Booklist articles from August 2004

Booklist archives from August 2004

Dearborn, Mary. Mistress of Modernism: the Life of Peggy Guggenheim.(Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: A Life in Art.)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Dearborn, Mary. Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim. Sept. 2004.320p. illus. index. Houghton, $28 (0-618-12806-9). 709. Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: A Life in Art. Sept. 2004. 544p. illus. Knopf, $35 (0-375-41042-2). 709. ...

Clinton, Bill. My Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Clinton, Bill. My Life. 2004. 957p. index. Knopf, $35 (0-375-41457-6). 973.9. It's clear that Bill Clinton wrote this book himself; his personality shines from every page. Those aspects of his character that people liked during his...

Listening to Bill.(My Life. By Bill Clinton.)(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
August 1, 2004... * My Life. By Bill Clinton. Read by the author. Books on Tape. 2004.6.5hr. abr. CS, $45 (1-4159-0527-4). CD, $45 (1-4159-0528-2) 800-541-5525 Whether you love Bill Clinton or hate him, you have to agree that he is an outstanding public...

Eliot, Marc. Cary Grant.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Eliot, Marc. Cary Grant. Sept. 2004. 416p. index. Harmony, $25.95 (1-4000-5026-X). 791.4302. Nearly 20 years after his death in 1986, Cary Grant remains the quintessential Hollywood leading man, Although numerous biographies of Grant have...

Gross, Terry. All I Did Was Ask.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Gross, Terry. All I Did Was Ask. Sept. 2004. 384p. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0010-3). 791.44. In the first print collection of her justifiably famous interviews, Gross, host of the exceedingly popular National Public Radio interview program...

Matlock, Jack F. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Matlock, Jack F. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended Aug. 2004. 384p. illus. index. Random, $27.95 (0-679-46323-2) 327.730. With the passing of Ronald Reagan, a rash of "insider" books can be expected, many of them fluff, But...

Ralston, Aron. Between a Rock and a Hard Place.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Ralston, Aron. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Sept. 2004.320p. illus. Atria, $26 (0-7434-9281-1). 796.51. The world knows the outlines of Ralston's extraordinary story: with precious little water or food, his right arm pinned for nearly...

Mowat, Farley. No Man's River.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Mowat, Farley. No Man's River. Sept. 2004.352p. index. Carroll & Graf, $25 (0-7867-1430-1). 971.2. Considering the deep identification of Canada's most popular living nonfiction writer with the country's arctic regions, Mowat's description...

O'Reilly, Bill and Flowers, Charles. The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: a Survival Guide for America's Family.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... O'Reilly, Bill and Flowers, Charles. The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Family. Oct. 2004. 208p. HarperEntertainment, $22.95 (0-06-054424-4). 646.7. Does the name Bill O'Reilly conjure up an advice maven for kids?...

Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Paradise City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Paradise City. Sept. 2004. 336p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-41097-1). As a child, Giancarlo Lo Manto lived on Manhattan's mean streets, encountering all sorts of mischief until, at 14, he moved with his family to a...

Coonts, Stephen. Saucer: the Conquest.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Coonts, Stephen. Saucer: The Conquest. Sept. 2004. 352p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $14.95 (0-312-32362-X). This felicitous, lightweight combination of thriller and sf is the second adventure of Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine involving...

Cornwell, Patricia. Trace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Cornwell, Patricia. Trace. Sept. 2004.448p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15219-9). Against advice from her niece Lucy, Kay Scarpetta answers a request to return to the Richmond medical examiner's office, the same office from which she was fired,...

Fire Along the Sky.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Donati, Sara. Fire along the Sky. Aug. 2004. 610p. Bantam, $27 (0-553-80146-5). Historical fiction writer Donati continues her popular Wilderness series. These plot-heavy and somewhat dense books (the list of primary characters runs to two...

Ellroy, James. Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Ellroy, James. Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales. Sept. 2004. 336p. Vintage, paper, $12.95 (1-4000-3287-3). Dig him, hepcats: James Ellroy, demon dog, narrator of nocturnes, alliterative all-star of the caper canon. His Quartet pegged L.A....

Folsom, Allan. The Exile.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Folsom, Allan. The Exile. Sept. 2004. 624p. Tor/Forge, $25.95 (0-765-30946-7). Folsom, the author of the thrilling Day after Tomorrow (1994), which has no connection to the recent movie, and the decidedly less thrilling Day of Confession...

Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories. Nov. 2004. 320p. Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-316-74040-3). Like Donna Tartt in The Little Friend (2002), 1995 Whitbread winner Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum) here combines a compelling narrative...

Grafton, Sue. R Is for Ricochet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Grafton, Sue. R Is for Ricochet. Aug. 2004. 400p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15228-8). "R" could be for "rocking chair" in the latest Kinsey Millhone, which doesn't so much imitate the action of a bullet bouncing off bone as offer a leisurely...

Grimes, Martha. Winds of Change.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Grimes, Martha. Winds of Change. Sept. 2004, 407p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03327-8). His hospital experience (Grave Maurice, 2002) may still be fresh in his mind, but Scotland Yard's Richard Jury wastes no time in involving himself in...

Banks, Russell. The Darling.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Banks, Russell. The Darling. Oct. 2004. 384p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-019735-8). American Hannah Musgrave, aka Dawn Carrington after her radical politics necessitated her going underground, ends up in Liberia in the 1980s, a...

Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J. The Battle of Corrin.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J. The Battle of Corrin. Aug. 2004.624p. Tor, $27.95 (0-765-30159-8). What appears to be the end of the Herbert-Anderson Dune prequels opens 56 years after the death of Serena Butler. The Jihad offers...

Hinton, S. E. Hawkes Harbor.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Hinton, S. E. Hawkes Harbor. Sept. 2004.256p. Tor, $21.95 (0-76530563-1). In a self-reinvention comparable to Madonna's foray into picture books, the doyenne of gritty teen realism has written her first novel for grown-ups after a 20-year...

Johansen, Iris. Blind Alley.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Johansen, Iris. Blind Alley. Sept. 2004. 336p. Bantam, $25 (0-553-80341-7). In her latest thriller about Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and the love of his life, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Joe gives Eve a skull to reconstruct, Eerily...

Gore, Kristin. Sammy's Hill.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Gore, Kristin. Sammy's Hill. Sept. 2004. 400p. Hyperion/Miramax, $23.95 (1-4013-5219-7). Gore, the daughter of former vice-president Al Gore, has written an enchanting, downright hilarious debut, centered on young domestic-policy advisor...

Palmer, Michael. The Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Palmer, Michael. The Society. Aug. 2004. 352p. Bantam, $25 (0-553-90057-9). Moral outrage over how managed-care companies make medical decisions based on the bottom line rather than on patient need is the central issue in the latest...

Rankin, Ian. Witch Hunt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Rankin, Ian. Witch Hunt. Sept. 2004. 400p. Little, Brown, $19.95 (0-316-00910-5). Creator of the Inspector Rebus novels and the number-one-selling mystery author in Great Britain, Rankin features a fresh dossier of detectives in this...

Jin, Ha. War Trash.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Jin, Ha. War Trash. Oct. 2004. 368p. Pantheon, $25 (0-375-42276-5) Ha Jin, the author most recently of The Crazed (2002), has made exposing hidden facets of China's recent past his calling, and in this tour de force, he illuminates...

Sanders, Lawrence and Lardo, Vincent. McNally's Bluff.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Sanders, Lawrence and Lardo, Vincent. McNally's Bluff. Aug 2004. 320p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15189-3). Sanders originated the Archy McNally novels, and Sanders' publisher and estate have allowed Lardo to continue the series This new...

Sheldon, Sidney. Are You Afraid of the Dark?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Sheldon, Sidney. Are You Afraid of the Dark? Sept. 2004. 337p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06055934-9). Readers don't expect literary genius from Sheldon, but they do expect to be entertained, and once again the popular...

Shreve, Anita. Light on Snow.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Shreve, Anita. Light on Snow. Oct 2004. 304p Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-78148-7). The prolific Shreve has been a fixture on best-seller lists ever since Oprah picked The Pilot's Wife (1998) as one of her book-club selections. In her...

McCall Smith, Alexander. The Sunday Philosophy Club.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * McCall Smith, Alexander. The Sunday Philosophy Club. Sept. 2004. 256p. Pantheon, $19.95 (0-375-42298-6) Following the success of his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Zimbabwe-born Scot goes for the kilt in a new detective...

Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Nov. 2004. 256p. Farrar, $23 (0-374-15389-2). Robinson's first book, Housekeeping (1981), remains an astonishment, leading to high expectations for her longed-for second novel, which is, joyfully, a work of...

Siegel, Sheldon. The Confession.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Siegel, Sheldon. The Confession. Sept. 2004. 368p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15212-1). Another year, another entry in the always-engaging procedural series starring the legal team of Michael Daley and Rosie Fernandez, whose partnership as...

Thomason, Linda Bloodworth. Liberating Paris.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Thomason, Linda Bloodworth. Liberating Paris. Sept. 2004. 304p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06059670-8). Throughout her career as an award-winning and groundbreaking television producer and writer (M*A*S*H, Designing Women), Thomason has given the...

Roth, Philip. The Plot against America.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Roth, Philip. The Plot against America. Oct. 2004. 400p. Houghton, $26 (0-61850928-3). In his new novel, Roth steps boldly into the difficult realm of alternate history. As he has it, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is nominated for...

Grobel, Lawrence. The Art of the Interview: Lessons from a Master of the Craft.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Grobel, Lawrence. The Art of the Interview: Lessons from a Master of the Craft. Aug. 2004. 448p. index. Three Rivers, paper, $14.95 (1-4000-5071-5). 070.4. Not only are interviews the staple of television and radio talk shows and news,...

Itzkoff, Dave. Lads: A Memoir of Manhood.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Itzkoff, Dave. Lads: A Memoir of Manhood. Sept. 2004. 288p. Villard, $23.95 (1-40006113-X). 070.5. Arriving on the New York publishing scene in 1998 with a newly minted liberal-arts degree from Princeton, Itzkoff seized the moment and...

Hart, William. Evil: A Primer, a History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to Bin Laden.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Hart, William. Evil: A Primer: A History of a Bad Idea: From Beelzebub to Bin Laden. Oct. 2004. 224p. illus. index. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $19.95 (0-312-31281-4). 170. The concept of evil has been much bandied about of late, so it is...

Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments. Aug. 2004. 272p. index. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4236-4). 190. Himmelfarb's earlier books (The De-Moralization of Society, 1995, and One Nation, Two...

McInerny, D. Q. Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... McInerny, D. Q. Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking. Aug. 2004. 160p. illus. index. Random, $19.95 (1-4000-6171-7). 160. "Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig...

Paul, Annie Murphy. Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Paul, Annie Murphy. Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves. Sept. 2004. 320p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-4356-0). 155.2. Paul, mental...

The Manley arts: in the homestretch.(books and reading in middle age)(Column)
August 1, 2004... I always thought it quite revealing that when someone wants to know what book you are currently reading, he will ask, "What's on your nightstand?" it's just one of many expressions that associate books with the bedroom, We like to take books...

Borovitz, Mark and Eisenstock, Alan. The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Borovitz, Mark and Elsenstock, Alan. The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light. Sept. 2004. 240p. Morrow, $23.95 (0-06-056379-6). 296. At the age of 14, Borovitz began selling stolen goods for the Cleveland mob to help...

Chilton, Bruce. Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Chilton, Bruce. Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography. Aug. 2004. 336p. index. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50862-X). 225.9. Chilton, the author of Rabbi Jesus (2000), once again offers an insightful and highly readable biography of a biblical...

Cowan, James. Desert Father: A Journey in the Wilderness with Saint Anthony.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Cowan, James. Desert Father: A Journey in the wilderness with Saint Anthony. Aug. 2004. 240p. Shambhala, $21.95 (1-59030145-5). 270.1. Anthony of Egypt, one of the great early saints, was an ascetic who, when Christianity was just another...

Stern, Lise. How to Keep Kosher: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Jewish Dietary Laws.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Stern, Lise. How to Keep Kosher: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Jewish Dietary Laws. Sept. 2004, 320p. index. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-051500-7). 296.7. Cookbook author and food columnist Stern, who keeps a kosher home, explains not...

Agnew, Eleanor. Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Agnew, Eleanor. Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back. Sept. 2004. 270p. illus. index. Ivan R, Dee, $27.50 (1-56663-580-2). 307.2. During the 1970s, more than one million disillusioned...

Allison, Graham. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Allison, Graham. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Aug. 2004. 224p. index. Holt/Times, $23 (0-80507651-4). 363.32. Prominent in political science for decades, Allison occasionally rotates into the government he...

America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... America's Lawyer-Presidents; From Law Office to Oval Office. Ed. by Norman Gross. Aug. 2004.364p. illus. index. Northwestern Univ., $39.95 (0-8101-1218-3). 340. The legal profession has produced far more American presidents than any other...

Avorn, Jerry. Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Avorn, Jerry. Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs. Aug. 2004. 480p. index. Knopf, $27.50 (0-375-41483-5) 338.4 Harvard pharmaco-epidemiologist Avorn's weighty volume authoritatively deconstructs and...

Brzezinski, Matthew. Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security, an Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Brzezinski, Matthew. Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security--an Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State, Sept. 2004. 256p. Bantam, $25 (0-553-80366-2). 363.3. In this look at the post-9/11 U.S., Brzezinski begins by...

Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews: an American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses. Ed by Robert Gellately. Oct 2004. 544p. Knopf, $35 (0-375-41469-X)341.6 In 1946 Goldensohn, a U.S. Army psychiatrist,...

Craig, Emily. Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Craig, Emily. Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes. Sept. 2004. 288p. Crown, $24.95 (1-4000-4922-9). 363.25. Forensic anthropology is a blazingly popular cultural subject as reflected on...

Doherty, Brian. This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Doherty, Brian. This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground Aug. 2004. 288p. Little, Brown, $24,95 (0-316-71154-3). 394.25. True-believer Doherty loves Burning Man, the annual festival for aging Aquarians and seekers of all...

Hilldorfer, Joseph and Dugoni, Robert. The Cyanide Canary.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Hilldorfer, Joseph and Dugoni, Robert. The Cyanide Canary. Sept. 2004. 352p. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-4652-7), 364.1 At the core of this enthralling legal drama is a 250-gallon storage tank containing cyanide. On August 26, 1996, a...

Flynn, Stephen. America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Flynn, Stephen. America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism. Aug. 2004. 256p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-057128-4). 363.3209. Of the many post-9/11 books evaluating the Bush administration's national...

Foskett, Ken. Judging Thomas: the Life and Times of Clarence Thomas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Foskett, Ken. Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas. Aug. 2004, 352p. index. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-052721-8). 347.73. Political journalist Foskett offers an examination of controversial Supreme Court Justice Thomas through...

Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. Aug. 2004. 272p. Basic, $22 (0-46502761-X). 363.738. Denouncing the oil and...

Gordon, Alastair. Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Gordon, Alastair. Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure. Sept. 2004. 352p. illus. index Holt/Metropolitan, $27,50 (0-8050-6518-0). 387.7. Let others savor Humphrey Bogart's steely gaze as he bids...

Ishay, Micheline R. The History of Human Rights: from Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Ishay, Micheline R. The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. Aug. 2004. 460p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $60 (0-520-23496-0); paper, $24.95 (0-520-23497-9). 323. From a legal viewpoint, human rights...

Loya, Joe. The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Loya, Joe. The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber. Sept. 2004. 368p. HarperCollins/Rayo, $2495 (0-06-050892-2). 364.15. The outlines of Loya's autobiography are all too familiar: a boy raised in a broken...

Martin, Charles. Healing America: The Life of Senate Majority Leader William H. Frist, M.D., and the Issues That Shape Our Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Martin, Charles. Healing America: The Life of Senate Majority Leader William H. Frist, M.D., and the Issues That Shape Our Time. Aug. 2004. 244p. index. W Publishing Group, $21.99 (0-8499-1836-7). 328.73. Senate Majority Leader Frist is a...

Meier, Deborah and others. Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Meier, Deborah and others. Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools. Aug. 2004. 192p. Beacon, $23 (0-8070-3294-6). 371.102 The authors chose the term "keeping school" to illustrate the broad range of thought...

Peterson, Peter G. Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do about It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Peterson, Peter G. Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do about It. Aug. 2004 224p. Farrar, $22 (0-374-25287-4). 338.9 Peterson takes the role of an extraordinary...

Miles, Barry. Hippie.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Miles, Barry. Hippie. Aug. 2004. 384p. illus. Index. Sterling, $24.95 (1-4027-1442-4). 305.568. The watershed 1960s can be gloriously re-experienced in the pages of this magnificent, oversize volume. The swinging '60s will live forever...

Quigley, Mary and Kaufman, Loretta E. Going Back to Work: a Survival Guide for Comeback Moms.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Quigley, Mary and Kaufman, Loretta E. Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide for Comeback Morns. Aug. 2004. 304p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $13.95 (0-312-31321-7). 306.874. Quigley and Kaufman follow up on their earlier book, And What Do...

Oliver, Anna Cypra. Assembling My Father: a Daughter's Detective Story.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... * Oliver, Anna Cypra. Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story. Aug. 2004. 368p. illus. Houghton, $25 (0-618-34152-8). 362.28. Oliver was five years old when her father, Lewis Weinberger, killed himself in Taos, New Mexico, in...

Rogan, James E. Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Rogan, James E. Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington. Aug. 2004. 352p. illus. Regan, $24.95 (0-06-058059-3) 324.2734. In 1998 Rogan served on the House Judiciary Committee, prosecuting the impeachment of President Bill...

Rubinstein, Julian. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: a True Story of Bank Heists, ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Rubenstein, Julian. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts. Sept. 2004. 304p. Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-316-07167-6). 364.15. It was in...

Said, Edward W. From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Said, Edward W. From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map. Aug. 2004. 352p. index. Pantheon, $25.95 (0-375-42287-0). 327.73056. Until his 2003 death, Said was the American academic community's most passionate and prolific Palestinian. This...

Schlesinger, Arthur M. War and the American Presidency.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Schlesinger, Arthur M. War and the American Presidency. Sept. 2004. 224p. Norton, $23.95 (0-393-06002-0). 327.1. Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Schlesinger is perhaps best known for his study of the Kennedy presidency, A...

I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Swope, Sam. I Am a Pencil. Aug. 2004. 320p. Holt, $25 (0-8050-7334-5). 372.62. A writer of children's books, Swope accepts a request from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative to run a 10-day writing workshop with a class of...

Traig, Jennifer. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Traig, Jennifer. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood. Sept. 2004. 224p. Little, Brown, $22.95 (0-316-15877-1) 362.196. By turns hilarious and harrowing, this spiritual-psychological autobiography poses a classification...

VanDevelder, Paul. Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... VanDevelder, Paul. Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation. Aug. 2004. 352p. index. Little, Brown, $25,95 (0-316-89689-5). 323.11. This enlightening chronicle by investigative reporter VanDevelder takes on...

Yeomans, Matthew. Oil: Anatomy of an Industry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Yeomans, Matthew. Oil: Anatomy of an Industry. Aug. 2004. 272p. index. New Press, $22.95 (1-56584-885-3). 338.2. Acknowledging a narrative debt to Daniel Yergin's sweeping history The Prize (1991), Yeomans journalistically surveys the oil...

Anderson, Troy. The Way of Go: 8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Anderson, Troy. The Way of Go: 8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life. Aug. 2004. 256p. Free Press, $23 (0-7432-5814-2). 650.1. Anderson, consultant and teacher of Go, explains this 4,000-year-old Chinese game that...

Angell, Marcia. The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Angell, Marcia. The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It. Aug. 2004. 352p. index. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50846-5). 338.4. Angell, former editor in chief of the prestigious New England Journal of...

Chavez, Linda and Gray, Daniel. Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Chavez, Linda and Gray, Daniel. Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics. Aug. 2004. 288p. index. Crown Forum, $25.95 (1-4000-5259-9). 331.88. Chavez, conservative political analyst and former union...

Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker. Aug. 2004 250p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03282-4). 331.7. In this thoughtful study, Professor Rose makes the case that American blue-collar workers are undervalued...

When the earth moves.(Calderazzo, John. Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives.)(Ulin, David L. The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line between Reason and Faith. )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Calderazzo, John. Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives Aug. 2004. 240p. Lyons Press, $22.95 (1-59228-389-6). 551. Ulin, David L. The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line between Reason and Faith. Aug....

Vandervelde, Maryanne. Retirement for Two: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive Together as Long as You Both Shall Live.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Vandervelde, Maryanne. Retirement for Two: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive Together as Long as You Both Shall Live. Aug. 2004. 305p. illus. index. Bantam, $24 (0-553-80382-4). 646.7. Although Vandervelde does mention practicalities...

Yokoyama, John and Michelli, Joseph A. When Fish Fly: Lessons for Creating a Vital and Energized Workplace from the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Yokoyama, John and Michelli, Joseph A. When Fish Fly: Lessons for Creating a Vital and Energized Workplace from the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market. Aug. 2004. 176p. Hyperion, $19.95 (0-7868-0061-8). 658.3. Yokoyama is the owner of...

Carlisle, Rodney. Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity--from the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Carlisle, Rodney. Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity--from the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven. Aug. 2004. 512p. illus. index. Wiley, $40 (0-471-24410-4). 609. Despite...

Collins, Amy Fine. The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Collins, Amy Fine. The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man). Sept. 2004. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $23 (0-7432-4421-4). 629.28. Collins, a socialite and writer...

Owen, David. Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Owen, David. Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine. Aug. 2004. 320p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $24...