Booklist articles from February 2004

Booklist archives from February 2004

Atkinson, Rick. In the Company of Soldiers: a Chronicle of Combat in Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 336p. Holt, $25 (0-8050-7561-5). 956.7044 When a war on Saddam Hussein's Iraq loomed last year. Atkinson took leave from his work-in-progress, a three-volume history of the US. Army's World War II campaigns in Europe (the first...

Cook, Robin. The Point of Departure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 384p. Simon & Schuster, $27 (0-7432-6423-1). 941.086. No, this is not another medical-thriller by Robin Cook. This Robin Cook is a British politician who resigned his cabinet post in March 2003 in protest over Britain's...

Podhoretz, John. Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 320p. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-32472-3). 973.931. In this riposte to Bush bashers, New York Post columnist Podhoretz takes two tacks: ridiculing the denigrators of Dubya and extolling him as a great president....

Prud'homme, Alex. The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises--and the Fate of ImClone's Cancer Drug.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 412p. index. HarperBusiness, $24.95 (0-06-055556-4). 338.7. As this is written, jurors are being selected for lifestyle-marketing entrepreneur Martha Stewart's trial on charges of insider trading of her shares in the small...

Quindlen, Anna. Loud and Clear.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr 2004. 320p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6112-1). 814. In her first retrospective essay collection since Thinking Out Loud (1993), best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Quindlen continues to unscramble gnarly social issues...

Rose, Pete. My Prison without Bars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... 2004. 288p. Rodale, $24.95 (1-57954-927-6). Rose, as everyone knows, was banned from major league baseball several years ago for betting on games, and he has always insisted on his innocence--until now, with the appearance of this memoir,...

Schweizer, Peter and Schweizer, Rochelle. The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 450p. Doubleday, $27.95 (0-385-49863-2). 973.928. Using the extraordinary access that allowed them to interview Bush relatives, intimates, and even members of the core family (including Jeb Bush), the Schweizers have put together...

* Blissett, Luther. Q.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Tr. by Shaun Whiteside. May 2004. 768p. Harcourt, $26 (0-15-101063-3). American readers can thank a gifted translator for an English version of a novel that has already captured hundreds of thousands of Europeans with its spellbinding tale...

Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Escape.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 351p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-053047-2). Captain Richard Sharpe, the inveterate self-made British soldier, returns in another thrilling adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars. As usual, Sharpe, a former private, is less...

Dunning, John. The Bookman's Promise.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 384p. Scribner, $25 (0-7432-4992-5). It's been eight long years since the last Cliff Janeway mystery, starring Denver's only tough-guy antiquarian bookseller. The former homicide cop is thrilled with his purchase of a first...

Greeley, Andrew. The Priestly Sins.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 304p. Tor/Forge, $24.95 (0-765-31052-X). Greeley tackles the timely and explosive topic of the sex-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church in his latest religious-themed page-turner. After Father Herman "Hugh" Hoffman, the...

Morris, Mary McGarry. A Hole in the Universe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 384p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03288-3). Gordon Loomis, 43, imprisoned for 25 years for his participation in a robbery-murder, is released on parole. Instead of starting with a blank slate, he opts to return to his old neighborhood...

Parker, Robert B. Bad Business.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 320p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15145-1). Parker, declared a Grand Master in 2002 by the Mystery Writers of America, delivers another combination of wry satire and sly action in his thirty-first mystery starring Spenser, the Boston...

Pearson, Ridley. The Body of David Hayes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 352p. Hyperion, $23.95 (0-7868-6725-6). Pearson found a perfect groove early on for his much-acclaimed Lou Boldt-Daphne Matthews series, and it has been running flawlessly through eight installments. He changes focus this time,...

Smith, Alexander McCall. The Full Cupboard of Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 208p. Pantheon, $19.95 (0-375-42218-8). The runaway success of Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, set in Botswana and starring the irrepressible Mma Precious Ramotswe, has been fueled by significant crossover interest...

Turtledove, Harry. Out of the Darkness.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 608p. Tor, $27.95 (0-765-30438-4). This concludes Turtledove's formidable fantasy interpretation of World War II, which incorporates much the same mixture, or jumble, of old and new institutions, dilemmas, technologies, and...

The Explainer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed. by Brian Curtis. Mar. 2004. 208p. Anchor, paper, $11.95 (1-4000-3426-4). 031.02. Here's another one of those books in which readers get answers to quirky questions: is it possible to survive eating only lizard meat? Who decides when a...

Fletcher, Chris. 1,000 Years of English Literature: a Treasury of Literary Manuscripts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... 2004. 192p. illus. index. Abrams, $40 (0-8109-4606-8). 091. Fletcher, curator of literary manuscripts at the British Library, brings the originals of several gems in the library's collection to a worldwide audience with this handsome...

Gillespie, Hollis. Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 288p. Regan, $23.95 (0-06-056198-X). 070.92. A publicist attached the word memoir to this book by the NPR commentator and Creative Loafing columnist, but lacking much of a through line (and with a lot of repeated information), it...

Goodman, Ellen. Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 400p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-4919-4). 081. Goodman, Pulitzer Prize--winning syndicated columnist, offers a collection of essays reflecting her thoughts and observations on seminal events and people of contemporary American...

Tales from the Times: Real-Life Stories to Make You Think, Wonder, and Smile, from the Pages of the New York Times.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed. by Lisa Belkin. Apr. 2004. 288p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $13.95 (0-312-31233-4). 081. The New York Times spins off its human-interest stories just as its rival, the Wall Street Journal, recycled its offbeat profiles in Floating...

The Manley arts: I'm here for you, Martha.(author sings praises of Martha Stewart )(Column)
February 1, 2004... I knew I had to break my silence on this subject sooner or later. My friends, acquaintances, family members, editors, and readers have been demanding it. Finally, the matter came to a head at my holiday fruitcake party this past Christmas. ...

Zane, J. Peder. Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 352p. Norton, paper, $15.95 (0-393-32540-7). 028.9. Curious about what writers read and how books have influenced them, Zane, book review editor for the Raleigh News & Observer, invited 34 writers to contribute essays launched by...

Blackburn, Simon. Lust.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 160p. illus. index. Oxford, $17.95 (0-19-516200-5). 176. In his delightfully literate, cogent, and congenial contribution to the Seven Deadly Sins lecture and book series, philosopher Blackburn argues that, far from being a sin,...

Demarais, Ann and White, Valerie. First lmpressions: What You Don't Know about How Others See You.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 228p. Bantam, $22.95 (0-553-80320-4). 153.6 Despite being saddled with a terrible title (it makes the book sound like the cheapest, slickest kind of self-help twaddle), this is a smart, thought-provoking look at the way we...

Ladner, Lorne. The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004 336p. HarperSanFrancisco, $23.95 (0-06-053685-3). 150.1. According to Buddhism, cultivating compassion is the most effective means to living a happy and healthy life. Clinical psychologist Ladner agrees and here attempts to bring...

Slater, Lauren. Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 256p. index. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05095-5). 150. "What if?" Perhaps no two words have had a greater capacity for motivating explorers and experimenters to delve into the unknown. When posed by some of the twentieth century's...

Leeming, David. Jealous Gods and Chosen People: the Mythology of the Middle East.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 160p. illus. index. Oxford, $20 (0-19-514789-8). 291.1. Leeming provides an excellent introduction to the important mythologies formulated by peoples whose descendents still shape the conflicts in the Middle East. Judaism,...

Marty, Martin. Martin Luther.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 224p. Viking/Lipper, $19.95 (0-670-03272-7). 284. Renowned historian of religion (and Lutheran minister) Marty, author of multivolume studies, here gives us a short, vivid biography. His portrait confirms Luther's stubborn...

Alter, Cathy. Virgin Territory: Stories from the Road to Womanhood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004.224p. Three Rivers, paper, $13.95 (1-4000-4781-1). 305.235. Journalist Alter doesn't limit her collection of women's true stories to the "baby steps to womanhood." Instead, this compendium of women's voices includes experiences...

Boyd, Helen. My Husband Betty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 304p. illus. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $16.95 (1-56025-515-3). 306.77. Boyd never expected to write about transvestites and their partners, yet here is her fascinating account of marriage to a cross-dresser, the intent of which is...

Cheever, Susan. My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 320p. index. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-0154-X). 362.292. As the child of an alcoholic father, author John Cheever, and an excessive drinker herself, Cheever brings authority on alcoholism as well as considerable skills as a...

Conley, Dalton. The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 320p. index. Pantheon, $24 (0-375-42174-2). 306.85. Conley challenges conventional wisdom and preconceived explanations about individual success by examining divergent success rates within nuclear families, specifically between...

Dadge, David. Casualty of War: the Bush Administration's Assault on a Free Press.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 350p. Prometheus, $26 (1-59102-147-2). 323.44. Dadge, editor of the International Press Institute, offers extensive documentation of the erosion of press freedom and individual liberties in the wake of 9/11 and the Bush...

Davidson, Bob and others. Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 256p. Simon & Schuster, $23 (0-7432-5460-0). 371.95. The Davidsons, creators of educational software and founders of a nonprofit foundation that helps educate gifted children, offer an absorbing look at how our nation is...

de Marneffe, Daphne. Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 416p. index. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-05995-1). 306.874. De Marneffe brings her experiences and perspectives as a psychologist, feminist, and mother to this absorbing look at the enormous personal pleasure that women derive...

Gonnerman, Jennifer. Life on the Outside: the Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 320p. index. Farrar, $24 (0-374-18687-1). 365. For two and a hall years, journalist Gonnerman shadowed recently released prisoner Elaine Bartlett, providing an intimate glimpse into the multiple difficulties associated with...

Johnson, Ian. Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 336p. Pantheon, $24 (0-37%42186-6). 323. From the reporter-returns-from-abroad genre comes Johnson's portrait of contemporary China. Writing for the Wall Street Journal in the late 1990s, he covered such news as the repression of...

Lippman, Thomas W. Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 432p. illus. index. Westview, $27.50 (0-8133-4052-7). 303.48. The House of Saud has, ever since its patriarch Abdul Aziz ibn Saud named Arabia after himself in 1932, depended on the U.S. for industrial, financial, and military...

Newman, Katherine S. Rampage: the Social Roots of School Shootings.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 352p. illus. Basic, $27.50 (0-465-05103-0). 371.7 Newman, Harvard professor and author of several books on urban issues, spent two years researching the eruption of violence in recent years in suburban America. She focuses on...

Reinventing the Melting Pot: the New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed. by Tamar Jacoby. Feb. 2004. 320p. index. Basic, $27.50 (0-465-03634-1). 304.8. Jacoby has assembled a thoughtful, provocative collection of essays that reconsiders and ultimately attempts to reinvent the traditional myth of the...

Wachter, Robert and Shojania, Kaveh. Investing in Vice: the Recession-Proof Portfolio of Booze, Bets, Bombs, and Butts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 320p. illus. index. RuggedLand; dist. by St. Martin's, $24.95 (1-59071-016-9). 362.1) When the venerable Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report in 1999 citing nearly 100,000 deaths annually as a result of medical errors,...

Ahrens, Dan. Investing in Vice: the Recession-Proof Portfolio of Booze, Bets, Bombs, and Butts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 160p. index. St. Martin's, $21.95 (0-312-32504-5). 332.63 An increasing number of mutual funds are touting a "socially responsible" approach to investing, which often means that they avoid companies involved in vices such as...

Busse, Richard C. Employees' Rights: Your Practical Handbook to Workplace Law.(Employers' Rights: Your Legal Handbook from Hiring to Termination and Everything in Between)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Busse, Richard C. Employees' Rights: Your Practical Handbook to Workplace Law. Feb. 2004. 336p. index. Sphinx, paper, $19.95 (1-57248-367-9). 344.7301. Fleischer, Charles H. Employers' Rights: Your Legal Handbook from Hiring to Termination...

Hays, Constance L. The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 480p. index. Random, $26.95 (0-375-50562-8). 338.7. Hays, a reporter who followed Coca-Cola for five years, tells the story of the soft drink company that has come to be viewed throughout the world as an American icon. The...

Leeb, Stephen and Leeb, Donna. The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself--and Profit--from the Coming Energy Crisis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 224p. index. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-53317-3). 338.2. Stephen Leeb is president of Leeb Capital Management and editor of The Complete lnvestor, a monthly financial newsletter. An independent thinker, he has collaborated with his...

Lottman, Herbert. The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 320p. illus. I. B. Tauris; dist. by St. Martin's, $27.95 (1-86064-896-7). 338.767 Lottman's saga of the Michelin family and the tire and travel guide empire it built begins with a preceding operation, which by 1833 had evolved...

Lindley, David. Degrees Kelvin: a Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 352p. index. National Academy/Joseph Henry, $27.95 (0-309-09073-3). 530 This life of William Thomson intersects with author Lindley's previous biographical subject, physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (Boltzmann's Atom, 2001), at the...

Shah, Anup and Shah, Manoj. The Circle of Life: Wildlife on the African Savannah.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... 2003. 288p. illus. index. Abrams, $50 (0-8109-4533-9). 591.74. The Brothers Shah, Kenyan-born of Indian parents, are wildlife photographers of unusual grace and depth. The African savannah is an enormous ecosystem of grasses, scattered...

Cookson, Gilllan. The Cable: the Wire That Changed the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 160p. illus. index. Tempus; dist. by Trafalgar Square, $22.95 (0-7524-2366-5). 621.387 An import from Britain, Cookson's account of the first transatlantic telegraph is more phlegmatic, and perhaps less dramatized, than...

Dick, Ron and Patterson, Dan. Aviation Century: the Early Years.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... 2003. 240p. illus. index. Boston Mills; dist. by Firefly, $39.95 (1-55046-407-8). 629.13 This first in a projected rive-volume series is a photographic treasure for aerial aficionados; in addition, the text is written by a knowledgeable...

Manning, Richard. Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 240p. index. Farrar/North Point, $24 (0-86547-622-5). 630. A growing body of somewhat controversial scholarship ties the beginnings of war to the "culture of scarcity" that emerged with the invention, sometime in the Neolithic...

Todhunter, Andrew. A Meal Observed.(Children's Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 192p. illus. Knopf, $23 (0-375-41085-6). 641.5944. As the author dines with his wife at Taillevent, a renowned Parisian restaurant, he provides both a course-by-course narrative and reflections on a crowning achievement of...

Buten, Howard. Through the Glass Wall: Journeys into the Closed-Off Worlds of the Autistic.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2003. 192p. Bantam, $23.95 (0-553-80346-8). 616.85. Clinical psychologist and mime Buten has found an ingenious way to combine those talents. In his capacity as principal therapist and founder of the Adam Shelton Center in Paris, he...

Henig, Robin Marantz. Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 336p. index. Houghton, $25 (0-618-22415-7). 618.1. Once upon a time, not so long ago, two couples, one in the U.S. and the other in England, each wanted a baby. The English couple gave birth to a bouncing baby girl. Alas, the...

The Best Orchids for Indoors.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed. by Charles Marden Fitch. Mar. 2004. 120p. illus. index. Brooklyn Botanic Garden; dist. by Sterling, paper, $9.95 (1-889538-60-4). 6359. There are between 20,000 and 30,000 species of orchids; they are found on every continent except...

Sternberg, Guy and Wilson, Jim. Native Trees for North American Landscapes: From the Atlantic to the Rockies.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 552p. illus. index. Timber, $59.95 (0-88192-607-8). 635.9. As our environment becomes increasingly fragile, the benefits of utilizing and preserving native trees become increasingly important. For the home gardener and...

Connell, Evan S. Francisco Goya: a Life.(Hofmann, Werner. Goya.)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Connell, Evan S. Francisco Goya: A Life. Feb. 2004. 272p. Counterpoint, $26 (1-58243-307-0). 759.6. Hofmann, Werner. Goya. 2003.336p. illus. index. Thames & Hudson, $75 (0-500-09317-2). 759.6. A Goya revival much like the recent...

Kermode, Frank. The Age of Shakespeare.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 192p. Modern Library, $19.95 (0-679-64244-7). 792. Kermode, a remnant of the seemingly vanishing breed of readable literary critics, opens his fine contribution to Modern Library's set of overviews of topics in world history with...

Browning, Marie. Inspired by the Garden.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Browning, Marie. Inspired by the Garden. Feb. 2004. 128p. illus. index. North Light, paper, $22.99 (1-58180-434-2). 745.5. Hamilton, Sharon. Lush & Lively Flowers You Can Paint. Feb. 2004. 128p. illus, index. North Light, paper, $24.99...

Designers on Designers: the Inspiration behind Great Interiors.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed by Susan Gray. 2003. 240p. illus. index. McGraw-Hill, $45 (0-07-142160-2). 747. As designers comment on other designers here, different relationships abound: mentor-protege, teacher-student, father-son, icon-admirer. The commented-on...

Miller, Judith. The Style Sourcebook: the Definitive Illustrated Directory of Fabrics, Wallpapers, Paints, Flooring, Tiles.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Rev. ed. 2003. 416p. illus. index. Firefly, $59.95 (1-55297-791-9). 745.4. Do patrons have limited access to interior design showrooms? Are they just learning decorating style and taste? Even though home design materials can change...

Cook, William A. Pete Rose: Baseball's All-Time Hit King.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 241p. illus. index. McFarland, $29.95 (0-7864-1733-1). 796.357. Pete Rose not only has more hits than anyone ever to play major-league baseball but he is also the game's most controversial figure. For the uninitiated, Rose was a...

Alberts, Laurie. Fault Line.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 160p. Univ. of Nebraska, $21.95 (0-8032-1065-5). 813. In this latest entry in the American Lives series, novelist Alberts (The Price of Land in Shelby, 1996) writes a candid, self-lacerating memoir about her first love. She met...

Johnson, Sarah Anne. Conversations with American Women Writers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 256p. Univ. Press of New England, $55 (1-58465-300-0); paper, $19.95 (1-58465-348-5). 810.9. "How did you get started writing?" "How do your story ideas come to you?" "Who are some of the writers that have influenced you?" These...

Le Guin, Ursula. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 336p. Shambhala, paper, $16.95 (1-59030-006-8). 813. Le Guin is stimulating company. A profoundly creative and prolific fiction writer who has won a half-dozen major awards and enticed readers to science fiction who otherwise...

Auster, Paul. Collected Poems.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 208p. Overlook, $24.95 (1-58567-404-4). 811. The source of the elegant metaphysics that shape Auster's distinctive fiction, from his seminal New York Trilogy to his most recent riddling tale, Oracle Night [BKL O 1 03], is found...

The Best Poems in the English Language: From Chaucer through Robert Frost.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed. by Harold Bloom. Mar. 2004. 1,008p. index. HarperCollins, $34.95 (0-06-054041-9). 821. Literary lion Bloom's earliest books, reaching back to 1959, examine the work of Shelley, Blake, and Yeats, poets that now figure prominently in his...

Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ed. and tr. by J. M. Coetzee. Feb. 2004. 104p. illus. Princeton, $19.95 (0-691-11736-5). 839.3. In this dual-language edition, Afrikaans novelist Coetzee, the 2003 Nobel laureate in literature, introduces and translates one poem each by...

McGoogan, Ken. Ancient Mariner: the Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 336p. illus. index. Carroll & Graf, $25 (0-7867-1304-6). 917.1904. Samuel Hearne, the eighteenth-century British sailor who may have been the model for Coleridge's ancient mariner, served at sea during the Seven Years' War, then...

Berkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Apr. 2004. 448p. illus. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-01313-1). 940.53. Reminiscent of Merle Fainsod's Smolensk under Soviet Rule (1958) in its painstaking documentation of ordinary life under a totalitarian regime, Berkhoff's sober,...

Berry, F. Clifton and Steele, Dennis. United States Army at War: 9/11 through Iraq.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... 2003. 192p. illus. index. Naval Institute, $34.95 (1-59114-063-3). 973.931. This lavishly illustrated volume covers the U.S. Army's work since 9/11 in segments. The first embraces the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The second concerns the...

Browning, Christopher R. and Matthaus, Jurgen. The Origins of the Final Solution: the Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 640p. index. Univ. of Nebraska/Yad Vashem, $39.95 (0-8032-1327-1). 940.53. Browning is the author of numerous books on the Holocaust and Nazism; his most notable is Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final...

Carlisle, Elizabeth Pendergast. Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817).(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 384p. illus. index. Scribner, $26 (0-7432-4440-0). 974.4. Carlisle does a superb job of animating history in this riveting chronicle of one woman's deceptively simple life. Born in 1747, Phelps had the distinction of witnessing...

Ginsberg, Debra. About My Sisters.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 320p. illus. HarperCollins, $23.95 (0-06-052202-X). 920.72. Women who don't have sisters, and, of course, men, may never fully understand the extraordinary bond that sisters can have. In another candid, autobiographical, and...

* Lopate, Phillip. Waterfront: a Journey around Manhattan.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 432p. illus. index. Crown, $25.95 (0-609-60505-4). 917.47. A native New Yorker, avid walker, and impeccable stylist, Lopate, whose last book, Getting Personal [BKL N 15 03], showcases his signature essays, now presents his...

Hawass, Zahi. Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt's Past.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... 2003. 276p. illus. index. Abrams, $40 (0-8109-4542-8). 932. Hawass is the head of the Egyptian government's leading archaeology organization, but his review of his career reveals his soul to be that of a hands-on practitioner rather than a...

Walkabout, New York style.(Read-alikes: Waterfront)(books on New York City)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... There's something about New York City streets, writes Lopate in Waterfront (see adjoining review), that "pulls you ever forward." So magnetic is the pulse of the city, it has inspired a wealth of what Lopate calls "walking-around literature," a...

Hays, Otis. Alaska's Hidden Wars: Secret Campaigns on the North Pacific Rim.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 208p. illus. index. Univ. of Alaska, $39.95 (1-889963-63-1); paper, $19.95 (1-889963-64-X). 940.54. A World War II veteran and expert on Alaskan history offers what is more a collection of essays than a connected narrative. The...

Horovitz, David. Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 288p. index. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4067-1). 956.94. For the past three years, both Israelis and Palestinians have lived under the constant daily threat of horrific violence while they attempt to carry out mundane, everyday tasks....

Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Mar. 2004. 352p. illus. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-04868-3). 973.8. While most Civil War histories treat the Lincoln assassination as the closing act in the epic ordeal, history professor Leonard views the murder and subsequent trial of...

Luchetti, Cathy. Men of the West: Life on the American Frontier.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... May 2004. 288p. illus. index. Norton, $39.95 (0-393-05905-7). 978. Luchetti has crafted "a new look at the men who explored, settled, farmed, and otherwise made their livelihoods in the American West." Similar in format to her previous...

* Dobbs, Michael. Saboteurs: the Nazi Raid on America.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Feb. 2004. 320p. illus. index. Knopf, $25 (0-375-41470-3). 940.54. Dobbs' full-scale account of the eight German saboteurs landed on the U.S. East Coast in the summer of 1942 is likely to be definitive on the subject for some time. Dobbs...

Medvedev, Roy and Medvedev, Zhores. The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Tr. by Ellen Dahrendorf. Feb. 2004. 336p. index. Overlook, $29.95 (1-58567502-4). 947.084. The Soviet strongman who condemned millions to early deaths went to his own grave laden with secrets, many of which are here disinterred by two...