GREEN METROPOLIS:
Why Living Smaller, Living Closer,and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability.
By David Owen.
Riverhead. 357 pp. $25.95
AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE.
By Anne C. Heller.
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 567 pp. $35
GODDESS OF THE MARKET:
Ayn Rand and the American Right.
By Jennifer Burns.
Oxford Univ. Press. 369 pp. $27.95
CIVIL WAR WIVES:
The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.
By Carol Berkin.
Knopf. 361 pp. $28.95
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS:
A Life.
By Melvin I. Urofsky.
Pantheon. 955 pp. $40
HOLLOWING OUT THE MIDDLE:
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America.
By Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas.
Beacon. 239 pp. $26.95
METHLAND:The Death and Life of an American Small Town.
By Nick Reding.
Bloomsbury. 255 pp. $25
A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL:
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.
By Rebecca Solnit.
Viking. 353 pp. $27.95
WHAT AMERICA READ:
Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960.
By Gordon Hutner.
Univ. of N.C. Press. 450 pp. $39.95
THE AGE OF COMFORT:
When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began.
By Joan DeJean.
Bloomsbury. 295 pp. $28
NAMING NATURE:
The Clash Between Instinct and Science.
By Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
Norton. 344 pp. $27.95
THE AGE OF WONDER:
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.
By Richard Holmes.
Pantheon. 552 pp. $40