Booklist articles from June 2004

Booklist archives from June 2004

Alten, Steve. Meg: Primal Waters.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Alten, Steve, Meg: Primal Waters. July 2004 368p. Forge, $34.95 (0-765-30890-8). This latest novel in Alten's MEG adventure-thriller series concerns a 57-foot, 64,000-pound prehistoric shark loose in the South Pacific. The "most fearsome...

Boyle, T. C. The Inner Circle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Boyle, T. C. The Inner Circle. Sept. 2004 432p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03344-8). Following his spirited counterculture drama Drop City (2003), Boyle fictionalizes a historical figure as he did in The Road to Wellville (1994), an...

Brooks, Terry. Tanequil.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Brooks, Terry. Tanequil. Sept. 2004. 368p. Del Rey, $26.95 (0-345-43574-5). In the second book, after Jarka Ruus [BKL Je 1 & 15 03], of the High Druid of Shannara, Grianne Ohmsford, rightful high druid, is trapped inside the Forbidding,...

Jance, J. A. Day of the Dead.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Jance, J.A. Day of the Dead. Aug. 2004. 384p. Morrow, $23.95 (0-688-13823-3). Resting both her regular series sleuths, Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont, this latest Jance mystery returns to Arizona's Tohono O'Odham reservation, also the...

Mieville, China. Iron Council.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Mieville, China. Iron Council. July 2004. 496p. DelRey, $24.95 (0-345-46402-8). In the forest Rudewood, Cutter waits for the few who will join him in finding the somaturge, or creator of golems, Judah, and then warning the Iron Council...

Mukherjee, Bharati. The Tree Bride.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Mukherjee, Bharati. The Tree Bride. Sept. 2004. 304p. Hyperion/ Theia, $23.95 (1-4013-0058-8). Tara Lata became known as the Tree Bride because after her child groom died, her quick-thinking Hindu father married her to a tree to spare...

Paxson, Diana L. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Paxson, Diana L. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon. June 2004. 363p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03314-6). In this pre-pre-pre-prequel to The Mists of Avalon (1982), a kingdom sinks into the sea--but the spirit of a deceased author...

Phillips, Arthur. The Egyptologist.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Phillips, Arthur. The Egyptologist. Sept. 2004.432p. illus. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6250-0). Phillips follows up his first novel, the best-selling Prague (2002), with an equally inventive if totally unexpected foray into ancient Egypt. The...

Richards, Emilie. Wedding Ring.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Richards, Emilie. Wedding Ring. July 2004. 416p MIRA, $23.95 (0-7783-2063-4). For Helen, Nancy, and Tessa, three generations of Henry women, quilts truly represent the fabric of their lives. Using scraps of feed sacks, wedding gowns, and...

Robards, Karen. Bait.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Robards, Karen. Bait. July 2004. 352p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15202-4). FBI agent Sam McCabe is on the hunt for a killer who taunts him by calling him on his cell phone to give him clues that lead Sam and his team to the crime scene mere...

Steel, Danielle. Second Chance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Steel, Danielle. Second Chance. July 2004. 230p. Delacorte, $20 (0-385-33635-7). Steel never tires of spinning fairy tales for her fans, and this story is no exception. Fiona Monaghan, an eccentric, fiery (and vivacious, lovely, and rich)...

Downs, Hugh. Letter to a Great Grandson: a Message of Love, Advice, and Hope for the Future.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Downs, Hugh. Letter to a Great Grandson: A Message of Love, Advice, and Hope for the Future. June 2004. 128p. Scribner/Lisa Drew, $15.95 (0-7432-4723-X). 170. Respected broadcast journalist Downs delivers a heartfelt missive to his new...

Wheatcroft, Andrew. Infidels: a History of the Conflict between Christendom and Islam.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Wheatcroft, Andrew. Infidels: A History of the Conflict between Christendom and Islam. June 2004. 368p. index. Random, $27.95 (1-4000-6230-6). 261.2. In the roar of skyscrapers collapsing in New York and in the thunder of fusillades in...

McGrath, Alister. The Twilight of Atheism: the Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... McGrath, Alister. The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. June 2004. 256p. index. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-50061-0). 211. Secular intellectuals have been announcing God's funeral since the eighteenth...

Olitzky, Kerry and Isaacs, Ron. The Complete How-to Handbook of Jewish Living: Three Volumes in One.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Olitzky, Kerry and Isaacs, Ron. The Complete How-to Handbook of Jewish Living: Three Volumes in One. July 2004. 576p. illus. index. KTAV, paper, $25 (0-88125-838-5). 296.7. This comprehensive guide answers a multitude of questions on Jewish...

Wright, Jonathan. God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--a History of the Jesuits.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Wright, Jonathan. God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--a History of the Jesuits. June 2004 368p. index. Doubleday, $27.95 (0-385-50078-5). 271.53. British historian Wright provides a digestible account of one of the...

Metamorphosis.(The Manley Arts)(Will Manley)
June 1, 2004... A couple of years ago in my May 1, 2002, column, I wrote an account of my professional metamorphosis. After 30 years of being a librarian, I was appointed the city manager in the city where I had been library director for many years. That...

Bamberger, Michael. Wonderland: a Year in the Life of an American High School.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Bamberger, Michael. Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School. June 2004. 224p. Grove/Atlantic. $24 (0-87113-917-0) 305.235. Pennsbury is a typical middle-class American high school not particularly distinguishable from...

Behrman, Greg. The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Behrman, Greg. The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time. June 2004. 336p. index. Free Press. $25 (0-7432-5755-3). 362.196. The subtitle of Behrman's...

Booth, Martin. Cannabis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Booth, Martin. Cannabis. June 2004. 368p. index. St. Martin's. $24.95 (0-312-32220-8). 362.2 Booth chronicles that "adaptive and highly successful annual found... throughout the temperate and tropical zones." cannabis, with the panache he...

B.O.O.B.S. A Bunch of Outrageous Breast-Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories of Courage, Hope, & Healing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... B.O.O.B.S. A Bunch of Outrageous Breast-Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories of Courage, Hope, & Healing. Ed. by Ann Kempner Fisher. June 2004. 328p. illus. Cumberland House, $22.95 (1-58182-385-1). 362.1. England, Spain, Portugal, Russia,...

Carter, David. Stonewall: the Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. June 2004. 320p. illus index St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-20025-0). 306.76. In the late 1960s, homosexual sex was illegal in every state but Illinois; now the news...

De Pree, Julia K. Body Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... De Pree, Julia K. Body Story. June 2004 154p Swallow/Ohio Univ., $24.95 (0-8040-1063-3); paper, $13.95 (0-8040-1064-1). 362.196. De Pree's account of her life with anorexia might be characterized as a Sisyphean struggle to keep her body...

Dionne, E. J. Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Dionne, E.J. Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge. June 2004. 256p. index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-5858-4). 306.2. Using the format of writing a letter to three friends--a liberal, a...

Faigman, David L. Laboratory of Justice: the Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and Law.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Faigman, David L. Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and Law. June 2004.416p index. Holt/Times, $27.50 (0-8050-7274-8) 347.73. Legal scholar Faigman offers an interesting juxtaposition of...

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Humankind: a Brief History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Humankind: A Brief History. June 2004. 256p. Oxford, $23 (0-19-280417-0). 301. A versatile and wide-ranging historian, Fernandez-Armesto turns philosophical in this short essay, arguing that something most people...

Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World: an Unlikely Theory of Globalization.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. July 2004. 272p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-621234-0) 337. Americans are fond of jokes that play on our incomprehension of soccer, and, at times, this...

Micklethwait, John and Wooldridge, Adrian. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Micklethwait, John and Wooldridge, Adrian. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America. June 2004, 423p. index Penguin, $25.95 (1-59420-020-3). 320. Somewhere the triumphal ghost of Barry Goldwater must be explaining to the perplexed...

Graves, Joseph L. The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Graves, Joseph L The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America. June 2004 320p. index. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94825-2). 305.8. Graves, an evolutionary biologist and professor, debunks numerous myths associated with the biological...

Green, Jamison. Becoming a Visible Man.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Green, Jamison. Becoming a Visible Man. June 2004. 264p. index. Vanderbilt Univ., paper, $24.95 (0-8265-1457-X) 306.76. Gender goes beyond chromosomes, a point broadly knowledgeable transgender activist Green makes early in the compelling,...

Hall, Ellen and Handley, Richard. High Schools in Crisis: What Every Parent Should Know.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Hall, Ellen and Handley, Richard. High Schools in Crisis: What Every Parent Should Know. June 2004. 256p. index Praeger, $39.95 (0-275-98198-31. 373.73. Hall, a youth commissioner, and Handley, a journalist, draw on their experience...

Herman, Eleanor. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Herman, Eleanor. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge. July 2004, 304p. index Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-058543-9). 305.522 Certainly a catchy title. And Herman's spirited history of royal "mistresshood" is...

Hyman, Peter. The Reluctant Metrosexual.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Hyman, Peter. The Reluctant Metrosexual. Aug. 2004 208p Villard, paper, $13.95 (0-8129-7163-9). 306.4. It's an urban jungle out them especially for an arrow-straight male in touch with his feminine side. From flat-front trousers to oatmeal...

Junkin, Tim. Bloodsworth: the True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Junkin, Tim. Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA. Sept. 2004. 304p. Algonquin, $24.95 (1-56512-419-7). 364.66. DNA has so seeped itself into the popular consciousness that it's hard to remember that,...

Pearse, Meic. Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Pearse, Meic. Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage. June 2004 192p index. InterVarsity, paper, $13 (0-8308-3202-5). 303.48. The root cause of non-Western nations' anger toward the West lies not in...

Kephart, Beth. Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Kephart, Beth. Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World. June 2004. 192p Norton, $23.95 (0-393-05882-4). 370.15. Kephart's son, Jeremy, started out as a reluctant reader, completely uncharmed by the children's books...

Kimmel, Daniel M. The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Kimmel, Daniel M. The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television. June 2004. 314p. Ivan R. Dee, $27.50 (1-56663-572-1). 384.55. Initially ridiculed as the "hanger network," meaning that it had a signal so weak that...

Lapham, Lewis H. Gag Rule: on the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Lapham, Lewis H. Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy. June 2004. 172p, index. Penguin, $19.95 (1-59420-017-3). 323.44. In four chapter-essays, Lapham returns to the large theme he has addressed throughout...

Levin, Jack and Rabrenovic, Gordana. Why We Hate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Levin, Jack and Rabrenovic, Gordana. Why We Hate. June 2004, 260p. illus. index Prometheus, $26 (1-59102-191-X). 302.5. The 9/11 terrorist attacks have fed into fears that Americans are hated by others abroad and have prompted questions...

Metcalf, Allan. Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Metcalf, Allan. Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush. July 2004. 352p index Houghton, paper, $12.95 (0-618-44374-6). 352.23. The author of popular works on American speech (e.g., How We Talk:...

Neal, Steve. Happy Days Are Here Again: the 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Neal, Steve. Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever. July 2004. 384p. illus. index. Morrow, $26.95 (0-06-001376- 1). 344.04. Going into the Democratic Party's...

Schlosberg, Suzanne. The Curse of the Singles Table: a True Story of 1,001 Nights Without Sex.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Schlosberg, Suzanne. The Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1,001 Nights without Sex. June 2004. 258p, Warner, paper, $13.95 (0-446-69054-6) 306.81. Schlosberg puts in perspective a sensitive topic-exile to the singles table at a...

Swallow, Wendy. The Triumph of Love over Experience: a Memoir of Remarriage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Swallow, Wendy. The Triumph of Love over Experience: A Memoir of Remarriage. July 2004. 296p. Hyperion/Theia, $24.95 (0-7868-6860-0). 306.84. After writing Breaking Apart (2001), a book about her divorce and life as a single morn, Swallow...

Taylor, Timothy. The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Taylor, Timothy. The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. July 2004. 368p. illus, index. Beacon, $27.50 (0-80704672-8). 393. Taylor's entertaining, if grisly, interpretative history turns the raw gleanings of two centuries of archaeology...

Tye, Larry. Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Tye, Larry. Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. July 2004 368p. illus, index. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7075-3). 331.88. Although Tye focuses on Pullman porters and the formation of the black middle...

Weiss, Philip. American Taboo: a Murder in the Peace Corps.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Weiss, Philip. American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps. June 2004. 384p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-009686-1). 364 This searing portrayal of the government cover-up of the murder of a young female Peace Corps volunteer in 1976 contains...

Atkin, Douglas. The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Atkin, Douglas. The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers. June 2004. 256p. index. Portfolio, 130 Wineow St., Ste, 3, Cumberland, MD 21502, $24.95 (1-59184-027-9). 658.8. Atkin, an advertising executive, examines the...

Marcus, James. Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Marcus, James. Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut. June 2004 272p New Press, $24.95 (1-56584-870-5). Marcus, an accomplished writer of magazine articles and five books, was hired in 1996 as a senior editor at...

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. How Capitalism Saved America: the Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... DiLorenzo, Thomas J. How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present. Aug. 2004. 352p. index. Crown Forum, $25.95 (0-7615-2526-2). 330.12. Extolling free markets and upbraiding government...

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Economics of Innocent Fraud.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Economics of Innocent Fraud. June 2004.80p. Houghton, $15 (0-618-01324-5). 364.16. Galbraith, renowned economist, explains how economics and larger economic and political systems cultivate their own version of...

George, Michael L. and Wilson, Stephen A. Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through the Ceiling on Profits and Growth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... George, Michael L. and Wilson, Stephen A. Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and other Top Companies Are Breaking Through the Ceiling on Profits and Growth. June 2004. 316p. McGraw-Hill, $29.95 (0-07-143508-5) 658.1....

Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. 2004. 209p. Gotham, $17.50 (1-59240087-6). 428. 2 This impassioned manifesto on punctuation made the best-seller lists in Britain and has followed suit here....

Engelhard, Michael. Where the Rain Children Sleep: a Sacred Geography of the Colorado Plateau.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Engelhard, Michael. Where the Rain Children Sleep: A Sacred Geography of the Colorado Plateau. June 2004 224p Lyons, $1995 (1-59228-261-X). 508 791. Cultural anthropologist Engelhard spent a year hiking and writing in the desert canyons of...

Heinrich, Bernd. The Geese of Beaver Bog.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Heinrich, Bernd. The Geese of Beaver Bog. May 2004. 240p. illus, index. Ecco, $24.95 (0-06-019745-5). 598.4 Heinrich, naturalist and author of Winter World (2003) and Mind of the Raven (1999), raised a baby Canada goose to adulthood, at...

Page, Jake and Officer, Charles. The Big One: the Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Page, Jake and Officer, Charles. The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science. June 2004. 240p illus, index Houghton, $24 (0-618-34150-1). 551.22. The New Madrid seismic zone in Missouri's boot heel is a...

McCarthy, Jenny. Belly Laughs: the Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... McCarthy, Jenny. Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth. June 2004. 176p. Da Capo/Lifelong Books, $18 (0-7382-0949-X). 618.2. McCarthy applies her in-your-face manner and blue humor to the subject of pregnancy and...

Stuart, David. Dangerous Garden: the Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Stuart, David. Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives. June 2004. 288p. illus, index. Harvard, $35 (0-674-01104-X), 591.6 Evening primrose sounds so soothing, and belladonna could be an opera, but what, after all, is in...

Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird. June 2004. 224p. illus. index. Univ. of Pennsylvania, $27.50 (0-8122-3793-5) 636.6. Alexander the Great, in addition to conquering...

Geeson, Eileen. Ultimate Dog Grooming.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Geeson, Eileen. Ultimate Dog Grooming. June 2004. 288p. illus, index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55297-873-7) 636.7. This large-format, colorfully illustrated handbook will find a place on library shelves where a good, general instruction manual...

Jahiel, Jessica. The Horse Behavior Problem Solver: All Your Questions Answered about How Horses Think, Learn, and React.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Jahiel, Jessica. The Horse Behavior Problem Solver: All Your Questions Answered about How Horses Think, Learn, and React. June 2004. 416p. illus. index Storey, $29.95 (1-58017-525-2); paper, $19.95 (1-58017-524-4). 636.1. Horses are big...

Dirr, Michael A. Hydrangeas for American Gardens.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Dirr, Michael A. Hydrangeas for American Gardens. June 2004 224p illus, index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-641-8). 635.9. Mopheads and lacecaps are among the alluring types of hydrangeas that gardeners are enticed to purchase and plant, but not...

Ferguson, Proscilla Parkhurst. Accounting for Taste: the Triumph of French Cuisine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Ferguson, Proscilla Parkhurst. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. June 2004. 256p illus, index, Univ. of Chicago, $25 (0-226-24323-0) 641.5944. French cuisine may or may not be the world's best, but it certainly is the...

Redclift, Michael. Chewing Gum: the Fortunes of Taste.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Redclift, Michael. Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste. June 2004, 192p. illus, Routledge, $24 (0-415-94418-X). 641.3. The story of chewing gum encompasses consumerism, Mexican-American relations, and indigenous culture. Gum's constellation...

Simmons, Marie. Fig Heaven: 70 Recipes for the World's Most Luscious Fruit.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Simmons, Marie. Fig Heaven: Seventy Recipes for the World's Most Luscious Fruit. June 2004, 176p. illus, index, Morrow, $19.95 (0-06-053849-X). 641.6. Most Americans recognize figs only from the thick, sweet, gummy filling of mass-produced...

Sweeney, Kep. The New Restaurant Entrepreneur: an Inside Look at Restaurant Deal-Making and Other Tales from the Culinary Trenches.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Sweeney, Kep. The New Restaurant Entrepreneur: An Inside Look at Restaurant Deal-Making and Other Tales from the Culinary Trenches. June 2004, 192p. Dearborn Financial, paper, $22.95 (0-73918567-X), 647.95. A successful new restaurant...

Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-43.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-43. June 2004. 192p. illus. Abrams, $35 (0-8109-4348-4). 779. More barely known, invaluable early-1940s photos come to complement Angelo Spinelli and Lewis Carlson's Life behind Barbed Wire [BKL Mr...

Barris, Chuck. Bad Grass Never Dies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Barris, Chuck. Bad Grass Never Dies. July 2004 384p. Carroll & Graf, paper, $14 (0-7867-1379-8). 791.45. In Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), flamboyant television producer Barris (The Gong Show) confessed to living a secret life as a...

Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics. Ed. by Sean Howe. June 2004. 228p. illus. Pantheon, $24.95 (0-37542256-0) 741.5. Introduced in the 1930s, ubiquitous by the 1950s, and still going strong, comic books and their...

Kill Your Idols: a New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics. Ed. by Jim DeRogatis and Carmel Carrillo. June 2004. 320p. illus Barricade, paper, $16 (4-56980-276-9). 781.06 Roly-poly Chicago Sun Times' rock reviewer...

Hunter, Seb. Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Hunter, Seb. Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict. Aug. 2004. 288p illus HarperCollins/Fourth Estate, $26.95 (0-06-072292-4). 781.66. Another straight-from-the-gut autobiographical and music-crit package from the...

Kot, Greg. Wilco: Learning How to Die.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Kot, Greg. Wilco: Learning How to Die. June 2004. 256p Broadway, paper, $14 (0-7679-1558-5) 781.66. When its record label dropped the rock band Wilco in 2001 for submitting an album deemed insufficiently commercial, the action was viewed...

Libera, Anne. The Second City Almanac of Improvisation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Libera, Anne. The Second City Almanac of Improvisation. June 2004. 210p. illus. Northwestern Univ, $29.95 (0-81011801-7) 792.02. Most previous books about Second City, Chicago's improvisation-based comedy cabaret (the most noteworthy is...

Mohr, Jay. Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Mohr, Jay. Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live. June 2004, 304p, Hyperion, $23.95 (1-40130006-5). 791.5. Most know Mohr from his role in Jerry Maguire or from his stand-up comedy. Most will not remember...

Reid, Jack. Watercolor for the Fun of It: Easy Landscapes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Reid, Jack. Watercolor for the Fun of It: Easy Landscapes. June 2004.96p illus. index. North Light, paper, $17.99 (1-58180429-6). 751.42 With the return of warm weather comes renewed interest in en plein air painting, making Reid's guide...

Ronin, Ro. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Ronin, Ro. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution. July 2004, 304p. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-58234-345-4) 741.5. Jack Kirby is arguably the most influential comic-book artist of all time: In the early...

Steinhart, Peter. The Undressed Art: Why We Draw.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Steinhart, Peter. The Undressed Art: Why We Draw. June 2004. 272p. illus. Knopf, $23 (1-4000-4184-8) 741.2. Naturalist Steinhart's previous books include The Company of Wolves (1995), so drawing may seem like a departure for him, but as he...

Sublette, Ned. Cuba and Its Music: from the First Drums to the Mambo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Sublette, Ned. Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. June 2004 688p. illus, index, Chicago Review, $36 (1-55652-516-8). 780. Sublette, cofounder of the QbaDisc record label and an expert on Cuban music, argues in this...

Wild, David. Friends ... 'til the End.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Wild, David. Friends... 'til the End. June 2004. 288p, illus, Time Inc. Home Entertainment, $39.95 (1-932273-27-1); paper, $24.95 (1-932273-19-0). 791.45. Friends fans around the world are mourning the end of the show's 10-year run, but...

Barry, Bethany. Bead Crochet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Barry, Bethany. Bead Crochet. 2004 124p illus index interweave, paper, $21.95 (1-931499-42-X). 745.58. One look at Barry's snazzy bracelets, necklaces, and doodads, and handicrafters will rush out for supplies, The idea that such...

Haupert, Debba. The New Book of Image Transfers: How to Add Any Image to Almost Anything with Fabulous Results.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Haupert, Debba. The New Book of Image Transfers: How to Add Any Image to Almost Anything with Fabulous Results. 2004. 128p illus. index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-529-3). 745.7. Remember decoupage? Well, Haupert goes one better in this...

Dodson, James. Ben Hogan: an American Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... * Dodson, James. Ben Hogan: An American Life. June 2004 416p. illus. index. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-50312-1). 796.357. In contrast to the reverence now accorded him, the real Ben Hogan's brusqueness fostered antipathy from the sportswriters...

Greenlaw, Linda. All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Greenlaw, Linda. All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar. June 2004 240p. Hyperion, $22.95 (1-4013-0070-7) 799.16. Greenlaw's third offering is once again ocean-bound. Although it may not be as gripping as The Hungry Ocean...

Reed, Philip. In Search of the Greatest Golf Swing: Chasing the Legend of Mike Austin, the Man Who Launched the World's Longest Drive, and Taught Me to Hit Like a Pro.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Reed, Philip. In Search of the Greatest Golf Swing: Chasing the Legend of Mike Austin, the Man Who Launched the World's Longest Drive, and Taught Me to Hit Like a Pro. June 2004. 288p. index. Carroll & Graf, $20 (0-7867-1366-6). 796.357. ...

Talleur, Dick. Inside Fly Tying: 100 Tips for Solving the Trickiest Fly-Tying Problems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Talleur, Dick. Inside Fly Tying: 100 Tips for Solving the Trickiest Fly-Tying Problems. Aug. 2004. 100p. index Stackpole, paper, $19.95 (0-8117-3138-3) 688.7. For those who don't know it, tying flies is not only a practical hobby for the...