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It’s A Girl!

The Book of J

translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom


Goodbye, Columbus

The Harp and the Shadow

by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Thomas Christensen and Carol Christensen

The Dogs of Paradise

by Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

by Kirkpatrick Sale


Tell, Don’t Show

“In my drawer is a rewrite of Grand Hotel, done with Mike Nichols, envisaging Dolly Parton in the Garbo role.”

Walter Winchell: A Novel

by Michael Herr

Wildlife

by Richard Ford

The Screenplay: A Blend of Film Form and Content

by Margaret Mehring


Trans-National America

Going to School: The African-American Experience

edited by Kofi Lomotey

Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America

by Richard D. Alba

The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York

by Jim Sleeper

Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education

by Rosalie Pedalino Porter

A Curriculum of Inclusion: Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on Minorities

From Gatekeeper to Gateway: Transforming Testing in America

Campus Ethnoviolence and the Policy Options

by Howard J. Ehrlich

The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture

by Lawrence H. Fuchs

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Keeping the Faith

Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

by Joseph F. Wilson

A. Philip Randolph: Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement

by Paula F. Pfeffer


Sex and Power in the Middle Ages

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

by James A. Brundage

The Medieval Idea of Marriage

by Christopher N.L. Brooke

Joan of Arc and Richard III: Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages

by Charles T. Wood


Rogue Genius

Henry Fielding: A Life

by Martin C. Battestin, with Ruthe R. Battestin

New Essays by Henry Fielding: His Contributions to the Craftsman (1734–1739) and Other Early Journalism

by Martin C. Battestin


Neurology and the Soul

Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

by Frederick C. Bartlett

Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection

by Gerald M. Edelman

The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness

by Gerald M. Edelman

The Mystery of the Mind

by Wilder Penfield

The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain

by Israel Rosenfield, Introduction by Oliver Sacks

La Conscience: Une Biologie du Moi Knopf in 1991

by Israel Rosenfield

'A Critique of Artificial Intelligence'

by Israel Rosenfield. in The Enchanted Loom, edited by Pietro Corsi

Man on his Nature

by Sir Charles Sherrington

The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

by Sir Charles Sherrington

Migraine

by Oliver Sacks

Awakenings

revised edition and Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On

by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Seeing Voices

by Oliver Sacks

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