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How to Understand the Disaster

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression

by Richard A. Posner


A Constant Reader

Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

by Timothy W. Ryback


Living with Islam

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East

by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

La Peur des barbares: Au-delà du choc des civilisations [Fear of the Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations]

by Tzvetan Todorov


Mad Dreams in the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann


Who Should Own the World’s Antiquities?

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage

by James Cuno

Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities

edited by James Cuno


Transcendental Woman

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years

by Charles Capper

Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim

by Meg McGavran Murray

Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates

edited by Joel Myerson


A Silly, Very Cultured Club

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England

by Bruce Redford


The Universities in Trouble

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment

by David F. Swensen

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education

by Peter Sacks

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites

by Mitchell L. Stevens

Fulfilling the Commitment: Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid in Brief

by Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson, and others

Trends in College Spending: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go?

by Jane V. Wellman and others


The Voice of the Eagle

An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripides

translated from the Greek by Anne Carson

An Oresteia: Part 1: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles

directed by Brian Kulick and Gisela Cardenas

An Oresteia: Part 2: Orestes by Euripides

directed by Paul Lazar, with choreography by Annie-B Parson


The Not-So-Good Cop

Crime

by Irvine Welsh


The Scholar of Scholars

Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

by Anthony Grafton


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