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An Anthropologist at Work, by Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
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An Anthropologist at Work (1959)Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
Writings of Ruth Benedict
6 Reviews, 2 Readable

The Sociological Imagination (1959)C. Wright Mills
11 Reviews, 3 Readable

Can Man be Modified? (1959)Jean Rostand
3 Reviews

The Simplicity of Science (1959)Stanley D. Beck
1 Review


Law in Diplomacy (1959)Percy E. Corbett
5 Reviews

Economic Development of Communist China (1959)Cho-Ming Li
An Appraisal of the First Five Years of Industrialization
4 Reviews



The Roosevelt Revolution (1959)Mario Einaudi
8 Reviews, 2 Readable

Contemporary Canada (1959)Miriam Chapin
6 Reviews, 2 Readable

The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Vol. I (1958)Thomas W. Copeland and Edmund Burke
April 1744-June 1768
4 Reviews

Homer and the Heroic Tradition (1959)Cedric H. Whitman
1 Review

Shakespeare and His Betters (1959)Reginald C. Churchill
A History and a Criticism of the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Prove That ...
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Vision of Tragedy (1959)Richard B. Sewall
3 Reviews, 2 Readable

St. Petersburg (1959)Andrey Biely
4 Reviews, 1 Readable

D.H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography (1957)Edward Nehls
9 Reviews, 3 Readable

The Letters of Theodore Dreiser (1959)Robert H. Elias and Theodore Dreiser
A Selection
5 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Critical Writings of James Joyce (1959)Ellsworth Mason, Richard Ellmann, and James Joyce, ...
5 Reviews, 1 Readable

Life Studies (1959)Robert Lowell
New Poems and an Autobiographical Fragment
12 Reviews, 2 Readable
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