Booklist articles from August 2008

Booklist archives from August 2008

Alphabet Juice.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Alphabet Juice. By Roy Blount. Oct. 2008. 360p. Farrar/Sarah Crichton, $26 (9780374103699). 818. Ever since Lynn Truss' Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation took the 2004 best-seller lists by storm,...

Bob Schieffer's America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Bob Schieffer's America. By Bob Schieffer. Sept. 2008. 304p. Putnam, $24.95 (9780399155185). 973.92. When Richard Nixon died in 1994, CBS newsman and host of Face the Nation Schieffer felt the occasion called for some closing...

Called out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession. By Anne Rice. Oct. 2008. 256p. Knopf, $23.95 (9780307268273). 813. Rice gave faithful fans fits when she concluded her lengthy vampire saga with series hero Lestat searching for...

In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002. By Bill Murphy. Sept. 2008. 384p. illus. Holt, $27.50 (9780805086799). 355.0092. In his debut, Murphy chronicles the lives of representative 2002...

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace. By Avi Sblaim. Sept. 2008. 752p. Knopf, $35 (9781400043057). 956.9504. The late King Hussein of Jordan was the favorite Arab ruler of both Israeli and other Western...

Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners. By Laura Claridge. Oct. 2008. 544p. illus. Random, $30 (9780375509216). 395. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Given the ubiquitousness of her repeatedly revised...

Finding Beauty in a Broken World.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Finding Beauty in a Broken World. By Terry Tempest Williams. Oct. 2008. 416p. Pantheon, $26 (9780375420788). 814. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ecologist and writer Williams composes gracefully structured inquiries lush with...

The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation. By Marian Wright Edelman. Sept. 2008.160p. Hyperion, $19.95 (9781401323332). 179. To the frequently asked question-What's wrong with today's...

Being Elizabeth.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Being Elizabeth. By Barbara Taylor Bradford. Aug. 2008.432p. St. Martin's, $27.95 (9780312354633). General Fiction. The new reigning queen of Deravenels, the UK's largest global conglomerate, is Elizabeth Turner, a 25-year-old,...

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday. By Alexander McCall Smith. Sept. 2008. 256p. Pantheon, $22.95 (9780375425134). Crime Fiction. This fifth installment in McCall Smith's engaging series finds forty-something Edinburgh moral...

Devil's Brood.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Devil's Brood. By Sharon Kay Penman. Oct. 2008. 752p. Putnam/Marian Wood, $27.95 (9780399155260). General Fiction. As much the story of a family as a kingdom, this is the final installment in an exhaustive (and exhausting) trilogy...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. By Stieg Larsson. Tr. by Reg Keeland. Sept. 2008. 480p. Knopf, $24.95 (9780307269751). Crime Fiction. The first U.S. appearance of another major Swedish crime writer is cause for celebration but...

The Brass Verdict.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * The Brass Verdict. By Michael Connelly. Oct. 2008. 400p. Little, Brown, $26.99 (9780316166294). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It hasn't gone well for L.A. lawyer Mickey Hailer since the events described in The...

The Given Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * The Given Day. By Dennis Lehane. Oct. 2008. 720p. Morrow, $27.95 (9780688163181). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lehane's last novel (Shutterlsland, 2004) was a historical thriller, but it only reached back to the...

Burn Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Burn Out. By Marcia Muller. Oct. 2008. 304p. Grand Central, $24.99 (9780446581073). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sharon McCone, who narrowly escaped death on her last case (The Ever-Running Man, 2007), has...

Exit Music.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Exit Music. By Ian Rankin. Sept. 2008.432p. Little, Brown, $24.99 (9780316057585). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Twilight is the operative word for UK crime fiction this fall. First, John Harvey brings back the...

The Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Ezperanza Gorst.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Ezperanza Gorst. By Michael Cox. Oct. 2008. 544p. Norton, $24.95 (9780393067736). Crime Fiction. The author's first novel, The Meaning of Night (2006), set in London in 1854, was told from...

Heat Lightning.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Heat Lightning. By John Sandford. Oct. 2008. 384p. Putnam, $26.95 (9780399155277). Crime Fiction. Two bodies turn up at the Vietnam War Memorial in Minneapolis with lemons inserted in their mouths. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal...

Hot Mahogany.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Hot Mahogany. By Stuart Woods. Sept. 2008. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (9780399155154). Crime Fiction. Stone Barrington, last seen in Shoot Him if He Runs (2007), is once again drawn into danger and intrigue while trying to enjoy a quiet...

Hounded to Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Hounded to Death. By Rita Mae Brown. Sept. 2008. 320p. Ballantine, $25 (9780345490261). Crime Fiction. Lusty, lively Sister Jane, Master of the Hunt and amateur detective, is back in her sixth book. No one other than Sister is...

The King's Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The King's Gold. By Arturo Perez-Reverte. Tr. by Margaret Jull Costa. Aug. 2008. 304p. Putnam, $24.95 (9780399155109). General Fiction. This Spanish author's fourth installment in his internationally popular series of works...

Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel. By Garrison Keillor. Sept. 2008. 288p. Viking, $25.95 (9780670019915). General Fiction. Glint Bunsen just turned 60, which, after 37 years married to his childhood sweetheart, turns out to be a...

Flesh House.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Flesh House. By Stuart MacBride. Oct. 2008. 480p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312382636). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Apparently, rain and dark skies are what's needed to cultivate crime writers: Scotland...

The Gone-Away World.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * The Gone-Away World. By Nick Harkaway. Sept. 2008.512p. Knopf, $25.95 (9780307268860). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a postapocalyptic world-made so by a weapon whose evil-genius creator didn't quite think...

A Most Wanted Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... A Most Wanted Man. By John le Carre. Oct. 2008. 336p. Scribner, $28 (9781416581796). Crime Fiction. Le Carre's view of spies and the governments they spy for continues to darken. In his last few novels--especially Absolute Friends...

One Fifth Avenue.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... One Fifth Avenue. By Candace Bushnell. Sept. 2008.416p. Hyperion/Voice, $24.95 (9781401301613). General Fiction. "It was part of the pain of living in Manhattan, this overwhelming ache for prime real estate," writes Bushnell in...

Paul of Dune.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Paul of Dune. By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Sept. 2008. 512p. Tor, $27.95 (9780765312945). SF/Fantasy. This vital link between the first two books of the Dune saga begins immediately after the close of Dune (1965), well...

Silks.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Silks. By Dick Francis and Felix Francis. Sept. 2008. 352p. Putnam, $25.95 (9780399155338). Crime Fiction. The title to Francis' second entry on the racetrack suspense circuit since his return from a long absence is shorthand for...

The Widows of Eastwick.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Widows of Eastwick. By John Updike. Oct. 2008. 320p. Knopf, $24.95 (9780307269607). General Fiction. You remember, don't you, The Witches of Eastwick, Updike's 1984 comic novel about three women friends who live in the Rhode...

Upcoming in upfront fiction.(scheduled for publication)(Bibliography)(List)
August 1, 2008... The titles listed below are scheduled for publication in fall and winter of 2008-9. Part One of Upcoming in Upfront, which featured nonfiction titles, appeared in the July issue. Beat the Reaper. By Josh Bazell. Little, Brown, $24.99...

Getting into Guinness: One Man's longest, Fastest, Highest Journey inside the World's Most Famous Record Book.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Getting into Guinness: One Man's longest, Fastest, Highest Journey inside the World's Most Famous Record Book. By Larry Olmsted. Sept. 2008. 33610. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780061373480). 030. Olmsted, a Guinness world-record holder...

The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity. By Richard Todd. Aug. 2008. 256p. Riverhead, $24.95 (9781594488511). 179. In a world of manufactured news and reality TV, Todd's pursuit of authenticity may be the...

Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk about Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk about Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning. By Kerry Kennedy. Sept. 2008. 304p. Crown, $24.95 (9780307346841). 282.092. What does it mean to be Catholic in today's society? Is...

A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World. By John Dear. Aug. 2008. 400p. illus. Loyola, $22.95 (9780829427202). 271. Dear is a Jesuit priest who knows the inside of a prison cell all too well, having been...

Where War Lives: A Journey into the Heart of War.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Where War Lives: A Journey into the Heart of War. By Paul Watson. Sept. 2008. 400p. Modern Times, $25.95 (9781594869570). 070.4. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1993, Paul Watson, a journalist stationed in Mogadishu, Somalia, took...

The War.(The Manley Arts)
August 1, 2008... Ken Burns is an American treasure. Rarely has one person ever completely transformed an entire art form as he has. Today you cannot watch a historical documentary without seeing Burns' influence. His ability to make still photographs come...

A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew. By Jonathan D. Sarna. Sept. 2008. 208p. Basic, $23 (9780465002467). 296.7. In these 13 letters to his daughter, the author discusses the major themes of Jewish life as expressed in a...

Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World. By Jim Sciutto. Sept. 2008. 288p. Harmony, $24.95 (9780307406880). 303.48. Sciutto long shared with other Americans the comforting belief that hatred of the U.S....

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause. By Tom Gjelten, Sept. 2008.400p. Viking, $27.95 (9780670019786). 338.7. Reflecting Cuban history in that of the Bacardi rum company, NPR reporter Gjelten covers the...

Can You Ever Forgive Me?(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Can You Ever Forgive Me? By Lee Israel. Aug. 2008. 130p. Simon & Schuster, $20 (9781416588672). 364.16. Israel was the author of three unsuccessful biographies; when the last one met with poor reviews and abysmal sales, she...

Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings. By Jonathan Fast. Sept. 2008. 336p. Overlook, $25.95 (9781590200476). 364.1. After six years of researching school-rampage shootings, Fast, a professor of...

The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again. By Emma Gilbey Keller. Sept. 2008. 240p. Bloomsbury, $25 (9781596912236). 331.4. Keller immediately loses the objective third-party position of...

Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City. By Mark Kingwell. Aug. 2008. 292p. illus. Viking, $24.95 (9780670037803). 307.7609747. Philosopher and critic Kingwell wants us to see cities whole, as massive efforts to establish...

The Culture of War.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Culture of War. By Martin van Creveld. Sept. 2008.496p. Presidio, $27 (9780345505408). 306.2. From a respected military historian comes this probing inquiry of military culture. Marshaling evidence for its constancy, ranging...

Fellow Citizens: The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Addresses.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Fellow Citizens: The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Addresses. Ed. by Robert V. Remini and Terry Golway. 2008. 476p. Penguin, paper, $16 (9780143114536). 352.23. Two distinguished historians round up every presidential inaugural...

Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture. Ed. by Lawrence C. Rubin. Aug. 2008. 315p. McFarland, paper, $35 (9780786435500). 394.1. This collection of essays addresses obsessions with food: humans' consuming need for sensual...

The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did).(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did). By James Traub. Sept. 2008. 272p. Farrar, $25 (9780374158477). 327.73. The subtitle implies a hard-hitting polemic about whether the U.S....

Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention. By Gary J. Bass. Aug. 2008. 528p. Knopf, $35 (9780307266484). 341.5. In his seminal history of the politics of international war-crimes tribunals, Stay the Hand of...

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century. By Howard Blum. Sept. 2008. 352p. Crown, $24.95 (9780307346940). 364.152. On October 1, 1910, an explosion destroyed the offices of the Los Angeles...

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do about It.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-and What We Can Do about It. By Tony Wagner. Aug. 2008. 320p. Basic, $26.95 (9780465002290). 306.43. Wagner, a Harvard...

The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth. By Steven Stoll. Sept. 2008. 198p. Hill & Wang, $24 (9780809095063). 338.973. Holding that indefinite economic growth is...

Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America. By Gena Caponi-Tabery. Aug. 2008. 264p. illus. Univ. of Massachusetts, paper, $26.95 (9781558496637). 305.896. Titled after the Duke Ellington revue of 1941,...

The Last Undercover.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Last Undercover. By Bob Hamer. Sept. 2008.351 p. Center Street, $23.99 (9781599951010). 364.15. For a quarter of a century, the author was an undercover operative for the FBI, pretending to be drug dealers, killers, burglars,...

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq. By Ariel Sabar. Sept. 2008. 348p. illus. Algonquin, $29.95 (9781565124905). 305.892. For almost 3,000 years, a tiny Jewish enclave existed in what is now...

Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein. By Michael A. Newton and Michael P. Scharf. Sept. 2008. 320p. St. Martin's, $25.95 (9780312385569). 345.567. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The trial of Saddam Hussein...

My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith. By Benyamin Cohen. Oct. 2008. 272p. HarperOne, $24.95 (9780061245176). 305.38. Cohen is the son of an Orthodox rabbi; his book is part memoir, part...

The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives. By Cheryl Jarvis. Sept. 2008. 240p. illus. Ballantine, $24 (9780345500717). 302.3. Jonell McLain first spotted the necklace in an upscale jewelry store...

Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story during and after Hurricane Katrina.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story during and after Hurricane Katrina. By Phyllis Montana Leblanc. Aug. 2008. 336p.Atria, $20 (9781416563464). 363.34. Leblanc, one of the Hurricane Katrina survivors featured in Spike Lee's HBO...

The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape. By Harm de Blij. Aug. 2008. 304p. illus. Oxford, $27.95 (9780195367706). 304.2. De Blij is the author of a variety of influential works on geography,...

Race, Incarceration, and American Values.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Race, Incarceration, and American Values. By Glenn C. Loury and others. Sept. 2008. 144p. MIT/Boston Review, $14.95 (9780262123112). 365. With 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. accounts for 25 percent of those who...

Rethinking Juvenile Justice.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Rethinking Juvenile Justice. By Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg. Sept. 2008. 326p. Harvard, $29.95 (9780674030862). 345.73. After decades of reading about juvenile "predators" and life sentences imposed on 15-year-old...

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine. By Somaly Mam. Sept. 2008. 192p. Spiegel & Grau, $22.95 (9780385526210). 362.76. Sold into slavery as a young girl--first as an indentured servant to a surly,...

Save the World on Your Own Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Save the World on Your Own Time. By Stanley Fish. Sept. 2008. 208p. Oxford, $19.95 (9780195369021). 378. I. A college teacher has just two professional responsibilities, Fish says: (1) "introduce students to bodies of knowledge and...

The Scotia Widows: Inside Their Lawsuit against Big Daddy Coal.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Scotia Widows: Inside Their Lawsuit against Big Daddy Coal. By Gerald M. Stern. Aug. 2008. 160p. Random, $20 (9781400067640). 344.7304. In this David-versus-Goliath story, Stern, an attorney, recounts his six-year legal battle...

The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China's Penetration of the CIA.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China's Penetration of the CIA. By Tod Hoffman. Sept. 2008. 320p. Steerforth, $26.95 (9781586421489). 327.12092. One of several American traitors in the national security establishment who were...

Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era. By Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Sept. 2008. 256p. Penguin, $23.95 (9780451225191). 322.4. Zuniga, founder of DailyKos.com, the most influential political blog on the...

The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do. By Peg Tyre. Sept. 2008. 320p. Crown, $24.95 (9780307381286). 371.8210973. While the nation's...

What You Should Know about Politics ... but Don't.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... What You Should Know about Politics... but Don't. By Jessamyn Conrad. Aug. 2008. 336p.Arcade, paper, $15.95 (9781559708838). 320.60973. Conrad's father is the senior Democratic senator of North Dakota, and her uncle is the...

Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business. By Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis. Sept. 2008. 272p.Jossey-Bass, $27.95 (9780787997038). 658.4. Consultants Gurian (brain science specialist) and...

Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. By Randall Stross. Sept. 2008. 288p. Free Press, $26 (9781416546917). 338.7. Stross, a college business professor who writes the New York Times...

Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters. By Tim Manners. Sept. 2008. 224p. Portfolio, $23.95 (9781591842200). 658.8. In the hyped-up culture of the digital age, the buzz about a new product can rapidly vault it into must-have status,...

The Ten Commandments for Business Failure.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Ten Commandments for Business Failure. By Donald R. Keough. Aug. 2008. 208p. Penguin/Portfolio, $24.95 (9781591842347). 658. Keough, a distinguished corporate executive, offers a perspective on failure that is especially...

Will Work from Home: Earn the Cash--without the Commute.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Will Work from Home: Earn the Cash--without the Commute. By Tory Johnson and Robyn Freedman Spizman. Aug. 2008. 272p. Berkley, paper, $14 (9780425222850). 331.25. In the 1990s, a few clairvoyant writers zeroed in on Americans'...

A Sense of Urgency.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * A Sense of Urgency. By John P. Kotter. Sept. 2008. 128p. Harvard Business, $22 (9781422179710). 658.4. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Change can strike fear in the hearts and minds of businesspeople, whether frontline employee or...

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Discovery That Changed the Course of History.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Discovery That Changed the Course of History. By Thomas Hager. Sept. 2008. 336p. Harmony, $24.95 (9780307351784). 540.92. This is the story of the Haber-Bosch process,...

Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures. By Bill Schutt. Oct. 2008. 336p. illus. Harmony, $25.95 (9780307381125). 591.5. Schutt is a bat biologist who studies the behavior of vampire bats, those famous...

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natual History Museum.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natual History Museum. By Richard Fortey. Aug. 2008.352p. illus. Knopf, $27.50 (9780307263629). 508. Fortey, senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and author...

Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea. By Christine Garwood. Aug. 2008.448p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, 26.95 (9780312382087). 525. As with all ideas, good or bad, true or false, publicity has been essential to efforts to...

Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... * Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology. By D. Bruce Means. Aug. 2008. 240p. illus. Pineapple, $19.95 (9781561644339). 597.9. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Herpetologist Means is a champion of amphibians and...

Geekspeak: How Life + Mathematics = Happiness.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Geekspeak: How Life + Mathematics = Happiness. By Graham Tattersall. Sept. 2008. 256p. HarperCollins, $19.95 (9780061629242). 510. Although whimsical in presentation, this popular-interest math book has the serious goal of...

The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic. By Stan Ulanski. Sept. 2008. 240p. illus. Univ. of North Carolina, $28 (9780807832172). 551.46. Most of us think the Gulf...

The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces. By Frank Wilczek. Sept. 2008. 288p. Basic, $26.95 (9780465003211). 539.7. In this excursion to the outer limits of particle physics, Wilczek explores what quarks...

500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form. Ed. by Suzanne J. E. Tourtillot. Aug. 2008.420p. illus. Sterling/Lark, paper, $24.95 (9781579908775). 686. The book is a perfect union of form and function, and as...

Dog Talk: Lessons Learned from a Life with Dogs.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Dog Talk: Lessons Learned from a Life with Dogs. By Harrison Forbes. Sept. 2008. 288p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (9780312378738). 636.7. Forbes, a trainer of police dogs and host of the radio show Pet Talk, in a combination...