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Wish List

Since 1993 members of the Hopkins community have generously supported the library by funding the purchase of new books, DVDs and CDs through the Hopkins Parent Council's Wish List program. Choosing an item from the Wish List is a wonderful way to honor a special student, teacher, adviser, family member or friend. Hopkins students and teachers have benefitted greatly from these tax-deductible gifts since titles are selected to add breadth and depth to the library's collection.

To make a purchase, select one or more of the titles listed below and reserve it by contacting Anne Liebergall, Wish List Coordinator, by phone (203 996-9642) or by e-mail: annieliebs@msn.com. Upon receipt of your payment the Wish List Coordinator will notify the honoree and you will receive written acknowledgement of your gift for tax purposes. Thanks for your support of the library.

Arts

African American Dance: An Illustrated History - Glass $45

La Cenerentola - Rossini (Metropolitan Opera DVD) $35

La Sonnambula - Bellini (Metropolitan Opera DVD) $25

Oxford Atlas of World Art Sold!

Pop: The Genius of Any Warhol - Scherman & Dalton $30

Reza War and Peace: Photography - Doghati $50

Sister Wendy: The Complete Collection (Story of Painting, Grand Tour, Odyssey, Pains of Glass on DVD) $60

The Bauhaus group: Six Masters of Modernism - Weber $30

The Impressionists (DVD) $35

The Oxford Companion to Architecture (2 Volumes) $250

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (DVD) $25

Thais - Massenet (Metropolitan Opera DVD) $30

Classics

Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii and Ostia Sold!

Latin Alive: Survival of Latin in English and Romance Languages- Solodow $40

The Art of Greece and Rome Sold!

Travel in the Ancient World Sold!

Where Did It Come From: Ancient Roman Roads (DVD) $25

General Interest

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival - Norman Ollestad $15

Ideas that Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century - Grayling $20

In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise - Prochnik $20

Louis Brandeis: A Life - Urofsky $28

Overboard: A True Blue Odyssey of Disaster and Survival - Michael Tougais $18

Pasta - Silvano serventi $30

Red Sox Nation: An Unexpurgated History - Golenback $18

The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA - Ballard $20

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Skloot $18

The Sonderberg Case - Wiesel $20

The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - Singer $18

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - Malcom Gladwell $15

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - Krakauer $17

When the Game Was Ours - Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson $17

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend - Hirsch $18

Yankees Century: 100 Years of NY Yankees Baseball - Stout $27

History

After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam Sold!

Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam - T.F.C. Hopkins $15

Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571 - Bicheno $20

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy - Beevor $25

For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus - Brown $22

Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews Sold!

Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain - Royle $25

Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans - Harth $15

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe - Gellately $25

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement - Sullivan $28

Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin and the End of Atomic Monopoly - Sold!

Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health and Art - Cunningham $35

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds - Sold!

The Dead Hand: Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy - Hoffman $25

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 - Brendon $25

The Diplomatic Background of the War: 1870-1914 - Seymour $35

The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition - Hofstadter $20

The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487 - Sadler $30

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph - Standage $25

Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto - Capponi - $25

We Shall Remain: PBS Series on Native American History (DVD) - $50

Languages & Literature

Cinema Paradiso (Italian DVD) Sold!

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? - Shapiro $20

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory - Hessler $18

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China - Chang $18

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time - James Frank $25

John Milton: A Hero of Our TIme Sold!

Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America's Poets - Sold!

Six Degrees of Separation (DVD) $20

Stromboli (Italian DVD) $50 38134100179020

The Hobart Shakespearean's (DVD) $20

Truman Capote: A&E Biography (DVD) $30

Math, Science & Technology

Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It - Elizabeth Royte - $18

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry - Elizabeth Grossman $25

Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information - Vedral $25

e: The Story of a Number - Eli Maor $70

Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise - Schroeder $20

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age - Beyer $20

Hope for Animals and their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescused from the Brink - Goodall $20

How to Guard an Art Gallery: And Other Discreet Mathematical Problems - T. S. Michael $40

Mrs. Perkins Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics Sold!

Mythmatics: Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules - Michael Huber $20

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain - Wolf $20

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality - Kumar $25

Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Sold!

The Calculus Gallery Sold!

The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function and Disorders - Carter $30

The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain - Judith Horstman $20

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom - Graham Farmelo $20

The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One - Sylvia earle - $20

To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite- Eli Maor $40

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization - Solomon $20

You are Here: A Portable History of the Universe - Potter $20