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Our Man in the Eighteenth Century?

History of My Life

by Giacomo Casanova and Chevalier de Seingalt, translated with an Introduction by Willard R. Trask


Art for Whose Sake?

Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance

by E.H. Gombrich


Old Flames

Echoes of Revolt: The Masses 1911-1917

edited by William O'Neill, Introduction by Irving Howe


News from Nowhere

The Grand Eccentrics
Art News Annual XXXII

edited by Thomas B. Hess


Balloons

Nil: Episodes in the Literary Conquest of Void during the Nineteenth Century

by Robert Martin Adams

A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature

by Richard Poirier

In the Human Grain: Technological Culture and Its Effect on Man, Literature and Religion

by Walter J. Ong and S.J.


“Progress, Not Politics”

The Muted Revolution: East Germany's Challenge to Russia and the West

by Welles Hangen


Outcast

Marina Cvetaeva: Her Life and Art

by Simon Karlinsky


Light Mischief

Overcharge: How Electric Utilities Exploit and Mislead the Public, and What You Can Do About It

by US Senator Lee Metcalf and Vic Reinemer


Culture Cults

The Paths of Culture: A General Ethnology

by Kaj Birket-Smith

Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist

by Hortense Powdermaker


Absolute Beginners

Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision

by Georges Balandier

False Start in Africa

by René Dumont

Africa's Search for Identity

by Victor C. Ferkiss


More Heat on the Subject

Justice in Jerusalem

by Gideon Hausner


Petrarch Restored

Letters from Petrarch

selected and edited by Morris Bishop

Petrarch and His World

by Morris Bishop

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