Booklist articles from January 2006

Booklist archives from January 2006

Adult books.(2005 EDITORS' CHOICE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Adult Books editors have selected the following titles as representative of the year's outstanding books for public-library collections. Our scope has been intentionally broad, and we have attempted to find books that combine literary,...

Adult books for young adults.(2005 EDITORS' CHOICE)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Selected by the Books for Youth editors, the following titles comprise the year's best personal reading for teenagers among adult books published in 2005. More on each book's content and suggested audience can be found in the full-length...

Books for youth.(2005 EDITORS' CHOICE)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Selected by the Books for Youth editorial staff, these titles represent our best-of-the-year selections in fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for older and middle readers and young children. Our goal is to provide a broad selection of...

Media.(2005 EDITORS' CHOICE)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Sound Recording Review)
January 1, 2006... Video & DVD Broadway: The American Musical. 6hr. PBS, VHS, $59.99 (0-7936-9974-6); DVD, $59.99 (1-4157-0236-5). Loaded with performance footage, film clips, and interviews, this comprehensive, chronologically arranged (1893 to 2004)...

Reference sources.(2005 EDITORS' CHOICE)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Titles were reviewed in RBB from February 2005 through January 2006. All the titles are intended for students at the high-school level and up and a general adult audience; for our pick of the crop for younger students, see "Twenty Best Bets for...

Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. Apr. 2006. 464p. illus, index. Knopf, $30 (0-375-41317-0). 200.9. The foremost English-language historian of religion today, whose A History of God...

Dershowitz, Alan M. Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Dershowitz, Alan M. Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways. Feb. 2006. 336p. index. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-06012-8). 363.32. When and how should democratic societies respond to potentially dangerous conduct before the conduct takes place?...

Kessler, Ronald. Laura Bush: Intimate Portrait of the First Lady.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Kessler, Ronald. Laura Bush: Intimate Portrait of the First Lady. Apr. 2006. 288p. index, Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51621-5). 973.931092. Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, is...

Raines, Howell. The One That Got Away.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Raines, Howell. The One That Got Away. May 2006.352p. Scribner, $25 (0-7432-7278-1). 799.12. Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and avid fly fisherman Raines looks back at his life, his career, and his downfall at the New York Times after...

Feinstein, John. Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Feinstein, John. Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four. Feb. 2006. 320p. illus, index. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-16030-X). 796.323. For sports-challenged individuals, the Final Four is the culmination of the NCAA men's...

Brown, Rita Mae. Sour Puss.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Brown, Rita Mae. Sour Puss. Feb. 2006. 246p. Bantam, $25 (0-553-80362-X). Crime Fiction. This venerable mystery series has been on a good run of late. Brown does everything right here, from creating a suspenseful plot to introducing...

Crusie, Jennifer and Mayer, Robert. Don't Look Down.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Crusie, Jennifer and Mayer, Robert. Don't Look Down. Apr. 2006. 380p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-34812-6). Romance. It sounded simple. Go to Savannah. Finish directing an action-adventure film. Earn some quick money. Get a chance to see...

Messe, Kate. Labyrinth.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Messe, Kate. Labyrinth. Mar. 2006. 528p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15344-6). General Fiction. Mosse's epic adventure weaves together the present and the past in an entertaining Grail-quest tale. In the present, Alice Tanner, a volunteer at a...

Perry, Anne. Dark Assassin.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Perry, Anne. Dark Assassin. Mar. 2006. 320p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-46929-1). Crime Fiction. Since first making his appearance in Face of a Stranger (1990), William Monk has continued to hunt for the memory that vanished following a...

Barnes, Julian. Arthur & George.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Barnes, Julian. Arthur & George. Jan. 2006. 400p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-307-26310-X). General Fiction. Barnes paid fictional homage to Flaubert more than 20 years ago, and now, in his grandest and most pleasurable work to date, he channels...

Rankin, Ian. Blood Hunt.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rankin, Ian. Blood Hunt. Mar. 2006. 400p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-00911-3). Crime Fiction. Fans of Rankin's gold-standard Inspector Rebus series need to know that Blood Hunt is not the latest installment. With the author's name...

Saramago, Jose. Seeing.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Saramago, Jose. Seeing. Apr. 2005.320p. Harcourt, $25 (0-15101238-5). General Fiction. The Portuguese winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize continues his cerebral yet enticing and exciting novels about the absurdities to be witnessed in...

Scottoline, Lisa. Dirty Blonde.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Scottoline, Lisa. Dirty Blonde. Mar. 2006. 368p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-074290-9). Crime Fiction. Drama verges on melodrama in this thirteenth offering from Edgar Award winner Scottoline. Neophyte Philadelphia federal judge Cate Fante...

King, Stephen. Cell.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * King, Stephen. Cell. Jan. 2006. 384p. Scribner, $26.95 (0-7432-9233-2). SF/Fantasy. Think horrormeister King's gone soft? Try this: Clay Riddell, on top of the world after finally signing a contract that pays off for his years of...

Global Values 101: A Short Course.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Global Values 101: A Short Course. Ed. by Kate Holbrook and others. Feb. 2006. 256p. index. Beacon, paper, $14 (0-8070-0305-0). 170. "What is the value of literature in ethical and political discussions?" "Does there need to be a shift in...

Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. Jan. 2006. 288p. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-02801-2). 170. Using the wisdom culled from the world's greatest civilizations as a foundation, social psychologist...

Harris, Judith Rich. No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Harris, Judith Rich. No Two Mike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. Feb. 2006. 352p. illus, index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05948-0). 155.2. The controversial author of The Nurture Assumption (1998)--in which it was argued that peer...

McMahon, Darrin M. Happiness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... McMahon, Darrin M. Happiness. Jan. 2006. 560p. illus. Grove/Atlantic, $25 (0-87113-886-7). 170 Happiness is such an elusive concept that one must be especially brave or foolhardy to write about it, and McMahon admits that writing this book...

Occhino, MaryRose. Sign of the Dove: MaryRose's Messages from the Other Side.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Occhino, MaryRose. Sign of the Dove: MaryRose's Messages from the Other Side. Jan. 2006. 224p. Berkley, $22.95 (0-425-20544-4). 133.9. Occhino wrote about her life as a psychic in Beyond These Four Walls (2004). Here she offers a how-to for...

Parnia, Sam. What Happens When We Die: A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Parnia, Sam. What Happens When We Die: A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death. Feb. 2006. 240p. index. Hay, $24.95 (1-4019-0710-5). 133.9. Just what does happen when we die? That question has long begged an answer and has...

Spitz, Ellen Handler. c.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Spitz, Ellen Handler. The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood. Feb. 2006. 272p. index. Pantheon, $25 (0-375-42058-4). 155.4. Spitz, an artist, dancer, writer, parent, and scholar, explores children's imaginative lives and how...

Fire!(The Manley Arts)(on losing one's job)(Column)
January 1, 2006... For many people, it's probably the most dreaded word in the English language--fire. Certainly it's a word that connotes destruction, loss, and tragedy. To many, it results in economic hardship and loss of self-esteem. No, I'm not talking about...

Tarnas, Richard. Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Tarnas, Richard. Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. Jan. 2006. 572p. illus, index. Viking, $29.95 (0-670-03292-1). 133.54. World history is vast and confusing. How to find coherence? Tarnas thinks the answer lies in...

Dennett, Daniel C. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Dennett, Daniel C. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. Feb. 2006. 448p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03472-X). 200. A century and a half after Darwin rattled religionists with his revolutionary theory of human origins, one...

Hammoudi, Abdellah. A Season in Mecca.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Hammoudi, Abdellah. A Season in Mecca. Tr. by Pascale Ghazaleh. Jan. 2006. 290p. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-7609-8). 297.3. Hammoudi is a Princeton anthropologist whose previous work examined deeply rooted structures of authoritarian rule in...

Meeks, Wayne A. Christ Is the Question.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Meeks, Wayne A. Christ Is the Question. Jan. 2006. 176p. index. Westminster John Knox, paper, $19.95 (0-664-22962-X). 2.32. "Who is Christ?" and "which Jesus does he represent?" are two of the questions early-Christian historian Meeks asks...

Nabokov, Peter. Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Nabokov, Peter. Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places. Jan. 2006. 368p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03432-0). 299.7. Nabokov present 16 "biographies of place," each of a habitat illustrating the bond...

Broad, William J. The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Broad, William J. The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi. Feb. 2006. 306p. index. Penguin Press, $25.95 (1-59420-081-5). 292.3. The Oracle at Delphi, with its enormous influence on Greek civilization, has been...

Stewart, Matthew. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Stewart, Matthew. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World. Jan. 2006. 320p. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05898-0). 211. A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between...

Tucker, Ruth A. God Talk: Cautions for Those Who Hear God's Voice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Tucker, Ruth A. God Talk: Cautions for Those Who Hear God's Voice. Jan. 2006. 192p. index. InterVarsity, paper, $15 (0-8308-3331-5). 231. Usually God's silence is interpreted as a negative sign, but to Tucker, it is neither good nor bad....

Biank, Tanya. Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Biank, Tanya. Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives. Feb. 2006. 288p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-33350-1). 355.1. The author of this provocative portrait of modern army wives is herself an army wife and comes from an army...

Boland, Mary L. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: What You Need to Know--and What You Can Do.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Boland, Mary L. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: What You Need to Know--and What You Can Do. Feb. 2006. 304p. index. Sphinx, paper, $18.95 (1-57248-527-2). 344.73. It's not a pretty subject--but someone has to talk about it. Sexual...

Chang, Gordon G. Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Chang, Gordon G. Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. Jan. 2006. 352p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6294-2). 355.02 Chang has lived and worked in the Far East and has written extensively on China and North Korea. He does not...

Bawer, Bruce. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Bawer, Bruce. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within. Feb. 2006. 256p. index. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-51472-7). 305.6. When cultural journalist Bawer moved to the Netherlands and then Norway, he found...

Crosby, Alfred W. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Crosby, Alfred W. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. Jan. 2006. 208p. illus, index. Norton, $23.95 (0-393-05935-9). 333.79. The last shall be first: Crosby concludes that civilization has...

Duncombe, Stephen and Mattson, Andrew. The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Duncombe, Stephen and Mattson, Andrew. The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York. Feb. 2006. 400p. illus, index. New York Univ., $27.95 (0-8147-1980-5). 364.15. "Mob greets bobbed gungirl," the April...

Erlbaum, Janice. Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Erlbaum, Janice. Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir. Mar. 2006. 272p. Villard, $21.95 (1-4000-6422-8). 362.74. "What that white bitch doin' here?" "Same as you, bitch, she ain't got no-place else to go." "Here" is the gritty homeless...

Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change. Mar. 2006. 320p. Grove/Atlantic, $25 (0-87113-935-9). 363.738. Alarmed by global warming, Australian scientist Flannery synthesizes evidence supporting a...

Greene, Robert. The 33 Strategies of War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Greene, Robert. The 33 Strategies of War. Jan. 2006. 462p. index. Viking/Joost Elffers, $25.95 (0-670-03457-6). 303.6. Greene and "producer" Joost Elffers are the Machiavellians who brought us The 48 Laws of Power (1998) and The Art of...

Bruinius, Harry. Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Bruinius, Harry. Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity. Feb. 2006.416p. illus, index. Knopf, $30 (0-375-41371-5). 363.9. Bruinius' account of one of America's dirty...

Hallcox, Jarrett and Welch, Amy. Bodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Hallcox, Jarrett and Welch, Amy. Bodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School. Jan. 2006. 304p. illus. Berkley, $24.95 (0-425-20752-8). 30325. With CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its...

Headley, Maria Dahvana. The Year of Yes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Headley, Maria Dahvana. The Year of Yes. Jan. 2006. 288p. Hyperion, $22.95 (1-40130230-0). 306.81. At the age of 20, Headley was already frustrated with the dating scene. An Idaho native, Headley headed to the Big Apple to study...

Hiltebrand, Ellen Urbani. When I Was Elena.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Hiltebrand, Ellen Urbani. When I Was Elena. Feb. 2006. 304p. Permanent Press, $28 (1-57962-124-4). 920.72089. This book could use a subtitle, something along the lines of "what I Learned in Guatemala as a Peace Corps Volunteer." The title...

Johnson, Stephen. Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Johnson, Stephen. Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion. Jan. 2006. 304p. illus, index. Wiley, $25.95 (0-471-26737-6). 359.9. On February 15, 1968, nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion left Norfolk,...

Karpin, Michael. The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What that Means for the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Karpin, Michael. The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What that Means for the World. Jan. 2006. 416p. illus, index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-6594-7). 355.02. At a time when the U.S. is at war with Iraq and threatens...

Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox. Jan. 2006. 288p. index. Sourcebooks, paper, $16.95 (1-4022-0401-9). 362.88. Katz, an antisexist male activist, repositions violence against women as a broader cultural issue, not just a women's issue....

Matthews, Arlene. Getting In without Freaking Out: The Official College Admissions Guide for Overwhelmed Parents.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Matthews, Arlene. Getting In without Freaking Out: The Official College Admissions Guide for Overwhelmed Parents. Feb. 2006. 256p. Three Rivers, paper, $13.95 (1-4000-9841-6). 378.1. College consultant Matthews offers a helpful and humorous...

McWhorter, John. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... McWhorter, John. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. Jan. 2006. 432p. Gotham, $27.50 (1-59240188-0). 305.896. McWhorter, author of Losing the Race (2000), returns to expand on the theme that the problem with black America...

O'Beirne, Kate. Women Who Make the World Worse and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... O'Beirne, Kate. Women Who Make the World Worse and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. Jan. 2006. 222p. index. Viking/Sentinel, $24.95 (1-59523-009-2). 305.42. O'Beirne, an editor with...

Page, Cristina. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Sex, Virtue, and the Way We Live Now.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Page, Cristina. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Sex, Virtue, and the Way We Live Now. Feb. 2006. 256p. Basic, $24 (0-465-05489-7). 344.041. The passion of the pro-life movement extends beyond abortion opposition to an...

Patten, Chris. Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Patten, Chris. Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century. Jan. 2006. 320p. index. Holt/ Times, $26 (0-8050-7788-X). 327.1. Patten served as a member of Parliament and chairman of the Conservative Party, and he...

Picknett, Lynn and Prince, Clive. The Sion Revelation: The Truth about the Guardians of Christ's Sacred Bloodline.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Picknett, Lynn and Prince, Clive. The Sion Revelation: The Truth about the Guardians of Christ's Sacred Bloodline. Feb. 2006. 528p. index. Touchstone, paper, $16.95 (0-7432-6303-0). 001.9. The authors' previous book, The Templar Revelation...

Pringle, Heather. The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Pringle, Heather. The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust. Feb. 2006. 480p. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-78686886-4). 323.143. As Pringle relates, in 1935 Heinrich Himmler and a small group of associates founded an elite Nazi research...

Miller, William Ian. Eye for an Eye.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... * Miller, William Ian. Eye for an Eye. Jan. 2006. 304p. index. Cambridge, $28 (0-521-85680-9). 340.5. Widely dismissed as a relic of barbarism, the law of retribution-an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth--evokes in Miller a profound sense...

Rosenthal, Michael. Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rosenthal, Michael. Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Jan. 2006. 544p. index. Farrar, $30 (0-374-29994-3). 378. The animating question of this biography is, How does a once-famous civic...

Rouse, Wade. America's Boy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rouse, Wade. America's Boy. Apr. 2006. 288p. illus. Dutton, $24.95 (0-52594934-8). 306.76. Growing up in 1970s Granby, Missouri, a tiny Ozarks town where "trailers outnumber homes and teeth," isn't easy when you're a boy like Wade, who...

Swanson, James L. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Swanson, James L. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. Feb. 2006. 432p. illus, index. Morrow, $26.95 (0-06051849-9). 364.155. One of the more kinetic renderings of the Lincoln assassination, Swanson's synthesis of the sources is...

Vella, Christina. Indecent Secrets: The Infamous Murri Murder Affair.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Vella, Christina. Indecent Secrets: The Infamous Mufti Murder Affair. Jan. 2006. 416p. illus, index. Free Press, $26 (0-74325046-X). 364.152. The tempestuous marriage of Linda Murri and Francesco Bonmartini abruptly dissolved with the...

Yoshino, Kenji. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Yoshino, Kenji. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. Jan. 2006. 304p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50820-1). 342.7308. Yoshino, an Asian American law professor at Yale, whose gay status informs this work, explores the struggle for...

Nissanoff, Daniel. FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Nissanoff, Daniel. FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want. Jan. 2006. 256p. Penguin, $24.95 (1-59420-077-7). 381. Ignore the all-too-familiar bizspeak paradigm...

Reingold, Dan. Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Reingold, Dan. Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market. Feb. 2006. 368p. index. Collins, $25.95 (0-06074769-2). 332.6. Reingold, a prominent Wall Street analyst from 1989...

Singletary, Michelle. Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Singletary, Michelle. Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich. Feb. 2006. 288p. Random, $19.95 (1-4000-6378-7). 332.024. Washington Post financial columnist and author (Spend Well, Live Rich, 2004)...

Beltz, Ellin. Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Beltz, Ellin. Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World. 2005. 176p. illus, index. Firefly, $34.95 (1-55297-869-9). 5978. Frogs are cool. How else can we explain the human fascination with these tailless amphibians? Herpetologist Beltz presents...

Douglas, Paul. Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Douglas, Paul. Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book. 2005. 256p. illus, index. Sterling, $24.95 (0-7607-6113-2). 551.55. Meteorologist Douglas informs Twin Cities TV viewers about local weather, and his eclectic volume on the subject...

Ellis, Richard. Singing Whales, Flying Squid, and Swimming Cucumbers: The Discovery of Marine Life.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Ellis, Richard. Singing Whales, Flying Squid, and Swimming Cucumbers: The Discovery of Marine Life. Jan. 2006. 288p. illus, index. Lyons, $24.95 (1-59228-842-1). 578.77. Two-thirds of our planet is covered by water teeming with an...

Huxley, Anthony. Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Huxley, Anthony. Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World. Feb. 2006. 192p. illus, index. Univ. of California, paper, $29.95 (0-520-24359-5). 580. The late horticulturist Huxley wrote more than 30 books about plants, including an...

Linden, Eugene. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Linden, Eugene. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations. Feb. 2006. 320p. illus, index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-684-86352-9). 551.609. Environmental journalist Linden considers how adaptable human...

Stutz, Bruce. Chasing Spring: An American Journey through a Changing Season.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Stutz, Bruce. Chasing Spring: An American Journey through a Changing Season. Jan. 2006. 256p. Scribner, $24 (0-7432-6247-6). 578. While recovering from heart surgery, Stutz, former editor in chief for Natural History, embarked on a dynamic...

Vollmann, William T. Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Vollmann, William T. Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Feb. 2006. 240p. illus. Norton/Atlas, $22.95 (0-393-05969-3). 520.92. Vollmann is a man of many words steeped in history and guided by a...

Clarke, Torie. Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Clarke, Torie. Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game. Feb. 2006. 272p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-7116-5). 659.20973. Clarke is a former communications director with the Pentagon in the early years...

Gurstelle, William. Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Gurstelle, William. Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them. Jan. 2006. 240p. illus. index. Clarkson Potter, $25...

Jones, Thomas D. Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Jones, Thomas D. Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir. Feb. 2006. 384p. index. HarperCollins/Collins/Smithsonian, $26.95 (0-06-085152-X). 629.45. Jones' memoir of his work as an astronaut in the 1990s is an unusually expressive contribution...

Seaton, Bill. My Seven Years in Captivity: Tails and Misadventures in the San Diego Zoo.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Seaton, Bill. My Seven Years in Captivity: Tails and Misadventures in the San Diego Zoo. Jan. 2006. 268p. illus. SP Press, paper, $19.95 (1-59025-902-5). 636.088. Most memoirs of life at a zoo are written by former curators, zookeepers, or...

Dossey, Larry. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Dossey, Larry. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness. Feb. 2006. 320p. index. Harmony, $24.95 (0-30720989-X). 616. It may seem odd that a book promising to reveal the keys to...

Gonzalez-Crussi, F. On Seeing: Things Seen, Unseen, and Obscene.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Gonzalez-Crussi, F. On Seeing: Things Seen, Unseen, and Obscene. Feb. 2006. 224p. illus. Overlook, $23.95 (1-58567674-8). 612.8. Gonzalez-Crussi's On Being Born and Other Difficulties (2004) was much concerned with different ways of...

Mitchell, Gary D. and Hirsh, Michael. A Sniper's Journey: The Truth about the Man behind the Rifle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Mitchell, Gary D. and Hirsh, Michael. A Sniper's Journey: The Truth about the Man behind the Rifle. Jan. 2006. 272p. NAL/ Caliber, $24.95 (0-451-21652-0). 616.85. Mitchell began his journey as a high-school student in Texas, from which...

DiSpirito, Rocco and Kurek, Kris. Rocco's 5 Minute Flavor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... DiSpirito, Rocco and Kurek, Kris. Rocco's 5 Minute Flavor. Jan. 2006. 320p. illus, index. Scribner, $26.95 (0-7432-7384-2). 641.5 "Five" is Chef DiSpirito's mantra here. Each of these recipes uses no more than five ingredients, takes five...

History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet. Ed. by Ruth Reichl. Mar. 2006. 400p. Modern Library, $24.95 (0-679-64312-5). 641.2. During the immediate post-World War II era, wine in America had no existence beyond...

Sparks, Katy. Sparks in the Kitchen.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Sparks, Katy. Sparks in the Kitchen. Jan. 2006. 368p. illus, index. Knopf, $30 (1-4000-4355-7). 641.5. Self-confident, experienced cooks will find a lot of inspiring recipes in this collection from a noted New York chef. Sparks' cuisine...