Book Reviews

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
By Jeremy Black.
Random House. 236 pp. $26

FROM ETERNITY TO HERE:
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time.
By Sean Carroll.
Dutton. 438 pp. $26.95

HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
Edited by Chistian Key, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels, and Irene Wotherspoon.
Oxford Univ. Pres. 3,892 pp. $395

FIRST WE READ, THEN WE WRITE:
Emerson on the Creative Process.
By Robert D. Richardson.
Univ. of Iowa Press. 101 pp. $19.95

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MORE PERFECT UNIONS:
The American Search for Marital Bliss.
By Rebecca L. Davis.
Harvard Univ. Press. 317 pp. $29.95

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A GREAT UNRECORDED HISTORY:
A New Life of E. M. Forster.
By Wendy Moffat.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 416 pp. $32.50

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PARADISE BENEATH HER FEET:
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East.
By Isobel Coleman.
Random House. 309 pp. $26

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WHAT DARWIN GOT WRONG.
By Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 264 pp. $26

NOTHING TO ENVY:
Ordinary Lives in North ­Korea.
By Barbara Demick.
Spiegel & Grau. 314 pp. $24

FIVE TO RULE THEM ALL:
The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern ­World.
By David L. Bosco.
Oxford Univ. Press. 310 pp. $­24.95

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