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Character

E.M. Forster: A Life

by P.N. Furbank


Digging Out Doug

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964

by William Manchester


Soulcraft

The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts

by George F. Will


Death and Its History

L'Homme devant la mort fall of 1979)

by Philippe Ariès

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum


Compulsion

The Iron Staircase

by Georges Simenon, translated by Eileen Ellenbogen

The Girl with the Squint

by Georges Simenon, translated by Helen Thomson

The Family Lie

by Georges Simenon, translated by Isabel Quigly

Maigret's Pipe

by Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart

Maigret and the Hotel Majestic

by Georges Simenon, translated by Caroline Hillier


The Scientist as Conformist

Soviet Science

by Zhores A. Medvedev

Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich

by Alan D. Beyerchen

Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko

by Dominique Lecourt, translated by Ben Brewster


The Transformation of Bobby Kennedy

Robert Kennedy and His Times

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.


The Wizard of Oc

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Barbara Bray

Life in Renaissance France

by Lucien Febvre, edited and translated by Marian Rothstein

The Community of the Village: A Study in the History of the Family and Village Life in Fourteenth-Century England

by Edward Britton


Yesterday’s Today Show

The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions 1600-1862

by Richard D. Altick


The Lesson of Thomas More

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III

edited by Richard S. Sylvester

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 3 (Part I): Translations of Lucian

edited by Craig R. Thompson

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 4: Utopia

edited by Edward Surtz, edited by S. J. and J. H. Hexter

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum

edited by John M. Headley, translated by Sister Scholastica Mandeville

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 8: The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

edited by Louis A. Schuster, edited by Richard C. Marius, edited by James P. Lusardi, edited by Richard J. Schoeck

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation

edited by Louis L. Martz, edited by Frank Manley

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion; Treatise on the Blessed Body; Instructions and Prayers

edited by Garry E. Haupt

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 14 (Parts I and I): De Tristitia Christi

edited by Clarence H. Miller

Utopia

by Thomas More, translated and edited by Robert M. Adams

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The Not So Light Fantastic

Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories

by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

A Manual for Manuel

by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa


The Illusion of Sociobiology

On Human Nature

by Edward O. Wilson


The Strategic Mind

In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story

by John Stockwell

Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA

by William Colby and Peter Forbath

Decent Interval

by Frank Snepp


The Last Intellectual

Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

by Walter Benjamin, edited by Peter Demetz, translated by Edmund Jephcott


Short Reviews

The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben

by Joseph Borkin

Of Wolves and Men

by Barry Holstun Lopez

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