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Jesus in the Mean Streets

The Last Temptation of Christ

a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Paul Schrader


Getting Rough on the Poor

The Family Security Act of 1988 ("The Moynihan Bill")

Report of the Committee on Finance, US Senate

Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America

by Michael S. Dukakis and Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family

by David T. Ellwood

Challenge To Leadership: Economic and Social Issues for the Next Decade

edited by Isabel V. Sawhill

Laboratories of Democracy

by David Osborne

The New Consensus on Family and Welfare

edited by Michael Novak et al.

Remaking the Welfare State: Retrenchment and Social Policy in America and Europe

edited by Michael K. Brown

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Operamania

A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera

by Peter Conrad


Two Roads to Stockholm

Free Radical: Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C

by Ralph W. Moss

In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work

by Rita Levi-Montalcini, translated by Luigi Attardi


Vita Nuova

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

by Philip Roth


The Genius of San Jerónimo

A Sor Juana Anthology

translated by Alan S. Trueblood, foreword by Octavio Paz

Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith

by Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden


Portrait of the Artist

Painting as an Art

by Richard Wollheim


The Triumph of Will

Young Shakespeare

by Russell Fraser


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