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A complete list of our readers' nominees (The top ten academic books of the 90s are noted in boldface type. Nominations for fictional works and books published before 1990 were disqualified). Academia and the Luster of Capital, Sande Cohen The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, Eric Hobsbawm The Age of the Passions, John Dwyer The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Patricia Williams Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, Dave Hickey All About Arthritis: Past, Present, Future, Derrick Brewerton Alterities, Thomas Docherty American Civilization, CLR James (written in 1950 but not published until 1993) Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Bruno Latour The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology & Culture of Aestheticism 1790-1990, Gene H. Bell-Villada The Art of Living, Alexander Nehamas The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Helen Vendler The Authority of Reason, Jean Hampton Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, Richard Kluger at Home in the Universe, Stuart Kaufmann Augustine the Reader, Brian Stock Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo, Diane Singerman Backlash, Susan Faludi The Baltimore Case, Daniel Kevles Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, George Sanchez The Bell Curve, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray Beneath the American Renaissance, David S. Reynolds Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare and Failure of Bureaucracy, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons Black and White Strangers, Kenneth Warren The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War, Robert A. Pape. The Book of J, Harold Bloom Born to Rebel, Frank Sulloway Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy, Laura Kipnis Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, Gerald Edelman Buddhism in America, Richard Hugues Seager Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century, Neil Postman But Is It True?, Aaron Wildavsky Calling Home: Working Class Women's Writings, Janet Zandy Capital And Coercion In European States, Charles Tilly Causality, Judea Pearl Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania, Aili Mari Tripp Child Welfare, Garry Mallon City Of Dreadful Delight: Narratives Of Sexual Danger In Late-Victorian London, Judith Walkowitz City of Man, Pierre Manent City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Mike Davis Civic Ideals, Rogers Smith Code of the Street, Elijah Anderson Coming to Class, Alan Shepard et al., eds. Confessions of a Philosopher, Bryan Magee Confronting Sexual Harassment: What Schools and Colleges Can Do, Judith Berman Brandenburg Conquest, Hugh Thomas Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennet Consilence, E.O.Wilson The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, edited by Anthony Molino Creating the Kingdom of Ends; Christine Korsgaard Creation of the Sacred, Walter Burkert Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joanne B. Karpinski, ed. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood, Emilia Viotti da Costa Cultural Capital, John Guillory The Cultural Cold War, Francis Stonor Saunders The Cultural Front, Michael Denning Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said The Culture of Disbelief, Stephen Carter The Culture Of Fear, Barry Glassner The Culture Of Pain, David Morris The Culture We Deserve, Jacques Barzun Culture of Hope, Frederick Turner Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, Nancy Scheper-Hughes The Demography of Corporations and Industries, Glen R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan Descartes' Error, Antonio Demasio Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba Deterring Democracy, Noam Chomsky Die Kunst der Gesellschaft, Niklas Luhmann Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger The Disappearance of Childhood, Neil Postman The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson Doing What Comes Naturally, Stanley Fish Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, Joseph Frank The East in the West, Jack Goody Embracing Defeat, John Dower The End of Reform, Alan Brinkley Entangled Objects, Nicholas Thomas Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Eurocentrism, Jose Rabasa Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont Fast Cars Clean Bodies, Kristin Ross Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed., Mary Eagleton, ed. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Rosemarie Putnam Tong The Fifties, David Halberstam The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, Robert Darnton Foundations of Social Theory, James S. Coleman The Fragility of Goodness, Martha Nussbaum Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, David Kennedy From Marx to Mieses, David Ramsay Steele Gay New York, George Chauncey Gender Trouble, Judith Butler Generations, William Strauss and Neil Howe A Gentle Madness, Nicholas A Basbanes Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union, Loren R. Graham God Owes Us Nothing, Leszak Kolokowski Gothic America, Teresa A. Goddu Grief and Reason, Joseph Brodsky Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond Habermas and the Public Sphere, Craig Calhoun, ed. The Handicap Principle, A. Zahavi & A. Zahavi The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, Carole Levin Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, David Friedman Higher Superstition, Paul Gross and Norman Levitt Higher Superstition, Paul Gross and Norman Levitt Homo Aestheticus, Louise Young The Holocaust in American Life, Peter Novick How Do We Tell The Workers, Joe L. Kinchloe How The Mind Works, Steven Pinker Identity And Control, Harrison C. White Ideology Of The Aesthetic, Terry Eagleton Imagined Communities, 2nd ed., Benedict Anderson Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India, Bonnie C. Wade The Imperative, Alphonso Lingis In Praise of Commercial Culture, Tyler Cowen The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligensia, 1880-1939, John Carey International Monetary Economics, 1870-1960, M. June Flanders Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism, Jose Rabasa The Invention of Autonomy, J.B. Schneewind Itch, edited by Jeffrey D. Bernhard I've Got the Light of Freedom, Charles Payne The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India, translated, edited, and annotated, Wheeler M. Thakston Japan's Total Empire, Louise Young John Dewey and American Democracy, Robert Westbrook John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Alan Ryan Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America, Page Smith The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker The Language of Silence, Ernestine Schlant The Last Word, Thomas Nagel Later Auden, Edward Mendelson Law, Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic, Christopher Tomlins Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia, Lawrence C. Soley Lectures on Conversation, Harvey Sacks Lenin's Tomb, David Remnick Let's Get This Straight: A Gay- and Lesbian-Affirming Approach to Child Welfare, Gerald P. Mallon Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness, Janet Zandy Library Research Models, Thomas Mann Life in Moving Fluids, S Vogel The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin Lighting Out For The Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, Shelley Fisher Fishkin Literature Lost, John M. Ellis Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States, Paul Groth Logic and Existence, Jean Hyppolite Looking Awry, Slavoj Zizek Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Jonathan Lear Love and Theft, Eric Lott Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Ray Monk The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction; Michael Wood Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Robert Putnam Manhood in America, Michael S. Kimmel Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture, Gary Okihiro The Mask Of Anarchy: The Destruction Of Liberia And The Religious Dimension of an African Civil War, Stephen Ellis Male, Female, Dave Geary Media Matters, John Fiske The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore Memory & Narrative, James Olney Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, Carol Clover Mesmerized, Alison Winter Moral Animal, Robert Wright The Moral Animal, Robert Wright The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa, David Bright The Morality of Happiness, Julia Annas More Liberty Means Less Government, Walter Williams More Than Night, James Narremore Mr.Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty, Greg Dening The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World, Colin McGinn Myth, Truth & Literature, Colin Falck National Survey of State Laws, 3d Edition, Richard Leiter The New Constellation, Richard Bernstein Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, Pierre Klossowski (Eng. trans.) Oil Monarchies, F. Gregory Gause III On the Contrary, Churchland and Churchland On Flirtation, Adam Phillips On the History of Film Style, David Bordwell On Longing, Susan Stewart On the Market, edited by Christine Boufis and Victoria Olsen Open-Minded, Jonathan Lear The Organization of Learning, C. R. Gallistel The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley The Origins of War , Donald Kagan Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America, Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway Overcoming Law, Richard Posner Oxford Guide to Library Research, Thomas Mann Painters and Public Art in Eighteenth Century France, Thomas Crow Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig Patterns of American Jurisprudence, Neil Duxbury Performing Rites, Simon Frith Philosophical Melancholy & Delirium, D.W. Livingstone Philosophical Papers, Vols 1-3, Richard Rorty The Plague Of Fantasies, Slavoj Zizek Plato and the Socratic dialogue, Charles H. Kahn Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison The Pleasures of the Imagination, John Brewer Political Liberalism, John Rawls Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, Bordwell, edited by David and Noel Carroll The Power of Identity, Manuel Castells Powers and Prospects, Noam Chomsky The Problematics of Moral & Legal Theory, Richard Posner Prescription for Failure, Byron M. Roth President Kennedy, Richard Reeves Primate Visions, Donna Haraway Private Truths, Public Lies, Timur Kuran The Prokaryotes, edited by Balows et al Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, Theda Skocpol Public Goods and Private Communities, Fred Foldvary The Quality of Life, Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds Race & Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction, Milfrod Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, Marjorie Perloff The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vols. I & II., J. E. Lighter, ed. The Red Queen, Matt Ridley Reflections on Commercial Life, Patrick Murray, ed. Remarks on Colour, Ludwig Wittgenstein Rembrandt's Eyes, Simon Schama The Rising Curve: Long Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures, edited by Ulric Neisser Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View, Irwin Z. Hoffman Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia, Peter Thompson Running Steel, Running America, Judith Stein Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in the Russian Monarchy, Richard Wortman Schooling in Capitalist America, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Ken Wilbur Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams Shakespeare's Language, Frank Kermode Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams Signs of the Times, David Lehman Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot Situated Learning, Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger Sledgehammer: Women's Imprisonment at the Millennium, Pat Carlen Social Systems, Niklas Luhmann The Sources of Normativity, Christine Korsgaard The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, by Christopher Simpson The Spread of Nuclear Weapons, Kenneth Waltz and Scott Sagan Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization, Sheila Fitzpatrick Strangers in Paradise, Ryan and Sackrey The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek Suffering Presence, Stanley Hauerwas Tainted Souls and Painted Faces, Amanda Anderson Talking Up a Storm, Gregory Morris Teaching Working Class, edited by Sherry Lee Linkon Tears, Mark C. Taylor Technopoly, Neil Postman Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios, Rosaura Sanchez Tendencies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Terrible Honesty, Ann Douglas Testimony, Shoshona Felman & Dori Laub The Therapy of Desire, Martha C. Nussbaum Thinking in Jazz, Paul Berliner This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class, L. Barney Dews & Carolyn Leste Law The Third Culture, John Brockman, editor Third Wave, Samuel Huntington The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish The True Story of the Novel, Margaret Anne Doody The Turkish State and History: Clio Meets the Grey Wolf, Speros Vryonis, Jr. Theology and Social Theory, John Milbank There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too, Stanley Fish To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America-A History, Lillian Federman To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice, Bruce L. Benson To Stand on the Rock: Meditations in Black Catholic Identity, Joseph Brown S.J. Trauma & Recovery, Judith Lewis Hermann Uncommon Ground, William Cronon Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth, W.W. Barley, III The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant, Susan Neiman The University in Ruins, Bill Readings The Urban Crisis, Thomas Sugrue The Violence of Literacy, J. Elspeth Stuckey The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, David Landes The Western Canon, Harold Bloom Vale Of Tears: Revisiting The Canudos Massacre In Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897, Robert M. Levine Value in Ethics and Economics, Elizaberth Anderson Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Erotics of Everyday Life, Marjorie Garber Vico, Mark Lilla War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel de Landa Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices, Shelley Fisher Fishkin What is Cognitive Science, Von Eckardt Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: a Theory of Normative Judgment, Allan Gibbard Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy, Peter Hacker Women Writing the Academy, Gesa E. Kirsch Words and Rules, Steven Pinker Working-Class Women In The Academy, Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay Writing in an Alien World, Deborah Mutnick A Year With Swollen Appendices, Brian Eno |
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