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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique | Adolf Grünbaum | Jonathan Lieberson | 1985-01-31 |
| Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals | R.G. Frey | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics | R.G. Frey | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Animals and Why They Matter: A Journey Around the Species Barrier | Mary Midgley | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| The Case for Animal Rights | Tom Regan | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| All That Dwell Therein: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics | Tom Regan | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research | William Paton | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Victims of Science: The Use of Animals in Research | Richard D. Ryder | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Of Mice, Models, and Men: A Critical Evaluation of Animal Research | Andrew N. Rowan | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Farm Animals: Husbandry, Behavior, and Veterinary Practice | Michael W. Fox | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm | Orville Schell | Peter Singer | 1985-01-17 |
| Analysis of Transference, Vol. II: Studies of Nine Audio-Recorded Psychoanalytic Sessions | Merton M. Gill and Irwin Z. Hoffman | Janet Malcolm | 1984-12-20 |
| Analysis of Transference, Vol. I: Theory and Technique | Merton M. Gill | Janet Malcolm | 1984-12-20 |
| Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation | Donald Davidson | Ian Hacking | 1984-12-20 |
| Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth | Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock | Mary Douglas | 1984-12-20 |
| The Crucible of Race: Black–White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation | Joel Williamson | George M. Fredrickson | 1984-12-06 |
| The Thread of Life | Richard Wollheim | Charles Taylor | 1984-11-22 |
| The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion | Leo Steinberg | David Bellos, Christopher Benfey Andre Chastel | 1984-11-22 |
| A Treatise on Social Theory Volume I: The Methodology of Social Theory | W.G. Runciman | Jonathan Lieberson | 1984-11-08 |
| The Jews of Islam | Bernard Lewis | Norman A. Stillman | 1984-10-25 |
| Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology | Harvey Cox | J.M. Cameron | 1984-10-11 |
| The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America | Richard John Neuhaus | J.M. Cameron | 1984-10-11 |
| Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and International Relations | Ian M.D. Little | Stephen A. Marglin | 1984-07-19 |
| Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism | Geoffrey W. Conrad and Arthur A. Demarest | J.H. Elliott | 1984-07-19 |
| The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other | Tzvetan Todorov | J.H. Elliott | 1984-07-19 |
| The Evolution of Cooperation | Robert Axelrod | Ian Hacking | 1984-06-28 |
| The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and His Reputation | M.L. Clarke | G.W. Bowersock | 1984-06-14 |
| The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome | Claude Nicolet | G.W. Bowersock | 1984-06-14 |
| The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy | Robert Jervis | Lord Zuckerman | 1984-06-14 |
| Weapons and Hope | Freeman Dyson | Lord Zuckerman | 1984-06-14 |
| The Abolition | Jonathan Schell | Lord Zuckerman | 1984-06-14 |
| Reasons and Persons | Derek Parfit | P.F. Strawson | 1984-06-14 |
| Eternal Life? Life After Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem | Hans Küng | Thomas Sheehan | 1984-06-14 |
| Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy | Alexander M. Haig Jr. | Stanley Hoffmann | 1984-05-31 |
| Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility | Germaine Greer | Peter Singer | 1984-05-31 |
| The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | Kenneth Silverman | Edmund S. Morgan | 1984-05-31 |
| The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression | Patricia Caldwell | Edmund S. Morgan | 1984-05-31 |
| Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat | Mohamed Heikal | Bernard Lewis | 1984-05-31 |
| Becoming William James | Howard M. Feinstein | Rosemary Dinnage | 1984-05-31 |
| All Faithful People: Change and Continuity in Middletown's Religion | Theodore Caplow and Howard M. Bahr and Bruce A. Chadwick and Dwight W. Hoover and Laurence A. Martin and Joseph B. Tamney and Margaret Holmes Williamson | Gerald Weales | 1984-04-26 |
| The Wandering Jew | Stefan Heym | D.J. Enright | 1984-04-26 |
| Educating Americans for the 21st Century Mathematics, Science and Technology | National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| Making the Grade Education Policy, background paper by | Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Paul E. Peterson | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| Action for Excellence | Task Force on Education for Economic Growth | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform | National Commission on Excellence in Education | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared | James S. Coleman and Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America | Ernest L. Boyer | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School | Theodore R. Sizer | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future | John I. Goodlad | Andrew Hacker | 1984-04-12 |
| The Barbaric Counter-Revolution: Cause and Cure | W. W. Rostow | James Fallows | 1984-04-12 |