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Fanning the Gemlike Flame

Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend

by Ernest Samuels, with the collaboration of Jayne Newcomer Samuels


Independent People

A History of the Jews

by Paul Johnson


The ‘War for Washington’

The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why

by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

The Lobby: Jewish Political Power and American Foreign Policy

by Edward Tivnan


How They Got Galileo

Galileo: Heretic (Galileo Eretico)

by Pietro Redondi


Storm Over the Sistine Ceiling

The Sistine Chapel: The Art, the History, and the Restoration

text by Carlo Pietrangeli and André Chastel and John Shearman and John O'Malley and S. J. and Pierluigi de Vecchi and Michael Hirst and Fabrizio Mancinelli and Gianluigi Colalucci and Franco Bernabei


Poet of the Air

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry

by Simon Karlinsky

A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva

by Elaine Feinstein

Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva

translated by Elaine Feinstein


Department of Defense

The Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works

by Robert S. Desowitz


After the Reich

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History

by Fritz Stern

The Two Germanies since 1945

by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

A Voice From Germany

speeches by Richard von Weizsäcker, translated by Karin von Abrams

Die Abschiedsrede [The Farewell Speech]

by Willy Brandt


Crash Diets

Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

by Caroline Walker Bynum


Breaking the Spell

Three Continents

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Talkative Man

by R.K. Narayan


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