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The Last Humanist

A Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art

by E.H. Gombrich


Heart of Darkness

The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of an Epidemic

by David Shenk

The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young

by Gary Small, M.D.

A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain

by John J. Ratey, M.D.

The Aging Brain

by Lawrence Whalley

Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's

by Thomas DeBaggio


The Queen of Quinkdom

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin


The Art of Living

A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life of Walter and Matilda Gay

by William Rieder

Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton

by Marion Mainwaring, with a foreword by Richard Howard


The Secret Intelligence Wars

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence

by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI

by Ronald Kessler

Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBIå?s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America

by David Wise

The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History

by David A. Vise

The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in US History

by Elaine Shannon and Ann Blackman


The High Priestess of the Vernacular

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States

by Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan, and a foreword by John Edgar Wideman


You Can’t Keep a Good Sonnet Down

American Sonnets

by Gerald Stern

Swan Electric

by April Bernard

A Short History of the Shadow

by Charles Wright


Wise Men

Benjamin Franklin

by Edmund S. Morgan


The Hiker’s Gospel

The Complete Walker IV

by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins


The Crime of the Century

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe

by Norman M. Naimark

In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century

edited by Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack

The Massacre in History

edited by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts

Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War

by Stuart J. Kaufman


The Genius of Trieste

As a Man Grows Older

by Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete, with an introduction by James Lasdun

Emilio's Carnival

by Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian by Beth Archer Brombert, with an introduction by Victor Brombert

Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by William Weaver, and a preface by Elizabeth Hardwick

Memoir of Italo Svevo

by Livia Veneziani Svevo, translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly


The Witch Hunters’ Crusade

Why did sixteenth-century investigators of witchcraft place such an inordinate emphasis on demonic sex, and why did they concentrate their inquiries on women?

Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief

by Walter Stephens


Great Scots!

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

by Arthur Herman


Guilt Stalker

The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions

by Rick Moody


On the Fatal Shore

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

by Richard Flanagan


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