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May 17, 1979

May 17, 1979

Stephen Jay Gould

Exultation and Explanation

The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: Recollections of an Embryo Ecologist

by G. Evelyn Hutchinson

An Introduction to Population Ecology

by G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Julia Vitullo-Martin

Sin Will Find You Out

The Streets Were Paved With Gold

by Ken Auletta

V.S. Pritchett

Upmanship

Jake's Thing

by Kingsley Amis

Elias H. Tuma

An Opportunity for Palestinians?

“The gains of attaining and sustaining peace will more than offset the costs of doing so, and far outweigh the imaginary advantages of the no-peace-no-war situation that has prevailed in the region for years.”

Charles Komanoff

Doing Without Nuclear Power

The result of the accident at Three Mile Island should be the abandonment of nuclear power and the emergence of a more rational energy policy, based on measures to improve the efficiency with which energy from fossil fuels is used.”

Geoffrey Barraclough

The Nazi Boom

The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group

by James P. O'Donnell

On Trial at Nuremberg

by Airey Neave

The Secretary: Martin Bormann, The Man Who Manipulated Hitler

by Jochen von Lang, with the assistance of Claus Sibyll, translated by Christa Armstrong and Peter White

Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933

by James Pool and Suzanne Pool

Gods and Beasts: The Nazis and the Occult

by Dusty Sklar

A Backward Look: Germans Remember

by Daniel Lang

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Richard Ellmann

At the Yeatses

Keith Thomas

Politics Recaptured

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought Volume One: The Renaissance Volume Two: The Age of Reformation

by Quentin Skinner

John K. Fairbank

Dangerous Acquaintances

The US Crusade in China, 1938-1945

by Michael Schaller

Joseph Kerman

William Byrd and the Catholics

Graham Hughes

How to Define the Crime

Rethinking Criminal Law

by George P. Fletcher

Martin Gardner,
John Archibald Wheeler

Quantum Theory and Quack Theory

Letters

John Archibald Wheeler

‘A Decade of Permissiveness’

John Stockwell,
Gerald J. Bender

The CIA in Angola

Eqbal Ahmad,
Eric Bentley,
Daniel Berrigan,
Philip Berrigan,
et al.

Release Dzhemilev

Gerard Chaliand

Power to the Minorities

Eleanor Duckworth

Her Second Chance

Raymond Federman,
Carol Sturm Smith

Fiction Collective

Nelson Goodman

Matter over Mind

Stephanie Wolfe Murray

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