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BOOKSHELF

British Literature, 1640-1789: A Critical Reader, edited by Robert Demaria Jr. '48. In this companion to the editor's anthology (above), contemporary literary critics provide introductions, present the best current thinking, and offer new approaches to classic and lesser-known British literature (Blackwell, $64.95 cloth, $34.95).

Death & Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997 by Allen Ginsberg '48. A posthumous collection by the Beat legend, beginning with a poem written at President Bill Clinton's inauguration and concluding with "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)," written in the last week of the poet's life (HarperCollins, $23).

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill, edited by Michael Manheim '49. The editor penned two contributions - on A Long Day's Journey into Night and on O'Neill criticism - to this volume of specially commissioned essays examining the playwright's progenitors, life and work (Cambridge University Press, $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper).

No Way To Pick a President: How Money and Hired Guns Have Debased American Elections by Jules Witcover '49. The nationally syndicated columnist from The Baltimore Sun decries the litany of evils - money, ambition, and political technocrats - that have "hijacked" presidential elections, turning them from exercises in democracy into political ordeals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26).

The Law of Piracy, second edition, by Alfred P. Rubin '52. This examination of all British and American statutes and cases relating to piracy demonstrates a willingness by political leaders to use a legal term to support military action "justifiable neither by the law nor wise policy" (Transnational Publishers, $115).

American Chronicle: Year by Year Through the Twentieth Century by Lois Gordon and Alan Godon '57, with an introduction by Roger Rosenblatt. This richly illustrated History Book Club selection, by a former assistant editor of Columbia College Today (now a professor of English literature) and her psychiatrist husband, offers an almanac of politics, books, entertainment, art, fashion and life in the United States since 1900 (Yale University Press, $49.95).

Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, expanded edition, edited by Elliott Schwartz '57 and Barney Childs. This new edition, 30 years after the original, incorporates recent artists and recognizes "tumultuous changes and a host of new musical issues" (Da Capo Press, $18.95 paper).

Jonas & Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States, edited by Anthony R. Kovner and Steven Jonas '58. The sixth, fully updated edition of this reference staple examines managed care, alternative medicine, physician-assisted suicide, and other perennial and emerging issues in American medicine (Springer Publishing, $58.95 cloth, $34.95 paper).

Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, revised edition, by David Rosand '59. The Meyer Shapiro Professor of Art History explores the visual tradition and conditions of painting in Renaissance Venice through a study of three masters of the High and Late Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, $24.95)

Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle between Blacks and Whites by Paul L. Wachtel '61. An examination of the psychological underpinnings of America's racial divisions, in which both whites and African Americans are caught in an elaborate vicious circle with each side blaming the other, and suggests ways to extricate ourselves (Routledge, $25).

Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian '62. A primer for the composition of clean, economical hypertext prose, free of inappropriate print conventions and suitable for the most impatient Web surfer (Self-Counsel Press, $14,95 paper).

Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics by Elliot N. Dorf '65. Jewish tradition can provide an ethical perspective for understanding and using modern treatments and medical breakthroughs, which are not directly addressed by teachings of the Talmud (Jewish Publication Society, $34.95).

The LIFE Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events & People of the Past 1,000 Years, edited by Robert Friedman '69. Two distinct millennial lists for the price of one, covering the most influential people and human happenings from William the Conqueror to Dolly the cloned sheep (LIFE Books, $29.95).

John O'Hara: A Study of the Short Fiction by Steven Goldleaf '76. A selection of short stories and self-criticism by the celebrated New Yorker contributor and author of From the Terrace, along with critical evaluations of his work (Twayne Publishers, $29).

First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio '76. Just in time for the 2000 presidential election, this carefully researched biography examines the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the context of his distinguished political family; by a veteran reporter at The Dallas Morning News (Random House, $25).

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