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Following is a list of books and CDs mentioned in the November-December 1999 issue of Harvard Magazine, by article. Click on the the article titles to learn more about the books or CDs, or click on the book or CD titles to purchase the items via Amazon.com.

Purchase Contributing Editor John T. Bethell's book, Harvard Observed

From Right to the Point:

The Wo rld Through a Monocle : The New Yorker at Midcentury , by Mary F. Corey

From Welfare Reform:

The Bridge over the Racial Divide : Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics, by William Julius Wilson

From Harvard's Womanless History:

A Room of One's Own , by Virginia Woolf

From Vita: Suor Maria Celeste

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, by Dava Sobel

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, by Dava Sobel

From The Browser:

The Bi g Test : The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, by Nicholas Lemann

The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters, by Wendy Lesser

Mother Nature : A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection , by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Bach: Goldberg Variations, Mia Chung

John J ames Audubon : Writings and Drawings, by John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (Editor)

A People's History of the Supreme Court , by by Peter H. Irons

Uncomm on Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, by Mark Pendergrast

Mailer : A Biography , by Mary V. Dearborn

Paper Daughter : A Memoir , by M. Elaine Mar

The Headless Bust : A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium , by Edward Gorey

Mappin g Boston, edited by Alex Krieger

Nobody 's Children : Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative , by Elizabeth Bartholet

Salts of Silver, Toned With Gold : The Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography , by Anne Anninger,

From John Harvard's Journal:

Cardozo, by Andrew L. Kaufman

A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls

From The College Pump:

Questioning the Millennium : A Rationalists Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, by Stephen Jay Gould

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