New York Society Library

FEBRUARY 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS


SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

BELLES LETTRES

  • Hall, Donald - Breakfast served any time all day: essays on poetry new and selected 821.09H
  • Hamsun, Knut - Knut Hamsun remembers America: essays & stories, 1885-1949 839.82H
  • Haslett, Moyra - Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to bluestockings 820.9H
  • James, Clive - As of this writing: the essential essays, 1968-2002 828J
  • Kellogg, Jean - The vital tradition: the Catholic novel in a period of convergence (1970) 809.3K
  • Quint, David - Cervantes's novel of modern times : a new reading of Don Quijote 863C
  • Swgarra, Eda - A companion to German literature: from 1500 to the present (1997) 830.9S

POETRY

  • Bentley, E.C. - The complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley (1981) 821B
  • Clare, John - I am: the selected poetry of John Clare 821C
  • German 20th century poetry (2001) 831.08G
  • Landscape with rowers: poetry from the Netherlands (translated and introduced by J.M. Coetzee) 839.31L

NEW TRANSLATIONS

  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The adolescent (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) F D
  • Ecclesiastes: a new translation with introduction and commentary (C.L. Seow) 223B
  • Sophocles - Aias = Ajax (Herbert Golder & Richard Pevear) 882.2S

BOOKS & READING

  • Basbanes, Nicholas - A splendor of letters: the permanence of books in an impermanent world 002B
  • Ugresi, Dubravka - Thank you for not reading: essays on literary trivia 070.5U
  • Vienne, Veronique - Chip Kidd (book jacket designer) 741.64V

LANGUAGE

  • Bolinger, Dwight - Language, the loaded weapon: the use and abuse of language today (1980) 401B
  • McWhorter, John H. - Doing our own thing: the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care 427M

JOURNALISM

  • Periodicals of Queen Victoria's empire (1996) 052P
  • Reporting America at war: an oral history 070.4R
  • Talese, Gay - The Gay Talese reader 070T

ARTS

  • Booth, John E. - The critic, power, and the performing arts (1991) 790B
  • Boucher, Bruce - The sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino (1991) 730.92S
  • Hughes, Robert - Goya 759.6G
  • Katz, Karl - From the beginning: archaeology and art in the Israel Museum (1968) 708.956K

MUSIC

  • Lees, Gene - Friends along the way: a journey through jazz 780.973L
  • Riggs, Geoffrey - The assoluta voice in opera, 1797-1847 782.1R

ARCHITECTURE

  • Barletta, Barbara A. - The origins of the Greek architectural orders 722B
  • Carley, Rachel - Cuba: 400 years of architectural heritage (1997) 720.972C
  • Shrady, Nicholas - Tilt: a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa 720.945S

BIOGRAPHY

  • Andersen, Wayne - The youth of Cezanne and Zola: notoriety at its source 920 A86 Y
  • Augustine, Saint - Saint Augustine's sin (introduction and commentary by Garry Wills) 92 A9228 A
  • Fulco - The happy summer days: a Sicilian childhood (1976) 914.58F
  • Kahn, E.J. - Year of change: more about the New Yorker and me 92 K123 K
  • Reagan, Ronald - Dear Americans: letters from the desk of President Ronald Reagan 973.927R
  • Thomas, Nicholas - Cook: the extraordinary voyages of Captain James Cook 919T
  • Wiesel, Elie - Wise men and their tales: portraits of biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic masters 296W

HISTORY

  • Bergner, Daniel - In the land of magic soldiers: a story of white and black in West Africa 966B
  • Cordingly, David - Billy Ruffian: the "Bellerophon" and the downfall of Napoleon 940.27C
  • Cracraft, James - The revolution of Peter the Great 947.05C
  • Cumings, Bruce - North Korea: another country 951.9C
  • Kornbluh, Peter - The Pinochet file: a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability 983K
  • Lowry, Rich - Legacy: paying the price for the Clinton years 973.929L
  • Lozowick, Yaacov - Right to exist: a moral defense of Israel's wars 956.94L
  • Porter, Roy - Flesh in the age of reason 942.06P
  • Price, David - Love and hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart of a new nation 975.5P
  • Wood, Frances - The Silk Road: two thousand years in the heart of Asia 950W

WORLD WAR I

  • Morrow, John Howard - The Great War: an imperial history 940.3M
  • Stevenson, D. - The outbreak of the First World War: 1914 in perspective (1997) 940.312S
  • Winter, J.M. - The great war and the British people 940.342W

EDUCATION

  • Garber, Marjorie - Academic instincts (2001) 001G
  • Gould, Eric - The university in a corporate culture 378G
  • Kirp, David - Shakespeare, Einstein, and the bottom line: the marketing of higher education 378K

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Hickman, Katie - Courtesans: money, sex, and fame in the 19th century 306.7H
  • McCourt, James - Queer street: rise and fall of an American culture, 1947-1985 306.7M
  • Rivera, Oswald - The proud and the immortal (homelessness) 362.5R
  • Sen, Amartya Kumar - Rationality and freedom 302S
  • Wills, Garry - "Negro president": Jefferson and the slave power 326W

LAW

  • Crook, J.A. - Law and life of Rome (1978) 309.1C
  • Rosenberg, Jonathan - Kennedy, Johnson, and the quest for justice: the civil rights tapes 323.1R

FINANCE & COMMERCE

  • Klein, Alec - Stealing time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the collapse of AOL Time Warner 338.7K
  • Rubin, Robert Edward - In an uncertain world: tough choices from Wall Street to Washington 336R
  • Spufford, Peter - Power & profit: the merchant in medieval Europe 330.94S

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

  • Daschle, Thomas - Like no other time: the 107th Congress and the two years that changed America forever 328.73D
  • Howard Dean: a citizen's guide to the man who would be president (by a team of reporters for Vermont's Rutland herald & Times-argus) 974.3H
  • Society and politics in Wilhelmine Germany (edited by Richard Evans) 943.08S
  • Vidal, Gore - Inventing a nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson 973.4V

IRAQ

  • Ali, Tariq - Bush in Babylon: the recolonisation of Iraq 956A
  • Cordesman, Anthony H. - The Iraq War: strategy, tactics, and military lessons 956C
  • Purdum, Todd S. - A time of our choosing: America's war in Iraq 956P

TRAVEL

  • Bergreen, Laurence - Over the edge of the world: Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe 910.4B
  • Cobb, Richard - Paris and elsewhere (1998) 914.436C
  • French, Patrick - Tibet, Tibet: a personal history of a lost land 951.5F
  • Koch, C.J. - The many-coloured land: a return to Ireland 914.15K
  • O'Hanlon, Redmond - Trawler: a journey through the North Atlantic 919.8O

CITIES

  • Buchan, James - Capital of the mind: how Edinburgh changed the world 941.4B
  • Rome the cosmopolis 937.06R
  • Sinclair, Mark - San Francisco: a cultural and literary history 979.46S

NEW YORK CITY

  • Charyn, Jerome - Gangsters and gold diggers: old New York, the Jazz Age and the birth of Broadway 974.71C
  • Gregory, Danny - Everyday matters: a New York diary 917.471G
  • Lockwood, Charles - Bricks and brownstone: the New York row house, 1783-1929 720.973L

SCIENCE

  • Brown, Andrew - In the beginning was the worm: finding the secrets of life in a tiny hermaphrodite 595B
  • Eberhart, Mark - Why things break: understanding the world by the way it comes apart 621E
  • Miller, Kenneth - Finding Darwin's God: a scientist's search for common ground between God and evolution (1999) 215M

RELIGION

  • Oppenheimer, Mark - Knocking on heaven's door: American religion in the age of counterculture 201O
  • The Origins of the Koran: classic essays on Islam's holy book (1998) 297O
  • Zagorin, Perez - How the idea of religious toleration came to the West 261.7Z

FOOD

  • Brownell, Kelly - Food fight: the inside story of the food industry, America's obesity crisis, and what we can do about it 616.3B
  • Endless feasts: 60 years of writing from Gourmet (edited and with an introduction by Ruth Reichl) 641.5E

REFERENCE

  • The Harvard guide to African-American history Ref. 016.973H
  • Reader's guide to the history of science Ref. 016.5R

AUDIOCASSETTES

  • Defoe, Daniel - A journal of the plague year (8 cassettes) AC D (lobby)
  • Maugham, W. Somerset - The summing up (8 cassettes) AC 92 M4495 M (Lobby)


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