Booklist articles from November 2004

Booklist archives from November 2004

Canfield, Jack. The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Canfield, Jack. The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Jan. 2005. 496p. index. HarperResource, $24.95 (0-06-059488-8). 158. Expect considerable press hype over this book, considering Canfield is...

Ronald Reagan Remembered: CBS News (Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... CBS News. Ronald Reagan Remembered. Nov. 2004. 178p. Simon & Schuster, $29.95 (0-7432-7153-X). 973.927. Reagan's death in June, after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease that removed him from the public stage, provoked a national...

Dershowitz, Alan. Rights from Wrongs: the Origins of Human Rights in the Experience of Injustice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Dershowitz, Alan. Rights from Wrongs: The Origins of Human Rights in the Experience of Injustice. Nov. 2004. 256p. Basic, $24 (0-465-01713-4). 323. Preeminent legal scholar Dershowitz investigates the traditional debate over the sources of...

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Jan. 2005. 512p. index. Viking, $29.95 (0-670-03337-5). 909. Defining collapse as "extreme decline, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Sled (1997) which...

McCall Smith, Alexander. The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * McCall Smith, Alexander. The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa. Dec. 2004. 208p. Pantheon, $20 (0-375-42312-5). 398. Spiteful leopards. Reprehensible hares. A proud, heartless hunter who goes from predator to prey. Moral...

Evanovich, Janet. Metro Girl.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Evanovich, Janet. Metro Girl. Nov. 2004. 304p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-058400-9). The woman who brought us the irresistible Stephanie Plum introduces Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby in this madcap new adventure. Like so many crime...

Englund, George. The Way It's Never Been Done Before: My Friendship with Marlon Brando.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Englund, George. The Way It's Never Been Done Before: My Friendship with Marlon Brando. Nov. 2004. 320p. illus. HarperEntertainment, $24.95 (0-06-078630-2). 791.43. Producer-director Englund provides a relatively comprehensive summary of...

Janowitz, Tama. Area Code 212: New York Days, New York Nights.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Janowitz, Tama. Area Code 212: New York Days, New York Nights. Nov. 2004. 368p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-32062-0). 974.7. Janowitz's caustic wit, her taste for the sordid and the absurd, and her knack for skewering the fashionable and...

King, Alan and others. Matzo Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... King, Alan and others. Matzo Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish. Nov. 2004. 256p. Free Press, $24 (0-7432-6073-2). 307.892. Some sleepless night, pick up this collection of short, sweet reminiscences; it's like an...

Perlman, Elliot. Seven Types of Ambiguity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Perlman, Elliot. Seven Types of Ambiguity. Dec. 2004. 672p. Riverhead, $27.95 (1-57322-281-X). Australian novelist and barrister Perlman borrowed the title of this lengthy but fast-moving, reflective yet suspenseful novel from a book by...

McBain, Ed. Alice in Jeopardy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * McBain, Ed. Alice in Jeopardy. Jan. 2005. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-6250-6). Alice Glendenning has been surviving, just barely. When her husband, Eddie, died in a boating accident nearly a year ago, she was left a widow with...

Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Unexpected Blessings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Unexpected Blessings. Jan. 2005. 496p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-30704-7). Bradford continues the saga of the descendants of Emma Harte, the heroine of A Woman of Substance (1979), in this follow-up to Emma's...

Follett, Ken. Whiteout.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Follett, Ken. Whiteout. Dec. 2004. 384p. Dutton, $26.95 (0-525-94843-0). Follett's latest is a bio-thriller taking place over a wintry Christmas holiday in northern Scotland and well larded with family drama. Toni Gallo is the driven head...

Koontz, Dean. Life Expectancy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Koontz, Dean. Life Expectancy. Dec. 2004. 401p. Bantam, $27 (0-553-80414-6). On the night of August 9, 1974, Jimmy Tock's grandpa rouses from a coma to predict the exact time of Jimmy's birth and five dire dates in his future--and, oh...

McCaffrey, Todd. Dragonsblood.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... McCaffrey, Todd. Dragonsblood. Jan. 2005. 448p. Del Rey, $24.95 (0-345-44124-9). After coauthoring Dragon's Kin [BKL S 15 03] with his mother, Anne, McCaffrey smoothly accepts the torch from her to further chronicle the world of the...

Feldman, David and Schwan, Kassie. Do Elephants Jump? An Imponderables Book.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Feldman, David and Schwan, Kassie. Do Elephants Jump? An Imponderables Book. Dec. 2004. 352p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $19.95 (0-06-053913-5). 031. Remarkably, this is the tenth installment in the Imponderables series. Who'd have...

Clapp, Rodney. Tortured Wonders: Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Clapp, Rodney. Tortured Wonders: Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels. Nov. 2004. 288p. Brazos, $21.99 (1-58743-106-8). 248.4. Evangelical journalist Clapp wields his not inconsiderable wit, intelligence, and moral clarity like a...

My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Dodd, Patton. My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion. Nov. 2004. 208p. Jossey-Bass, $21.95 (0-7879-6859-5). 289.9. There is nothing new about the crisis of faith that afflicts adolescents as they question and rebel against the...

Cox, Harvey. When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Cox, Harvey. When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Religion Today. Dec. 2004. 352p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-06744-2). 232.9 Noting an alarming surge in insider trading and questionable ethics on the part of American doctors,...

Saliers, Don and Saliers, Emily. A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Saliers, Don and Saliers, Emily. A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice. Nov. 2004. 208p. index. Jossey-Bass, $21.95 (0-7879-6717-3). 246. Musicians often acknowledge the Saturday night-Sunday morning...

Self-reliant reading.(The Manley Arts)
November 1, 2004... Books serve different purposes. With a book, you can learn how to build a birdhouse, fix a toilet, solve a quadratic equation, master a foreign language, contemplate the universe, and discover the reproductive cycle of a fruit fly. Books make...

Blatt, Harvey. America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Blatt, Harvey. America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? Dec. 2004. 284p. illus. index. MIT, $27.95 (0-262-02572-8). 363.7. Professor of geology Blatt has compiled an accessible primer of environmental topics of concern...

Boyd, Herb. We Shall Overcome: a Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle Told in Words, Pictures and the Voices of the Participants.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Boyd, Herb. We Shall Overcome: A Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle Told in Words Pictures and the Voices of the Participants. Nov. 2004. 260p. illus. Sourcebooks, $45 (1-4022-0213-X). 323.1196. Award-winning journalist and author...

Garff, Joakim. Soren Kierkegaard.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Garff, Joakim. Soren Kierkegaard. Tr. by Bruce H. Kirmmse. Feb. 2005. 872p. illus. index. Princeton, $35 (0-691-09165-X). 198. Much has changed since a prominent nineteenth-century cleric dismissed the writings of Soren Kierkegaard as...

Churchill, Ward. Kill the Indian, Save the Man: the Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Churchill, Ward. Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. Nov. 2004. 164p. index. City Lights, paper, $14.95 (0-87286-434-0). 371.829. This concise discussion is a continuum to Churchill's...

Crouch, Stanley. The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Crouch, Stanley. The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity. Nov. 2004. 224p. index. Basic/Civitas, $24 (0-465-01515-8). 305.8. Crouch, the iconoclastic social critic, brings his keen insight to examine the much-denied social reality...

Mintz, Steven. Huck's Raft: a History of American Childhood.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Mintz, Steven. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Nov. 2004. 480p. illus. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-01508-8). 305.23. Mintz uses Huck Finn's raft as the image of the quintessential ideal American childhood, filled with...

Hearn, Chester G. Circuits in the Sea: the Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Hearn, Chester G. Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable. Nov. 2004. 280p. illus. index. Praeger, $39.95 (0-275-98231-9). 384.1. What began in 1855 as an idea by Cyrus West Field, a wealthy American visionary who...

Klucas, Gillian. Leadville: the Struggle to Revive an American Town.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Klucas, Gillian. Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town. Nov. 2004. 320p. index. Island, $26 (1-55963-385-9). 363.738 The Rocky Mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, once home to Guggenheims and Rockefellers, was built atop...

Spargo, Tamsin. Wanted Man: The Forgotten Story of an American Outlaw.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Spargo, Tamsin. Wanted Man: The Forgotten Story of an American Outlaw. Nov. 2004. 256p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-58234-228-8). 364.15. Spargo, raised in Cornwall, England, and now a professor in Liverpool, has had a long-standing fascination...

Pickering, Sam. Letters to a Teacher.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Pickering, Sam. Letters to a Teacher. Jan. 2005. 256p. Grove/Atlantic, $19.95 (0-87113-699-6). 371.1. "Read slowly and mull," advises Pickering. From the perspective of 40 years of teaching English, Pickering offers insights on the...

Pyne, Stephen J. Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Pyne, Stephen J. Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires. Nov. 2004. 226p. index. Island/Shearwater, $25 (1-55963-565-7). 363.37. Though there are historical narratives about fire, several by Pyne, a former firefighter and a...

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. Nov. 2004. 800p. illus. index. Norton, $35 (0-393-05880-8). 323.44. With growing concerns about national security and free...

Taylor, William L. The Passion of My Times: an Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey through the Civil Rights Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Taylor, William L. The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey through the Civil Rights Revolution. Nov. 2004. 352p. Carroll & Graf, $26 (0-7867-1424-7). 323.1. Taylor, a Jewish civil rights lawyer with long ties to major...

Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Sugden, John. Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797. Nov. 2004. 944p. illus. index. Holt, $35 (0-8050-7757-X). 359. Ensconced within two centuries of biographical detail, British naval icon Horatio Nelson receives an exacting excavation...

Voices of War: Stories of Service from the Home Front and the Front Lines.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Voices of War: Stories of Service from the Home Front and the Front Lines. Nov. 2004. 336p. illus. index. National Geographic, $30 (0-7922-7838-0). 355. This useful volume, profusely illustrated with personal and informal photographs,...

Williamson, Chilton. The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today's Conservative Thinkers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Williamson, Chilton. The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today's Conservative Thinkers. 2004. 256p. index. Kensington/Citadel, $22.95 (0-8065-2537-1). 320.52. One doesn't have to read much of this excellent book to...

Bazerman, Max H. and Watkins, Michael D. Predictable Surprises: the Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Bazerman, Max H. and Watkins, Michael D. Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them. Nov. 2004. 336p. index. Harvard Business School, $27.50 (1-59139-178-4). 363.34. Bazerman and Watkins,...

All the faux news that's fun to watch.(News & views)(With theTitle America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... What does it say about our times that so many people are turning to the faux news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as their source of the truth in news? What it definitely does say is that this Emmy-winning Comedy Central show,...

Judson, Bruce. Go It Alone: the Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Judson, Bruce. Go It Alone: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own. Nov. 2004. 240p. index. HarperBusiness, $23.95 (0-06-073113-3). 658.1. Using the success of his own two start-up companies as formulas for success,...

Levine, Michael. Charming Your Way to the Top: Hollywood's Premier P.R. Executive Shows You How to Get Ahead.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Levine, Michael. Charming Your Way to the Top: Hollywood's Premier P.R. Executive Shows You How to Get Ahead. Nov. 2004. 224p. index. Lyons, $22.95 (1-59228-440-X). 646.7. Charm, Levine reminds us, is good business and can significantly...

Adkins, Lesley. Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Adkins, Lesley. Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon. Dec. 2004. 448p. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $29.95 (0-312-33002-2). 492. The subject of this biography, Henry Rawlinson (1810-95), made some of the...

Aczel, Amir D. Chance: a Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Everything Else.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Aczel, Amir D. Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Everything Else. Nov. 2004. 176p. illus. Thunder's Mouth, $21 (1-56858-316-8). 519.2. People, as a rule, perform poorly when it comes to estimating risk and chance....

Beard, Chris. The Hunt for the Dawn Monkeys: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Beard, Chris. The Hunt for the Dawn Monkeys: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Dec. 2004. 370p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $27.50 (0-520-23369-7). 569. Popular interest in human origins is strong, especially in...

Carwardine, Mark. Shark.(Tiger)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Carwardine, Mark. Shark. 2004. 168p. illus. Firefly, paper, $24.95 (1-55297-948-2). 597.3. Mills, Stephen. Tiger. 2004. 168p. illus. index. Firefly, paper, $24.95 (1-55297-949-0). 599.756. Carwardine examines the large group of fishes...

King, Barbara J. The Dynamic Dance: Nonvocal Communication in African Great Apes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... King, Barbara J. The Dynamic Dance: Nonvocal Communication in African Great Apes. Nov. 2004. 240p. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-01515-0). 599.88. Our closest relatives, the great apes, are masters of complex and subtle communication yet...

Lindorff, David. Pauli and Jung: a Meeting of Great Minds on the Unity of Matter and Spirit.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Lindorff, David. Pauli and Jung: A Meeting of Great Minds on the Unity of Matter and Spirit. Nov. 2004. 312p. illus. index. Quest, $29.95 (0-8356-0837-9). 530. The great physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900-58) was one of the founders of quantum...

Matignon, Karine Lou. Tiger, Tiger.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Matignon, Karine Lou. Tiger, Tiger. 2004. 185p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $40 (0-500-51193-4). 599.7. A second book published to coincide with the film Two Brothers (the first, eponymous title was published in July), this one brims...

Spence, Pam. Sun Observer's Guide.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Spence, Pam. Sun Observer's Guide. Nov. 2004. 160p. illus. index. Firefly, paper, $14.95 (1-55297-941-5). 522. Formatted like Firefly's Mars Observer's Guide by Neil Bone (2003), this instructional explains how to safely view the sun and...

Davis, Caroline. Essential Cat: the Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your Cat.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Davis, Caroline. Essential Cat: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your Cat. Jan. 2005. 192p. illus. index. Reader's Digest, $26.95 (0-7621-0496-1). 636.8. With cats now outnumbering dogs in the U.S. pet population, it's only right that...

Hall, James Baker and Berry, Wendell. Tobacco Harvest: an Elegy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Hall, James Baker and Berry, Wendell. Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. 2004. 78p. illus. Univ. of Kentucky, $25 (0-8131-2327-5). 633.7. In the 31 -year-old black-and-white photographs that are the meat of this book, Berry and two of his children,...

Lord, Gary. It's Faux Easy with Gary Lord: Paint 30 Fabulous Finishes for Your Home.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Lord, Gary. It's Faux Easy with Gary Lord: Paint 30 Fabulous Finishes for Your Home. Nov. 2004. 144p. illus. North Light, paper, $24.99 (1-58180-554-3). 698. Lord makes do-it-yourself, hand-painted wall decor seem almost a breeze in this...

Mingo, Jack and Barrett, Erin. Lunchbox Inside and Out: from Comic Books to Cult TV and Beyond.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Mingo, Jack and Barrett, Erin. Lunchbox Inside and Out: From Comic Books to Cult TV and Beyond. 2004. 128p. illus. HarperCollins, paper, $16.95 (0-06-059519-1). 676. This picture book that is pure eye candy is based on the more than...

Whynott, Douglas. A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Whynott, Douglas. A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life. Nov. 2004. 290p. Farrar/North Point, $24 (0-86547-647-0). 636.089. In an interesting change from first-person accounts of the life of a veterinarian, Whynott instead...

Brinley, Maryann Bucknum. Oh Boy! Mothers Tell the Truth about Raising Teen Sons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Brinley, Maryann Bucknum. Oh Boy! Mothers Tell the Truth about Raising Teen Sons. Nov. 2004. 320p. Three Rivers, paper, $13 (1-4000-4526-6). 649.1. What's different about nurturing teenage boys? The author, who mothered one herself and has...

Bowe, Patrick. Gardens of the Roman World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Bowe, Patrick. Gardens of the Roman World. 2004. 176p. illus. index. J. Paul Getty Museum, $50 (0-89236-740-7). 712. Inspired by the ancient traditions of Near Eastern, Greek, and Egyptian gardens, Roman gardens are to this day an important...

Bradley-Hole, Kathryn. Lost Gardens of England: from the Archives of Country Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Bradley-Hole, Kathryn. Lost Gardens of England: From the Archives of Country Life. Nov. 2004. 192p. illus. index. Aurum; dist. by Trafalgar, $60 (1-85410-991-X). 712.6. Once upon a time, in a faraway land called England, there lived a race...

Abel, Daniel and others. The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Abel, Daniel and others. The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia. Dec, 2004. 224p. illus. index. Random, $29.95 (1-4000-6059-1) 641.5. Having created a successful New Orleans restaurant that relied on...

Cookies: 1,001 Mouthwatering Recipes from around the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Cookies: 1,001 Mouthwatering Recipes from around the World. Nov. 2004. 360p. illus. index. Reader's Digest, $35 (0-7621-0593-3). 641.8. If there were any cookie-baking book that could claim the title of "the only recipe collection you'll...

DiSpirito, Rocco and others. Rocco's Italian-American.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... DiSpirito, Rocco and others. Rocco's Italian-American. Nov. 2004. 288p. illus. index. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-7868-6857-0). 641.5. DiSpirito's well-documented travails in giving birth to a New York flagship restaurant have become familiar,...

Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook. Ed. by Susan Westmoreland. Nov. 2004. 336p. index. illus. Hearst; dist. by Sterling. $24.95 (1-58816-280-X). 641.597. This volume of American standards offers a good snapshot of the state...

Schreier, Iris and Kimmelstiel, Laurie J. Exquisite Little Knits: Knitting with Luxurious Specialty Yarns.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Schreier, Iris and Kimmelstiel, Laurie J. Exquisite Little Knits: Knitting with Luxurious Specialty Yarns. Nov. 2004. 144p. illus index. Sterling/Lark, $19.95 (1-57990-536-6). 746.43. Every craft book must have a hook, and here it's the...

Davis, Jeff. Papa Bear: the Life and Legacy of George Halas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Davis, Jeff. Papa Bear: The Life and Legacy of George Halas. Nov. 2004. 400p. illus. index. McGraw-Hill, $24.95 (0-07-142206-4). 796.3. Halas founded the Chicago Bears and the National Football League, Davis, a Chicago television producer,...

The Best American Sports Writing 2004.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... The Best American Sports Writing, 2004. Ed. by Richard Ben Cramer. Nov. 2004. 336p. Houghton, $27.50 (0-618-25134-0). 796. This series, which began in 1991, continues to provide insight into the art of sports writing. In this installment,...

Leahy, Michael. When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Leahy, Michael. When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback. Nov. 2004. 400p. index Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-5426-0). 796.3. Michael Jordan may have been the greatest basketball player ever to lace 'em up, but he has not...

Shamsky, Art and Zeman, Barry. The Magnificent Seasons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Shamsky, Art and Zeman, Barry. The Magnificent Seasons. Nov. 2004. 288p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-33358-7). 796. While this book won't win any awards for literary style or lack of cliche, Shamsky, who was himself a...

Ehrman, Bart D. The Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: a Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Ehrman, Bart D. The Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. Nov. 2004. 240p. illus. index. Oxford, $20 (0-19-518140-9). 813. There are have been...

Chao, Evelina. Yeh Yeh's House.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Chao, Evelina. Yeh Yeh's House. Dec. 2004. 288p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-33077-4). 813. As a girl in Virginia in the 1950s, Chao corresponded with her grandfather, Yeh Yeh, a renowned poet and professor of English living in Beijing. He...

Kleinzahler, August. Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Kleinzahler, August. Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained. Nov. 2004. 160p. Farrar, $18 (0-374-13377-8). 811. Kleinzahler's poetry, most recently collected in The Strange Hours Travelers Keep [BKL N 15 03],...

Parker, Peter. Isherwood: a Life Revealed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Parker, Peter. Isherwood: A Life Revealed Dec. 2004. 704p. illus. index Random, $39.95 (1-4000-6249-7). 823.912. English novelist and diarist Isherwood is not heavily read these days, but his books remain in print, and the press will make...

Plante, David. American Ghosts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Plante, David. American Ghosts. Jan. 2005. 288p. Beacon, $24 (0-8070-7264-8). 813. Novelist Plante was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, but in his vivid imagination, he lived in another country, figuratively and literally, for he was a...

Parini, Jay. One Matchless Time: a Life of William Faulkner.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Parini, Jay. One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner. Nov. 2004. 496p. illus. index HarperCollins, $29.95 (0-06-621072-0). 813. A boy who loved solitary rambles and hanging around his father's livery stable, "the hub of daily life"...

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: an American Woman's Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Wagner-Martin, Linda. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life. Nov. 2004. 252p. illus. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (1-4039-3403-7). 813. Wagner-Martin perceptively portrays Zelda not as an appendage to her famous husband, F....

Bottoms, David. Waltzing through the Endtime.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Bottoms, David. Waltzing through the Endtime. Nov. 2004. 96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $14 (1-55659-215-9). 811. Like his fellow southern poets and age-mates Mark Jarman and Andrew Hudgins, Bottoms has a sensibility both Christian and modern....

Dybek, Stuart. Streets in Their Own Ink.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * Dybek, Stuart. Streets in Their Own Ink. Nov. 2004 96p. Farrar, $20 (0-374-27095-3). 811. Dybek's ravishing short stories, appearing most recently in I Sailed with Magellan (2003), are remarkably poetic; his stunning poems possess...

Tate, James. Return to the City of White Donkeys.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Tate, James. Return to the City of White Donkeys. Nov. 2004. 192p. HarperCollins/ Ecco, $24.95 (0-06-075001-4). 811. Tate has authored 13 poetry books and received numerous recognitions and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the...

American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats. Ed. by lack Newfield and Mark Jacobson. Nov. 2004. 400p. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $15 (1-56025-554-4). 973. The most despicable Americans of all time--from politics, sports, religion,...

Brighton, Terry. Hell Riders: the True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Brighton, Terry. Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Nov. 2004. 416p. illus. index. Holt/John Macrae, $27.50 (0-8050-7722-7). 947. The Crimean War (1853-56) was the first general European conflict since the...

de Villiers, Marq and Hirtle, Sheila. Sable Island: the Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... de Villiers, Marq and Hirtle, Sheila. Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic. Nov. 2004. 304p. illus. index. Walker, $24 (0-8027-1432-3). 971.6. Gathering both fact and lore about Sable...

Higgins, Billy D. A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Higgins, Billy D. A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas. Nov. 2004. 280p. index. Univ. of Arkansas, $34.95 (1-55728-777-5). 976.7. Higgins presents a more complex and nuanced picture of...

Holmes, Martha and others. Nile.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Holmes, Martha and others. Nile. Dec. 2004. 168p. illus. index. BBC; dist. by Trafalgar, $35 (0-563-48713-5). 962. A companion to a BBC program that Discovery Channel will broadcast in December 2004, this work contains many gorgeous photos...

Kehoe, Elisabeth. The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the English Artistocratic World into Which They Married.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Kehoe, Elisabeth. The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the English Artistocratic World into Which They Married. Dec. 2004. 480p. illus. index. Grove/Atlantic, $26 (0-87113-924-3). 973.5. Thanks to several previous biographies,...

Rigg, Bryan Mark. Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Rigg, Bryan Mark. Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Nov. 2004. 288p. illus. index. Yale, $26 (0-300-10448-0). 940.53. This book details the story of the rescue of Joseph Schneersohn, the...

Abboud, Joseph and Stem, Ellen. Threads: My Life behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Abboud, Joseph and Stem, Ellen. Threads: My Life behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion. Nov. 2004. 256p. index. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-053534-2). 746.920. Another tell-all tome about the fashion industry, but this time...