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North Elvis Costello (Deutsche Grammophon) READ MORE >>

Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel AllianceBy Warren Bass(Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $30) READ MORE >>

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game By Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton, 288 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>

The Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War IBy S. AnskyEdited and translated byJoachim Neugroschel(Metropolitan Books, 327 pp., $30) READ MORE >>

The Palestinian People: A HistoryBy Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal(Harvard University Press, 608 pp., $45)I. READ MORE >>

Regarding the Pain of Others By Susan Sontag (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 131 pp., $20)   READ MORE >>

The statistics are staggering. Winged Migration, a French documentary about birds in flight, took four years to make. It employed, as it proceeded, a total crew of four hundred fifty. It was shot in a global variety of places-or over them, rather-to capture the four principal migration routes: those used by North American birds, European and Asian birds, Asian birds, and Southeast Asian birds. Needed for the cinematography were gliders and model gliders, helicopters and model ones, light motorized aircraft, and balloons. READ MORE >>

The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse: A Handbook for Educators, Counselors, and CliniciansBy H. Wesley Perkins(Jossey-Bass, 320 pp., $45) READ MORE >>

In the Land of Pain By Alphonse Daudet Edited and translated by Julian Barnes (Alfred A. Knopf, 87 pp, $13) READ MORE >>

I. The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein (Alfred A. Knopf, 292 pp., $25) READ MORE >>