Booklist articles from July 2003

Booklist archives from July 2003

Barry, Dave. Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 256p. Crown, $23.95 (1-4000-4757-9). 814. Barry has never been as funny as he is in this rip-roaring, hilarious new collection of columns, which parodies everything from the 2000 election snafu to so-called smart appliances....

Bellow, Adam. In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 576p. index. Doubleday, $30 (0-385-49388-6). 306.85. "It's not what you know, it's who you know." At one time your name alone could guarantee you admission to a prestigious university, a cushy job, and lifetime security. The...

Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living History.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 562p. illus. index. Simon & Schuster, $28 (0-7432-2224-5). 975.3 The early reactions to Hillary Clinton's much-anticipated memoir (no prepublication review copies were distributed) have amounted to a kind of referendum on the...

Reading Harry.(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... * Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 2003. 768p. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $29.99 (0-439-35806-X). No, you can't put it down, but believe me, you'll wish you could. This is not an easy book to lug around. Its...

Listening to Harry.(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)(Audiobook Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. By J. K. Rowling. Read by Jim Dale. Listening Library. 2003. 26.5hr. unabr. 17 cassettes, $60 (0-8072-2030-2). 23 CDs, $90 (0-8072-2031-0). 800-541-5525. Arriving just in time for summer...

Fuhrman, Mark. Death and Justice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 288p. index. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-000917-9). 364.9766. Fuhrman thought he'd be a sympathetic observer when he decided to focus on conservative Oklahoma County while researching the death penalty. Little did he know that his own...

Harris, E. Lynn. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 279p. Doubleday, $22.95 (0-385-50264-8). 818. "I set out to write a story for me... that would capture the pain and joy of being black and gay. I wanted it to be a love story," Harris says in explanation of his first novel,...

* Didion, Joan. Where I Was From.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 240p. Knopf, $23 (0-679-43332-5). 979.4. Didion's remarkable family history parallels that of the U.S. in its journey west, belief in starting over, and enduring stoicism. Her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth...

Kidder, Tracy. Mountains beyond Mountains.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Mountains beyond Mountains. Sept. 2003. 316p. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50616-0). 610. Kidder, a master documentarian, has primarily practiced his art on his home turf, Massachusetts, proving that one small place abounds in amazing stories....

Klein, Alec. Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levine, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 334p. index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-4786-8). 338.7. In 1999 Wall Street was enamored with anything dot-com, and America Online was adding new subscribers in droves by giving away billions of free disks. Old-economy media...

Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 400p. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-50951-0). 289.3. On July 24, 1984, Dan and Ron Lafferty cut the throats of their brother Allan's wife, Brenda, and baby daughter, Erica, fulfilling part of a revelation Ron received from God. Ron is...

Bradbury, Ray. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 912p. Morrow, $29.95 (0-06-054242-X). Perhaps Ray Bradbury is the latter-day O. Henry. He is most famous for his short stories--and short they are, rarely more than 15 pages. He attracts nonliterary readers in droves, and he has...

* Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Fifth Book of Peace.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 416p. Knopf, $26 (0-679-44075-5). 813. Revered memoirist, fiction writer, and "woman warrior" Kingston's long-awaited new book begins in 1991 when she and her family perform fire rites for her recently deceased father on the...

Brown, Larry. The Rabbit Factory.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 344p. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-4523-7). Brown is a much-beloved writer who was put on the literary map primarily by his very popular novel Joe (1991). His latest will not only please his fans but also win him new ones. There is a...

Cleage, Pearl. Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 288p. Ballantine/One World, $23.95 (0-345-45606-8). Regina Burns, recovering from cocaine addiction and on the verge of losing her family home, reluctantly takes a temporary assignment in Atlanta. Her job: to oversee a memorial...

Dexter, Pete. Train.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 352p. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-50591-4). Golf and the noir novel--strange bedfellows on the surface, but maybe not so strange, after all. "Disappointment was the only thing about the game that lasted." So says Lionel "Train" Walk,...

Hearn, Lian. Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori, Book 2.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 288p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-57322-251-8). The second installment in the Otori trilogy, set in ancient Japan, picks up where Across the Nightingale Floor [BKL Ag 02] left off, with Otori Takeo leaving his love, Shirakawa Kaede, to...

Iles, Greg. The Footprints of God.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 480p. Scribner, $25.95 (0-7432-3469-3). Iles, author of eight best-sellers, takes the standard paranoid thriller starring an endangered man and the woman who believes he's delusional until a series of shocks forces her to accept...

* Forsyth, Frederick. Avenger.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 384p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $26.95 (0-312-31951-7). The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File--these Forsyth blockbusters helped define the international conspiracy thriller. Forsyth's newest novel, his...

Jakes, T. D. Cover Girls.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 244p. Warner/Faith, $22.95 (0-446-52906-0). Preacher Jakes makes his first novel the latest medium for his message of spiritual hope and inspiration. He interweaves the lives of four very different women--three black, one white,...

Johansen, Iris. Fatal Tide.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 336p. Bantam, $24.95 (0-553-80247-X). Melis Nemid's isolated life on her own Caribbean island studying dolphins is interrupted by word from her foster father, Phil Lontana, introduced in Johansen's Dead Aim [BKL F 1 03]. He...

Lippman, Laura. Every Secret Thing.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.400p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-050667-9). Lippman has won just about every mystery writing award there is--the Edgar, the Agatha, the Anthony, the Shamus, and the Nero Wolfe--for her Tess Monaghan series. This is her first...

Naslund, Sena Jeter. Four Spirits.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 544p. Morrow, $26.95 (0-06-621238-3). In the highly acclaimed novel Ahab's Wife (1999), Naslund took a telling core sample of nineteenth-century American manners and customs by way of her own interpretation of the life of the...

O'Nan, Stewart. The Night Country; or, The Darkness on the Edge of Town.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 240p. Farrar, $23 (0-374-22215-0). The aftermath of a Halloween tragedy haunts a New England town on the one-year anniversary of a typical teen joyride that ended with a car wrapped around a tree. Toe, Marco, and Danielle were...

Chamberlain, Richard. Shattered Love.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Chamberlain, Richard. Shattered Love. 2003. 246p. Regan, $25.95 (0-06-008743-9). Dr. Kildare tells all, including all about his sexual orientation.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 256p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50947-2). Palahniuk's sixth novel takes the form of a so-called coma diary written for Peter Wilmot, who is comatose after a running-car-in-garage suicide attempt (he started with the gas tank...

Patterson, Richard North. Balance of Power.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 624p. Ballantine, $27.95 (0-345-45017-5). Newly elected Democratic president Kerry Kilcannon faced the abortion issue in Protect and Defend (2000), and now he has to tackle the Second Amendment. While preparing for his wedding to...

Pottinger, Stan. The Last Nazi.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 336p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-27676-1). 813. Pottinger, author of The Fourth Procedure (1995), combines the promising science of in vitro fertilization with the heinous technologies of germ warfare and eugenics to produce a...

Upcoming in upfront-nonfiction.(Book list)
July 1, 2003... The titles listed below are scheduled for fall 2003 publication. Look for part two of our Upcoming in Upfront in the August issue, which will feature fiction titles. Alexander, Caroline. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the...

Fogelin, Robert. Walking the Tightrope of Reason: the Precarious Life of a Rational Animal.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003.176p. index. Oxford, $18 (0-19-516026-6). 128. Why should we assume that patterns learned though past experience can be reliably projected onto the future? With this perplexing question, Fogelin confronts just one of the...

Keenan, Julian and others. The Face in the Mirror: The Search for the Origins of Consciousness.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 304p. illus. index. Ecco, $24.95 (0-06-001279-X). 153. Humans have it; so do chimpanzees and orangutans; gorillas generally don't; and monkeys--forget about it. We're talking about the ability to recognize one's self in a mirror,...

Manning, Martha. A Place to Land: Lost and Found in an Unlikely Friendship.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 272p. Ballantine, $23.95 (0-345-45055-8). 158.2. Manning, a psychologist and the author of Undercurrents (1995) and Chasing Grace (1996), volunteered to be a secret Santa for a family at a local homeless shelter and met someone...

Gooch, Brad. Dating the Greek Gods: Empowering Spiritual Messages from Mt. Olympus.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 192p. Simon & Schuster, $22.95 (0-7432-2669-0). 292.2. Gooch was surprised by the success of his last book, the runaway best-seller Finding the Boyfriend Within (2002), a gay self-help book. It's no surprise, however, that its...

Gulley, Philip and Mulholland, James. If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 256p. Harper San Francisco, $22.95 (0-06-251704-X). 234. Gulley, author of the best-selling stories set in fictional Harmony, Indiana, and theologian Mulholland have been friends since they first met at seminary, and they speak...

Lee, Helene. The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Tr. by Lily Davis and Helene Lee. Ed. by Stephen Davis. July 2003. 320p. illus. index. Lawrence Hill, $26.95 (1-55652-466-8). 299. Lee, a French journalist, draws on extensive knowledge about the Rastafarian movement made famous by Jamaican...

Riddell, Peter G. and Cotterell, Peter. Islam in Context: Past, Present, and Future.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 240p. index. Baker, paper, $17.99 (0-8010-2627-X). 297. Written primarily for Christians, this overview of historical and contemporary conflicts of the Islamic world first briefly introduces Islam and Muhammad, and then portrays...

* Moynahan, Brian. God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible--a Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 448p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $27.95 (0-312-31486-8). 270.6. The Bible contains few stories more compelling than the one Moynahan tells here: the saga of how William Tyndale defied Church and King--at the eventual cost of...

Steinfels, Peter. A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 416p. index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-684-83663-7). American Catholicism occupies an integral position in the national arena. With its huge school, hospital, and social welfare systems, the Catholic Church profoundly impacts the...

Tada, Joni Eareckson. The God I Love: A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 304p. Zondervan, $22.99 (0-310-24008-5). 277.3. Tada has had a blessed life. From an idyllic childhood, during which a larger-than-life father beguiled her with tales true and tall, to an adult life as actress, author, and...

The Best of Emerge Magazine.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Ed. by George E. Curry and William Sandifer. Aug. 2003. 704p. illus. Ballantine/One World, paper, $19.95 (0-345-46228-9). 305.896. Emerge magazine earned widespread respect among African American readers for its biting social commentary and...

Hats off to ... (News & views).(Literary awards)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Esteemed American writer Susan Sontag, author of, most recently, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), has been named a winner of the 2003 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, given for outstanding work in several genres by the Prince of...

Banned but back again. (News & views).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... When the first edition of The Joy Of Gay Sex, by Charles Silverstein, was published in 1977, it created quite a stir, not only for its subject matter but also for the graphic line drawings that illustrated the text. The book was banned, burned,...

More reappearances. (News & views).(Barnes & Noble new classic literature series)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Barnes & Noble has launched a new series entitled Barnes & Noble Classics (dist. by Sterling), which are new editions of classics of literature, each one handsomely and sturdily bound and very reasonably priced. Each title in the series will...

Book discussion aids. (News & views).(SparkNotes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Barnes & Noble now owns SparkNotes (dist. by Sterling), founded in 1999 by four Harvard seniors as study guides for high-school and college students. The series includes important classic and contemporary pieces of literature, and each volume...

Boyne, Walter J. The Influence of Air Power upon History.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 450p. index. Pelican, $35 (1-58980-034-6). 358.4. Prolific aviation writer Boyne offers a comprehensive, balanced overview of war in the air. Including balloons and dirigibles in his purview allows him to extend coverage back to...

Flayhart, William Henry. Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters 1850 to the Present.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 288p. illus. index. Norton, $26.95 (0-393-04155-7). 363.12. Every possible way a ship can sink is represented in this catalog of marine casualty. Collision, fire, engine explosion, grounding, storm, and a torpedo caused the 20...

Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Everyday Life in the French Heartland under the German Occupation.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 512p. illus. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $32.50 (0-8050-6630-6). 381. According to his introduction, Gildea's take on Occupied France has gotten him into trouble before. By avoiding the conventional narratives of life under Nazi...

Hansen, Drew D. The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 288p. index. Ecco, $23.95 (0-06-008476-6). 323. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1963 march on Washington and King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which thrust King into the national spotlight, provided a...

Height, Dorothy. Open Wide the Freedom.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 352p. PublicAffairs, $26 (1-58648-157-6). 323. Height has devoted her life to the struggle for civil rights. Now 91 years old and still serving as chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, Height walks...

Heil, Alan L. Voice of America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 544p. index. Columbia, $37.50 (0-231-12674-3). 384.54. Heil, a former correspondent and deputy director of the Voice of America, offers an inside look at the publicly funded overseas broadcasting network that is little known in...

Kersten, Jason. Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 256p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-018470-1). 364.15. Sixteen months in the penitentiary seems a trivial penalty for second-degree murder, but that was Raffi Kodikian's stretch for killing his buddy David Coughlin in 1999....

Lipsky, David. Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 336p. illus. Houghton, $25 (0-618-09542-X). 355. Rolling Stone journalist Lipsky, who specializes in portraying college students, turns to a certain college on the Hudson: West Point. He follows a graduating class through their...

McCrary, Gregg O. and Ramsland, Katherine. The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators among Us.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 336p. illus. index. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-050957-0). 363.25. Many of us may think we know quite a lot about FBI profilers, but, says the former supervisor of the bureau's behavioral science unit, our knowledge comes almost...

The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Ed. by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillan. July 2003. 704p. index. New Press, $65 (1-56584-827-6); paper, $21.95 (1-56584-682-6). 303.484. Progressive radicalism, the array of traditions that "seeks to expand existing definitions...

Wise Guys: Stories of Mobsters from Jersey to Vegas.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Ed. by Clint Willis. July 2003. 364p. Thunder's Mouth/Adrenaline, paper, $17.95 (1-56025-498-X). 364.106. Reprising his anthology Mob (2001), editor Willis again raids the vault of previously published Mafiana. Libraries need no reminder of...

Court, Jamie. Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom ... and What You Can Do about It.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 336p. index. Putnam/Tarcher, $24.95 (1-58542-228-2). 364.16. From Starbucks to Nike, companies across industry lines spend untold millions of dollars selling themselves not as engines for corporate profit but as reflections of...

Coxe, Donald. The New Reality of Wall Street: an Investor's Survival Guide to Triple Waterfalls and Other Stock Market Perils.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 288p. index. McGraw-Hill, $27.95 (0-07-141753-2). 332. Coxe describes the spectacular rise and fall of technology and telecom stocks as a "Triple Waterfall," a technical analyst's term for a classic boom-and-bust event. In events...

Kerrison, Michael. Landing on Your Feet: A Story of Business Mistakes, Survival, and Success.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 295p. index. Broadview, $23.95 (0-9728566-9-2). 658. Kerrison has founded three technology companies that have reached multimillion-dollar levels and earned national recognition, and although his is a rags-to-riches story, it is...

McNall, Bruce and D'Antonio, Michael. Fun while It Lasted: My Rise and Fall in the Land of Fame and Fortune.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 304p. illus. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-7868-6864-3). 364.16. McNall, former millionaire owner of the L.A. Kings hockey team, provides an absorbing first-person account of his rise and fall in the arcane world of antiques, and the...

Stevens, Mark. Your Marketing Sucks.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 160p. Crown Business, $24 (0-609-60983-1). 658.8. Stevens, a marketing consultant, promotes his theories by teaching readers how to get a positive return on their marketing investment. He offers strategies that include aligning...

Sacks, David. Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 224p. illus. Broadway, $24.95 (0-7679-1172-5). 411. From aleph (ancient forerunner of our own a), discovered carved in Egyptian stone as part of the oldest known alphabetic inscription, all the way to the repeated Zs that help...

Aczel, Amir D. Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 288p. illus. index. Atria, $24 (0-7434-6478-8). 525. The Foucault pendulum is a stalwart exhibit in many science museums because it tangibly demonstrates the Earth's rotation. Until Leon Foucault thought of the setup in 1851, as...

Casati, Roberto. The Shadow Club: The Great Mystery in the Universe--Shadows--and the Thinkers Who Unlocked Their Secrets.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 224p. illus. index. Knopf, $24 (0-375-40727-8). 535.4. Physicist Casati confesses that at one time he regarded shadows as banal phenomena, just ordinary blockades of light, whether performed by a planet or a playful child....

Earley, Chris G. Sparrows & Finches of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America.(Warblers of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Earley, Chris G. Sparrows & Finches of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America. 2003. 124p. illus. Firefly, $24.95 (1-55297-804-4); paper, $16.95 (1-55297-707-2). 598.8. Earley, Chris G. Warblers of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern...

Klimley, A. Peter. The Secret Life of Sharks: A Leading Marine Biologist Reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 320p. index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-4170-3). 597.3. Sharks. The word alone conveys a sense of menace and power that is fully at home in a medium that is not our own. Inspired to study the behavior of sharks by watching...

Oldfield, Sara. Rainforest.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 2003. 160p. illus. index. MIT, $29.95 (0-262-15106-5). 578.734. Rain forests are magical places. More than half of the world's species are found in just the canopy layer of these forests, which are found on every continent (save Antarctica)...

* Quammen, David. Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 384p. illus. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05140-4). 591.6. "One man's monster is another man's God," observes renowned science writer Quammen in this fresh and many-faceted inquiry into the complex and crucial relationship between...

Sims, Michael. Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 330p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03224-7). 612. From Houdini's toes (astonishingly dexterous) to Charlton Heston's hair (prophetically regal), Sims surveys the ways in which cultural ingenuity has embellished and interpreted...

Boisard, Pierre. Camembert: A National Myth.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Tr. by Richard Miller. July 2003. 239p. index. Univ. of California, $29.95 (0-520-22550-3). 637. Out of the literally hundreds of varieties of French cheeses, Camembert, along with Roquefort and Brie, holds title as one of the nation's...

Clary, David. Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 368p. illus. Hyperion/Theia, $24.95 (0-7868-6817-1). 629.4. No biography of the inventor of the liquid-fueled rocket has appeared since Robert Goddard's widow orchestrated the hagiography This High Man by Milton Lehman (1963)....

* Seaman, Barbara. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 336p. index. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-7868-6853-8). 615. Science journalist Seaman, cofounder of the National Women's Health Network, takes no prisoners in this scathing indictment of hormone replacement therapy in general and...

Millstone, Erik and Lang, Tim. The Penguin Atlas of Food.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 2003. 128p. illus. index. Penguin, paper, $20 (0-14-200224-0). 664. By means of colored maps, bar graphs, pie charts, and data tables, Millstone and Lang make comprehensible a wealth of complex statistical data on where the food we eat...

Barondes, Samuel H. Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 240p. index. Oxford, $26 (0-19-515130-5). 616.85. About 50 years ago, a funny thing happened to scientists searching for a remedy for the common cold: they discovered a drug that helped people sleep better. Then an even funnier...

Bridgewood, Les. Hydroponics: Soilless Gardening Explained.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 141p. illus. index. Crowood; dist. by Trafalgar, paper, $29.95 (1-86126-560-3). 635.9. Ripe, juicy tomatoes in winter; lush, exotic blooms all year long. As an alternative to traditional, soil-based gardening, hydroponics offers...

Cooper, Guy and Taylor, Gordon. The Curious Gardeners' Six Elements of Garden Design.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 192p. illus. index. Headline; dist. by Trafalgar, $35 (0-7553-1068-3). 635.9. Cooper and Taylor, renowned garden writers and internationally recognized landscape designers, have established a new career well suited to their...

* DeMatteis, J. M. and Bart, Glenn. Brooklyn Dreams.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 2003. 384p. illus. DC Comics/Vertigo, paper, $12.95 (1-4012-0051-6). 741.5. In this chunky graphic novel, fortyish Vincent Carl Santini recalls his senior year (1970-71) in high school. But first he retreats to August, before school...

Al Williamson Adventures.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Ed. by Mark Wheatley and others. July 2003. 96p. illus. Insight Studios; dist. by Diamond, $34.95 (1-889317-17-9). 741.5. Williamson is best known for the gorgeous sf stories he illustrated in the 1950s for various EC Comics. His style has...

Bell, Gabrielle. When I'm Old and Other Stories.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 2003. 128p. illus. Alternative Comics, 503 NW 37th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609, paper, $12.95 (1-891867-43-1). 741.5. These stories originally appeared in "mini-comix"--photocopied pamphlets self-published with total disregard for their...

Cullen, Cheryl and Schell, Amy. Identity Solutions: How to Create Effective Brands with Letterheads, Logos and Business Cards.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 2003. 144p. illus. index. F&W/HOW Design, $32.99 (1-58180-407-5). 770. There's only one opportunity to make a first impression--and when business materials and messages represent a company, identity is it. Identity systems containing...

Kingsland, Rosemary. The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 352p. Crown, $24.95 (1-4000-4782-X). 823. When she was only 13, Kingsland met the charismatic and talented Richard Burton in a London cafe. Almost a year later, they were having an affair. Kingsland kept her age a secret from...

Kuper, Peter and Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 80p. illus. Crown, $18 (1-4000-4795-1). 741.5. Kuper follows his adaptations of shorter Kafka stories (Give It Up!, 1995) with one of the author's most renowned works, the tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find...

Loeb, Jeph and others. Batman: Hush: v.1.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... 2003. 128p. illus. DC Comics, $19.95 (1-4012-0061-3). 741.5. Late last year, DC revitalized one of its major franchises when it assigned Batman to Jim Lee, one of the hottest comics artists, and Jeph Loeb, an equally popular scripter. The...

Maisch, Rob and Hampton, Scott. Confessions of a Cereal Eater: V.2.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 96p. illus. NBM, paper, $9.95 (1-56163-352-6). 741.5. Like his more renowned autobiographical-comics compatriot, American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar, Maisch writes the scripts about his heartland experiences and has a team of...

Nash, Alanna. The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... July 2003. 408p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-1301-7). 782.42166. Colonel Tom Parker was born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, in Breda, Holland, in 1909. He immigrated to the U.S. to live the carny life, became a promoter of country...