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Under Western Eyes

Our Game

by John le Carré


No More Parades

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace

by Donald Kagan

The First World War: A Complete History

by Martin Gilbert

Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914–1918

by Laurence V. Moyer, Introduction by John Keegan


Cosmic Leg-Pull

Ovid: The Poems of Exile

translated with introduction, notes, and glossary by Peter Green

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

edited by Michael Hofmann, edited by James Lasdun


Broken Blossoms

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

by Ivan Klíma, translated by Paul Wilson

The Loves of Faustyna

by Nina FitzPatrick


The Underground War for Shanghai

Policing Shanghai, 1927–1937

by Frederic Wakeman Jr.


Walden-on-Sea

Like Conrad, Joshua Slocum was pigheaded in his attachment to sail at a time when the shipping industry was converting to screw-driven steamers.

Sex, Lies, and Social Science

Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research

by Vern L. Bullough

The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States

by Edward O. Laumann and John H. Gagnon and Robert T. Michael and Stuart Michaels

Sex in America: A Definitive Survey

by Robert T. Michael and John H. Gagnon and Edward O. Laumann and Gina Kolata


Professionals

Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color
A Journey from Prison to Power

by Patrice Gaines

Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

by Jill Nelson

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson

Introduction by Sondra K. Wilson

In My Place

by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Warriors Don't Cry

by Melba Beals

A Man's Life: An Autobiography

by Roger Wilkins

Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success

by Audrey Edwards and Craig K. Polite

The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperous Blacks Still Have the Blues?

by Ellis Cose

Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope

by Jerrold Ladd

Bourgeois Blues An American Memoir

by Jake Lamar

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Wonderful Town?

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

by Ann Douglas


Home of the Brave

Breaking the Surface

by Greg Louganis and Eric Marcus


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