By Georges Ifrah. Translated by David Bellos, E. F. Harding, Sophie Wood, and Ian Monk. Wiley. 633 pp. $39.95
By John Horgan. Free Press. 336 pp. $25
NONZERO:
The Logic of Human Destiny
By Robert Wright.
Pantheon.
544 pp. $27.50
By Nicholas Lemann. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 406 pp. $27
WITNESS TO HOPE: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. By George Weigel. Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins. 992 pp. $35
DOUBLE DOWN: Reflections on Gambling and Loss.
By Frederick and Steven Barthelme. Houghton Mifflin. 198 pp. $24
IN NEVADA: The Land, the People, God, and Chance.
By David Thomson. Knopf. 330 pp. $27.50
STRANGE BEAUTY: Murray GeII-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics. By George Johnson. Knopf. 434 pp. $30.
By Michael Janeway. Yale Univ. Press. 216 pp. $22.50
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER.
By Thomas Hine. Bard/Avon. 322 pp. $24
READY OR NOT: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future—and Ours.
By Kay S. Hymowitz. Free Press. 292 pp. $25