Booklist articles from November 2006

Booklist archives from November 2006

Crosby, David and Gottlieb, Carl. Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell about It.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Crosby, David and Gottlieb, Carl. Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell about It. Nov. 2006.304p. illus. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15381-0). 782.42166. It's been 18 years since Crosby and Gottlieb's first tome on the former's...

DeYoung, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... DeYoung, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. 2006. 608p. index. Knopf, $28.95 (1-4000-4170-8). 973.931. Despite the slight tarnish to Powell's reputation following revelations that his earnest testimony before the UN in support of the...

Trillin, Calvin. About Alice.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Trillin, Calvin. About Alice. Jan. 2007.96p. index. Random, $14.95 (1-4000-6615-8). 814. Anyone who has devotedly followed Trillin's decades of writing in the New Yorker about matters contemporary knows intimately Trillin's affection for...

Auster, Paul. Travels in the Scriptorium.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Auster, Paul. Travels in the Scriptorium. Feb. 2007. 160p. Holt, $22 (0-8050-8145-3). General Fiction. Auster, a literary descendent of Kafka and Borges, is fascinated by the very act of storytelling. Consequently, his novels always involve...

Ford, Richard. The Lay of the Land.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Ford, Richard. The Lay of the Land. Nov. 2006. 496p. Knopf, $26.95 (0-679-45468-3). General Fiction. Ford's third novel featuring realtor Frank Bascombe, previously seen in The Sportswriter (1986) and the Pulitzer-winning Independence Day...

Shafak, Elif. The Bastard of Istanbul.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Shafak, Elif. The Bastard of Istanbul. Jan. 2007. 357p. Viking, $24.95 (9780670038343). General Fiction. The new Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has faced charges for making anti-Turkish remarks regarding the long denied mass killings of...

Kellerman, Jonathan and Kellerman, Faye. Capital Crimes.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Kellerman, Jonathan and Kellerman, Faye. Capital Crimes. Nov. 2006. 304p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-46798-1). Crime Fiction. The Kellermans have been writing together and separately for decades. Their latest collaboration seems thrown...

Krentz, Jayne Ann. White Lies.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Krentz, Jayne Ann. White Lies. Jan. 2007. 384p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15373.X). Romance. As a level 10 para-sensitive, Clare Lancaster can tell for certain when someone is telling the truth. So Clare knows that her half-sister, Elizabeth...

Moore, Christopher. You Suck: A Love Story.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Moore, Christopher. You Suck: A Love Story. Jan. 2007. 208p. Morrow, $21.95 (0-06-059029-7). SF/Fantasy. Moore revives the stars of his last "love story," Bloodsucking Fiends (1995--literally. Redheaded stunner--and vampire--Judy had been...

Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Nov. 2006. 400p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-7663-9). 182. Minsky, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence (and...

Smith, Howard. Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah--a New Conversation between Science and Religion.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Smith, Howard. Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah--a New Conversation between Science and Religion. Nov. 2006. 286p. New World Library, paper, $15.95 (1-57731-548-0). 296.3. Smith points out in his preface that he is an...

Bribiescas, Richard G. Men: Evolutionary and Life History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bribiescas, Richard G. Men: Evolutionary and Life History. Nov. 2006. 320p. illus. index. Harvard, $28.95 (0-674-02293-9). 306.4. Why are human males the way they are? Biological anthropologist Bribiescas explains the two leading methods of...

Downard, James Shelby. The Carnivals of Life and Death: My Profane Youth, 1913-1935.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Downard, James Shelby. The Carnivals of Life and Death: My Profane Youth, 1913-1935. Ed. by Elana Freeland. Nov. 2006. 286p. illus. Feral House, paper, $14.95 (0-922915-15-5). 366.10975092. Veteran readers of vivid conspiracy and Illuminati...

Kiernan, Stephen P. Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... * Kiernan, Stephen P. Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System. Nov. 2006. 304p. St. Martin's, $25.95 (0-312-34224-I). 179.7. Anyone who has stood helplessly by as physicians insisted that a battery of tests and...

Dickens, pro and con.(The Manley Arts)(Column)
November 1, 2006... Dickens is one of those authors you are supposed to enjoy. What was it that Chesterton said? There is something about Dickens that the human heart loves. I have tried very hard to love Dickens. Yes, there are aspects of his novels that I do...

Islam, yesterday and today.(The Heirs of Muhammad: Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-Shia Schism)(My Year inside Radical Islam)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Rogerson, Barnaby. The Heirs of Muhammad: Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-Shia Schism. Feb. 2007. 413p. Overlook, $27.95 (1-58567-896-1). 297. Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed. My Year inside Radical Islam. Feb, 2007. 320p....

Dubose, Lou and Bernstein, Jake. Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Dubose, Lou and Bernstein, Jake. Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency. 2006. 261p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6576-3). 352.23. Dubose and Bernstein, journalists who have covered Texas politics with a particular eye on...

Gallo, Marcia M. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Gallo, Marcia M. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement. Nov. 2006. 320p. Avalon, $26.95 (0-7867-1634-7). 305.48. Despite continuing intense racial segregation in the late...

Kagan, Robert. Dangerous Nation.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Kagan, Robert. Dangerous Nation. 2006. 508p. index. Knopf, $30 (0-375-41105-4). 327.73. Kagan's last book, Of Paradise and Power (2003), caused a stir by arguing, with eloquence and historical rigor, that Americans are from Mars and...

Simon, James F. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Simon, James F. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers. Nov. 2006. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $27 (0-7432-5032-X). 342.7308. For the Dred Scott decision in 1857, which fatefully inflamed sectional...

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Making Globalization Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Stiglitz, Joseph E. Making Globalization Work. 2006. 320p. Norton, $26.95 (0-39306122-1). 337. Stiglitz's seminal Globalization and Its Discontents (2002) argued that globalization has not benefited as many people as it could, a failure...

Stoddard, Grant. Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Stoddard, Grant. Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert. Jan. 2007. 304p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $13.95 (0-06-087612-3). 306.70974. When British expatriate Stoddard was hired as a columnist for Nerve.com, he...

Thompson, Gabriel. There's No Jose Here: Following the Lives of Mexican Immigrants.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Thompson, Gabriel. There's No Jose Here: Following the Lives of Mexican Immigrants. Dec. 2006. 320p. Nation Books, $26.95 (1-56025-974-7); paper, $14.95 (1-56025-990-6). 305. Thompson, a journalist who also works with a nonprofit...

Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Jan. 2007. 304p. index. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6428-7). 302. Based on a class at Stanford taught by one of the authors, this book profiles how some ideas...

Margonelli, Lisa. Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Margonelli, Lisa. Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline. Feb. 2007. 352p. index. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $26 (0-385-51145-0). 338.2. Margonelli has written about the culture and economy of energy for publications such...

Roth, Louise Marie. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Roth, Louise Marie. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street. Nov. 2006. 272p. index. Princeton, $27.95 (0-691-12643-7). 332.6. Roth, an academic, sets out to discover how Wall Street firms can maintain an environment...

Jeanneney, Jean-Noel. Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Jeanneney, Jean-Noel. Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge. Tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Nov. 2006. 96p. Univ. of Chicago, $18 (0-226-39577-4). 025.04 From Europe's point of view, Google's proposal to digitize the contents of...

Simon, Michele. Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Simon, Michele. Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back. Nov. 2006. 384p. index. Nation Books, $14.95 (1-56025-932-9). 363.192. America's fast-food purveyors, beverage industry, and...

Stewart, Amy. Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Stewart, Amy. Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. Feb. 2007. 320p. index. Algonquin, $23.95 (1-56512-438-3). 338.1. Along with the making of sausage and politics, flowers can now be added...

Askani, Tanja. Kinship with the Wolf: The Amazing Story of the Woman Who Lives with Wolves.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Askani, Tanja. Kinship with the Wolf: The Amazing Story of the Woman Who Lives with Wolves. Dec. 2006. 144p. illus. Inner Traditions, paper, $19.95 (1-59477-130-8). 599.773. Czech author and animal scientist Askani lives with her husband at...

Hyde, Dayton O. All the Wild Horses: Preserving the Spirit and Beauty of the World's Wild Horses.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Hyde, Dayton O. All the Wild Horses: Preserving the Spirit and Beauty of the World's Wild Horses. 2006. 208p. illus. index. Voyageur/MBI, $40 (0-7603-2590-1). 599.665. As founder of the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary and a lifelong...

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: A Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: A Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals. 2006. 448p. illus. index. Ballantine, $27.95 (0-345-47881-9). 590. In a series of short essays, psychoanalyst and animal-loving author...

The New York Botanical Garden.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The New York Botanical Garden. Ed. by Gregory Long and Anne Skillion. Nov. 2006. 249p. illus. index. Abrams, $50 (0-8109-5744-2). 580.73. A haven tucked within urban pandemonium, the New York Botanical Garden has been providing residents...

Snyder, Noel and Snyder, Helen. Raptors of North America.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Snyder, Noel and Snyder, Helen. Raptors of North America. 2006. 320p. illus. index. MBI, $50 (0-7603-2582-0). 598.9097. Raptors--birds of prey--have always excited the imagination. The powerful eagles, meteoric falcons, and secretive owls...

Wells, Spencer. Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Wells, Spencer. Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project. Nov. 2006. 256p. index. National Geographic, $24 (0-79226215-8). 599.935. The study of human prehistory has been revolutionized by genetic evidence. Here a leading researcher in...

Witherington, Blair. Sea Turtles: An Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Witherington, Blair. Sea Turtles: An Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles. Nov. 2006. 132p. illus. index. MBI, $29.95 (0-7603-2644-4). 597.928. Biologist Witherington doesn't find it difficult to imagine a turtle with the...

Dick, Ron and Patterson, Dan. Aviation Century: War and Peace in the Air.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Dick, Ron and Patterson, Dan. Aviation Century: War and Peace in the Air. Nov. 2006. 352p. illus. index. Firefly, $39.95 (1-55046-430-2). 629.13. The fifth and final volume in the Aviation Century series recounts the progress of military...

Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor. Ed. by Paul Regan and others. 2006. 360p. illus. DK, $40 (0-7566-2210-4). 623.4. Written by a team of British military historians, this oversize volume seizes attention with the publisher's...

Mollica, Richard F. Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Mollica, Richard F. Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World. Dec. 2006. 288p. index. Harcourt, $26 (0-15-101036-6). 616.85. As director and cofounder of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Mollica has...

Bourne, Val. The Winter Garden: Create a Garden That Shines through the Forgotten Season.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bourne, Val. The Winter Garden: Create a Garden That Shines through the Forgotten Season. Dec. 2006. 160p. illus. index. Cassell, $19.95 (1-84403-481-X). 635.9. The garden in winter can be as sensuously satisfying as it is during the...

Jones, Louisa. New Gardens in Provence: 30 Contemporary Creations.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Jones, Louisa. New Gardens in Provence: 30 Contemporary Creations. 2006. 272p. illus. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $50 (1-58479-545-X). 635.9. A versatile author and journalist, Jones is also a recognized expert on the gardening disciplines...

Best Food Writing, 2006.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Best Food Writing, 2006. Ed. by Holly Hughes. Nov. 2006. 400p. index. Marlowe & Company, paper, $15.95 (1-56924-287-9). 641. Good food writing stimulates all the senses. The reader smells, tastes, feels, sees, and even hears what printed...

Bradley, Jimmy and Friedman, Andrew. The Red Cat Cookbook: 125 Recipes from New York City's Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bradley, Jimmy and Friedman, Andrew. The Red Cat Cookbook: 125 Recipes from New York City's Favorite Restaurant. Nov. 2006. 256p. illus. index. Clarkson Potter, $35 (1-4000-8281-1). 641.5. Residents of Manhattan's Chelsea District love the...

Roden, Claudia. Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Roden, Claudia. Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Nov. 2006. 352p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (0-307-26498-X). 641.59. Roden triumphs again, this time with a closer look at three different traditions within Arab cuisine:...

Wolf, Bonny. Talking with My Mouth Full: Crabcakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Wolf, Bonny. Talking with My Mouth Full: Crabcakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories. Nov. 2006. 272p. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-35357-X). 641. Listeners to National Public Radio will recognize Bonny Wolf from her weekly...

The Art of Beaded Beads: Exploring Design, Color and Technique.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Art of Beaded Beads: Exploring Design, Color & Technique. Ed. by Jean Campbell. Nov. 2006. 144p. illus. index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-825-X). 745.58 This is a return to basics, so to speak, by taking the foundation of bead art,...

Browning, Marie. Metal Crafting Workshop.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Browning, Marie. Metal Crafting Workshop. Nov. 2006. 128p. illus. index. Sterling, $24.95 (1-4027-2450-0). 745.56. Metal can be an intimidating material to work with--and not one most crafters will just pick up and try without instruction....

Fontenoy, Maud. Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Fontenoy, Maud. Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route. Nov. 2006. 168p. Arcade, $24 (1-55970-818-2). 797.12. Fontenoy follows Across the Savage Sea (2005), an account of her solo row across the Atlantic, with a...

Freeman, Mike. Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Freeman, Mike. Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero. Nov. 2006. 304p. illus. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-077682-X). 796.332092. Of the great running backs of football's modern era, the first and probably best was Cleveland Browns...

Konik, Michael. The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies out of Millions.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Konik, Michael. The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies out of Millions. Nov. 2006. 384p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-7713-9). 796. In 1997, gaming journalist Konik joined the Brain Trust, a sports-gambling...

Kretschmer, John. At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in Hurricane Lenny.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Kretschmer, John. At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in Hurricane Lenny. Nov. 2006. 190p. McGraw, $24.95 (0-07-145507-5). 797.12. Kretschmer was a friend of Carl Wake, one of three sailors caught in Hurricane Lenny on...

The Best American Magazine Writing, 2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Best American Magazine Writing, 2006. Dec. 2006. 448p. Columbia, paper, $16.95 (0-231-13993-4). 818. Recognizing the winners and finalists in the National Magazine Award, this collection offers some of the finest in investigative and...

James Bond and Philosophy.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... James Bond and Philosophy. Ed. by James B. South and Jacob M. Held. Nov. 2006. 256p. Open Court, paper, $17.95 (0-8126-9607-7). 823. The latest volume in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series (which has also tackled the philosophical...

Ross, Christopher. Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Ross, Christopher. Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend. Nov. 2006. 272p. Da Capo, $26 (0-306-81513-3). 895.635. In his time, Yukio Mishima was Japan's best-known and best-selling novelist, but he will always be remembered...

Fergusson, Maggie. George Mackay Brown: The Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Fergusson, Maggie. George Mackay Brown. Nov. 2006. 363p. illus. index. John Murray; dist. by Trafalgar, $45 (0-7195-5659-7). 828.91409. Vociferously admired by British poet laureate Ted Hughes and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and an honored...

Zinsser, Judith P. La Dame d'Esprit: A Biography of the Marquise du Chatelet.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Zinsser, Judith P. La Dame d'Esprit: A Biography of the Marquise du Chatelet. Dec. 2006. 400p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-3800-8). 848. Born in 1706 to a well-connected French family, Emilie du Chatelet lived a life of varied and...

Kendall, Gillian. Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Kendall, Gillian. Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas. Dec. 2006. 256p. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, paper, $22.95 (0-299-21944-5). 910.4. Hold on to your seat as you travel with cosmopolitan English graduate...

Latreille, Francis and Guignon, Catherine. White Paradise: Journeys to the North Pole.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Latreille, Francis and Guignon, Catherine. White Paradise: Journeys to the North Pole. Tr. by Anthony Roberts. Nov. 2006. 230p. illus. Abrams, $40 (0-8109-3094-3). 910.91. A photographer for some of the most successful 1990s scientific...

Boritt, Gabor. The Gettysburg Gospel.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Boritt, Gabor. The Gettysburg Gospel. Nov. 2006. 432p. Simon & Schuster, $28 (0-7432-8820-3). 973.7. Like Garry Wills in Lincoln at Gettysburg (1992), Boritt explores the circumstances of the Gettysburg Address. Setting the stage for his...

Franklin, Benjamin. Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Franklin, Benjamin. Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin. Ed. by Edmund S. Morgan. Nov. 2006. 336p. Yale, $26 (0-300-11394-3). 973.3. Eminent in Franklin studies and the author of an outstanding...

Bernstein, Harry. The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Boundaries.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bernstein, Harry. The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Boundaries. Apr. 2007. 320p. Ballantine, $22.95 (0-345-49580-2). 920. The writer is 95. This memoir is his first book. And it is a groundbreaking story of family secrets and...

Hornfischer, James D. Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Hornfischer, James D. Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors. Nov. 2006. 544p. illus. index. Bantam, $26 (0-533-80390-5). 940.54. The author of Last Stand of the Tin...

Lowry, Thomas P. Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Lowry, Thomas P. Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice. 2006. 232p. index. Louisiana State, $29.95 (0-8071-2990-9). 973.7. Psychologist and amateur historian Lowry has certainly done his homework....

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Riverbend. Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq. Nov. 2006. 224p. Feminist, paper, $14.95 (1-55861-529-6). 956.7044. Riverbend has chronicled the U.S. occupation of Baghdad since July 2003. The first collection of her blog posts,...

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers. Dec. 2006. 272p. Univ. Press of Kentucky, $40 (0-8131-2413-1). 973.7. The 10 essays in the third volume of the New Directions in Southern History series deal...

Upham, Steadman and Zappia, Nat. The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Upham, Steadman and Zappia, Nat. The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America. Nov. 2006. 160p. illus. index. Univ. of Washington, $60 (0-295-98625-5); paper, $40 (0-295-98626-3). 970.004. ...

Wilson, Douglas L. Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Wilson, Douglas L. Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. Nov. 2006. 352p. Knopf, $26.95 (1-4000-4039-6). 973.7092. This work minutely examines the Civil War president's most famous writings, including his farewell address...

Anderson, Dave. Rough Beauty.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Anderson, Dave. Rough Beauty. 2006. 120p. illus. Dewi Lewis, $40 (1-904587-29-1). 779. In the interview concluding this book, Anderson suggests that the historic photographer he most admires is Dorothea Lange, especially for her images of...

The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820. Ed. by Joseph P. Rishel and Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt. Nov. 2006. 568p. illus. index. Yale, $75 (0-300-12003-6). 709.8. Even though art is the distillate of history and the embodiment of cultural...

Bachmann, Hans-Gert. The Lure of Gold: An Artistic and Cultural History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Bachmann, Hans-Gert. The Lure of Gold: An Artistic and Cultural History. 2006. 280p. illus. index. Abbeville, $45 (0-7892-0900-4). 704.94. Humankind has long treasured gold for the beauty of its radiance and associated it with divinity,...

Baskett, John. The Horse in Art.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Baskett, John. The Horse in Art. 2006. 192p. illus. index. Yale, $45 (0-300-11740-X). 704.94. The horse has been a subject of deep interest and fascination to artists worldwide and across time. Baskett's history of the horse in art begins...

Buttner, Nils. Landscape Painting: A History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Buttner, Nils. Landscape Painting: A History. Tr. by Russell Stockman. 2006. 420p. illus. index. Abbeville, $135 (0-7892-0902-0). 758. From Greek pastorals to the romantic drama of the Hudson River school, artists have envisioned...

Birnbaum, Phyllis. Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught between East and West.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Birnbaum, Phyllis. Glory in a Line: A life of Foujita--the Artist Caught between East and West. Nov. 2006. 352p. illus. index. Farrar, $26 (0-571-21179-8). 759.952. So distinctive was his appearance, so flamboyant his pranks, and so...

Top 10 arts books.(Louis Armstrong's New Orleans)(Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books)(Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir)(Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham)(Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture)(The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Era That Gave the World Impressionism. 2006)(Sex, Rock and Optical Illusions)(Present at the Creation, Leaping in the Dark, and Going against the Grain: 1776, Pippin, M. Butterfly, La Bete and Other Broadway Adventures)(Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music)(America's Art: Smithsonian American Art Museum)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... The best books about art reviewed in Booklist over the past 12 months reflect the many forms creativity takes, from jazz to film to theater to illusion, arousing both pleasure and controversy. Brothers, Thomas. Louis Armstrong's New...

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Da Capo Best Music Writing, 2006: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More. Ed. by Mary Gaitskill and Daphne Carr. Nov. 2006. 288p. Da Capo, $15.95 (0-306-81499-4). 781.64. Guest editor Mary Gaitskill says...

The Private Lives of the Impressionists.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Roe, Sue. The Private Lives of the Impressionists. Nov. 2006. 368p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $29.95 (0-06-054558-5). 759.4. As a grand urban-renewal project engineered by Baron Hausmann transformed Paris under Napoleon Ill, a group of...

Impressionist rebels.(READ-alikes: Sue Roe's Private Lives of the Impressionists)
November 1, 2006... Readers who want to know more about the rebel artists Roe (see adjacent review) so incisively portrays will find in-depth analyses, gorgeous reproductions. and fictional interpretations in these outstanding volumes. Brettell, Richard R....

Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Davis, Linda H. Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life. Nov. 2006. 400p. illus. index. Random, $29.95 (0-679-46325-9). 741.5092. Charles Addams eventually became famous for his morbid, mordantly witty New Yorker cartoons and the ghoulish,...

Shirley Temple: A Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Child Star.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Dubas, Rita. Shirley Temple: A Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Child Star. Nov. 2006. 256p. illus. index. Applause, $29.95 (1-55783-672-8). 791.4302. Calling Shirley Temple "the world's greatest child star" rather understates...

The old masters revisited.(HE READS ... THE ARTS)
November 1, 2006... I was an art lover by the age of 10, one of many scribblers who lovingly copied the great masters and their timeless subjects: the eye-popping surrealism of the Fantastic Four; the raw, expressionistic Swamp Thing; or, my own favorite, the...

The Amazing Book of Mazes.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Fisher, Adrian. The Amazing Book of Mazes. Nov. 2006. 264p. illus. index. Abrams, $28.95 (0-8109-4311-5). 793.73. Maze master Fisher's comprehensive guide to the many aspects of mazes features a wealth of color photographs and detailed...

Picasso and American Art.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... FitzGerald, Michael. Picasso and American Art. 2006. 368p. illus. index. Yale, $65 (0-300-11452-4). 709.73. Although "Pablo Picasso never set foot in America," the protean artist had a profound impact on American art. In this...

Art girl confidential.(SHE READS ... THE ARTS)
November 1, 2006... It's not that women dislike superheroes. We think Batman is the epitome of emotionally tortured single guys and Wolverine is a great barroom bad boy. The Hulk has too much baggage to deal with, and it doesn't match ours. But when we look to our...

George Gershwin: His Life and Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Pollack, Howard. George Gershwin: His Life and Work. Dec. 2006. 909p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $39.95 (0-520-24864-3). 780.92. Pollack's preface indicates his book builds on the work of many chroniclers of composer George...