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Really the Blues

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times

by Stanley W. Jackson


The Jazz Comeback

Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues and Related Topics

by Hayden Carruth

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

by Kitty Kelley

'Round Midnight

a film by Bernard Tavernier

La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Jazz Under the Nazis

by Mike Zwerin

American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in Jazz

by Whitney Balliett

In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s

by Francis Davis

A Life in Jazz

by Danny Barker, edited by Alyn Shipton

Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II

by Jason Berry and Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones

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Fingerprinting Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Lost Play: 'Edmund Ironside'

edited by Eric Sams


Talking Pictures

Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760–1900

by Richard D. Altick


Genes & Crime

Crime and Human Nature

by James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein

Confronting Crime: An American Challenge

by Elliott Currie

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