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Good Pictures

If the threat of taking boring pix hangs over every photographer of ambition, Diane Arbus was perhaps more conscious of it than any other photographer. 

Diane Arbus Revelations

Catalog of the exhibition by Sandra S. Phillips, Elisabeth Sussman, Doon Arbus, Neil Selkirk, and Jeff L. Rosenheim

Diane Arbus: Family Albums

Catalog of the exhibition by Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz


‘A Great Day in History’

Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations

by Stephen C. Schlesinger


A Very Special Relationship

Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US–Israel Alliance

by Warren Bass

Israel and the Bomb

by Avner Cohen


You Can Go Home Again

Living to Tell the Tale

by Gabriel García Márquez,translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman


The Antipodes of Glory

The Great Fire

by Shirley Hazzard


The Story of a Bubble

The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s

by Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen

The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade

by Joseph E. Stiglitz


Roughing It

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

by Stephen Lovell


STAR!

Natalie Wood: A Life

by Gavin Lambert


Hall of Mirrors

My Life as a Fake

by Peter Carey


In the River of Consciousness

The Principles of Psychology

by William James

Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson

The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory

by Donald Hebb

Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection

by Gerald M. Edelman

Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

by Gerald M. Edelman

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

by Jean-Pierre Changeux

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

by Francis Crick

The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

by Christof Koch, foreword by Francis Crick.

A Natural History of Vision

by Nicholas J. Wade

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