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The Servant of Two Masters (Plays for Performance) מאת Carlo Goldoni Dorothy Louise's adaptation uses contemporary language to involve actors and audiences in Carlo Goldoni's great classic commedia dell'arte play....

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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers מאת Filip Muller Muller is a source-one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it....

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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan מאת Aldous Huxley A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity--these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely....

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Rethinking Kennedy: An Interpretive Biography מאת Michael O'Brien After an initial honeymoon with historians, in recent years John F. Kennedy has been more carefully scrutinized, resulting in a wide variety of assessments of his presidency and his life. Michael O'Brien, who knows as much about Kennedy as any historian now writing, has distilled the findings of his...

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The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 מאת Anthony J. Badger This notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal. The author considers important aspects of New Deal activity and explores the major problems in interpreting the history of each....

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Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA מאת John Prados From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operat...

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Medea (Plays for Performance) מאת Euripides Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage....

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The Baseball Entertainer מאת Robert Kuenster Here's the perfect leisure-time and take-along book for baseball fans: a compendium of challenging quizzes, crossword puzzles, rules interpretation problems, brain teasers, humorous anecdotes, cartoons, and eye-opening statistical charts, all about baseball and all drawn from more than sixty years o...

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Antigone: In a New Translation (Plays for Performance) מאת Sophocles One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, "Antigone" continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering....

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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs (Edward Burlingame Book) מאת David Pryce-Jones This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, drive the Arabs in their dealings with each other and with the West. In the postwar world, he argues, the Arabs revert...

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On the Waterfront מאת Budd Schulberg Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyon...

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Irrefutable Evidence: Adventures in the History of Forensic Science מאת Michael Kurland Irrefutable Evidence explores the rise of modern DNA typing techniques, which have proven the innocence of many persons convicted of major crimes and resulted in the exoneration of more than two hundred on death row....

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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History מאת Isaiah Berlin The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system....

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Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Met's First Year מאת Jimmy Breslin A vivid history of the Mets, preserving for all time a wonderful look at New York's other team, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author....

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The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot מאת Thomas Maeder Was he a sadistic mass killer who lured innocent people to their deaths, or a hero of German-occupied Paris who liquidated members of the Gestapo and helped persecuted Jews escape from tormented France? This was the question as one of the twentieth century's most sensational murder cases came to tri...

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Boomers: The Cold-War Generation Grows Up (American Childhoods) מאת Victor D. Brooks The unexpected surge in the birthrate between 1946 and 1964 transformed American society. A nation that had projected a population peaking at 150 million, and feared a renewal of the Great Depression in the wake of World War II, found itself dealing with a booming economy and 70 million children str...

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Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies מאת Richard Schickel In absorbing essays on books about film, the distinguished critic Richard Schickel offers more insights into moviemaking on every page than a reader will find in an entire shelf of film encyclopedias. His trenchant observations about films, actors, directors, producers, and the machinations of an al...

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Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920: How the Second Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America מאת June Alexander The second wave of U.S. immigration, from 1870 to 1920, brought more than 26 million men, women, and children onto American shores. June Alexander's history of the period underscores the diversity of peoples who came to the United States in these years and emphasizes the important shifts in their ge...

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Kant in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) מאת Paul Strathern These concise and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in an entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisa...

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Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas מאת Arthur Schnitzler Reinforces the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist. ...

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The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance) מאת Nicholas Rudall As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage, "The Trojan Woman" is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war's brutality....

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Notes to an Actor מאת Ron Marasco Do you have any notes for me? If you have spent any time in the theater, or in film or television production, or have an actor in your family, or hope to be an actor, this question will have a familiar ring. Actors always ask for notes on their performance, and they will take them from just about an...

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Trollope the Traveller: Selections from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings מאת Anthony Trollope Reports from the West Indies, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa by the quintessential Victorian voyager, an adventurous and energetic sightseer with a fine sense of humor and irony....

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Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend מאת Elizabeth Wilson When renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich died less than a year ago at the age of eighty, the world lost not only an extraordinary musician but an accomplished conductor, an outsize personality, and a courageous human being. It is not an exaggeration to say that the history of the cello in the twe...

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La Ronde מאת Arthur Schnitzler First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best-seller, scandalized Vi...

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The Pitch That Killed מאת Mike Sowell The story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Mr. Sowell's book investigates the incident and probes deep into the backgrounds of the players involved and the events that led to...

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Taking the Occasion מאת Daniel Brown The eighth winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize is Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion. From its opening lines, his book sounds a new note in poetry: The thing about the old one about / The tree in the forest and nobody's around / And how it falls maybe with a sound, / Maybe not . . . In poem aft...

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A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television מאת David Everitt The Cold War came to broadcasting in 1950. In that year, just as the Korean War was about to erupt, there appeared from a small publisher a booklet called Red Channels, which listed 151 suspected Communist sympathizers in broadcasting. Within months the blacklist in radio and TV began. The purge ...

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Mental Toughness: Baseball's Winning Edge מאת Karl Kuehl Mental Toughness is the art of turning promise into performance. It's about individuals taking control of their lives in order to gain the most from their abilities....

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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution מאת Gertrude Himmelfarb A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness....

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Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America (Introducing the Library of African-American Biography...) מאת Thomas Dyja The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington. For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader...

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Invasions: New Poems (Ivan R. Dee Paperback Original) מאת Adam Kirsch In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world. Mr. Ki...

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Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870: How the First Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America מאת James Bergquist Early-nineteenth-century America experienced the first wave of immigration after Independence, when Germans, Irish, English, Scandinavians, and, on the West Coast, even Chinese began to arrived in significant numbers. These new settlers had a profound impact on such national developments as westward...

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A Short History of the Twentieth Century מאת Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Blainey has applied his narrative talents and his scholarly credentials to trace the history of a tempestuous century. A Short History of the Twentieth Century carries some of the excitement of the times as well as the power of unforeseen events. The theme that dominates much of the book is...

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Destiny Calling: How the People Elected Barack Obama מאת Charles Madigan Emphasizing the revealing experiences of representative Americans from around the country, who tell how the previous eight years of failed policies shaped their personal fate and prompted them to vote for a newcomer blazing the banner of change, Destiny Calling traces a political campaign that fulfi...

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Literary Reminiscences: And Autobiographical Fragments מאת Ivan Turgenev Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist's experience into a work of art. The best possible introduction to the author a reader could ask for. --New York Herald-Tribune....

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Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy מאת David A. Smith Government funding of the arts in America has never followed an easy course. Whether on a local or national scale, political support for the arts carries with it a sense of exchange-the expectation that in return for money the community will benefit. But this concept is fraught with potential diffic...

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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow מאת Raymond W. Smock From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence ...

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The Fifth Season: Tales of My Life in Baseball מאת Donald Honig If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine wou...

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Worst Enemy: The Reluctant Transformation of the American Military מאת John Arquilla Worst Enemy offers an inside analysis of the events that have derailed our efforts to transform the nation's military into a leaner, lighter, and much more networked force. Mr. Arquilla places these events in historical context and assesses Donald Rumsfeld's role as secretary of defense of the post-...

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But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 מאת Peter Morris But Didn't We Have Fun? covers a period in the early days of baseball that even those who think they know everything about the popular American sport do not know. Peter Morris--an indefatigable researcher and brilliant chronicler, and winner of both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award--is the firs...

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Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific מאת Geoffrey Blainey In 1769 two ships set out independently in search of a missing continent: a French merchant ship, the St. Jean-Baptiste, commanded by Jean de Surville, and a small British naval vessel, the Endeavour, commanded by Captain James Cook. That Christmas, in New Zealand waters, the two captains were almos...

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Wittgenstein's Vienna מאת Allan Janik The life and culture of Hapsburg, Vienna before World War I--the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era....

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God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America מאת Naomi Schaefer Riley Religious colleges and universities in America are growing at a breakneck pace. In this startling new book, journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley explores these schools-interviewing administrators, professors, and students-to produce the first popular, accessible, and comprehensive investigation of this p...

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Remembering Sam: A Wartime Story of Love Loss and Redemption מאת David Everitt Around the time of his own father's funeral ten years ago, David Everitt reads a letter from a friend of his mother's first husband, Sam Kramer, who was killed in combat just days before the end of World War II. The letter establishes once and for all that Sam was a war hero, and that his death was ...

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Thirty Tons a Day מאת Bill Veeck In between his romances with baseball, in early 1969 Bill Veeck took up the challenge of managing Boston's semi-moribund Suffolk Downs racetrack. When he took over the track, Veeck had yet to learn that the normal daily output of some sixteen hundred horses (including straw) would amount to so much,...

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James Purdy: Selected Plays מאת James Purdy Hailed as "a creative genius" (TLS) and "a singular American visionary" (New York Times), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he was also an astonishing playwright who wrote nine full-length and twenty short plays. Purdy was one of the few contemporary American...

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Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation מאת John Tytell Energy, conviction, and unexpected brilliance.-New Yorker. The definitive history of the 'beat generation'.... It is an authoritative piece of literary history as a result of which Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg will be read with greater understanding, sympathy, and insight.-Leon Edel. Naked Angel...

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Artaud on Theatre מאת Claude Schumacher "One of the great daring mapmakers of consciousness in extremis.-Susan Sontag. For Artaud, the actor is the victim at the stake desperately signaling through the flames.-Peter Brook"...

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A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001 מאת William O'Neill The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is the subject of William O'Neill's brilliant new study of recent American history. Mr. O'Neill's sharp eye for the telling incident and the apt quotation combine with an...

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Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva מאת Ann Blainey Nobody sings like Melba, and nobody ever will, proclaimed the impresario Oscar Hammerstein in 1908. Like many others of his time, he considered her the world's greatest singer. The wild acclaim showered on her by American fans led to the coining of the word Melbamania. Year after year she toured Ame...

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Tenured Radicals, 3rd Edition: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education מאת Roger Kimball Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now taught and studied in American universities. Tenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles. In ...

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Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life מאת Hank Greenberg Once in a great while there appears a baseball player who transcends the game and earns universal admiration from his fellow players, from fans, and from the American people. Such a man was Hank Greenberg, whose dynamic life and legendary career are among baseball's most inspiring stories. The Story...

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Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series) מאת Gene Smiley Drawing upon recent economic scholarship to present a clear and nontechnical analysis, Mr. Smiley offers new insights and some surprising conclusions about the causes of the Great Depression, the consequences of the New Deal, and the economic effects of World War II. An accessible survey...challenge...

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The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's מאת Heather Mac Donald Heather Mac Donald describes how an epidemic of crime, gangs, and illegitimacy is creating a new Hispanic underclass, and how the Mexican government aids and abets illegal immigration to the United States and thwarts state and local attempts to resist it. Steven Malanga shows how, despite much argum...

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The Social Agent: A True Intrigue of Sex, Lies, and Heartbreak Behind the Iron Curtain מאת Charles Laurence Prague in the 1950s was a city of fear and spies and sooty fogs, Charles Laurence writes in the opening lines of The Social Agent. As the son of the No. 2 man at the British embassy in Prague, Mr. Laurence observed with wide eyes a great deal during the years his family lived there. And he had to gu...

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Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Sideshow מאת Elizabeth Brackett Weeks after President Barack Obama's remarkable victory, the nation was shocked to learn that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich had been arrested at his home by the FBI. There are allegations that Blago had tried to sell Obama's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat for cash. This effort appeared to be onl...

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1968: The Election That Changed America (The American Ways) מאת Lewis L. Gould A concise and engrossing analysis of the crucial race for the White House that ushered in the Republican ascendancy and left the Democrats divided and torn....

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No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics מאת Robert Shogan Have you no sense of decency, sir? asked attorney Robert Welch in a climatic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented and magni...

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Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power מאת Gene Dattel Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil Wa...

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Landscape and Journey מאת William Virgil Davis

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I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies מאת Daniel M. Kimmel In considering the greatest of these films over time, Mr. Kimmel explains why When Harry Met Sally (1989) was called the greatest movie Woody Allen never made. Or how off-screen relationships helped My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard were divorced but remained friends) but interfered ...

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The End of Baseball: A Novel מאת Peter Schilling Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues, fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals as one of the greatest ever to play the game. Here are the behind-the-scenes adventures that bring this dream to r...

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The Hustler's Handbook מאת Bill Veeck The Hustler's Handbook is a rich, hilarious, flagrantly outspoken lesson on how to operate as a hustler in the corporate jungle of modern baseball....