New York Society Library

JUNE 2004 BOOKS
ARCHIVED LISTS

SELECTED NEW BOOKS:

BIOGRAPHY

FICTION

MYSTERIES

*indicates a British mystery

SHORT STORIES

SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS

ART

  • Byzantium: faith and power (1261-1557) 709.495B
  • Cahill, James - Three alternative histories of Chinese painting (1988) 759.95C
  • Elkins, James - Stories of art 709E
  • Norman, Diana - Painting in late medieval and renaissance Siena, 1260-1555 759.5N
  • Platt, Colin - Marks of opulence: the why, when and where of Western art 1000-1914 709.4P
  • Sultan, Terrie - Chuck Close prints: process and collaboration 769S

MUSIC

  • Kitcher, Philip - Finding an ending: reflections on Wagner's Ring Cycle 782.2K
  • Morrison, Richard - Orchestra: the LSO (London Symphony Orchestra): a century of triumphs and turbulence 785M
  • Steinitz, Richard - Gyorgy Ligeti: music of the imagination 780.92L

BELLES LETTRES

  • Birds in the hand: fiction and poetry about birds 808.8B
  • Birkets, Sven - An artificial wilderness: essays on 20th-century literature (1987) 809B
  • Gilb, Dagoberto - Gritos: essays 823G
  • Haut, Woody - Heartbreak and vine: the fate of hardboiled writers in Hollywood 823.08H
  • Life after theory (interviews w/ Derrida, Kermode, etc) 801L
  • Old English literature: critical essays 829O
  • Oxford readers' companion to Conrad 823C
  • Shapiro, Karl Jay - Creative glut: selected essays of Karl Shapiro 821.09S

POETRY

  • Radnoti, Miklos - Clouded sky 894.5R
  • Spark, Muriel - All the poems of Muriel Spark 821S
  • Thwaite, Anthony - A move in weather: poems, 1994-2002 821T
  • Wright, Charles - Buffalo yoga 821W

PHILOSOPHY

  • Habermas, Jürgen - Religion and rationality: essays on reason, God, and modernity 201H
  • Jullien, Francois - In praise of blandness: proceeding from Chinese thought and aesthetics 181J
  • Kolakowski, Leszek - The two eyes of Spinoza & other essays on philosophers 199K

BIOGRAPHY

  • Macintyre, Ben - The man who would be king: the first American in Afghanistan 958M
  • Ryan, James Gilbert - Earl Browder: the failure of American communism (1997) 92 B8769 R
  • Tatrean, Vahram - To the desert: pages from my diary (Armenia, 1915-1923) 956.6T
  • Truman, Margaret - The president's house: a first daughter shares the history and secrets of the world's most famous home 975.3T

HISTORY

  • Christian, Shirley - Before Lewis and Clark: the story of the Chouteaus, the French dynasty that ruled America's frontier 977.8C
  • Klein, Herbert S. - A population history of the United States 317.3K
  • McDougall, Walter A. - Freedom just around the corner: a new American history, 1585-1828 973.2M
  • Marcus, Harold - A history of Ethiopia 963M
  • Oakeshott, Michael Joseph - On history and other essays 901O
  • Oxford companion to Irish history 941.5O
  • Sinclair, Keith - A history of New Zealand (1980) 993.1S
  • Thomas, Rosalind - Herodotus in context: ethnography, science, and the art of persuasion 888.1T

ANTIQUITY

  • Boatwright, Mary Taliaferro - The Romans: from village to empire 937B
  • DuBois, Page - Slaves and other objects (Greece) 326D

WAR

  • Coffman, Edward R. - The regulars: the American Army, 1898-1941 355.0973C
  • Hanson, Victor Davis - Ripples of battle: how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think 355H
  • Morris, David - Storm on the horizon: Khafji, the battle that changed the course of the Gulf War 953M
  • Ponting, Clive - The Crimean War 947.07P
  • Strachan, Hew - The First World War 940.3S

FOREIGN RELATIONS

  • Ambrosius, Lloyd - Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and his legacy in American foreign relations 973.91A
  • Harvey, David - The new imperialism 327.73H
  • Mamdani, Mahmood - Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror 297M
  • Unger, Craig - House of Bush, house of Saud: the secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties 327.73U

IRAQ

  • Salam, Pax - The Baghdad blog 956B
  • Woodward, Bob - Plan of attack 973.930W

TERRORISM

  • Farah, Douglas - Blood from stones: the secret financial network of terror 303.6F
  • Harik, Judith B. - Hezbollah: the changing face of terrorism 956.9H
  • Heymann, Philip B. - Terrorism, freedom, and security: winning without war 303.6H

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

  • Fuller, Graham E. - The future of political Islam 297F
  • Hodgson, Godfrey - More equal than others: America from Nixon to the new century 973.9H
  • Siedentop, Larry - Democracy in Europe 320.9S
  • Singer, Peter - The president of good & evil: the ethics of George W. Bush 973.930S

ECONOMICS

  • Ackerman, Frank - Priceless: on knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing 330A
  • Schmidt, Leigh Eric - Consumer rites: the buying and selling of American holidays (1995) 394.26S
  • Thurow, Lester C. - Fortune favors the bold: what we must do to build a new and lasting global prosperity 337T

NEW YORK CITY

  • Hotchner, A.E. - Everyone comes to Elaine's: forty years of movie stars, all-stars, literary lions….at the legendary hot spot 647.9H
  • Rasenberger, Jim - High steel: the daring men who built the world's greatest skyline 624R
  • Tytell, John - Reading New York 820.9T
  • Where to weekend around New York City 917.4W

TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION

  • Bird, Christiane - A thousand sighs, a thousand revolts: journeys in Kurdistan 915.6B
  • Conroy, Frank - Time and tide: a walk through Nantucket 917.44C
  • Robb, Peter - A death in Brazil: a book of omissions 918.1R
  • Seth, Vikram - From Heaven Lake: travels through Sinkiang and Tibet 915.1S

CIVIL RIGHTS

  • Fireside, Harvey - Separate and unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism 325.26F
  • Kluger, Richard - Simple justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education 344K
  • Lawson, Steven F. - Running for freedom: civil rights and Black politics in America since 1941 323.4L

RELIGION

  • Gamble, Richard M. - The war for righteousness: progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the rise of the Messianic nation 277.3G
  • Khalidi, Tarif - The Muslim Jesus: sayings and stories in Islamic literature 290M
  • Tickle, Phyllis - Greed (“Seven deadly sins” lectures) 178T
  • Weigel, George - Letters to a young Catholic 248W

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Guy, Kolleen M. - When champagne became French: wine and the making of a national identity 641.2G
  • Levinson, Paul - Cellphone: the story of the world's most mobile medium and how it has transformed everything! 384L
  • Linn, Susan E. - Consuming kids: the hostile takeover of childhood 658.8L
  • Richie, Donald - The image factory: fads and fashions in Japan 952R
  • Underhill, Paco - The call of the mall 658.8U

MEDIA

  • Hamilton, James - All the news that's fit to sell: how the market transforms information into news 070.1H
  • Lessig, Lawrence - Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity 302L
  • Starr, Paul - The creation of the media: political origins for modern communications 302S

JOURNALISM

  • Moyers, Bill D. - Moyers on America: a journalist and his times 973.930M
  • Quindlen, Anna - Loud and clear 824Q
  • Wheen, Francis - Hoo-hahs and passing frenzies: collected journalism, 1991-2001 824W

WRITING

  • Critical intellectuals on writing 808C
  • Flaherty, Alice - The midnight disease: the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain 808F

SCIENCE

  • Ford, Kenneth William - The quantum world: quantum physics for everyone 530.1F
  • Henig, Robin Marantz - Pandora's baby: how the first test tube babies sparked the reproductive revolution 612.6H
  • Holmes, Frederic Lawrence - Investigative pathways: patterns and stages in the careers of experimental scientists 501H
  • Humboldt's cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American journey that changed the way we see the world 508H
  • Rock, Andrea - The mind at night: the new science of how and why we dream 135R

HEALTH AND HOME

  • Brock, Fred - Retire on less than you think: the New York times guide to planning your financial future 332B
  • Kindlon, Daniel J. - Tough times, strong children: lessons from the past for your children's future 155.4K
  • Wurman, Richard Saul - Understanding healthcare 610.02W

GARDENING

  • Browning, Dominique - Paths of desire: the passions of a suburban gardener 635B
  • Gilbertie, Sal - Herb gardening at its best: everything you need to know about growing your favorite herbs (1980) 635G
  • Sheldon, Elisabeth - Time and the gardener: writings on a lifelong passion 635S

SPORTS & GAMES

  • Bellin, Andy - Poker nation: a high stakes, low-life adventure into the heart of a gambling country 795.4B
  • Edmonds, David - Bobby Fischer goes to war: how the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess match of all time 794E
  • Hemingway, Ernest - Hemingway on fishing 828H
  • Van Natta, Don - First off the tee: presidential hackers, duffers, and cheaters from Taft to Bush 796.3V

AUDIO

  • Darwin, Charles - Voyage of the Beagle (12 cassettes) AC 574 D
  • Dickens, Charles - The old curiosity shop (17 cassettes) AC D
  • Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and lovers (11 cassettes) Lobby AC L
  • Twain, Mark - Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians (6 cassettes) AC T

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