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Two Edmund Burkes?

The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative

by Isaac Kramnick


Nixon’s Seventh Crisis

The Public Burning

by Robert Coover


The Wizard of the ‘Wizard’

To Please a Child

by Frank Joslyn Baum and Russell P. MacFall

The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was

edited with two introductory essays by Martin Gardner and Russell B. Nye

The Oz Scrapbook

by David L. Greene and Dick Martin

Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land

by Raylyn Moore, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury


The Chinese Dream Machine

China and the Search for Happiness: Recurring Themes in Four Thousand Years of Chinese Cultural History

by Wolfgang Bauer, translated by Michael Shaw

Chinese Socialism to 1907

by Martin Bernal

Chinese Shadows

by Simon Leys


Rigging the Lawrence Case

T.E. Lawrence

by Desmond Stewart


The Holes in Black Holes

The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes

by Isaac Asimov

Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes

by Robert M. Wald

The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics

by Nigel Calder

Space and Time in the Modern Universe

by P.C.W. Davies

Ten Faces of the Universe

by Fred Hoyle

The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes

by Adrian Berry

White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe

by John Gribbin

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Survival of the Fittest?

Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France

by Francis Haskell


Porn, Propaganda, and the Enlightenment

The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe

by Robert Darnton and Bernhard Fabian and Roy McKeen Wiles, edited by Paul J. Korshin

Priest and Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Curés in the Diocese of Dauphiné, 1750-1791

by Timothy Tackett

Lafayette: A Biography

by Peter Buckman


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