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History & Biography  Alexander
Pushkin: Master Teacher of DanceBy Gennady Albert. At the great Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg, Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (1907-1970) danced many leading roles from 1925 to 1953. However, it was as a teacher at the Leningrad Choreographic School that he became a legend. Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov were his star pupils, but nearly all the leading male dancers of the Kirov Ballet from the 1940s through the 1960s were taught by him. Filled with personal photos, as well as others of his students and classes, this concise, insightful biography reveals to us the life and techniques of a master teacher. For dance enthusiasts as well as for the serious student and teacher, this small volume illuminates the methods and personality of a man little known in the West, but someone who has made significant contributions to the international world of dance. More ... Read the Foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov 2001, b/w photographs, 200 pages, hardcover, $27.50, ISBN 0-87104-452-8 Buy this book from The Library Shop
By Melinda Corey and George Ochoa. 1994, 240 pages, paperback, $11.00, ISBN 0-671-79634-8 Published by Fireside/Simon & Schuster
Introduction by Francis O. Mattson. Facsimiles of charming gift books (two by Hawthorne) in the Library's Berg Collection, published in the nineteenth century to help paperboys garner tips at holiday time. 1987, 25 facsimile pages including broadside with engraving, 54 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87104-295-9
By Richard B. Bernstein, with Kym S. Rice, foreword by Richard B. Morris, preface by Vartan Gregorian. A thorough examination of the complicated history and philosophy behind the formation of our country's constitution. 1987, b/w illustrations throughout, 19 color plates, 342 pages, paperback, $14.95, ISBN 0-674-04476-2; hardcover edition available from Harvard University Press
By Michael Krondl. With over 150 recipes, customs, and enduring food traditions, this cookbook brings the American experience to life. Updated for today's cook and illustrated with treasures from the Library's collections, this volume celebrates the regional and ethnic diversity of our nation's rich culinary heritage. Two-color illustrations throughout, 352 pages, $24.95, ISBN 1-55850-540-7 Published by Adams Publishing
By Elinor DesVerney Sinnette. The first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose search for the hidden records of the black experience laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. 1989, b/w illustrations, 262 pages, hardcover, $32.95, ISBN 0-8143-2156-9; paperback, $15.95, ISBN 0-8143-2157-7 Available from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; trade discounts available from the Publications Office Buy this book from The Library Shop  Becoming
Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-century
AmericaBy Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman. Visited by over 100,000 people, Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall, The New York Public Library's groundbreaking 1994 exhibit, was the largest and most extensive display of lesbian and gay history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. Now, two of the curators of that exhibition, Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman, have expanded upon the story told by the exhibit, pairing an authoritative text with more than 300 compelling photographs, documents, and artifacts--many never before published--from the Library's collections as well as other sources. Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-century America is sure to be the standard popular reference on the subject. "... an insightful, swiftly paced narrative ... a skilled blend of text and illustrations, and lively, eminently useful summary of modern gay history." --Kirkus Reviews1998, full-color throughout, 282 pp., hardcover, $34.95, ISBN 0-670-86401-3 Published by Penguin Studio Buy this book from The Library Shop
Belarusian Publishing in the West: A Bibliography--Periodicals
By Lola L. Szladits. A biographical tribute to two brothers and philanthropists, Dr. Henry W. and Dr. Albert A. Berg, founders of the Library's Berg Collection of English and American Literature, with a description of their original collection. 1985, 20 b/w illustrations, 76 pages, $10.00, ISBN 0-87104-281-9 By Stephen Wagner and Doucet Devin Fischer. The New York Public Library's Collection of Shelley and His Circle is one of the world's leading repositories for the study of English Romanticism. This illustrated volume includes a brief narrative on the life and works of Shelley, and biographical sketches of the people in his circle, as well as an account of the collection's origins and an informal inventory of its holdings. 1996, Illustrated, 128 pages, paperback, $14.95, ISBN 0-87104-443-9 Buy this book from The Library Shop Edited by William Zeisel. A companion book with essays by major scholars and writers exploring Western censorship, for the opening exhibition in the Library's renovated exhibition space, Gottesman Hall. 1984, b/w illustrations throughout, 12 color plates, 144 pages, paperback, $19.95, ISBN 0-87104-284-3 Buy this book from The Library Shop Text by Columbus scholar Mauricio Obregon, translation by Lucia Graves. An heirloom facsimile edition of the letter Columbus wrote to the royal court describing his first voyage to America. Illustrated with five color maps and engravings from the fifteenth century. 1991, leather and buckram bound, slipcased, 12 1/2" x 11 1/4", $100.00, ISBN 0-02-591045-0 Published by Macmillan USA By Robert Hughes. Based on a series of lectures given by the author, under the auspices of The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press. Hughes delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture. 1993, 210 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-507676-1 Published by Oxford University Press Buy this book from The Library Shop Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: "Man's Final Love" By Hennig Cohen and Donald Yannella. A scholarly analysis of Melville's letter to his brother on the birth of his son, Malcolm. 1992, b/w illustrations, 260 pages, $30.00, ISBN 0-8232-1181-3 Published by Fordham University Press Buy this book from The Schomburg Shop
"A thoughtful and diverse collection with a distinctly literary bent."--Kirkus Reviews complete review and more information 1999, 140 pages, hardcover, $18.95, ISBN 1-56584-504-8; paperback, $12.95, ISBN 1-56584-607-9 Published by The New Press Buy this book from The Library Shop 
Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and HistoryBy Pierre Provoyeur and June Hargrove. A fully illustrated history of the Statue of Liberty from a French and American perspective. 1986, b/w illustrations throughout, 69 color plates, 342 pages, paperback, $19.95, ISBN 0-06-096122-8 Buy this book from The Library Shop Edited by Israel J. Katz. 1991, b/w illustrations throughout, 459 pages, $48.00, ISBN 0-945193-13-0 Published by Pendragon Press By Charles E. Dornbusch. The definitive biblio-graphical reference work on the personal narratives and military history of both sides in the War Between the States. Vol. I: Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives: Northern States1971, 528 pages, $35.00, ISBN 0-87104-504-4 Vol. II: Southern, Border, Western, and Territories; Federal Troops; Union and Confederate Biographies1971, 270 pages, $30.00, ISBN 0-87104-514-1 Vol. III: General References; Armed Forces; Campaigns and Battles1971, 224 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87104-117-0 Buy this book from The Library Shop By Phyllis Dain. An independent, thoroughly documented history of the early Library and its predecessor institutions, described in a social and political context. 1972, 65 b/w illustrations, 466 pages, $35.00, ISBN 0-87104-131-6 Buy this book from The Library Shop Buy this book from The Library Shop
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Edited by Elizabeth Diefendorf, Chief Librarian, General Research Division. Based upon one of the most popular exhibits on display during the Library's Centennial Celebration, this selective collection describes some of the most influential and significant books published between 1895 and 1995. Chosen by the librarians because they helped shape and define the character of the last 100 years, these 160 books represent a variety of themes, from the literary (Ulysses) to the popular (The Joy of Cooking). 1996, 240 pages, paperback, $8.95, ISBN 0-19-511790-5; hardcover, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-510897-3 Published by Oxford University Press 
The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern CultureA compelling new look at the most important contributor to modern science and his effect on modern culture and thought By Mordechai Feingold. Isaac Newton's scientific work at Cambridge University was groundbreaking. From his optical experiments with prisms during the 1660s to the publication of both the Principia (1687) and the Opticks (1704), Newton's achievements were widely disseminated, inciting tremendous interest and excitement. Newtonianism developed into a worldview marked by many tensions: between modernity and the old guard, between the humanities and science, and, in public battles, between great minds. The Newtonian Moment illuminates the many facets of his colossal accomplishments, offering a panoramic view of the profound impact of Newtonianism on the science, literature, art, and religion of the Enlightenment. Copiously illustrated with items drawn from the collections of The New York Public Library as well as numerous other libraries and museums, The Newtonian Moment enlightens with an in-depth look at the man, his world, and his enduring legacy. "Newton's ultimate ascendancy is not a story of irresistible victory but a colorful saga of national prejudice, simple jealousy, ingenious technology and intellectual debate. [Mordechai] Feingold's lucid and cogent account proves that even where one of its chief heroes is concerned, science involves far more than a disinterested pursuit of certainty and truth."--Theodore K. Rabb, Los Angeles Times2004, b/w and full color illustrations throughout, 240 pages, paperback, $22.50, ISBN 0-19-517734-7; hardcover, $40.00, ISBN 0-19-517735-5 Published by Oxford University Press
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By Andrew Heiskell, with Ralph Graves. Born in Naples to expatriate parents, Andrew Heiskell, former Chairman of The New York Public Library, spent a nomadic childhood in a series of European hotels. He did not go to school until he was 10 years old, and never graduated from college. He knew nothing about America when he arrived here at age 20 at the height of the Depression. Nevertheless, only 10 years later he became publisher of Life, the most successful new magazine in the United States. For 20 years, he was the chairman of Time, Inc., and during that time he invented People, the most successful magazine in the history of publishing. For 14 years he was married to Madeleine Carroll, the most glamorous movie star of her time. In 1965 he married Marian Sulzberger, whose family owns The New York Times. He became a prominent figure in the nonprofit world, playing leadership roles at Harvard, the Urban Coalition, the Enterprise Foundation, and many other organizations, in addition to The New York Public Library. 288 pages, $22.95, ISBN 0-96682710-4 Published by Marian-Darien Press Edited with an introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz. In letters to a young scholar, the novelist, poet, and biographer Aldington expounds on politics, literature, art, travel, on the friendships and friends of his youth, and on questions of censorship, copyright restriction, and libel in the publishing world. 1975, 361 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87104-259-2 Buy this book from The Library Shop Recollections of James Lenox, and the Formation of His Library By Henry Stevens, revised by Victor Hugo Paltsits. The definitive biography of a major early collector of Americana, founder of one of the Library's predecessor institutions. 1951, 22 b/w illustrations, 187 pages, $35.00, ISBN 0-87104-155-3 Edited by Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche. An exploration by North American and European scholars of how the printed word contributed to the French Revolution. 1989, b/w illustrations throughout, 351 pages, hardcover, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-06430-5; paperback, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-06431-3 Published by University of California Press Buy this book from The Library Shop
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Edited by Leonard Singer Gold, foreword by Vartan Gregorian. A beautifully illustrated collection of essays depicting within a historical and cultural context the development of the Hebrew book from the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern times. 1988, b/w illustrations throughout, 34 color plates, 224 pages, paperback, $24.95, ISBN 0-19-505619-1 Buy this book from The Library Shop The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions By Freeman J. Dyson. In this visionary look into the future, based on a series of lectures delivered at The New York Public Library, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies--solar energy, genetic engineering, and world-wide communication--together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth. Written with passionate conviction about the ethical uses of science, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet is both a brilliant reinterpretation of the scientific process and a challenge to use new technologies to close, rather than widen, the gap between rich and poor. 1999, 140 pages, hardcover, $22.00, ISBN 0-19-512942-3; paperback, $10.95, ISBN 0-19-513922-4
By George F. Black. The popular standard genealogical reference work describing the fascinating story of Scottish names throughout history. 1946, 838 pages, $75.00, ISBN 0-87104-172-3  Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
By John Lewis Gaddis. September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. The pattern began in 1814, when the British attacked Washington, burning the White House and the Capitol. This early violation of homeland security gave rise to a strategy of unilateralism and preemption, best articulated by John Quincy Adams, aimed at maintaining strength beyond challenge throughout the North American continent. It remained in place for over a century. Only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 did the inadequacies of this strategy become evident: as a consequence, the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a new grand strategy of cooperation with allies on an intercontinental scale to defeat authoritarianism. That strategy defined the American approach throughout World War II and the Cold War. The terrorist attacks of 9/11, Gaddis writes, made it clear that this strategy was now insufficient to ensure American security. The Bush administration has, therefore, devised a new grand strategy whose foundations lie in the nineteenth-century tradition of unilateralism, preemption, and hegemony, projected this time on a global scale. How successful it will be in the face of twenty-first-century challenges is the question that confronts us. This provocative book--derived from The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government, delivered by Gaddis at The New York Public Library--is informed by the experiences of the past but focused on the present and the future. It is one of the first attempts by a major scholar of grand strategy and international relations to provide an answer. 2004, 160 pages, hardcover, $18.95, ISBN 0-674-01174-0 Published by Harvard University Press
Compiled by Gloria-Gilda Deák, edited by Richard Newman. An illustrated catalogue of highlights from major areas of the Library's collections. 1985, b/w illustrations throughout, 10 color plates, 134 pages, paperback, $19.95, ISBN 0-87104-286-X Buy this book from The Library Shop By Marshall B. Davidson in collaboration with Bernard McTigue. Describes and illustrates close to 300 of the most important items from the Library's vast collections. 1988, 299 illustrations, 111 color plates, 304 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-8109-1354-2 Buy this book from The Library Shop By Robert Heilbroner. An eminent economist who has written extensively about economic trends, Heilbroner offers a concise perspective on the past and present that clarifies the task of looking to the future. The book is based on a series of lectures given at The New York Public Library. 1995, notes, indexes, 133 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-509074-8 Published by Oxford University Press Washington's Farewell Address, edited with a History of its Origin, Reception by the Nation, Rise of the Controversy respecting its Authorship, and a Bibliography By Victor Hugo Paltsits. A facsimile, with transliterations of all the drafts of Washington, Madison, and Hamilton, together with their correspondence and other supporting documents. 1935, 9 b/w illustrations and facsimiles, 360 pages, $35.00, ISBN 0-87104-509-5 A commemorative catalogue for the Library's Centennial exhibition What Price Freedom, this book features objects from the Library's collections, such as a student handbill from Tiananmen Square, that are emblematic of the price people have paid through the centuries for their beliefs. 1995, 57 color illustrations, 56 pages, paperback, $15.00, ISBN 0-87104-441-2; hardcover, $20.00, ISBN 0-87104-440-4 Buy this book from The Library Shop Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth By Garry Wills. This colorful and surprising look at one of the world's best-known dramas draws on the author's knowledge of the intrigue and drama of Jacobean England. By returning Macbeth to the context of its own time, Wills recreates the burning theological and political crises of Shakespeare's era, transforming the play into the struggle for the soul of a nation. 1995, appendixes, notes, indexes, 223 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-508879-4 Published by Oxford University Press Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public LibraryThis heavily illustrated journal representing The New York Public Library's long tradition of scholarly publishing--with emphasis on the collections, history, services, and staff of the Library, library history and research, and bibliography--was published from 1992 to 2001; back issues of most numbers are still available.Semi-annual, Fall and Spring: Vol. I, Number 1, Fall 1992-Vol. 9, Number 1/2 (Fall 2000-Spring 2001). ISSN 1064-301X. Back issues are available from the Library Shop, $18.95 |
Before Victoria:
Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
A
Dark Mirror: Romanov and Imperial Palace Library Materials in the Holdings
of The New York Public Library. Compiled by Robert H. Davis, Jr.; preface
by Marc Raeff; introduction by Robert H. Davis, Jr. and Edward Kasinec. In
the years following the Russian Revolution, the Soviet government confiscated
a significant portion of the personal wealth and palace property of the Romanov
dynasty. During the 1920s and 1930s, much of that confiscated wealth and property
was sold off by a government motivated by both ideology and financial need.
The New York Public Library was one of the few institutional buyers of the
nationalized books and manuscripts from Russian Imperial collections. A
Dark Mirror catalogues and indexes for the first time more than 600 titles
from the Library's collections that have an incontrovertible Imperial provenance.
In addition, the introductory essay describes the fascinating story of how
this material ended up in the West.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Jubilee:
The Emergence of African-American Culture 
Letters
of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss
The
New York Public Library Amazing African American History: A Book of Answers
for Kids
The
New York Public Library American History Desk Reference, 2nd edition, revised
and expanded
Up
from Slavery and Other Early Black Narratives
