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Citizen Updike

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

by John Updike


Good Night, Sweet Princes

Raj: A Novel

by Gita Mehta

Maharaja: The Spectacular Heritage of Princely India

by Andrew Robinson, photographs by Sumio Uchiyama


Distrusting Economics

Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions

by Robert H. Frank

Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations

edited by Diego Gambetta


Goldwynism

Goldwyn: A Biography

by A. Scott Berg

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

by Neal Gabler

The Search for Sam Goldwyn: A Biography

by Carol Easton

The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies

by Ethan Mordden

Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power

by Robert Scheer

Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

by Kevin Starr

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

by Otto Friedrich

John Ford

by Andrew Sinclair

The Deer Park

by Norman Mailer

Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Photos of Stars, 1926-1949

edited by John Kobal

The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour

text by Paul Trent, designed by Richard Lawton

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Should Genes Be Screened?

Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era

by Neil A. Holtzman


Czech Mates

I Served the King of England

by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson

My First Loves

by Ivan Klíma, translated by Ewald Osers

Catapult: A Timetable of Rail, Sea, and Air Ways to Paradise

by Vladimír Páral, translated and with an introduction by William Harkins

Sins for Father Knox

by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Kaca Polackova Henley


I Porni

I modi: The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance

by Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi and Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Frédéric-Maximilien de Waldeck, edited, translated, and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner


A Master of the Middle Ages

Medieval Civilization: 400-1500

by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow

The Medieval Imagination

by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Your Money or Your Life

by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Patricia Ranum


Mozart à la Mode

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, and No. 21 in C, K. 467 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

with Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and English Baroque Soloists,

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 22 in E flat, K. 482, and No. 23 in A, K. 488 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

with Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and English Baroque Soloists,

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 25 in C, K. 503, and No. 26 in D, K. 537 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

with Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, and English Baroque Soloists,

Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Piano Concerto No. 20

with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind

Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Piano Concerto No. 21

with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Mozart and Schnabel, Vol. II, Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332

with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 26 in D, K. 537, and Rondos, K. 382 and 386

with Murray Perahia, piano and, the English Chamber Orchestra.

Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 23 in A, K. 488, and No. 27 in B flat, K. 595

with Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and, the Philharmonia Orchestra.

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