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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse | edited and | Harold Bloom | 1982-09-23 |
| Marriage, Love, Sex and Divorce | Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy | Diane Johnson | 1982-08-12 |
| Life After Marriage: Love in an Age of Divorce | A. Alvarez | Diane Johnson | 1982-08-12 |
| Problems of Contemporary French Politics | Dorothy Pickles | Stanley Hoffmann | 1982-08-12 |
| The Wheat and the Chaff | François Mitterrand | Stanley Hoffmann | 1982-08-12 |
| The Heights of Power: An Essay on the Power Elite in France | Pierre Birnbaum | Stanley Hoffmann | 1982-08-12 |
| Nuclear Illusion and Reality | Solly Zuckerman | Theodore H. Draper | 1982-07-15 |
| The Fate of the Earth | Jonathan Schell | Theodore H. Draper | 1982-07-15 |
| "Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance," | McGeorge Bundy and George F. Kennan and Robert S. McNamara and Gerard Smith | Theodore H. Draper | 1982-07-15 |
| The Best Defense | Alan M. Dershowitz | Graham Hughes | 1982-06-24 |
| The Political Economy of Socialism: A Marxist Social Theory | Branko Horvat | Robert L. Heilbroner | 1982-06-10 |
| From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History | Hans Aarsleff | Ian Hacking | 1982-06-10 |
| Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies | Elie Kedourie | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World | Edward W. Said | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| Studies on Islam | translated and | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini | translated and | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies | Wilfred Cantwell Smith | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society | Roy P. Mottahedeh | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| Muslim Society | Ernest Gellner | Clifford Geertz | 1982-05-27 |
| A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein between Jung and Freud | Aldo Carotenuto | D.M. Thomas | 1982-05-13 |
| Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France | John McManners | Robert Darnton | 1982-05-13 |
| The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary | Charles H. Kahn | M.F. Burnyeat | 1982-05-13 |
| The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul | composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett | John R. Searle | 1982-04-29 |
| Economic Report of the President | February 1982 transmitted to the Congress | Emma Rothschild | 1982-04-15 |
| The Art of Biblical Narrative | Robert Alter | J.M. Cameron | 1982-04-15 |
| The Great Code: The Bible and Literature | Northrop Frye | J.M. Cameron | 1982-04-15 |
| Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future | Michael Sherman and Gordon Hawkins | Graham Hughes | 1982-04-01 |
| Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology | Volume I Ludwig Wittgenstein | Ian Hacking | 1982-04-01 |
| The Refusers: An Epic of the Jews | Stanley Burnshaw | J.M. Cameron | 1982-04-01 |
| Money Income and Poverty Status of Families and Persons | Current Population Reports Series P-60, No. 127 Bureau of the Census | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| Household and Family Characteristics | Current Population Reports Series P-20, No. 366 Bureau of the Census | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| Marital Status and Living Arrangements | Current Population Reports Series P-20, No. 365 Bureau of the Census | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| Friends as Family | Karen Lindsey | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| The Futility of Family Policy | Gilbert Y. Steiner | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| The Inner American: A Self-Portrait from 1957 to 1976 | Joseph Veroff and Elizabeth Douvan and Richard Kulka | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture | Marvin Harris | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| Singled Out: A Civilized Guide to Sex and Sensibility for the Suddenly Single Man or Woman | Richard Schickel | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| What's Happening to the American Family | Sar A. Levitan and Richard S. Belous | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| Marriage Divorce Remarriage | Andrew J. Cherlin | Andrew Hacker | 1982-03-18 |
| All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity | Marshall Berman | Robert M. Adams | 1982-03-04 |
| The Vineyard of Liberty Volume One of "The American Experiment" | James MacGregor Burns | Gordon S. Wood | 1982-02-18 |
| The Road to Nuremberg | Bradley F. Smith | Robert Dallek | 1982-02-18 |
| Philosophical Explanations | Robert Nozick | Bernard Williams | 1982-02-18 |
| The Antitheatrical Prejudice | Jonas Barish | Nigel Dennis | 1982-02-18 |
| Concern for the Church: Theological Investigations XX | Karl Rahner | Thomas Sheehan | 1982-02-04 |
| Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity | Karl Rahner | Thomas Sheehan | 1982-02-04 |
| Words on the Air: Essays on Language, Manners, Morals, and Laws | John Sparrow | Noel Annan | 1982-02-04 |
| Who Killed Karen Silkwood? | Howard Kohn | John M. Crewdson | 1982-01-21 |
| Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage | Stanley Cavell | Michael Wood | 1982-01-21 |
| New Rules:Searching for Self-Fulfillmentin a World Turned Upside Down | Daniel Yankelovich | Christopher Lasch | 1981-12-03 |