Brief Reviews: Nonfiction

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NESTED ECOLOGY:
The Place of Humans in the Ecological Hierarchy
By Edward T. Wimberly
264 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press $60

BOTTOM OF THE NINTH:
Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
By Michael Shapiro
320 pp. Times Books $26

A POCKETFUL OF HISTORY:
Four Hundred Years of America—One State Quarter at a Time
By Jim Noles
400 pp. Da Capo Press Paperback (updated) $16

IF IT AIN’T TRUE, IT OUGHTA BE AND OTHER LESSONS FROM LIFE
By William Shewmake
168 pp. James A. Rock & Co. $12.95