THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS.
By Paul Berman.
Melville House. 299 pp. $26
THE OTHER MUSLIMS:
Moderate and Secular.
Edited by Zeyno Baran.
Palgrave Macmillan. 211 pp. $30
BOOKS AS WEAPONS:
Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II.
By John B. Hench.
Cornell Univ. Press. 333 pp. $35
PUBLIC PRODUCE:
The New Urban Agriculture.
By Darrin Nordahl.
Island Press. 177 pp. $30
SEEING THE LIGHT:
Religious Colleges in Twenty-First-Century America.
By Samuel Schuman.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 326 pp. $50
JANE’S FAME:
How Jane Austen Conquered the World.
By Claire Harman.
Henry Holt. 277 pp. $26
A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED:
Thirty-Three Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen.
Edited by Susannah Carson.
Random House. 295 pp. $25
FLIGHT FROM MONTICELLO:
Thomas Jefferson at War.
By Michael Kranish.
Oxford Univ. Press. 388 pp. $27.95
ABOUT A MOUNTAIN.
By John D’Agata.
W. W. Norton. 236 pp. $23.95
THE ROUTES OF MAN:
How Roads Are Changing the World, and the Way We Live Today.
By Ted Conover.
Knopf. 333 pp. $26.95
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY:
The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism.
By Julian E. Zelizer.
Basic. 583 pp. $35
THE ARSENIC CENTURY:
How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.
By James C. Whorton.
Oxford Univ. Press. 464 pp. $29.95