New Releases by Evan Thomas

Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.

Several instructional techniques found are unique to rural and urban areas. Administrators, specialists, and classroom teachers should find the results of this investigation useful. Implications reach across grade levels as models of effective literacy instruction can be developed.

Evan Thomas and the "Newsweek" reporting team offer a behind-the-scenes view of the 2004 election, detailing how George Bush won one of the most hotly-contested presidential races in modern times.

Readers brought up on Hollywood westerns will have their eyes opened by this story of a working cowboy. Although he never chased a rustler or rescued a pretty girl and probably couldn''t even hire on as an extra in a B-grade western, Ed Alford (or "Fat") has worked cattle most of his life. Fred Gipson''s vivid, earthy book about this cowhand, now in paperback, tells what the job is really like, the hardships, the hell-raising, and the sheer monotony of daily tasks.Fat Alford became a cowboy because he didn''t think picking cotton was any way for a man to make a living. Although he may not have looked much like a cowboy and certainly started out green, he learned to rope a cow in an impenetrable brush, to break a mean horse, to get by with poor gear, worse food, and sorry mounts in freezing cold or blistering heat and still get the job done.Gipson''s warm and rousing account captures the vivid reality of how it was and introduces us to a remarkable character--a working cowhand. This new paperback edition of Cowhand is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers.

Snapshot of America at a crucial moment of transition.

This bestselling biography of legendary trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams is "a skillful and lively portrait of a larger-than-life lawyer" (Kirkus Reviews). Williams'' clients included Joe McCarthy, Frank Costello, Jimmy Hoffa, The Washington Post, and, just before Williams'' death in 1988, Michael Milken. 16 pages of photographs.

Karyotype analyses have been madeon only two on the six recognized species in the genus Pseudotsuga, Douglas-fir (P. menziesii) and bigcone Douglas-fir (P. macrocarpa). In this study, a comparison was made between the karyotypes of Douglas-fir and Formosan Douglas-fir (P. wiloniana). The basic chromosome number of the Formosan Douglas-fir was found to be 12, different from Douglas-fir, which has a number of 13. (The basic number for bigcone Douglas-fir is 12, as reported by Christiansen in 1962.) Moreover, the study confirms work of Barner and Christiansen in 1962 on the chromosome morphology of Douglas-fir. Of the 13 chromosomes of Douglas-fir, five have been found to have median centromeres; six, subterminal centromeres; and two, terminal or nearly terminal centromeres. On the other hand, Formosan Douglas-fir was found to have six chromosomes with median centromeres and six with subterminal centromeres. The possible modes of origin and the implications of the differences in chromosome numbers are discussed.