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The Wealth Poverty Buys

The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov

edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi


The Artistic Bloke

William Nicholson

by Sanford Schwartz


An Icelandic Saga

Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended

by Jack F. Matlock Jr.


Unanswered Prayer

Checkpoint

by Nicholson Baker


The Truth About Muslims

The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

by Richard Fletcher

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

by Bernard Lewis

In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century

edited and translated by Nabil Matar

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

by Nabil Matar

Islam in Britain, 1558–1685

by Nabil Matar


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Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture

by Annette Stott

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

by Russell Shorto


Dreams of Empire

America's Inadvertent Empire

by William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric

The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire

edited by Andrew J. Bacevich

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Multitude

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

The New Imperialism

by David Harvey

Fear: The History of a Political Idea

by Corey Robin

A New World Order

by Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Passionate Pilgrim

The Cruise of the Vanadis

by Edith Wharton, with photographs by Jonas Dovydenas


Which Is the Real Mendelssohn?

Mendelssohn: A Life in Music

by R. Larry Todd

A Portrait of Mendelssohn

by Clive Brown


The Reigns in Spain

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

by Hugh Thomas

Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

by David A. Lupher

Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empirein the Reign of Philip II

by Stafford Poole

Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789

by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein

Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Chiyo Ishikawa


Taking Reality by Surprise

The Dreamers

a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

The Dreamers

by Gilbert Adair

Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael

by Frances Davis

Godard: Portrait of the Artist at Seventy

by Colin MacCabe


The Closing of the Straussian Mind

The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now

by Carnes Lord

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire

by Anne Norton


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