Book Reviews

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

Ian W. Toll. W.W. Norton, 2015. 622 pages. $35.00.

The First World War: Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

Edited by Carl De Keyzer and David Van Reybrouck. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 240 pages. $65.00.

Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle

Douglas J. Emlen. Henry Holt and Company, 2014. 271 pages. $30.00.

City on a Grid: How New York Became New York

Gerard Koeppel. Da Capo Press, 2015. 296 pages. $29.99.

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking

Leland de la Durantaye. Harvard University Press, 2016. 194 pages. $29.00.

Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods

Jennifer A. Jordan. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 331 pages. $26.00.

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

James Turner. Princeton University Press, 2014. xxiv + 550 pp. $29.50.

Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Neil L. Rudenstine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 256 pages. $26.00.

Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions – A New Biological Principle of Disease

Stanley B. Prusiner. Yale University Press, 2014. 344 pages. $30.00.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

William Deresiewicz. Free Press, 2014. 256 pages. $26.00.

Water: Nature and Culture

Veronica Strang. Reaktion Books, 2015. 207 pages. Paperback. $24.95.

Class Divide: Yale ’64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

Howard Gillette Jr. Cornell University Press, 2015. 285 pages. Illustrated. $26.26.