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Affron, Charles
Her Legend, Her Life
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23434-5
Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord
$27.50 paperback; 978-0-520-23902-9
Albers, Patricia
The Life of Tina Modotti
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23514-4
Aldama, Frederick Luis
A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas
$49.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23188-7
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24392-7
Amanat, Abbas
Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08321-9
Anderson, Jervis
A Biographical Portrait
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-05505-6
Andrews, Jonathan, and Andrew Scull
John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23151-1
Ashton, Dore
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08340-0
Barbas, Samantha
A Biography of Louella Parsons
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24213-5
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24985-1
Barbero, Alessandro
Father of a Continent
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23943-2
Bardach, Janusz, and Kathleen Gleeson
Surviving the Gulag
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22152-9
Barmé, Geremie R.
A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-20832-2
Barrier, Michael
A Life of Walt Disney
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24117-6
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25619-4
Beauchamp, Cari
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21492-7
Bendix, Reinhard
An Intellectual Portrait
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-03194-4
Berger, Bennett M., editor
Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists
$35.00 paperback; 978-0-520-06556-7
Bernstein, Gail Lee
Three Centuries of a Japanese Family
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23974-6
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24697-3
Blaser, Robin
Collected Essays of Robin Blaser
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24510-5
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24511-2
Blaser, Robin
Collected Poems of Robin Blaser
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24593-8
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25825-9
Bourne, Richard
The Story So Far
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24663-8
Bowersock, G. W., and T. J. Cornell, editors
Studies on Modern Scholarship
$30.00 paperback; 978-0-520-08545-9
Breton, André
Selections
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23954-8
Brown, Peter
A Biography, Revised Edition with a New Epilogue
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22757-6
Burton, Antoinette
Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain
$64.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-20958-9
Campbell, James
A Life of James Baldwin
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23130-6
Canfora, Luciano
The Life and Times of the People's Dictator
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23502-1
Caramagno, Thomas C.
Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07280-0
$34.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20504-8
Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland
with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07969-4
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23112-2
Conroy, John
The Dynamics of Torture
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23039-2
Crotty, Shane
David Baltimore's Life in Science
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23904-3
Dahl, Linda
A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22872-6
Dalby, Liza
A Memoir through the Seasons
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25053-6
Davis, Margaret Leslie
Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-22495-7
Davis, Margaret Leslie
Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22909-9
de Baecque, Antoine, and Serge Toubiana
A Biography
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22524-4
Deutsch, Nathaniel
A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World
$36.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23191-7
Dickinson, Donald C.
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-87328-203-1
Dillon, Millicent
A Portrait of Paul Bowles
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22493-3
Doran, Michael, editor
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22517-6
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22519-0
Dreyfus, Georges B.J.
The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23260-0
Dunleavy, Janet Egleson, and Gareth W. Dunleavy
A Maker of Modern Ireland
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-06684-7
Easton, Laird M.
The Life and Times of Harry Kessler
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23035-4
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24817-5
Echols, Harrison
The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-21331-9
El Saadawi, Nawal
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08888-7
Erlich, Gloria C.
$40.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07583-2
Fraser, Antonia, editor
$31.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22460-5
Gallagher, Tag
The Man and His Films
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06334-1
García, Mario T.
The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20152-1
Gardner, David Pierpont
Memoirs of an American University President
$49.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24183-1
Gilley, Bruce
Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-21395-1
Goodman, Susan, and Carl Dawson
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24635-5
Goodman, Susan, and Carl Dawson
A Writer's Life
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23896-1
Green, Peter
A Historical Biography
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07166-7
Greene, Gayle
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24630-0
Grosz, George
An Autobiography
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21327-2
Hägg, Tomas, and Philip Rousseau, editors
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22388-2
Hamilton, Marybeth
Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21094-3
Hein, Laura
Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth Century Japan
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24347-7
Hejmadi, Padma
A Transcultural Memoir
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-21506-1
Henry, Neil
A Black Man's Search for His White Family
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22730-9
Herbert, T. Walter, Jr.
The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family
$30.00 paperback; 978-0-520-20155-2
Higonnet, Anne
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20156-9
Hine, Robert V.
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-20891-9
Hodson, Sara S. and Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, Editors
One Hundred Years a Writer
$37.95 hardcover; 978-0-87328-195-9
Jacobs, John
The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20411-9
Johansen, Ruthann Knechel
Reconstructing Life after Brain Injury
$25.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23114-6
Johnson, Hugh
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24850-2
Katô Shûichi
A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21979-3
Kelsey, Harry
$12.95 paperback; 978-0-87328-176-8
Kerr, Clark
Volume Two: Political Turmoil
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23641-7
Kroeber, Theodora
A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24037-7
Lahr, John
The Biography of Bert Lahr
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22304-2
Lahr, John
The Biography of Joe Orton
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22666-1
Lenski, Noel
Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.
$75.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23332-4
Lomax, Alan
The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22530-5
Loos, Anita
Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
$27.50 hardcover; 978-0-520-22894-8
Loving, Jerome
A Life of Theodore Dreiser
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23481-9
Loving, Jerome
The Song of Himself
$22.50 paperback; 978-0-520-22687-6
Lystra, Karen
The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
$27.50 hardcover; 978-0-520-23323-2
$15.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25000-0
Mahomet, Dean
An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20717-2
Maney, Patrick J.
The Life and Legacy of FDR
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21637-2
Mann, Susan
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25089-5
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25090-1
Margadant, Jo Burr, editor
Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22140-6
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22141-3
Mark, Stephen R.
John C. Merriam's Legacy in the State and National Parks
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24167-1
Marnham, Patrick
A Life of Diego Rivera
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22408-7
Matthiessen, Peter
Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22584-8
McDonald, Janet
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22345-5
McLynn, Neil B.
Church and Court in a Christian Capital
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08461-2
Middlekauff, Robert
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21378-4
Mileck, Joseph
Life and Art
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-04152-3
Millier, Brett C.
Life and the Memory of It
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-20345-7
Mitchell, Margaretta K., Portraits by; Rogow, Zack.
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24603-4
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24604-1
Moore, Marianne
Early Poems, 1907-1924
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22139-0
Moote, A. Lloyd
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07546-7
Morgan, Susan
The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25226-4
Muchnic, Suzanne
Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-20643-4
Mulholland, Catherine
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23466-6
Musto, Ronald G.
Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23396-6
Naji, Kasra
The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25663-7
Neugeboren, Jay
New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22875-7
Newbold, Heather, editor
World-Renowned Scientists Reflect on their Lives and the Future of Life on Earth
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21896-3
Niedecker, Lorine
Collected Works
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22433-9
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22434-6
Nies, Judith
Portraits from the American Radical Tradition
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22965-5
Nokes, David
A Life
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21606-8
Olson, Charles
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-20580-2
Palevsky, Mary
A Daughter's Questions
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-22055-3
Phillips, Kate
A Literary Life
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-21804-8
Purcell, Jane
The Huntington Shakespeare Collection
$16.95 hardcover; 978-0-87328-201-7
Quine, W.V., and Rudolf Carnap
The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-06847-6
Quinn-Judge, Sophie
The Missing Years
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23533-5
Rarick, Ethan
The Life and Times of Pat Brown
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23627-1
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24828-1
Raskin, Jonah
The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21379-1
Reardon, Joan
Celebrating Her Kitchens
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25555-5
Richardson, Robert D., Jr.
The Mind on Fire
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20689-2
Richardson, Robert D., Jr.
A Life of the Mind
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06346-4
Rolle, Andrew
A California Legacy
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-87328-136-2
Ross, Janice
Experience as Dance
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24757-4
Rossabi, Morris
His Life and Times
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06740-0
Rovere, Richard H.
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20472-0
Sabina, María
Selections
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23360-7
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23953-1
Sachs, Albie
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22019-5
Sanchez, Marta E.
A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-05888-0
Sapir, Edward
Selected Essays
$32.50 paperback; 978-0-520-05594-0
Sarris, Greg
Weaving the Dream
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20968-8
Schulte Nordholt, J. W.
A Life for World Peace
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07444-6
Seale, Patrick
The Struggle for the Middle East
$27.50 paperback; 978-0-520-06976-3
Segre, Claudio G.
A Fascist Life
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07199-5
Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein
The Making of Modern Universalism
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24180-0
Service, John S., editor
The China Memoir of Grace Service
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07416-3
Silver, Horace
The Autobiography of Horace Silver
$40.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24374-3
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25392-6
Sime, Ruth Lewin
A Life in Physics
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20860-5
Smith, Catherine Parsons
A Study in Contradictions
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21543-6
Smith, Huston
Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23816-9
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24489-4
Spender, Matthew
A Life of Arshile Gorky
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22548-0
Stein, Barbara R.
Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22726-2
Syme, Sir Ronald
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23479-6
Takakuwa, Kevin M., Nick Rubashkin, and Karen E. Herzig, editors
Personal Stories of Young Doctors
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23936-4
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24681-2
Taper, Bernard
A Biography
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20639-7
Thorpe, James
A Biography
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08254-0
Thorpe, James
The Inner Life
$16.00 hardcover; 978-0-87328-079-2
Troupe, Quincy
$15.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23471-0
Turk, Edward Baron
A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22253-3
Twain, Mark
A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
$19.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24245-6
Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel, and Mario T. García
Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21915-1
Wakeman, Frederic, Jr.
Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
$75.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23407-9
Walker, Franklin
The Genesis of an American Writer
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-87328-214-7
Walsh, Stephen
A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22749-1
Walsh, Stephen
The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25615-6
Ward, David C.
Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic
$49.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23960-9
Warren, W. L.
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-03494-5
Warren, W. L.
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-03643-7
Weschler, Lawrence
Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24375-0
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25879-2
Wexler, Alice
A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20741-7
Williams, Michael
Screen Idol
$80.00 hardcover; 978-0-85170-982-6
Wood, Michael
A Journey from Greece to Asia
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23192-4
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun
The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24143-5
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24528-0