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WorkCategoryYear
A History of Horror by Wheeler Winston DixonFilm2011
Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema by Alistair FoxFilm2011
Siren City: Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir by Robert MiklitschFilm2011
100 Animated Feature Films (Bfi Screen Guides) by Andrew OsmondFilm2011
Michelangelo red Antonioni blue : eight reflections on cinema by Murray PomeranceFilm2011
African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900--1960 by Charlene B. RegesterFilm2011
Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation (Wesleyan Film) by Christopher SievingFilm2011
Histories of Scientific Observation by Lorraine DastonHistory of Science & Technology2011
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West by John M. FindlayHistory of Science & Technology2011
Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918 1946 by Ronald H. LimbaughHistory of Science & Technology2011
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip BallMusic2011
The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass: Medieval Context to Modern Revival by Andrew KirkmanMusic2011
Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Gundula KreuzerMusic2011
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire by James LoefflerMusic2011
Music and Society in Early Modern England by Christopher MarshMusic2011
Nettl's Elephant by Bruno NettlMusic2011
Stradivari (Musical Performance and Reception) by Stewart PollensMusic2011
The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera by Daniel SnowmanMusic2011
Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs: Aesthetics and Survival by Ann Morrison SpinneyMusic2011
George Gershwin (Yale Broadway Masters Series) by Larry StarrMusic2011
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater by Larry StempelMusic2011
Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement by Nicholas AgarPhilosophy2011
Why Plato Wrote by Danielle S. AllenPhilosophy2011
The Routledge Companion to Epistemology by Sven BerneckerPhilosophy2011
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science by Sissela BokPhilosophy2011
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Peter CorningPhilosophy2011
Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science by Richard DeWittPhilosophy2011
Ethics and Animals: An Introduction by Lori GruenPhilosophy2011
Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary GuttingPhilosophy2011
The Ascent of Man: A Philosophy of Human Nature by James F. HarrisPhilosophy2011
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany HughesPhilosophy2011
On What Matters (2 Volume Set) by Derek ParfitPhilosophy2011
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy 2 Volume Boxed Set by Robert PasnauPhilosophy2011
The Perspective of Morality: Philosophical Foundations of Thomistic Virtue Ethics by Martin RhonheimerPhilosophy2011
Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind by III Holmes RolstonPhilosophy2011
Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem by Zain AbdullahReligion2011
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David BrakkeReligion2011
Nirvana: Concept, Imagery, Narrative by Steven CollinsReligion2011
The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics) by Brian J. GrimReligion2011
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Samuel HeilmanReligion2011
The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions (Penguin Reference Library) by John R. HinnellsReligion2011
The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals by Laura Hobgood-OsterReligion2011
Sitting in Oblivion: The Heart of Daoist Meditation by Livia KohnReligion2011
Understanding Religious Ethics by Charles MathewesReligion2011
Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought (Columbia Series on Religion and Politics) by Richard B. MillerReligion2011
On Greek Religion by Robert ParkerReligion2011
Christianities in Asia (Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity) by Peter C. PhanReligion2011
A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason by Guy G. StroumsaReligion2011
Exploring the Bhagavad Gita by Ithamar TheodorReligion2011
Revolutionary Deists: Early America's Rational Infidels by Kerry WaltersReligion2011
Secularization and Its Discontents by Rob WarnerReligion2011
A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Lauren F. WinnerReligion2011
Bulletproof Feathers: How Science Uses Nature's Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology by Robert AllenScience & Technology2011
Crashes, Crises, and Calamities: How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs by Len FisherScience & Technology2011
Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking by Göran GrimvallScience & Technology2011
Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words by David LindsayScience & Technology2011
The Art of Invention: The Creative Process of Discovery and Design by Steven J. PaleyScience & Technology2011
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo PigliucciScience & Technology2011
Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems, Second Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series) by Ben RogersScience & Technology2011
Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks by William C. TweedScience & Technology2011
Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 by Theresa Jill Dr BucklandTheater & Dance2011
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer HomansTheater & Dance2011
No safe spaces : re-casting race, ethnicity, and nationality in American theater by Angela C. PaoTheater & Dance2011
The Philosophical Actor: A Practical Meditation for Practicing Theatre Artists by Donna Soto-MorettiniTheater & Dance2011
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties by Brett Abbott2011
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance: The Complete Works by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth2011
Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary by Roy Armes2011
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden2011
Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature (Frontiers of Narrative) by Michael Austin2011
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell2011
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs2011
Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World by Michele Tracy Berger2011
Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV by Edward D. Berkowitz2011
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico by Kathleen Berrin2011
Shakespeare and Biography by David Bevington2011
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) by Janet Bishop2011
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom2011
Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation by Daniel Bluestone2011
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (3 Vol. Set) by Michael D. Breed2011
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown2011
A dictionary of critical theory by Ian Buchanan2011
Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China by James Cahill2011
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: The Apollo Theater and American Entertainment by Richard Carlin2011
Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and Memory (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Tomás Ó Carragáin2011
Ovidian myth and sexual deviance in early modern English literature by Sarah Carter2011
Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945 by Sarah Cash2011
Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient (Library of Ottoman Studies) by Roderick Cavaliero2011
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volumes 1-2 by Kang-i Sun Chang2011
A Global History of Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching2011
The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Heather Clark2011
A History of American Tonalism,1880-1920 by David Adams Cleveland2011
Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence by Michael W. Cole2011
The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism by John J. Collins2011
Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance (4-Volume Set) by Rama Cont2011
Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema by Robert J. Corber2011
Photography After Conceptual Art (Art History Special Issues) by Diarmuid Costello2011
The Dictionary of Health Economics (Elgar Original Reference) by A.J. Culyer2011
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film by Marc Dipaolo2011
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry by Stephen Dobyns2011
The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson by George Edmondson2011
The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front Through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists by Frank Ellis2011
Grant Wood: A Life by R. Tripp Evans2011
The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics by Brian Sidney Everitt2011
Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts by Andrew L. Ford2011
The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics (Handbooks in Communication and Media) by Robert S. Fortner2011
The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Terry Friedman2011
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried2011
The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) by Joe B. Fulton2011
Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (Film and Culture Series) by Rosalind Galt2011
Voter turnout in the United States, 1788-2009 by Curtis Gans2011
Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic by David A. Gerstner2011
Photography and the USA (Reaktion Books - Exposures) by Mick Gidley2011
A Dictionary of Entomology by Gordon Gordh2011
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008 by Nadine Gordimer2011
"I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship by Anthony Grafton2011
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton2011
Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films by Barry Keith Grant2011
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling by Linda Greenhouse2011
A History of the Book in America: Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 by Robert A. Gross2011
The Routledge Companion to Film History (Routledge Companions) by William Guynn2011
The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio by Marcia B. Hall2011
The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies by Peter Hayes2011
African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices (Women in Africa and the Diaspora) by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez2011
Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words by Michael C. Hickey2011
French Origins of English Tragedy by Richard Hillman2011
An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War by J. Hoberman2011
The Afterlife of Raphael's Paintings by Cathleen Hoeniger2011
Behind Valkyrie: German Resistance to Hitler: Documents by Peter Hoffmann2011
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang2011
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey2011
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents) by Wu Hung2011
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care by Augustus A. White III2011
Life in a Shell: A Physiologist's View of a Turtle by Donald C. Jackson2011
Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa by K. David Jackson2011
The Encyclopedia of New York City by Kenneth T. Jackson2011
Artaud and His Doubles (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by Kimberly Jannarone2011
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse by Peter Jelavich2011
Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by A. Ross Johnson2011
David to Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology by Dorothy Johnson2011
Trials of the century : an encyclopedia of popular culture and the law by Scott Patrick Johnson2011
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings (Fairy-Tale Studies) by Vanessa Joosen2011
What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici2011
Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles by Mary Hunt Kahlenberg2011
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz2011
The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus2011
Makers: A History of American Studio Craft by Janet Koplos2011
Classics and Comics (Classical Presences) by George Kovacs2011
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs2011
The South That Wasn't There: Postsouthern Memory and History (Southern Literary Studies) by Michael Kreyling2011
The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945 by Otto Dov Kulka2011
The Encyclopedia of Political Science Set by George Thomas Kurian2011
Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician by Elizabeth Eva Leach2011
Jewelry by Artists by Kelly L'Ecuyer2011
Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History by Catherine M. Lewis2011
Witness in Our Time, Second Edition: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers by Ken Light2011
Encyclopedia of Religion in America, 4-Volume Set by Charles H. Lippy2011
The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis by Robert MacSwain2011
Walls: Elements of Garden and Landscape Architecture by Günter Mader2011
The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Victor H. Mair2011
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color by Patricia Phillips Marshall2011
The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 Volume Set by John Anthony McGuckin2011
Berkshire Encyclopedia Of World History: Five Volume Set by William H. McNeill2011
Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine by Lyle J. Micheli MD2011
Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity by Françoise Meltzer2011
Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies by Louis Menashe2011
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Series Q) by Madhavi Menon2011
Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News by Rachel Davis Mersey2011
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature by Julia Mickenberg2011
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (N 8236 .P4 M55 2010) by Ann Millett-Gallant2011
Native American Food Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary by Daniel E. Moerman2011
Capturing the beat moment : cultural politics and the poetics of presence by Erik Mortenson2011
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn2011
Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War by Alexander Nemerov2011
French Animation History by Richard Neupert2011
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon2011
Suspended Animation: Children's Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Nathalie op de Beeck2011
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity by Daniel Patte2011
Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda by Carolyn de la Pena2011
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century by Marjorie Perloff2011
The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree2011
Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography (Southern Literary Studies) by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw2011
Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction by Edward Ragg2011
Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft by Tilottama Rajan2011
Quotology (Stages) by Willis Goth Regier2011
Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds2011
The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts by Alan Richardson2011
The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280 by Jeffrey Rusten2011
Handbook for Classical Research by David M. Schaps2011
The History of Continental Philosophy by Alan D. Schrift2011
Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers by Lewis C. Seifert2011
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon by Nigel Smith2011
Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History by Edith Snook2011
Space Exploration and Humanity: A Historical Encyclopedia (2 Volume Set) by American Astronautical Society2011
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Ilan Stavans2011
The Psychologist's Companion: A Guide to Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers by Robert J. Sternberg2011
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World by Norman Stillman2011
Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) by Kamran Talattof2011
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion by Charles Taliaferro2011
Architectural Identities: Domesticity, Literature, and the Victorian Middle Classes by Andrea Kaston Tange2011
John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism (Art Institute of Chicago) by Martha Tedeschi2011
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley2011
The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia [2 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker2011
The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts by Spencer C. Tucker2011
Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination by John Griffith Urang2011
William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880--1914 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) by Anna Vaninskaya2011
Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times by Cristina Vatulescu2011
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler2011
The Communication of Hate by Michael Waltman2011
Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Barney Warf2011
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley2011
Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story! (African Expressive Cultures) by Herman Wasserman2011
Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection by Niobe Way2011
Basics Creative Photography 01: Design Principles by Jeremy Webb2011
To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art by Rachel Weiss2011
American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet by Edward Keyes Whitley2011
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West by Nicolas S. Witschi2011
Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV) by Kay Young2011

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