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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerWhat Work Is: PoemsPhilip LevineWinner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and l...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistRegion of UnlikenessJorie GrahamAmazonStar LedgerLynda HullAmazonSudden Dreams: New and Selected PoemsGeorge EvansAmazonThe World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990Charles WrightAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Truth About ChernobylGrigori MedvedevThis is an account of the events leading up to the worst nuclear disaster in history. It also examines the subsequent cover-up at which both politicians and technicians connived....Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the UniverseDennis OverbyeAmazonThe Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of IntelligenceWilliam H. CalvinAmazonThe Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius RamanujanRobert KanigelAmazonWalking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté GaldikasSy MontgomeryAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerEleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1. 1884-1933Blanche Wiesen CookThe central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathe...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham StoryWilliam MartinAmazonEdgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending RemembranceKenneth SilvermanAmazonFascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira GershwinDeena Ruth RosenbergAmazonSalem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel HawthorneEdwin Haviland MillerAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe End of History and the Last ManFrancis FukuyamaA provocative exploration of issues of human society and destiny answers such questions as, is there a direction to human history? does history have an end? and where are we now?...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistChain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American PoliticsThomas Byrne Edsall, Mary D. EdsallAmazonCulture Wars: The Struggle to Define AmericaJames Davison HunterAmazonDen of ThievesJames B. StewartAmazonThe Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in KyotoPico IyerAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerMaus: A Survivor's Tale: Volume 2. And Here My Troubles BeganArt SpiegelmanIn a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Thousand Acres: A NovelJane SmileyAmazonDaughtersPaule MarshallAmazonLet the Dead Bury Their Dead: StoriesRandall KenanAmazonTime and TideEdna O'BrienAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerHigh CottonDarryl PinckneyAn elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction Shortlist1959: A NovelThulani DavisAmazonAfter MoondogJane ShapiroAmazonMarine LifeLinda SvendsenAmazonShe's Come UndoneWally LambAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBenevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under FascismAlexander StilleExploring the experiences of Italian Jews under fascism, five factual narratives and extensive interviews reconstruct Mussolini's Italy for Italian Jews from the perspectives and fates of five different Italian-Jewish families....Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFrontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa PeopleNoel MostertAmazonOwen Lattimore and the "Loss" of ChinaRobert P. NewmanAmazonThe Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media PoliticsGreg MitchellAmazonTriumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican PeopleRamón Eduardo RuizAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerAn Atlas of the Difficult WorldAdrienne RichWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry....Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBread Without Sugar: PoemsGerald SternAmazonSub Rosa: PoemsSusan ProspereAmazonThe Father: PoemsSharon OldsAmazonThe Wild IrisLouise GlückAmazon

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1992 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human AnimalJared DiamondThe Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communicat...Amazon1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistArtificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet BiologySteven LevyAmazonBlinded By The Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark MatterJohn GribbinAmazonConsciousness ExplainedDaniel C. DennettAmazonThe Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-HandednessStanley CorenAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerDaniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American PioneerJohn Mack FaragherWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular na...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistCharles Sanders Peirce: A LifeJoseph BrentAmazonGenius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the BombWilliam Lanouette, Bela SilardAmazonLincoln: An Illustrated BiographyPhilip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. KunhardtAmazonThe Six Wives of Henry VIIIAntonia FraserAmazon