Booklist articles from November 2007

Booklist archives from November 2007

Working with results.(Booklist Online)(managing search results)
November 1, 2007... If your library subscribes to Booklist Online, you may already know about the powerful search options you can use to get a precise list of results. But you may not be aware of all the ways you can manipulate your results list. * Displaying...

Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today. By Tom Brokaw. Nov. 2007. 688p. Random, $28.95 (1-4000-6314-0). 973.923. The former anchor of NBC Nightly News and author of such best-selling books as The Greatest...

The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President: Who the Candidates Are, Where They Come From, and How You Can Choose.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President: Who the Candidates Are, Where They Come From, and How You Can Choose. By Mark Halperin. 2007. 375p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $14.95 (9780061537301). 324. With a crowded field of...

Beverly Hills Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Beverly Hills Dead. By Stuart Woods. Jan. 2008. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15469-8). Crime Fiction. Both a sequel to The Prince of Beverly Hills (2004) and a prequel (of sorts) to L.A. Dead (2000) and L.A. Times (1993), this novel, set in...

The Darkest Evening of the Year.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Darkest Evening of the Year. By Dean Keontz. Nov. 2007. 354p. Bantam, $27 (0-553-80482-0). SF/Fantasy. Amy Redwing hauls boyfriend Brian McCarthy along on her latest dog-rescue mission because she may need backup. She's right about...

Diablerie.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Diablerie. By Walter Mosley. Jan. 2008. 192p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (9781596913974). Crime Fiction. Mosley is a true original. With 29 books since 1990, however, it's fair to ask whether he's diluting his talents. Is he a renaissance man or a...

Fanon.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Fanon. By John Edgar Wideman. Feb. 2008. 288p. Houghton, $24 (9780618942633). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wideman's deep passion and appreciation for Frantz Fanon, author of The Wretched of the Earth (1961), are on full...

Rumpole Misbehaves.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Rumpole Misbehaves. By John Mortimer. Dec. 2007. 197p. Viking, $23.95 (9780670018307). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mortimer's short stories about Horace Rumpole, barrister of the Old Bailey, defender of criminals and...

Third Degree.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Third Degree. By Greg lies. Nov. 2007. 528p. Scribner, $25.95 (0-7432-9250-2). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Iles has written several very good novels, but this one might be his best. On the surface, it seems like a simple...

Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway. By Joyce Carol Oates. Apr. 2008. 238p. Ecco, $24.95 (9780061434792). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Protean and intrepid Oates not only...

The Reserve.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Reserve. By Russell Banks, Feb. 2008. 304p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780061430251). General Fiction. Set for the most part in the Adirondacks in 1936, Banks' latest novel is a tale of simmering passions, class tensions, and maybe even...

Sins of the Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Sins of the Assassin. By Robert Ferrigno. Feb. 2008. 400p. Scribner, $24.95 (1-4165-3765-1). Crime Fiction. In the second entry in the Assassin trilogy (following Prayers for the Assassin, 2005), Ferrigno expands on his apocalyptic vision...

Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism. By John Byrne Cooke. Nov. 2007. 288p. Palgrave, $24.95 (1-4039-7515-9). 070.4. Cooke, historical novelist and son of veteran journalist Alistair...

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect. By Marc Bekoff. Nov. 2007. 160p. Shambhala, paper, $14 (9781590305225). 179. An updated and revised edition of an earlier work (Strolling with...

How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova. By V. F. Cordova. Ed. by Kathleen Dean Moore and others. Nov. 2007. 250p. Univ. of Arizona, $45 (9780816526482); paper, $19.95 (9780816526499). 191.08. This stimulating volume of...

Claiming Christ: A Mormon-Evangelical Debate.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Claiming Christ: A Mormon-Evangelical Debate. By Robert L. Millet and Gerald R. McDermott. Nov. 2007. 224p. Brazos, paper, $16.99 (9781587432095). 230. The latest fruit of a surprising new dialogue between Evangelical Christians and...

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson. Ed. by Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour. Nov. 2007. 121 p. Little, Brown, $28.99 (0-316-00527-4). 070.92. Given Thompson's penchant for epic conversations, an oral biography is the perfect form for...

Choosing a college.(The Manley Arts)
November 1, 2007... The choices are endless. If you have a son or daughter in high school, you have to begin to make decisions. Is your child college material? Would he or she benefit from a college experience? If your answer to those two questions is yes, the...

Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed. By Alan Rabinowitz. Nov. 2007. 296p. Island, $25.95 (9781597261296). 333.95. The Hukawng Valley of Myanmar (the former Burma) is infamous for its...

Pan American Clippers: The Golden Age of Flying Boats.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Pan American Clippers: The Golden Age of Flying Boats. By James Trautman. Nov. 2007.272p. illus. Firefly, $49.95 (1-55046476-0). 387.7. This illustrated history of the Pan American Clipper Flying Boats traces every aspect of these huge...

Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist. By Richard Feldman. Nov. 2007. 288p. Wiley, $24.95 (9780471679288). 323.43. Feldman, lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and former lobbyist for the gun-advocacy group, offers a...

Sovereign Bones: New Native American Writing, Vol. II.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Sovereign Bones: New Native American Writing, Vol. II. Ed. by Eric Gansworth. Nov. 2007. 352p. Nation, paper, $16.99 (1-56858-357-5). 305. This provocative collection of essays follows Genocide of the Mind (2003), which focused on attempts...

The Conscience of a Liberal.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * The Conscience of a Liberal. By Paul Krugman. 2007. 288p. Norton, $25.95 (9780393060690). 339.2. Economist Krugman debunks the old theory that economics drives politics--that the rise in the conservative movement in the U.S is tied to...

Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century. By David Reynolds. Nov. 2007. 435p. Basic, $35 (9780465069040), 327.20904. Examining fateful international conferences, historian Reynolds extracts diplomatic lessons from their...

Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide. By David Burnie. 2007.512p. illus. DK, $50 (0-7566-3153-X). 598.072. This beautiful book, produced in collaboration with the Audubon Society, is a guide to every bird order and family, profiling more than...

Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture. By Mike Hansell. Dec. 2007. 256p. illus. Oxford, $29.95 (0-19-920556-6). 591.564. When animals, from the simple amoeba through spiders and termites to birds and primates, build,...

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology: The Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Guinea Pig's History of Biology: The Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life. By Jim Endersby. Nov. 2007. 544p. illus. Harvard, $27.95 (9780674027138). 575. 1. "Thanks to the fruit fly, the guinea pig, corn and a handful of...

James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles. By Abigail Foerstner. Nov. 2007. 396p. illus. Univ. of Iowa, $37.50 (0-87745-999-1). 523.01092. The late Van Allen was a foremost figure in space science. He discovered the earth's radiation...

The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks; The Story of the Helicopter.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks; The Story of the Helicopter. By James R. Chiles. Nov. 2007. 368p. Bantam, $25 (9780553804478). 629.133. As preparation for writing about the history of the helicopter, Chiles learned to fly...

Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners. By Christopher Lloyd. Dec. 2007. 192p. illus. Timber, $29.95 (9780881928426). 635.9. The gardening world suffered the loss of a unique voice with the death of Lloyd, perhaps the preeminent...

Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began. By Jack Repcheck. Nov. 2007. 256p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-8951-X). 520.92. Nicolaus Copernicus did not recognize the stranger who knocked at his door in 1539. Within two...

No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Greatest Animal Migrations.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Greatest Animal Migrations. By David S. Wilcove. Nov. 2007. 256p. Island, $24.95 (9781559636859). 591.56 Migration happens everywhere, anytime, on scales as small as the daily migration of krill up...

The Complete Baking Cookbook: 350 Recipes from Cookies and Cakes to Muffins and Pies.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Complete Raking Cookbook: 350 Recipes from Cookies and Cakes to Muffins and Pies. By George Geary. 2007. 448p. illus. Robert Rose, paper, $24.95 (0-7788-0165-9). 641.8. Geary once again (see his 125 Best Biscuit Mix Recipes, 2004; 125...

Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking. By Herve This. Tr. by Jody Gladding. Nov. 2007. 224p. illus. Columbia Univ., $22.95 (9780231141703). 645. Well-respected French culinary scientist This scrutinizes how kitchen processes...

The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium, International Cookbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium, International Cookbook. By Donald A. Gazzaniga and Maureen A. Gazzaniga. Nov. 2007.432p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $27.95 (0-312-35571-8). 641.5. This prolific husband-and-wife team add a new volume to their...

Altered Curiosities: Assemblage Techniques and Projects.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Altered Curiosities: Assemblage Techniques and Projects. By Jane Ann Wynn. 2007. 128p. illus. North Light, paper, $22.95 (1-58180-972-7). 702.81. Sign up for the ultimate in recycling, with more than a touch of whimsy and art. Today, the...

Artful Journals: Making and Embellishing Memory Books, Garden Diaries & Travel Albums.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Artful Journals: Making and Embellishing Memory Books, Garden Diaries & Travel Albums. By Janet Takahashi. 2007. 128p. illus. Sterling/Lark/Chapelle, $19.95 (1-60059-069-1). 745.593. Takahashi's eye-catching cousin to a scrapbooker's guide...

Chanel: Collections and Creations.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Chanel: Collections and Creations. By Daniele Bott. 2007. 207p. illus. Thames & Hudson, $40 (9780500513606). 746.92. Representing far more than the famous two-piece suits or the red-rouge lipstick, the Paris-based couture house of Chanel...

Transfer Designs for Embroidery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Transfer Designs for Embroidery. By Anne-Marie Bodson and Josette Vinas y Roca. Nov. 2007. 144p. illus. Search, paper, $21.95 (1-84448-241-3). 746.44. It is difficult to beat the Europeans at the mastery of delicate stitchery (among other...

Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Sock Book.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Sock Book. 2007. 184p. illus. Sterling/Sixth&Spring, $29.95 (1-933027-19-3). Is "sexy socks" an oxymoron? Not according to the editors at Vogue Knitting, who not only add to their repertoire of cherished...

America's Child: A Woman's Journey through the Radical Sixties.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... America's Child: A Woman's Journey through the Radical Sixties. By Susan Sherman. Nov. 2007. 239p. Curbstone, paper, $15 (9781931896351). 811. Sherman's memoir brings the 1960s back to life, but the lesbian author's motivation in writing...

Bamboo: Essays and Criticism.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Bamboo: Essays and Criticism. By William Boyd. Nov. 2007. 528p. Bloomsbury, paper, $19.95 (1-59691-441-6). 828. As a novelist, Boyd revels in dissolving the line between the invented and the real. In his nonfiction, he writes with a...

Knit Kimono: 18 Designs with Simple Shapes.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Knit Kimono: 18 Designs with Simple Shapes. By Vicki Square. 2007. 128p. illus. Interweave, paper, $24.95 (1-931499-89-6). 746.43. As lovely as many knitting books are, few can be called innovative. This attractive offering changes that...

Red: The Next Generation of Writers--Teenage Girls--on What Fires Up Their Lives Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Red: The Next Generation of Writers--Teenage Girls--on What Fires Up Their Lives Today. Ed. by Amy Goldwasser. Nov. 2007. 288p. Hudson Street, $21.95 (9781594630408). 814.6. Hoping to "explode the puffy pink stereotype of the American...

The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993. By Charles Bukowski. Ed. by John Martin. Nov. 2007. 576p. Ecco, $29.95 (0-06-122843-5). 811. Martin, Bukowski's publisher for ages at Black Sparrow Press, has put the last previously...

Poetry Speaks Expanded. Rev. ed.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Poetry Speaks Expanded. Rev. ed. Ed. by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby. Nov. 2007. 400p. illus. Sourcebooks, $49.95 (1-4022-1062-0). 811. This large book allows long poems to fill the page like a musical score, while short poems...

The sleuth and the spiritualist.(Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters and The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. By Arthur Conan Doyle and others. Nov. 2007. 684p. illus. Penguin, $37.95 (9781594201356). 823. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle was a man of many...

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy. By M. Stanton Evans. Nov. 2007. 672p. illus. Crown Forum, $29.95 (9781400081059). 973.921092. A detailed investigation into the empirical basis behind Senator Joseph...

Come to Think of It: Notes on the End of the Millennium.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Come to Think of It: Notes on the End of the Millennium. By Daniel Schorr. Jan. 2008. 355p. Viking, $24.95 (9780670018734). 973.928. Respected journalist Schorr, whose career spans 70 years, mostly with CBS, offers an amazing look back over...

Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants. By Jorge G. Castaneda. Dec. 2007. 240p. New Press, $25.95 (9781595581631). 973.00468. What is lacking in the furious debate about Mexican immigration--legal and illegal--is the Mexican perspective,...

Fusiliers: The Saga of the British Soldier in the American Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Fusiliers: The Saga of the British Soldier in the American Revolution. By Mark Urban. Nov. 2007. 320p. Walker, $26.95 (0-8027-1647-4). This regimental history views the American War of Independence from the British perspective. Urban has...

Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. Ed. by Dave Isay. Nov. 2007. 284p. illus. Penguin, $24.95 (9781594201400). 973.92. There's something about the sanctuary of a StoryCorps recording...

Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. By David Lawday. Nov. 2007. 400p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $26.95 (0-312-37297-3). 944.05092. Lawday's portrait of a notable figure in diplomatic history yields insight into why...

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy; From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Modernism: The Lure of Heresy; From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond. By Peter Gay. Nov. 2007. 574p. illus. Norton, $35 (9780393052053). 700. What exactly is modernism, and is it really dead? Esteemed and prolific historian Gay presents...

30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity across Time and Space.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... 30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity across Time and Space. Ed. by the editors of Phaidon. Nov. 2007. 1,072p. illus. Phaidon, $49.95 (0-71484789-5). 700. The universality of the creative impulse is vividly documented in this...

Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. By Caryl Flinn. Nov. 2007. 540p. illus. Univ. of California, $34.95 (9780520229426). 782. 1. If Brian Kellow treats the archetypal Broadway belter as an admirable, awesome force of nature...

Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings. By Anne Newlands. Dec. 2007. 368p. illus. Firefly, $69.95 (1-55407290-5). 769.971. "Any truly creative work should be a revelation to the beholder, an extension of his experience in life, not a...

Conan the Phenomenon.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Conan the Phenomenon. By Paul Sammon. 2007. 200p. illus. Dark Horse, $29.95 (1-59307653-3). 741.5. In 1936, four years after he created Conan the Barbarian for the pulp magazine Weird Tales, Robert E. Howard committed suicide after years...

Picasso's galaxy.(READ-alikes: John Richardson's A Life of Picasso)(book reviews)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The name Picasso is synonymous with artistic genius, and truly, this protean Spaniard with "mesmeric eyes" possessed epic creative energy and technical virtuosity, simultaneously inspiring and infuriating his fellow artists. The books listed...

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932. By John Richardson. Nov. 2007. 608p. illus. Knopf, $40 (0-307-26665-6). 709. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Art historian Richardson became acquainted with Picasso during the 1950s, and his...

Da Capo Best Music Writing, 2007.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Da Capo Best Music Writing, 2007. Ed. by Robert Christgau and Daphne Carr. Nov. 2007. 336p. Da Capo, paper, $15.95 (9780306815614). 781.64. Rather than choosing with regard to the music and performers limned, "the only full-time rock...

The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting: An Oral History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting; An Oral History. By Jim Walsh. Nov. 2007. 304p. illus. Voyageur, $21.95 (9780760330623). 782.42166092. The Replacements were a careening indie rock band of the 1980s that garnered more...

The Sound of Music Companion.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * The Sound of Music Companion. By Laurence Maslon. Nov. 2007. 192p. illus. Fireside, $40 (1-4165-4954-4). 782.14. From its 1959 opening on, The Sound of Music has been a fissure in American popular culture. Critics and aesthetes hate it;...

Ethel Merman.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Ethel Merman. By Brian Kellow. Nov. 2007. 336p. illus. Penguin, $25.95 (9780670018291). 782.1. Every page of Kellow on the Broadway legend oozes fanboy enthusiasm. Writing in a lively, sometimes slightly breathless journalistic style,...

First Position: A Century of Ballet Artists.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... First Position: A Century of Ballet Artists. By Toba Singer. Nov. 2007. 264p. Praeger, $49.95 (0-275-98391-9). 792.802. Gelsey Kirkland's romance with Mikhail Baryshnikov was characterized by her dramatic walkouts followed by his...

Frida Kahlo: Life and Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Frida Kahlo: Life and Work. By Helga Prignitz-Poda. 2007. 264p. illus. Schirmer/Mosel, $65 (3-8296-0118-2). 759.97. The clamor of "Fridamania" has subsided, and into the calm sails a big, munificent book that conscientiously deciphers...

Giuseppe Panza: Memories of a Collector.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Giuseppe Panza: Memories of a Collector. By Giuseppe Panza. Tr. by Michael Haggerty. 2007. illus. Abbeville, $50 (0-7892-0943-8). 709.2. Born in 1923 into a distinguished Italian family of wine merchants, Panza discovered truth and meaning...

The perpetual present.(Story behind the Story: Stephen J. Eskilson's Graphic Design)
November 1, 2007... Six years ago," remembers Stephen Eskilson, an associate professor at Eastern Illinois University, "graphic design was exploding, and I thought, wow, there's nothing available that would offer someone an up-to-date sense of where graphic design...

Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress. By Martha Frick Symington Sanger. Nov. 2007. 400p. illus. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $40 (9780822943419). 709.2. For obvious reasons, relatives of famous people often write poor biographies of them. Sanger,...

Graphic Design: A New History.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Graphic Design: A New History. By Stephen J. Eskilson. Oct. 2007. 464p. illus. Yale, $65 (9780300120110). 760. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] So ubiquitous is graphic design--commercial messages combining image and text--it generates much of...

Top 10 arts books.(book reviews)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Rap, rock, documentaries, abstract sculptures, satirical drawings, and the unlikely link between sewing machines and the impressionists, all are explicated with zest in the best art books reviewed in Booklist over the past 12 months.--Donna...

A History of American Classical Music.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A History of American Classical Music. By Barrymore Laurence Scherer. Nov. 2007. 256p. illus. Sourcebooks, $29.95 (1-4022-1067-1). 781.6. Like Tom Lehrer's song in which the names of all the elements "of which the news has come to...

Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World. By Sidney Perkowitz. Nov. 2007. 256p. illus. Columbia Univ., $24.95 (9780231142809). 791.43. It may not be the first question sf movie fans ask after the dazzle of the special...

Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square. By Theodore Mann. Nov. 2007.416p. illus. Applause, $34.95 (9781557836458). 792.02. Director-producer Mann tells two stories in his fascinating autobiography,...

A Labor of Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Labor of Love. By Anne Geddes. Nov. 2007. 320p. illus. Andrews McMeel, $50 (0-7407-6562-0). 770.92. On New Year's Eve 1984, Geddes resolved that she would be the best-known baby photographer in the world. Twenty-two years and thousands...

Learning to Love You More.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Learning to Love You More. By Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July. 2007. 160p. illus. Prestel, paper, $19.95 (9783791337333). 700. July is a multitalented artist with a larky sense of humor, an entrepreneurial streak, a keen sense of story,...

Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War. By J. G. Lewin and P. J. Huff. Nov. 2007. 224p. illus. Smithsonian, paper, $13.95 (9780061137884). 741.5. If political cartoons steep long enough, they eventually regain their...

Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory. By Judith Dupre. Nov. 2007. 250p. illus. Random, $45 (9781400065820). 973. Following her popular books on skyscrapers, bridges, and churches, architectural historian Dupre turns her keenly...

Music at the Limits.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Music at the Limits. By Edward W. Said. Nov. 2007. 414p. Columbia Univ., $29.95 (9780231139366). 780.9. These 44 essays collected from The Nation and other magazines stimulate thought about the state of classical-music performance between...

Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists: Discovering the Connections.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists: Discovering the Connections. By Lin Arison and Nell Folberg. 2007. 284p. illus. Abbeville, $45 (0-7892-0932-2). 759.4. Arison traveled to France after the death of her husband, Ted, founder of...

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. By Timothy Brook. Jan. 2008. 288p. Bloomsbury, $26.95 (1-59691-444-0). 909. What is it with authors naming their books after famous painters and their clothing (or...

Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography. By David Plowden. 2007. 340p. illus. Norton, $100 (9780393062540). 770. Many photographers have made historic photographs. Just say the phrase, and Matthew Brady springs to mind, or, perhaps,...

The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... * The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers. By Donald Friedman. 2007. 457p. illus. Mid-List, $40 (9780922811762). 704. Writers often feel the need to express themselves in a more tactile and colorful medium than...

The Delivery Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Delivery Man. By Joe McGinniss. Jan. 2008. 288p. Grove/Black Cat, paper, $14 (0-8021-7042-0). This debut novel from the son of the famed true-crime reporter is a searing portrait of young wastrels adrift in a vacuous Las Vegas. Chase...