfield, Jack - The full Rudy: the man, the myth, the mania
  • Rubin, Louis - My father's people: a family of southern Jews
  • Schieffer, Bob - This just in: what I couldn't tell you on TV
  • Singer, Peter - Pushing time away: my Grandfather and the tragedy of Jewish Vienna
  • Slater, Michael - Douglas Jerrold, 1803 - 1857
  • Stafford, Kim - Early morning: remembering my father, William Stafford
  • Taubman, William - Khrushchev: the man and his era
  • Terrall, Mary - Man who flattened the earth: Marpertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment
  • Weintraub, Stanley - Charlotte and Lionel: a Rothschild love story
  • Wheelock, John Hall - The last romantic: a poet among publishers: the oral autobiography of John Hall Wheelock

FICTION

  • Alhadeff, Gini - Diary of a Djinn
  • Boorstin, Jon - The Newsboys' lodging house, or, The confessions of William James
  • Buchan, Elizabeth - Revenge of the middle - aged woman
  • Cantor, Jay - Great Neck
  • Coonts, Stephen - Liberty: a Jake Grafton novel
  • Erdich, Louise - The master butchers singing club
  • Fleming, Thomas - Conquerors of the sky
  • Freeman, Judith - Red water
  • Gibson, William - Pattern recognition
  • Gunesekera, Romesh - Heaven's edge
  • Hansen, Brooks - The monsters of St. Helena
  • Harrod - Eagles, Cynthia - Julia
  • Kalfus, Ken - Commissariat of enlightenment
  • Lelchuk, Alan - Ziff: a life?
  • Lowell, Elizabeth - This time love
  • Macleod, Sally - Passing strange
  • Martin, Valerie - Property
  • Michaels, Fern - Late bloomer
  • Miller, Risa - Welcome to heavenly heights
  • Millhauser, Steven - King in the tree
  • Mosley, Nicholas - Inventing God
  • Rice, Luanne - The secret hour
  • Robards, Karen - Whispers at midnight
  • Robbe - Grillet, Alain - Repetition: a novel
  • Siegel, Lee - Love and other games of chance
  • Vera, Yvonne - Stone virgins
  • Zweig, Stefan - Confusion: the private papers of privy councillor R von D (new translation)

SHORT STORIES

  • Coward, Mat - Do the world a favor
  • Heller, Joseph - Catch as catch can: the collected stories and other writings
  • Kruger, Michael - Scenes from the life of a best - selling author
  • Patterson, Kevin - Country of cold: stories of sex and death
  • Stollman, Aryeh Lev - Dialogues of time and entropy

MYSTERIES

  • Allen, Conrad - Murder on the Caronia *
  • Armstrong, Vivien - Smile now, die later *
  • Barr, Nevada - Flashback
  • Beaton, M.C. - Death of a village: a Hamish Macbeth mystery *
  • Block, Lawrence - Small town
  • Braun, Lillian Jackson - The cat who brought down the house
  • Burcell, Robin - Deadly legacy
  • Cannell, Stephen - Hollywood tough
  • Cockey, Tim - Murder in the hearse degree
  • Crais, Robert - The last detective
  • Cray, David - What you wish for
  • Deaver, Jeffrey - A hot and sultry night for crime
  • Dorsey, Tim - The stingray shuffle
  • Evanovich, Janet - Full tilt
  • Gorman, Ed - Everybody's somebody's fool
  • Green, Tim - Fifth angel
  • Grisham, John - King of torts
  • Hall, Oakley - Ambrose Pierce and the one - eyed jacks
  • Harper, Karen - The thorne maze *
  • Krueger, William Kent - The devil's bed
  • Lescroart, John - The first law
  • McGown, Jill - Death in the family *
  • Morgan, Fidelis - Ambitious stepmother: a Countess Ashby de la Zouche mystery
  • Nasaw, Jonathan Lewis - Fear itself
  • Pawel, Rebecca - Death of a nationalist
  • Perry, Anne - Seven dials *
  • Pineiro, R.J. - Cyberterror
  • Pyper, Andrew - Trade mission
  • Robinson, Peter - Close to home *
  • Saylor, Steven - Have you seen Dawn?
  • Shannon, Ray - Man eater
  • Siegel, James - Derailed: a novel
  • Smith, Mary - Anne Tirone - She's not there: a Poppy Rice novel
  • Stroby, Wallace - The barbed - wire kiss
  • Thomas, Scarlett - Dead clever *
  • Tolkien, Simon - Final witness: a novel *
  • Vachss, Andrew H. - The getaway man
  • Viel, Tanguy - Absolute perfection of a crime
  • White, Stephen - Best revenge
  • Wilson, Robert - The blind man of Seville
  • Wright, Sally - Out of the ruins
* indicates a British mystery

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS:

HISTORY

  • Adovasio, James - The first Americans: in pursuit of archaeology's greatest mystery 970.1A
  • Cohen, Paul - Mapping the West: America's westward movement, 1524 - 1890 911C
  • David, Saul - The Indian mutiny, 1857 954D
  • Figes, Orlando - Natasha's dance: a cultural history of Russia 947F
  • Gordon, Andrew - A modern history of Japan: from Tokugawa times to the present 952G
  • Gruen, Erich - Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans 933G
  • Jones, Owen Bennett - Pakistan: eye of the storm 954.9J
  • Linklater, Andro - Measuring America: how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy 973L
  • The Other Israel: voices of refusal and dissent 956.94O
  • Woolrych, Austin - Britain in revolution, 1625 - 1660 942.06W

CIVILIZATION

  • Campbell, Joseph - Sake and satori: Asian journals, Japn 952C
  • Coss, Peter R. - The knight in medieval England, 1000 - 1400 (1996) 942C
  • Jennings, Peter - In search of America 973J
  • Marks, Steven - How Russia shaped the modern world: from art to anti - semitism, ballet to Bolshevism 947M

BIOGRAPHY

  • Benedetti, Jean - David Garrick and the birth of modern theatre 92 G241 B
  • Betjeman, John - John Betjeman letters (2 volumes) 92 B5637 B
  • Haas, James E. - This gunner at his piece: College Point, New York & the Civil War 920 H121 T
  • Rowse, A.L. - Four Caroline portraits: Thomas Hobbes, Henry Marten, Hugh Peters, John Selden (1993) 920 R888 F
  • Swift, Jonathan - The correspondence of Jonathan Swift,
  • volume two 92 S977 S
  • Taylor, Anne - Marie - Young Charles Sumner and the legacy of the American enlightenment, 1811 - 1851 92 S9563T

BELLES LETTRES

  • DeJean, Joan E. - The reinvention of obscenity: sex, lies, and tabloids in early modern France 840.9D
  • Giving their word: conversations with contemporary poets 821.09G
  • Holzberg, Niklas - Ovid: the poet and his work 871.2O
  • Joyce, James - Occasional, critical, and political writing 824J
  • Mailer, Norman - The spooky art: thoughts on writing 808.3M
  • Merrill, James - Collected novels and plays 820.81M

POETRY

  • British women poets of the Romantic era: an anthology 821.08B
  • Kennedy, X.J. - The lords of misrule: poems, 1992 - 2001 821K
  • Koch, Kenneth - A possible world: poems 821K
  • Niedecker, Lorine - Collected works 821N
  • Oppen, George - New collected poems 821O

DRAMA

  • A Dozen French farces: medieval to modern (1997) 842.08D
  • Hirson, David - La bęte; and, Wrong mountain 822H
  • Stoppard, Tom - Voyage; Shipwreck; Salvage (Coast of Utopia, parts 1 - 3) 822S
  • Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich - Fortune's fool 891.72T

SHAKESPEARE

  • Bednarz, James P. - Shakespeare and the poets' war 822.33C
  • Bell, Millicent - Shakespeare's tragic skepticism 822.33C
  • Bloom, Allan David - Shakespeare on love and friendship 822.33C
  • Kastan, David Scott - Shakespeare and the book 822.33CC
  • Marx, Steven - Shakespeare and the Bible (2000) 822.33K

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Horace - Horace, the Odes: new translations by contemporary poets 874.5H
  • Martí, José - Selected writings 868M
  • Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso - Selected poems and related prose 841M

LANGUAGE

  • Chomsky, Noam - Syntactic structures 407C
  • Dawes, James - The language of war: literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II 820.9D
  • Metcalf, Allan A. - Predicting new words: the secrets of their success 420M

ARTS

  • Cooper, Harry - Mondrian - the transatlantic paintings 759.9N
  • Feaver, William - Lucian Freud 759.2F
  • Finlay, Victoria - Color: a natural history of the palette 752F
  • Getz - Gentle, Pat - Sculptors of the Cyclades: individual and tradition in the third millennium B.C. (1987) 732G
  • Martin, Russell - Picasso's war: the destruction of Guernica and the masterpiece that changed the world 759.4P
  • Posner, Gerald - Motown: music, money, sex, and power 780.65P
  • Syson, Luke - Objects of virtue: art in Renaissance Italy 709.45S
  • The theory of decorative art: an anthology of European & American writings, 1750 - 1940 745T
  • Thomson, David - The new biographical dictionary of film 791.4T
  • Webb, Michael - Modernism reborn: mid-century American houses 728W

SONG

  • Berlin, Irving - The complete lyrics of Irving Berlin 784.4B
  • McCourt, Malachy - Danny boy: the beloved Irish ballad 784.4M
  • Rosen, Jody - White Christmas: the story of an American song 784.6R
  • Turner, Steve - Amazing grace: the story of America's most beloved song 783.9T

PHILOSOPHY

  • Cotkin, George - Existential America 111C
  • Foucault, Michel - "Society must be defended": lectures at the College de France, 1975 - 76 194F
  • The Linguistic turn: essays in philosophical method 149L
  • Radford, Gary - On Eco 195R
  • White, Morton Gabriel - A philosophy of culture: the scope of holistic pragmatism 140W

ETHICS

  • Kass, Leon - Life, liberty, and the defense of dignity: the challenge for bioethics 174K
  • Singer, Peter - One world: the ethics of globalization 179S
  • Turiel, Elliot - The culture of morality: social development, context, and conflict 303.3T
  • Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen - Truth & truthfulness: an essay in genealogy 121W

RELIGION

  • Afonsky, Gregory - Christ and the church: in Orthodox teaching and tradition 262A
  • Hangen, Tona - Redeeming the dial: radio, religion, and popular culture in America 269H
  • Impact of the English Reformation, 1500 - 1640 (1997) 274.2I
  • Podhoretz, Norman - The prophets: who they were, what they are 224P
  • VanderKam, James C. - The meaning of the Dead Sea scrolls: their significance for understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity 296.1V
  • Weigel, George - The courage to be Catholic: crisis, reform, and the future of the Church 282.73W

JOURNALISM

  • Best of the Oxford American: ten years from the Southern magazine of good writing 828.08O
  • Breach of faith: a crisis of coverage in the age of corporate newspapering 070B
  • Jamieson, Kathleen Hall - The press effect: politicians, journalists, and the stories that shape the political world 070.4J

NEW YORK CITY

  • Aleandri, Emelise - Little Italy 305.84A
  • Bender, Thomas - The unfinished city: New York and the metropolitan idea 974.71B
  • Forde, F. Donnie - Caribbean Americans in New York City, 1895 - 1975 305.85F
  • Immerso, Michael - Coney Island: the people's playground 974.71I
  • Stravitz, David - The Chrysler Building: creating a New York icon, day by day 974.71S

TRAVEL

  • Barghuthi, Murid - I saw Ramallah (West Bank) 915.69B
  • Cunningham, Michael - Land's end: a walk through Provincetown 917.44C
  • Davies, Pete - American road: the story of an epic transcontinental journey at the dawn of the motor age 917.3D
  • Gautier, Theophile - A romantic in Spain 914.6G
  • Greene, Jeffrey - French spirits: a house, a village, and a love affair in Burgundy 914.4G
  • Shand, Mark - River dog: a journey down the Brahmaputra 915.4S
  • Usick, Patricia - Adventures in Egypt and Nubia: the travels of William Jonn Bankes (1786 - 1855) 92 B2175 U

ECONOMICS

  • Conaway, James - The far side of Eden: new money, old land, and the battle for Napa Valley 979.4C
  • Dougherty, Peter J. - Who's afraid of Adam Smith?: how the market got its soul 330.1D
  • Gates, William - Wealth and our commonwealth: why America should tax accumulated fortunes 336.2G
  • Gerstner, Louis V. - Who says elephants can't dance?: inside IBM's historic turnaround 338.7G
  • Hilfiker, David - Urban injustice: how ghettos happen 362.5H
  • Krames, Jeffrey - The Rumsfeld way: leadership wisdom of a battle - hardened maverick 658.3K
  • Meltzer, Allan - A history of the Federal Reserve 332.1M
  • Quart, Alissa - Branded: the buying and selling of teenagers 658.8Q

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Bradsher, Keith - High and mighty: SUV's - the world's most dangerous vehicles and how they got that way 629.2B
  • Dillon, Patrick - Gin: the much lamented death of Madame Geneva 363.4D
  • Jones, Mother - Mother Jones speaks: speeches and writings of a working - class fighter 331.88J
  • Jorio, Andrea de - Gesture in Naples and gesture in classical antiquity 302.3J
  • Klein, Naomi - Fences and windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate 337K
  • Severgnini, Beppe - Ciao, America!: an Italian discovers the U.S. 917.3S

LAW

  • Bingham, Clara - Class action: the story of Lois Jenson and the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law 331.4B
  • Minow, Martha - Breaking the cycles of hatred: memory, law, and repair 364.1M
  • Pepper, William - An act of state: the execution of Martin Luther King 364.1P
  • Sunstein, Cass - Risk and reason: safety, law, and the environment 368S

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Hook, Sidney - Sidney Hook on pragmatism, democracy, and freedom: the essential essays 320H
  • Hussein, Abdirahman - Edward Said: criticism and society 301S
  • Marable, Manning - The great wells of democracy: the meaning of race in American life 323.4M
  • Mawdsley, James - The iron road: a stand for truth and democracy in Burma 365M
  • Powers, Thomas - Intelligence wars: American secret history from Hitler to al - Qaeda 327.12P

SEPTEMBER 11

  • Gertz, Bill - Breakdown: how America's intelligence failures led to September 11 973.9302G
  • Langewiesche, William - American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center 973.9302L
  • Lapham, Lewis - Theater of war 303.6L

PSYCHOLOGY

  • Analyzing Freud: letters of H.D., Bryher, and their circle 150A
  • Damasio, Antonio R. - Looking for Spinoza: joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain 157D
  • Dolnick, Edward - Madness on the couch: blaming the victim in the heyday of psychoanalysis 616.8D
  • Hobson, J. Allan - Dreaming: an introduction to the science of sleep 135H

SCIENCE

  • Aczel, Amir - Entanglement: the greatest mystery in physics 530.1A
  • Barrow, John D. - The constants of nature: from alpha to omega - the numbers that encode the deepest secrets of the universe 530B
  • Deloria, Vine - Evolution, creationism, and other modern myths: a critical inquiry 215D
  • Freedberg, David - The eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his friends and the beginning of modern natural history 509F
  • Griffiths, Jay - A sideways look at time 529G
  • Margulis, Lynn - Acquiring genomes: a theory of the origins of species 576M
  • Ward, Peter Douglas - The life and death of planet earth: how the new science of astrobiology charts the ultimate fate of our world 520W

NATURAL HISTORY

  • D'Orso, Michael - Plundering paradise: the hand on man on the Galápagos islands 575.3D
  • Montgomery, Sy - Search for the golden moon bear: science and adventure in Southeast Asia 599M
  • Niemeyer, Lucian - Okefenokee 574.5N

FOOD

  • Diehl, Lorraine - The automat 647.9D
  • Hart, Kathleen - Eating in the dark: America's experiment with genetically engineered food 338.1H
  • Richardson, Tim - Sweets 641.85R
  • Shepherd, Sue - Pickled, potted and canned: how the art and science of food preserving changed the world 641.4S
  • Strong, Roy - Feast: a history of grand eating 394.1S

HEALTH & HOME

  • Shell, Ellen Ruppel - The hungry gene: the science of fat and the future of thin 616.3S
  • Sorrow's company: writers on loss and grief 809S
  • Sussman, Julie - Dare to repair: a do-it-herself guide to fixing (almost) anything in the home 643S


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