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"The scientific discoveries described in this book may turn out . . . to have been the most important research findings in the long history of science." -Lewis Thomas, from the Foreward

"Dry wit and analytic adroitness ... [This survey] contains some rich and stimulating material." -Kirkus Reviews

For many Americans, Vermont still seems what the United States at least in myth once was--a bucolic landscape of wooded hills, neat farms, and handsome villages--before modern forces transformed our agrarian nation into an urban-industrial giant.

A place apart, Utah began as an undefined land in the middle of the continent, a place that meant little to the few natives who lived there and even less to the fewer travelers who passed through.

"As with the first volume, an extraordinarily complex story is developed with great skill, scholarship and reflective analysis." -Foreign Affairs

The changing social scene and its effect on the incidence of mental disorders.

The settlers who came to Wyoming stayed to build a special way of life. It is with them that important choices now rest. "The country where the wind blew in primeval purity will now breathe new odors," says author Larson, unless short-term profits can be balanced by long-term gains. If the right decisions are made, he concludes, it should be possible for Wyoming to "emerge from its primitive isolation in such a way that its greatest values are preserved and its old way of life left for those who choose to follow it."

John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state.

The idea that abundance was "inexhaustible--that fatal Michigan word," as the author calls it--dominated thinking about the state from the days when Commandant Cadillac's soldiers arrived at Detroit until his name became a brand of car. Viewed in this light, Michigan is a case study of all America, and Americans in any state will be fascinated. In a colorful, dramatic past, Mr. Catton finds understanding of where we are in the present and what the future will make us face.

From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side.

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and bragging, right? Right. And also wrong, says the author of this book, Joe B. Frantz.

"A fascinating and timely book which demonstrates once and for all why `scientific' creationism is not only bad science but also bad theology-and in the process spells out the principles that guide genuine discovery. Basically, an expose of all pseudoscience. -John Pfeiffer, author of The Emergence of Man

Perhaps I should begin with what a Gimmick is not. It is not a serious scholarly book. It IS the answer to your problems in speaking and understanding Italian - a method of acquiring an international vocabulary.

"George Ball's memoirs are everything that most of the art is not. While he does not neglect his achievement, he is candid on the things that went wrong. His public life has provided him with a very great deal of very great importance to tell. And much of his story amusing." -John Kenneth Galbraith

When Virginia's Royal Governor, William Gooch, sailed for England in 1749, he left behind a "state of affairs in which all seemed ordered and tranquil and-to those whose opinions mattered-reasonably permanent." It was the first such time in Virginia's history but, writes author Louis Rubin, it would not be the last.

"An outstanding contribution to the literature on eating disorders." -Albert D. Loro, Jr., Ph.D., former director, Eating Disorders Program, Duke University Medical School

"Medvedev's account of Bukharin's persecution, which served as the model for Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon, is grim, dramatic and poignant." -Publishers Weekly

Miller uses his original reinterpretation of the history of philosophy to examine the philosophy of history. He criticises all attempts to interpret history on premises not themselves historical.

The Definition of the Thing is John William Miller's Harvard dissertation of 1922. In this unusually provocative and original essay, Miller had already worked out a number of the basic contentions of his mature philosophy.

The founders of the American republic were ardently concerned with the judgment of posterity. Had they known what a fickle muse Clio would prove to be, they might have been more anxious. The making of myths and legends, complete with a hagiology and demonology, is inherent in the process of evolution toward nationhood. Consequently, individual actors in the original drama have often been consigned by History to roles they did not actually play, and the most important of them have played shifting roles, being heroes in one generation and villains in the next. It is therefore not surprising that Alexander Hamilton-along with Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison-has had his ups and downs at the hands of historians.

"This book brings Lillian Smith into focus as an unjustly neglected writer of force and talent and a courageous crusader for the unfettered potential of the human spirit." -Publishers Weekly

Discusses how the theories of art critics, such as Herbert Read, Roger Fry, a Sheldon Cheney, have distorted the actual ideas and aims of the artists.

Through the distillation of a lifetime of experiences, John Hay describes in The Undiscovered Country his quiet, profound search for our place in the natural world. In considering snails, alewives, terns, woodland moths, and other forms of natural life, Hay shares with his readers a discovery that few have experienced and no one has written about so eloquently. The sensitivity and poetic beauty of John Hay's writing will come as no surprise to the readers of The Run, The Great Beach (winner of the John Burroughs award), and the other books for which he is recognized as one of our finest naturalist writers.

A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero.

An eye-opening survey of the recent Arab revolutions and their political consequences, comparing them to those of a previous generation.

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history.

A remarkable collection of images taken by passionate amateurs that have both a historical value and an innocent charm.

A remarkable montage of poems that explore film, poetry, and the elusiveness of reverie.