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A Matter of Life and Death

The Diversity of Life

by Edward O. Wilson


Invitation to a Beheading

Stalin: Triumph & Tragedy

by Dmitri Volkogonov, edited and translated by Harold Shukman


Answers Without Questions

Mr. Mani

by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin

Katerina

by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green


Holocaust Heroes

Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism

by Alexander Stille

The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust

edited by Ivo Herzer

All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941–1943

by Jonathan Steinberg

Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective

by Samuel Abrahamsen

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust

edited by Richard C. Lukas

'My Brother's Keeper?': Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust

edited by Antony Polonsky

The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer

by Józef Garlinski

The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II

by Vladimir Dedijer, translated by Harvey L. Kendall

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Passions of Matisse

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective 1992–January 12, 1993

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York September 24,

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

catalog of the exhibition by John Elderfield

Collecting Matisse

by Albert Kostenevich and Natalia Semenova


How Wise Was Montaigne?

Michel de Montaigne: The Essays

translated and edited by M.A. Screech

Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the 'Essays'

by M.A. Screech


Dreams That Money Can Buy

The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story

by Peter Lefcourt

Box Socials

by W.P. Kinsella

The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday

by Luke Salisbury

Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime

by Andrew Zimbalist

The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball After the Collapse of Its Ruling Class

by Neil J. Sullivan

The Brooklyn Dodgers

by Peter C. Bjarkman

Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields

by Lawrence S. Ritter

The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History Chartwell Books, 110 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, New Yersey, 07094; Amereon Ltd., P.O. Box 1200, Mattituck, New York, 11952.)

by Phil Dixon and Patrick J. Hannigan

Baseball: The Perfect Game

Photographs by Danielle Weil, Introduction by David Halberstam, text by Peter Richmond

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Book of Books Books

The World of Biblical Literature

by Robert Alter

Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text

by Burton L. Visotzky

The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis

by Leslie Brisman

The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature

by Ricardo J. Quinones


Squaring the Chinese Circle

Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture

by Jonathan D. Spence

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic Part 2: Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution 1966–1982

edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, edited by John K. Fairbank


Bush Abroad

Marching in Place

by Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame

The Ruses for War: American Intervention Since World War II

by John Quigley

The Shape of the New Europe

edited by Gregory F. Treverton

Guardians of the Gulf: A History of America's Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf

by Michael A. Palmer

The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose

by Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson

The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis

by Elaine Sciolino

Lines in the Sand

by Deborah Amos

Mr. Bush's War: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion

by Stephen R. Graubard

George Bush's War

by Jean Edward Smith

Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics

by Eric Alterman

The Commanders

by Bob Woodward

It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography

by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Peter Petrie

Illusions of Triumph

by Mohamed Heikal

Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War

by Dilip Hiro

Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War

US News and World Report

On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War

by Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr.

Storm over Iraq

by Richard P. Hallion

Needless Deaths in the Gulf: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War

Ethics and the Gulf War

by Kenneth L. Vaux

Just War and the Gulf War

by James Turner Johnson and George Weigel

But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War

by Jean Bethke Elshtain and Stanley Hauerwas and Sari Nusseibeh and Michael Walzer and George Weigel

Against the Fires of Hell: The Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War

by T.M. Hawley

The Fire This Time

by Ramsey Clark

Deterring Democracy

by Noam Chomsky

The Gulf War and the New World Order

edited by Haim Bresheeth, edited by Nira Yuval-Davis

War and the Media

by Philip M. Taylor

Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War

by John R. MacArthur

The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime

edited by Hedrick Smith

A Search for Enemies

by Ted Galen Carpenter

Designing Defense for a New World Order

by Earl Ravenal

Defense for a New Era: Lessons of the Persian Gulf War

by Les Aspin and William Dickinson. the House Armed Services Committee

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