Booklist articles from April 2000

Booklist archives from April 2000

Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit.(Brief Article)(Review)
April 1, 2000... Wills, Gary. Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit. June 2000. 304p. index. Doubleday, $25 (0-385-49410-6). DDC: 262. It's a long way from the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of the 1860s to the Vatican City of today, but esteemed historian Wills...

Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Daly, Jackie and Carter, Tom. Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death. May 2000. 304p. illus. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-14598-2). DDC: 782.421642. Tommy Wynette's April 6, 1998, death was a shock. An even greater...

Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Greene, Bob. Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War. June 2000. 304p. Morrow, $25 (0-380-97849-0). DDC: 306.874. As his father's death approached, Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Greene was forced to come to terms with...

The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... MacLaine, Shirley. The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit. May 2000. 320p. Pocket, $24.95 (0-7434-0072-0). DDC: 791.43. Shirley's at it again. This time her spiritual journey leads her down the Santiago do Compostela Camino in Spain, an ardous...

The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood.
April 1, 2000... King, Tom. The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood. 2000. 670p. index. illus. Random, $25.95 (0-679-45754-2). The King bio promises to tell the real story of impresario Geffen, personal as well as professional.

The Death of Innocence: The Untold Story of JonBenet's Murder and How its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth.
April 1, 2000... Ramsey, John and Ramsey, Patsy. The Death of Innocence: The Untold Story of JonBenet's Murder and How its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth. 2000. 396p. illus. Thomas Nelson, $24.99 (0-7852-6816-2). The parents of the little...

Leap.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... * Williams, Terry Tempest. Leap. May 2000. 352p. illus. Pantheon, $25 (0-679-43292-2). DDC: 289.3. In a provocative narrative notable for its flow and lyricism, Williams, the naturalist author of Refuge (1991), expresses her profound...

The Toughest Indian in the World.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... * Alexie, Sherman. The Toughest Indian in the World. May 2000. 240p. Atlantic Monthly; dist. by. Publishers Group West, $24 (0-87113-801-8). Alexie is an impassioned, inventive, and theatrical storyteller who subverts all our narrational...

Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Green, Jane. Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans. June 2000. 416p. Broadway, $19.95 (0-7679-0517-2). Over the past few years, novels about single women in their twenties and thirties looking for love and success have become...

The High Flyer.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Howatch, Susan. The High Flyer. July 2000. 512p. Knopf, $26 (0-375-41057-0). Carter Graham is a '90s woman, a "high flyer" with a partnership in a London law firm, a new red Porsche, and a fashionable apartment. Kim Betz, who seems to be...

The Heir.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Lindsey, Johanna. The Heir. May 2000. 384p. Morrow, $24 (0-380-97536-X). Duncan MacTavish was raised to believe that he would one day be laird of his grandfather's nineteenth-century highland clan. So when Sir Henry takes him to England to...

Omerta.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Puzo, Mario. Omerta. July 2000. 320p. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50254-8). Omerta, the third of the Mafia Trilogy begun with The Godfather and The Last Don (1996), follows a very familiar formula. It is, of course, a crime novel by an...

The Secret.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Robbins, Harold. The Secret. June 2000. 352p. Tor/Forge; dist. by St. Martin's, $25.95 (0-312-86608-9). Published posthumously, The Secret is Robbins' sequel to The Predators (1998), which told the story of Jerome Cooper's rise to power...

The Run.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Woods, Stuart. The Run. June 2000. 368p. HarperCollins, $25 (0-06-019187-2). In this sequel to Grass Roots (1989), Woods gives us another strong and suspenseful political thriller. The novel's premise is certainly unusual, perhaps even...

Middle of Nowhere.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... * Pearson, Ridley. Middle of Nowhere. June 2000. 375p. Hyperion; dist. by Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-7868-6563-6). Just what is it about Ridley Pearson that makes him the best damn thriller writer on the planet? We've celebrated the forensic...

No News at Throat Lake.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Donegan, Lawrence. No News at Throat Lake. Apr. 2000. 252p. Pocket, $23.95 (0-671-78540-0). DDC: 070. Donegan's entertaining and even charming book about life in rural Donegal, in the upper left-hand corner of Ireland, promises a bit more...

Conversations about the End of Time.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Eco, Umberto and others. Conversations about the End of Time. Apr. 2000. 256p. Fromm International, $26 (0-88064-217-3). DDC: 001.9. As New Year's Eve 2000 came and went with appropriate fanfare, but with possibilities of Y2K disaster...

The Call to Create: Liberating Everyday Genius.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Leonard, Linda Schierse. The Call to Create: Liberating Everyday Genius. Apr. 2000. 304p. index. Crown/Harmony, $25 (0-609-60093-1). DDC: 153.3. Leonard has several distinguished books on archetypal psychology to her credit. Now she...

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Schweber, S. S. In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. May 2000. 256p. index. illus. Princeton, $24.95 (0-691-04989-0). DDC: 172. Grim symbols of American triumph, the mushroom clouds...

Berkeley in 90 Minutes.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Strathern, Paul. Berkeley in 90 Minutes. June 2000. 86p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $14.95 (1-56663-290-0); paper, $6.95 (1-56663-291-9). DDC: 192. An Irish cleric and a French intellectual are the subjects of volumes 19 and 20 in this series of...

Foucault in 90 Minutes.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Strathern, Paul. Foucault in 90 Minutes. June 2000. 100p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $14.95 (1-5666%292-7); paper, $6.95 (1-5663-293-5). DDC: 194. An Irish cleric and a French intellectual are the subjects of volumes 19 and 20 in this series of...

The Manley Arts.(advantages of traditional letters over e-mail)(Column)
April 1, 2000... Sincerely Yours To paraphrase Holden Caulfield, the last thing I want to do is to give you that Dickensian "best of times; worst of times" crap. But how else can I express my frustration? Last year I asked you to write to me with the...

The Buddha from Brooklyn.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Sherrill, Martha. The Buddha from Brooklyn. Apr. 2000. 304p, index. Random, $25 (0-679-45275-3). DDC: 294.3. Profiles of prominent people have been journalist Sherrill's specialty, but nothing prepared her for the confounding world of...

Jewish Spirituality: Revitalizing Judaism for the Twenty-First Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Solomon, Lewis D. Jewish Spirituality: Revitalizing Judaism for the Twenty-First Century. Apr. 2000. 314p. Jason Aronson, $30 (0-7657-6116-5). DDC: 296.7. Solomon begins with the question, "Why be Jewish in the 21st century?" and cautions...

The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Woodward, Kenneth L. The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism; Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam. May 2000. 432p. index. Simon & Schuster, $27 (0-684-82393-4). DDC: 231.7. Woodward, author of Making Saints...

Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Altschuler, Glenn C. and Blumin, Stuart M. Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Apr. 2000. 303p. index. illus. Princeton, $35 (0-691-00130-8). DDC: 320.973. Altschuler and Blumin explore the political...

Bereft: A Sister's Story.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Bernstein, Jane. Bereft: A Sister's Story. Apr. 2000. 240p. Farrar/North Point, $22 (0-86547-586-5). DDC: 362.8. In 1966, Bernstein was an ordinary, optimistic New Jersey 17-year-old when her older sister, whom she adored, was murdered for...

On the Manner of Negotiating with Princes: Classic Principles of Diplomacy and the Art of Negotiation.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Callieres, Francois de. On the Manner of Negotiating with Princes: Classic Principles of Diplomacy and the Art of Negotiation. May 2000. 128p. Houghton, $16 (0-618-05512-6). DDC: 327.2. Although not as well known as Machiavelli's The...

The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Campbell, James E. The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote. Apr. 2000. 320p. index, illus. Texas A&M, $34.95 (0-89096-939-6); paper, $18.95 (0-89096-940-X). DDC: 324.7. Campbell, a political science...

More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Collins, Robert M. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. Apr. 2000. 304p. index. Oxford, $35 (0-19-504646-3). DDC: 338.973. What was the defining characteristic of the most recent period of U.S. history? What lens best...

Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Giddens, Anthony. Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives. Apr. 2000. 104p. index. Routledge, paper, $17.95 (0-415-92719-6). DDC: 306.2. Giddens is a sociologist and the author of 31 books that have been published in 22...

Great Cases in Constitutional Law.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Great Cases in Constitutional Law. Ed. by Robert P. George. Apr. 2000. 201p. index. Princeton, $35 (0-691-04951-3); paper, $12.95 (0-691-04952-1). DDC: 342.73. Over the course of American history, the U.S. Supreme Court has been constantly...

Man and Wife in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Hartog, Hendrik. Man and Wife in America. May 2000. 416p. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-00262-8). DDC: 346.7301. Hartog, a history and law professor, examines the most basic social institution from a legal standpoint. He reviews important,...

The Earth around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The Earth around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet. Ed. by Jill S. Schneiderman. Apr. 2000. 441p. index, illus. W. H. Freeman, $27.95 (0-7167-3397-8). DDC: 333.7. As we celebrate the first Earth Day of the twenty-first century,...

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... * McNeill, J. R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. Apr. 2000. 416p. index, illus. Norton, $29.95 (0-393-0491-5). DDC: 304.2. As we celebrate the first Earth Day of the twenty-first...

Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Rothman, Hal K. Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Apr. 2000. 224p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $24.95 (1-56663-288-9). DDC: 333.7. As we celebrate the first Earth Day of the twenty-first century,...

The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Shutkin, William A. The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century. Apr. 2000. 340p. index. MIT, $29.95 (0-262-19435-X). DDC: 363.7. As we celebrate the first Earth Day of the twenty-first century,...

Ocean's End: Travels through Endangered Seas.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Woodard, Colin. Ocean's End: Travels through Endangered Seas. Apr. 2000. 320p. index, illus. Basic, $26 (0-465-01570-0). DDC: 363.7. As we celebrate the first Earth Day of the twenty-first century, environmental degradation looms as one of...

The Nature of Economies.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies. Apr. 2000. 200p. index. Random House/ Modern Library, $21.95 (0-679-60340-9). DDC: 330. Jacobs continues the discussion she initiated among a group of imaginary characters in Systems 0f Survival...

On Turning Sixty-Five: Notes from the Field.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Jerome, John. On Turning Sixty-Five: Notes from the Field. June 2000. 272p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50056-1). DDC: 305.26. With surprising grace and no small measure of cantankerousness, Jerome shares his patient reflections on aging. Using...

Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an AIDS Activist.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Jones, Cleve and Dawson, Jeff. Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an AIDS Activist. Apr. 2000. 304p. Harper San Francisco, $26 (0-06-251641-8). DDC: 362.1. In February 1987, Jones started the quilt memorializing AIDS fatalities with...

Water for Gotham.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Koeppel, Gerard T. Water for Gotham. Apr. 2000. 340p. index. illus. Princeton, $29.95 (0-691-01139-7). DDC: 363.6. Thanks to films such as Chinatown and books such as Cadillac Desert, many non-Californians know an adequate water supply was...

Afraid of the Dark: What Whites and Blacks Need to Know about Each Other.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Myers, Jim. Afraid of the Dark: What Whites and Blacks Need to Know about Each Other. Apr. 2000. 288p. Lawrence Hill; dist. by Independent Publishers Group, $22.95 (1-55652-342-4). DDC: 305.8. From a black perspective, the fact that Myers...

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. May 2000. 371p. illus. Princeton, $39.95 (0-691-00543-5). DDC: 337. Pomeranz is a history professor at the University of California-Irvine...

Hair: Public, Political, Extremely Personal.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Simon, Diane. Hair: Public, Political, Extremely Personal. Apr. 2000. 256p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $23.95 (0-312-20893-6). DDC: 391.5. The prevalence of the expression "having a bad hair day" is just one of myriad indicators of how...

To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Weiss, Jessica. To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change. Apr. 2000. 272p. index. illus. Univ. of Chicago, $45 (0-226-88670-0); paper, $15 (0-226-88671-9). DDC: 306.8. History professor Weiss has produced a densely...

Mary Farrell's Beyond the Basics: How to Invest Your Money, Now That You Know a Thing or Two.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Farrell, Mary. Mary Farrell's Beyond the Basics: How to Invest Your Money, Now That You Know a Thing or Two. Apr. 2000. 288p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-68486811-3). DDC: 332.6. Farrell is a managing director at Paine-Webber and...

The Selling of `Free Trade': NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of the American Democracy.(Review)
April 1, 2000... MacArthur, John R. The Selling of `Free Trade': NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of the American Democracy. Apr. 2000. 368p. index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-8531-3). DDC: 382. MacArthur is the grandson of John D. MacArthur, the...

Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Rolfe, John and Troob, Peter. Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle. Apr. 2000. 267p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-52556-1). DDC: 332.6. Time was when you took a job that you realized was not for you, you made the best of it...

Demystifying Economics: The Book That Makes Economics Accessible to Everyone.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Smith, Allen. Demystifying Economics: The Book That Makes Economics Accessible to Everyone. 2d ed. Apr. 2000. 272p. Ironwood, 2968 W. Ina Rd., #285, Tucson, AZ 85741, $24.95 (0-9648504-9-4); paper, $19.95 (0-9648504-7-8). DDC: 330. Smith,...

Twenty Ads That Shook the World: The Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How it Changed Us All.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Twitchell, James B. Twenty Ads That Shook the World: The Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How it Changed Us All. Apr. 2000. 240p. index. illus. Crown, $25 (0-609-60563-1). DDC: 659.1. There are, as cultural observer and author...

The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts. Ed. by Michael Novacek. Apr. 2000. 256p. illus. New Press, paper, $19.95 (1-56584-570-6). DDC: 333.95. These books examine from global and local perspectives the strains on Earth's biome. ...

A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story.(book reviews)(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Souder, William. A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story. 2000. 304p. Hyperion; dist. by Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-78686360-9). DDC: 597.8. These books examine from global and local perspectives the strains on Earth's biome. ...

The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Gribbin, John. The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe. Apr. 2000. 224p. index. Yale, $22.50 (0-300-08346-7). DDC: 523.1. In the contrast between these two works on the shared topic of time, readers may glimpse...

Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Waugh, Alexander. Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History. May 2000. 288p. illus. Carroll & Graf, $25 (0-7867-0767-4). DDC: 529. In the contrast between these two works on the shared topic of time, readers may glimpse the impressive...

Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Jones, Steve. Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated. Apr. 2000. 416p. index. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50103-7). DDC: 576.8. One hundred forty-one years after Darwin's opus was published, evolution continues to be rejected by many...

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Mayor, Adrienne. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. May 2000. 349p. index. illus. Princeton, $35 (0-691-05863-6). DDC: 560. Heraclides explained the rotation of the earth two millennia ago, but what did the...

Toil: Building Yourself.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Procter, Jody. Toil: Building Yourself. June 2000. 224p. Chelsea Green, $22.95 (1-890132-67-5). DDC: 694. This is the diary of a framing carpenter as he helps build a medium-fancy house in a middle-class Oregon neighborhood, a house the...

Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Rastorfer, Darl. Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann. Apr. 2000. 224p. index. illus. Yale, $39.95 (0-300-08047-6). DDC: 624. "It is a crime to build an ugly bridge," said Othmar Ammann, and the first span he built as an independent...

Learning Curves: Living Your Life in Full and with Style.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Weston, Michele and Sheldon, Michael. Learning Curves: Living Your Life in Full and with Style. Apr. 2000. 256p. index. illus. Crown, $24 (0-609-60580-1). DDC: 646.7. Camryn Manheim of ABC-TV's The Practice started the trend. Now, in...

Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Calvin, William H. and Bickerton, Derek. Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain. Apr. 2000. 304p. index. illus. MIT, $26.95 (0-26203273-2). DDC: 612.8. Noam Chomsky's theory of syntax as an innate mental...

Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Luhrmann, T. M. Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. Apr. 2000. 400p. index. Knopf, $27.50 (0-679-42191-2). DDC: 616.89. Anthropologist Luhrmann examines how psychiatrists are trained and how they interact with...

Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Watson, Lyall. Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell. Apr. 2000. 256p. index. illus. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-04908-6). DDC: 612.8. We greatly underestimate our sense of smell, observes Watson, an evolutionary biologist and...

Garden Lighting: Contemporary Exterior Lighting.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Davidson, James. Garden Lighting: Contemporary Exterior Lighting: May 2000. 128p. index. illus. Ward Lock; dist. by Sterling, $27.95 (0-7063-7778-8). DDC: 635.9. Davidson, author of The Complete Home Lighting Book (1997), goes beyond the...

How to Make Money Growing Plants, Trees, and Flowers: A Guide to Profitable Earth-Friendly Ventures.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Jozwik, Francis X. How to Make Money Growing Plants, Trees, and Flowers: A Guide to Profitable Earth-Friendly Ventures. May 2000. 312p. index. illus. Andmar, $39.95 (0-916781-22-4). DDC: 635.7. Jozwik doesn't focus on the specifics of...

Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism: Art, Music and Letters in the Jazz Age, 1919-1926.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Crunden, Robert M. Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism: Art, Music and Letters in the Jazz Age, 1919-1926. Apr. 2000. 496p. index. Basic, $35 (0-465-01484-4). DDC: 700. In American Salons (1992) and Ministers of Reform (1994),...

Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh & the Amana Photographers.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... * Foerstner, Abigail. Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh & the Amana Photographers. Apr. 2000. 166p. index. illus. Univ. of Iowa, $34.95 (0-87745-699-2). DDC: 779. Foerstner recounts the story of the photographers of the Amana colonies, a...

Jewels and Jewelry.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Phillips, Clare and Thomas, Ian. Jewels and Jewelry. Apr. 2000. 160p. index. illus. Watson-Guptill, $45 (0-8230-2584-5). DDC: 739.27. England's Victoria and Albert Museum, specializing in the decorative arts, has one of the finest jewelry...

Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Rosen, Charles. Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New. Apr. 2000. 384p. index. illus. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-17730-4). DDC: 780. Pianist, critic, and musicologist Rosen reviews a book and scores its author for shallow arguments but...

Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Rosenblum, Constance. Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Apr. 2000. 288p. index. illus. Holt/Metropolitan, $26 (0-8050-5089-2). DDC: 791.43. Peggy Hopkins Joyce had already been forgotten by the time she died...

The Music of Silence: A Composer's Testament.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Tavener, John. The Music of Silence: A Composer's Testament. Ed. by Brian Keeble. Apr. 2000. 210p. index. illus. Faber, paper, $15 (0-571-20088-5). DDC: 780.92. In the radical '60s, filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard insisted on making movies...

Making Glorious Gifts from Your Garden.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Browning, Marie. Making Glorious Gifts from Your Garden. 2000. 128p. index. illus. Sterling, $27.95 (0-8069-2479-9). DDC: 745.59. Many herbal tomes profess to act as one-stop crafting, containing everything needed to put together impressive...

The New Macrame: Contemporary Knotted Jewelry & Accessories.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... DuMont, Katie. The New Macrame: Contemporary Knotted Jewelry & Accessories. 2000. 112p. index. illus. Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-163-8). DDC: 745.594. The 1960s hippies have returned, adapting their wares to the millennium. Last year's fashions...

Art Nouveau Cross Stitch: Decorative Designs from the Turn of the Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Hammet, Barbara. Art Nouveau Cross Stitch: Decorative Designs from the Turn of the Century. 2000. 128p. index. illus. David & Charles; dist. by Sterling, $24.95 (0-7153-0778-9). DDC: 746.443041. Differences between the often confusing...

Elegant and Easy Bedrooms: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Landis, Dylan. Elegant and Easy Bedrooms: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style. Apr. 2000. 128p. index. illus. Dell, paper, $11.95 (0-440-50861-4). DDC: 747.7. Landis, a contributing editor to home furnishings magazines, culls from...

Elegant and Easy Foyers, Halls, and Stairs: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Landis, Dylan. Elegant and Easy Foyers, Halls, and Stairs: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style. Apr. 2000. 128p. illus. Dell, paper, $11.95 (0-440-50860-6). DDC: 747.7. Landis, a contributing editor to home furnishings magazines,...

Past Time: Baseball as History.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Tygiel, Jules. Past Time: Baseball as History. Apr. 2000. 245p. index. illus. Oxford, $25 (0-19-508958-8). DDC: 796.357. Baseball is many things to many people: a connection to childhood memories; an evening in front of the television; or a...

Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Weathers, Beck and Michaud, Stephen G. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest. Apr. 2000. 288p. illus. Villard, $24.95 (0-375-50404-4). DDC: 796.52. Weathers, a survivor of Mount Everest's death zone in the 1996 climbing fiasco,...

Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Laurents, Arthur. Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood. Apr. 2000. 400p. index. illus. Knopf, $30 (0-375-40055-9). DDC: 812. Laurents wrote dozens of successful plays and hit musicals, but what makes his memoir of 50-plus...

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Steinbach, Alice. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman. May 2000. 288p. illus. Random, $23.95 (0-375-50188-6). DDC: 818. In this engaging travelogue, Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer reeling with empty-nest...

The World's Wife.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Duffy, Carol Ann. The World's Wife. Apr. 2000. 80p. Faber, $22 (0-571-19985-2). DDC: 821. Duffy's dramatic monologues expressing the perspectives of famous men's wives resemble the potato chips in the old ad campaign, for it is hard to...

The Determined Days.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Stephens, Philip. The Determined Days. Apr. 2000. 96p. Overlook; dist. by Viking, $19.95 (1-58567-014-6). DDC: 811. Frost is apparently Stephens' master, for here are dialogues, narratives, and first-person reports, not necessarily of...

The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... * Jozsef, Attila. The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems. Tr. by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Frederick Turner. Apr. 2000. 160p. Bloodaxe; dist. by Dufour, paper, $20.95 (1-85224-503-4). DDC: 894. Thanks to translator teams of one Hungarian and one...

Eternal Monday: New & Selected Poems.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Petri, Gyorgy. Eternal Monday: New & Selected Poems. Tr. by Clive Wilmer and George Gomori. Apr. 2000. 96p. Bloodaxe; dist. by Dufour, paper, $18.95 (1-85224-504-2). DDC: 894. Thanks to translator teams of one Hungarian and one English...