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When Hollywood Dared

Pre-Code Hollywood Collection: The Cheat/Merrily We Go to Hell/Hot Saturday/Torch Singer/Murder at the Vanities/Search for Beauty

Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three: Other Men's Women/The Purchase Price/Frisco Jenny/Midnight Mary/Heroes for Sale/Wild Boys of the Road


The Same-Sex Future

Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence

by William N. Eskridge Jr. and Darren R. Spedale

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution

by Evan Gerstmann

Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender

by Robin West

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts

edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson


The Charms of Ancient Egypt

“The Egyptians, far from being obsessed with death, were captivated by life in all its forms: animal, vegetable, human, and cosmic.”

Les Portes du Ciel: Visions du monde dans l'Égypte ancienne

an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, March 6–June 29, 2009.

L'Égypte ancienne entre mémoire et sciences

by Jan Assmann


Sensual in the South

Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back

by Reynolds Price


He Understood Evil

1941: Godina koja se vraća [1941: The Year That Keeps Returning]

by Slavko Goldstein


Getting High on the Himalayas

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes

by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar


What to Do About Darfur

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

by Mahmood Mamdani

Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

by Daoud Hari, as told to Dennis Michael Burke and Megan M. McKenna

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

by Halima Bashir, with Damien Lewis


This Woman Is Dangerous

The Complete Ripley Novels: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Ripley Under Water

by Patricia Highsmith


The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting

Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, with a foreword by Victor R. Fuchs


Jazzing Up Hazlitt

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man

by Duncan Wu

New Writings of William Hazlitt

edited by Duncan Wu

Hazlitt in Love: A Fatal Attachment

by Jon Cook


Justice Holmes and the ‘Splendid Prisoner’

Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

by Ernest Freeberg


China’s Dictators at Work: The Secret Story

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang

translated from the Chinese and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius, with a foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar


Indian Terror on Our New Frontier

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the US–Mexican War

by Brian DeLay

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderland Massacre and the Violence of History

by Karl Jacoby


Divided Iran on the Eve

Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism

by Abbas Amanat

Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

by Janet Afary

Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs

by Ray Takeyh


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