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Sentimental Education

Every Secret Thing

by Patricia Campbell Hearst, with Alvin Moscow


Guilty Secrets

The Royal Game and Other Stories

by Stefan Zweig, translated by Jill Sutcliffe, with an introduction by John Fowles


The World of the Pied Piper

Kate Greenaway: A Biography

by Rodney Engen


The Fly on Nixon’s Wall

Witness to Power: The Nixon Years

by John Ehrlichman


Tough Act to Follow

Funeral Games

by Mary Renault


Farewell to the Family?

Marriage Divorce Remarriage

by Andrew J. Cherlin

What's Happening to the American Family

by Sar A. Levitan and Richard S. Belous

Singled Out: A Civilized Guide to Sex and Sensibility for the Suddenly Single Man or Woman

by Richard Schickel

America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture

by Marvin Harris

The Inner American: A Self-Portrait from 1957 to 1976

by Joseph Veroff and Elizabeth Douvan and Richard Kulka

The Futility of Family Policy

by Gilbert Y. Steiner

Friends as Family

by Karen Lindsey

Marital Status and Living Arrangements

Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports Series P-20, No. 365

Household and Family Characteristics

Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports Series P-20, No. 366

Money Income and Poverty Status of Families and Persons

Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports Series P-60, No. 127

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Good at Games

Personal Best

written and directed by Robert Towne


Hangovers

Headbirths, or The Germans Are Dying Out

by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

The Safety Net

by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz


Prussia Lives!

"Prussia: Attempt at a Balance"

a Berlin Festival Exhibition, August-December, 1981


Settlers and ‘Savages’ on Two Frontiers

The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared

edited by Howard Lamar, edited by Leonard Thompson

The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820

edited by Richard Elphick, edited by Hermann Giliomee

Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa

edited by Shula Marks, edited by Anthony Atmore


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