THE END OF NATURE
By Bill McKibben (Anchor Books $14)
The 10th-anniversary edition of Bill McKibben’s environmental treatise, reintroduced by the author.
THE FISHERMAN’S SON
By Michael Kepf (Broadway Books $13)
In this luminous novel, a fisherman in a life raft finds sustenance in childhood memories.
TIME
By Clifford A. Pickover (Oxford University Press $15.95)
The science of time is explored in this clever, accessible guide to how time travel could work.
EYEWITNESS TO THE AMERICAN WEST
Edited by David Colbert (Penguin $14.95)
Firsthand accounts of people and events that shaped the West, from the Aztecs to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
PUNISHED BY REWARDS
By Alfie Kohn (Houghton Mifflin $14)
Parents, teachers and managers learn why rewards for good behavior ultimately backfire.
TOLSTOY
Edited by Charles Neider (Cooper Square Press $19.95)
Thirty-six short stories and novellas that span the Russian writer’s prodigious career.
THE SOUTH SIDE
By Louis Rosen (Ivan R. Dee $14.95)
An oral narrative of one Chicago neighborhood where race relations were sorely tested.
A DREAM DEFERRED
By Shelby Steele (HarperPerennial $14)
Four essays on affirmative action, multiculturalism and other liberal impulses that failed.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON
By Norman Mailer (Ballantine Books $12)
Jesus tells his own life story–and corrects the New Testament–in this inventive novel.
DEATH IN SUMMER
By William Trevor (Penguin $12.95)
The dire results of a wife’s death unfold in this eloquent, suspenseful novel.
THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS
By Thomas Cahill (Nan A. Talese/Anchor Books $14)
Thomas Cahill turns from Irish scribes to the Jews of the Bible in this second volume of his popular series.
THE BIG CON
By David W. Maurer (Anchor Books $12.95)
Introduced by Luc Sante, this 1940 study details confidence games and underworld argot.
