MacKendrick explores the life and culture of the North African provinces of Rome in present-day Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco in this lively archaeological history. It's the last in a series of a companionable, scholarly books on the ancient Greek and Romans. With 60 pages on settlements and cities in Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, including site plans and black-and-white photographs of Shahat, Apollonia, Lepcic Magna and Fezzan.  (NAF51, $40.00)