STIRRING THE POT:
A History of African Cuisine.
By James C. McCann.
Ohio Univ. Press. 213 pp. $26.95
GERMANIA:
In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History.
By Simon Winder.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 454 pp. $25
THE GREAT OOM:
The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America.
By Robert Love.
Viking. 402 pp. $27.95
SEEKING THE CURE:
A History of Medicine in America.
By Ira Rutkow.
Scribner. 356 pp. $28
STRANGE DAYS INDEED:
The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia.
By Francis Wheen.
PublicAffairs. 343 pp. $26.95
STUFF: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. By Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 290 pp. $27
MADE IN AMERICA:
A Social History of American Culture and Character.
By Claude S. Fischer.
Univ. of Chicago Press. 511 pp. $35
THE OTHER WES MOORE:
One Name and Two Fates.
By Wes Moore.
Spiegel & Grau. 233 pp. $25
IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE:
Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise.
By George Prochnik.
Doubleday. 342 pp. $26
THE UNWANTED SOUND OF EVERYTHING WE WANT:
A Book About Noise.
By Garret Keizer.
PublicAffairs. 375 pp. $27.95
MURIEL SPARK:
The Biography.
By Martin Stannard.
W.W. Norton. 627 pp. $35