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Making Faces

Gilbert Stuart

Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles


The Art of Pleasing

It was the charm Margot Fonteyn radiated, the lovability, that made her so cherished by audiences for more than four decades.

Margot Fonteyn: A Life

by Meredith Daneman


The End of the Affair

The Life of Graham Greene,Volume Three: 1955–1991

by Norman Sherry


Faith-Based History

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments

by Gertrude Himmelfarb


Backstage in the Tropics

The Hamilton Case

by Michelle de Kretser


Must Schools Fail?

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom

Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement

by John U. Ogbu, with Astrid Davis

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

by Annette Lareau

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

by Michael K. Brown and others

There Are No Shortcuts

by Rafe Esquith

Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

by Peter Schrag

City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education

by Pedro A. Noguera

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The Ways of Genius

The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture

The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture

Catalog of the exhibition by Mordechai Feingold


What a Disaster!

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

by Adam Zamoyski


Surprise! Surprise!

Return to the City of White Donkeys

by James Tate


For the Birds

Frogs

by Aristophanes, adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Susan Stroman


The Missing Link

Langrishe, Go Down

by Aidan Higgins

A Bestiary

by Aidan Higgins

Flotsam & Jetsam

by Aidan Higgins


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