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Depth-Sightings

Sight-Readings: American Fictions

by Elizabeth Hardwick


Jerry Don’t Surf

Saving Private Ryan

a film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Robert Rodat


The New New Math

Multicultural and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom: The Gift of Diversity (1997 Yearbook)

edited by Janet Trentacosta and Margaret J. Kenney

Focus on Algebra: An Integrated Approach

by Randall I. Charles and Alba González Thompson

Life by the Numbers: Math As You've Never Seen It Before

narrated by Danny Glover. Seven boxed videotapes produced by WQED, Pittsburgh


The Case of the Loony Lexicographer

The Professor and the Madman

by Simon Winchester


Don’t Say Goodbye

East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia

by Christopher Patten


Memento Mori

The American Way of Death Revisited

by Jessica Mitford

Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World

by Nigel Barley

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

by Thomas Lynch


The Sun Also Sets

Cities of the Plain, Vol. 3, The Border Trilogy

by Cormac McCarthy


Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights. “A better system of reason,” argued Charles Black, may be found in the Declaration of Independence, the Ninth Amendment, and the Privileges or Immunities Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

A New Birth of Freedom: Human Rights, Named and Unnamed

by Charles L. Black Jr.


Loyal Toward Reality

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

edited and with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz

Mysticism for Beginners

by Adam Zagajewski

Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination

by Adam Zagajewski

Winter Dialogue

by Tomas Venclova, translated by Diana Senechal


Fresh Air Blues

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral

by Charles. Siebert

The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City

by Robert Sullivan

Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park

by Marie Winn


Chechnya: How Russia Lost

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power

by Anatol Lieven

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus

by Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal

Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict, Volume I

by John B. Dunlop

Russia and Chechnia [sic]: The Permanent Crisis Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations

edited by Ben Fowkes


Small Expectations

Man or Mango?: A Lament

by Lucy Ellmann


The L-Word

Liberalism and Its Discontents

by Alan Brinkley


The Way to Grant’s Tomb

The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

by Joseph Rykwert


The Killing Fields of Bosnia

To End a War

by Richard Holbrooke

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

by Marcus Tanner

The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar

text by Eric Stover, photographs by Peress Gilles, foreword by Richard Goldstone

Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime

by Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both

Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia

by Chuck Sudetic

Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica: Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II

by David Rohde

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