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Annals of American bookselling, 1638-1850 / Henry Walcott Boynton ; with an introduction by Joseph Rosenblum.
002 B711A.
The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Vol. 3, 1400-1557 /edited by John Barnard and D.F. McKenzie.
002 C144 v.3.
Cultures of print : essays in the history of the book / David D. Hall.
002 H141C.
Second impression : rural life with a rare bookman / Barbara Kaye (Mrs. Percy Muir).
002 K182S.
The book encompassed : studies in twentieth-century bibliography / edited by Peter Davison.
010 B644.
The Alida Roochvarg collection of books about books : six catalogues and index / with an introduction by Alida Roochvarg ; and an envoi by Lawrence Clark Powell.
016.011 A44.
American books on food and drink : a bibliographical catalog of the cookbook collection housed in the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana / William R. Cagle & Lisa Killion Stafford.
016.64 C117A.
A matter of taste : a bibliographical catalogue of international books on food and drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University / William R. Cagle.
016.64 C117A2.
Cabinets of curiosities / Patrick Mauries.
FOLIO 069 M446C.
Re-imagining the museum : beyond the mausoleum / Andrea Witcomb.
069 W771R.
A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages / Walter Ullmann.
262 U44S.
AVirgins of Venice : broken vows and cloistered lives in the Renaissance convent / Mary Laven.
271 L386V.
Literacy in the new media age / Gunther Kress.
302.2 K884L.
Antisemitism : myth and hate from antiquity to the present / Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer.
305.8 P429.
What liberal media? : the truth about bias and the news / Eric Alterman.
306.4 A47W.
Empire : the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power / Niall Ferguson.
QUARTO 325 F381E.
Greenback : the almighty dollar and the invention of America / Jason Goodwin.
332.4 G634G.
Appetites : why women want / Caroline Knapp.
362 K727W.
The language police : how pressure groups restrict what students learn / Diane Ravitch.
371 R197L.
Creating the American mind : intellect and politics in the Colonial colleges / J. David Hoeveler.
378.73 H672C.
Power and profit : the merchant in medieval Europe / Peter Spufford.
380.1 S68P.
Uniforms : why we are what we wear / Paul Fussell.
391 F987U.
The three-piece suit and modern masculinity : England, 1550-1850 / David Kuchta.
391 K952T.
Dress in eighteenth-century Europe, 1715-1789 / Aileen Ribeiro.
QUARTO 391 R354D.
The corset : a cultural history / Valerie Steele.
391.4 S733C.
Children of the stars : our origin, evolution, and destiny / Daniel R. Altschuler.
520 A79C.
Latitude : how American astronomers solved the mystery of variation / Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter.
526 C245L.
Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883 / Simon Winchester.
551.2 W721K.
Winter world : the ingenuity of animal survival / Bernd Heinrich.
591.4 H364W.



Science, Technology, Cooking and Gardening    Top
The emperor of scent : a story of perfume, obsession, and the last mystery of the senses / Chandler Burr.
612.8 B94E.
Women's bodies, women's wisdom. / Christiane Northrup. 618 N818W.
AHS garden problem solver / Pippa Greenwood.
635 G858G.
Gardening with grasses / Michael King and Piet Oudolf ; foreword by Beth Chatto.
QUARTO 635.9 K585G.
New life for old gardens / Allan Seale ; illustrations by Lorrie Lawrence.
QUARTO 635.9 S42N.
Type foundries of America and their catalogs / compiled and written by Maurice Annenberg ; with additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe, and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman.
QUARTO 655 A56T.
Press, politics, and perseverance : Everett C. Johnson and the Press of Kells / Robert C. Barnes and Judith M. Pfeiffer.
655 B263P.
Book illustrated : text, image, and culture, 1770-1930 / edited by Catherine J. Golden.
655 B644.
Michael Broadbent's vintage wine : fifty years of tasting three centuries of wines / Michael Broadbent.
QUARTO 663 B78M.
An introduction to bibliography for literary students / Ronald B. McKerrow ; introduction by David McKitterick.
686 M199I.



Art, Recreation, Sport    Top
Rapture : art's seduction by fashion since 1970 / Chris Townsend.
QUARTO 704.94 T663R.
Dreamscaping : 25 easy designs for home gardens / Ruth Rogers Clausen.
712 C573D.
The Chinese garden history, art and architecture/ Maggie Keswick ; contributions and conclusion by Charles Jencks.
FOLIO 712 K489C.
20 best garden designs / Tim Newbury.
QUARTO 712 N428T.
Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850 / W. Barksdale Maynard.
QUARTO 720 M454A.
The stones of Venice / by Lionello Puppi ; photographs Mark E. Smith.
FOLIO 721 P969.
Modern architecture and other essays / Vincent Scully ; edited and with introductions by Neil Levine.
QUARTO 724.6 S28M.
Medieval life and leisure in the Devonshire hunting tapestries / Linda Woolley.
FOLIO 746.3 M468.
Gee's Bend : the women and their quilts / John Beardsley ... [et al.] ; introduction by Alvia Wardlaw ; foreword by Peter Marzio.
FOLIO 746.46 G27.
Romantics & revolutionaries : Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery London / introduction by Richard Holmes ; catalogue entries by David Crane, Stephen Hebron & Robert Woof.
QUARTO 757 N213R.
Paris in the age of Impressionism : masterworks from the Musee d'Orsay / David A. Brenneman ... [et al.].
QUARTO 758 P218.
Possession obsession : Andy Warhol and collecting / John W. Smith, editor; with contributions by Pamela Allara ... [et al.].
FOLIO 759 P844.
Winslow Homer : the nature of observation / Elizabeth Johns.
759.13 J621W.
The Ambassadors' secret : Holbein and the world of the Renaissance / John North.
759.3 N811A.
Degas and the dance / Jill De Vonyar and Richard Kendall.
FOLIO 759.4 D498D.
A sum of destructions : Picasso's cultures & the creation of Cubism / Natasha Staller.
QUARTO 759.4 S724S.
Masterful illusions : Japanese prints in the Anne Van Biema collection / Ann Yonemura ; contributions by Donald Keene ... [et al.].
FOLIO 769 Y8M.
Digital photographer's handbook / Tom Ang.
QUARTO 778 A53D.
Songbook / by Nick Hornby ; illustrated by Marcel Dzama of Canada.
781.63 H783S.
Footsteps in the fog : Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco / Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal ; foreword by Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell.
791.43 K855F.
Positively fifth street : murderers, cheetah's, and Binion's World Series of Poker / James McManus.
795 M227P.
Stealing lives : the globalization of baseball and the tragic story of Alexis Quiroz / Arturo J. Marcano Guevara and David P. Fidler.
796.3 Q48S.
By the sword : a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions / Richard Cohen.
796.8 C66B.



Literature and Poetry    Top
The spooky art : some thoughts on writing / Norman Mailer.
808 M281S.
Contemporary literary criticism.
809 C767.
The malcontents : the best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world / edited, with commentary, by Joe Queenan.
809.7 M292.
Gumbo : a celebration of African American writing / edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris.
810.8 G952.
Chinese whispers : poems / by John Ashbery.
811 A83C.
Talking cures : new poems / Richard Howard.
811 H836T.
The perishing / Sherod Santos.
811 S26P.
Hazmat : poems / J.D. McClatchy.
813 M132H.
Quotation marks / Marjorie Garber.
820.9 G163Q.
Moy sand and gravel / Paul Muldoon.
821 M897M.
Consciousness & the novel : connected essays / David Lodge.
823 L821C.
On modern British fiction / edited by Zachary Leader.
823 M72.
Talking cures : new poems / Richard Howard.
811 H836T.
In the land of pain / Alphonse Daudet ; edited and translated by Julian Barnes.
843 D265I.
Silvae / Statius ; edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.
871 S712B.
Greek epic fragments from the seventh to the fifth centuries BC / edited and translated by Martin L. West.
883 G811W.
Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, lives of Homer / edited and translated by Martin L. West.
885 H74W.



History    Top
. 20/21 vision : twentieth-century lessons for the twenty-first century / Bill Emmott.
909.83 E45T.
Travels with a tangerine : a journey in the footnotes of Ibn Battutah / Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
910.4 M217T.
Cousin Felix meets the Buddha and other encounters in China and Tibet / Lincoln Kaye ; illustrated by Mei-lang Hsu.
915.1 K182C.
Dark star safari : overland from Cairo to Cape Town / Paul Theroux.
916 T343D.
Excavating our past : perspectives on the history of the Archaeological Institute of America / edited by Susan Heuck Allen.
930.1 E92.
The Parthenon / Mary Beard.
938 B38P.
The Victorians / A.N. Wilson.
941 W691V.
What I saw : reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 / Joseph Roth ; translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann ; German selection by Michael Bienert.
943 R742W.
The new Iraq : how Iraq's reconstruction can benefit its people, the Middle East, and the world / Joseph Braude.
956.7 B737N.
The threatening storm : the case for invading Iraq / Kenneth M. Pollock.
956.7 P76T.
Jarhead : a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles / Anthony Swofford.
956.7 S96J.
When thunder rolled : an F-105 pilot over North Vietnam / Ed Rasimus.
959.7 R183W.
To begin the world anew : the genius and ambiguities of the American founders / by Bernard Bailyn.
973.3 B159B.
Lincoln's greatest speech : the second inaugural / Ronald C. White, Jr.
973.7 W585L.
Dreaming war : blood for oil and the Cheney-Bush junta / Gore Vidal.
973.93 V667D.
Random family : love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
974.7 L492R.
Los Angeles : people, places, and the castle on the hill / A.M. Homes.
979.4 H753L.
The white rock : an exploration of the Inca heartland / Hugh Thomson.
985 T373W.

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