To The Best of Our Knowledge

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• Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: a biography Random House
• Deborah Tannen, The Argument Culture: Moving form Debate to Dialogue (Random House)
• Sonsyrea Tate, Little X: Growinig Up in the Nation of Islam Harper Collins
• Ian Tattersall, Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (Harcourt Brace)
• Ian Tattersall, Extinct Humans (Westview)
• Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race (Basic)
• John Tavener, The Music of Silence: A Composer's Testament (Faber and Faber)
• Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier (Vintage)
• Joseph E. Taylor III, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (University of Washington)
• Kendall Taylor, Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage (Ballantine)
• Michael Ray Taylor, Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness Vintage
• Murry A. Taylor, Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire (Harcourt)
• Timothy D. Taylor, Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (Routledge)
• Also in Globalism 97-02-16-A,
• Timothy Taylor, The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture Bantam
• Astro Teller, Exegesis: a novel Vintage
• Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Knopf)
• Richard Terrill, Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz (Limelight Editions)
• Catherine Texier, Breakup: the End of a Love Story Doubleday
• Paul Theroux, Fresh Air Friend (Houghton Mifflin)
• Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin)
• Catherine Thimmesh, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women (Houghton Mifflin)
• Anna Thomas, The New Vegetarian Epicure: Menus for Family and Friends (Knopf)
• D.M. Thomas, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life (St.Martin's)
• Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade Simon and Schuster
• Sheree Thomas, ed., Dark Matter : A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Aspect)
• Velma Maia Thomas, Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation Crown
• Bill Thompson, Bird Watching for Dummies (IDG Books)
• Michael Thompson and Dan Kindlon, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys (Ballantine)
• Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (New York University Press)
• Rupert Thomson, The Book of Revelation: a novel (Vintage)
• Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibben (intro), Walden (Beacon)
• Henry David Thoreau, edited by Bradley Dean, Wild Fruits (Norton)
• John Thorndike, Another Way Home: a single father's story Crown
• Tamara Thornton, Handwriting in America Yale
• Colin Thubron, In Siberia (Harper Collins)
• Colin Thubron is one of the guests in the program Russia and Beyond
• Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf)
• Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness (Riverhead)
• Phyllis Tickle, God-Talk in America (Crossroad)
• Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (Norton)
• Lionel Tiger, The Decline of Males (Golden Books)
• Lionel Tiger, The Pursuit of Pleasure Little, Brown
• Gillian Tindall, Celestine: Voice from a French Village Henry Holt
• Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard, Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Bantam Doubleday)
• Olivier Todd, Albert Camus: a life Knopf
• Sandy Tolan, Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later (Free Press)
• Marianna Torgovnick, Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy (Knopf) Also in 97-08-10-C: Exotic Travel,
• Senator Robert Torricelli and Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (Kodansha)
• Christopher Toumey, Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life Rutgers University Press
• David A. Traill, Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit St. Martin's Press
• James Trefil, Are We Unique? John Wiley & Sons
• Calvin Trillin, Messages from My Father Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Liz Trotta, Jude: A Pilgrimage to the Saint of Last Resort (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Charlie Trotter, The Kitchen Sessions (Ten Speed)
• Quincy Troupe, Miles and Me (California)
• Quincy Troupe, Choruses (poems) (coffee house press)
• George Trow, Within Context of No Context Atlantic Monthly Press
• Dennis Trudell, editor, Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball Breakaway Press
• Cynthia True, American Scream: the Bill Hicks story (Harper Collins)
• Yi-Fu Tuan, Escapism (John Hopkins)
• Scott Turow, The Laws of Our Fathers Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Frederic Tuten, Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story Morrow
• James Twitchell, Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism (Columbia University)

U

• Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents City Lights
• Steven Ungerleider, Faust's Gold: Inside the East German Doping Machine (St. Martin's Press)
• Barry Unsworth, Morality Play (Doubleday)
• Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter Viking

V

• V. Vale, Swing! The New Retro Renaissance (V/Search)
• Janice VanCleave, Janice VanCleave's Weather: mind-boggling experiments you can turn into science fair projects (John Wiley & Sons, Inc)
• Noe Venable, No Curses Here (CD) (Intuition Music - 3508 2)
• Abraham Verghese, The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss (Harper Collins)
• Abraham Verghese, "Cowpaths" from: The Eleventh Draft: Craft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Frank Conroy, ed. (Harper Collins)
• Geerat Vermeij, Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life W.H. Freeman & Co.
• Frank Vertosick, Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain (Harcourt)
• Gore Vidal, The Smithsonian Institution (a novel) Random House
• Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil, Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos Curbstone Press
• Victor Villasenor, Wild Steps of Heaven Delacorte Press
• Burton Visotzky, The Genesis of Ethics Crown

W

• Dan Wakefield, How Do We Know When It's God: A Spiritual Memoir (Little, Brown)
• Elijah Wald, Josh White: Society Blues (Univ. of Massachusetts Press)
• Alice Walker, Anything We Love Can Be Saved Random House
• Chet Walker with Chris Messenger, Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of-Age in America Grove Press
• Kent Walker with Mark Schone, Son Of A Grifter (William Morrow/Harpercollins)
• Catherine Wallace, For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives Knopf
• David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Little, Brown (a guest on programs "Games" and "Pursuit of Pleasure.")
• Judith Wallerstein, Julia Lewis, Sandra Blakeslee, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study (Hyperion)
• Jim Wallis, Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (Random)
• Elizabeth Ward, ed., Vikings: The North Atlantic Sage (Smithsonian)
• Peter Ward, with images by Alexis Rockman, Future Evolution: An Illuminated History of Life to Come (Times Books)
• John Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy Yale University Press
• Mark Warhus, Another America: Native American Maps & The History of Our Land St. Martin's Press
• Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling & Making Mock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Andrea Warren, Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story Houghton Mifflin
• Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press)
• Janet Wasko, Hollywood in the Information Age University of Texas Press
• Wendy Wasserstein, Shiksa Goddess (Or, How I Spent My Forties) (Knopf)
• Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook (Harpercollins)
• Anita Waters, Race, Class & Political Symbols: Rastafari & Reggae in Jamaican Politics (Transaction)
• Steve Watkins, The Black O: Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire (University of Georgia Press)
• Larry Watson, White Crosses (Pocket Books)
• Lyall Watson, Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil (Harper Collins)
• Jack Weatherford, The History of Money Crown
• Mary Anne Weaver, A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Jimmy Webb, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting (Hyperion)
• Donovan Webster, Aftermath: The Remnants of War Pantheon
• Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (Simon and Schuster)
• Kent Weeks, The Lost Tomb (William Morrow)
• Scott Weidensaul, Living on the Wind: Across the Globe with Migratory Birds (North Point)
• Andrew Weil, M.D., Eating Well for Optimum Health: the Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition (Knopf)
• Dr. Weil contributed a commentary to Can You Trust Reporters? 01-03-18-A
• Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer, The World of Caffeine: the science and culture of the world's most popular drug (Routledge)
• Robert Weinberg and Lois Gresh The Computers of Star Trek(Basic)
• Samantha Weinberg, A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Harper Collins)
• Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Knopf)
• Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce (Free Press)
• Alan Weisman, An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past (Harcourt Brace)
• Alan Weisman, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World (Chelsea Green)
• Richard Weiss, The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman
  Vincent Peale (University of Illinois Press)
• James Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk (Doubleday)
• Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet (Norton)
• Lawrence Weschler, Boggs: A Comedy of Values (University of Chicago)
• Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder Pantheon
• Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country (Free Press)
• Paul West, The Secret Lives of Words (Harcourt)
• David Western, In the Dust of Kilimanjaro (Island Press)
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Controversy of Zion Addison Wesley
• Francis Wheen, Karl Marx: A Life (Norton)
• Curtis White, Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive)
• Barbara Ehrlich White, Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges Knopf
• Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony Knopf
• G. Edward White, Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953 Princeton
• David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
• David Whyte, The Heart Aroused (Currency Doubleday)
• Jim Wight, The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father (Ballantine Books)
• David Wilcove, The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America (Freeman)
• Amy Willensky, Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion (Broadway)
• Nancy Willard, Swimming Lessons: new and selected poems Knopf
• Pat Willard, Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice (Beacon)
• Gwendolyn Williams, Letters for our Children: 50 Americans Share Lessons in Living Random House
• Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Times)
• Terry Tempest Williams, Desert Quartet Pantheon
  (a guest on programs 97-12-07-A and 96-10-06-B)
• Terry Tempest Williams, Leap (Pantheon)
• Christopher Wills, Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution (Perseus)
• Christopher Wills, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues Addison Wesley
• Garry Wills, A Necessary Evil (Simon & Schuster)
• Garry Wills, John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity Simon and Schuster
• Garry Wills, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (Doubleday)
• Gary Wills, St. Augustine (Penguin Lives) (Viking Press)
• A.N. Wilson, God's Funeral (Norton)
• A.N. Wilson, Paul: the mind of the Apostle Norton
• Barbara Wilson, Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood Picador
• Cintra Wilson, A Massive Swelling (Viking)
• Douglas L. Wilson, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (Knopf)
• Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Harper Collins)
• Martin Winckler, The Case of Doctor Sachs (Seven Stories)
• Mark Winegardner, The Veracruz Blues Viking
• Marion Winik, The Lunch-Box Chronicles: Notes from the Parenting Underground (Pantheon)
• Ellen Winner, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities Basic Books
• Mark Winston, Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard)
• Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (University of Chicago)
• Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook (Knopf)
• Steven Wise and Jane Goodall, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals Perseus Books
• Rosalind Wiseman, Queen Bees & Wannabes (Crown Books)
• Michael Witzel, The American Diner (MBI Publishing)
• Ken Wiwa, In the Shadow of a Saint (Steerforth Press)
• Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions (Doubleday)
• Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: the secret struggle for womanhood Random House
• Robert Wolf, ed., An American Mosaic: prose and poetry by everyday folk (Oxford)
• Michael Wolfe, The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca (Grove Press)
• Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question Knopf
• Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari, Race and Human Evolution - A Fatal Attraction Simon and Schuster
• Gaby Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life (Knopf)
• Michael Wood, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia (University of California)
• Sue Woolfe, Leaning Towards Infinity Faber and Faber
• Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence Houghton Mifflin
• Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America Routledge
• Christopher S. Wren, The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent (Simon and Schuster)
• Robert Wright, Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Pantheon)
• Robin Wright, The Last Great Revolution (Knopf)
• Harry Wu, Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty Times Books

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• Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast Knopf
• Christine Reiko Yano, Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
  (Harvard University Asia Center)
• A.B. Yehoshua, Open Heart Doubleday
• Daniel Yergin with Joseph Stanislaw The Commanding Heights (Simon & Schuster)

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• Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (Hyperion)
• Jeff Zaleski, The Soul of Cyberspace HarperEdge
• Theodore Zeldin, Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives (Hidden Spring)
• Carl Zimmer, At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life (Free Press)
• Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Free Press)
• Jack Zipes, Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter (Routledge)
• Robert Zubrin, Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization (Tarcher/Putnam)
• Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner, The Case for Mars: the Plan to Settle the Red Planet Free Press
• Robert Zubrin, The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why
  We Must (Simon & Shuster)
• David Zucchino, Myth of the Welfare Queen Scribner