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A Case of Hysteria

The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson


The Solace of Intrigue

Good Behaviour

by Molly Keane

Time After Time

by Molly Keane


The Reagan Variety Show

The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington

by Paul Craig Roberts

Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond

by Herbert Stein

The Barbaric Counter-Revolution: Cause and Cure

by W. W. Rostow


The Joy and Malice of It All

Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by John Payne, revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton


I’m the Greatest!

Mayor

by Edward I. Koch, with William Rauch


The New Sound of Liszt

Franz Liszt: Volume 1, The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847

by Alan Walker


A Simple Problem Science Can’t Solve

Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition

by Vivian Gornick


Darn that Darning

“Despite our view of them as repressed and exploited, we know that nineteenth-century women had contraceptive practices, orgasms, used nursing bottles and abortifacients; in Michigan at one period, one-third of pregnancies were terminated by abortion.”

Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America 1830–1870

by Karen Halttunen

The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America

by Harvey Green

Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America

by Mary Kelley

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

by Phyllis Rose


The Master Linguist

Dialogues

by Roman Jakobson and Krystyna Pomorska


Unheard Melodies

The Odes of John Keats

by Helen Vendler


The Schools Flunk Out

A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future

by John I. Goodlad

Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School

by Theodore R. Sizer

High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America

by Ernest L. Boyer

High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared

by James S. Coleman and Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore

A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform

National Commission on Excellence in Education

Action for Excellence

Task Force on Education for Economic Growth

Making the Grade Education Policy, background paper by

Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Paul E. Peterson

Educating Americans for the 21st Century Mathematics, Science and Technology

National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in

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