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Stir Crazy

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan


The Master Builder

Leon Battista Alberti

by Franco Borsi, translated by Rudolf G. Carpanini


Below Suspicion

True Confessions

by John Gregory Dunne

Transatlantic Blues

by Wilfrid Sheed


Conspicuous Grandeur

The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400-1800

edited by A.G. Dickens


The Third Coming

“For those who cannot believe in the Second Coming, or the Messianic hopes of orthodox Judaism, there are the UFOs! If the earth is being visited by extraterrestrials, surely the aliens must be friendly or by now we would have learned otherwise.”

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

directed and written by Steven Spielberg, produced by Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips. Released by Columbia Pictures

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

by Steven Spielberg

The Hynek UFO Report

by Dr. J. Allen Hynek


A Victorian Heroine

Eleanor Marx

by Yvonne Kapp


Solving the China Problem

China and America: The Search for a New Relationship

edited by William J. Barnds

China, Oil, and Asia: Conflict Ahead?

a study from The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Selig S. Harrison


Traveling Light

A Time of Gifts

by Patrick Leigh Fermor


Cosa Nostra

Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography

by Stanley Weintraub


A History of Endurance

Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery

by Nathan Irvin Huggins


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