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Metropolitan Life

The Encyclopedia of New York City

edited by Kenneth T. Jackson


Witness to the Fall

Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of The Soviet Union

by Jack F Matlock Jr.


Design for Living

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

by Henry Petroski


Howl

Sabbath's Theater

by Philip Roth


The Birth of a Nation

Who Are the Macedonians?

by Hugh Poulton


The Christmas Story

“He felt the tickling vacuum that always accompanied the urge to write. In this vacuum something was taking shape, growing. A new, special kind of Christmas…. Same old snow, brand-new conflict….”

Heroes and Hero Worship

Mosaic: Memoirs

by Lincoln Kirstein

Following Balanchine

by Robert Garis


Story of X

In the Cut

by Susanna Moore


Strange and Desperate Cures

Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution

by William R. Newman


The Unexamined Life

Mapplethorpe

edited and designed by Mark Holborn and Dimitri Levas, essay by Arthur C. Danto

Altars

by Robert Mapplethorpe, essay by Edmund White

Mapplethorpe: A Biography

by Patricia Morrisroe

Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera

by Jack Fritscher Ph.D.

Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe

by Arthur C. Danto


Odd Man In

Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling

by Thomas Hager


Feet on the Ground

Louis MacNeice

by Jon Stallworthy


The Mystery of Consciousness: Part II

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

by Francis Crick

Consciousness Explained

by Daniel C. Dennett

The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness

by Gerald M. Edelman

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind

by Gerald M. Edelman

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

by Roger Penrose

The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness

by Israel Rosenfield

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