Hardcover Nonfiction

by Joshua Loth Liebman · Simon & Schuster

by Pierre Lecomte du Nouy · Longmans, Green

by Arnold Toynbee · Oxford University Press

Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement. Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee's study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion. Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose."

by John Kieran · Doubleday

by Betty MacDonald · Lippincott

by Philip Wylie · Rinehart & Company

by Agnes Newton Keith · Little Brown and Company

by Katherine Tupper Marshall · People's Book Club

by Robert Allen · Vanguard Press

by Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham · Harper

Discusses the sociological and psychological context of American women in the post World War II era.

by James Burnham · John Day

by Paul M. Angle · Rutgers University Press

by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin · Holt

by Frederick G. Lieb · Putnam

Illustrations and short poems illustrate for Boston Red Sox fans of all ages an A-to-Z list of reasons why they cheer so hard for their team.

by Irwin Edman · Viking Press

Personal reflections and impressions in answer to the question, What is philosophy.

by Louis Joseph Halle · Sloane