Booklist articles from August 2007

Booklist archives from August 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. By J. K. Rowling. 2007. 756p. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $34.99 (0-545-01022-5). Gr. 6-12. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The cloak of inevitability hangs on the final installment of the Harry Potter...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)(Young adult review)
August 1, 2007... * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. By J. K. Rowling. Read by Jim Dale. 2007. 21 hr. Listening Library, CS, $90 (9780739360408); CD, $90 (9780739360415). British actor Dale, who is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for...

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. By Richard Rhodes. Oct. 2007. 400p. illus. Knopf, $28.95 (0-375-41413-4). 355.02. Asked how U.S. leaders had framed America's nuclear-weapons policy, Robert McNamara spoke candidly:...

The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy. By Glenn Kessler. Sept. 2007. 304p. illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-36380-X). 355. With her long relationship with the Bush family (having served in the previous Bush...

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism. By John Updike. Oct. 2007. 736p. Knopf, $40 (9780307266408). 808.84. Updike is one of the few remaining true men of letters, the kind of writer who is equally at home in almost all forms and...

Good Calories, Bad Calories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Good Calories, Bad Calories. By Gary Taubes. Sept. 2007. 640p. Knopf, $27.95 (1-4000-4078-7). 363.8. Noted science journalist Taubes probes the state of what is currently known and what is simply conjectured about the relationship among...

Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them. By John McCain and Mark Salter. Aug. 2007. Twelve, $480 (0-446-58040-6). 920. Much admired for his integrity, McCain offers profiles of individuals who have been...

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story. By Diane Ackerman. Sept. 2007. 384p. illus. Norton, $23.95 (9780393061727). 940.53. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jan Zabinski, the innovative director of the Warsaw Zoo, and Antonina, his empathic wife,...

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9111 America. By Susan Faludi. Oct. 2007, 368p. Holt/Metropolitan, $26 (9780805086928). 306.2. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Panicked and anxious in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack, the...

Booklist Online.(Chat Room)
August 1, 2007... Your Personal Booklist Online Congratulations! Your library subscribes to Booklist Online, and you have 24/7 access to all our features and reviews going back to 1991. What you may not know is that you can create your very own customized...

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Toobin. Sept. 2007. 336p. Doubleday, $35.95 (0-385-51640-1). 347.73. With every nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and every decision on the hot-button issues of abortion,...

Schulz and Peanuts.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Schulz and Peanuts. By David Michaelis. Oct. 2007. 240p. illus. Harper, $34.95 (0-06-621393-2). 741.5. No other cartoonist tapped the nation's psyche, or touched its heart, like Charles Schulz, who wrote and drew Peanuts for 50 years....

2012: The War for Souls.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... 2012: The War for Souls. By Whitley Strieber. Sept. 2007. 320p. Tor, $24.95 (0-7653-1896-2). SF/Fantasy. Archaeologist Martin Winters gets out of the collapsing Great Pyramid of Khufu just in time to see a gigantic lens arise from the...

The Abstinence Teacher.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Abstinence Teacher. By Tom Perrotta. Oct. 2007. 336p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-35833-4). General Fiction. As is evident from his previous novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), Perotta seems to enjoy putting characters...

The Air We Breathe.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Air We Breathe. By Andrea Barrett. Oct. 2007. 320p. Norton, $24.95 (9780393061086). General Fiction. In 1916, the eve of the U.S. entry into World War I, a microcosm of world politics forms in upstate New York. Wealthy tuberculosis...

The Burnt House.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Burnt House. By Faye Kellerman. Aug. 2007.448p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-122732-3). Crime Fiction. A commuter plane careens into an apartment building and bursts into flames. Forensic teams searching for passenger remains are unable to...

Dead Heat.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Dead Heat. By Dick Francis and Felix Francis. Sept. 2007. 352p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15476-0). Crime Fiction. After a silence of six years, Francis made a triumphant return last year, bringing back the ever-intriguing series hero Sid...

Tree of Smoke.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * Tree of Smoke. By Denis Johnson. Sept, 2007. 624p. Farrar, $27 (0-374-27912-8). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Colonel Francis F. X. Sands' wartime exploits made him something of a legend. He flew as a mercenary for the...

Fatal Revenant.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Fatal Revenant. By Stephen R. Donaldson. Oct. 2007. 640p. Putnam, $27.95 (0-399-15446-9). SF/Fantasy. The second volume (after The Runes of the Earth, 2004) of the final Thomas Covenant tetralogy takes place entirely in the Land, to which...

Making Money.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Making Money. By Terry Pratchett. Sept. 2007. 400p. Harper, $25.95 (0-06-116164-0). SF/Fantasy. Moist von Lipwig, the savior of the Ankh-Morpork post office, has gotten settled into a routine. He's filling out forms, signing things, will...

The Rake.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Rake. By William F. Buckley. Aug. 2007. 288p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-123855-4). General Fiction. In a sort of alternate-history tale of ambition gone astray, young Reuben Castle (read Bill Clinton)is an easy success at everything...

Songs without Words.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Songs without Words. By Ann Packer. Sept. 2007. 322p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-375-41281-6). General Fiction. Packer was widely praised for her debut, the best-selling Dive from Clausen's Pier (2002). Her sophomore effort is slow-moving but...

World without End.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... World without End. By Ken Follett. Oct. 2007. 992p. Dutton, $35 (9780525950073). General Fiction. This book is a big event. In 1989 Follett published what was to become one of his most popular novels, The Pillars of the Earth, a historical...

-30-: The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... -30-: The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper. Ed. by Charles M. Madigan. Aug. 2007. 256p. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663742-2). 071. In case anyone's still wondering whether American newspapers as we know them are on the road to...

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better. By Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee. Sept. 2007. 240p. Random, $24.95 (1-40006469-4). 150. This popular synthesis of a technical field...

The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days. By Mark Edmundson. Sept. 2007. 288p. Bloomsbury, $25.95 (1-58234537-6). 150.19. Freud's last book--Moses and Monotheism--has counted for little with critics, inclined to dismiss it as...

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA. By Norm Phelps. Aug. 2007. 384p. Lantern, paper, $20 (9781590561065). 179. In the first chapter of his very readable history of the animal-protection philosophy, Phelps refers...

How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. By James L. Kugel. Sept. 2007. 608p. Free Press, $35 (0-7432-3586-X). 220. Kugel intends his book as a tour through the Hebrew Bible based on an introductory course he taught at...

Light in the Dark Ages: The Friendship of Francis and Clare of Assisi.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Light in the Dark Ages: The Friendship of Francis and Clare of Assisi. By Jon M. Sweeney. Aug. 2007. 220p. Paraclete, paper, $16.95 (9781557254764). 271. Sweeney, who has written several popular histories of religious movements and...

Snobs and elitists.(The Man Arts)(books and garage sales)
August 1, 2007... I'll admit it. When it comes to books, I'm a bit of an elitist. I prefer that word to snob. In my mind, a snob is a person who looks down upon other people. Well aware of my own personal flaws, I rarely think of myself as better than any other...

Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You. By Joan Chittister. Aug. 2007. 208p. Eerdmans, $20 (9780802828941). 200. Although each person is unique and lives in a different time and culture from those of his or her...

What Do Muslims Believe?(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... What Do Muslims Believe? By Ziauddin Sardar. Sept. 2007. 160p. Walker, paper, $9.95 (0-80271642-3). 297. Among the many sanguine introductions to Islam, Sardar's moves immediately to the front rank for its readability (despite a few...

Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler. By Wade Rouse. Sept. 2007. Harmony, $23.95 (0-307-38270-2). 373.22. Some jobs are decidedly unenviable, but Rouse may have the most unenviable of all: mommy handler. His real title is "director of...

The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. By Diana West. Aug. 2007. 256p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-31234048-6). 305.240973. Writing in the Washington Times and elsewhere, West has...

Elvis Is Titanic.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Elvis Is Titanic. By Ian Klaus, Aug. 2007. 256p. Knopf, $24 (0-307-26456-4). 370.956. In January 2005, after the first election in Iraq following the American occupation, Klaus began teaching American history and English at Salahaddin...

The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House. By Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. Aug. 2007. 394p. illus. Center Street, $26.99 (1-59995-734-5). 269. Despite Kennedy-era bigots' fears, the only clergyman to visit the...

At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880-1920.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880-1920. By Lawrence J. Epstein. Aug. 2007. 320p. illus. Jossey-Bass, $40 (9780787986223). 305.892. The Jewish immigrants who fled Eastern Europe...

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground. By Robert D. Kaplan. Sept. 2007. 448p. Random, $27.95 (1-40006133-4). 355.009. Kaplan is a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, and for...

The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. By Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen. Sept. 2007. 288p. Beacon, $26.95 (9780807041390). 305.5. Although the poverty rate in the U.S. is the highest in the industrial world,...

The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe. By Greg Behrman. Aug. 2007. 464p. Free Press, $27 (9780743282635). 338.91. A narrative account of the 1947-51 genesis and operation of the European...

Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal. By Penny Loeb. Aug. 2007. 336p. Univ. Press of Kentucky, $27.95 (9780813124414). 344.75. She was an unassuming homemaker, trying to do what was right for her...

The Natural Family: A Manifesto.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Natural Family: A Manifesto. By Allan C. Carlson and Paul Mero. Aug. 2007. 272p. Spence, $27.95 (9781890626709). 306.85. As Carlson and Mero say any manifesto should, theirs includes a historical interpretation, a bill of principles,...

Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space. By Michael Belfiore. Aug. 2007. 352p. illus. Smithsonian, $26.95 (9780061149023). 338.0919. Touring the rapidly changing non-NASA...

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. By Christopher Hitchens. Sept. 2007. 176p. Atlantic Monthly, $19.95 (0-87113-955-3). 323.5. Hitchens' sprightly Books That Changed the World volume arrives fortuitously, while his atheist screed God Is Not...

A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor, and Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor, and Country. By Wesley K. Clark and Tom Carhart. Sept. 2007. 272p. Palgrave, $24.95 (1-40398474-3). 355.0092. Clark's autobiography begins with an account of the serious wounds he received in battle in...

Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World. By A. C. Grayling. Sept. 2007. 352p. Walker, $26.95 (0-8027-1636-9). 320.011. Our current president has proclaimed that individual liberty...

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. By Shannon Brownlee. Sept. 2007. 320p. Bloomsbury, $25.95 (1-58234-580-5). 362.10973. A ward-winning health and medicine writer Brownlee notes that Americans spend...

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. By Woody Holton. Sept. 2007. 400p. Hill & Wang, $30 (0-80908061-3). 342.029. The motivation of the framers of our constitution is a constant and often hotly debated topic among...

The Dream Manager.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Dream Manager. By Matthew Kelly. Aug. 2007. 176p. Hyperion, $19.95 (1-40130370-6). 658.3. The business statistics are astounding: high percentages of detached, ready-to-exit employees; soon-to-occur vacancies among top executive and...

How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising. By Jean-Marie Dru. Sept. 2007. 288p. Palgrave Macmillan, $27.95 (0-230-60069-7). 659.1. In 1984, Dru cofounded the international advertising agency...

Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions. By Edward Ugel. Sept. 2007. 272p. Collins, $24.95 (0-06-128417-3). 336.17. This is a "tell all" book about the largely unregulated but legal industry that...

Organize Your Life: Free Yourself from Clutter & Find More Personal Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Organize Your Life: Free Yourself from Clutter & Find More Personal Time. By Ronni Eisenberg and Kate Kelly. Aug. 2007. 256p. Wiley, paper, $14.95 (9780471784579). 650.1. In this "it's all about me" age, Eisenberg and Kelly (creators of...

Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. By Chip Conley. Sept. 2007. 280p. Jossey-Bass, $27.95 (0-78798861-8). 658.3. When Hotelier Conley was profiled by USA Today as one of its "People to watch in 2001," he seemingly could do...

Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel In Your Individuality. By Christine Comaford-Lynch. Sept. 2007. 256p. McGraw-Hill, $24.95 (0-07148975-4). 338.04. As an entrepreneur, Comaford-Lynch has built and sold...

Street Fighter Marketing Solutions: How One-on-One Marketing Will Help You Overcome the Challenges of Modern-Day Salesmanship.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Street Fighter Marketing Solutions: How One-on-One Marketing Will Help You Overcome the Challenges of Modern-Day Salesmanship. By Jeff Slutsky. Sept. 2007. 288p. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-9914-0). 658.8. Consultant Slutsky sets out to help us...

Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business and Life without Waging War.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business and Life without Waging War. By Dawna Stone and Matt Dieter. Aug. 2007. 256p. Center Street, $21.99 (9781599956886). 650.1. Martha Stewart's real-life apprentice, Dawna Stone, was, even before the...

Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich. By Jason Zweig. Sept. 2007. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-74327668-X). 332.601. Do you fret over the value of your investments on a daily basis? Do...

Talking Hands.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Talking Hands. By Margalit Fox. Aug. 2007. 337p. Simon & Schuster, $27 (0-74324712-4).419. New York Times reporter and linguist Fox joined a team of researchers as they traveled to a remote Bedouin village in Israel to record a unique sign...

The Best American Science Writing, 2007.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Best American Science Writing, 2007. Ed. by Gina Kolata. Sept. 2007. 384p. Ecco, paper, $14.95 (9780061345777). 500. From daring medical developments to dire environmental predictions, from sophisticated computer applications to...

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren. By Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman. Sept. 2007. 232p. illus. MIT, paper, $19.95 (0-26254193-9). 577.2. As revealed in Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary,...

112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * 112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science. By Burton Feldman. Sept. 2007. 264p. Arcade, $24 (1-55970-704-6). 509.2. To provide a fresh perspective on modern science, Feldman takes his readers...

Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time. Ed. by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset. Aug. 2007. 352p. illus. Chelsea Green, $35 (1-933392-61-4); paper, $21.95 (1-933392-43-6). 509.2. To understand what sets...

Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding. By Scott Weidensaul. Sept. 2007. 320p. illus. Harcourt, $25 (9780151012473). 598. Weidensaul, author of four other works of natural history, chronicles the origins of American birding. We...

To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate from the Gulf Stream to the Blue Beyond.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate from the Gulf Stream to the Blue Beyond. By Dallas Murphy. Aug. 2007. 288p. illus. Counterpoint, $26 (9781582433509). 551.6. Murphy tells readers that the ocean currents stabilize...

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. By Michael J. Neufeld. Sept. 2007. 624p. Knopf, $35 (0-307-26292-8). 629.4092. A historian of German rocket technology (The Rocket and the Reich, 1994), Neufeld enters the populated field of...

The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals. By Peter Heller, Sept. 2007. 304p. Free Press, $25 (1-4165-3246-3). 599.5. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a radical environmental...

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957--the Space Race Begins.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957--the Space Race Begins. By Michael D'Antonio. Sept. 2007. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-9431-9). 629.43. Competing with Matthew Brzezinski's Red Moon Rising (2007), D'Antonio's story of the space age's...

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age. By Matthew Brzezinski. Sept. 2007. 304p. Times, $26 (0-8050-8147-X). 629.4. Comparable to Paul Dickson's Sputnik: Shock of the Century (2001), Brzezinski's...

Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children. By David Harsanyi. Sept. 2007. 304p. Broadway, $24.95 (0-7679-2432-0). 303.3. ...

Practical Wisdom for Parents: Demystifying the Preschool Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Practical Wisdom for Parents: Demystifying the Preschool Years. By Nancy Schulman and Ellen Birnbaum. Aug. 2007. 336p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-307-26354-1). 649. The authors are directors of one of the most admired preschools in the U.S. Drawing...

What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online?(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online? By Barbara Melton and Susan Shankle. Aug. 2007. 352p. Broadway, paper, $14 (0-7679-2663-3). 004.69. Forget what you think you know about online communications. According to Melton (a counselor)...

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... * Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases. By Paul A. Offit. Aug. 2007. 272p. illus. Smithsonian, $26.95 (9780061227950). 616.07. Maurice Hilleman's name isn't well known, and according to infectious disease...

Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever. By Susan Warren. Sept. 2007, 256p. illus. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-59691-278-2). 635.9. It's not only Charles Schulz's Linus who waits every...

Fallscaping.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Fallscaping. By Nancy Ondra and others. Aug. 2007. 240p. illus. Storey, $32.95 (9781580176811); paper, $22.95 (9781580176804). 635.9. Gardens in fall are often deemed the poor stepchildren of their showier spring and summer counterparts,...

Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking. By Laurent Tourondel and Michele Scicolone. Oct. 2007. 320p. illus. Wiley, $34.95 (0-471-75883-3). 641.5. French chef Tourondel, who has made a name exploring--and exploiting--American...

Roast Chicken and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Roast Chicken and Other Stories. By Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham. Sept. 2007. 240p. illus. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0862-7). 641. In engaging short essays and appealing recipes, celebrated London chef Hopkinson illustrates how far...

Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter. By Phoebe Damrosch. Oct. 2007.240p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-122814-1). 647.95. Damrosch details her brief, yet remarkably fulfilling, career as a waiter and lays bare for readers...

Actors at Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Actors at Work. By Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan. Aug. 2007. 272p. Faber and Faber, paper, $15 (0-86547-955-0). 792.02. At least partially remedying the predominant frivolity of media interest in actors, Tichler and Kaplan explore...

The Art of Bone.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Art of Bone. By Jeff Smith. 2007.200p. illus. Dark Horse, $39.95 (1-59307-441-7). 741.5. Although the comic book Bone ended in 2004, its popularity remains unabated, justifying several different graphic-novel re-packagings of it. The...

The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators, and Others.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators, and Others. By Greg Preston. 2007. 208p. illus. Dark Horse, $39.95 (1-59307-561-8). 741.5. For 15 years Preston has been photographing cartoonists in their natural...

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. By Ben Ratliff. Sept. 2007. 272p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-12606-2). 788.7. Sonny Rollins made an album called Saxophone Colossus, but his contemporary John Coltrane became the embodiment of that title, the last...

Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick. By Kevin Bazzana. Sept. 2007. 387p. Carroll & Graf, $27.99 (0-7867-2088-3). 786.2092. Playing the piano and composing at three, performing publicly at six, Ervin Nyiregyhazi (1903-87)...

Madonna: Like an Icon.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Madonna: Like an Icon. By Lucy O'Brien. Oct. 2007. 450p. illus. HarperEntertainment, $24.95 (0-06-089896-8). 782.42166. The Material Girl is respectfully, if not fawningly, limned by O'Brien in this lengthy bio undertaken without benefit of...

Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs. Ed. by Phil Freeman. Aug. 2007. 352p. Da Capo, paper, $16.95 (0-306-81485-4). 781.64. Updating Stranded (1979), in which Olympian rock critics like Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, and Robert...