Booklist articles from July 2006

Booklist archives from July 2006

Breitweiser, Kristen. Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Breitweiser, Kristen. Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow. Sept. 2006. 292p. Warner, $24.99 (0-446-57932-7). 973.931092. Breitweiser, whose husband perished in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11,...

Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Oct. 2006. 224p. Broadway, $25 (0-7679-1936-X). 910.4092. Travel humorist Bryson took a decisive stand regarding his hometown almost 20 years ago when he published the story "Fat...

Canfield, Jack and Hendricks, Gay. You've Got to Read This Book! 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Canfield, Jack and Hendricks, Gay. You've Got to Read This Book! 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life. Sept. 2006. 304p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-089169-6). 028.8. Canfield, the co-creator and editor of the...

Hart, Gary. The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Hart, Gary. The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats. Sept. 2006.224p. index. Holt/Times, $20 (0-8050-8101-1). 324.2736. Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Hart remains a strong voice in the Democratic Party...

Horne, Jed. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Horne, Jed. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. July 2006. 424p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6552-6). 976.3. Horne, metro editor of the Times-Picayune, brings the enormous tragedy of Hurricane...

Moore, James and Slater, Wayne. The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Moore, James and Slater, Wayne. The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power. Sept. 2006.304p. Crown, $25.95 (0-307-23792-3). 973.931092 Moore and Slater, authors of the best-selling Bush's Brain (2003), take a scalpel...

Sherr, Lynn. Outside the Box.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Sherr, Lynn. Outside the Box. Sept. 2006. 384p. Rodale, $25.95 (1-59486-257-5). 070.1. Sherr, an ABC correspondent and pioneer in network news, here offers a memoir as well as historical perspective on television news, the women's...

Spoto, Donald. Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Spoto, Donald. Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn. Sept. 2006. 368p. index. Harmony, $25.95 (0-307-23758-3). 791.4302. Spoto's career has taken on an interesting split personality lately, as he has alternated between celebrity...

Stashower, Daniel. The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Stashower, Daniel. The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder. Oct. 2006. 352p. Dutton, $25.95 (0-525-94981-X). 364.15. Mystery novelist Stashower, who won a nonfiction Edgar for Teller of Tales...

Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck. Oct. 2006. 464p. illus. Crown, $25.95 (1-4000-8066-5). 3604.152 In his follow-up to the enormously popular The Devil in the White City (2003), Larson sticks to a formula that works: pairing the story of a...

Boyle, T. C.: Talk Talk.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Boyle, T. C. Talk Talk. July 2006. 340p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03770-2). General Fiction. Boyle sculpts his bold but meticulous new novel out of a frightening premise, a case of identity theft, which, with terrorism, is one of the twin...

Cox, Michael. The Meaning of Night: A Confession.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Cox, Michael. The Meaning of Night: A Confession. Sept. 2006. 704p. Norton, $26.95 (0-393-06203-1). Crime Fiction. This enthralling historical novel-set in London in 1854, cast as a confession, and written in the dense and formal style of...

Brown, Sandra. Ricochet.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Brown, Sandra. Ricochet. Aug. 2006. 400p. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (0-7432-8933-1). Crime Fiction. Detective Duncan Hatcher has no reason to like Cato Laird, the judge who let Robert Savich, a Savannah crime lord, slip through the cracks...

Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Fury.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Fury. Sept. 2006. 336p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-053048-0). General Fiction. Once again, Cornwell is right on target, providing an irresistible combination of rousing military history, penetrating character...

Hearn, Lian. The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori (Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Hearn, Lian. The Harsh Cry of the Heron. Sept. 2006. 544p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-59448-923-8). General Fiction. The Otori saga concludes in this gripping novel, set in the years after the previous book in the series, Brilliance of the Moon...

Jones, Edward P.: All Aunt Hagar's Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar's Children. Sept. 2006.320p. Amistad, $25.95 (0-06-055756-0). General Fiction In 14 short stories, Jones, author of the acclaimed novel The Known World (2003), demonstrates his skill at drawing complex and...

Meltzer, Brad. The Book of Fate.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Meltzer, Brad. The Book of Fate. Sept. 2006. 510p. Warner, $25.99 (0-446-53099-9). Crime Fiction. Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination attempt that kills the president's close friend. Eight years later,...

Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Girl/White Girl.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Girl/White Girl. Oct. 2006. 288p. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-112564-4). General Fiction. Volumes will be written about Oates' young women narrators, their vulnerability and covert power, their passive-aggressive quests...

Evanovich, Janet. Twelve Sharp.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Evanovich, Janet. Twelve Sharp. July 2006. 320p. St. Martin's, $26.95 (0-312-34948-3). Crime Fiction. In a manner almost elegant in its offhandedness, Stephanie Plum gets us up to speed on her life as a bounty hunter in Trenton, NJ; her...

Gaiman, Neil. Fragile Things.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Gaiman, Neil. Fragile Things. Oct. 2006. 320p. Avon, $26.95 0-06-051522-8). SF/Fantsay. Like the first and second, Gaiman's third collection of unillustrated short pieces (he has comics collections in his portfolio, too) showcases a...

Hamilton, Jane. When Madeline Was Young.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Hamilton, Jane. When Madeline Was Young. Sept. 2006. 272p. Doubleday, $22.95 0-385-51671-1). General Fiction. Hamilton, twice an Oprah author, is a master of the baffling and the bizarre. In her fifth and most psychologically prismatic...

Silva, Daniel. The Messenger.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Silva, Daniel. The Messenger. Aug. 2006.352p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15335-7). Crime Fiction. A terrorist bombing in St. Peter's Square leaves hundreds dead, the Pope injured, and the Basilica a ghastly, smoking pile. This tragedy...

Quindlen, Anna. Rise and Shine.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Quindlen, Anna. Rise and Shine. Aug. 2006.240p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50224-6). General Fiction. Muttering a string of bitter profanities sotto voce at the conclusion of a particularly contentious interview, Meghan Fitzmaurice, the queen...

Reichs, Kathy. Break No Bones.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Reichs, Kathy. Break No Bones. July 2006.352p. Scribner, $25.95 (0-7432-3349-2). Crime Fiction. In this ninth in the popular series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is spending two weeks in May on Dewees, a barrier island north of...

Roberts, Nora. Angels Fall.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Roberts, Nora. Angels Fall. July 2006.448p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-39915372-1). Romance. After suffering a horrific shock, Reece Gilmore is slowly starting to put her life back together. Leaving her home in Boston, Reece travels around the...

Smith, Lee. On Agate Hill.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Smith, Lee. On Agate Hill. Sept. 2006.384p. Algonquin/Shannon Ravenel, $24.95 (1-56512-452-9). General Fiction. This ever-popular novelist, author of, most recently, The Last Girls (2002), now turns to an increasingly popular genre,...

Walters, Minette. The Devil's Feather.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Walters, Minette. The Devil's Feather. Aug. 2006. 344p. Knopf, $24 (0-307-26462-9). Crime Fiction. The title refers to the phenomenon of a woman unwittingly igniting sexual passion in a man; the plot follows a woman's attempts to hide from...

Just, Ward. Forgetfulness.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Just, Ward. Forgetfulness. Sept. 2006.272p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-63463-0). General Fiction. The opposing forces of war and creativity drive Just's masterfully concentrated fiction. Following the acclaimed Korean War-era novel, An...

McDermott, Alice. After This.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * McDermott, Alice. After This. Sept. 2006.288p. Farrar, $24 0-374-16809-1). General Fiction. Word by word, metaphor by metaphor, McDermott writes the most exquisitely perceptive and atmospheric fiction published today. Heir to Woolf and...

Upcoming in upfront nonfiction.(Bibliography)
July 1, 2006... The titles listed below are scheduled for fall or early winter 2006 publication. Look for part 2 of our Upcoming in Upfront, which will feature fiction titles, in the August issue.--Brad Hooper Bradford, Sarah. Diana. Viking, $25.95...

Fine, Cordelia. A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Fine, Cordelia. A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives. July 2006. 224p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-06213-9). 150. Positive self-esteem, whether about one's morality, rationality, altruism, emotional maturity, or tolerance,...

Balmer, Randall. Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America; an Evangelical's Lament.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Balmer, Randall. Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America; An Evangelical's Lament. July 2006. 288p. Basic, $24.95 (0-465-00519-5). 270.8. Describing himself as "a jilted lover" whose evangelical...

Briggs, Kenneth. Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Briggs, Kenneth. Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns. July 2006. 272p. index. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-51636-3). 271. Briggs revisits the pivotal Vatican II years in this compelling expose of the...

Collins, Francis S. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Collins, Francis S. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. July 2006. 304p. index. Free Press, paper, $26 (0-7432-8639-1). 215. Head of the Human Genome Project, Collins is one of the most famous and important...

Campbell, Jeremy. The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Campbell, Jeremy. The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine. Aug. 2006. 384p. Norton, $26.95 (0-393-06179-5). 200. Readers who recognize Newton and Bohr as pathbreaking scientists may be surprised to learn...

Nasr, Vali. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Nasr, Vali. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. Aug. 2006. 304p. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-39306211-2). 297.8. About 15 percent of Muslims worldwide are Shia. In Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Bahrain, Shia...

Hendricks, Obery M. The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of the Teachings of Jesus and How They Have Been Corrupted.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Hendricks, Obery M. The Politics of Jesus: Rediscover the True Revolutionary Nature of What Jesus Believed and How It Was Corrupted. Aug. 2006. 384p. index. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51664-9). 232. Evangelical activists claiming Jesus for the...

Hsu, Albert Y. The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Hsu, Albert Y. The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty. July 2006. 176p. InterVarsity, paper, $15 (0-8308-3334-X). 223.09]. We often hear about the American dream, but the suburban dream? Is that an...

Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. Ed. by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler. Aug. 2006. 372p. Farrar, paper, $18 (0-374-11343-2). 305.420973. "Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a...

Carlo, Philip. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Carlo, Philip. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. July 2006. 432p. illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-34928-9). 364.15. Richard Kuklinski, the Ice Man of the title, has told his story before in a variety of forums,...

The Covenant with Black America.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Covenant with Black America. Ed. by Tavis Smiley. July 2006. 254p. Third World, paper, $12 (0-88378-277-4). 305.896. This collection of essays is both a plea and a response to the self-assessed critical circumstances of black America...

Feige, David. Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Feige, David. Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice. July 2006. 288p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-15623-X). 345.747. In an ordinary day in the life of this South Bronx public defender, readers encounter a...

Joseph, Peniel E.: Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Joseph, Penid E. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. Aug. 2006. 448p. index. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7539-9). 323.1196. Joseph, African studies professor, surveys the full geographic and political...

Kuipers, Dean. Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Kuipers, Dean. Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke. July 2006. 384p. illus. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-59691-142-5). 364.1. Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm were lovers who wanted to create a refuge for counterculture,...

Labunski, Richard. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Labunski, Richard. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. July 2006. 320p. illus, index. Oxford, $28 (0-19518105-0). 342.7. Had the Constitution of 1787 not been ratified, the U.S. could conceivably have fallen apart. How...

Lal, Rollie. Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Lal, Rollie. Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World. July 2006. 192p. index. Praeger, $49.95 (0-275-98968-2). 355. Lal's timely subject is the increasing power of China and India, and he...

Lubet, Steven. Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Lubet, Steven. Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players. July 2006. 288p. index. Oxford, S28 (0-19518243-9). 347.73. Lubet, a law professor, sees much in common between the human drama of the courtroom and the...

Hulot, Nicolas. One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... * Hulot, Nicolas. One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity. Tr. by Simon Jones. July 2006. 384p. illus. Abrams, $55 (0-8109-5534-2). 333.95. A big subject embraced by a big, beautiful book. Hulot, a well-traveled French journalist, has...

Mead, Margaret. To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Mead, Margaret. To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead. Ed. by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis. July 2006. 336p. illus. index. Basic, $26.95 (0-465-00815-1). 301.09. It's clear in her expressive and...

Montgomery, Lee. The Things Between Us.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Montgomery, Lee. The Things Between Us. Aug. 2006. 240p. Free Press, $23 (0-7432-9263-4). 306.85. This heartfelt memoir is a testament to the ties that bind a family--no matter how dysfunctional--together. After her father is diagnosed...

Peril, Lynn. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Peril, Lynn. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now. Aug. 2006. 352p. illus. Norton, paper, $16.95 (0-393-32715-9). 305.42. Peril follows Pink Think (2002) with another witty and humorous look at women's...

Piper, Karen. Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Piper, Karen. Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A. Aug. 2006. 240p. illus. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (1-4039-6931-0). 333.91. Owens Lake was drained in the 1920s to provide L.A....

Punke, Michael. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Punke, Michael. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917. Aug. 2006. 352p. index. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0155-X). 363.11. By the standards of the early twentieth century, the Granite Mountain copper mine was a model of...

Riegner, Gerhart M. Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and the Cause of Human Rights.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Riegner, Gerhart M. Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and the Cause of Human Rights. Sept. 2006. 442p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $35 (1-56663-696-5). 305.89. On August 6, 1942, Riegner, a 30-year-old counsel in the...

Robbins, Alexandra. The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Robbins, Alexandra. The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. Aug. 2006. 448p. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0201-7). 305.2350973. Robbins, author of the revealing Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities (2004), investigates yet another...

Sarfatti, Michele. The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Sarfatti, Michele. The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution. Aug. 2006. 397p. index. Univ. of Wisconsin, $65 (0-299-21730-2). 305.89. In the first English edition of a history of the Italian Jews from the rise of Fascism...

Shah, Sonia. The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Shah, Sonia. The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients. July 2006. 256p. index. New Press, $24.95 (1-56584-912-4). 362.17. Journalist Shah isn't afraid to ask hard questions. While acknowledging that medical...

Traub, Barbara. Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Traub, Barbara. Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography. July 2006. 160p. illus. Immedium; dist. by Continuum, $29.95 (1-59702-003-6). 394.2509793. Traub presents 10 years' worth of lavish color photography on the annual...

Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality. Ed. by Sarah Husain. July 2006. 320p. Seal, paper, $16.95 (1-58005-181-2). 305.48. Challenging homogenous stereotypes of Muslim women as the "Islamic Other," this eloquent...

Babiak, Paul and Hare, Robert D. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Babiak, Paul and Hare, Robert D. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. 2006. 352p. Regan, $26.95 (0-06-083772-3). 658.3. Babiak, an industrial and organizational psychologist, and Hare, the creator of the standard tool for...

Flynn, Nancy. Blog Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, and Legal Issues.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Flynn, Nancy. Blog Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, and Legal Issues. July 2006. 228p. AMACOM, paper, $19.95 (0-8144-7355-5). 659.2. Businesses can't afford to ignore this latest publishing phenomenon. Yet, as...

Godin, Seth. Small Is the New Big and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Godin, Seth. Small Is the New Big and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas. Aug. 2006. 352p. Portfolio, $25.95 (1-59184-126-7). 658.4. Godin, author and business blogger, presents a collection of essays that are thoughtful...

O'Toole, James and Lawler, Edward E.: The New American Workplace.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... O'Toole, James and Lawler, Edward E. The New American Workplace. July 2006. 272p. index. Palgrave, $27.95 (1-4039-6959-0). 331.10. Following their groundbreaking 1972 study Work in America, O'Toole and Lawler take a fresh look at how life...

Crystal, David. Words, Words, Words.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Crystal, David. Words, Words, Words. July 2006. 216p. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-861444-6). 401. In 33 chapters, prolific professor Crystal celebrates words, covering their form, meaning, and evolution. Arguing that we are all, in fact,...

Frump, Robert R.: The Man-Eaters of Eden: Life and Death in Kruger National Park.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Frump, Robert R. The Man-Eaters of Eden: Life and Death in Kruger National Park. Aug. 2006. 272p. Lyons, $24.95 (1-59228-892-2). 599.757096827. When on a safari in South Africa, journalist and author (Until the Sea Shall Free Them, 2002)...

Karpf, Anne. The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues about Who We Are.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Karpf, Anne. The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues about Who We Are. Aug. 2006. 416p. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-58234-299-7). 612.78. "He who enjoys the gift of oratory," declared Winston Churchill, "wields...

Lee, Laura. Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Lee, Laura. Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Shaped History and Changed Culture. Aug. 2006. 256p. HarperCollins/ Harper, paper, $13.95 (0-06-083982-1). 551.609. Lee performs in infotainment mode in this survey of climatic...

McCoy, Roger M. Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... McCoy, Roger M. Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener. July 2006. 188p. illus. index. Oxford, $30 (0-19-518857-8). 551. McCoy tells the story of Alfred Wegener, the German meteorologist who developed...

Meyer, Anna. The DNA Detectives: How the Double Helix Is Solving Puzzles of the Past.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Meyer, Anna. The DNA Detectives: How the Double Helix Is Solving Puzzles of the Past. July 2006. 240p. illus. index, Thunder's Mouth, paper, $14.95 (1-56025-863-2). 614.1. Addressing mysteries dispelled by DNA analysis, Meyer will appeal...

Owen, David and Pemberton, David. Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Owen, David and Pemberton, David. Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal. July 2006. 226p. illus. index. Allen & Unwin, $24.95 (1-74114-368-3). 599.27. Although most of the world is familiar with Taz, the Warner Brothers cartoon...

Smith, Howard and Francis, Michael H. In the Company of Wild Bears: A Celebration of Backcountry Grizzlies and Black Bears.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Smith, Howard and Francis, Michael H. In the Company of Wild Bears: A Celebration of Backcountry Grizzlies and Black Bears. Sept. 2006. 256p. illus. Lyons, $22.95 (1-59228-952-3). 599.78. Bears are a powerful icon in the collective...

Vilenkin, Alex. Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Vilenkin, Alex. Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes. July 2006. 224p. index. Hill & Wang, $24 (0-8090-9523-8). 523.1. Cosmology has moved from establishing that there was a finite start to the cosmos to theorizing about the...

Belozerskaya, Marina. The Medici Giraffe: And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Belozerskaya, Marina. The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power. Aug. 2006. 384p. illus. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-52565-0). 636. Exotic animals have always been symbols of power, and the gift of exotic animals was...

Condrell, Kenneth N. The Unhappy Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Condrell, Kenneth N. The Unhappy Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know. July 2006. 275p. Prometheus, paper, $18 (1-59102-419-6). 649. Child psychologist Condrell draws on 35 years of experience to address growing concerns about depression...

Robbins, John. Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Robbins, John. Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived People. Sept. 2006. 384p. index. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6521-6). 613.2. Robbins has moved on from his career as a successful...

Bartley, Jennifer R. Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Bartley, Jennifer R. Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook. 2006. 250p. illus. index. Timber, $34.95 (0-88192-772-4). 635. Although the tradition of a potager, or kitchen garden, dates back to the Middle Ages, its...

Brown, Jane Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels around the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Brown, Jane. Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels around the World. July 2006. 320p. illus. index. Godine, $35 (1-56792-312-7). 635.9. Brown's entertaining homage to the majestic rhododendron provides a...

Bart, Peter. Boffo: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Bart, Peter. Boffo: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb. July 2006. 352p. Hyperion/Miramax, $26.95 (1-4013-5216-2). 791.43. Boffo, slang for terrific, is one of the many terms coined in the pages of entertainment...

The Collected Jack Kirby Collector.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Collected Jack Kirby Collector. v.5. Ed. by John Morrow. 2006. 224p. illus. TwoMorrows, paper, $24.95 (1-893905-57-8). 741.5. Comics artist Jack Kirby died more than a decade ago but lives on through the many popular characters he...

The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian. Ed. by Richard Schickel. July 2006. 304p. Ivan R. Dee, $27.50 (1-56663-682-5); paper, $16.95 (1-56663-701-5). 791.4302. Seventy years after he last donned the...

Gollberg, Joanna. The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry: A Complete Guide to Essential Techniques.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Gollberg, Joanna. The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry: A Complete Guide to Essential Jewelry. 2006. 176p. illus. index. Lark, $27.95 (1-57990-570-6). 739.27. From even a novice's perspective, information on the fashioning of metallic baubles...

Levitin, Daniel J.: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Levitin, Daniel J. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. Aug. 2006. 256p. illus. index. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94969-0). 781 How the brain processes all aspects of music is the subject of this book rooted in...

Ponce de Leon, Charles. Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Ponce de Leon, Charles. Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley. Aug. 2006. 240p. illus. index. Hill & Wang, $24 (0-8090-3042-X). 782.42166. By now, the story of Elvis Presley is widely known: a humble lad from Tupelo invents rock and...

Bartkowski, Alli. Paper Quilling for the First Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Bartkowski, Alli. Paper Quilling for the First Time. 2006. 112p. illus, index. Sterling/ Chapelle, $19.95 (1-4027-2216-8). 745.54. Colored paper might be the artistic mainstay of elementary-school kids--but, thanks to Bartkowski's...