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In mid-1986, world population stood at 5 billion. The United Nations now projects that in less than fifty years world population will at least double, and may reach over 12 billion. Is this cause for alarm? What are the choices ahead for the United States? The experts shed light on these questions and others in this new collection from the American Assembly.

A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."

"Leon Edel has brilliantly provided for the art of biography a much-needed statement of first principles." -Louis Auchincloss

"A unique and valuable contribution. . . .Cohen brings to his analyses a keen critical perception, vast knowledge and-most noteworthy-a lucid style that makes his informed comments accessible to the non-specialist reader." -Newspaper Guild, 1985 Page One Award

In sounding alarm about the population challenges we face in the next five decades, the essays here--written by a wide variety of experts--offer constructive proposals for meeting these challenges on both personal and public policy levels.

Selected by Library Journal as one of the hundred best books in science and technology for 1985. This book is an outgrowth of a series of articles that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in November 1983. For eighteen months, the authors traveled some 20,000 miles, interviewing dozens of people and assembling more than 125,000 pages of documents. These included local, state, and federal government reports, state and federal court records, corporate files, congressional hearing transcripts, scientific studies, and internal memoranda of public agencies and private businesses. The resulting newspaper series provoked a much broader reaction than we had anticipated. In response to requests for copies of the articles, more than 25,000 reprints were sent to individuals and organizations in more than forty states and several foreign countries. Many of those who wrote urged the authors to expand the newspaper series into a book. In doing so, they updated the material and added new information, including sections on military waste, foreign reprocessing, and uranium mill tailings. We were tempted to delve into other areas, such as the design and construction of reactors and the economics of nuclear power. But we focused instead on waste-the amount produced, past efforts to manage it, and the politics of its disposal.

"A splendid exercise in scholarship and literary analysis-and fun to read." -"New and Recommended," New York Times Book Review

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, women, who had hitherto been barred from medical schools, were gradually granted the freedom to study and practice medicine. Indeed, by 1900, over 7,000 female physicians were practicing in America. Women were sought after to fill the void in women's health care-a substantial one, thanks to Victorian mores-as well as to imbue the medical profession with dignity which only women, it was believed, could supply. Thus the stereotype of women as gentle, virtuous creatures, natural healers, worked in their favor, opening doors to a major profession.

With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History.

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose-and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time.

"The scientific discoveries described in this book may turn out . . . to have been the most important research findings in the long history of science." -Lewis Thomas, from the Foreward

"Dry wit and analytic adroitness ... [This survey] contains some rich and stimulating material." -Kirkus Reviews

For many Americans, Vermont still seems what the United States at least in myth once was--a bucolic landscape of wooded hills, neat farms, and handsome villages--before modern forces transformed our agrarian nation into an urban-industrial giant.

A place apart, Utah began as an undefined land in the middle of the continent, a place that meant little to the few natives who lived there and even less to the fewer travelers who passed through.

"As with the first volume, an extraordinarily complex story is developed with great skill, scholarship and reflective analysis." -Foreign Affairs

The changing social scene and its effect on the incidence of mental disorders.

The settlers who came to Wyoming stayed to build a special way of life. It is with them that important choices now rest. "The country where the wind blew in primeval purity will now breathe new odors," says author Larson, unless short-term profits can be balanced by long-term gains. If the right decisions are made, he concludes, it should be possible for Wyoming to "emerge from its primitive isolation in such a way that its greatest values are preserved and its old way of life left for those who choose to follow it."

John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state.

The idea that abundance was "inexhaustible--that fatal Michigan word," as the author calls it--dominated thinking about the state from the days when Commandant Cadillac's soldiers arrived at Detroit until his name became a brand of car. Viewed in this light, Michigan is a case study of all America, and Americans in any state will be fascinated. In a colorful, dramatic past, Mr. Catton finds understanding of where we are in the present and what the future will make us face.

From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side.

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and bragging, right? Right. And also wrong, says the author of this book, Joe B. Frantz.

"A fascinating and timely book which demonstrates once and for all why `scientific' creationism is not only bad science but also bad theology-and in the process spells out the principles that guide genuine discovery. Basically, an expose of all pseudoscience. -John Pfeiffer, author of The Emergence of Man

Perhaps I should begin with what a Gimmick is not. It is not a serious scholarly book. It IS the answer to your problems in speaking and understanding Italian - a method of acquiring an international vocabulary.

"George Ball's memoirs are everything that most of the art is not. While he does not neglect his achievement, he is candid on the things that went wrong. His public life has provided him with a very great deal of very great importance to tell. And much of his story amusing." -John Kenneth Galbraith

When Virginia's Royal Governor, William Gooch, sailed for England in 1749, he left behind a "state of affairs in which all seemed ordered and tranquil and-to those whose opinions mattered-reasonably permanent." It was the first such time in Virginia's history but, writes author Louis Rubin, it would not be the last.

"An outstanding contribution to the literature on eating disorders." -Albert D. Loro, Jr., Ph.D., former director, Eating Disorders Program, Duke University Medical School

"Medvedev's account of Bukharin's persecution, which served as the model for Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon, is grim, dramatic and poignant." -Publishers Weekly

Miller uses his original reinterpretation of the history of philosophy to examine the philosophy of history. He criticises all attempts to interpret history on premises not themselves historical.