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Joseph Lelyveld's study of the career of Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa and in India.

William Tweed's discussion of the uncertain future of America's National Parks.

Peter Maass' discussion of the political, social, and economic impact of oil on theproducers.

David Remnick's study of Barack Obama's life and career before his presidency.

Mark Arax's personal account of events making up California's panorama.

Garrison Keillor's novel of a tour of Rome by several inhabitants of Lake Wobegon including Keillor himself.

Robert Gildea's account of the deep divisions that emerged in France resulting from the Revolution of 1789 and their reconciliation by the eve of World War I.

Christopher Duggan's account of the "creation of Italy," beginningduring the French Revolution.

Alastair Campbell's diary of his years as a major advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Kim MacQuarrie's account of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

G. J. Sawyer's and Viktor Deak's guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans.

Vali Nasr's study of the current revival of the Muslim Shias in the Middle East, and theirrivalry with the long dominant Sunnis.

Ruth Scurr's biography of Maximilien Robespierre, one of the most controversial figuresof the French Revolution.

J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the life and times of Elizabeth Taylor from her birth to herseventies.

An account of the looting of Italian antiquities and their illegal acquisitions by worldfamous museums.

Girolamo Arnaldi's brief history of Italy's many invaders and invasions.

Christopher de Bellaigue's personal assessment of Iranian society since the Islamicrevolution of 1979.

Hugh Kennedy's history of Baghdad's Abbasid dynasty from the eighth to the tenth centuries, an era knownas the "golden age of Islam."

Christian Meier discusses Europe's 'special path' that began in ancient Greece and that possibly ended at Auschwitz.

Sarah Bradford's sympathetic biography of one of the most infamous women of the Renaissance.

Suketu Mehta's account of his return to Bombay after living abroad for many years.

Fred Moody's personal account of Seattle, the old and the new, and how for better and for worse, thecity has changed in the past three decades.

Janine di Giovanni's memoir of her experiences as a reporter in the Balkans during the 1990's,particularly during the Kosovo campaign of 1999.

Eric Hobsbawm's autobiography from his birth in Egypt in 1917 to his career asa controversial British Marxist historian.

T. Jefferson Parker's detective novel of homicide cop Tom McMichael's questfor the murderer of San Diego business and political patriarch Pete Braga.

Isaiah Berlin's commentaries on several eighteenth and nineteenth century figures who, he argues, were enemies of individual freedom.

Stanley Weintraub's history of the unofficial Christmas truce of 1914.

James McClain's history of Japan since 1600.

Robert Crais's fast-paced story of a burnt-out cop involved in a hostage crisis in a wealthy Southern California suburb.

Jack Doyle's account of the American auto makers' long opposition to any attempt to improve gasoline milage and reduce air pollution.

Shana Alexander's account of the world's elephants and their possible future.

Matt Dickinson's account of his attempt to climb Mount Everest in May, 1996, the month of the killer storm.

Steve Jones' rewrite of Charles Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and discussion of evolution.

Gerry Spence's polemical attack on the corporate culture and the free enterprise religion.

David Brin's HEAVEN'S REACH is the third volume of the second series of his Uplift novels, or volume six in all.

Kim Stanley Robinson's novel of Antarctica's environmental challenges is set in the twenty-first century

Daniel Yergin's and Joseph Stanislaw's exploration of the victory of the free market over government-led economic practices.

Jonathan Spence's history of the West's varied reactions to China.

Terry Golway tells the story of John Devoy, an Irish-American, and his campaign for an independent Ireland.

John North discusses the relationships between the stars, the sun, and the moon, and the religion of Britain's prehistoric societies.

David F. Noble traces the relationship between science and religion in western civilization.

In PLEASURE WARS Peter Gay concludes his five volume THE BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE.

Robert Ritchie and Paul Hutton have edited a series of essays on Western history.

Reviews the book `Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time.' Robert Remini, biographer of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay, examines the life and career of United States statesman Daniel Webster.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie relates the saga of a sixteenth century Swiss peasant family.

Laurel Holliday has assembled numerous brief accounts of children growing up during the twenty-five years of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

J. Robert Moskin traces the origins of the final decades of the twentieth century back to the spring and summer of 1945 and the waning of World War II.

Norman Davies has written a monumental history of Europe from prehistory to the fall of the Soviet Union.