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The essays in this book focus on particular questions, like the historical relationship between race and poverty, or the constraining influence of children's literature. Some essays explore particular episodes like the foreign 'scare' after World War I.

Infanticide, the deliberate killing of infants, was once and economic necessity and exists as a social atavism even today. This book explores the origins and motives of this behavior and is a contribution to the understanding of infanticide and, it is hoped, to its prevention.

Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its history exhibits basic conflicts that had much to do with shaping American society in general.

A searching and powerfully written novel about a dark-horse presidential candidate who seems to be the answer to the hopes of the American voters. Is he, perhaps, too good to be true?

Considerations more political than practical left Idaho strange in shape-like a pregnant capital L, as one observer said. With the state's southeastern residents oriented toward Salt Lake City, Utah, and residents of the Idaho panhandle oriented toward Spokane, Washington, often it has seemed that only the capital at Boise and the Snake River system have held the state together. More than half of Idaho is owned by an outsider-the federal government-and the rest has never been densely populated. From Lewis and Clark on, early travelers to the region found its deserts and mountains forbiddingly inhospitable. But the mountains have yielded timber and rich mineral mines. The deserts have become productive farms through reclamation and irrigation projects of enormous magnitude. A kind of "irrigation democracy" also has won attention for the state beyond its borders, as has the awe-inspiring beauty that makes Idaho an attractive place to live.

The book is divided into several parts: the historical uses of the limerick, concentrating on the American frontier and on World War II; limericks assembled from the files of the Society of the Fifth Line, and organization of scholars whose job it is to produce an original verse for each meeting of the membership; samples of the classic limerick form, some original, some contributed, some culled from published and unpublished collections; and an assortment of limericks that reflect the limerick's role as a mirror of social change.In the arrangement of the material, Billington could not resist "inflict[ing] my academic standards in an area where art should reign, using chapter headings, explanations, some variant readings, and such footnotes as needed to make the page unattractive."

"Wonderfully contrived ....a triumph of that false-memory syndrome called contemporary fiction."-New York Times Book Review

"A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson."-Harold Bloom

A master neurologist's clinical tales-both funny and profound-of the evolution of the brain.

"Martin Espada ....forges a new poetic language."-Dennis Loy Johnson, Pittsburgh Tribune

"Stern's bebop poems shimmer and shadow-dance down the page."-Booklist

The best introduction to the work of one of America's most famous architects.

Elizabeth Macklin, whose poems have been described by The New Yorker as "graceful and halting, quartzlike in precision," contemplates the grammar of loss.

This is a study by Peter Blake, which traces the course of modern architecture from its beginnings, prompted by social and political idealism, to the elitism of the 1960s, and finally to a return to its original principles.

"For a lot of years, Red Smith reported the sports scene with a hard look and a soft laugh. In Press Box, you'll find the stories he enjoyed, about and by people who entertained him." -Joe Garagiola

"Informative and useful. . . . A balanced history of leftist American politics in the 20th century. . . . Admirably nonpartisan." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"With extensive knowledge and avid enthusiasm. . . . Myers, a worldwide conservation consultant, presents a sobering, consciousness-raising account of the environmental crisis that will develop if the thoughtless exploitation of tropical forests is allowed to continue. . . . An important contribution." -ALA Booklist

"Characteristically incisive and refreshing. . . . It represents the fruits of years of reflection and research into the relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies, and how that relationship affected developments in the early Republic." - [London] Times Higher Education Supplement

"[Higgins's] solid research in memoirs, declassified documents and interviews leads to stark and damning conclusions." -Stanley Hoffman, New York Times Book Review

"A disturbing look at the military state using evidence from committees of the Congress, whistle-blowers, and concerned citizens. . . .A thoughtful and chilling look at Fortress America, its architects and its victims." -Kirkus Reviews

"You are likely to learn more about winning yacht races by reading this book than from anything you've read in quite a while. . . . [It] gives us a close look at Conner-surely the most successful sailboat skipper in the United States today . . ." -Bruce Kirby

"The power of Lyon's book is that he has successfully returned the issue of newborn intensive care from the political or ethical to the profoundly, disturbingly personal. . . . A moving, impressive book." -Robin Marantz Henig, Washington Post

"A wonderful book to read, written with the perspective of the practicing political scientist and the insight of the kibitzing Washington observer. The book stands out for its thoroughness . . .on all aspects of PACs. A well-written and witty work . . .far surpasses anything previously done on the subject." -Choice

Few other states can match Oklahoma's reputation as a last frontier.

"Only One Earth...remains a classic study of the environment on a global scale....The organization and subject matter of Down to Earth reflect the metamorphosis of the environmental issue in ten years." -Walt Patterson, New Statesman

The nuclear workers and scientists who tell their stories in this book testify to the lie that has been sold to the American people. Nuclear energy is not safe, not clean, not cheap.