Booklist articles from February 2002

Booklist archives from February 2002

The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again. (Adult Nonfiction).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Carr, Caleb. The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again. Feb. 2002. 260p. index. Random, $19.95 (0-375-50843-0). 363.3 To ignore history is to repeat past mistakes....

Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics. (Adult Nonfiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ewans, Martin. Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics. Feb. 2002. 256p. index. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-050507-9). 958. September 11 drastically changed the fate of this scholarly history of Afghanistan. Before, it...

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. (Adult Nonfiction).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Keneally, Thomas. American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Apr. 2002.320p. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $27.50 (0-385-50139-0). 328.73 This well-respected Australian writer could have easily turned the...

Danny Boy: The Beloved Irish Ballad. (Adult Nonfiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... McCourt, Malachy. Danny Boy: The Beloved Irish Ballad. Mar. 2002. 144p. Running, $18.95 (0-7624-1124-4). 781.61. Ever since McCourt's brother Frank wrote Angela's Ashes (1996), any book bearing the family name has been bankable. Hence the...

Power to the Patient: The Treatments to Insist on When You're Sick. (Adult Nonfiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Rosenfeld, Isadore. Power to the Patient: The Treatments to Insist on When You're Sick. Feb. 2002. 480p. index. Warner, $25.95 (0-446-52694-0). 610. Rosenfeld, who has written popularly and extensively about health issues, dips into the...

Three Weeks in Paris. (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Three Weeks in Paris. Mar. 2002. 352p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50141-2). Seven years have passed since former friends Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi graduated from the Anya...

Body of Lies. (Adult Fiction).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Johansen, Iris. Body of Lies. Mar. 2002. 340p. Bantam, $24.95 (0-553-80097-3). Eve Duncan, expert forensic sculptor, returns in a tale with enough plot twists to make any reader believe that conspiracy theories are more than the product of...

Justice Hall. (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... King, Laurie R. Justice Hall. Mar. 2002. 334p. Bantam, $23.95 (0-553-11113-2). Mary Russell is Sherlock Holmes' partner and wife. In the England of the 1920s, the pair find themselves shocked by the appearance of Ali and Mahmoud Hazr,...

Cape Light. (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Kinkade, Thomas and Spencer, Katherine. Cape Light. Mar. 2002. 368p. Berkley, $22.95 (0-425-18337-8). It's rare that someone can move easily from one medium to another, and popular "painter of light" and devout Christian Kinkade is no...

Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Twelve Southern Women. (Adult Fiction).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Malone, Michael. Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Twelve Southern Women. Apr. 2002. 304p. Sourcebooks, paper, $15 (1-57071-824-5). After a 10-year hiatus from fiction writing, Malone penned the Cuddy Mangum-Justin Savile mystery First Lady [BKL Ag...

Desirable Daughters. (Adult Fiction).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Mukherjee, Bharati. Desirable Daughters. Mar. 2002. 320p. Hyperion/Theia, $24.95 (0-7868-6598-9). Mukherjee can't resist raiding the mystery genre's bag of tricks to keep her reflective literary fiction focused and suspenseful, and to...

Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces. (Late Arrivals).(Brief Review)
February 1, 2002... Clancy, Tom and Stiner, Carl. Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces. Feb. 2002. 560p. illus. index. Putnam, $29.95 (0-399-14783-7). The third installment in an exciting series of nonfiction books by the best-selling novelist, who...

The Brothers: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair. (Late Arrivals).
February 1, 2002... Roberts, Sam. The Brothers: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair. 2001. 543p. illus, index. Random, $35 (0-375-50013-8). Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David...

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Oe, Kenzaburo. Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! Tr. by John Nathan. Mar. 2002.272p. Grove, $24 (0-8021-1710-4). Each of the seven chapters of Oe's 1986 novel, here translated into English for the first time, is entitled with a phrase...

Wish You Were Here. (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... O'Nan, Stewart. Wish You Were Here. May 2002. 25p. Grove/ Atlantic, $25 (0-8021-1715-5). Walking the dog, playing cards, trying to fill too many rainy days--it seems like any other summer vacation at the Maxwell family cottage in...

Black Water. (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Parker, T. Jefferson. Black Water. Apr. 2002. 352p. Hyperion, $23.95 (0-7868-6804-X). Merci Rayborn, homicide detective for the Orange County, California, sheriff's department, has a crime scene that's a puzzler. And it's going to be very...

The Short Forever. (Adult Fiction).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Woods, Stuart. The Short Forever. Apr. 2002. 336p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-14868-X). Woods picks up his popular Stone Barrington series where he left off in Cold Paradise [BKL Mr 1 01]. Stone's much younger lover, Callie, dumps him, leaving...

Coming Up in the Next Upfront.(The Golden One, Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Best-selling novelist Elizabeth Peters awards her many fans with another installment in the Amanda Peabody series: The Golden One (Morrow, $25.95 [0-380-97885-71). New York Times reporter Frank Bruni takes us behind the scenes of the current...

Adult books.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Young adult recommendations in this issue have been contributed by the Booklist staff and by reviewers Nancy Bent, John Charles, Roberta Johnson, Shelley Mosley, Regina Schroeder, Candace Smith, Linda Waddle, and Beth Warrell. Titles...

The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. (General Works).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ghitis, Frida. The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. Feb. 2002. 236p. Algora, $28.95 (1-892941-67-8); paper, $22.95 (1-892941-66-X). 070. After 20 years as a correspondent and producer with CNN, Ghitis had...

Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant. (Philosophy & Psychology).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Gordon, Mel. Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant. Feb. 2002. 296p. illus. index. Feral House, $24.95 (0-922915-68-7). 133.840. Will readers ever know enough about Hitler and the Nazis, who fomented a world war and made genocide...

Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society. (Philosophy & Psychology).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Munson, Ronald. Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society. Feb. 2002. 288p. index. Oxford, $27.50 (0-19-513299-8). 174. Although it has little to do with genuinely raising the dead, Munson's book should rouse productive...

Mystics & Miracles: True Stories of Lives Touched by God. (Religion).
February 1, 2002... Ghezzi, Bert. Mystics & Miracles: True Stories of Lives Touched by God. Feb. 2002. 187p. Loyola, $19.95 (0-8294-1772-9). 282. Fascinated by the subject of miracles and ardently believing that "ordinary people can lead extraordinary lives,"...

Jerusalem Calling: A Homeless Conscience in a Post-Everything World. (Religion).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Schalit, Joel. Jerusalem Calling: A Homeless Conscience in a Post-Everything World. Feb. 2002. 216p. Akashic; dist. by Consortium, paper, $14.95 (1-888451-17-3). 296.3. Schalit's anticapitalist, Jewish, postpunk perspectives on the Middle...

Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures. (Social Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Davis, Wade. Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures. Feb. 2002. 180p. illus. National Geographic, $35 (0-7922-6474-6). 306. Ethnobotanist and anthropologist Davis, author of One River (1996) and...

Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's. (Social Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... DeBaggio, Thomas. Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's. Mar. 2002. 256p. Free Press, $24 (0-7432-0565-0). 362.1. This perspective on a well-known disease is unusual because the author is the patient in question....

Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini. (Social Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Durschmied, Erik. Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini. Feb. 2002. 336p. illus. index. Arcade, $25.95 (1-55970-607-4). 303.6. Name a revolution, beginning with the great one in France, and there will be no...

Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? (Social Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Girshick, Lori B. Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? Mar. 2002. 216p. index. Northeastern Univ., $45 (1-55553-528-3); paper, $16.95 (1-55553-527-3). 362.82. Perhaps the most isolated crime victims are lesbian and...

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. (Social Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Gitlin, Todd, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. Mar. 2002. 288p. index. Holt/ Metropolitan, $25 (0-8050-4898-7). 302.23. Gitlin, a professor of journalism and culture, examines why and how it has...

Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School. (Social Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Perry, Pamela. Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School. Apr. 2002. 280p. index. Duke, $54.95 (0-8223-2877-1); paper, $18.95 (0-8223-2892-5). 305.235. Interested in learning how American high-school students view...

Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy. (Social Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Robinson, Matthew. Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy. Mar. 2002. 272p. index. Prima, $24.95 (0-7615-3582-9). 302.23. Robinson, a radio and television commentator,...

Queen of the Derby Pub. (Social Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Smick, Kathryn. Queen of the Derby Pub. Mar. 2002, 148p. Creative Arts, paper, $13.95 (0-88739-389-6). 362.1. At 50, lonely, despairing Helen is a survivor of cancer of the larynx, which left her voiceless. She finds comfort and friendship...

Susie & Herman: A Story of Love and Caregiving. (Social Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Smith, L. B. Susie & Herman: A Story of Love and Caregiving. Feb. 2002. 144p. Health Communications, $14.95 (1-55874-957-8). 362.1. In this memoir of significant relationships and coping as a caregiver, Smith shows that caregiving is about...

Boss Talk: Top CEOs Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies. (Business).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Boss Talk: Top CEOs Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies. Feb. 2002. 224p. Random, paper, $15.95 (0-375-75885-2). 658.4. Drawing from their newspaper's popular "Boss Talk" column, the Wall Street Journal's...

Zoom: How 13 Exceptional Companies Are Navigating the Road to the Next Economy. (Business).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Citrin, James M. Zoom: How 13 Exceptional Companies Are Navigating the Road to the Next Economy. Feb. 2002. 256p. index. Doubleday/Currency, $24.95 (0-385-50131-5). 658. Citrin, managing director of an executive search firm, profiles 13...

Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group. (Business).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Cornyn, Stan and Scanlon, Paul. Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group. Feb. 2002. 480p. illus. index. HarperEntertainment, $35.95 (0-380-97852-0). 338.7. If anyone knows the whole story of the...

The Elephant and the Flea. (Business).
February 1, 2002... Handy, Charles. The Elephant and the Flea. Mar. 2002. 256p. index. Harvard Business School, $24.95 (1-57851-822-9). 330.12. In 1981 British oil executive Handy quit his job to "go portfolio," a term he coined for what he believed would be...

The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition. (Business).
February 1, 2002... Leckey, Andrew and Auletta, Ken. The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition. Feb. 2002. 432p. Pantheon, $26 (0-375-42075-4); Vintage, paper, $15 (0-375-72501-6). 070.4. The second annual edition of this new series is packed with...

Rule the Freakin' Markets: How to Profit in Any Market, Bull or Bear. (Business).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Parness, Michael. Rule the Freakin' Markets: How to Profit in Any Market, Bull or Bear. Mar. 2002. 256p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-28256-7). 332.63. After losing most of his savings by following a stockbroker's advice, Parness opened an...

Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion. (Language).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion. Ed. and illus. by Bascove. Feb. 2002. 160p. illus. Godine, $24.95 (1-56792-186-6). 418. Bascove is a gifted reader and a superb painter, and her lustrous and sensual art has...

How to Build a Time Machine. (Pure Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Davies, Paul. How to Build a Time Machine. Mar. 2002. 128p. illus. index. Viking, $19.95 (0-670-03063-5). 530.11. A time-traveling machine can be constructed--provided one rotates a superdense cylinder of infinite length or locates a...

Wolves at Our Door. (Pure Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Dutcher, Jim and others. Wolves at Our Door. Feb. 2002. 320p. illus. Pocket, $26 (0-7434-0048-8). 599.773. Dutcher had a dream of filming the intimate moments of a pack of wolves for a wildlife documentary. But how does one get close enough...

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home. (Pure Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Fiennes, William. The Snow Geese: A Story of Home. Feb. 2002. 288p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50729-9). 598.4. Along with documenting the action of a cross-continental journey to follow the spring migration of snow geese, Fiennes ruminates at...

Gems: The World's Greatest Treasures and Their Stories. (Pure Sciences).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Graf, Bernhard. Gems: The World's Greatest Treasures and Their Stories. 2001. 128p. illus. Prestel, $29.95 (3-7913-2581-7). 553.8. The centuries-old fascination with gems continues, and gem enthusiasts will be gratified by Graf's skillful...

Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia. (Pure Sciences).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Novacek, Michael. Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia. Feb. 2002. 352p. illus. index. Farrar, $26 (0-374-27880-6). 560. Novacek's mentor warned him that fieldwork in paleontology is "49...

The Ultimate Doll Book. (Technology).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Goodfellow, Caroline. The Ultimate Doll Book. Feb. 2002. 400p. illus. index. Friedman/Fairfax/MetroBooks, $14.98 (1-58663-234-5). 688.7. Any number of surprises might greet doll devotees on opening Goodfellow's latest book (after...

Enchanting Woodland Birdhouses. (Technology).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Macy, Lucinda Claire. Enchanting Woodland Birdhouses. Feb. 2002. 128p. illus. F&W/North Light, paper, $24.95 (1-58180-071-1). 690. Woodland, to Macy, means assembling a host of natural materials--including stones, twigs, acorns, and...

The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence. (Child Care).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Mayes, Linda C. and Cohen, Donald J. The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence. Feb. 2002. 576p. illus. index. Little, Brown, $40 (0-316-95432-2). 649. This particular...

When the Brain Can't Hear: Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder. (Health & Medicine).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Bellis, Teri James. When the Brain Can't Hear: Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder. Feb. 2002. 368p. Pocket, $25 (0-7434-2863-3). 616.85. The term auditory processing disorder (APD), a 1960s coinage, refers to an...

The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors. (Health & Medicine).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Dodes, Lance. The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors. Feb. 2002. 272p. index. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-019811-7). 616.86. Dodes is a psychoanalyst with considerable...

Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design. (Gardening).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ondra, Nancy J. Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design. Mar. 2002. 144p. illus. Storey, paper, $19.95 (1-58017-423-X). 635. No longer relegated to back-of-the-border backdrops for showy perennials or space-filling solutions...

Garden Stone: Creative Ideas, Practical Projects, and Inspiration for Purely Decorative Uses. (Gardening).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Pleasant, Barbara. Garden Stone: Creative Ideas, Practical Projects, and Inspiration for Purely Decorative Uses. Feb. 2002. 240p. illus. index. Storey, $29.95 (1-58017-406-X). 635. Countering the growing trend toward the overuse, and often...

Anselm Kiefer. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Arasse, Daniel. Anselm Kiefer. 2002. 320p. illus. index. Abrams, $85 (0-8109-0384-9). 709. Controversy has accompanied German artist Kiefer ever since his debut at the 1980 Venice Biennale, and now his challenging, wildly expressive, and...

Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Colegrave, Stephen and Sullivan, Chris. Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution. Mar. 2002. 400p. illus. index. Avalon/ Thunder's Mouth, paper, $35 (1-56025-369-X). 782.42166. A coffee table book about punk rock may strike some as...

The Name of the Game. (The Arts).
February 1, 2002... Eisner, Will. The Name of the Game. 2001. 172p. illus. DC Comics, $29.95 (1-56389-865-9). 741.5. Eisner, a comics creator since the 1930s (he is best known for the masked crime-fighter the Spirit), has turned in recent years to depicting...

Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art: From the Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art: From the Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex. Ed. by Candida Fernandez de Calderon and others. Feb. 2002. 552p. illus. Abrams, $85 (0-8109-6745-6). 745. No one can visit Mexico without noticing the...

Lake Street USA. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Huie, Wing Young. Lake Street USA. Feb. 2002. 220p. illus. Ruminator, 1648 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105, paper, $16 (1-886913-47-1). 779. Photographer Huie was his immigrant parents' youngest child and their first born in America. He...

The Vampire Brat and Other Tales of Supernatural Law. (The Arts).
February 1, 2002... Lash, Batton. The Vampire Brat and Other Tales of Supernatural Law. 2001. 170p. Exhibit A, 4657 Cajon Way, San Diego, CA 92115, paper, $14.95 (0-9633954-7-5). 741.5. Even creatures of the night need legal aid, and lawyers Alanna Wolff and...

Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork. (The Arts).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Martin, Bill. Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork. Mar. 2002. 288p. index. Open Court, paper, $19.95 (0-8126-9500-3). 782.42166. Having previously inspected the band Yes (Music of Yes, 1996) and progressive rock...

You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Medavoy, Mike and Young, Josh. You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot. Feb. 2002. 416p. illus. index. Pocket, $27 (0-7434-0054-2). 791.43. With 300 movies, including...

The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Dreishpoon, Douglas and others. The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives. 2002. 278p. illus. index. Yale, paper, $39.95 (0-300-08821-3). 779. Published to coincide with an exhibition that will visit 10 sites...

Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Nollen, Scott Allen. Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001. Feb. 2002. 368p. illus, index. McFarland, paper, $39.95 (0-7864-1101-5). 782.42166. When it comes to codpiece-clad rock gods, one name is paramount: Jethro Tull. Of...

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Richie, Donald. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. Feb. 2002. 312p. illus. index. Kodansha, $30 (4-7700-2682-X). 791.43. Widely considered the leading Western authority on Japan, Richie has a particular affinity for the nation's films, as is...

The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of American Theater. (The Arts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of American Theater. Ed. by Harriet Whelchel. Feb. 2002. 328p. illus. index. Abrams, $60 (0-8109-0614-7). 792. In the early twentieth century, the Shubert brothers--Sam, J. J., and Lee--were a powerful force...

Samurai: The Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior. (The Arts).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Sinclaire, Clive. Samurai: The Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior. 2001. 128p. illus, index. Lyons, $29.95 (1-58574282-1). 739.722. This is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the martial art and artistry of the samurai, the...

A World History of Film. (The Arts).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Sklar, Robert. A World History of Film. 2002. 592p. illus. index. Abrams, $75 (0-8109-0606-6). 791.43. Sklar tackles the daunting task of encapsulating more than a century of cinema within the pages of a single, admittedly massive volume,...

The Collector's Eye: Decorating with the Objects You Love. (Arts & Crafts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Churchill, Christine and Loos, Ted. The Collector's Eye: Decorating with the Objects You Love. Apr. 2002. 160p. illus. index. HarperResource, $34.95 (0-688-17386-1). 747. The 12 residences spotlighted by former magazine editor Churchill...

A Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design. (Arts & Crafts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Jong-Stout, Alisa A. de and Sigur, Hannah. A Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design. Mar. 2002. 228p. illus. index. Timber, $39.95 (0-88192-539-X). 745.92. An obvious love of the subject infuses de Jong-Stout's writing as she describes...

Fantastic Gel Candles: 35 Fun & Creative Projects. (Arts & Crafts).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Miller, Marcianne. Fantastic Gel Candles: 35 Fun & Creative Projects. Mar. 2002. 96p. illus. index. Sterling/Lark, paper, $12.95 (1-57990-283-9). 745.593. Paraffin is passe, at least according to Miller, who has whipped up 35 concoctions...

A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. (Literature).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Eskin, Blake. A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. Feb. 2002. 320p. illus. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-04871-3). 833. When Eskin learned of Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments (1996), a prizewinning Holocaust memoir,...

The Minority Quarterback and Other Lives in Sports. (Recreation & Sports).
February 1, 2002... * Berkow, Ira. The Minority Quarterback and Other Lives in Sports. May 2002. 300p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663-422-9). 796. Berkow, whose work has graced the New York Times for 20 years, brings together a collection of essays united by...

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, v.1. (Literature).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Fo, Dario. We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, v. 1. Tr. by Ron Jenkins. Ed. by Franca Rame. 2001. 330p. Theatre Communications Group, $35 (1-55936-183-2); paper, $17.95 (1-55936-182-4).852. Many...

Visits from the Seventh. (Poetry).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Arvio, Sarah. Visits from the Seventh. Feb. 2002. 96p. Knopf, $22 (0-375-41367-7). 811. Arvio's debut collection extrapolates entirely on a single conceit--that voices from a seventh sensual dimension counsel the poet in the wake of a long...

The Traveler's Calendar. (Poetry).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Epstein, Daniel Mark. The Traveler's Calendar. Feb. 2002. 64p. Overlook, $24.95 (1-58567-242-4). 811. Biographies of Aimee Semple McPherson, Nat "King" Cole, and Edna St. Vincent Millay have won Epstein greater renown, but his best writing...

Tests of Time. (Literature).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Gass, William H. Tests of Time. Mar. 2002. 336p. Knopf, $25 (0-375-41257-3). 814. Gass is a giant among writers, although to say so is to discount his argument against such pronouncements in a high-octane essay titled "The Writer and...

Ireland's Love Poems. (Poetry).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ireland's Love Poems. Ed. by A. Norman Jeffares. Feb. 2002. 288p. index. Norton, $23 (0-393-04316-9). 821. Editor Jeffares' excellent anthology includes work from the Irish (in translations by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Michael Longley),...

[untitled]. (Poetry).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Reading, Peter. [untitled]. Feb. 2002. 62p. Bloodaxe; dist. by Dufour, paper, $16.95 (1-85224-553-0). 821. A commentator has likened Reading's late work (this is his twenty-second collection) to Samuel Beckett's: pared to the bone, angry,...

Rimbaud Complete. (Poetry).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Rimbaud, Arthur. Rimbaud Complete. Tr. and ed. by Wyatt Mason. Mar. 2002. 588p. Modern Library, $24.95 (0-679-64230-7). 841. Rimbaud, the almost unbelievably gifted enfant terrible of nineteenth-century French poetry, goes in and out of...

Shadow of Heaven. (Poetry).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Voigt, Ellen Bryant. Shadow of Heaven. Feb. 2002. 72p. Norton, $21 (0-393-04147-6). 811. Voigt's disciplined poems are scrubbed clean, exact in their forms, and calm in tone, refined distillations of deep feelings and long meditations on...

Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition. (Geography & Travel).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Nickerson, Sheila, Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition. Mar. 2002. 208p. illus. Putnam/Tarcher, $24.95 (1-58542-133-2). 919.804. The Polaris expedition set off in 1871 to reach the...

In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods. (History).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Allen, Stewart Lee. In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods. Mar. 2002. 336p. Ballantine, $24 (0-345-44015-3). 641. Different cultures and religions have defined certain foods as taboo over the centuries. Allen examines...

Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America. (History).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Gienapp, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America. Apr. 2002. 256p. illus. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-515099-6). 973.7. Historians studying Lincoln still manage to find original avenues of approach (see William Lee Miller's recent...

This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. (History).(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Gienapp, William E. This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Apr. 2002. 256p. Oxford, $25 (0-19-515106-2). 973.7. Historians studying Lincoln still manage to find original avenues of approach (see William Lee Miller's...

Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground. (History).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... * Bowden, Charles. Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground. Feb. 2002. 304p. Farrar/North Point, $24 (0-86547-624-1). 973. Bowden, a midwesterner who discovered his spiritual home and totem, the mesquite, in the brutal and beautiful...