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Looking Back By Russell Baker In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past. Price: $15.96 (20% off)

The Struggle for Iran By Christopher de Bellaigue Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists? Bellaigue addresses these and other questions in this essential guide to a nation that is certain to be in the headlines for some time to come. Price: $18.36 (20% off)

The First and the Last By Isaiah Berlin Tributes by Noel Annan, Stuart Hampshire, Aileen Kelly, Avishai Margalit, and Bernard Williams vividly recall Berlin as conversationalist, music lover, philosopher, and friend. The perfect introduction to Berlin's ideas. Price: $15.96 (20% off)

The Age of Conversation (paperback) By Benedetta Craveri Translated by Teresa Waugh An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them. Price: $15.16 (20% off)

The Memory Wars By Frederick C. Crews "A dazzling book. Crews brilliantly marshals the damning new scholarship on Freud the man and on analytic theory." —Carol Tavris Price: $18.36 (20% off)

The Memory Wars (paperback) By Frederick C. Crews In these essays, Crews elaborates upon his belief that "the relatively patent and vulgar pseudoscience of recovered memory rests in appreciable measure on the respectable and entrenched pseudoscience of psychoanalysis." Price: $10.36 (20% off)

Torture and Truth By Mark Danner Read together, these memos and reports should make us confront, as a democratic society, the urgent questions that Mark Danner poses in this book, and that remain unanswered: Does fighting a "new kind of war" on terror justify torture? Who will we hold responsible for deciding to pursue such a policy, and what will be the moral and political costs to the country? Price: $19.96 (20% off)

The Secret Way To War By Mark Danner Preface by Frank Rich An award-winning investigative journalist evaluates the controversial American and British stratagem for the Iraq war. Price: $9.56 (20% off)

Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 By Joan Didion Preface by Frank Rich Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America—a "New Unilateralism"—and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens. Price: $6.36 (20% off)

Alone! Alone! By Rosemary Dinnage In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. Price: $11.96 (20% off)

Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush's Washington By Elizabeth Drew Preface by Russell Baker Russell Baker in his preface writes: "In Washington an age of moral and philosophical sterility is deeply entrenched, and as Elizabeth Drew's reporting attests, the result is not pretty. " Price: $6.36 (20% off)

The Supreme Court Phalanx By Ronald Dworkin Ronald Dworkin analyzes the partisan decisions of the current Supreme Court and argues that Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas have created a conservative alliance bent on rewriting constitutional law, leaving past decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and campaign financing vulnerable to reversal in the next several years. Price: $10.36 (20% off)

The Scientist as Rebel By Freeman Dyson An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls "one of the world's most original minds." Price: $22.36 (20% off)

The Scientist as Rebel By Freeman Dyson New in paperback. Dyson profiles scientists—Newton Einstein, Teller, Feynman—whose independent thought allowed them to make great conceptual leaps. Dyson also puts forth some heterodox ideas of his own on topics like space colonization and the paranormal, living up to his reputation as "one of the world's most original minds."—Times (London) Price: $14.36 (20% off)

Makers of Modern Architecture By Martin Filler Through the remarkable stories of their lives and his incisive judgments about their works, Martin Filler describes how these modern architects have transformed our sense of buildings, interiors, and the urban environment. Price: $22.36 (20% off)

There You Are By Thomas Flanagan Preface by Seamus Heaney Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Cahill In these essays and reviews, Flanagan reflects on past and present Irish history, on writers such as Yeats, O'Neill, Brian Moore, and O'Hara, as well as on Fitzgerald, Joyce, Mary McCarthy, Eugene O'Neill, Darcy O'Brien, Hemingway, and the films of John Ford. Price: $22.36 (20% off)

America Goes Backward By Stanley Hoffmann "Wrong assumptions, immoderate and confused ends, served by a mixture of counterproductive, inadequate, mismanaged, and, at times, scandalous means": Stanley Hoffmann's verdict on the US invasion of Iraq carries an uneasy echo of his view of the US failure in Vietnam. Price: $7.16 (20% off)

Opera and the Morbidity of Music By Joseph Kerman Joseph Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, and argues that the recent upsurge of interest in opera is proof of an extremely invigorating and healthy art form. Price: $22.36 (20% off)

It Ain't Necessarily So (paperback) By Richard C. Lewontin "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." (Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review) Price: $11.96 (20% off)

It Ain't Necessarily So By Richard C. Lewontin "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." —Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review Price: $19.96 (20% off)

The Reckless Mind By Mark Lilla The Reckless Mind is a study of how a number of important twentieth-century European intellectuals came to support tyrannical regimes and totalitarian political ideas. Price: $19.96 (20% off)

The Reckless Mind (paperback) By Mark Lilla How can intellectuals, who should be alert to the evils of tyranny, betray the ideals of freedom and independent inquiry? How can they take positions that, implicitly or not, endorse oppression and human suffering on a vast scale? Price: $13.56 (20% off)

Now They Tell Us By Michael Massing Preface by Orville Schell Michael Massing describes the American press coverage of the war in Iraq as "the unseen war," an ironic reference given the number of reporters in Iraq and in Doha, Qatar, the location of the Coalition Media Center with its $250,000 stage set. Price: $7.96 (20% off)

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays By Mary McCarthy Edited and with an introduction by A.O. Scott "Fierce, provocative, and lovely, a collection of small masterpieces, by one of the twentieth century's most dazzling minds." —Katie Roiphe Price: $19.96 (20% off)

Sacagawea's Nickname By Larry McMurtry Once again Larry McMurtry casts a keen and elegaic eye not only on the often harsh truths of the West, but also on the power of western illusions. Price: $15.96 (20% off)

Sacagawea's Nickname (paperback) By Larry McMurtry In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars—figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality. Price: $11.96 (20% off)

Welcome to Doomsday By Bill Moyers Preface by Bill McKibben Welcome to Doomsday is an investigation into the coupling of ideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion into political life, in America today. Price: $6.36 (20% off)

Reading and Writing By V.S. Naipaul In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. Price: $13.56 (20% off)

China's New Rulers (paperback) By Andrew J. Nathan Bruce Gilley China's New Rulers contains the first insights into matters of great importance to the West: who will lead China, what changes they may bring to their country, and how they may act as international partners and competitors. Price: $13.56 (20% off)

The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain By B. Netanyahu Essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion. Price: $30.00 (20% off)

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