FREE WORLD: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West. By Timothy Garton Ash. Random House. 286 pp. $24.95
THREE NIGHTS IN AUGUST: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager. By Buzz Bissinger. Houghton Mifflin. 280 pp. $25
YOU, THE PEOPLE: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building. By Simon Chesterman. Oxford Univ. Press. 296 pp. $95
PLAN B: Further Thoughts on Faith. By Anne Lamott. Riverhead Books. 320 pp. $24.95.
JEWS AND THE AMERICAN SOUL: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew R. Heinze. Princeton Univ. Press. 438 pp. $29.95
INVENTING SUPERSTITION: From the Hippocratics to the Christians. By Dale B. Martin. Harvard Univ. Press. 307 pp. $29.95
CAMPO SANTO. By W. G. Sebald. Translated by Anthea Bell. Random House. 221 pp. $24.95
IMPRESSIONIST QUARTET: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt. By Jeffrey Meyers. Harcourt. 368 pp. $26
DESCENT: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss. By Brad Matsen. Pantheon. 304 pp. $25
WHY WE LIE: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind. By David Livingstone Smith. St. Martin’s Press. 238 pp. $24.95
DECEPTION AT WORK: Investigating and Countering Lies and Fraud Strategies. By Michael J. Comer and Timothy E. Stephens. Gower Publishing. 459 pp. $185