Booklist articles from March 2003

Booklist archives from March 2003

Angell, Roger. Game Time: a Baseball Companion.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 356p. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-100824-8). 796.357. There is a lovely rhythm to these pieces, which are divided into "Spring," "Summer," and "Fall," depending on the time in the baseball year in which each is set (spring training, the...

Cannon, Angie and others. 23 Days of Terror: the Compelling True Story of the Hunt and Capture of the Beltway Snipers.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 264p. Pocket, paper, $6.99 (0-7434-7695-6). 364.1. Journalist Cannon offers a tension-laden, detailed account of the 23 days in the fall of 2002 when the Washington, D.C., area was terrorized by random sniper killings, which...

Helms, Richard and Hood, William. A Look over My Shoulder: a Life in the Central Intelligence Agency.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 512p. illus. index. Random, $35 (0-375-50012-X). 327.1273. Helms was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1966 to 1973. "This is a memoir I never expected to write," he says in the preface to the memoir we're glad he...

McKibben, Bill. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. index. Holt/Times, $25 (0-8050-7096-6). 303.48. McKibben (The End Of Nature, 1989) turns a passionate and revealing spotlight on our headlong rush into technology. He explains an array of procedures--including germline...

A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Caroline Kennedy. May 2003. 688p. illus. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-7868-6918-6). 810. Kennedy compiled the 2001 best-seller devoted to her mother's memory, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Certain to hit the best-seller...

Sheldrake, Rupert. The Sense of Being Stared at and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 384p. index. Crown, $25 (0-609-60807-X). 133.8. Innovative biologist Sheldrake tackles the thorny questions that science, a bastion of rationalism and materialism, steadfastly avoids, Questions such as what force drives plants to...

Watson, James and Berry, Andrew. DNA: the Secret of Life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 336p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (0-375-41546-7). 576.5. Intended to enlighten those with "zero biological knowledge," this history of the genetics revolution coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Francis Crick's...

Buffa, D. W. Star Witness.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... May 2003. 400p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15034-X). Lawyer Joseph Antonelli is contentedly living across the bay from San Francisco when a sordid, high-profile case pulls him to Los Angeles. A famous studio head has been accused of murdering...

* Jong, Erica. Sappho's Leap.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... May 2003. 320p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05762-3). Thirty years ago, Jong hot-wired American fiction with her galvanizing first novel, Fear of Flying, and she's been writing with great moxie about women, sexuality, love, and misogyny ever...

Hoffman, Alice. The Probable Future.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... June 2003. 320p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50760-7). Hoffman has perfected her very own entrancing style of magic realism and mystical romance anchored to the moody, history-laden Massachusetts countryside. In an astonishing run of 16...

Lindsey, David. The Rules of Silence.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 406p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-53163-4). Multimillionaire Titus Cain is approached with a strange proposition: if he doesn't give a certain man $64 million, this same man will kill off some (or perhaps all) of Cain's friends and...

Moyes, Jojo. Windfallen.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... May 2003. 400p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-001290-0). For more than 50 years, Arcadia, an art-deco house set precariously and imperiously atop Merham's seaside cliffs, has been simultaneously ruling and ruining Lottie's life. From the day she...

Oates, Joyce Carol. The Tattooed Girl.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... June 2003. 320p. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-053106-1). The wildly prolific Oates takes readers on another long, strange trip to the dark side in typically riveting fashion. Celebrated intellectual Joshua Seigl has been diagnosed with a debilitating...

Sparks, Nicholas. The Guardian.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 384p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-52779-3). In his newest, the ever-popular Sparks, known for his romantic tales, combines an involving love story with the creepiness of an unpredictable thriller. Julie Barenson survived a negligent...

Westlake, Donald E. Money for Nothing.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 294p. Warner/ Mysterious, $24.95 (0-89296-787-0). Westlake's recent stand-alone thrillers have been driven by show-stopping premises that place an ordinary man in dangerously extraordinary circumstances. The pattern holds here,...

Canfield, Jack and others. Chicken Soup for the Romantic Soul: Inspirational Stories about Love and Romance.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 2003. 366p. illus. Health Communications, paper, $12.95 (0-7573-0042-1). 152.4. This addition to the popular Chicken Soup series blends a variety of stories--heartwarming, humorous, and poignant--to create a volume with broad appeal. Those...

Patanjali. The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Tr. by Chip Hartranft. Mar. 2003. 144p. illus. Shambhala, paper, $12.95 (1-59030-023-8). 181. The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali is a classic Sanskrit treatise consisting of 195 "threads" or aphorisms describing a process of liberation through...

Robertson, Ian. Opening the Mind's Eye: How Images and Language Teach Us How to See.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 288p. index. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-30657-1). 153.3. A British psychologist, Robertson has a variety of goals in mind here--sharpening memory, increasing athletic performance, taming anxiety and phobias--as he describes...

Budziszewski, J. What We Can't Not Know: a Guide.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 272p. index. Spence, $27.95 (1-890626-49-X). 241.2. According to the natural law, a concept Christianity adopted and modified from Greek and Roman philosophy, knowledge of God's existence and of fundamental moral principles...

McKenna, Megan. Send My Roots Rain: a Spirituality of Justice and Mercy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 352p. Doubleday, $21.95 (0-385-50237-0). 242. Are justice and mercy opposites? Or is mercy justice in its purest, most God-like state? McKenna says that, according to Judeo-Christian wisdom, the two qualities are inexorably...

Monaghan, Patricia. The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: the Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 320p. New World Library, $22.95 (1-57731-190-6). 299. Monaghan begins with a confession of sorts. Raised in Alaska, she always had thought of herself as Irish yet for a long time knew next to nothing about Ireland. In her mind's...

* Harline, Craig, Miracles at the Jesus Oak: Histories of the Religion Supernatural in Reformation Europe.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 272p. illus. index. Doubleday, $22.95 (0-385-50820-4). 231.7. Harline, an expert on the European Reformation, tells five true-life tales about miracles and other wondrous events that took place in the seventeenth-century Spanish...

Rushkoff, Douglas. Nothing Sacred: the Truth about Judaism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. index. Crown, $24.95 (0-609-61094-5). 296.3. In a book that surely will be controversial, Rushkoff writes that Jews today are confronting some challenging questions about the role that spirituality, religion, and Judaism...

Williams, Paul L. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 230p. illus. Prometheus, $27 (1-59102-065-4). 262. On February 11, 1929, Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini's government, affirming Il Duce and netting him the political capital necessary for a secure Fascist...

Campbell, Will D. Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: a Black Politician's Story.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 144p. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $22 (9-57806-505-7). 328.762. This is a unique biography in that it is as much about the author as the subject, the two born three years apart, and their common heritage as Mississippians....

Charen, Mona. Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the First Cold War and Still Blame America First.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 264p. index. Regnery, $27.95 (0-89526-139-1). 335.43. Political gab-show regular Charen does a bang-up job of summarizing one of the Right's oldest complaints: that left liberals--whom she distinguishes from anticommunist...

Chase, Alston. Harvard and Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 352p. illus. index. Norton, $26.95 (0-393-02002-9). 364.15. Chase, who, like Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, graduated from Harvard and fled academe for the Montana wilderness, here offers a new slant on the triple murderer and...

Chase, Marilyn. The Barbary Plague: the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 304p. illus. index. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50496-6). 362.1. From 1900 to 1909, San Francisco was in the grip of bubonic plague, a dreaded epidemic spread by infected rats that jumped ship and found their way into the sewer system...

Corbitt, Michael and Giancana, Sam. Double Deal: the Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 368p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-019585-1). 364.106. An aptitude for juvenile delinquency inducted the author into Chicago's "Outfit" (the Mob's local moniker), and here Corbitt and coauthor Giancana, the nephew of the late Mob...

Crompton, Vicki and Kessner, Ellen Zelda. Saving Beauty from the Beast: How to Protect Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 272p. index. Little, Brown, $22.95 (0-316-09058-1). 362.88. Crompton and Kessner provide an important book directed at the parents of teenage daughters. They speak from experience and from hearts broken by the murders of their...

Giorgio. Memoirs of an Italian Terrorist.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Tr. by Anthony Shugaar. Apr. 2003. 208p. Carroll & Graf, paper, $13 (0-7867-1134-5). 303.6. Published in Italian two decades ago, this tract reveals what a terrorist's life underground is like. Translator Shugaar believes "Giorgio" is...

Hammond, Robert. Identity Theft: How to Protect Your Most Valuable Asset.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 224p. index. Career, paper, $14.99 (1-56414-636-7). 364.16. Imagine that someone has used your personal information to clean out your bank accounts and max out your credit cards, leaving you with a huge debt. In the worst case,...

Harris, Lis. Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 256p. Houghton, $25 (0-395-98417-3). 363.7. Harris follows the rise and fall of an idea proposed by a respected environmental scientist to build a recycled-paper mill in a neglected neighborhood in New York City, an idea that...

Salter, Anna C. Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Sex Offenders: Who They Are, How They Operate and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 272p. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-07172-4). 364.15. Salter, a psychologist, draws on 20 years of studying sex offenders to provide a disturbing and absorbing look at how and why sex abusers generally get away with their abuse. Sex...

Badowski, Rosanne and Gittines, Roger. Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship with Those above You.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 240p. index. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50772-0). 650.1. Who could resist learning the inner secrets of working with Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric? Badowski was Welch's administrative assistant for 13 years, and what...

Barbash, Tom. On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: a Story of Loss and Renewal.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 304p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-051029-3). 332.6. Housed in the upper floors of Tower One of the World Trade Center, Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on September 11, 2001. Only a handful were spared by chance, including...

Burrows, Peter. Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 2003. 288p. Wiley, $27.95 (0-471-26765-1). 338.7. The now-famous garage in Palo Alto, California, where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company, is commonly known as the "birthplace of Silicon Valley." The humble beginnings and...

Klein, Maury. The Change Makers: From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p. index. Holt/ Times, $26 (0-8050-6914-3). 338. Klein, a research scientist and founder of his own company, presents his thesis that intuition is an essential, powerful, and practical tool for decision making, not a special...

Brown, Paul Martin. The Wild Orchids of North America, North of Mexico.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Univ. Press of Florida, $49.95 (0-8130-2571-0); paper, $27.95 (0-8130-2572-9). 584. As the world's largest flowering plant family, orchids can be found growing natively in nearly every U.S. state and Canadian...

Fuller, Errol. Dodo: a Brief History.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 2003. 192p. illus. index. Universe, $22.50 (0-7893-0840-1). 598.65. The dodo, arguably the single most famous extinct animal, was a flightless bird found only on the island of Mauritius, located northeast of Madagascar. Discovered by the...

* Schwartz Maxime. How the Cows Turned Mad.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Tr. by Edward Schneider. Mar. 2003. 248p. index. Univ. of California, $24.95 (0-520-23531-2). 616.8. Two and a half centuries ago, sheep in England started trying to scrape their wool off; in France, to shake uncontrollably. The Brits...

Lindstrom, Martin and Seybold, Patricia B. Brandchild: Insights into the Minds of Today's Global Kids and Their Relationships with Brands.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 320p. illus. index. Kogan Page, $39.95 (0-7494-3867-3). 658.8. An international marketing research firm spent one year studying the habits of children 8 to 14 years old (dubbed tweens) in 11 countries to determine their...

Tobin, James. To Conquer the Air: the Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 432p. illus. index. Free Press, $28 (0-684-85688-3). 629.13. In this centenary of the airplane, Tobin recreates the course, in its technological and biographical dimensions, of the Wright brothers' claim to its invention. This...

Odean, Kathleen. Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child's First Three Years.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 352p. index. Ballantine, paper, $14.95 (0-345-45254-2). 011.62. Odean's Great Books about Things Kids Love (2001) recommended titles for children ages 3 to 14. Now in the same chatty, enthusiastic style she focuses on helping...

Bryant, Geoff. Plant Propagation A to Z: Growing Plants for Free.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 224p. illus. index. Firefly, $35 (1-55297-688-2). 635.9. Whether driven by economic incentive or the tinker's need to dabble in creation, propagating garden plants can satisfy a number of goals, yet with its implied message of a...

Hamilton, Tony. A Year at Barnsdale: the Inspiring Legacy of Geoff Hamilton's Beautiful Garden.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 192p. illus. index. Headline; dist. by Trafalgar, $29.95 (0-7472-3286-5). 635.9. Television personality Geoff Hamilton died in 1996, but the gardens he created at Barnsdale and featured in his show, the BBC's Gardeners' World,...

Intakul, Sakul and Devahastin na Ayudhya, Wongvipa. Tropical Colors: the Art of Living with Tropical Flowers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 176p. illus. Tuttle, $35 (0-7946-0056-5). 635.9. Luscious color photographs by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni posit intriguing ways designers have concocted displays of the lush beauty of tropical blooms in tandem with unusual materials...

Welch, Charles W. Breeding New Plants and Flowers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 144p. illus. index. Crowood; dist. by Trafalgar, $35 (1-86126-549-2). 631.523. Trying one's hand at breeding either a new variety of fruit or vegetable or a flower with a unique color or patterning is a challenge that can seize...

Chinese Architecture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Nancy S. Steinhardt. 2002. 384p. illus. index. Yale, $65 (0-300-0955%7). 720. This 10-year project, the third in a planned 75-volume tour of Chinese culture, is a formidable survey of 7,000 years of China's architectural heritage....

Christie, Ian, Sound of the Beast: the Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 400p. illus. index. HarperEntertainment, $25.95 (0-06-052362-X). 781.66. Christie is damn sure that without the original Black Sabbath, heavy metal either wouldn't have endured or would sound a lot different, and the first part...

Curtis, James. W. C. Fields.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 448p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (0-375-40217-9). 791.43. Veteran madcap John Cleese blurbs this as "the definitive book about America's most profound comedian." Now Cleese knows comedians, but "profound"? Fields? Well, Curtis at...

Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Peter Noever. 2002. 432p. illus. index. Yale, $75 (0-300-09628-3). 749.2. Rennhofer, Maria. Koloman Moser: Master of Viennese Modernism. 2002. 248p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $60 (0-500-09306-7). 749.2. These beautifully...

Dietz, Ulysses Grant. Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 208p. illus. index. Guild; dist. by North Light, $45 (1-893164-18-7). 738. Dietz's gloriously illustrated book celebrates the "ordinariness" of ceramics created from 1940 onward by showcasing pottery that "expresses the way in...

Eisler, Benita. Chopin's Funeral.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 192p. illus. index. Knopf, $23 (0-375-40945-9). 786.2. The innovative pianist-composer Chopin (1810-49) moved in the highest circles of French society but, frail and tubercular throughout his adult life, lived in emotional...

Kaufman, Lloyd and others. Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 352p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $14.95 (0-312-28864-6). 791.43. Troma Studios impresario Kaufman is back with a manual for fledgling filmmakers seeking to slide down something like his slimy path to indie...

Lyman, Rick. Watching Movies: the Biggest Names in Cinema Talk about the Films that Matter Most.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 288p. index. Holt/Times, paper, $14 (0-8050-7098-2). 791.43. For a series in the New York Times, Lyman watched and discussed movies that each of 21 directors, actors, screenwriters, and other film professionals considers...

McLean, Mary. Painting Still Lifes Step by Step.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 128p. illus. index. North Light, paper, $24.99 (1-58180-299-4). 751.45. Seerey-Lester, John. Painting Wildlife with John Seerey-Lester. Mar. 2003. 144p. illus. index. North Light, $28.99 (1-58180-242-0). 751.45. Soto,...

Michael Powell: Interviews.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by David Lazar. Apr. 2003. 208p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $46 (1-57806-497-X); paper, $18 (1-57806-498-8). 791.43. In the introduction to these 13 interviews (many previously unpublished), compiler Lazar calls Powell (1905-90)...

Graves, Alun. Tiles and Tilework of Europe.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 2002. 160p. illus. index. V & A; dist. by Abrams, $45 (0-8109-6598-4). 738.6. According to interior designers and architects, the popularity of tiles waxes and wanes according to the tastes of the public. Yet a longer view of history...

Leigh, Tera. How to Be Creative If You Never Thought You Could.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 128p. illus. index. North Light, paper, $22.99 (1-58180-293-5). 745.5. Crafts novices, especially those who doubt their ability to create artfully, will welcome California artist Leigh's how-to on creativity, which goes beyond...

Engelberg, Morris and Schneider, Marv. DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 2003. 420p. illus. index. MBI, $24.95 (0-7603-1482-9). 796.357. Morris Engelberg was Joe DiMaggio's best friend and constant companion over the last 16 years of DiMaggio's life. This book combines anecdotes from DiMaggio's playing days with...

Hauser, Thomas. A Year at the Fights.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... 2003. 288p. Univ. of Arkansas, paper, $19.95 (1-55728-733-3). 796.83. Hauser's 28 books include suspense fiction, investigative journalism, and even a children's book. But his passion and stellar reputation rest largely on his writing...

Hellmuth, Phil. Play Poker like the Pros.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... May 2003. 416p. illus. index. HarperCollins/ Quill, paper, $15.95 (0-06-000572-6). 795.41. Hellmuth is to poker players what Tiger Woods is to golfers. A seven-time World Series of Poker winner, he knows his craft and has now decided to...

The Italian American Reader.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Bill Tonelli. Mar. 2003. 576p. Morrow, $27.95 (0-06-000666-8). 810.8 Like others before him, editor Tonelli wondered how it was that a culture could produce a Michelangelo but no Shakespeare, a Luciano Pavarotti but no Ernest...

Forche, Carolyn. Blue Hour.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 96p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-009912-7). 811. In her fourth collection, renowned poet Forche, a writer exquisitely attuned to the tenderness and awe, violence and grief inherent in human life, summons up a transitional realm...

Friend, Robert. Dancing with a Tiger: Poems, 1941-1998.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Edward Field. Mar. 2003. 170p. Spuyten Duyvil, paper, $14 (1-881471-21-7). 811. Like Robert Lax (1915-2001), Friend (1913-98) was an intentional American expatriate. Lax lived in rural Greece, Friend in Jerusalem from 1950 on. Lax...

Brosman, Catharine Savage. Finding Higher Ground: a Life of Travels.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... May 2003. 216p. Univ. of Nevada, $21.95 (0-87417-538-0). 917.904. Returning to locations that contributed meaningfully to her life, from the Colorado Rockies to a Parisian arrondissement, Brosman embarks on a journey that is as much about...

* The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Gary E. Moulton. Mar. 2003. 544p. index. Univ. of Nebraska, $29.95 (0-8032-2950-X). 917.804. This year is the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase; next year is the bicentennial of the commencement of the expedition of the Corps...

Buckley, Christopher. Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 160p. Crown/Journeys, $16 (1-4000-4687-4). 917.5304. Semireverent, semisatirical, this perambulation of the monuments of Washington, D.C., takes readers from Union Station, down the Mall, and across the Potomac to Arlington...

Paolicelli, Paul, Under the Southern Sun: Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 320p. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-28765-8). 914.5. In an effort to learn more about himself, his family, and the last generation of Italian Americans to have "direct memory and ties with the great diaspora from...

* Prose, Francine. Sicilian Odyssey.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 208p. illus. National Geographic, $20 (0-7922-6535-1). 914.5. Prose is so taken with Sicily, the beauty of its landscapes and art, the complexities of its mythology and history, the earthiness of its food, the intensity of its...

Cerami, Charles. Jefferson's Great Gamble: the Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 320p. index. Sourcebooks, $22.95 (1-57071-945-4). 973.4. Cerami does not shy away from offering vigorous opinions on the actions of the principals in the Louisiana Purchase. This propensity might jaundice professional historians,...

Dalrymple, William, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 512p illus. index. Viking, $27.95 (0-670-03184-4). 954. Dalrymple has successfully interwoven history and romance into an absolutely fascinating overview of the often ambivalent and conflicted relationships between British...

Eizenstat, Stuart E. Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 432p. index. PublicAffairs, $30 (1-58648-110-X). 940.53. Although he served in a variety of high-level economic and diplomatic positions during the Clinton administration, Eizenstat will likely go down in American history as the...

Greene, Joshua M. Justice at Dachau: the Trials of an American Prosecutor.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 384p. index. Broadway, $26 (0-7679-0879-1). 940.53. For nearly two years, William Denson led the prosecution team at Dachau, Germany, that by August 1948 had found 177 Nazis guards and officers guilty of war crimes at Dachau,...

Jackson, Kevin and Stamp, Jonathan. Building the Great Pyramid.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Feb. 2003. 192p. illus. index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55297-721-8); paper, $19.95 (1-55297-719-6). 932. This companion to the BBC/Discovery Channel special to be aired this spring uses the latest technology (including computer-generated...

* McPherson, James M. Hallowed Ground: a Walk at Gettysburg.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... May 2003. 144p. Crown/Journeys, $16 (0-609-61023-6). 973.7. Without rival as the most popular Civil War destination, the Gettysburg battlefield makes a profound and lasting impression on visitors, who, consulting contemporary photographs of...

Mansel, Philip. Paris between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814-1852.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 576p. illus. index. Palgrave, $35 (0-312-30857-4). 944. Closely examining the political and social life of Restoration Paris, Mansel keeps a frequently confusing scene in focus. The original French Revolution, and its Napoleonic...

McKeen, William and McKeen, Graham. Highway 61: a Father-and-Son Journey throughout the Middle of America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 256p. illus. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-04164-6). 977.034. In the summer of 2001, the author and his 18-year-old son piled into a 1997 Ford Explorer (stocked with various supplies, including a staggering number of CDs) and embarked on...

Parssinen, Terry. The Oster Conspiracy of 1938: the Unknown Story of the Military Plot to Kill Hitler and Avert World War II.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 256p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $27.95 (0-06-019587-8). 943.086. Parssinen tells the fascinating story of an aborted coup and a plan to eliminate Hitler. Using an archival trove started but left uncompleted by late historian...

Raymo, Chet. The Path: a One-Mile Walk through the Universe.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 208p. illus. index. Walker, $23 (0-8027-1402-1). 974.4. Previously inveigling us with the heavens in An Intimate Look at the Night Sky (2001), Raymo here enchants us with the earth, in particular, a one-mile-long section of his...

Weddle, David. Among the Mansions of Eden: Tales of Love, Lust and Land in Beverly Hills.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Mar. 2003. 352p. index. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-019817-6). 979.4. Weddle's chatty and informative historical overview of Beverly Hills explores the city's iconic image and provocative history as he takes readers deep into the heart and homes...

American Jewish Women's History.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed. by Pamela S. Nadell. Apr. 2003. 318p. index. New York Univ., $70 (0-8147-5807-X); paper, $24 (0-8147-5808-8). 920.72. These 18 essays (17 written by women) illustrate the part women played in shaping the contours of American Jewish...

American Nature Writing, 2003.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ed by John A. Murray. Apr. 2003. 224p. Fulcrum, paper, $17.95 (1-55591-353-9). 810. The tenth volume in this exemplary series of contemporary nature writing is devoted to women writers, and it is a unique and radiant collection. Emma Brown...