Booklist articles from July 2004

Booklist archives from July 2004

Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Bin Laden, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia. July 2004. 208p. Warner, $23.95 (0-446-57708-1). 953.8. Married in 1974 to Osama Bin Laden's older brother, Carmen Bin Laden spent nine years futilely attempting to adjust to...

Breslin, Jimmy. The Church That Forgot Christ.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Breslin, Jimmy. The Church That Forgot Christ. July 2004. 256p. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-6647-1). 250. In a book that the Roman Catholic curia will surely condemn, Breslin, a noted columnist and commentator and best-selling author, pulls no...

Greene, Bob. Fraternity: a Journey in Search of Five Presidents.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Greene, Bob. Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents. Sept. 2004. 304p. Crown, $24 (1-4000-5464-8). 973.92. Bob Greene's back, and the good news is he's found a topic that doesn't have anything to do with his younger self or...

Keillor, Garrison. Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Keillor, Garrison. Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America. July 2004. 236p. Viking, $19.95 (0-670-03365-0). 818. In his contribution to the latest U.S. presidential election campaign, the writer-host of NPR's...

Burroughs, Augusten. Magical Thinking: True Stories.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... * Burroughs, Augusten. Magical Thinking: True Stories. Oct. 2004. 288p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-31594-5). 813.6. Like fellow essayists David Sedaris and Jonathan Ames, Burroughs possesses a mind-set best described as superlatively...

McGinniss, Joe. The Big Horse.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... McGinniss, Joe. The Big Horse. July 2004. 263p. Simon & Schuster, $24.95 (0-7432-6079-1). 798.4. Horse-racing enthusiasts might well envy McGinniss for his assignment, which was to hang about three of the country's most beautiful...

Randal, Jonathan. Osama: the Making of a Terrorist.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Randal, Jonathan. Osama: The Making of a Terrorist. Aug. 2004. 336p. index. Knopf, $26.95 (0-375-40901-7). 958.104. How did an estranged member of a wealthy Saudi family, with long connections to the royal Sauds, come to lead an Islamic...

Thompson, Hunter S. Hey Rube.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Thompson, Hunter S. Hey Rube. Aug. 2004. 272p. Simon & Schuster, $23 (0-684-87319-2). 808.84. Thompson is, of course, the author of several New York Times best-selling books, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), which is...

Binchy, Maeve. Nights of Rain and Stars.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Binchy, Maeve. Nights of Rain and Stars. Sept. 2004. 320p. Dutton, $25.95 (0-525-94754-X). In perennially popular Binchy's latest, four strangers on holiday in Greece band together after witnessing a tragic boating accident to become...

Bradbury, Ray. The Cat's Pajamas: Stories.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Bradbury, Ray. The Cat's Pajamas. July 2004. 256p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-058565-X). The grand old man of American sf and fantasy proffers one more collection of his characteristically brief stories, consisting of about equal parts recent...

Brown, Sandra. White Hot.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Brown, Sandra. White Hot. Aug. 2004. 432p. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (0-7432-4553-9). Brown's latest thriller centers on a successful but corrupt family in Destiny, Louisiana. Sayre Lynch vowed never to return to Destiny after she changed...

Dickey, Eric Jerome. Drive Me Crazy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Dickey, Eric Jerome. Drive Me Crazy. July 2004 380p. Dutton, $23.95 (0-525-94790-6). Another novel with a cliched title--but with an atypical backdrop. The famous Dickey love-story formula here begins with intrigue, but it turns into what...

Fforde, Jasper. Something Rotten.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Fforde, Jasper. Something Rotten. Aug. 2004. 385p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03359-6). In the fourth Thursday Next book, following The Well of Lost Plots [BKL D 15 03], the literary detective is fed up with the bureaucracy and red tape of...

Fielding, Helen. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Fielding, Helen. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination. July 2004. 306p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03333-2). More than anything, freelance journalist Olivia Joules wants to write serious news stories, but because of her "vivid"...

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... * Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Sept. 2004. 800p. Bloomsbury, $27.95 (1-58234-416-7). It's surprising that this first novel works at all. Readers have to accept an especially fanciful premise but, as it quickly becomes...

Gerritsen, Tess. Body Double.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Gerritsen, Tess. Body Double. Sept. 2004. 352p Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-45893-1). Last seen in The Sinner (2003), medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles has just returned from a trip to France to encounter a grisly discovery. A woman has been...

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Queen of Dreams.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... * Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Queen of Dreams. Sept. 2004. 352p. Doubleday, $21.95 (0-385-50682-1). Divakaruni's socially and psychologically precise fiction always possesses a mystical dimension, whether overtly, as in The Mistress of...

Hambly, Barbara. Dead Water.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Hambly, Barbara. Dead Water. Aug. 2004. 320p. Bantam, $25 (0-553-10964-2). The latest entry in the deservedly popular Benjamin January series finds the amateur sleuth investigating a couple of mysteries. The bank that holds all his money...

Harris, Joanne. Jigs & Reels.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Harris, Joanne. Jigs & Reels. Sept. 2004. 288p. Morrow, $24 95 (0-06-059013-0). The popular author of Chocolat (1999) and Five Quarters of the Orange (2001) is best known for her sensual descriptions of food and her pleasing portraits of...

Hillhouse, Raelynn. Rift Zone.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Hillhouse, Raelynn. Rift Zone. Aug. 2004. 352p. Tor/Forge, $24.95 (0-765-31013-9). Hillhouse shows a firm grasp of suspense and intrigue in her auspicious debut, a satisfying international thriller. Weaned on the risky exploits of her...

Furst, Alan. Dark Voyage.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... * Furst, Alan. Dark Voyage. Aug. 2004. 288p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6018-4) It's taken Furst longer than it should have to attract a wide audience, but the acclaim is growing steadily now for his series of historical spy thrillers set in...

Hoag, Tami. Kill the Messenger.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Hoag, Tami. Kill the Messenger. July 2004. 421p. Bantam, $26 (0-553-80195-3). Nineteen-year-old Jace Damon has had a hard life. His mother died when he was just 13, and since then he has been struggling to raise his younger brother, all...

Isaacs, Susan. Any Place I Hang My Hat.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Isaacs, Susan. Any Place I Hang My Hat. Oct. 2004. 400p. Scribner, $26 (0-7432-4215-7). Amy Lincoln has a knack for fitting in wherever she finds herself, whether it's attending an Ivy League college, visiting inmates in the state pen, or...

Jakes, John. Savannah; or, a Gift from Mr. Lincoln.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Jakes, John. Savannah; or, A Gift from Mr. Lincoln. Oct. 2004. 304p. Dutton, $23.95 (0-525-94803-1). It is the winter of 1864, and the port city of Savannah has a bad case of the shakes. Union general William T. Sherman has burned Atlanta,...

McBain, Ed. Hark!(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... * McBain, Ed. Hark! Aug. 2004. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $24.95 (0-7432-5035-4). The Deaf Man is not a dead man. The brilliant criminal, double-crossed by his female partner in Mischief 1993) and left for dead, is back to make life miserable...

Jen, Gish. The Love Wife.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Jen, Gish. The Love Wife. Sept. 2004. 400p. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4213-5). Jen--a writer of great comedic skills, candor, and imagination, who specializes in cultural collisions--portrays a hugely entertainingly American family in her third...

Patterson, James. Sam's Letters to Jennifer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Patterson, James. Sam's Letters to Jennifer. July 2004. 272p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-71057-1). After the success of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2001), it should surprise no one that Patterson is trying his hand at another romantic...

Ozick, Cynthia. Heir to the Glimmering World.(Book Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... * Ozick, Cynthia. Heir to the Glimmering World. Sept. 2004. 320p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-47049-2). Ozick sets in motion a kaleidoscopic array of complex entanglements in her much anticipated new novel, a work of scintillating intelligence...

Perry, Anne. Shoulder the Sky.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Perry, Anne. Shoulder the Sky. Sept. 2004. 352p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-45654-8). With a title drawn from a poem by A. E. Housman, this picks up Perry's new World War I mystery-espionage series, which began with No Graves as Yet (2003)....

Slaughter, Karin. Indelible.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Slaughter, Karin. Indelible. Aug. 2004. 368p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-056710-4). This fourth entry in Slaughter's Grant County series features meticulous plotting, a cast full of the walking wounded, and gruesome forensic detail. Small-town...

Spark, Muriel. The Finishing School.(Book Review )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Spark, Muriel. The Finishing School. Sept. 2004. 192p. Doubleday, $16.95 (0-3855-1282-1). Spark's long, distinguished career (which includes the perennial favorite The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961) will be enhanced by her new novel,...

Turtledove, Harry. Settling Accounts: Return Engagement.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Turtledove, Harry. Return Engagements. Aug. 2004. 640p. Del Rey, $26.95 (0-345-45723-4), The latest volume of Turtledove's epic variation on American history, which opens the trilogy Settling Accounts, takes us to the opening battles of...

Germond, Jack W. Fat Man Fed Up: How American Politics Went Bad.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Germond, Jack W. Fat Man Fed Up: How American Politics Went Bad. July 2004. 288p. index. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6154-7). 070. Journalist Germond offers scathing criticism of politicians, the press, and the public, on the basis of 40 years...

Silvey, Anita. 100 Best Books for Children.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Silvey, Anita. 100 Best Books for Children. 2004. 208p. index. Houghton, $20 (0-618-27889-2). 011.62 Silvey sets a difficult task for herself: out of the whole world of children's literature, she picks 100 titles no child should miss. Her...

Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Smith, David Livingstone. Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind. July 2004. 256p. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31039-0). 153.6 The brain, especially the unconscious mind, is the ultimate challenge...

Evans, Michael D. The American Prophecies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Evans, Michael D. The American Prophecies. Aug. 2004.256p. Warner/Faith, $18.95 (0-446-52252-X). 277.3 Evans, whose last book, Beyond Iraq (2003), tied biblical prophecies to the current war, here ascribes the hostilities between Arabs and...

Kozak, Warren. The Rabbi of 84th Street: the Extraordinary Life of Haskel Besser.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Kozak, Warren. The Rabbi of 84th Street: The Extraordinary Life of Haskel Besser. July 2004. 224p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-051101-X). 296.8. Besser, a Hasidic rabbi born in Poland, escaped his homeland on the day that World War II...

Idle minds.(The Manley Arts)(Portrait of a Lady)
July 1, 2004... Last week I finally finished Henry James' masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady. I can't remember taking so long to read a book. I carried it around with me everywhere I went for a good eight weeks. You're probably thinking that my inability to...

Best American Crime Writing, 2004.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Best American Crime Writing, 2004. Ed by Otto Penzler and Thomas Cook. Aug. 2004. 528p. Vintage, paper, $14 (0-375-71302-6) 364.973. The third installment in this excellent annual series of nonfiction crime writing comprises 20 pieces...

Border-line Personalities: a New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Border-line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting. Ed. by Robyn Moreno and Michelle Herrera Mulligan. July 2004. 336p. HarperCollins/Rayo, paper, $12.95 (0-06-058076-3). 305.48. In her foreword to...

Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... * Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Aug 2004 410p. index. Penguin, $27.95 (1-59420-024-6). 321.8. In this follow-up to their successful Empire (2000), academics Hardt and Negri take on...

Bozell, L. Brent. Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Bozell, L. Brent. Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media. July 2004. 272p, index. Crown Forum, $25.95 (1-4000-5378-1). 302.23. Notwithstanding the large and growing numbers of conservative commentators on...

Brende, Eric. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Brende, Eric. Better Off: Pulling the Plug on Technology Aug. 2004. 256p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-057004-0). 303.48 Deriving from research for a master's degree at MIT, this work dramatizes the 18 months Brende and his wife lived...

Burroughs, Bryan. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Burroughs, Bryan. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 July 2004. 572p. index. Penguin/The Penguin Press, $27.95 (1-59420-021-1). 364.973. The literature on Depression-era desperadoes such as John...

Conlon-McIvor, Maura. FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Conlon-McIvor, Maura. FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code. Aug. 2004.306p, Warner, $23 (0-446-53310-6). 363. Growing up Catholic in the 1960s, Conlon-McIvor's favorite religious figure was the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her...

Longrigg, Clare. No Questions Asked: the Secret Life of Women in the Mob.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Longrigg, Clare. No Questions Asked: The Secret Life of Women in the Mob. July 2004. 288p Hyperion/Miramax, $24.95 (0-4013-5185-9). 364.106. Longrigg deflates the popular image of the "mob moll" as a platinum-haired, bejeweled ditz with no...

Morrow, Susan Brind. Wolves & Honey: a Hidden History of New York State.(Book review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Morrow, Susan Brind. Wolves & Honey: A Hidden History of New York State. July 2004, 144p illus. Houghton, $22 (0-618-09856-9). 306. A linguist, naturalist, and classicist, Morrow, whose previous book, The Names of Things (1997), celebrated...

Hart, Gary. The Fourth Power: a Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Hart, Gary. The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century. July 2004. 176p. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-517683-9). 327.73. Since the end of the cold war, assorted pundits have bemoaned America's supposed...

Neiwert, David A. Death on the Fourth of July: a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Neiwert, David A. Death on the Fourth of July: A Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America. July 2004. 242p. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $26.95 (1-4039-6501-3). 364.152. Ocean Shores, Washington, July 4, 2000: three Asian American...

Simon, Linda. Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Simon, Linda. Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray. July 2004. 368p. illus. index. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-100586-9). 303.48. College literature professor Simon presents a cultural history of the invention of...

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships. Ed. by Emily Bernard. July 2004. 240p. HarperCollins/ Amistad, $23.95 (0-06-008276-3). 302.3. As if friendships weren't complex enough, Bernard offers essays that add the...

Information for your literary-minded library patrons.(News & views)(Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Graywolf Press has announced the first annual Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. A $12,000 advance and publication by Graywolf Press in February 2006 will be awarded to the best previously unpublished, full-length work of literary nonfiction by a...

Celebrate.(News & views)(Isaac Bashevis Singer)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the much-loved fiction writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, who, in 1978, became the seventh American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Library of America will celebrate in its own...

Kudos.(News & views)(Bill Ott)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... We are very pleased to announce that Booklist editor and publisher Bill Ott has been awarded the 2004 James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism from the distinguished Society of Midland Authors. --Brad Hooper (bhooper@ala.org)

von Hoffman, Nicholas. Hoax.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... von Hoffman, Nicholas. Hoax. 2004. 224p. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, paper, $13.95 (1-56025-582-X). 320.973. American gullibility for the images painted by our presidents made us vulnerable to the Bush administration's campaign to invade Iraq...

Waugh, Billy and Keown, Tim. Hunting the Jackal: a Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier's Fifty-Year Career Hunting America's Enemies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Waugh, Billy and Keown, Tim. Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier's Fifty-Year Career Hunting America's Enemies. July 2004. 256p. illus. Morrow, $23.95 (0-06-056409-1). 327.1273. In this all-action memoir, Waugh,...

The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Cullinane, Jan and Fitzgerald, Cathy. Retire Right: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life. July 2004. 480p. index. Rodale, paper, $19.95 (1-57954-796-6). 646.7. When can I afford to retire? Where do I want to live? Should I rent or...

Meyer, Laurence H. A Term at the End: an Insider's View.(Book Review)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Meyer, Laurence H. A Term at the End: An Insider's View July 2004, 288p. index. HarperBusiness, $26.95 (0-06-054270-5). 332.1 Meyer served as a governor at the Federal Reserve Board, one of the most powerful financial institutions in the...

Mintzberg, Henry. Managers Not MBAs: a Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Mintzberg, Henry. Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. July 2004. 472p. index. Berrett-Koehler, $27.95 (1-57675-275-5). 658.007. "Conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the...

Sabatino, Colleen A. The Play of Your Life: Your Program for Finding the Career of Your Dreams--and a Step-by-Step Guide to Making It a Reality.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Sabatino, Colleen A. The Play of Your Life: Your Program for Finding the Career of Your Dreams--and a Step-by-Step Guide to Making It a Reality. July 2004. 288p. index. Rodale, paper, $16.95 (1-57954-964-0). 650.14. Sabatino, a nationally...

Ellis, Richard. No Turning Back: the Life and Death of Animal Species.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Ellis, Richard. No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species. Aug. 2004. 432p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-055803-2). 576.8. The prolific Ellis normally writes about sea creatures (e.g., Aquagenesis, 2001); here he...

Gee, Henry. Jacob's Ladder: the History of the Human Genome.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Gee, Henry. Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome. July 2004. 352p. illus. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05083-1). 599.93 In this history of the biology of embryonic development and variation, Gee guards against the tendency to...

Slotten, Ross A. The Heretic in Darwin's Court: the Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... * Slotten, Ross A. The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. July 2004. 578p. illus. index. Columbia, $39.50 (0-231-13010-4). 508. As a scientist, Charles Darwin will probably always tower above the man with whom he...

Huler, Scott. Defining the Wind: the Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Huler, Scott. Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. Aug. 2004. 288p. illus. index. Crown, $23 (1-4000-4884-2). 551.51. During the course of copyediting, Huler encountered the...

Gaita, Raimond. The Philosopher's Dog: Friendship with Animals.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Gaita, Raimond. The Philosopher's Dog: Friendship with Animals. July 2004. 224p. Random, $23.95 (1-4000-6110-5). 636.7 Although billed as addressing what we learn about animals from our relationships with them, this discursive inquiry is...

Biringen, Zeynep. Raising a Secure Child: Creating an Emotional Connection between You and Your Child.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Biringen, Zeynep. Raising a Secure Child: Creating an Emotional Connection between You and Your Child. July 2004. 336p. index. Perigee, paper, $15.95 (0-399-52994-2). 649. Child psychologist Biringen draws on 16 years of research to help...

Martin, Paul. Counting Sheep: the Science and Pleasure of Sleep and Dreams.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Martin, Paul. Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasure of Sleep and Dreams. July 2004. 432p. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-32743-9). 612.8. As Martin catalogs what science has learned about sleep, he also exhibits a...

Nagami, Pamela. Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Nagami, Pamela. Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings. July 2004. 368p. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31822-7). 617.1. Sometimes it's as obvious as a crocodile's steely jaws closing on a limb. Other times, it's a sting that...

Gill, Gillian. Nightingales: the Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... * Gill, Ginlan. Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale. Sept. 2004. 624p. Ballantine, $27.95 (0-345-45187-2). 610.73. What Florence Nightingale--the legendary Lady with the Lamp--did for...

Townsend, Susanne Grayson. How to Eat Like a Republican, or, Hold the Mayo, Muffy--I'm Feeling Miracle Whipped Tonight.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Townsend, Susanne Grayson. How to Eat Like a Republican; or, Hold the Mayo, Muffy--I'm Feeling Miracle Whipped Tonight. July 2004. 208p. illus. index. Villard, paper, $14.95 (0-8129-7102-7). 641.5. Empirical evidence might demonstrate that...

Turner, Jack. Spice: the History of a Temptation.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Turner, Jack. Spice: The History of a Temptation. Aug, 2004. 352p. index. Knopf, $25.95 (0-375-40721-9). 641.3. According to Turner's insightful interpretation of history, European expansion in the fifteenth century arose not out of...

The Comics Journal Special Edition: Conversations among Four Generations of Cartoonists.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... The Comics Journal Special Edition: Conversations among Four Generations of Cartoonists. Ed. by Gary Groth. 2004. 192p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $22.95 (1-56097-538-5). 741.5. The latest semiannual Comics Journal monograph special...

Neate, Patrick. Where You're At.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Neate, Patrick. Where You're At. Aug. 2004. 288p. Riverhead, paper, $14 (1-5944-8012-5). 782.421649. Taking its title from an old Eric B. and Rakim track called "I Know You Got Soul," Neate's book is not so much an analysis of worldwide...

Saulsberry, Rodney. You Can Bank on Your Voice: Your Guide to a Successful Career in Voices-Overs.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Saulsberry, Rodney. You Can Bank on Your Voice: Your Guide to a Successful Career in Voices-Overs. July 2004. 200p. index. Tomdor, P.O. Box 1735, Agoura Hills, CA 91376, paper, $16.95 (0-9747678-0-8). 791.45. Saulsberry, a successful...

Weschler, Lawrence. Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Weschler, Lawrence. Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies. July 2004. 416p. illus. Pantheon, $25 (0-679-44270-7). 700. Weschler, longtime writer for the New Yorker, offers a collection of 20 articles and essays...

Cicale, Annie. The Art & Craft of Hand Lettering: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Cicale, Annie. The Art & Craft of Hand Lettering: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration. July 2004. 192p. illus. index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-403-3). 745.6. Practice, practice, practice. As with any skill, that's the key to becoming...

Leigh, Tera. Faux Mosaics: Make 20 Paper Projects in Three Simple Steps.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Leigh, Tera. Faux Mosaics: Make 20 Paper Projects in Three Simple Steps. Aug. 2004. 80p. illus. North Light, paper, $16.99 (1-58180-565-9). 736.38. "A little piece of paper... sparked a big idea," writes Leigh in this beginner's guide to...

Kriegel, Mark. Namath.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... * Kriegel, Mark. Namath. Aug. 2004 440p. illus. index. Viking, $2.795 (0-670-03329-4). 796.33. When Joe Namath, fueled by more than a few scotches, guaranteed in January 1969 that his underdog New York Jets--from the upstart American...

Yates, Brock. Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Yates, Brock. Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years. July 2004. 256p. illus. Thunder's Mouth, $24.95 (1-56025-526-9). 796.92. The year 1955 saw a tragic convergence of high-octane auto technology and an overall...

Baldwin, James and Stein, Sol. Native Sons: a Friendships That Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Baldwin, James and Stein, Sol. Native Sons: A Friendship That Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century. Aug. 2004. 272p. Ballantine/One World, $24.95 (0-345-46935-6). 818. James Baldwin and Sol Stein each gravitated to the...

St. John, Warren. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: a Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... * St. John, Warren. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania. Aug. 2004. 304p. Crown, $24 (0-609-60708-1). 796.332. Wearing a very thin veneer of journalistic detachment, veteran reporter St. John decided to...

The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue. Ed. by Wendy Lesser. July 2004. 256p. Pantheon, $23 (0-375-42238-2). 820.9. Word: On Being a [Woman] Writer. Ed. by Jocelyn Burrell. July 2004. 256p. Feminist, paper,...

Higgins, Aidan. A Bestiary.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Higgins, Aidan. A Bestiary. July 2004. 746p. Dalkey Archive, $49.95 (1-56478-358-8); paper, $14.95 (1-56478-357-X). 823. Higgins may be County Cork's most prolific living literary aesthete, perhaps most familiar to Americans as the author...

Williamson, Edwin. Borges.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... * Williamson, Edwin. Borges Aug 2004. 550p. index. Viking, $29.95 (0-670-88579-7). 868. Jorge Luis Borges is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, an Argentine writer of singular vision and talent profoundly inspired by...