Booklist articles from March 2002

Booklist archives from March 2002

Citizen McCain.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Drew, Elizabeth. Citizen McCain. May 2002. 171p. Simon & Schuster, $25.50 (0-7432-3002-7). 328.73. Veteran columnist Drew chronicles a year in the professional life of Arizona senator John McCain, beginning last January before the...

I Have Landed: the End of a Beginning in Natural History.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Gould, Stephen Jay. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History. May 2002. 384p. illus. index. Harmony, $25.95 (0-609-60143-1). 508. Gould, a self-described "naturalist by profession and a humanist at heart," has written...

I Like It Better When You're Funny: Working in Television and Other Precarious Adventures.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Grodin, Charles. I Like It Better When You're Funny: Working in Television and Other Precarious Adventures. May 2002. 272p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50784-1). 791.43. Grodin is back in print with another collection of assessments, skewerings,...

Still Woman Enough.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Lynn, Loretta and Cox, Patsi Bale. Still Woman Enough. Apr. 2002. 272p. illus. Hyperion, $22.95 (0-7868-6650-0). 782.42. A good deal has changed since Lynn's mega-selling previous autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter (1976), but not her...

The Black Veil: a Memoir with Digressions.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Moody, Rick. The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions. May 2002. 320p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-57899-1). 813.54. Anyone who has read Moody's fine fiction (Purple America, 1997; Demonology, 2001) will recognize the voice here:...

Fear Less: Real Truth about Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... De Becker, Gavin. Fear Less: Real Truth about Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism. 2002. 229p. Little, Brown, $19.95 (0-316-08596-0). The best-selling expert on violence and fear discusses post-September 11 issues concerning...

My Country versus Me.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Lee, Wen Ho and Zia, Helen. My Country versus Me. 2002. 332p. Hyperion, $23.95 (0-7868-6803-1). The Taiwanese-born American scientist accused of spying tells his side of the story.

Apollo: the Epic Journey to the Moon.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Reynolds, David West. Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon. May 2002. 272p. illus. index. Harcourt, $35 (0-15-100964-3). 629.45. This title is definitely one of the best books written about Apollo in recent years. An exuberantly visual...

The OmegaRx Zone: the Miracle of High-Dose Fish Oil.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Sears, Barry. The OmegaRx Zone: The Miracle of High-Dose Fish Oil. May 2002. 352p. index. Regan, $25.95 (0-06-039313-0). 613.2. Followers of Sears' zone diet probably have a hard enough time balancing their carbohydrate consumption with...

Queen and Country: the Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Shawcross, William. Queen and Country: The Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II. May 2002. 224p. Simon & Schuster, $35 (0-7432-2676-3). 941.085. Despite the shadow of sadness cast by the recent death of Princess Margaret, the queen's sister,...

True to Form.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Berg, Elizabeth. True to Form. June 2002. 224p. Pocket, $24 (0-7434-1134-X). Berg sets her new book in the summer of 1961, sandwiched between events portrayed in Durable Goods (1993) and Joy School (1997). Thirteen-year-old Katie hopes for...

City of Bones.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Connelly, Michael. City of Bones. Apr. 2002. 400p. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-15405-9). "Child cases haunted you. They hollowed you out and scarred you. There was no bulletproof vest thick enough to stop you from being pierced." LAPD...

The Wailing Wind.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Hillerman, Tony. The Wailing Wind. May 2002. 240p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-019444-8). The return of Leaphorn and Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police in Four Corners Country is cause for rejoicing. Sergeant Jim Chee lures his old boss,...

Gone for Good.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Coben, Harlan. Gone for Good. Apr. 2002. 342p. Delacorte, $23.95 (0-385-33558-X). Coben, best known for his popular series of seven mysteries starring Harvard-educated sports agent/private eye Myron Bolitar, branched out from Renaissance...

The Pursuit.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Lindsey Johanna. The Pursuit. Apr. 2002. 320p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-380-97855-5). Melissa, the daughter of Kimberly and Lachlan MacGregor, whose story is told in Lindsey's Love Me Forever (1995), is now of marriageable age. In fact, she may...

Kentucky Heat.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Michaels, Fern. Kentucky Heat. May 2002. 336p. Kensington, $24 (1-57566-762-2). Michaels continues the family saga she began in Kentucky Rich [BKL Ag 01], which stars Nealy Coleman Diamond Clay, a teenage mother who ran away from home and...

Mr. Potter.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Kincaid, Jamaica. Mr. Potter. May 2002. 195p. Farrar, $18 (0-374-21494-8). Kincaid cares little about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction since all of her incantatory yet thorny works are insistently self-referential. The...

Unless.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Shields, Carol. Unless. May 2002. 256p. HarperCollins/Fourth Estate, $24.95 (0-00-714107-6). Shields, author of the widely read, Pulitzer Prize-winning Stone Diaries (1994), is American-born but has lived in Canada since 1957, and her...

Rulers of the Darkness.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Turtledove, Harry. Rulers of the Darkness. Apr. 2002. 656p. Tor, $27.95 (0-765-30036-2). The fourth volume of the alternate-history saga Darkness deals with the fourth year of a World War 11 colored by magic but fought with the same...

Put a Lid on It.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Westlake, Donald E. Put a Lid on It. Apr. 2002. 248p. Warner/Mysterious, $23.95 (0-89296-718-8). What a concept! Crime-caper Grand Master Westlake channeling Ross Thomas, the late virtuoso of novels featuring political chicanery in very...

A Week in Winter.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Willett, Marcia. A week in Winter. May 2002. 352p. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-28785-2). Willett, a popular contemporary women's fiction author in her native Britain, makes her U.S. debut with this tidy, well-written novel....

Adult books.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Young adult recommendations in this issue have been contributed by the Booklist staff and by reviewers Nancy Bent, Carrie Bissey, John Charles, Tina Coleman, Patty Engelmann, Judy King, John Mort, Shelley Mosley, Regina Schroeder, Candace...

Death by Journalism? One Teacher's Fateful Encounter with Political Correctness.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bledsoe, Jerry. Death by Journalism? One Teacher's Fateful Encounter with Political Correctness. Mar. 2002. 242p. Down Home, $24.95 (1-878086-93-6). 071. Jack Perdue, an amateur historian, developed a course on North Carolina's role in the...

Downie, Leonard and Kaiser, Robert G. The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril.(The Values and Craft of American Journalism)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Downie, Leonard and Kaiser, Robert G. The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril. Mar. 2002. 288p. index. Knopf, $25 (0-375-40874-6). 071 The Values and Craft of American Journalism: Essays from the Poynter Institute. Ed. by Roy...

Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Pesic, Peter. Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature. Mar. 2002. 172p. illus. index. MIT, $23.95 (0-262-16205-9). 111. The '60s comedy troupe Firesign Theater famously asked, "How can you be in two places...

Quantity is not quality. (The Manley Arts).(working with library boards)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... We live in a world of excess. There is just too much of everything--too many cars, too many malls, too many machines, and too many gadgets. Most of all, there is too much information. Anyone who has studied the fundamentals of information...

Bringing God Home.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Church, Forrest. Bringing God Home. Mar. 2002. 256p. St. Martin's, $22.95 (0-312-28218-4). 289.1. Unitarian minister Church conducts us on a journey of the intellect, the heart, and the soul. He examines the literature of pilgrimage--The...

Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Holloway, Richard. Doubts and Loves: What Is Left of Christianity. Mar. 2002. 260p. Canongate; dist. by Publishers Group West, paper, $8.95 (1-84195-179-X). 270.83. Writing in a venerable Anglican tradition of criticizing the systems of...

The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Nicholi, Armand M. The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life. Apr. 2002. 304p. index. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-0237-6). 211. At the end of this contrapuntal exposition of the religious...

Jihad: the Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia.
March 1, 2002... Rashid, Ahmed. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. Feb. 2002. 272p. index. Yale, $24 (0-300-09345-4). 297.09. Rashid has long been one of the best historians of Central and South Asia. It wasn't a particularly popular niche...

The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Downing, David C. The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith. Apr. 2002. 192p. index. InterVarsity, $15.99 (0-8308-2311-5). 283. Like many other ardent Christians, C. S. Lewis--the most important and popular Christian...

Brotherhood.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ed. by Tony Hendra. Mar. 2002. 240p. illus. index. American Express; dist. by Sterling, $29.95 (0-916103-73-0). 363.32. On 9-11, the most indispensable people at ground zero were New York's firefighters, as pretty much everyone has...

A Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cusk, Rachel. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother. Apr. 2002. 224p. St. Martin's/ Picador, $22 (0-312-26987-0). 306.874. British novelist Cusk eloquently captures the dark, sweet mystery of becoming a parent. She laments the lack of...

Sakharov.
March 1, 2002... Lourie, Richard. Sakharov. Mar. 2002. 466p. illus. index. Brandeis/Univ. Press of New England, $30 (1-58465-207-1). 323. Like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Andrei Sakharov never held elective political office. Yet his impact on history was...

The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters, and the Power of Empathy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Manning, Martha. The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters, and the Power of Empathy. Apr. 2002. 368p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-380-97719-2). 306.874. Manning, a psychologist and the critically acclaimed author of Undercurrents (1994), among other...

I'd Rather Teach Peace.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... McCarthy, Colman. I'd Rather Teach Peace. Apr. 2002. 140p. Orbis, $18 (1-57075-430-6). 303.6. In 1982, popular Washington Post columnist McCarthy was asked to teach a course at Washington's School without Walls. Responding to the...

Stand by Me: the Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Rhodes, Jean E. Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth. Mar. 2002. 160p. illus. index. Harvard, $22 (0-674-00737-9). 362.27. Rhodes, a psychology professor, examines the popularity of mentoring programs and their...

The Future of the Past.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Stille, Alexander. The Future of the Past. Apr. 2002. 336p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-15977-7). 303.4. Stille presents an in-depth report on cultural legacies that are in danger of disappearing. He interrogates avid preservationists who serve as...

As Always, Jack: a Wartime Love Story.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Sweeney, Emma. As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story. Apr. 2002. 192p. illus. Little, Brown, paper, $15.95 (0-316-75858-2). 359. There's an ineffable tenderness to this book, for in it we glimpse a life absolutely lived and then snuffed...

Management Lessons from the E. R.: Prescriptions for Success in Your Business.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Auerbach, Paul S. Management Lessons from the E. R.: Prescriptions for Success in Your Business. Mar. 2002. 288p. Free Press, $24 (0-7432-1635-0). 362.18. When Auerbach is working, he rarely has the luxury of calling a meeting to make a...

Discover the Wealth within You: a Financial Plan for Creating a Rich and Fulfilling Life.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Edelman, Ric. Discover the Wealth within You: A Financial Plan for Creating a Rich and Fulfilling Life. Apr. 2002. 416p. index. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-000832-6). 332.6. The author of the best-selling Ordinary People, Extraordinary...

Evolution Not Revolution: Mastering the Six Competencies Necessary to Increase the Market Valuation of Any Company.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Logan, John R. Evolution Not Revolution: Mastering the Six Competencies Necessary to Increase the Market Valuation of Any Company. Mar. 2002. 224p. McGraw-Hill, $27.95 (0-07-138410-3). 384.3. Regardless of the ever-continuing battle between...

The Oracle of Oracle: the Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies behind His Company's Phenomenal Success.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Stone, Florence. The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies behind His Company's Phenomenal Success. Mar. 2002. 240p. AMACOM, $24.95 (0-8144-0639-4). 338.7. By no means can you call Stone's latest book...

Digital Aboriginal: Radical Business Strategies for a World without Rules.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tarlow, Mikela and Tarlow, Philip. Digital Aboriginal: Radical Business Strategies for a World without Rules. Apr. 2002. 288p. index. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-52825-0). 658.5. The authors' point is that the digital community is like an...

Lost Languages: the Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Robinson, Andrew. Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts. Apr. 2002.432p. illus. index. McGraw-Hill, $34.95 (0-07-135743-2). 411. Archaeological decipherment (translating the ancient scripts), according to...

Bright, Michael. Dolphins.(Killer Whales)(Extraordinary Fish)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bright, Michael. Dolphins. 2002. 96p. illus. index. DK/BBC, $12.95 (0-7894-8267-3). 599.93. Carwardine, Mark. Killer Whales. 2002 96p. illus. index. DK/BBC, $12.95 (0-7894-8266-5). 599.53. Dipper, Frances. Extraordinary Fish. 2002....

The Blue Planet: a Natural History of the Oceans.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Byatt, Andrew and others. The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans. 2002. 384p. illus. index. DK/BBC, $40 (0-7894-8265-7). 578.77. Published in conjunction with the BBC/ Discovery Channel special of the same name, this stunning new...

The Universe Next Door: the Making of Tomorrow's Science.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Chown, Marcus. The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science. Mar. 2002. 208p. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-514382-5). 523.1. Immortality in an alternate quantum reality? Black holes that give birth to new universes? Galactic...

Among the Bears: Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Kilham, Benjamin and Gray, Ed. Among the Bears: Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild. Mar. 2002. 304p. illus. index. Holt, $26 (0-8050-6919-4). 599.78. In the spring of 1993 naturalist and wildlife rehabilitator Kilham was asked to take two...

My Fine Feathered Friend.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Grimes, William. My Fine Feathered Friend. Apr. 2002. 96p. Farrar/North Point, $15 (0-86547-632-2). 636.5. Grimes, food critic for the New York Times and resident of Astoria, Queens, woke up one morning to discover a chicken in his backyard...

New Faux Finishes.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Johnsen, H. John. New Faux Finishes. 2002. 128p. illus. index. Sterling, $24.95 (0-8069-4461-7). 698. Skepticism can take over when the adjective "new" appears in any crafts title. After all, there is little that is truly innovative in the...

Care and Management of the Older Horse.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Parsons, Heather Scott. Care and Management of the Older Horse. Mar. 2002. 224p. illus. index. Trafalgar, $29.95 (1-57076-213-9). 636.1. Horses are living longer than ever because of improved veterinary care and the willingness of owners to...

Protecting Your Children from Sexual Predators.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Baker, Leigh. Protecting Your Children from Sexual Predators. Apr. 2002. 320p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-27215-4). 649. Because sexual predators can be either male or female and of any age, race, and economic background, the greatest...

Parents' Guide to Teen Health: Raising Physically and Emotionally Healthy Teens.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Reisser, Paul C. and others. Parents' Guide to Teen Health: Raising Physically & Emotionally Healthy Teens. Mar. 2002. 225p. Tyndale, paper, $14.99 (0-8423-5413-1). 649. Christian families are the target audience for this guide published...

You Don't Need Meat.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cox, Peter. You Don't Need Meat. Apr. 2002. 400p. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-27761-X). 613.2. A leading partisan of vegetarianism in Britain, Peter Cox brings his crusade across the Atlantic to invite more Americans to...

Complications: a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Apr. 2002. 288p. Holt/Metropolitan, $24 (0-8050-6319-6). 617. New Yorker readers will recognize writer-physician Gawande because of his article on the TV anchorwoman...

Headache Survival: the Holistic Medical Treatment for Migraine, Tension, and Cluster Headaches.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ivker, Robert S. and Nelson, Todd. Headache Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment for Migraine, Tension, and Cluster Headaches. Mar. 2002. 288p. index. Tarcher, paper, $14.95 (1-58542-141-3). 616.8. Ivker and Nelson describe the three...

Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Luepnitz, Deborah Anna. Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas. Apr. 2002. 272p. Basic, $25 (0-465-04286-4). 616.89. The title says something about individual and family therapist Luepnitz's sense of humor and her wish to...

Elijah's Cup: a Family's Journey into the Culture and Community of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Paradiz, Valerie. Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Culture and Community of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Apr. 2002. 256p. index. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-0445-X). 618.2 Elijah, Valerie and Ben Paradiz's only...

A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Fenton, James. A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed. Apr. 2002. 96p. Farrar, $16 (0-374-16029-5). 635. Marry the soul and sensitivity of a poet with the passion and prowess of a dedicated gardener and the result would be Fenton, who has...

Out in the Garden: Growing a Beautiful Life.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Riddle, Dean. Out in the Garden: Growing a Beautiful Life. Illus. by Jeffrey Fulvimari. Mar. 2002. 256p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-018805-7). 635. It's always a joy to discover someone who approaches his life's work with such exuberance...

Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Austin, Joe. Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City. Mar. 2002. 400p. illus. index. Columbia, $49.50 (0-231-11142-8); paper, $22 (0-231-11143-6). 751.7. Austin, of Bowling Green State's Department of...

The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bean, Henry and others. The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred. Apr. 2002. 256p. illus. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $14.95 (1-56025-372-X). 791.43. Bean's feature-length debut as director as well as screenwriter (his usual role) won the...

Blab 12.
March 1, 2002... Ed. by Monte Beauchamp. 2002. 120p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $19.95 (1-56097-457-5). 741.5. The cutting-edge graphic-arts anthology Blab has come a long way from its humble origins a decade ago as a black-and-white fanzine devoted to...

Comics Journal Special Edition: Cartoonists on Cartooning.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ed. by Gary Groth and Anne Elizabeth Moore. 2002. 156p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $19.95 (1-56097-473-7). 741.5. For 25 years, the Comics Journal has been the foremost--frankly, the only--regular source of serious criticism of the...

Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Red Headed Stepchild Speaks Out.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Knowles, Harry and others. Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Red Headed Stepchild Speaks Out. Mar. 2002. 320p. Warner, $23.95 (0-446-52597-9). 791.43. Knowles' self-portrayal as Hollywood outsider--a "kinder, gentler Walter Winchell"--seems odd,...

Little Miss Dynamite: the Life and Times of Brenda Lee.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Lee, Brenda and others. Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee. Mar. 2002. 320p. illus. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-7868-6644-6). 782.42. Lee began in stereotypical]y classic-country-music circumstances: dirt-poor family, drunken...

John Gielgud.
March 1, 2002... Morley, Sheridan. John Gielgud. Mar. 2002. 448p. index. Simon & Schuster, $30 (0-7432-2242-3). 792. Part of the generation of great Shakespearean actors that included Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, and Laurence Olivier, Gielgud...

Back to the Miracle Factory: Rock etc.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Williams, Paul, Back to the Miracle Factory: Rock etc. 1990s. Mar. 2002. 266p. Tor/Forge, $23.95 (0-765-30352-3). 782.42166. Williams' 1990s writings favor such dinosaurs as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and the Grateful Dead. That is because...

Totally Beads.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Bhatt, Sonal. Totally Beads. 2002. 80p. illus. index. Sterling, $19.95 (0-8069-7911-9). 745.58. In her first book, Bhatt gears her comments and directions to the young at heart. Her 37 items to craft concentrate on hair ornaments and...

China Style.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Leece, Sharon and Freeman, Michael. China Style. 2002. 224p. illus. Periplus; dist. by Tuttle, $45 (962-593-457-X). 747.2951. The next best thing to an 18-hour flight to the Far East could be viewing the 36 different spaces here that have...

Clearing the Bases: the Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Barra, Allen. Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century. Apr. 2002. 304p. illus. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-26556-5). 796.357. Membership in the fraternity of sports fanatics requires one to...

The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... * Frazier, Ian. The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors. Apr. 2002. 165p. Farrar, $22 (0-374-15520-8). 799.1. Near the beginning of "From Wilderness to Wal-Mart," an essay describing, from source to mouth, a stream that runs...

Perfect: the Inside Story of Baseball's 16 Perfect Games.
March 1, 2002... Buckley, James. Perfect: The Inside Story of Baseball's 16 Perfect Games. Mar. 2002. 256p. illus. index. Triumph, $22.95 (1-57243-454-6). 796.357. Since 1876, when most historians agree that "major" league baseball began, there have been...

The Turk: the Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine.
March 1, 2002... * Standage, Tom. The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine. Apr. 2002. 288p. illus. index. Walker, $24 (0-8027-1391-2). 794.1. It's a shame that most people these clays have never heard of Wolfgang...

Play by Play: Baseball, Radio, and Life in the Last Chance League.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Conan, Neal. Play by Play: Baseball, Radio, and Life in the Last Chance League. May 2002. 256p. Crown, $23 (0-609-60871-1). 796.357. Conan had been one of the familiar voices of NPR for 25 years. In the year 2000, he left job and family to...

Stud: Adventures in Breeding.
March 1, 2002... Conley, Kevin. Stud: Adventures in Breeding. Mar. 2002. 224p. Bloomsbury; dist. by St. Martin's, $24.95 (1-58234-184-2). 636.1. Conley, a staff writer at the New Yorker, tells us all we never even knew we wanted to know about the sex lives...

Champions: the Story of the First Two Oakland A's Dynasties--and the Building of the Third.
March 1, 2002... Dickey, Glenn. Champions: The Story of the First Two Oakland A's Dynasties--and the Building of the Third. Mar. 2002. 272p. illus. index. Triumph, $24.95 (1-57243-421-X). 796.357. The Oakland A's baseball team has spawned two minidynasties...

Birdie: Confessions of a Baseball Nomad.
March 1, 2002... Tebbetts, Birdie and Morrison, James. Birdie: Confessions of a Baseball Nomad. Mar. 2002. 192p. illus. index. Triumph, $19.95 (1-57243-455-4). 796.357. George "Birdie" Tebbetts spent nearly 50 years as a baseball player, manager, coach,...

My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Jacob, Iris. My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out. Apr. 2002. 248p. Holt/Owl, paper, $13 (0-8050-6821-X). 810. "Teen girls all over the country feel this way! We are angry at not belonging." Jacob, a biracial teen from South...

Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: a Novelist Looks at His Craft.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Morrell, David. Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft. Mar. 2002. 256p. Writer's Digest, $22.99 (1-58297-143-9). 808.3. Morrell, author of numerous thrillers, including First Blood (which introduced the world to...

Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Reichl, Ruth. Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet. Apr. 2002. 414p. Modern Library, $24.95 (0-679-64250-1). 814. For more than 60 years, Gourmet has served as a touchstone to America's taste setters with its monthly color...

Another Day on Earth.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Dekin, Timothy. Another Day on Earth. Apr. 2002. 88p. Northwestern Univ./TriQuarterly, $44.95 (0-8101-5119-7); paper, $15.95 (0-8101-5120-0). 811. A year before the publication of this, his first book-length collection, Dekin died, 58 hard...

* Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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