CHINA’S RISE
IN ASIA:
Promises and Perils.
By Robert G. Sutter.
Rowman & Littlefield. 297 pp. $24.95
PROTECTING LIBERTY IN AN AGE OF TERROR.
By Philip B. Heymann and Juliette N. Kayyem.
MIT Press. 194 pp. $30
ON THE ICE:
An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
By Gretchen Legler. Milkweed Editions.
195 pp. $15.95
THE CUTTER
INCIDENT:
How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led
to the Growing Vaccine Crisis.
By Paul A. Offit.
Yale Univ Press.
238 pp. $27.50
CURT RICHTER:
A Life in the
Laboratory.
By Jay Schulkin.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 187 pp. $49.95
THE LIFE OF DAVID.
By Robert Pinsky.
Schocken. 209 pp. $19.95
THE PRISON ANGEL:
Mother Antonia’s Journey From
Beverly Hills
to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail.
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.
Penguin. 237 pp. $24.95
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