Booklist articles from August 2006

Booklist archives from August 2006

Mamet, David. The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Mamet, David. The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews. Oct. 2006. 208p. Schocken/Nextbook, $19.95 (0-8052-4207-4). 305.892. Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright and filmmaker, has written a rather confusing but...

Mann, William J. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Mann, William J. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. Oct. 2006. 608p. Holt, $30 (0-8050-7625-5). 791.4302. When Katharine Hepburn's movie career began in the 1930s, people didn't know what to make of her. It didn't matter; she formed her own...

Maynard, Joyce. Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Maynard, Joyce. Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City. Sept. 2006. 480p. index. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (0-7879-8226-1). 384.15. Maynard serves up an examination of murder among the middle class. The...

Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie. Oct. 2006. 851p. Penguin, $35 (1-59420-104-8). 338.7. In the pantheon of the industrial giants who dominated late-nineteenth-century American capitalism, Andrew Carnegie has consistently stood out as the most...

Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. Oct. 2006. 544p. index. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $35 (0-385-50984-7). 944.033. There is so much to France's Sun King that he cannot be depleted of interesting...

Rich, Frank. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Rich, Frank. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina. Sept. 2006. 330p. Penguin, $25.95 (1-59420-098-X). 973.931. New York Times columnist Rich offers few revelations, but the weight of all the...

Rombauer, Irma S. and others. Joy of Cooking.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Rombauer, Irma S. and others. Joy of Cooking. Oct. 2006.1, 152p. index. Scribner, $30 (0-7432-4626-8). 641.5. In recognition of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Joy of Cooking, a new edition of this classic work appears....

Sedaris, Amy. I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Sedaris, Amy. I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence. Oct. 2006. 304p. Warner, $27.99 (0-446-57884-3). 793.2. The actor, caterer, film star, comic, and sister of David Sedaris charms, seduces, entertains, instructs, amuses, and just...

Thomson, David. Nicole Kidman.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Thomson, David. Nicole Kidman. Sept. 2006. 304p. illus. index. Knopf, $24.95 (1-40004273-9). 791.4302. There are star biographies, full of fluff, and then there are real biographies, full of substance. This is one of the latter. The author...

Kirsch, Jonathan. A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Kirsch, Jonathan. A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization. Sept. 2006. 352p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $25.95 (0-06-081698-8). 228. Kirsch has written an...

Atwood, Margaret. Moral Disorder and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Atwood, Margaret. Moral Disorder and Other Stories. Sept. 2006. 240p. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $24.95 (0-385-50384-9). General Fiction. It's been 15 years since Atwood's last short story collection, Wilderness Tips. She now returns to the...

Connelly, Michael. Echo Park.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Connelly, Michael. Echo Park. Oct. 2008. 416p. Little, Brown, $26.99 (0-316-73495-0). Crime Fiction. Harry Bosch is still on the job, working out of LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit, and despite his best efforts at holding his antiestablishment...

Bradbury, Ray. Farewell Summer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Bradbury, Ray. Farewell Summer. Oct. 2006. 208p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-113154-7). General Fiction. Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine has aged remarkably well, losing none of its nostalgic charm during the 49 years since its first printing....

DeMille, Nelson. Wild Fire.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... DeMille, Nelson. Wild Fire. Nov. 2006. 520p. Warner, $26.99 (0-446-57967-4). crime Fiction. John Corey, the ex-NYPD detective who now works on a government anti-terrorism task force, returns in this exciting and uncomfortably realistic...

Frazier, Charles. Thirteen Moons.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Frazier, Charles. Thirteen Moons. Oct. 2006. 432p. Random, $26.95 (0-375-50932-1). General Fiction. In one of the most anticipated novels of the current publishing season, Frazier, author of the widely applauded Cold Mountain (1997),...

Gould, Judith. The Secret Heiress.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Gould, Judith. The Secret Heiress. Oct. 2006.320p. NAL, $23.95 (0-451-21966.X). General Fiction. At 21, Nikki Papadaki is in charge of the corporate empire left to her by her father, and her mercurial management style and outrageous...

Kushner, Lawrence. Kabbalah: A Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Kushner, Lawrence. Kabbalah: A Love Story. Oct. 2006. 208p. Doubleday/Morgan Road, $17.95 (0-7679-2412-6). General Fiction. Although Kabbalah has become one of today's pop-cultural buzzwords (yo, Madonna!), neither this mystical branch of...

Le Carre, John. The Mission Song.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... le Carre, John. The Mission Song. Sept. 2006. 352p. Little, Brown, $26.99 (0-316-01674-6). Crime Fiction. When spies fought spies in the early le Carre novels, there were no real winners, but there was a sense that one system was better...

Mosley, Walter. Fear of the Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Mosley, Walter. Fear of the Dark. Sept. 2006. 321p. Little, Brown, $25.99 (0-316-73458-6). Crime Fiction. The third in Mosley's Fearless Jones series (following Fearless Jones, 2001, and Fear Itself, 2003) again finds timid bookseller...

Francis, Dick. Under Orders.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Francis, Dick. Under Orders. Sept. 2006. 320p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15400-0). Crime Fiction. After an absence of six years, Dick Francis comes thundering up the track with a thriller that resoundingly demonstrates that the acclaimed...

George, Elizabeth. What Came Before He Shot Her.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * George, Elizabeth. What Came Before He Shot Her. Oct. 2006. 544p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-054562-3). Crime Fiction. Fans of George's popular Inspector Lynley series were stunned by the brutal slaying of the Scotland Yard detective's...

O'Brien, Edna. The Light of Evening.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... O'Brien, Edna. The Light of Evening. Oct. 2006. 288p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-71867-2). General Fiction. O'Brien remains one of contemporary Ireland's most prominent and enduring novelists, her reputation having survived early-career...

Parker, Robert B. Hundred-Dollar Baby.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Parker, Robert B. Hundred-Dollar Baby. Oct. 2006. 320p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15376-4). Crime Fiction. April Kyle is the young runaway Spenser rescued from Boston's notorious Combat Zone in 1982's Ceremony. Bereft of conventional options,...

Swofford, Anthony. Exit A.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Swofford, Anthony. Exit A. Jan. 2007. 304p. Scribner, $25 (0-7432-7038-X). General Fiction. In Jarhead (2003), Swofford, a former marine, compellingly chronicled his experiences in the first Gulf War. In his first novel, he appears to draw...

Tademy, Lalita. Red River.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Tademy, Lalita. Red River. Jan. 2007. 420p. Warner, $24.99 (0-446-57898-3). General Fiction. Tademy, author of the highly acclaimed Cane River (2001), revisits her fascinating family history in this fictionalized account of the family's...

Tanenbaum, Robert K. Counterplay.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Tanenbaum, Robert K. Counterplay. Aug. 2006. 448p. Atria, $26 (0-7432.7113-0). Crime Fiction. Picking up pretty much where Fury (2005) left off, this new Butch Karp mystery finds the New York district attorney targeted by an obsessive...

Waller, Robert James. The Long Night of Winchell Dear.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Waller, Robert James. The Long Night of Winchell Dear. Nov. 2006. 158p. Crown, $27.95 (0-7393-3985-0). General Fiction. After parlaying his mega-hit, The Bridges of Madison County (1992), into a sequence of gruffly romantic westerns,...

Winslow, Dee. The Winter of Frankie Machine.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Winslow, Dee. The Winter of Frankie Machine. Oct. 2006. 352p. Knopf, $24 (1-4000-4498-7). Crime Fiction. Frank Machianno thought he had quit the Mob for good. The 62-year-old Vietnam vet has settled into a quiet life in his native San...

Woods, Stuart. Short Straw.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Woods, Stuart. Short Straw. Oct. 2006. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15368-3). Crime Fiction. Santa Fe defense lawyer Ed Eagle is the epitome of worldly success. He presides over a highly successful practice, which is moving into showcase...

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. Oct. 2006. 288p. Knopf, $24 (0-307-28543-9). General Fiction. A man and a boy, father and son, "each the other's world entire," walk a road in "the ashes of the late world." In this stunning departure from his...

Upcoming in upfront fiction.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... The titles listed below are scheduled for publication in fall and winter of 2006-07. Part One of Upcoming in Upfront, which featured nonfiction titles, appeared in the July issue. Allende, Isabel. Ines of My Soul. HarperCollins, $25.95...

Gellhorn, Martha. The Collected Letters of Martha Gellhorn.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Gellhorn, Martha. The Collected Letters of Martha Gellhorn. Ed. by Caroline Moorehead. Aug. 2006. 520p. Holt, $32.50 (0-8050-6555-5). 070.4. War correspondent, free spirit, and writer of conscience Martha Gellhorn was beginning to fade...

Karp, Josh. A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Karp, Josh. A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. Sept. 2006. 416p. illus. index. Chicago Review, $24.95 (1-55652-602-4). 070.5. When Doug Kenney, Henry Beard, and a handful of other...

Blum, Deborah. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Blum, Deborah. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death. Aug. 2006. 344p. index. Penguin Press, $25.95 (1-59420-090-4). 133.909. An author of popular histories of experimental psychology (Love at...

Chotzinoff, Robin. Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Chotzinoff, Robin. Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew. Aug. 2006. 288p. PublicAffairs, $25 (1-58648-308-0). 296.7. Chotzinoff was born a Jew in a nonobservant--no, an atheist--family whose credo (imagine a sarcastic shrug) was,...

Burke, Janine. The Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Burke, Janine. The Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis. Oct. 2006. 384p. illus. index. Walker, $27.95 (0-8027-1503-6). 154.6. When choosing the epigraph for his famous Interpretation...

The Manley Arts: the arts of the resume and the job notice.(Column)
August 1, 2006... Our lives are filled with many different types of written documents. Some of these documents are written clearly and concisely, and others are written poorly, but only the authors of traditionally published books are consistently held up to the...

Gibson, David. The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Clash with the Modern World.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Gibson, David. The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Clash with the Modern World. Sept. 2006. 384p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06-085841-9). 282.092. No fan of the current pontiff, journalist and religion writer Gibson...

Gingerich, Owen. God's Universe.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Gingerich, Owen. God's Universe. Sept. 2006. 144p. illus. index. Harvard, $16.95 (0-674-02370-6). 215. Astronomer Gingerich believes in a designed universe, although not in intelligent design (ID), the antievolution theorizing that some...

Jenkins, Philip. The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Jenkins, Philip. The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. Sept. 2006. 288p. index. Oxford, $26 (0-19-530065-3). 270.8. The Africans and Asians who are the world's newest Christians understand the Bible...

Kumar, Satish. The Buddha and the Terrorist.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Kumar, Satish. The Buddha and the Terrorist. Sept. 2006. 144p. Algonquin, $14.95 (1-56512-520-7). 294. Peace activist and spiritual thinker Kumar retells a story from the Buddhist scriptures to show that there is a better way to defuse...

Kurzweil, Arthur. On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters, and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Kurzweil, Arthur. On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters, and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom. Sept. 2006. 278p. illus. index. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (0-7879-8324-1). 296.092. ...

Sweeney, Jon M. Strange Heaven: The Virgin Mary as Woman, Mother, Disciple, and Advocate.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Sweeney, Jon M. Strange Heaven: The Virgin Mary as Woman, Mother, Disciple, and Advocate. Sept. 2006. 240p. index. Paraclete, $21.95 (1-55725-432-X). 232.91. Protestant religious writer Sweeney (Born Again and Again, 2005) respectfully...

Buchan, James. The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Buchan, James. The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas. Aug. 2006. 256p. illus. Norton/Atlas, $23.95 (0-393-06121-3). 330.15. In the slipstream of Buchan's history of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment (Crowded with Genius,...

Caldicott, Helen. Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Caldicott, Helen. Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer. Sept. 2006. 240p. index. New Press, $23.95 (1-59558-067-0). 333.792. Never one to mince words, renowned physician and activist Caldicott presents exhaustive evidence to refute the...

Castles, Alex C. Ned Kelly's Last Days: Setting the Record Straight on the Death of an Outlaw.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Castles, Alex C. Ned Kelly's Last Days: Setting the Record Straight on the Death of an Outlaw. Aug. 2006. 288p. illus. index. Allen & Unwin, paper, $16.95 (1-74114-538-4). 364.15. Ned Kelly, the legendary Australian bushranger, was...

Eide, Brock and Eide, Fernette. The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Eide, Brock and Eide, Fernette. The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success. Aug. 2006. 528p. index. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0225-4). 371.9. Because of the propensity of schools...

Geraghty, Jim. Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Geraghty, Jim. Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership. Aug. 2006. 352p. Simon & Schuster/ Touchstone, paper, $14 (0-7432-9042-9). 323. Geraghty made his mark blogging coverage of the Kerry presidential campaign...

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Gilfoyle, Timothy J. A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York. Aug. 2006. 544p. illus. index. Norton, $27.95 (0-393-06190-6). 364.16. Preserved in a previously unpublished memoir, the tale Gilfoyle regales...

Chace, William M. 100 Semesters: My Adventures as a Student, Professor, and President, and What I Learned along the Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Chace, William M. One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as a Student, Professor, and President, and What I Learned along the Way. Sept. 2006. Princeton, $24.95 (0-691-12725-5). 378.73. "None of the rooms where the work of a college or...

Trace evidence: Connie Fletcher's Every Contact Leaves a Trace.(BOOKS BY Booklist AUTHORS)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... They call it the "CSI Effect"--the influence that TV's how-they-do-it crime dramas have had on the world of forensic science. Connie Fletcher, associate professsor of journalism at Loyola University in Chicago and a longtime Booklist reviewer,...

Humes, Edward. Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Humes, Edward. Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream. Oct. 2006. 336p. index. Harcourt, $26 (0-15-100710-1). 362.86. Humes' reportorial account of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, known as the GI Bill, is...

Fletcher, Connie. Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts on How They Follow the Trail of Evidence.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Fletcher, Connie. Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts on How They Follow the Trail of Evidence. Aug. 2006. 288p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-34037-0). 363.25. In her fifth book, Fletcher returns to territory she first wrote...

Jennings, Kevin. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Jennings, Kevin. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son. Aug. 2006. 288p. Beacon, $24.95 (0-8070-7146-3). 306.76. When hospitalized in 1966 with whooping cough--a consequence of his family's extreme poverty, which excluded vaccinations, insurance, and...

Knight, Amy W. How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Knight, Amy. How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies. Sept. 2006. 368p. illus. index. Carroll & Graf, $27.95 (0-7867-1816-1). 327.12. The end of the cold war and the subsequent opening of both American...

Kurlansky, Mark. Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Kurlansky, Mark. Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea. Sept. 2006. 224p. index. Modern Library, $19.95 (0-679-64335-4). 303.6. Kurlansky's particular point is the last of the lessons referred to in the...

Leier, Mark. Bakunin.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Leier, Mark. Bakunin. Aug. 2006. 320p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (0-312-30538-9). 355. Leier enthusiastically parses the great anarchist's writings and argues that anarchism is largely misunderstood as an ideology....

Linker, Damon. The Theocons: Secular America under Siege.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Linker, Damon. The Theocons: Secular America under Siege. Sept. 2006. 304p. index. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51647-9). 320.5. Linker informs us of a tiny cabal of activist-propagandists who have forged an alliance between right-wing Catholics...

Greene, Melissa Fay. There Is No Me without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Greene, Melissa Fay. There Is No Me without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children. Sept. 2006. 352p. Bloomsbury, $25.95 (1-59691-116-6). 362.73. The horrific numbers behind the AIDS pandemic in Africa, "the most terrible...

Margulies, Joseph. Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Margulies, Joseph. Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. Aug. 2006. 320p. index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-8685-5). 342.73. In Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court affirmed the right of prisoners in U.S. military custody at...

Love, Dennis. My City Was Gone: The Poisoning of a Small American Town.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Love, Dennis. My City Was Gone: The Poisoning of a Small American Town. Aug. 2006. 336p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-058550-1). 363.738. Award-winning reporter Love grew up in Anniston, Alabama, the home of a Monsanto chemical plant and a military...

Martin, James. The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Martin, James. The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future. Aug. 2006. 400p. index. Riverhead, $26.95 (1-57322-323-9). 303.48. Martin, author of The Wired Society (1978), takes a look at the big issues facing...

Masters, Brooke A. Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Masters, Brooke A. Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer. Aug. 2006. 3681. illus. index. Holt/Times, $26 (0-8050-7961-0). 340.092. Spitzer, New York's combative attorney general, has made a name for himself prosecuting Wall Street...

Quart, Alissa, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Quart, Alissa, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child. Aug. 2006. 262p. index. Penguin Press, $24.95 (1-59420-095-5). 305.9. Parental obsession with identifying and nurturing the slightest giftedness in children has produced a...

Schwartz, Stephen. Is It Good for the Jews? The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Schwartz, Stephen. Is It Good for the Jews? The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby. Sept. 2006. 288p. index. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-51025-X). 305.892. The so-called Israel lobby has recently become a favorite whipping boy of both the...

Smith, Rich. You Can Get Arrested for That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Smith, Rich. You Can Get Arrested for That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree. Aug. 2006. 256p. Three Rivers, paper, $13.95 (0-307-33942-4). 349.73. When the author, a Briton, learned that American law books were...

Sokol, Jason. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Sokol, Jason. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975. Aug. 2006. 416p. illus. index. Knopf, $27.95 (0-307-26356-8). 305.8. Historian Sokol examines how the civil rights movement challenged...

Suarez, Ray. The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Suarez, Ray. The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America. Sept. 2006. 336p. HarperCollins/Rayo, $24.95 (0-06082997-4). 322. Suarez made his name hosting NPR's Talk of the Nation by seeing to it that issues were genuinely discussed, not...

Van Zandt, Clint and Paisner, Daniel. Facing Down Evil: Life on the Edge as an FBI Hostage Negotiator.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Van Zandt, Clint and Paisner, Daniel. Facing Down Evil: Life on the Edge as an FBI Hostage Negotiator. Sept. 2006. 288p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15308-X). 363.25. Before retiring from the FBI in 1995, Van Zandt, one of the key figures in the...

Winge, Kevin. Never Give Up: Vignettes from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of AIDS.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Winge, Kevin. Never Give Up: Vignettes from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of AIDS. Aug. 2006. 220p. Syren, paper, $15.95 (0-929636-65-1). 362.1. Winge, who runs a Minnesota nonprofit serving people with HIV/AIDS, went to Africa for six...

Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. 2006. 256p. index. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0237-8). 658.8. Citing statistical curves called "long-tailed distributions" because the tails are very long...

Wilson, Edward O. The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... * Wilson, Edward O. The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion. Sept. 2006. 178p. illus. index. Norton, $21.95 (0-393-06217-1). 333. Famed entomologist, humanist thinker, and cogent writer Wilson issues a forthright call for unity...

Canton, James. The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Canton, James. The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years. Sept. 2006. 384p. index. Dutton, $25.95 (0-52594938-0). 303.49. Canton, global futurist and business advisor, offers a...

Dorgan, Byron L. Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Dorgan, Byron L. Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America. Sept. 2006. 288p. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-35522-7). 382. In 1970 the largest U.S. corporation was...

Ellis, Charles D. Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Ellis, Charles D. Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox. Aug. 2006. 368p. index. Wiley, $27.95 (0-471-99835-4). 338.7. In Copies in Seconds (2005) David Owen told the story of Chester Carlson, the lone inventor of the Xerox machine. Here,...

Kynge, James. China Shakes the World: A Titan's Breakneck Rise and Troubled Future and the Challenge for America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Kynge, James. China Shakes the World: A Titan's Breakneck Rise and Troubled Future--and the Challenge for America. Sept. 2006. 288p. index. Houghton, $25 (0-618-70564-3). 330.95. A former bureau chief of the Financial Times in Beijing,...

Roldan, Kenneth Arroyo and Stern, Gary M. Minority Rules: Turning Your Ethnicity into a Competitive Edge.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Roldan, Kenneth Arroyo and Stern, Gary M. Minority Rules: Turning Ethnicity into a Competitive Edge. Sept. 2006. 304p. Collins, $22.95 (0-06-085205-4). 658.4. In this age of debate on expanding immigration and diversity, and ambivalence...

Weil, Debbie. The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Weil, Debbie. The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right. Aug. 2006. 256p. index. Portfolio, $23.95 (1-59184-125-9). 659.202. With citizen bloggers multiplying by the minute, corporations are keen...

Willingham, Ron. The Inner Game of Selling: Mastering the Hidden Forces That Determine Your Success.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Willingham, Ron. The Inner Game of Selling: Mastering the Hidden Forces That Determine Your Success. Sept. 2006. 288p. illus. index. Free Press, $26 (0-74328628-6). 658.85. Willingham, founder and CEO of an international training and...

Hart, Jack. A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Hart, Jack. A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work. Aug. 2006. 304p. index. Pantheon, $25 (0-37542327-3). 808. Although Hart addresses his pithy writing guide to those working for newspapers and magazines, the managing...

Baran, Myriam and Martin, Gilles. Butterflies of the World.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Baran, Myriam and Martin, Gilles. Butterflies of the World. Tr. by Simon Jones. 2006. 224p. illus. index. Abrams, $35 (0-8109-5953-4). 595.78. One in every 10 insects is a butterfly or moth, and everyone in the world can recognize a member...

Grimaud, Helene. Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Grimaud, Helene. Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves. Tr. by Ellen Hinsey. Sept. 2006. 256p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-59448-927-0). 599. A renowned classical pianist, Helene Grimaud explores life with passion, stating, "I have never had...

Lovelock, James. The Revenge of Gala: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back -- and How We Can Still Save Humanity.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Lovelock, James. The Revenge of Gala: Why the Earth Is Fighting Backhand How We Can Still Save Humanity. Aug. 2006. 192p. index, illus. Basic, $25 (0-465-04168-X). 577. British geophysicist Lovelock introduced the Gaia theory in the early...

Maugeri, Leonardo. The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Maugeri, Leonardo. The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource. Aug. 2006. 352p. index. Praeger, $49.95 (0-27599008-7). 553.2. Sixty years ago, a British diplomat was questioned about the...