New York Public Library's Books of the Century

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The following is a complete list of the titles included in the exhibition Books of the Century at The New York Public Library's Center for the Humanities, May 20, 1995-July 13, 1996, and in The New vis mere York Public Library's Books of the Century, published by Oxford University Press. Find the Book! vis mindre
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Alt falder fra hinanden (1958) af Chinua Achebe
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Den fremmede (1942) af Albert Camus
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Forlis (1900) af Joseph Conrad
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Elskeren (1984) af Marguerite Duras
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Bride Price (1976) af Buchi Emecheta
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Fordømte her på jorden (1961) af Frantz Fanon
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Indiske dage (1924) af E. M. Forster
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) (1970) af M. K. Gandhi
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (1978) af Ryszard Kapuściński
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Kim / Rudyard Kipling ; på dansk ved Jesper Ewald (1901) af Rudyard Kipling
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Jeg hedder Rigoberta : et liv og en stemme fra Guatemala (1983) af Rigoberta Menchú
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Guerilla : roman (1975) af V. S. Naipaul
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Ve, mit elskede land : en fortælling om hjælp i nøden (1948) af Alan Paton
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) af Jean Rhys
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Season of Migration to the North (1966) af Tayeb Salih
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Family of Man (1955) af Edward Steichen
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice (1945) af United Nations
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Education of Henry Adams (1907) af Henry Adams
Economics & Technology
A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957) af Milton Friedman
Economics & Technology
Det rige samfund (1958) af John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics & Technology
Vejen til Trældom (1944) af F. A. Hayek
Economics & Technology
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) af Jane Jacobs
Economics & Technology
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) af John Maynard Keynes
Economics & Technology
Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog (1992) af Ed Krol
Economics & Technology
Superhighway-Superhoax (1970) af Helen Leavitt
Economics & Technology
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973) af E. F. Schumacher
Economics & Technology
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) af Thorstein Veblen
Economics & Technology
Den protestantiske etik og kapitalismens ånd (1904) af Max Weber
Economics & Technology
The Snowy Day (1962) af Ezra Jack Keats
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Løven, heksen og garderobeskabet (1950) af C. S. Lewis
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985) af Patricia MacLachlan
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) af Beatrix Potter
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Forbandede ungdom (1951) af J. D. Salinger
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Villy Vilddyr (1963) af Maurice Sendak
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Der vokser et Træ i Brooklyn. Roman. Overs. fra engelsk efter "A tree grows in Brooklyn" ved Gunner Gersov. Omslagstegning: Svend Otto (1943) af Betty Smith
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Charlotte's Web (1952) af E. B. White
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947) af W. H. Auden
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) af Samuel Beckett
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Fiktioner (1944) af Jorge Luis Borges
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Waste Land (1922) af T. S. Eliot
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Portable Faulkner (1946) af William Faulkner
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition (1967) af William Faulkner
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Sigøjnerballader (1928) af Federico García Lorca
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Hundrede års ensomhed (1967) af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Forvandlingen (1912) af Franz Kafka
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Dover] (1915) af Franz Kafka
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Troldfjeldet (1924) af Thomas Mann
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Renascence and Other Poems (1917) af Edna St. Vincent Millay
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Salomons sang (1977) af Toni Morrison
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Seks Personer søger en Forfatter : et uskrevet Skuespil (1921) af Luigi Pirandello
Landmarks of Modern Literature
På sporet af den tabte tid (1913) af Marcel Proust
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Portnoys genvordigheder (1967) af Philip Roth
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Tender Buttons (1914) af Gertrude Stein
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Three Sisters (1901) af Anton Tschechow
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Native Son (1940) af Richard Wright
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Wild Swans at Coole (1920) af William Butler Yeats
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1976) af Bruno Bettelheim
Mind & Spirit
Suicide (1897) af Emile Durkheim
Mind & Spirit
Studies in the psychology of sex (1940) af Havelock Ellis
Mind & Spirit
Drømmetydning bind 1-2 (1900) af Sigmund Freud
Mind & Spirit
Profeten (1923) af Kahlil Gibran
Mind & Spirit
Religøse erfaringer (1902) af William James
Mind & Spirit
Døden og den døende (1969) af Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Mind & Spirit
Gøgereden (1962) af Ken Kesey
Mind & Spirit
The Politics of Ecstasy (Leary, Timothy) (1968) af Timothy Leary
Mind & Spirit
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) af Margaret Mead
Mind & Spirit
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (1957) af Bertrand Russell
Mind & Spirit
Væren og Intet - et essay om fænomenologisk ontologi (1943) af Jean-Paul Sartre
Mind & Spirit
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) af Benjamin Spock
Mind & Spirit
The Courage to Be (1952) af Paul Tillich
Mind & Spirit
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) (1989) af Zondervan
Mind & Spirit
Det tavse forår (1962) af Rachel Carson
Nature's Realm
Radioactive Substances (1904) af Marie Curie
Nature's Realm
The Meaning of Relativity (1922) af Albert Einstein
Nature's Realm
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949) af Aldo Leopold
Nature's Realm
King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways (1949) af Konrad Lorenz
Nature's Realm
The Life of the Bee (1901) af Maurice Maeterlinck
Nature's Realm
Peterson Field Guide(R) to Eastern Birds: Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides) (1934) af Roger Tory Peterson
Nature's Realm
Smoking and Health A Report of the Surgeon General af United States Department of Agriculture
Nature's Realm
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) af James D. Watson
Nature's Realm
The Diversity of Life (1992) af Edward O. Wilson
Nature's Realm
The complete poems, 1927–1979 (1983) af Elizabeth Bishop
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Goodnight Moon (1947) af Margaret Wise Brown
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Shadows on the Rock (1931) af Willa Cather
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Best of Simple (1961) af Langston Hughes
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) af Sarah Orne Jewett
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy (1956) af Juan Ramón Jiménez
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Story of My Life (1903) af Helen Keller
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Dræb ikke en sangfugl (1960) af Harper Lee
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Peter Plys (1926) af A. A. Milne
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Etiquette (1922) af Emily Post
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931 (1998) af Irma S. Rombauer
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Pygmalion (1913) af George Bernard Shaw
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Hobbitten eller Ud og hjem igen (1937) af J. R. R. Tolkien
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Jeeves, den uforlignelige (1923) af P. G. Wodehouse
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues (1970) af Jim Bouton
Popular Culture
Tarzan, Abernes Konge (1914) af Edgar Rice Burroughs
Popular Culture
Med koldt blod (1965) af Truman Capote
Popular Culture
How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) af Dale Carnegie
Popular Culture
(Big Sleep, The) Det byder man ikke Carmen (1939) af Raymond Chandler
Popular Culture
De låsede døre : Styles-mysteriet (1920) af Agatha Christie
Popular Culture
Baskervilles hund (1902) af Arthur Conan Doyle
Popular Culture
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) af Zane Grey
Popular Culture
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) af Robert A. Heinlein
Popular Culture
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
Popular Culture
Skruen strammes (1898) af Henry James
Popular Culture
Carrie (1974) af Stephen King
Popular Culture
Peyton Place (1956) af Grace Metalious
Popular Culture
Borte med blæsten (1936) af Margaret Mitchell
Popular Culture
The Cat in the Hat (1957) af Dr. Seuss
Popular Culture
Dracula (1897) af Bram Stoker
Popular Culture
The Day of the Locust (1939) af Nathanael West
Popular Culture
Forfængelighedens bål (1987) af Tom Wolfe
Popular Culture
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) af Jane Addams
Protest & Progress
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) af James Agee
Protest & Progress
Næste gang (1963) af James Baldwin
Protest & Progress
U.S.A. (1938) af John Dos Passos
Protest & Progress
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) af W. E. B. Du Bois
Protest & Progress
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society (1960) af Paul Goodman
Protest & Progress
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (1991) af Alex Kotlowitz
Protest & Progress
The Battle with the Slum (1902) af Jacob A. Riis
Protest & Progress
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) af Randy Shilts
Protest & Progress
Junglen (1906) af Upton Sinclair
Protest & Progress
Sælsom frugt (1944) af Lillian Smith
Protest & Progress
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931) af Lincoln Steffens
Protest & Progress
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
Protest & Progress
The House on Henry Street (1911) af Lillian D. Wald
Protest & Progress
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) af Malcolm X
Protest & Progress
Tjenerindens fortælling (1985) af Margaret Atwood
Utopias & Dystopias
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) af J. M. Barrie
Utopias & Dystopias
Troldmanden fra Oz (1900) af L. Frank Baum
Utopias & Dystopias
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) af Ray Bradbury
Utopias & Dystopias
A clockwork orange (1962) af Anthony Burgess
Utopias & Dystopias
Kvindeland (1915) af Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Utopias & Dystopias
The Jewish State (1896) af Theodor Herzl
Utopias & Dystopias
Tabte horisonter (1933) af James Hilton
Utopias & Dystopias
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
Utopias & Dystopias
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
Utopias & Dystopias
Og verden skælvede (1957) af Ayn Rand
Utopias & Dystopias
Walden Two (1948) af B. F. Skinner
Utopias & Dystopias
Tidsmaskinen (1895) af H. G. Wells
Utopias & Dystopias
Requiem (1966) af Anna Akhmatova
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Begrav mit hjerte ved Wounded Knee (1970) af Dee Brown
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
The Gathering Storm (1948) af Winston S. Churchill
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Anne Frank's dagbog (1947) af Anne Frank
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Anne Franks dagbog : den uforkortede originaludgave : optegnelser fra baghuset 12. juni 1942-1. august 1944 (1947) af Anne Frank
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Den gode Soldat Svejks Eventyr under Verdenskrigen (1922) af Jaroslav Hašek
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Hvem ringer klokkerne for (1940) af Ernest Hemingway
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Dispatches (1977) af Michael Herr
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) (1946) af John Hersey
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Min kamp. Bind 1: Et opgør. Bind 2: Den nationalsocialistiske bevægelse. (1925) af Adolf Hitler
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Mørke midt på dagen (1940) af Arthur Koestler
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Ti dage der rystede verden (1919) af John Reed
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Intet nyt fra vestfronten (1928) af Erich Maria Remarque
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (1919) af Siegfried Sassoon
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Kræftafdelingen (1968) af Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Maus : en overlevende fortæller (1973) af Art Spiegelman
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Armenian atrocities, the murder of a nation (1975) af Arnold Joseph Toynbee
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Citater fra formand Mao Tse-Tung (1968) af Mao Tse-Tung
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Night (1956) af Elie Wiesel
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) af Maya Angelou
Women Rise
Det andet køn (1953) af Simone de Beauvoir
Women Rise
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1973) af Susan Brownmiller
Women Rise
Woman suffrage and politics; the inner story of the suffrage movement (1923) af Carrie Chapman Catt
Women Rise
The Feminine Mystique (1963) af Betty Friedan
Women Rise
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942) af Zora Neale Hurston
Women Rise
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
Women Rise
Søsterskab! : artikler fra den amerikanske kvindebefrielse (1970) af Robin Morgan
Women Rise
My Fight for Birth Control (1969) af Margaret Sanger
Women Rise
Farven lilla (1982) af Alice Walker
Women Rise
The Age of Innocence (1920) af Edith Wharton
Women Rise

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