Booklist articles from August 2003

Booklist archives from August 2003

Bradley, James. Flyboys: a True Story of Courage.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.400p. index. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-10584-8). 940.54. Bradley's phenomenal best-seller, Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was rejected by about 20 publishing houses before Bantam took a chance. His new publisher is not leaving...

Carlson, Tucker. Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 192p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-52976-1). 320. Carlson is the conservative team member, the guy in the bow tie, on CNN's political-debate program Crossfire. His book is both memoir and commentary on current politics and the...

Cornwell, John. Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 512p. index. Viking, $29.95 (0-670-03075-9). 943.086. Cornwell's previous book, Hitler's Pope (1999), attracted significant controversy for making explicit Pope Pius XII's relationship with the Third Reich, an attack launched at...

* Alexander, Caroline. The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 458p. Viking, $27.95 (0-670-03133-X). 996. 1. Countless rebellions have taken place since Fletcher Christian overtook Captain William Bligh in 1789, but it is the story of the mutiny on the Bounty that has taken permanent hold...

Diamant, Anita. Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 240p. Scribner, $23 (0-7432-4616-0). 296.7. Diamant has achieved fame worldwide as the author of The Red Tent (1997), but this collection brings together essays that first saw life as newspaper and magazine columns and were...

Forever Hepburn.(Kate Remembered; Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit: a Son Remembers)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... * Berg, A. Scott. Kate Remembered. Aug. 2003.370p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15164-8). 791.43. * Ferrer, Sean Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers. Oct. 2003. 192p. illus. Atria, $28 (0-671-02478-7). 791.43. When...

Ivins, Molly and Dubose, Lou. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 256p. index. Random, $22.95 (0-375-50752-3). 973.931 Syndicated columnist Ivins and her cowriter Dubose also wrote Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush before the 2000 election, and as they put it, "If...

Pinsky, Drew. Cracked: Running Rescue Missions for the Disconnected and Brokenhearted.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.256p. Regan, $24.95 (0-06-009654-3). 362.29. Dr. Drew Pinsky, famous as the compassionate and sensible advice doctor on the hugely popular radio show Loveline, shines here in his debut solo publishing effort. Pinsky's day job is...

Sheehy, Gail. Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 256p. index. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50862-7). 974.7 Sheehy brings the insightfulness she offered in Passages (1976) and Silent Passage (1992) to this examination of the traumatic impact of 9/11 on Middletown, New Jersey, which...

Baldacci, David. Split Second.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.406p. Warner, $26.95 (0-446-53089-1). Baldacci's new thriller is sustained by the pulse-pounding suspense his fans have come to expect. Sean King is a former Secret Service agent whose career ended eight years ago when the...

* Baxter, Charles. Saul and Patsy.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 336p. Pantheon, $24 (0-375-41029-5). Saul and Patsy, a deliriously loving married couple, are avid Scrabble players, a clue to stellar novelist Baxter's endless pleasure in the puzzles and rewards of language, and to his...

Bochco, Steven. Death by Hollywood.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 262p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6156-3). This one has insider written all over it. A crime novel about a screenwriter written by a legendary screenwriter and producer of cop shows (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue). The premise works...

* Burke, James Lee. Last Car to Elysian Fields.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-4542-3). Change comes slowly to Cajun country, but it comes just the same. Dave Robicheaux, hero of Burke's long-running series, has been struggling with that fact for years, watching his...

Coulter, Catherine. Blindside.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 384p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15056-0). The sheriff of Jessborough, Tennessee, Katie Benedict, meets up with best-seller queen Coulter's ever popular FBI agents, Sherlock and Savich, when she and her five-year-old daughter, Keely,...

Doig, Ivan. Prairie Nocturne.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003.384p. Scribner, $25 (0-7432-0135-3). Doig returns to several of the characters from his much-loved Dancing at the Rascal Fair (1987) in this gripping story set not only in Montana's Two Medicine country, the landscape indelibly...

Grimes, Martha. Foul Matter.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 374p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03259-X). Grimes, author of the popular Richard Jury mysteries, ventures far afield from Scotland Yard, this time to examine the cutthroat world of contemporary New York book publishing. Book contracts...

Grisham, John. Bleachers.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 176p. Doubleday, $19.95 (0-385-51161-2). Grisham's latest is a departure for him, perhaps even more so than A Painted House (2001). There are no lawyers on the run or murders to be unraveled. Instead, Bleachers is the story of a...

* Hunter, Stephen. Havana.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003.480p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-3808-7). "But fool that he was, he did his duty, for men who despised him, for a system that almost murdered him, for cynics and scoundrels and sociopaths that ran the intelligence service."...

Guterson, David. Our Lady of the Forest.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003.336p. Knopf, $25.95 (0-375-41211-5). Guterson follows up Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) and East of the Mountains (1999) with another novel set in the Pacific Northwest. The rain-sodden timber town of North Fork has been hit hard...

Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J. The Machine Crusade.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 701p. Tor, $27.95 (0-765-30158-X). Years have passed since the Jihad against the overmind Omnius and the thinking machines blazed up in the instant that the robot Erasmus hurled an innocent toddler to his death. The child's...

Kay, Terry. The Valley of Light.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.224p. Atria, $24 (0-7434-7594-1). Shortly after World War 11, returning veteran Noah Locke begins wandering the South, looking for something. Noah is illiterate and, frankly, not very intelligent. But he's good-natured and knows...

* Morrison, Toni. Love.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 208p. Knopf, $23.95 (0-375-40944-0). Despite the simplicity of its title, Love is a profound novel. A Nobel laureate must feel considerable pressure to keep performing on a higher level than other writers. With her latest novel,...

* Keillor, Garrison, Love Me.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 272p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03246-8). Popular public-radio icon Keillor departs from his usual setting of Lake Wobegon. Our hero Larry Wyler starts out in St. Paul, living down the hill with the working class, married to his...

McGarrity, Michael. Everyone Dies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.336p. Dutton, $23.95 (0-525-94761-2). McGarrity's Kevin Kerney series, set in New Mexico, has undergone a dramatic transformation over the years. At first, it played heavily on the mythic West and the difficulty of adapting...

Mills, Kyle, Smoke Screen.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.350p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15098-6). Trevor Barnett is the ne'er-do-well descendant of one of the original tobacco dynasties. He lives off a trust fund and has an insignificant position at the family's tobacco firm. But the free...

Pratchett, Terry. Monstrous Regiment.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 368p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-001315-X). Pratchett flexes his satirical muscles again, with the follies of war his theme. Polly Oliver has disguised herself as a boy to join the army of Borogravia, which is always at war and...

Late arrivals.
August 1, 2003... Baer, Robert. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude. 2003.288p. index. Crown, $24.95 (1-4000-5021-9). The author of the New York Times best-seller See No Evil (2002) now looks, with jaundiced eye, at the U.S....

* Paretsky, Sara. Blacklist.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003.432p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15085-4). In her essay "Writing, Speech, and Silence" [BKL My 1 03], Paretsky speaks frankly about free speech, including the devastation caused by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and...

Robards, Karen. Beachcomber.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003.352p. Atria, $25 (0-7434-5348-4). Christy Petrino is originally from New Jersey and a family that is tight with the Mob. She thought she escaped that life by becoming a lawyer and working in Philadelphia with a colleague whom she...

Roberts, Nora and Robb, J. D. Remember When.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 448p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15106-0). New York Times best-selling, RITA award-winning Nora Roberts teams up with her pseudonymous writing personality, J. D. Robb, in this sexy, suspenseful novel centered on a fortune in stolen...

Upcoming in upfront-fiction.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... The titles listed below are scheduled for publication in fall 2003 or early winter 2004. Part one of Upcoming in Upfront, which featured nonfiction titles, appeared in the July issue. Auchincloss, Louis. The Scarlet Letters. Nov. 2003....

Choquette, Sonia. Diary of a Psychic: Shattering the Myths.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003.256p. Hay, $14.95 (1-4019-0192-1). 133.8. What's it like to be a psychic? Choquette, a spiritual teacher and the author of several books on psychic development, gives readers an inside look at what psychics do and how they feel...

* Morrow, Lance. Evil: an Investigation.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 224p. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-04754-8). 170. Morrow, a columnist with Time magazine, offers a compelling look at how our concepts of evil have changed over the ages, influenced by literature, history, culture, technology, and,...

Harrell, Keith D. An Attitude of Gratitude: 21 Life Lessons.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 240p. Hay, $23.95 (1-4019-0199-9). 179. Harrell, an inspirational speaker, recounts his own life story of struggle and eventual triumph, drawing on his experiences and faith to provide encouragement to readers. He recalls his...

Adiswarananda, Swami. Meditation and Its Practices: a Definitive Guide to Techniques and Traditions of Meditation in Yoga and Vedanta.(he Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Adiswarananda, Swami. Meditation and Its Practices: A Definitive Guide to Techniques and Traditions of Meditation in Yoga and Vedanta. Aug. 2003.294p. index. SkyLight Paths, $34.95 (1-893361-83-7). 294.5. Feuerstein, George. The Deeper...

Gibson, David. The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 2003. 352p HarperSanFrancisco, $23.95 (0-06053070-7). 282. Much has been written about the crisis over sexual abuse that has plagued the contemporary Catholic Church. It is Gibson's contention that this scandal and the subsequent reaction...

Goldman, Ari L. Living a Year of Kaddish.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 224p. Schocken, $22 (0-8052-4184-1). 296.4. A Jewish son is duty bound to recite the kaddish prayer daily for an 11-month period after his father's death, an act of reverence for a deceased parent. In the midst of grief and...

Khandro, Rinpoche. This Precious Life: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on the Path to Enlightenment.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 144p. index. Shambhala, $21.95 (1-57062-307-4). 294.374. Khandro, a Buddhist nun and daughter of a well-known meditation master, has written a thoughtful introduction to Tibetan Buddhist practice. She lucidly summarizes the Four...

* Harmer, Tom. What I've Always Known: Living in Full Awareness of the Earth.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 288p. Harmony, $23 (1-4000-4855-9). 299 Harmer's autobiographical book doesn't go down easy. It is too intense and challenging to be an easy read. Dozens of apparently similar books purport to tell how a curious young white...

Lew, Alan. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: the Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 288p. Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-316-73908-1), 296.4. The Days of Awe, the Jewish rituals observed each year between roughly mid-August and mid-October, include Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the 10 days between the two High Holy...

Ohlson, Kristin. Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 272p. Hyperion/Theia, $23.95 (1-4013-0025-1). 255. Journalist Ohlson knew nothing about the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration; the name sounded, she thought, like something from Saturday Night Live. The self-proclaimed errant...

Roberts, Arthur O. Exploring Heaven: What Great Christian Thinkers Tell Us about Our Afterlife with God.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 240p. HarperSanFrancisco, $21.95 (0-06-05 3068-5). 291.23. Heaven means many things to many people, and about 80 percent of Americans reported belief in life after death, but to some, heaven means nothing at all. Roberts...

* Tomkins, Stephen. John Wesley.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 192p. index. Eerdmans, paper, $20 (0-8028-2499-4). 287.092. The tricentenary of the birth of Methodism's founder could bring no finer introduction to his life and work than Tomkins' synthetic biography. Drawing upon the best...

Alexander, John B. Winning the War: Advanced Weapons, Strategies and Concepts for the Post-9/11 World.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 288p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (0-312-30675-X). 355.02 One of the key developers of nonlethal weapons here studies the use of such weapons in the war against terrorism. Some of those instruments, such as...

Black, Edwin. War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 518p. index. Four Walls Eight Windows, $26 (1-56858-258-7). 363.9. Read all of his new book, investigative reporter Black insists, or none of it. Good advice, despite Black's many repetitions, odd word choices, and grammatical...

Buhle, Paul and Wagner, Dave. Hide in Plain Sight: the Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 320p. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $27.95 (1-4039-6144-1). 331.89. Buhle and Wagner complete a three-volume investigation (Tender Comrades [1998] and Radical Hollywood [BKL My 15 02]) into the genesis, development, and...

Corbett, Christopher. Orphans Preferred: the Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 256p illus. Broadway, $23.95 (0-7679-0692-6). 383. If MBAs existed in 1860, they'd have advised Russell, Majors & Waddell that their business plan for a cross-continental courier service was a loser. But the firm's folly was the...

Feagin, Joe and O'Brien, Eileen. White Men on Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 224p. Beacon, $26 (0-8070-0980-6). 305.896. Here's an intriguing idea: a book that views contemporary racism through the eyes of "elite white men." Racism in the U.S., the authors argue, is a far more subtle phenomenon than it...

Dale Carnegie changed my life. (The Manley Arts).(Carnegie's timeless advice appreciated)
August 1, 2003... In the depths of the Great Depression, a man named Dale Carnegie started a growth industry. As full of positive energy as this man was, I doubt even he ever imagined the long-term impact he would have on the publishing world. Carnegie was the...

Kipnis, Laura. Against Love: a Polemic.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 224p. Pantheon, $24 (0-375-42189-0). 306.73. Kipnis has made it her mission to dismantle complacently held and culturally supported perspectives on such loaded subjects as pornography and, in this agilely argued, slyly insurgent...

* Griffin, Karol. Skin Deep: Tattoos, the Disappearing West, Very Bad Men, and My Deep Love for Them All.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 304p. Harcourt, $24 (0-15-100884-1). 391.6. This is one of those books that almost defies categorization. It's a memoir of an intelligent, creative woman who dropped out of college to become a photographer and who wound up being...

Klosterman, Chuck. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: a Low Culture Manifesto.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 256p. Scribner, $23 (0-7432-3600-9). 306. In Fargo Rock City (2001), Klosterman parsed the midwestern heavy-metal scene. Now he broadens his scope to include the cultural implications of subjects as diverse as the Dixie Chicks,...

Langer, Elinor. A Hundred Little Hitlers: the Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 416p. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $26 (0-80505098-1). 305.8. This book focuses on the 1988 murder of an Ethiopian man, Mulugeta Seraw, by three skinheads in Portland, Oregon. Langer, author of Josephine Herbst (1983), is herself...

Pratap, Anita. Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Other South Asian Flashpoints.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug, 2003. 274p. Penguin, paper, $14 (0-14-302906-1). 303.6. The author, an Indian-born journalist, got her big break in 1983 when riots broke out in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and Tamil populations, and Pratap was assigned to cover...

Shlain, Leonard. Sex, Time, & Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 464p. illus. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03233-6). 306.7 Shlain makes brilliant use of his medical expertise in his highly original and intellectually stimulating inquiry into human sexuality and its role in the shaping of...

* Neugeboren, Jay. Open Heart: a Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 384p. index. Houghton, $24 (0-618-11211-1). 362.1. At 60, Neugeboren swam a mile a day, had normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, was within five pounds of his high-school graduation weight, and felt fine. What's more, he...

Spence, Gerry. The Smoking Gun: Day by Day through a Shocking Murder Trial with Gerry Spence.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 448p. Scribner, $28 (0-7432-4696-9). 345.73. Gerry Spence, the loud, large, imposing Wyoming lawyer who became a household name during the O. J. trial, lends credibility to the Sixth Amendment "right to counsel" by taking on...

Stern, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 400p. Ecco, $27.95 (0-06-050532-X). 303.6. Because Scripture specifically forbids the taking of life, why is it that so many of the world's most ruthless killers invoke religion to justify their bloody deeds? By talking directly...

* Salzman, Mark. True Notebooks.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 352p. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41308-1). 365. Wanting to add life to a cardboard juvenile delinquent character in the novel he was trying to finish, Salzman (Iron & Silk; Lying Awake) visited a juvie lockup for high-risk offenders...

Thompson, Joyce. Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu: a Writer's Adventurous Search for Family, Spirit, and Love.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 256p. HarperSanFrancisco, $22.95 (0-06053063-4). 306.85. Thompson, author of Bones (1991), this time turns her talent and insight to nonfiction in a personal examination of a trans-formative time in her life. After nearly 10...

Boob Jubilee: the Cultural Politics of the New Economy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Ed. by Thomas Frank and David Mulcahey. Aug. 2003. 288p. index. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05777-1); paper, $15.95 (0-393-32430-3). 306.3 The editors of the Baffler, a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, present a...

Citrin, James M. and Smith, Richard A. The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: the Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 224p. index. Crown Business, $22.95 (1-4000-4794-3). 650.1. Certainly, Citrin's latest book (after Lessons from the Top, 1999, and Zoom! 2002, with Tomos J. Neff) is filled with accolades for executive recruiter Spencer Stuart,...

Greider, William. The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 384p. index. Simon & Schuster, $28 (0-684-86219-0). 330.12. Greider's thesis is that ordinary people can reinvent capitalism so that it works in their best interest while enhancing the bottom line. He uses examples such as...

Karsh, Ellen and Fox, Arlen Sue. The Only Grant Writing Book You'll Every Need.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 384p. index. Carroll & Graf, paper, $14 (0-7867-1175-2). 352.73. Veteran grant writers Karsh and Fox not only rely on years of experience but also on interviews with dozens of foundations, associations, and government...

Malik, Om. Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 352p. index. Wiley, $24.95 (0-471-43405-1). 384. Even as the conspicuous dot-com bubble burst in March 2000, an even larger bubble was still forming that would bring disaster to the telecommunications industry. The race to...

O'Connor, Kevin and Brown, Paul B. The Map of Innovation: Creating Something out of Nothing.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 256p. index. Crown Business, $25.95 (1-4000-4831-1). 628.4. O'Connor started three highly successful companies, including DoubleClick, which is usually lumped with Ebay and Amazon.com as one of the few Internet survivors....

Ryan, Kevin. Write up the Corporate Ladder: Successful Writers Reveal the Techniques That Help You Write with Ease and Get Ahead.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 288p. index. AMACOM, paper, $14.95 (0-8144-7150-1). 808. Most guides to business writing focus on a rigid set of rules and fail to acknowledge the intuitive process involved in all good writing. As a writing-training consultant,...

Abley, Mark. Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 320p. index. Houghton, $24 (0-618-23649-X). 417. Just as biologists work hard to raise awareness of the drastic consequences of the loss of biodiversity,, linguists and ethnographers, most notably Wade Davis, are calling...

Keynes, Richard. Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 460p. illus. index. Oxford, $35 (0-19-516649-3). 576.8. Keynes tracks Darwin's storied 1831-36 voyage of science and surveying on the Beagle, quoting unexpurgated tracts not only from Darwin's letters and journals but also from...

Perrine, Doug. Sea Turtles of the World.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 144p. illus, index. Voyageur, $29.95 (0-89658-555-7). 597.92. The arribada has started--the mass arrival of hundreds of Olive Ridley sea turtle females, coming to shore to dig nests and lay their eggs--and we are in the surf...

Purser, Bruce. Jungle Bugs: Masters of Camouflage and Mimicry.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 2003. 144p. illus. index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55297-671-8); paper, $19.95 (1-55297-663-7). 595.7. Insects have lived on our planet for about 450 million years and are found in every one of the habitats that have appeared over that long...

Rowland, Wade. Galileo's Mistake: a New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 320p. illus, index. Arcade, $25.95 (1-55970-684-8). 520. In a revisionist look at the seventeenth-century battle between ecclesiastical authorities and Galileo Galilei, Rowland provocatively challenges the prevailing view of the...

Weart, Spencer. The Discovery of Global Warming.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 224p. index. Harvard, $24.95 (0-674-01157-0). 551.6. As Weart makes clear, global warming came to be accepted through a long process of incremental research rather than a dramatic revelation. The story goes back to the...

Cole, Kenneth and Jacob, Mira. Footnotes: What You Stand for Is More Important than What You Stand In.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 208p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $30 (0-7432-4177-0). 659.1. It is the year of biographies--and autobiographies--for fashion celebrities. Ralph Lauren was the victim of two. Calvin Klein, the subject of a recent print scrutiny....

Kerr, Peter. Manana, Manana: One Mallorcan Summer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 240p illus. Lyons, $22.95 (1-58574-637-1). 634. Kerr, a Scottish transplant to Mallorca, continues the diverting story of his family's adjustment to tranquil island life that he began in Snowball Oranges (2002). Their first...

Kilarski, Barbara. Keep Chickens! Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and Other Small Spaces.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 150p. illus, index. Storey, paper, $16.95 (1-58017-491-4). 636.5. Chickens are hot right now, as attested by articles on backyard chickens in the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden (not to mention Martha Stewart and her...

Kraut, Alan M. Goldberger's War: the Life and Times of a Public Health Crusader.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 320p. illus, index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-374-13537-1). 614. At the turn of the twentieth century, the American South was plagued by pellagra, a disease characterized by dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. In 1912, South...

* Rocco, Fiammetta. The Miraculous Fever Tree: Malaria Medicine, and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 368p. illus, index. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-019951-2). 616.9. Like Mark Kurlansky's superb Cod (1997) and Salt (2001), Rocco's book is the history of a commodity--quinine--and commerce is the mainspring of its development....

Avent, Tony. So You Want to Start a Nursery.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 340p. illus, index. Timber, $24.95 (0-88192-584-5). 635.9. Within the greater horticultural community, Avent and his Plant Delights Nursery are known for taking a high-spirited approach to a business that offers a select...

Cushnie, John. Trees for the Yard and Garden.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003 224p. illus, index. Trafalgar, $29.95 (1-57076-236-8). 635.9. From newspapers to new houses, trees provide the raw material for more aspects of daily life than one can shake a stick at. Seriously in danger of being over...

Don, Monty. The Complete Gardener.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... 2003. 440p. illus, index. DK, $40 (0-17894-9319-5). 635. At a large, but not unmanageable, site in the English countryside, Don reigns over a lush and diverse garden of his own creation. Undaunted by having to start from scratch, he...

Llamas, Kirsten Albrecht. Tropical Flowering Plants: a Guide to Identification and Cultivation.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 432p illus. index. Timber, $69.95 (0-88192-585-3). 635. Tropical plant enthusiasts who enjoy cultivating unusual blooms and green thumbs seeking practical advice on how to care for rare specimens will embrace Llamas' up-to-date...

Richards, John. Primula.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 346p. 2d ed. illus. index. Timber, $39.95 (0-88192-580-2). 635.9. One of three great garden genera, Primula rank right behind Rhododendrons and Rosas in terms of annual income generated within the horticultural trade. With more...

Bruinsma, Max. Deep Sites: Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design.(Complete Guide to Digital Illustration; Digital Calligraphy: How to Create Perfect Lettering from Your Desk Top)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Bruinsma, Max. Deep Sites: Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design. 2003 190p illus. index. Thames and Hudson, paper, $29.95 (0-500-28384-2). 005.72. Caplin, Steve and Banks, Adam. The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration....