Just as this country has no scarcity of problems, so it has no scarcity of writers warning of more to come and others offering solutions to those present and soon-tobe. Two recent Touchstone Books are paperback cases in point. The first—a look-tothe-future—is Richard J. Barnet's The Lean Years: Politics in the Age of Scarcity [$7.25], a book about the struggle for diminishing natural resources and how the problems generated by this struggle will reduce the quality of American life "until reorganization, conservation, and technology can provide renewable substitutes for the limited and disputed resources we Americans so long took for granted." The second—offering "practical suggestions for restoring a productive America"—is Ronald E. Müller's Revitalizing America: Politics for Prosperity [$7.25], which the Washington Post described as "a timely compilation of ideas currently in the air but not yet in the mainstream." The American West and the women who made it are the subjects of new Bison Books from Nebraska. One is Dee Brown's The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West [$6.50 paper], an "informal but soundly factual account" of the varied and valiant women who took part in the great migrations westward, mostly in the period of 1850—1880. The other is Frances M. A, Roe's Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871—1888 [$22.50 cloth, $6.95 paper], a collection of the letters written by an Army wife whose husband was stationed in the shadow of the Rockies, where the deer and the Cheyenne roamed, where sometimes was heard a querulous word and the skies could be cloudy all day. A third Bison Book, one also dealing with the West, in this case a particular part of it, is novelist Wallace Stegner's nonfiction account of the settlement and development of Mormon Country [$21.50 cloth, $6.95 paper]. Brandeis and New England have jointly issued a revised paperback edition of The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison [$12.50]. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Marvin Meyers, the volume offers a collection of Madison's most important writings and papers for the use of students, scholars, and general readers. Vintage Books has published a second, completely revised edition of Evan Jones' American Food: The Gastronomic Story [$20.50 cloth, $9.95 paper], a collection of "more than 700 distinctive regional, traditional, and contemporary recipes," ranging from Abalone Steak to Zucchini with Black Walnuts, a book which noted food critic James Beard hailed as "a true joy." Illinois has brought out a second, paperback edition of Bernard Harsh's Diary of a Strike [$5.95], an account of a violent, four-month-long strike at the Marinette Knitting Mills in Marinette, Wisconsin, which a Nation reviewer called "a most fascinating story ...highly recommended." Georgia is offering a new edition of Burnette Vanstory's Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles [$15.00 cloth, $8.95 paper] a narrative of the barrier islands off Georgia's coast, islands "as rich in history as they are in natural beauty."