Photo: Cover, "Toward Rational Exuberance" TOWARD RATIONAL EXUBERANCE
The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
By B. Mark Smith
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux -- 342pp -- $25

Photo: Cover, "The Well" THE WELL
A Story of Love, Death & Real Life
in the Seminal Online Community
By Katie Hafner
Carroll & Graf -- 196pp -- $21

Photo: Cover, "Nickel and Dimed" NICKEL AND DIMED
On (Not) Getting
By in America
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books -- 221pp -- $23

Photo: Cover, "Washington" WASHINGTON
By Meg Greenfield
PublicAffairs -- 241pp -- $26

Photo: Cover, "God's Workshop" EVOLUTION'S WORKSHOP
God and Science on the Galápagos Islands
By Edward J. Larson
Basic Books 320pp $27.50

Photo: Cover, "America's Undeclared War" AMERICA'S UNDECLARED WAR
What's Killing Our Cities and How We Can Stop It
By Daniel Lazare
Harcourt -- 353pp -- $26

Photo: Cover, "The Duke of Havana" THE DUKE OF HAVANA
Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream
By Steve Fainaru and Ray Sánchez
Villard -- 338pp -- $24.95

Photo: Cover, "The Shadow of the Sun" Photo: Cover, "The Graves Are Not Yet Full" Photo: Cover, "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz" THE SHADOW OF THE SUN
By Ryszard Kapuscinski
Knopf -- 325pp -- $25

Photo: Cover, "Colossus" COLOSSUS
How the Corporation Changed America
Edited by Jack Beatty
Broadway Books -- 506pp -- $30

Photo: Cover, "Vermeer" VERMEER
A View of Delft
By Anthony Bailey
Henry Holt -- 272pp -- $27.50

Photo: Cover, "Body Bazaar" BODY BAZAAR
The Market for Human Tissue in
the Biotechnology Age
By Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin
Crown -- 245pp -- $24

Photo: Cover, "Villard" VILLARD
The Life and Times of an American Titan
By Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 414pp $30

Photo: Cover, "India Unbound" INDIA UNBOUND
By Gurcharan Das
Knopf -- 406pp -- $27.50

Photo: Cover, "Remade in America" REMADE IN AMERICA
How Asia Will Change Because America Boomed
By Jim Rohwer
Crown Business -- 409pp -- $27.50

Photo: Cover, "River Town" RIVER TOWN
Two Years on the Yangtze
By Peter Hessler
HarperCollins -- 402pp -- $26

Photo: Cover, "Before the Storm" BEFORE THE STORM
Barry Goldwater and the
Unmaking of the American Consensus
By Rick Perlstein
Hill & Wang -- 671pp -- $30

Photo: Cover, "The Money and the Power" THE MONEY AND THE POWER
The Making of Las Vegas
and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000
By Sally Denton and Roger Morris
Knopf 479pp $26.95

Photo: Cover, "The Art of Innovation" THE ART OF INNOVATION
Lessons in Creativity from IDEO,
America's Leading Design Firm
By Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
Currency/Doubleday -- 307pp -- $26

Photo: Cover, "Republic.com" REPUBLIC.COM
By Cass Sunstein
Princeton -- 224pp -- $19.95

Photo: Cover, "Seabiscuit" SEABISCUIT
An American Legend
By Laura Hillenbrand
Random House -- 399pp -- $24.95

Photo: Cover, "IBM and the Holocaust" IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany
and America's Most Powerful Corporation
By Edwin Black
Crown -- 519pp -- $27.50

Photo: Cover, "Revenge of the Pequots" REVENGE OF THE PEQUOTS
How a Small Native American Tribe
Created the World's Most Profitable Casino
By Kim Isaac Eisler
Simon & Schuster -- 267pp -- $25

Photo: Cover, "The Price of Motherhood" THE PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD
Why the Most Important Job in the World
Is Still the Least Valued
By Ann Crittenden
Metropolitan Books -- 323pp -- $25