The first of its kind in Tennessee, this book summarizes the status, distribution, and abundance of each bird species whose appearance is known to have been recorded in the state.

The Birds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist provides comprehensive information on the status, distribution, and abundance of all 415 species of birds that have been reported in the state of Tennessee. The information is broken down according to the six major biogeographic regions of the state, with further information about seasonal occurrence, and field-identifiable subspecies. This book makes a great Tennessee-focused companion to any field guide.

This book provides the most intensive modern study of birds ever compiled for southeastern Michigan. Over 65,000 bird records spanning over 30 years went into this annotated checklist, which provides information on over 250 bird species, including residency status, relative abundance, migration dates, and banding data. Introductory material includes birding locations in Dearborn and on the campus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn with maps. Much of the data is applicable to the entire metropolitan Detroit region.

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama,The Wise Menintroduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

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