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Double Take

The Producers

book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman


The Imaginary Builder

Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy

an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 7–September 9, 2001


In the Pit of History

The Shadow of the Sun

Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska

Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa

Ann Jones


Within a Budding Grove

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition

edited by Stanley Sadie


In the American Grain

John Adams

David McCullough


Nabokov on the Wing

Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971

edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Simon Karlinsky

Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius

Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates

Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings

edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, with new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov

Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Stacy Schiff


Spirits on Canvas

Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin

Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and H. Travers Newton Jr.

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art

Debora Silverman


The Spirit of the Spirit

The Spirit Archives

Will Eisner

Outer Space Spirit: 1952

by Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Wally Wood

A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories

Will Eisner

Life on Another Planet

Will Eisner

New York: The Big City

Will Eisner

Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood

Will Eisner

The Building

Will Eisner

Invisible People

Will Eisner

Minor Miracles

Will Eisner

Family Matter

Will Eisner

Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master

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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War through the Dawn of a New Century

James Bamford

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government
Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

Steven Levy


Love Among the Ruins

The Persian Bride

James Buchan


Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process

Susanne Jonas

Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala

Gudrun Molkentin

Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más

a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala

El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala

Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs

El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad

a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala


Sartre Resartus

No Exit and The Flies

Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert


The Wind Done Gone

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown, with an introduction by Hilton Als

Passing

Nella Larsen, with an introduction by Ntozake Shange


City Lights

The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century

Joseph Rykwert

Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America

Pietro S. Nivola


The Great Sultan

A Few Corrections

Brad Leithauser


Springtime for Hegel

Hegel: A Biography

Terry Pinkard


Genes in the Food!

The Ecological Risks ofEngineered Crops

Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Vandana Shiva

Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods

Alan McHughen

Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation

a report by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council

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