THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Mariner Books -- 316pp -- $16

UNCLE TUNGSTEN
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
By Oliver Sacks
Knopf -- 337pp -- $25

THE FORGETTING Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
By David Shenk Doubleday -- 290pp -- $24.95

By Robert McNatt EMPIRE
A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal,
and the Battle for an American Icon
By Mitchell Pacelle
Wiley -- 344pp -- $27.95

BUILD YOUR OWN GARAGE
Blueprints and Tools to Unleash Your
Company's Hidden Creativity
By Bernd H. Schmitt and Laura Brown
Free Press -- 206pp -- $28

THE LAST DREAM-O-RAMA
The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build,1950-1960
By Bruce McCall
Crown -- 128pp -- $25

INVENTING THE ELECTRONIC CENTURY The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries
By Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Free Press 321pp $35

THE CHASTENING
Inside the Crisis that Rocked the
Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF
By Paul Blustein
PublicAffairs 431pp $30

THE AGENDA What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade -- Crown Business -- 269pp -- $27.50

GOOD TO GREAT
Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

By Jim Collins
HarperBusiness -- 300pp -- $27.50

FIRE
By Sebastian Junger W.W. Norton -- 224pp -- $24.95

POLITICAL FICTIONS
By Joan Didion Knopf -- 338pp -- $25

PRESERVING THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis
By Anthony M. Tung Clarkson Potter -- 469pp -- $40

GERMS Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad Simon & Schuster -- 382pp -- $27

WAR IN A TIME OF PEACE Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
By David Halberstam Scribner -- 543pp -- $28

CRESCENT & STAR Turkey Between Two Worlds
By Stephen Kinzer Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- 252pp -- $25

Photo: Cover, "Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars" ANDREW JACKSON AND HIS INDIAN WARS
By Robert V. Remini Viking -- 317pp -- $26.95

Photo: Cover, "Richard Wright: The Life and Times" RICHARD WRIGHT The Life and Times
By Hazel Rowley Henry Holt -- 626pp -- $35

Photo: Cover, "Jack: Straight from the Gut" JACK Straight from the Gut
By Jack Welch with John A. Byrne Warner Business Books -- 479pp -- $29.95

JUDO STRATEGY Turning Your Competitors' Strength to Your Advantage
By David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak Harvard Business School -- 238pp -- $29.95

UP IN THE AIR
By Walter Kirn
Doubleday -- 303pp -- $23.95

A VERY PUBLIC OFFERING
A Rebel's Story of Business
Excess, Success, and Reckoning
By Stephan Paternot
Wiley -- 236pp -- $27.95

BREAKING WINDOWS
How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
By David Bank
Free Press 287pp $25

THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

By Simon Winchester
HarperCollins -- 329pp -- $26

MOSQUITO
A Natural History
of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
By Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio
Hyperion -- 247pp-- $22.95

THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
By Peter F. Drucker
HarperBusiness -- 358pp -- $30

THE COMING COLLAPSE OF CHINA
By Gordon G. Chang
Random House -- 344pp -- $26.95

JAZZ IN THE BITTERSWEET BLUES OF LIFE
By Wynton Marsalis and Carl Vigeland
Da Capo Press -- 249pp -- $25

CASINO MOSCOW
A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier

By Matthew Brzezinski
Free Press -- 317pp -- $25

FREE FLIGHT
From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel
By James Fallows
PublicAffairs -- 254pp -- $25

NEXT The Future Just Happened
By Michael Lewis Norton -- 236pp -- $23.95

HUMAN TRIALS Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure
By Susan Quinn Perseus -- 295pp -- $26

THE NOKIA REVOLUTION The Story of an Extraordinary Company That Transformed an Industry
By Dan Steinbock AMACOM -- 375pp -- $27.95

HERE
A Biography of the New American Continent
By Anthony DePalma
Public Affairs -- 375pp -- $26

THE FED
The Inside Story of How the World's Most
Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets
By Martin Mayer
Free Press -- 350pp -- $27.50

PLAY BALL! The Story of Little League Baseball
By Lance and Robin Van Auken Penn State Press -- 243pp -- $35

WAR AND OUR WORLD
By John Keegan Vintage -- 87pp -- $10

WILSON'S GHOST
Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing,
and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
By Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight
PublicAffairs -- 270pp -- $24

OUT OF ITS MIND Psychiatry in Crisis: A Call for Reform
By J. Allan Hobson and Jonathan A. Leonard Perseus 292pp $26

BRAND NEW How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
By Nancy F. Koehn Harvard Business School -- 469pp -- $39.95

A PASSION TO WIN
By Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler Simon & Schuster -- 322pp -- $26

cause it's a season when we can steal a few hours to curl up with books we've been meaning to read all year. To help you recall just what they were, here is BusinessWeek's annual roundup of summer paperbacks. For stimulating corporate drama, there's Taken For a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chrysler by former Detroit News writers Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz (HarperBusiness, $15).

SHOOTING THE MOON The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike Any Other, Ever
By David Harris Little, Brown & Co. -- 394pp -- $26.95

DRAGON HUNTER Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions
By Charles Gallenkamp Viking -- 344pp -- $29.95

WINE & WAR
The French, the Nazis, & the Battle
for France's Greatest Treasure
By Don & Petie Kladstrup
Broadway Books -- 279pp -- $24

THE PROVING GROUND
By G. Bruce Knecht Little, Brown -- 295pp -- $24.95

THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER
By Christopher Hitchens
Verso -- 159pp -- $22

EVOLVE!
Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business School -- 352pp -- $27.50

JOHN ADAMS
By David McCullough
Simon & Schuster -- 751pp -- $35