Puck of the Droms: The Lives and...

Puck of the Droms: The Lives and Literature of the Irish Tinkers, Artelia Court (University of California) is “an informative introduction to the Tinkers of Ireland, the itinerant population that constitutes Ireland’s own variety of Gypsy. (Artelia Court’s) essays . . . delineate the place of the tinker in this long-lived Irish conceit of the outsider as bearer and reminder of traditional culture and its philosophical ramifications” (Joseph Nagy).

Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, Steven Fink (Amacom) “reads almost like a novel. It contains fascinating in-depth stories and analyses of such major disasters as Three Mile Island, Bhopal and the first Tylenol crisis” (Ian Mitroff).

Justice Downwind: The Story of America’s Atomic Testing Program at the Nevada Test Site, Howard Ball (Oxford). “The author writes with conviction and authority, reinforced with hundreds of references and citations” (Carl J. Johnson).