To The Best of Our Knowledge

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• Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon)
• Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the -Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (University of North Carolina Press)
• Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Adventures from Cape Cod to Kyoto (Algonquin Books)
• V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Morrow)
• Sabrina Ramet, Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives Routledge
• Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: a biography Knopf
• Mamphela Ramphele, Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South Africa Woman Leader The Feminist Press
• Chet Raymo, Skeptics and True Believers Walker and Co.
• Hilda Raz, Divine Honors Wesleyan/New England
• Terrance Real, I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Scribner
• Elwood Reid, If I Don't Six (Doubleday)
• David Remnick, King of the World (Random House)
• Boyce Rensberger, Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell Oxford
• Glenn Reynolds with Peter Morgan, The Appearance of Impropriety Free Press
• John Richardson, The Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 - The Painter of Modern Life Random House
• Keith Richberg, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa Basic Books
• Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps Simon and Schuster
• Robert Rieber, Manufacturing Social Distress (Plenum)
• Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century JP Tarcher
• Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age(Norton)
• Graham Robb, Victor Hugo: A Biography (Norton)
• Monty Roberts , The Man Who Listens to Horses Random House
• John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Pennsylvania State University Press)
• Lillian S. Robinson, Ryan Bishop Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (Routledge)
• Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Viking)
• David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class Verso
• Robert Root-Bernstein and Michelle Root-Bernstein, Honey Mud Maggots and other Medical Marvels Houghton Mifflin
• Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler (Random House)
• Mort Rosenblum, Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit North Point Press
• Norman Rosenthal, St. John's Wort: The Herbal Way to Feeling Good Harper Collins
• Carl T. Rowan, The Coming Race War in America: a wake-up call Little Brown
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Random House
• William Rubenstein, The Myth of Rescue Routledge
• Lillian Rubin, The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past Freeman
• Al Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (University of Nebraska Press)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Playing the Future: How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive, (Harper Collins)
• Sharman Apt Russell, When the Land Was Young Addison Wesley
• Richard Russo, Straight Man Random House
• Frank Ryan, Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and Into the Future Little Brown

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• Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind Knopf
• Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun Vintage International
• Palagummi Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought Penguin (International Only)
• Julie Salamon, The Net of Dreams; A Family's Search for a Rightful Place (Random House)
• Joyce Salisbury, Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman Routledge
• Cynthia Saltzman, Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece (Viking)
• George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican-American Oxford
• Scott Sanders, Hunting for Hope (Beacon Press)
• Luc Sante, The Factory of Facts (Pantheon)
• Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Freeman
• Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century The New Press
• Sara Schechner-Genuth, Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology Princeton
• Jonathan Schell, The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now (Metropolitan Books)
• Cathleen Schine, The Evolution of Jane (Houghton Mifflin)
• Bernhard Schlink, The Reader Pantheon
• Serge Schmemann, Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village (Knopf)
• Bart Schneider, Blue Bossa (Viking)
• Stuart Schneiderman, Saving Face: America and the Politics of Shame Knopf
• Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer (Basic Books)
• Lisbeth Schorr, Common Purpose: Stengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America Doubleday
• Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Little, Brown)
• Gerald Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang Bantam
• Michael Schumacher, There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs Hyperion
• James Scott, Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale)
• Regina Schwartz, The Curse of Cain: the violent legacy of montheism Chicago
• John Seabrook, Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace Simon & Schuster
• Lance H. K. Secretan, Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations that Inspire the Soul (McGraw-Hill)
• David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: stories and essays Little Brown
• Carolyn See, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America Random House
• Will Self, Great Apes Grove Press
• Martin Seligman, The Optimistic Child Harper Perennial
• Tim Severin, The Spice Islands Voyage (Carroll & Graf)
• Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, How Monkeys See the World University of Chicago Press
• Francine Shapiro, EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma Basic Books
• Thomas Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality Routledge
• Paula Sharp, Crows Over a Wheatfield Hyperion
• Roger Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography St. Martin's Press
• David Shaw, The Pleasure Police: How Bluenose Busybodies and Lily-livered Alarmists Are Taking All the Fun Out of Life Doubleday
• Gail Sheehy, Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives (Random House)
• Jesse Sheidlower, The F Word Random House
• David Shenk, Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut HarperEdge
• Paul Shepard, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (Island Press)
• Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things Freeman
• Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End)
• Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (Viking)
• Alex Shoumatoff, Legends of the American Desert: sojourns in the Greater Southwest Knopf
• Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media Columbia
• David Shukman, Tomorrow's War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons Harcourt Brace
• Alix Kate Shulman, Drinking the Rain Penguin
• Charles Siebert, Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral (Crown)
• Alan Siegel, Dreamcatching: Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares Three Rivers Press
• Fred Siegel, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities Free Press
• Linda Simon, Genuine Reality: A Life of William James Harcourt Brace
• Ted Simon, The Gypsy in Me Random House
• Thomas Slaughter, The Natures of John and William Bartram (Knopf)
• William Slaughter (with Michael Landon), Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail Shadow Mountain
• Jim Sleeper, Liberal Racism Viking
• Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life (Addison Wesley)
• Martha Nell Smith & Ellen L. Hunt (eds), Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson (Paris Press)
• Martha Nell Smith, Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (Texas)
• Patrick Smith Japan: A Reinterpretation (Pantheon)
• Sam Smith, Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual (Norton)
• Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos Oxford
• Rick Smolan, One Digital Day: How the Microchip is Changing Our World (Times Books)
• Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild North Point Press
• Don Snyder, The Cliff Walk Little, Brown
• Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier, The People's Choice Music (CD) (Dia - 002)
• Roberto Sosa, The Common Grief Curbstone Press
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind University of Chicago
• Norman Spinrad, Journals of the Plague Years Bantam
• John Shelby Spong, Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile (Harper San Francisco)
• Judith Stacey, In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age Beacon
• Carol Stack, A Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South Basic Books
• Mary Zeiss Stange, Woman the Hunter Beacon
• Paul Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West
• Sara Stein, Planting Noah's Garden: further adventures in backyard ecology Houghton Mifflin
• Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe, Kinderculture: the Corporate Construction of Childhood Westview Press
• Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment Addison Wesley
• Daniel N. Stern and Nadia Bruschweiller Stern, The Birth of a Mother: How the Motherhood Experience Changes You Forever (Basic Books)
• Michael Stevens (ed.), As If It Were Glory: Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments Madison House
• Ian Stewart, Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World (Wiley & Sons)
• John R. Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (Walker)
• Kathleen Stokker, Folklore Fights the Nazis Wisconsin
• Robert Stone, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin)
• Sarah Strohmeyer, Barbie Unbound (New Victoria Publishers)
• Andrew Sullivan, Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival (Knopf)
• Frank Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (Vintage) (also in 96-11-10-B: Science of Personality)