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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

by Harold Bloom


Apocalypse Now?

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray


The Blood of the Poor

The Silent Angel

by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell


A Seemingly Ordinary Man

“Franco himself emerges as a colorless figure, a bourgeois family man, with no private vices and no civic virtues beyond a military sense of duty and honor, addicted like his subjects to TV and football, his mind inhabited by the ghosts of the past and snatches of stale Falangist rhetoric.”

Franco

by Paul Preston


A Kinder, Gentler Perversity

Ed Wood

directed by Tim Burton. Touchstone Pictures

The Violent Years

Jail Bait

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Night of the Ghouls

Bride of the Monster

Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex)

Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora

directed by Ted Newsom

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Unmasking the Monster

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Dr. Li Zhisui

translated by Tai Hung-chao, with the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston, foreword by Andrew J. Nathan


Doubles

The Master of Petersburg

by J.M. Coetzee

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews

by J. M. Coetzee, edited by David Attwell

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky


Loot

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Spoils of World War II: The American Military's Role in the Stealing of Europe's Treasures

by Kenneth D. Alford


The New Painting

Origins of Impressionism 27, 1994-January 8, 1995

an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September

Origins of Impressionism

catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette


The Revenge of the Repressed

Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found

by Lenore Terr

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse

by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham

Remembering Satan

by Lawrence Wright

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition)

by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria

by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters

Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives

by Mark Pendergrast

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