In the 20th century, motion pictures— the movies—became as much a part of American life as the automobile and apple pie and Hollywood, a symbol for glitz and glitter (that all too often was not gold). One of the classic accounts of the rise of the silver—and then silent—screen appeared in 1926 in a limited two-volume edition (each copy of which was signed by Thomas Edison) and later in a popular edition. Written by Terry Ramsaye (1885—1954), a journalist turned producer, the work was entitled A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925, and it has long been acclaimed as the first authentic film history. Touchstone Books has published a new edition of Ramsaye's chronicle, which H.L. Mencken felt possessed "a picaresque quality in ...narrative that keeps it from ever becoming dull" [$15.95]. Hollywood is also the subject of another recent Touchstone Book, this being The Movie Business Book. Edited by Jason E. Squire, it contains accounts of wheeling, dealing, making, selling, and exhibiting movies by 41 practitioners of the trade, including Mel Brooks, William Goldman, and Sydney Pollack [$9.95]. A third Touchstone offering is John Van Der Zee's Bound Over: Indentured Servitude and American Conscience, an account of the indentured laborers who constituted half of all the colonists who came to America from 1609 until well after the Revolution and one the San Francisco Chronicle said "should be read by professional historians and laypersons alike" [$8.95]. Exploration and colonization are the subjects of two recent additions to Nebraska's Bison Books series, the additions being respectively Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Frontier (this great historian's final work), with an introduction by Arnold J. Toynbee [$9.95], and Alexander Ross's Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810—1813 [$7.95]. As part of its Galaxy Book paperback series, Oxford has published Joel Williamson's A Rage for Order, this being an abridgment of Williamson's The Crucible of Race [$9.95], a history of Southern race relations considered in a league with W.J. Cash's Mind of the South and C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Vintage Books has reprinted Bill D. Ross's Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor, a battle history longtime military reporter Drew Middleton considered "the best book on a campaign ...since Alan Moorhead's work on El Alamein" [$9.95]. Another recent Vintage Book is Theodore Draper's American Communism and Soviet Russia, a history of the formative period of the American Communist Party with a new introduction and afterword [$12.95], Cornell has published a paper edition of Joseph D. Novak's A Theory of Education, offering "a comprehensive and coherent theory of education intended to be used in improving school instruction" [$10.95].