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Easy Living

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History

by Mark Girouard


The Quest for the Magical Jesus

Jesus the Magician

by Morton Smith


Know Yourself

Programs of the Brain

by J.Z. Young


Home Remedies

Families

by Jane Howard


Stopping to Think

The Life of the Mind; Volume 1, Thinking; Volume 2, Willing

by Hannah Arendt


Downtown

The Child in the City

by Colin Ward


Portrait of the Artist

Fools Die

by Mario Puzo


The Two Thoreaus

Young Man Thoreau

by Richard Lebeaux


Death in New England

The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

by David E. Stannard


Waiting for the New Order

The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poor

by Michael Harrington

The Evolution of the International Economic Order

by W. Arthur Lewis

1980s Project of the Council on Foreign Relations: Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy

by Albert Fishlow and Carlos Diaz-Alejandro and Richard R. Fagen and Roger D. Hansen

Reducing Global Inequalities

by W. Howard Wriggins and Gunnar Adler-Karlsson


Short Reviews

The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama

by Pierre Berton

Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village

by Pierre-Jakez Hélias, translated and abridged by June Guicharnaud

The Pesticide Conspiracy

by Robert van den Bosch

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