The NEW-BOOKS List
A Selection of New Books
Published in the English Language
April 23, 1997
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Contents:
1. Literature and the Arts
2. Other Humanities
3. Social Sciences
4. Basic Sciences
5. Notices
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"In the English language alone, 100,000 new
titles are published each year. And that's along
with hundreds of thousands of other titles in
Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, etc. It's not a glut,
it's the flowering of the human race."
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1. LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Charles Baxter: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
Essays on Fiction
Graywolf, Saint Paul MN, 248p, US22.95
Martha Cerda: SENORA RODRIGUEZ AND OTHER WORLDS
A Novel. Trans. Sylvia Jimenez-Anderson
Duke U., Durham NC, 128p, US35, paper US12.95
Seamus Deane: READING IN THE DARK
A Novel
Knopf, New York, 272p, US23
T. S. Eliot: INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE
Poems 1909 - 1917
Edited by Christopher Ricks
Harcourt Brace, New York, 428p, US30
Alberto Fuguet: BAD VIBES
A Novel. Trans. Kristina Cordero
St. Martin's, New York, 320p, US22.95
Elizabeth Harvor: LET ME BE THE ONE
Eight Short Stories
HarperCollins, New York, 192p, US18
Robert Hughes: AMERICAN VISIONS
The Epic History of Art in America
Knopf, New York, illus., 635p, US65
Ada Louise Huxtable: THE UNREAL AMERICA
Architecture and Illusion
New Press, New York, 208p, US30
Klaus Kertess: JOAN MITCHELL
A Biography
Abrams, New York, illus. 204p, US60
Gavin Lambert: NAZIMOVA
A Biography
Knopf, New York, 432p, US32.50
Hugh Macdonald (ed.): SELECTED LETTERS OF BERLIOZ
W.W. Norton, New York, 496p, US35
Rick Moody: PURPLE AMERICA
A Novel
Little, Brown, New York, 304p, US22.95
Valerie Grosvenor Myer: JANE AUSTEN
Obstinate Heart
Arcade, New York, 288p, US24.95
Alice Leccese Powers (ed.): ITALY IN MIND
An Anthology
Vintage, New York, 400p, US14
Philip Roth: AMERICAN PASTORAL
A Novel
Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 423p, US26
Mira Schor: WET
On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture
Duke U.P., Durham NC, 280p, US49.95, paper US16.95
Bernard Taper: BALANCHINE
A Biography
U. California P., San Francisco CA, US15.95
Lois-Ann Yamanaka: BLU'S HANGING
A Novel
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 288p, US22
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2. OTHER HUMANITIES
Isaiah Berlin: THE SENSE OF REALITY
Studies in Ideas and Their History
Henry Hardy (ed.)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 304p, US25
Gordon Brook-Shepherd: THE AUSTRIANS
A Thousand Year Odyssey
Carroll & Graf, New York, 512p, US28
Patricia Fortini Brown: VENICE AND ANTIQUTY
The Venetian Sense of the Past
Yale U. P., New Haven, illus., 361p, US60
Douglas R. Hofstadter: LE TON BEAU DE MAROT
In Praise of the Music of Language
Basic, New York, 816p, US30
Tim Judah: THE SERBS
History, Myth & the Destruction of Yugoslavia
Yale U.P., New Haven CT, 335p, US30
Alain Schnapp: THE DISCOVERY OF THE PAST
Trans. Ian Kinnes and Gillian Varndell
Abrams, New York, illus., 384p, US45
Marcus Tanner: CROATIA
Rebirth of a Nation
Yale U.P., New Haven CT, 322p, US30
Betty Wood: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY
The English Colonies, 1607 - 1700
Hill & Wang, New York, 144p, US17.95
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3. SOCIAL SCIENCES
Brian M. Fagan et al: THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ARCHEOLOGY
Oxford U.P., New York, illus., 844p, US55
Linda Kerber: WOMEN'S HISTORY
Toward an Intellectual History of Women
U. North Carolina P., Durham NC, 352p, US49.95, paper US18.95
S. Ferriss and R. Sandoval: THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
Harcourt Brace, New York, 352p, US25
Katherine Nelson: LANGUAGE IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Emergence of the Mediated Mind
Cambridge U.P., New York, illus., 432p, US44.95
Michael J. O'Brien (ed.): EVOLUTIONARY ARCHEOLOGY
Theory and Application
U. Utah P., Salt Lake City UT, illus., 329p, US55, paper US25
Patrick Smith: JAPAN
A Reinterpretation
Pantheon, New York, 400p, US27.50
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4. BASIC SCIENCES
Steven J. Dick: THE BIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE
The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
Cambridge U.P., New York, illus., 578p, US54.95
Ronald Glasser: THE LIGHT IN THE SKULL
An Odyssey of Medical Discovery
Faber & Faber, Winchester MA, 210p, US24.95
David Healy: THE PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGISTS
Interviews
Altman, New York, 633p, US82.95
Helge Kragh: COSMOLOGY AND CONTROVERSY
Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe
Princeton U.P., Princeton NJ, illus., 501p, US35
Viteslav Orel: GREGOR MENDEL
The First Geneticist
Oxford U.P., New York, illus., 363p, US49.95
Ruth Lewin Sime: LISE MEITNER
A Life in Physics
U. California P., San Francisco CA, US16.95
Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Early Development
Attachment Research Center
University of Buenos Aires
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