Hardcover Nonfiction

by Joshua Loth Liebman · Simon & Schuster

by James A. Farley · Whittlesey House

by Arnold J. Toynbee · Oxford University Press

by Alfred Charles Kinsey · Saunders

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the 20th Century" by Logos Magazine (UK). Will be on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1999.

by Charles Beard · Yale University Press

by Henry Stimson and McGeorge Bundy · Harper

by John Kieran · Doubleday

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 Gunther · Harper

John Gunther's 'Inside' series were among the most popular books of reportage in the 1930s and 1940s. For 'Inside U.S.A., ' Gunther set out from California and traveled the entire country. His frank, lucid observations along the way -- on race relations, labor, the Tennessee Valley Authority, farm life, the politics of the big cities, and much else -- yield fascinating insight into life many years ago. Now on the brink of the millennium, this fiftieth anniversary edition of 'Inside U.S.A.' provides an invaluable picture of America as it was then, both for those old enough to remember it and for young people who may be astonished to see the ways the country has changed.

by Louis Bromfield · Harper

The author's experiences as a farmer.

by Louis P. Lochner · Doubleday

by Ilka Chase · Doubleday

Continues the story of Past Imperfect.

by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa · Viking Press

Steinbeck's autograph manuscript daybook recording his 1947 journey through Russia, Ukraine and Georgia with Robert Capa, this is a complete record of the trip that would become A Russian Journal. It includes 3 pages at the beginning of the volume recording a synopsis and beginning of an unpublished work, "The Popular Candidate," 1 page at the end dated "Jan 13, 1948," discussing working on "Cannery Row," and a large work called "Monterey Co," written Paris, Stockholm, and various Russian locales. The "Russian Journal" portion covers the time period of July 26, 1947, to approximately September 20, 1947. The bulk of the manuscript is in Steinbeck's close hand, with later notes and additions to page versos and margins as he shaped the manuscript for the book. [Adapted from dealer description]

by Babe Ruth and Bob Considine · Dutton

Grades 6 and up.

by Cleveland Amory · Dutton

by Maurice M. Milligan · Scribner