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African American Studies

Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape, by Charlotte Pierce-Baker


Animals

Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, A Passion, by Melissa Holbrook Pierson


Anthology

The Pushcart Prize XXIV: The Best of the Small Presses, 2000 Edition, by Bill Henderson with The Pushcart Prize Editors


Anthropology

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, by Patrick Tierney
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, by Marcel Mauss


Architecture

Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture, by Robert Twombly and Narciso G. Menocal
Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers, by Carter Wiseman
Architectural Ornament: Banishment and Return, by Brent C. Brolin
The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 250 Key Twentieth-Century American Buildings, Third Edition, by Sydney LeBlanc
The Elements of Classical Architecture, Georges Gromort
6,000 Years of Housing, Third Revised Edition, by Norbert Schoenauer
Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance, Second Edition, by John Carmody, Stephen Selkowitz, Dariush Arasteh, and Lisa Heschong
The Investigation of Buildings: A Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Owners, by Donald Friedman


Art History

Man as Hero: The Human Figure in Western Art, by Pierce Rice


Art

Architectural Ornament: Banishment and Return, by Brent C. Brolin


Astronomy

God and the Astronomers, New and Expanded Edition, by Robert Jastrow


Biography

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge, by Chanrithy Him
Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, by Maxine Kumin
Karl Marx: A Life, by Francis Wheen
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, by Ian Kershaw
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, by Mary Lovell
The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane, by Paul Mariani
Hemingway: The Final Years, by Michael Reynolds
Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake, by Anne LaBastille
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey, by Ralph Leighton


Business

The Productive Edge: A New Strategy for Economic Growth, by Richard K. Lester
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Seventh Edition, by Burton G. Malkiel
Managing Generation X: How to Bring Out the Best in Young Talent, Revised Edition, by Bruce Tulgan


Childcare

Bringing the Story Home: The Complete Guide to Storytelling for Parents, by Lisa Lipkin
A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them, by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Ritalin Nation: Rapid-Fire Culture and the Transformation of Human Consciousness, by Richard DeGrandpre


Cooking

The Bean Book, by Roy F. Guste Jr.


Crafts

The Blacksmith: Ironworker and Farrier, by Aldren A. Watson


Criticism

Re Joyce, by Anthony Burgess
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time, by Roger Shattuck


Cultural Studies

Nymphomania: A History, by Carol Groneman
The Twilight of American Culture, by Morris Berman


Current Affairs

Police Brutality: An Anthology, Jill Nelson, editor
Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, by Stephen F. Cohen
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, by Walter LaFeber


Death and Grieving

The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss, by Geneviève Jurgensen


Economics

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman


Education

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities, by Earl Shorris


Environment

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, by J. R. McNeill
Vital Signs 2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, by Lester R. Brown et al.


Essays

Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality, by Thomas Lynch
Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America, by Maria Laurino


Family

Bringing the Story Home: The Complete Guide to Storytelling for Parents, by Lisa Lipkin
A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them, by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Ritalin Nation: Rapid-Fire Culture and the Transformation of Human Consciousness, by Richard DeGrandpre


Fiction

A Trick of Nature: A Novel, by Suzanne Matson
Freud's Megalomania: A Novel, by Israel Rosenfield
Luck: A Novel, by Eric Martin
Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard, by Patrick O'Brian
Hussein: An Entertainment, by Patrick O'Brian
In the Yucatan: A Novel, by Earl Shorris
The Sleep-Over Artist: Fiction, by Thomas Beller
Money, Love: A Novel, by Brad Barkley
No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod
Unified Field Theory: Stories, by Frank Soos
Something Blue: A Novel, by Jean Christopher Spaugh
A Sort of Homecoming: A Novel, by Robert Cremins
The Electrical Field: A Novel, by Kerri Sakamoto
Besieged, by James Lasdun


Gardening

English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition, by Margaret Hensel


Health

The Cancer Prevention Good Health Diet: A Complete Program for a Longer, Healthier Life, by Martin Katahn, Ph.D.
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness, Second Edition, by Paul J. Donoghue, Ph.D. and Mary E. Siegel, Ph.D.


History

"That's Not What We Meant to Do": Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America, by Steven M. Gillon
The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices, by Elazar Barkan
The Search for the Panchen Lama, by Isabel Hilton
Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe, by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Mummies of Ürümchi, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922, by James Tertius De Kay
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John W. Dower
Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918, by Byron Farwell
The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History, by Joanna Waley-Cohen
Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission


History-American

New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village, by John Baskin
Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution, by Arthur B. Tourtellot


History-Regional

Minnesota: A History, Second Edition, by William E. Lass


Home Improvement

Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance, Second Edition, by John Carmody, Stephen Selkowitz, Dariush Arasteh and Lisa Heschong


Investing

A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Seventh Edition, by Burton G. Malkiel


Literature

Re Joyce, by Anthony Burgess
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time, by Roger Shattuck
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality, by Thomas Lynch
Were You Always An Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America, by Maria Laurino
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, by Patricia Hampl
Letters to a Fiction Writer, by Frederick Busch


Mathematics

The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences, by Ivor Grattan-Guinness


Memoir

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, by Patricia Hampl
Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir, by Ted Solotaroff


Music

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, Robert Spaethling, editor
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time, by Nicolas Slonimsky
The Puccini Companion, William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini, editors


Mystery

Kill Me: A Harpur & Iles Mystery, by Bill James
Lovely Mover: A Harpur & Iles Mystery, by Bill James


Nature

Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake, by Anne LaBastille


Pets

Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, A Passion, by Melissa Holbrook Pierson


Photography

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, by Deborah Willis
Naked London, by Greg Friedler


Photography-Regional

Autumn: A New England Journey, by Ference and Candace Máté


Poetry

You've Just Been Told: Poems, by Elizabeth Macklin
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen: Poems, by Mart’n Espada
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, editors
Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999, by Sandra M. Gilbert
Vice: New and Selected Poems, by Ai
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems, by Rita Dove
The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems, by Sherod Santos
Mosquito and Ant: Poems, by Kimiko Hahn
Looking for the Parade: Poems, by Joan Murray
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings, New Edition, George James Firmage and Richard S. Kennedy, editors
22 and 50 Poems, E. E. Cummings
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, Second Edition, Marc Simon, editor


Political Science

It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict, by Jack Snyder
The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, by Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein


Psychology

New Ways in Psychoanalysis, by Karen Horney, M.D.


Reference

The Art of Spelling: The Method and the Madness, by Marilyn vos Savant
Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form, by Madison Smartt Bell
The Writer on Her Work, Janet Sternberg, editor


Sailing

Wood, Water, and Light: Classic Wooden Boats, by Joel White
Dorothy Elizabeth: Building a Traditional Wooden Schooner, by Roger F. Duncan
From a Bare Hull: The 25th Anniversary Edition of a Nautical Classic, by Ferenc Máté
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing, New Edition, by John Rousmaniere


Science

Archimedes' Bathtub: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, by David Perkins
Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell, by Lyall Watson
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, by J. R. McNeill
Vital Signs 2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, by Lester R. Brown et al.
The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences, by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Rosalind Franklin and DNA, by Anne Sayre
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet, by Margaret Wertheim
The Chemical Tree: A History of Chemistry, by William H. Brock
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey, by Ralph Leighton
God and the Astronomers, Second Edition, by Robert Jastrow


Self-Help

A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence, by Ferenc Máté
The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss, by Geneviève Jurgensen
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness, Second Edition, by Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel


Sociology

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities, by Earl Shorris


Sports

Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time, by Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein


Transportation

Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922, by James Tertius De Kay


Travel

Village France, by the Automobile Association
Blue Guide Madrid, Second Edition, by Annie Bennett
Blue Guide Belgium, Ninth Edition, by Derek Blyth
Blue Guide Amsterdam, Second Edition, by Charles Ford
Blue Guide Istanbul, Fifth Edition, by John Freely
Blue Guide Romania, First Edition, by Caroline Juler
Blue Guide Umbria, Third Edition, by Alta Macadam
Blue Guide Austria, Fourth Edition, by Nicholas T. Parsons
Journey Through France, by the Automobile Association


Travel Writing

Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods, by Christopher Shaw


Women's Studies

Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape, by Charlotte Pierce-Baker
Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World, by Kathleen Ragan
The Writer on Her Work, Janet Sternberg, editor


Writing

Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form, by Madison Smartt Bell
The Writer on Her Work, Janet Sternberg, editor
Letters to a Fiction Writer, by Frederick Busch


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