Booklist articles from October 2006

Booklist archives from October 2006

Guiliano, Mireille. French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Guiliano, Mireille. French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes & Pleasure. Oct. 2006.304p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-307-26523-4). 613.2. The author of the surprise best-seller French Women Don't Get Fat (2004) delves more deeply into...

Card, Orson Scott. Empire.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Card, Orson Scott. Empire. Nov. 2006. 384p. Tor, $24.95 (0-765-31611-0). General Fiction. Some video-game developers asked Card to write a scenario for "an entertainment franchise... about a near-future American civil war." They came to...

Clarke, Richard A. Breakpoint.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Clarke, Richard A. Breakpoint. Jan. 2007. 320p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15378-0). General Fiction. In the year 2012, a clandestine team is sent to investigate the sabotage of U.S. cyberspace connections in remote outposts. The team: Susan...

Cornwell, Bernard. Lords of the North.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Cornwell, Bernard. Lords of the North. Jan. 2007. 320p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-088862-8). General Fiction. In the latest installment of Cornwell's rousing Saxon Chronicles, Uhtred, the Saxon-born, Danish-bred hero of The Last Kingdom...

Hoffman, Alice. Skylight Confessions.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Hoffman, Alice. Skylight Confessions. Jan. 2007.256p. Little, Brown, $24.99 (0-316-05878.5). General Fiction. Hoffman works with her own private deck of tarot cards to create psychologically rich, mystical tales infused with a sexy form of...

McCall Smith, Alexander. The Right Attitude to Rain.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * McCall Smith, Alexander. The Right Attitude to Rain. Oct. 2006. 288p. Pantheon, $21.95 (0-375-42300-1). Crime Fiction. Prolific Scottish novelist McCall Smith is best known for the delightful--and phenomenally popular--No. 1 Ladies'...

O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Keeper of the Keys.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Keeper of the Keys. Nov. 2006.336p. Bantam, $25 (0-385-33796-5). Crime Fiction. The best-selling author of the Nina Reilly series (in actuality two sisters writing under a pseudonym) veers off in a new direction with...

Patterson, Richard North. Exile.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Patterson, Richard North. Exile. Jan. 2007.592p. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7947-5). Crime Fiction. Patterson, the author of 13 previous best-selling novels, turns his focus to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis in this overly long novel. The...

Shaara, Jeff. The Rising Tide.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Shaara, Jeff. The Rising Tide. Nov. 2006. 672p. Ballantine, $27.95 (0-345-46141 -X). General Fiction. Shaara, best-selling author of numerous fictional accounts of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I, opens his projected...

Sparks, Nicholas. Dear John.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Sparks, Nicholas. Dear John. Oct. 2006.276p. Warner, $24.99 (0-446-52805-6). Romance. John Tyree is on the fast track to nowhere. At 20 he has no real relationship with his strange and dispassionate father, no attachments to anyone else,...

McGrory, Mary. The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... McGrory, Mary. The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary. Ed. by Phil Galley. Oct. 2006. 352p. Andrews McMeel, $24.95 (0-7407-6071-8). 071. Whenever pressed to write her memoirs, McGrory routinely turned to fellow...

The Onion Presents Homeland Insecurity: Complete News Archives.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Onion Presents Homeland Insecurity: Complete News Archives, v. 17. Oct. 2006. 320p. Three Rivers, paper, $18.95 (0-307-33984-X). 081. The Onion's claim to being America' Finest News Source may have its tongue pressed firmly in cheek,...

Werris, Wendy. An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the Business of Books.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Werris, Wendy. An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the Business of Books. Nov. 2006. 336p. illus. Carroll & Graf, paper, $15.95 (0-7867-1817-X). 027. Werris grew up in Los Angeles while her often-absent comedy-writer father, Snag Werris,...

Wilner, Isaiah. The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Wilner, Isaiah. The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine. Oct. 2006. 352p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-050549-4). 070.5. Although Henry Luce is celebrated as the founder of Time magazine, it was...

de Waal, Frans and others. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... de Waal, Frans and others. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. Ed. by Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober. Oct. 2006. 200p. illus, index. Princeton, $22.95 (0-691-12447-7). 171. Primatologist de Waal's career has been devoted to...

Bisbort, Alan. "When You Read This, They Will Have Killed Me": The Life and Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Bisbort, Alan. "When You Read This, They Will Have Killed Me": The Life and Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America. Oct. 2006. 448p. Carroll & Graf, $26.95 (0-78671-627-4). 364. The story of Caryl Chessman in the 1950s...

Jefferson, the First Martha Stewart.(The Manley Arts)
October 1, 2006... It's probably a personal weakness of mine that I don't simply throw away the myriad catalogs that come to my house every day. Some of them actually pique my curiosity. Will I ever need a three-tier shower caddy? Who knows, but it's a nice...

Cohen, Stanley. The Execution of Officer Becker: The Murder of a Gambler, the Trial of a Cop, and the Birth of Organized Crime.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Cohen, Stanley. The Execution of Officer Becker: The Murder of a Gambler, the Trial of a Cop, and the Birth of Organized Crime. Nov. 2006. 336p. Carroll & Graf, $27.95 (0-78671-757-2). 364.106. In the summer of 1912, Beansie Rosenthal, a...

Holtzman, David H. Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Holtzman, David H. Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy. Oct. 2006. 300p. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (0-7879-8511-2). 323.44. A former security analyst, military code breaker, and Internet pioneer, Holtzman brings considerable...

Kisseloff, Jeff. Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Kisseloff, Jeff. Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s. Oct. 2006. 352p. Univ. of Kentucky, $34.95 (0-8131-2416-6). 303.48. Journalist and historian Kisseloff answers Tom Brokaw's paean to "the greatest generation" who...

Korn, Fadumo. Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Korn, Fadumo. Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival. Nov. 2006. 186p. Feminist, $23.95 (1-55861-531-8). 392.109. Korn's remarkable memoir traces her steps from her childhood as part of a nomadic tribe in Somalia, where she...

Posner, Richard A. Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Posner, Richard A. Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. 2006. 208p. index. Oxford, $19.95 (0-19-530427-6). 342.7308. Posner, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, addresses the intersection of personal...

Clover, Charles. The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Clover, Charles. The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat. Nov. 2006. 384p. New Press, $26.95 (1-59558-109-X). 333.95 Lyrical and scientific books about the marine-life crisis exist, including works by...

Reppetto, Thomas A. Bringing Down the Mob: The War against the American Mafia.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Reppetto, Thomas A. Bringing Down the Mob: The War against the American Mafia. Nov. 2006. 352p. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7802-9). 364.106. Reppetto, who served as a commander of detectives with the Chicago police and was president of New York...

Richardson, Louise. What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Richardson, Louise. What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat. 2006. 336p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6481-3). 363.325. Richardson grew up immersed in the troubles of Northern Ireland, and her academic...

Schaller, Thomas F. Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win without the South.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Schaller, Thomas F. Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win without the South. Oct. 2006. 323p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-9015-1). 324.7. In this highly accessible book, political science professor Schaller points to political...

Takeda, Pete. An Eye at the Top of the World: The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold War's Most Daring CIA Operation.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Takeda, Pete. An Eye at the Top of the World: The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold War's Most Daring CIA Operation. Oct. 2006. 384p. Thunder's Mouth, $25.95 (1-56025-845-4). 327. From the seasoned climber and outdoor journalist comes this...

Drake, Alicia. The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Drake, Alicia. The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris. 2006. 464p. index. Little, Brown, $24.99 (0-316-76801-4). 391.00944361. The relationship between hedonism and decay and the understanding of...

Spence, Gerry. Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risk of the New Conservative Hate Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Spence, Gerry. Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risk of the New Conservative Hate Culture. Oct. 2006. 288p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-36153-X). 306.0973. Despite its inflammatory title, this book offers a...

Blechman, Andrew D. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Blechman, Andrew D. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird. Nov. 2006. 239p. Grove, $23 (0-8021-1834-8). 598.6. The humble rock dove, Columba livia, is so ubiquitous around human habitations that most...

Brown, Augustus. Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths about Animals.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Brown, Augustus. Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths about Animals. Nov. 2006. 320p. Free Press, $15.95 (1-4165-3190-4). 591.5. Many people are endlessly fascinated with animals--their methods of communication, mating...

Carroll, Sean B. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Carroll, Sean B. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. Oct. 2006. 288p. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-06163-9). 572.8. Sensing that many people misunderstand evolution or don't believe it, geneticist Carroll...

Marent, Thomas. Rainforest.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Marent, Thomas. Rainforest. 2006. 360p. index. DK, $40 (0-7566-1940-8). 578.734. Marent has spent half his life photographing rain forests from Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to Ecuador and Peru. Marent is self-taught, and his evocative...

Moir, John. Return of the Condor: The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Moir, John. Return of the Condor: The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction. Oct. 2006. 256p. Lyons, $24.95 (1-59228-949-5). 598.9. The story of possibly the greatest achievement of the Endangered Species Act, the rescue of the...

Traver, Tim. Sippewissett; or, Life on a Salt Marsh.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Traver, Tim. Sippewissett; or, Life on a Salt Marsh. Oct. 2006. 250p. illus. Chelsea Green, $27.50 (1-933392-14-2). 508.74. Tim Traver has created a wonderfully unique piece of genre blending in his elegant rumination on Sippewissett, the...

Peterson, Roger Tory. All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Peterson, Roger Tory. All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures. Nov. 2006. 352p. illus, index. Houghton, $30 (0-618-75862-3). 598.072. Peterson's first Field Guide to the Birds was published in 1934, leading to countless numbers of...

Rosing, Norbert. The World of the Polar Bear.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Rosing, Norbert. The World of the Polar Bear. Oct. 2006. 204p. illus, index. Firefly, $45 (1-55407-155-0). 599.786. Ask people to choose an animal iconic to the Arctic, and most will pick the polar bear. The largest of the land-based...

Rudman, Peter S. How Mathematics Happened.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Rudman, Peter S. How Mathematics Happened. Oct. 2006. 350p. Prometheus, $26 (1-59102-477-3). 510.93. Anyone who has ever wondered why an hour is divided into 60 minutes has much to learn from Rudman, student of the ancient mathematics of the...

Decker, Shawn. My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel without a Cure.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Decker, Shawn. My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel without a Cure. Oct. 2006. 256p. Tarcher, paper, $9.95 (1-58542-525-7). 616.97. Decker, a hemophiliac, learned at age 11 that he was HIV-positive. In his candid, raucous memoir, he...

Holden, Kate. In My Skin: A Memoir (Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Holden, Kate. In My Skin. Nov. 2006. 304p. Arcade, $25 (1-55970-830-1). 616.86. In this breathtakingly candid memoir, Holden, a middle-class Australian with an honors degree in classics, recounts her years weathering the emotional storm...

Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. Oct. 2006. 320p. illus. index. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-59448-925-4). 614.5. More than two million...

Bradley-Hole, Kathryn. Villa Gardens of the Mediterranean: From the Archives of Country Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Bradley-Hole, Kathryn. Villa Gardens of the Mediterranean: From the Archives of Country Life. Nov. 2006. 208p. illus, index. Aurum; dist. by Trafalgar, $65 (1-84513-124-X). 712.609. The lifestyles of the rich and famous have always made for...

Crompton, David. Ornamental Bamboos.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Crompton, David. Ornamental Bamboos. Oct. 2006. 256p. illus, index. Timber, $39.95 (0-88192-790-2). 635.9. Bamboo remains a plant of mystery even to savvy gardeners, despite its versatility in garden design. Holder of the United Kingdom's...

Snodgrass, Edmund C. and Snodgrass, Lucie L. Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Snodgrass, Edmund C. and Snodgrass, Lucie L. Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide. Oct. 2006. 220p. illus. index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-787-2). 635.9. Although relatively commonplace in Japan and throughout Europe, green roof...

Albert, Susan Wittig. China Bayles' Book of Days: 365 Celebrations of the Mystery, Myth, and Magic of Herbs from the World of Pecan Springs.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Albert, Susan Wittig. China Bayles' Book of Days: 365 Celebrations of the Mystery, Myth, and Magic of Herbs from the World of Pecan Springs. Oct. 2006. 416p. index. Berkley Prime Crime, paper, $14 (0-425-20653-X). 641.6. Albert's mystery...

Jaffrey, Madhur. Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Jaffrey, Madhur. Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India. Oct. 2006. 320p. illus. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4295-X). 641.5. Actress and consummate authority on the foods of India, Jaffrey reflects on her earliest memories in...

Pawlcyn, Cindy and others. Big Small Plates.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Pawlcyn, Cindy and others. Big Small Plates. Oct. 2006. 384p. illus, index. Ten Speed, $35 (1-58008-523-7). 641.8. The rage for tapas caters to the American obsession with grazing, sharing, and consuming a host of small dishes to maximize...

Reynolds, Jonathan. Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Reynolds, Jonathan. Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food. Oct. 2006. 352p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6274-8). 641.5. Food writer Reynolds arrived at his vocation via a circuitous route. Scion of a media mogul, he endured his parents'...

Bowron, Edgar Peters and others. Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Bowron, Edgar Peters and others. Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today. 2006. 272p. illus, index. Yale, $50 (0-300-11588-1). 704.9. Canines have attracted artists since the ancients scratched their images on cave...

Crowder, Christopher and Ashworth, Michaeljon. Topiary: Design and Technique.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Crowder, Christopher and Ashworth, Michaeljon. Topiary: Design and Technique. Dec. 2006. 128p. illus, index. Crowood; dist. by Trafalgar, $45 (1-86126-816-5). 715.1. An age-old art, topiary still thrives today, especially at England's...

Crumb, R. The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Crumb, R. The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb. Oct. 2006. 112p. illus. MQ, $30 (1-846011-14-0). 741.5. As Crumb admits in his introduction, sweet isn't what his work seems to be. Furthermore, he opines in so many words, sweetness is for gals. So,...

Giuliano, Geoffrey and Giuliano, Avalon. Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Giuliano, Geoffrey and Giuliano, Avalon. Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles. Nov. 2006. 320p. illus. Trafalgar/Blake, $24.95 (1-84454-160-6). 782.42166. Drawing on a variety of published and online sources, as well as exclusive...

Early Stones.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Greenfield, Robert. Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones. Oct. 2006. 224p. illus. Da Capo, $24 (0-306-81433-1). 782.421660922. Rej, Bent. The Rolling Stones in the Beginning. Nov. 2006. 320p. illus. index. Firefly,...

Goldwyn, Liz. Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Goldwyn, Liz. Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens. Oct. 2006. 281p. illus, index. Regan, $39.95 (0-06-088944-6). 792.70973. The spectacularly illustrated book complementing Goldwyn's HBO documentary of the same...

Johnson, Stephen. Mahler: His Life & Music.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Johnson, Stephen. Mahler: His Life & Music. Oct. 2006. 224p. illus, index. Sourcebooks/MediaFusion, $29.95 (2-4022-0758-1).780. Early in his career, Gustav Mahler wrote lengthy program notes for listeners struggling to comprehend his first...

Kanfer, Stefan. Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Kanfer, Stefan. Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America. Oct. 2006. 352p. illus. Knopf, $26.95 (1-4000-4288-7). 792.089. The Yiddish theater sprang up in Crimean War-era eastern Europe when a...

Thomas, Roy and others. The Alter Ego Collection.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Thomas, Roy and others. The Alter Ego Collection: v. 1. 2006. 192p. illus. TwoMorrows, paper, $21.95 (1-893905-59-4). 741.5. In the early 1960s Thomas published Alter Ego, generally considered the first fanzine devoted to comic books. In...

Geck, Martin. Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Geck, Martin. Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work. Tr. by John Hargraves. Dec. 2006. 736p. index. Harcourt, $40 (0-15-100648-2). 780.92. More than a century ago, Albert Schweitzer indicted Bach biographers for a fixation on the...

Rowell, Galen. Galen Rowell: A Retrospective.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Rowell, Galen. Galen Rowell: A Retrospective. Oct. 2006. 288p. illus. Sierra Club, $50 (1-57805-115-0). 779. Photographer Rowell's athleticism enabled him to reach nearly inaccessible yet perfect vantage points for viewing magnificent...

Walter Simonson: Modern Masters.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Walter Simonson: Modern Masters, v.8. Ed. by Eric Nolen-Weathington and Roger Ash. 2006. 128p. illus. TwoMorrows, paper, $14.95 (1-893905-64-0). 741.5. The newest Modern Masters interview spotlights an artist who burst on the scene in the...

Arquette, Kerry and others. The Joy of Scrapbooking.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Arquette, Kerry and others. The Joy of Scrapbooking. Oct. 2006. 304p. illus, index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-763-6). 745.593. It's the craft of the century, infiltrating every specialty store in the country. The headlines about...

Fulton, Nicole and Weston, Stuart. New Upholstery.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Fulton, Nicole and Weston, Smart. New Upholstery. Oct. 2006. 176p. illus, index. Sterling/Mitchell Beazley, $24.95 (1-84000-856-3). 746.95. Once upon a time, the only ways to learn the finer points of upholstery were through an...

Rigg, Jo. Picture This! Ideas to Create Unique Wall Art.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Rigg, Jo. Picture This! Ideas to Create Unique Wall Art. Oct. 2006.96p. illus. index. Sterling/New Holland, $24.95 (1-84537-335-9). 747.9. The Mies van der Rohe dictate that "less is more" is fully in play in British stylist Rigg's third...

Fontanella, John J. The Physics of Basketball.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Fontanella, John J. The Physics of Basketball. Nov. 2006. 160p. illus. Johns Hopkins, $25 (0-8018-8513-2). 796.32301. Forget Newton's apple. It's a basketball that provides the ideal focus for physics. Layups, stuff shots, treys, hang...

Newman, Stanley and Lasswell, Mark. Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Newman, Stanley and Lasswell, Mark. Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid. Nov. 2006. 160p. Collins, $14.95 (0-06-089060-6). 793.73. Crossword puzzle fans--solvers and constructors alike will find a wealth of...

Zupan, Mark and Swanson, Tim. Gimp: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold--or You Can Play.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Zupan, Mark and Swanson, Tim. Gimp: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold--or You Can Play. Oct. 2006. 288p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06112768-X). 796.33309. In 1993, after a night of hard drinking, 18-year-old Zupan curled...

Griswold, Jerry. Feeling like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Griswold, Jerry. Feeling like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature. Nov. 2006. 168p. index. Johns Hopkins, $19.95 (0-8018-8517-5). 809. In this insightful and engaging work of original scholarship, Griswold, director of the National...

Hamilton, Hugo. The Harbor Boys: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Hamilton, Hugo. The Harbor Boys. Oct. 2006. 272p. HarperCollins, $2.95 (0-06078467-9). 823. Hamilton's memoir The Speckled People (2003) was about his childhood in Ireland after World War II as the son of a German morn, who hated Hitler,...

Lawson, Valerie. Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers. Oct.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Lawson, Valerie. Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers. Oct. 2006. 384p. index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-74329816-0). 823. This ambitious biography of P. L. Travers was first published in Australia in 1999. The occasion for...

Glendinning, Victoria. Leonard Woolf.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Glendinning, Victoria. Leonard Woolf. Nov. 2006. 352p. Free Press, $30 (0-7432-4653-5). 823. Late in life, Leonard Woolf found that many of the people initially attracted to him because of their love for his deceased wife's work began...

Reynolds, Barbara. Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Reynolds, Barbara. Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man. Oct. 2006. 480p. Shoemaker & Hoard, $35 (1-59376-124-4). 851. Dante achieved some of his loftiest poetic flights by using cannabis? Acclaimed translator and scholar...

Vacations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Vacations: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. Ed. by Whitney Scott. 2006. 230p. Outrider, paper, $17.95 (0-9712903-4-2). 818. The latest Black-and-White anthology from the TallGrass Writers Guild dramatizes, in short fiction and poetry,...

Bowering, George. Vermeer's Light: Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Bowering, George. Vermeer's Light: Poems, 1996-2006. Oct. 2006. 224p. Talonbooks, $29.95 (0-88922-546-X). 811. Canada's first poet laureate, Bowering is both highly skilled in the formal aspects of poetry and perfectly accessible to the...

Bridges, Constance Quarterman. Lions Don't Eat Us.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Bridges, Constance Quarterman. Lions Don't Eat Us. Oct. 2006. 160p. Graywolf, paper, $14 (1-55597-454-6). 811. In the tradition of Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah (1986), Bridges uses poetry to delve deeply into her ancestors' histories,...

Harrison, Jeffrey. Incomplete Knowledge.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Harrison, Jeffrey. Incomplete Knowledge. Oct. 2006. 80p. Four Ways, paper, $14.95 (1-884800-71-8). 811. A scribbly abstract expressionist painting adorns Harrison's new collection, but don't judge the book by it. Harrison's poems aren't...

Littlecrow-Russell, Sara. The Secret Powers of Naming.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Littlecrow-Russell, Sara. The Secret Powers of Naming. 2006.96p. Univ. of Arizona, paper, $16.95 (0-8165-2535-8). 811. In Littlecrow-Russell's debut collection, she confronts the issues affecting contemporary Indians head-on, eschewing the...

Louis, Adrian C. Logorrhea.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Louis, Adrian C. Logorrhea. Oct. 2006. 120p. TriQuarterly, $39.95 (0-81015177-4); paper, $14.95 (0-8101-5178-2). 811. "You don't grow older, you grow better," they say. Several of these poems complain about "the timely demise of King...

Seidel, Frederick. Ooga-Booga.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Seidel, Frederick. Ooga-Booga. Nov. 2006. 112p. Farrar, $20 (0-374-22655-5). 811. With the opening poem, "Kill Poem," readers familiar with Seidel may experience a flashback to "Scotland," the first poem in These Days (1989), given how...

Wormser, Baron. The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living off the Grid.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Wormser, Baron. The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living off the Grid. Oct. 2006. 224p. Univ. Press of New England, $24.95 (1-58465-607-7). 811. Former Maine poet laureate Wormser reveals the life he and his family enjoyed...

Biggers, Jeff. In the Sierra Madre.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Biggers, Jeff. In the Sierra Madre. Nov. 2006. 178p. University of Illinois, $25.95 (0-252-03101-6). 972.16. The Sierra Madre is familiar to readers because of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and John Huston's film version of...

Moss, Sarah. The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Moss, Sarah. The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration. Nov. 2006. 256p. illus, index. BlueBridge, $24.95 (1-9333-4603-5). 910.91. This book is a chronicle of journeys--from the Vikings to such adventurers as Byrd,...

Allen, John. Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Allen, John. Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu. Oct. 2006. 496p. Free Press, $28 (0-74326937-3). 968.06. "The Bible is dynamite... nothing could be more radical." For South Africa's famous Anglican...

Barrett, Wayne and Collins, Dan.Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Barrett, Wayne and Collins, Dan. The Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. Oct. 2006. 390p. index. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-053660-8). 974.7. With a political career sinking under the weight of marital scandal and...

Blackhawk, Ned. Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Nov. 2006. 344p. Harvard, $35 (0-674-02290-4). 979.004. Blackhawk's research into the nature of the violent conflict between Indians of the Great...