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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s | Martha R. Burt | Christopher Jencks | 1994-05-12 |
| The Age of Federalism | Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick | David Brion Davis | 1994-05-12 |
| Freud and His Critics | Paul Robinson | Thomas Nagel | 1994-05-12 |
| The Mind and Its Depths | Richard Wollheim | Thomas Nagel | 1994-05-12 |
| Rude Awakenings: What the Homeless Crisis Tells Us | Richard W. White Jr. | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community | David Wagner | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| The Mole People | Jennifer Toth | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People | David A. Snow and Leon Anderson | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness | Peter H. Rossi | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy | the New York City Commission on the Homeless | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s | Martha R. Burt | Christopher Jencks | 1994-04-21 |
| Idolatry | Moshe Halbertal and Avishai Margalit | Wendy Doniger | 1994-04-21 |
| Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair | Susan Sheehan | Michael Massing | 1994-03-24 |
| The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the English Revolution | Jerome Friedman | Frank Kermode | 1994-03-24 |
| The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution | Christopher Hill | Frank Kermode | 1994-03-24 |
| Iran-Contra: The Final Report | Lawrence E. Walsh | Theodore H. Draper | 1994-03-03 |
| Culture and Imperialism | Edward W. Said | Michael Wood | 1994-03-03 |
| Jésuites: Une Multibiographie, Vol. 1: Les conquérants, Vol. 2: Les revenants from Pantheon/Bessie Books, winter 1995) | Jean Lacouture | Anthony Grafton | 1994-03-03 |
| Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint | M.D. W.W. Meissner S.J. | Anthony Grafton | 1994-03-03 |
| The First Jesuits | John O'Malley | Anthony Grafton | 1994-03-03 |
| A Decade of Sentencing Guidelines: Revisiting the Role of the Legislature | Wake Forest Law Review Summer 1993 issue | David J. Rothman | 1994-02-17 |
| Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System | Norval Morris and Michael Tonry | David J. Rothman | 1994-02-17 |
| Prison Conditions in the United States | a Human Rights Watch report | David J. Rothman | 1994-02-17 |
| Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS, Western Style? | Nils Christie | David J. Rothman | 1994-02-17 |
| Health Security Act | 1st Session 103d Congress | Ronald Dworkin | 1994-01-13 |
| Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe | edited by Jürgen Kocka | Noel Annan | 1994-01-13 |
| The Cultivation of Hatred | Peter Gay | Noel Annan | 1994-01-13 |
| Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority | Peter Skerry | Sarah Kerr | 1993-12-16 |
| The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification | edited by Bernard Bailyn | Edmund S. Morgan | 1993-12-02 |
| Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life | Joseph Brent | Louis Menand | 1993-12-02 |
| Watteau's Painted Conversations: Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France | Mary Vidal | Patrick Creagh, Noga Arikha Benedetta Craveri | 1993-12-02 |
| Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime | Erica Harth | Patrick Creagh, Noga Arikha Benedetta Craveri | 1993-12-02 |
| Shame and Necessity | Bernard Williams | Bernard Knox | 1993-11-18 |
| Demography and Roman Society | Tim G. Parkin | W.V. Harris | 1993-11-18 |
| Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance | John M. Riddle | W.V. Harris | 1993-11-18 |
| The Phantom Empire | Geoffrey O'Brien | Ian Buruma | 1993-11-18 |
| Scripture and Translation | Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig | Avishai Margalit | 1993-11-04 |
| On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity | Martin Buber | Avishai Margalit | 1993-11-04 |
| Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber | Maurice Friedman | Avishai Margalit | 1993-11-04 |
| The Letters of Martin-Buber: A Life of Dialogue | edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr | Avishai Margalit | 1993-11-04 |
| Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State | Yeshayahu Leibowitz | Avishai Margalit | 1993-11-04 |
| Only Words | Catherine A. MacKinnon | Ronald Dworkin | 1993-10-21 |
| The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir | Jane Hollister Wheelwright | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| The Octopus | Frank Norris | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| California: The Great Exception | Carey McWilliams | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 | Kevin Starr | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard (1992) | Robert V. Hine | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| California, From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study in American Character | Josiah Royce | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| A Companion to California | James D. Hart | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |
| Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986 | Robert Kelley | Joan Didion | 1993-10-21 |