Booklist articles from March 2005

Booklist archives from March 2005

Ellerbee, Linda. Take Big Bites: Adventures around the World and across the Table.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Ellerbee, Linda. Take Big Bites: Adventures around the World and across the Table. May 2005. 278p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15268-7). 641. Veteran television correspondent Ellerbee is well known and well regarded for her verve, humor, and...

Bird, Kai and Sherwin, Martin J. American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Bird, Kai and Sherwin, Martin J. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Apr. 2005. 752p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (0-375-41202-6). 530. Robert Oppenheimer's work as director of the Manhattan...

Kramer, Peter D. Against Depression.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Kramer, Peter D. Against Depression. May 2005. 342p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03405-3). 616.85. Some dozen years after his surprise best-seller Listening to Prozac, Kramer returns to the subject of depression, revealing that much more...

McCullough, David. 1776.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * McCullough, David. 1776. June 2005. 656p. index. Simon & Schuster, $32 (0-7432-2671-2). 973.3. As the year 1776 began, hostilities between American forces and British regulars, which had begun the preceding April, continued. Yet a...

Wallach, Eli. The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Wallach, Eli. The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage. May 2005. 320p. illus, index. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101189-3). 792.02. This memoir by one of Hollywood's quieter stars adopts the tone of a what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation...

Wolf, Naomi. The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Wolf, Naomi. The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See. May 2005. 288p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-4977-1). 306.97. Wolf, celebrated feminist writer and activist, introduces her father, Leonard Wolf,...

Bogosian, Eric. Wasted Beauty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Bogosian, Eric. Wasted Beauty. May 2005. 256p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-3588-6). It has been 20 years since authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis created a literary zeitgeist with their novels about the go-go 1980s, especially...

Bass, Rick. Diezmo.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Bass, Rick. The Diezmo. May 2005. 224p. Houghton, $22 (0-395-92617-3). Whether Bass is writing his profoundly affecting narrative nonfiction, which includes Caribou Rising (2004), or such spellbinding short story collections as The...

Card, Orson Scott. Shadow of the Giant.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Card, Orson Scott. Shadow of the Giant. Mar. 2005. 384p. Tor, $25.95 (0-312-85758-8). Considering the dynasty of novels launched by Ender's Game (1984), perhaps Card ought to consider renaming his central protagonist. Though this is...

Coben, Harlan. The Innocent.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Coben, Harlan. The Innocent. Apr. 2005. 416p. Dutton, $26.95 (0-525-94874-0). Thriller writer Coben (who has won the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony Awards, the trifecta of mystery writing) specializes in adapting technology to new...

Crumley, James. The Right Madness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Crumley, James. The Right Madness. May 2005. 304p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03406-1). "I'd been older a few hours ago, but now those Scotch-Irish redneck genes had taken over. Plus a couple of Vicodins. I was a fistful of random trouble...

Eco, Umberto. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Eco, Umberto. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. June 2005. 464p. Harcourt, $28 (0-15-101140-0). Eco, best known for the popular medieval murder-mystery tale The Name of the Rose (1983), continually tests himself and his devoted...

Kanon, Joseph. Alibi.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Kanon, Joseph. Alibi. Apr. 2005. 416p. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7886-X). In The Good German (2001), Kanon superbly evoked the post-apocalyptic, pockmarked moonscape of 1946 Germany. Now he turns to postwar Venice, where there are no pockmarks but...

Palahniuk, Chuck. Haunted.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Palahniuk, Chuck. Haunted. May 2005. 256p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50948-0). In this over-the-top gore fest from Palahniuk (Fight Club, 1996; Lullaby, 2002), a group of aspiring writers move into a locked, windowless theater to write...

Peters, Elizabeth. The Serpent on the Crown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Peters, Elizabeth. The Serpent on the Crown. Mar. 2005. 416p. Morrow, $ 25.95 (0-06-059178-1). The year is 1922, and Amelia Peabody, Emerson, Ramses, and their familiar company have returned to Egypt for another season of excavation....

Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. Sullivan's Justice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. Sullivan's Justice. May 2005. 336p. Kensington, $24 (0-7582-0619-4). Ventura County probation officer, law student, and single mom Carolyn Sullivan, first introduced in Sullivan's Law (2004), has a truly sinister...

Theroux, Paul. Blinding Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Theroux, Paul. Blinding Light. June 2005. 448p. Houghton, $26 (0-618-41886-5). Unlike Slade Steadman, the one-book wonder portrayed in this suspenseful Faustian tale of toxic inspiration, Theroux has 40 books to his credit, including a...

Transgressions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Transgressions. Ed. by Ed McBain. May 2005. 784p. Tor/Forge, $27.95 (0-765-30851-7). Reading an anthology is a bit like listening to a musical sampler (what record collectors once lovingly called a mix tape); it's always tempting to have...

Westlake, Donald E. Watch Your Back!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Westlake, Donald E. Watch Your Back! Apr. 2005. 310p. Mysterious, $24.95 (0-89296-802-8). Westlake is in fine form in this twelfth comic caper (after 2004's The Road to Ruin) featuring hapless burglar John Dortmunder and his crew of...

Woods, Stuart. Two Dollar Bill.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Woods, Stuart. Two Dollar Bill. Apr. 2005. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15251-2). Last seen cozying up to Holly Barker in Reckless Abandon [BKL Mr 15 04], suave detective-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington is lounging in his favorite...

Gribbin, John. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Gribbin, John. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity. Apr. 2005. 304p. illus, index. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6256-X). 003. For physicists, chaos is not just a common synonym for disorder. Elaborating on the difference,...

Merritt, Davis. Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy at Risk.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Merritt, Davis. Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy at Risk. Apr. 2005. 256p. illus. index. AMACOM, $24.95 (0-8144-0854-0). 071. With more than 40 years of experience with the Knight...

Gartner, John D. The Hypomanic Edge: The Bipolar Disorder That Made America the Most Successful Nation in the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Gartner, John D. The Hypomanic Edge: The Bipolar Disorder That Made America the Most Successful Nation in the World. Mar. 2005. 384p. index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-4344-7). 155.8. By success, clinical psychologist Gartner means the...

Aslan, Reza. No god but God: the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Asian, Reza. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Mar. 2005. 304p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6213-6). 297. Aslan's introduction to the history of Islam, which also devotes several chapters to the place of Islam...

Boucher, Sandy. Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Boucher, Sandy. Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison. Apr. 2005. 264p. index. Beacon, $25.95 (0-8070-7318-0). 294.3 Devotees of meditation and Eastern spirituality as well as dance enthusiasts will appreciate...

Goldhill, Simon. The Temple of Jerusalem.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Goldhill, Simon. The Temple of Jerusalem. Mar. 2005. 208p. illus. index. Harvard. $19.95 (0-674-01797-8). 296.4. Built by Herod the Great, king of Judea, the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman emperor Titus 90 years later, in 70...

Well-traveled books.(The Manley Arts)
March 1, 2005... Reason number 37 why I like books better than computers: the wearability factor. There is an inverse relationship between what kind of shape a book is in and how good it is. Books that are in pristine shape with gleaming white pages and erect...

Meir, Asher. The Jewish Ethicist: Everyday Ethics in the Business of Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Meir, Asher. The Jewish Ethicist: Everyday Ethics in the Business of Life. Mar. 2005. 287p. KTAV, $29.50 (0-88125-815-6); paper, $18.95 (0-88125-809-1). 296.3. Drawing on writings in the Torah, Talmud, and halakhah (religious law), this...

Moore, Roy and Perry, John. So Help Me God: the Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Moore, Roy and Perry, John. So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom. Mar. 2005. 276p. illus. Broadford & Holman, $24.99 (0-8054-3263-9). 291.1. Moore's refusal to follow a court order to...

Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris. After the Apple: Women in the Bible: Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris. After the Apple: Women in the Bible: Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing. Mar. 2005. 288p. Hyperion/Miramax, $23.95 (0-7868-6908-9). 268. Psychotherapist Rosenblatt, author of Wrestling with Angels (1995),...

Evans, Wanda and Dunn, James. Trail of Blood: a Father, a Son and a Tell-Tale Crime Scene.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Evans, Wanda and Dunn, James. Trail of Blood: A Father, a Son and a Tell-Tale Crime Scene. Mar. 2005.320p. New Horizon, $23.95 (0-88282-261-6). 364. One bedroom, showing blood that could not be washed away, provides most of the forensic...

Bogira, Steve. Courtroom 302: a Year behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Bogira, Steve. Courtroom 302: A Year behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse. Mar. 2005. 416p. index. Knopf, $25 (0-679-43252-3). 345.773. In 1998, journalist Bogira spent a year scrutinizing the workings of a Cook County...

Dean, Charles L. Soldiers & Sled Dogs: a History of Military Dog Mushing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Dean, Charles L. Soldiers & Sled Dogs: A History of Military Dog Mushing. Apr. 2005. 148p. illus, index. Univ. of Nebraska, $24.95 (0-8032-1728-5). 355.4. Dean's small, fascinating book provides handy reference on the military use of...

Ellis, Richard J. to the Flag: the Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Ellis, Richard J. To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance. Apr. 2005. 312p. illus, index. Univ. Press of Kansas, $29.95 (0-7006-1372-2). 323.6. In 2002, when a judge in the federal court of appeals ruled that the...

Griffith, Gail. Will's Choice: a Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Griffith, Gail. Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery. May 2005. 336p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-059865-4). 362.28. Will Griffith, 17, thought he had downed enough of his prescribed...

Gross, Michael Joseph. Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Gross, Michael Joseph. Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame. Apr. 2005. 256p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-58234-316-0). 306.4. In a world where an increasing number of people are becoming famous for doing nothing more than starring in a...

Jews on Trial.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Jews on Trial. Ed. by Robert Garber. May 2005. 250p. index. KTAV, $25 (0-88125-868-7). 364.1. Gather insists that the meaning of the term trial in the book's title should be understood in the widest sense, because these trials were...

Lukacs, John. Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Lukacs, John. Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred. Mar. 2005. 272p. index. Yale, $25 (0-300-10773-0). 320.5. Lukacs has written imaginatively (A Thread of Years, 1998) and persuasively (At the End of an Age, 2002) about the present as...

Kailey, Matt. Just Add Hormones: an Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Kailey, Matt. Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience. June 2005. 176p. Beacon, $21.95 (0-8070-7958-8). 306.76. Alas, it ain't that simple--that is, just adding hormones, stirring, then coming out on the other...

Kaufman, Francine Ratner. Diabesity: the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic that Threatens America--and What We Must Do to Stop It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Kaufman, Francine Ratner. Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--and What We Must Do to Stop It. Mar. 2005. 336p. index. Bantam, $27 (0-553-80384-0). 362.196. Using figures demonstrating increased incidence of...

Kaufman, Sharon M. ... And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Kaufman, Sharon M.... And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life. Apr. 2005. 416p. index. Scribner/Lisa Drew, $27 (0-7432-6476-2). 362.17. Medical anthropologist Kaufman says that only within the last few hundred...

Losada, Isabel. A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World: a True Life Adventure Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Losada, Isabel. A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World: A True Life Adventure Story. June 2005. 400p. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06-078010-X). 360. To Londoner Losada, it was all so illogical. By fighting the war on terror with even...

Mayor, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First Americans.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Mayor, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First Americans. May 2005. 428p. illus. index. Princeton, $29.95 (0-691-11345-9). 398. Centuries before modern paleontologists began scouring the western badlands for dinosaur skeletons, a dozen Native...

Mahbubani, Kishore. Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Mahbubani, Kishore. Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World. Mar. 2005. 256p. index. PublicAffairs, $26 (1-58648-268-8). 327.73. Mahbubani's provocative previous work, Can Asians Think? (2002), pressed...

McDaniel, Carl N. Wisdom for a Livable Planet: the Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Fornos, Herman Daly, Stephen Schneider, and David Orr.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * McDaniel, Carl N. Wisdom for a Livable Planet: The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Fornos, Herman Daly, Stephen Schneider, and David Orr. Apr. 2005. 266p. index. Trinity Univ., $40...

Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: the Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Apr. 2005. 256p. illus. index. Thunder's Mouth, $23 (1-56025-655-9). 304.23. In this rewarding excursion into the curious history of daylight...

Queen, William. Under and Alone: the True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Queen, William. Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. Apr. 2005. 320p. illus. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6084-2). 364.1. Queen infiltrated the notorious California...

Rieff, David. At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Rieff, David. At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention. Mar. 2005. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-684-80867-6). 327.1. Rieff, author of A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (2002), explores the complexity...

Preston, Diana. Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Preston, Diana. Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. Apr. 2005. 416p. illus. index. Walker, $27 (0-8027-1445-5). 303.48. Chronicles of the making of the atomic bomb never fail to arouse astonishment and horror, and there is...

Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Apr. 2005. 480p. index. Holt, $27.50 (0-8050-6633-0). 320.730. Benjamin Franklin, often regarded as a supreme expression of the innovative and dynamic...

Sexual Metamorphosis: an Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. Ed. by Jonathan Ames. Apr. 2005. 400p. illus. Vintage, paper, $13.95 (1-4000-3014-5). 306.76. Several of these first-person transsexuals' accounts question socially assigned gender...

Sissons, Jeffrey. First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Sissons, Jeffrey. First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures. Mar. 2005. 224p. illus. Reaktion, paper, $19.95 (1-86189-241-1). 305.8. Sissons, professor of social anthropology in New Zealand, calls his book an "argument about the...

Stabiner, Karen. My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Stabiner, Karen. My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training. Apr. 2005. 288p. Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-316-60852-1). 306.874. Stabiner, whose acclaimed titles include All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters (2002), tells her own...

Stannard, David E. Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawai'i.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Stannard, David E. Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawai'i. Apr. 2005. 462p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03399-5). 305.8. In 1931, when a young socialite, the wife of a naval officer stationed in Honolulu,...

Stark, Marg. What No One Tells the Mom: Surviving the Early Years of Parenthood with Your Sanity, Your Sex Life, and Your Sense of Humor Intact.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Stark, Marg. What No One Tells the Mom: Surviving the Early Years of Parenthood with Your Sanity, Your Sex Life, and Your Sense of Humor Intact. Apr. 2005. 272p. Perigee, paper, $13.95 (0-399-53081-9). 306.874. Stark follows up What No One...

Thompson, Carla. Bearing Witness: Not So Crazy in Alabama.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Thompson, Carla. Bearing Witness: Not So Crazy in Alabama. May 2005. 166p. August, paper, $14 (0-9635720-8-3). 305.8. Disappointed by her efforts to launch a writing career in L.A., Thompson accepted her mother's invitation to return to the...

Vernon, McCay and Vernon, Marie. Deadly Lust.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Vernon, McCay and Vernon, Marie. Deadly Lust. Mar. 2005. 288p. illus. Kensington/ Pinnacle, paper, $6.50 (0-7860-1699-X). 364.15. A brutal sex and murder spree beset St. Augustine, Florida, from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, ending...

Eker, T. Harv. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Eker, T. Harv. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth. Mar. 2005. 224p. index. HarperBusiness, $19.95 (0-06-076328-0). 332.024. Eker, a multimillionaire, teaches us how to become rich. He believes thoughts lead...

Ferrazzi, Keith and Raz, Tahl. Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Ferrazzi, Keith and Raz, Tahl. Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time. Mar. 2005. 336p. index. Doubleday/Currency, $24.95 (0-385-51205-8). 658.4. Ferrazzi grew up in rural Pennsylvania, the son of a...

Lydenberg, Steven. Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Lydenberg, Steven. Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand. Mar. 2005. 192p. index. Berrett-Koehler, $27.95 (1-57675-291-3). 6584. Lydenberg has been involved in socially responsible investing and corporate social...

Siegel, Jeremy J. The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph over the Bold and the New.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Siegel, Jeremy J. The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph over the Bold and the New. Mar. 2005. 320p. index. Crown Business, $27.50 (1-4000-8198-X). 332.63. "The constant pursuit of growth through buying hot stocks,...

Lederer, Richard. The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults upon Our Language.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Lederer, Richard. The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults upon Our Language. Apr. 2005. 192p. illus. St. Martin's, $22.95 (0-312-33493-1). 428. Prolific author Lederer has written many language books; this title is part...

Hansen, Laurel D. and Klotz, John H. Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Hansen, Laurel D. and Klotz, John H. Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada. June 2005. 224p. illus. index. Cornell, $35 (0-8014-4262-1). 595.796. Carpenter ants are found all over the world, where they play a major role in forests...

Hart, Donna L. and Sussman, Robert W. Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Hart, Donna L. and Sussman, Robert W. Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution. Mar. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Westview, $27.50 (0-8133-3936-7). 576. In an agile, knowledgeable presentation, the authors contest a popular...

Mitton, Simon. Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Mitton, Simon. Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science. Mar. 2005. 320p. index. Joscpb Henry, S27.95 (0-309-09313-9). 520.92. During the 1950s and 1960s, the late Hoyle (1915-2001) was the Carl Sagan of his day, possibly the...

Randles, Jenny. Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Randles, Jenny. Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine. Apr. 2005. 208p. index. Pocket/Paraview, paper, $13 (0-7434-9259-5). 530.11. Physicist Paul Davies noted in How to Build a Time Machine (2001) that the...

Walker, Alan and Shipman, Pat. The Ape in the Tree.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Walker, Alan and Shipman, Pat. The Ape in the Tree. Apr. 2005. 368p. illus. index. Harvard/Belknap, $26.95 (0-674-01675-0). 569. Science buffs will know Walker for the Wisdom of the Bones (1996), cowritten with his wife, Pat Shipman, about...

Park, David. The Grand Contraption: the World as Myth, Number, and Chance.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... * Park, David. The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance. May 2005. 326p. illus. index. Princeton, $29.95 (0-691-12133-8). 509. Bring Homer and Einstein, Aristotle and Columbus into one timeless room (with translators),...

Bishop, Holley. Robbing tbe Bees: A Biography of Honey--the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Bishop, Holley. Robbing tbe Bees: A Biography of Honey--the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World. Apr. 2005. 310p. illus. Free Press, $24 (0-7432-5021-4). 638. Horn, Tammy. Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. Mar. 2005....

Chaskey, Scott. This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Chaskey, Scott. This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm. May 2005. 212p. Viking, $23.95 (0-670-03429-0). 630.5. Chaskey is the head farmer at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York. This organic community farm on the eastern tip of...

Vaillant, John. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Vaillant, John. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. May 2005.272p. illus. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05887-5). 577.3. This powerful and vexing man-versus-nature tale is set in an extraordinary place, Canada's Queen...

Diedrich, Monica. What Animals Tell Me: True Stories of an Animal Communicator.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Diedrich, Monica. What Animals Tell Me: True Stories of an Animal Communicator. Apr. 2005. 216p. illus. Llewellyn, paper, $12.95 (0-7387-0629-9). 636.088. Anyone who has looked into the eyes of a mischievous pet and wondered what it was...

Van Pelt, Lori. Amelia Earhart: the Sky's No Limit.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Van Pelt, Lori. Amelia Earhart: The Sky's No Limit. Mar. 2005. 208p. index. Tor/Forge, $21.95 (0-765-31061-9). 629.13. Van Pelt's fine introduction to the best-known of pioneering female airplane pilots inaugurates another short-biography...

Barber, Charles. Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Barber, Charles. Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Mar. 2005. 218p. Univ. of Nebraska, $22 (0-8032-1298-4). 616.89. Barber presents a haunting account of the suicide of a boyhood friend, his own youthful struggles...

Ofri, Danielle. Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Ofri, Danielle. Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine. Apr. 2005. 192p. Beacon, $23.95 (0-8070-7266-4). 610.69. Ofri supported a postgraduate semisabbatical by taking temporary assignments, filling in where...

Stromberg, Gary and Merrill, Jane. The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Stromberg, Gary and Merrill, Jane. The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery. Mar. 2005. 442p. Hazelden, $21.95 (1-59285-156-8). 616.86. Film folk (Mariette Hartley, Malcolm McDowell),...

Gardner, Jo Ann and Bussolini, Karen. Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Gardner, Jo Ann and Bussolini, Karen. Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden. Apr. 2005. 320p. illus, index. Timber, $34.95 (0-88192-703-1). 635.9. Gardner and Bussolini are a great team, bringing together decades of herbal...

Goodman, Matthew. Jewish Food: the World at Table.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Goodman, Matthew. Jewish Food: The World at Table. Mar. 2005. 416p. illus, index. HarperCollins, $29.95 (0-06-052128-7). 641.5. Goodman holds an ecumenical view of Jewish food that emphasizes the cuisine's worldwide nature. Goodman looks...

Pintabona, Don and Choate, Judith. The Shared Table: Cooking with Spirit for Family and Friends.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Pintabona, Don and Choate, Judith. The Shared Table: Cooking with Spirit for Family and Friends. Mar. 2005. 368p. illus, index. Random, $35 (0-375-50922-4). 641.594. In the realm of world cookbooks, this book comes as close as any to a...

Alexander, Rosemary and Sneesby, Richard. The Garden Maker's Manual.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Alexander, Rosemary and Sneesby, Richard. The Garden Maker's Manual. Apr. 2005. 192p. illus, index. Timber, $34.95 (0-88192-704-X). 717. Alexander, the charismatic founder of the English Gardening School, and coauthor Sneesby have compiled...

Bergmann, Eugene B. Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Bergmann, Eugene B. Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd. Mar. 2005. 480p. illus, index. Applause, $27.95 (1-55783-600-0). 791.4402. These days, Jean Shepherd (1921-99), radio raconteur, social commentator, and...

Brustein, Robert. Letters to a Young Actor: a Universal Guide to Performance.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Brustein, Robert. Letters to a Young Actor: A Universal Guide to Performance. Mar. 2005. 240p. Basic, $22.50 (0-465-00806-2). 792.02. Brustein has long maintained parallel careers as college professor, theater critic, and founder-director...

Dickerson, James L. Go, Girl, Go! The Women's Revolution in Music.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Dickerson, James L. Go, Girl, Go! The Women's Revolution in Music. Mar. 2005. 384p. illus, index. Schirmer, $29.95 (0-8256-7316-X). 782.4216. Dickerson, James L. Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll. Mar....

Griggs, Jeff. Guru: My Days with Del Close.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... * Griggs, Jeff. Guru: My Days with Del Close. Apr. 2005. 270p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $24.95 (1-56663-614-0). 792.02. Actor, director, and improv guru Del Close is best remembered as teacher, director, and mentor of several generations of much...