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Lives of the Saints

No Other Life

by Brian Moore


Their Favorite Thief

Genet: A Biography

by Edmund White

The Selected Writings of Jean Genet

edited and with an introduction by Edmund White


Chicago Underground

While Chicago has long been known as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” what has mattered from the outset is that it has had a brain on those shoulders: a technological and commercial mind and a reforming, even a socially creative, intellect.

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

by William Cronon

Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893

by James Gilbert

Constructing Chicago

by Daniel Bluestone

Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament Inc., 986 Woodland Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07006, 908-757-4700; (fax) 908-756-4133. Discount available for booksellers.)

foreword by John Zukowsky and Susan Glover Godlewski, essay by Lauren S Weingarden


The Age of Innocence

Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' 'A Gift to Young Housewives'

translated and introduced by Joyce Toomre


Joyce’s Many Lives

Joyce was an Irishman, a Dubliner, a lapsed or apostate Catholic, a heavy drinker, a spendthrift, a fancy dresser, an epicure, a pretty good tenor, a lover of Italian opera, a woebegone father, and a devoted but exasperating husband.

James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915

by Peter Costello

James Joyce: A Literary Life

by Morris Beja

James Joyce's Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings

edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel

James Joyce's Chamber Music: Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer

sung by Robert White, accompanied by Samuel Sanders

Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text

edited by Ruth H. Bauerle

Dubliners

by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, edited by R. B. Kershner

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, edited by Seamus Deane

Ulysses

by James Joyce, edited by Jeri Johnson

Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal

edited by Thomas F. Staley and Randolph Lewis

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Women and Pornography

Only Words

by Catherine A. MacKinnon


The Medium Inquisitor

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 (1986)

edited by John O'Brian

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945–1949 (1986)

edited by John O'Brian

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950–1956

edited by John O'Brian

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1959–1969

edited by John O'Brian


What Art Tells Us

History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past

by Francis Haskell


The Miraculous Mandarin

William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume One, Donne and the New Philosophy

edited by John Haffenden

William Empson: Argufying, Essays on Literature and Culture

edited by John Haffenden


Nature’s Biggest Secret

Dreams of a Final Theory

by Steven Weinberg


How Europe Became Europe

The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350

by Robert Bartlett


The Golden Land

The overland crossing to California has long had the aspect of a quest, and residents have dwelled upon the place and its meaning since the first remote settlement: What did that voyage ultimately mean?

The California Water Atlas

edited by William L. Kahrl

Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986

by Robert Kelley

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

by Charles Nordhoff

A Companion to California

by James D. Hart

The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland

by Stephen Johnson and Robert Dawson, text by Gerald Haslam

Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday

California, From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study in American Character

by Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard (1992)

by Robert V. Hine

Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915

by Kevin Starr

California: The Great Exception

by Carey McWilliams

The Octopus

by Frank Norris

The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir

by Jane Hollister Wheelwright

Politics of Land: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Land Use in California

Up & Down California, 1860–-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer

edited by Francis P. Farquhar

The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness

by G. William Domhoff

The Greatest Men's Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove

by John van der Zee

Impact of Defense Cuts on California

prepared by the Commission on State Finance

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