Booklist articles from September 2003

Booklist archives from September 2003

Adams, Noah. The Flyers: in Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 224p. Crown, $22 (1-4000-4912-1). 629.13. This book is more than just another history of the Wright Brothers' first flight. Adams, host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered, retraced Wilbur Wright's first trip--by...

* Kaplan, Fred. The Singular Mark Twain.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct 2003. 500p. index. Doubleday, $35 (0-385-47715-5). 818. Kaplan begins his biographical assault on received wisdom about America's most famous novelist with the wordplay implicit in his title: Mark Twain was not only a singular writer...

Chopra, Deepak. The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 304p. index. Harmony, $25 (0-609-60042-7). 128. Chopra is at it again, finding yet another way to share his mystical knowledge by helping us get to know ourselves better, or live fuller lives, or learn how to forgive some...

Dershowitz, Alan. The Case for Israel.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept 2003. 192p. Wiley, $19.95 (0-471-46502-X). 956.94. Dershowitz is one of the nation's most prominent and visible defense attorneys, and he is also an ardent, eloquent, but not always uncritical defender of Israel. This book is written...

di Robilant, Andrea. A Venetian Affair.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 304p. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41181-X). 937. This wonderful account has all the elements of a great romantic novel, including star-crossed young lovers, an unwanted and hidden pregnancy, and diplomatic and romantic intrigue, cast...

Hamilton, Nigel. Bill Clinton, an American Journey: Great Expectations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 736p. illus. index. Random, $35 (0-375-50610-1). 973.929. Hamilton, who took on the early years of John F. Kennedy in Reckless Youth (1992), now looks at the life of Bill Clinton from birth through his ascendancy to the...

Maier, Thomas. The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings.(Book Review)(Brief Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 600p. illus. index. Basic, $27.50 (0-465-04317-8). 929.7. Just when you thought there was no way to write about the Kennedys from a new angle, Maier comes up with one. His take is to view the family through the green prism of...

Maraniss, David. They Marched into the Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 592p. index. Simon & Schuster, $30 (0-7432-1780-2). 959.704. The only direct connection between the two incidents dramatized in this narrative is their occurrence within hours of each other. In South Vietnam near Saigon, a U.S....

Shah, Saira. The Storyteller's Daughter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41531-9). 958.1046. In April 2001, Shah, a journalist, traveled to Kabul to secretly document Taliban atrocities in Afghanistan. The result was the documentary film Beneath the Veil. But this was not...

* Moorehead, Caroline. Gellhorn: a Twentieth-Century Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 480p. illus. index. Holt. $27.50 (0-8050-6553-9). 070. Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was a writer of conscience, an intrepid world traveler, and a genuine free spirit. Tall, blond, elegant, and determined, she didn't hesitate to use...

Symonds, Matthew. Softwar: an Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 489p. Simon & Schuster, $28 (0-7432-2504-X). 005.3. There has been a war brewing in the software industry that most computer users don't even know about. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, wants to supplant the current...

Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in Difficult Times.(Book Review)(Brief Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 400p. New Press, $25.95 (1-56584-837-3). 920.073. A master oral historian, indefatigable humanist, and charming raconteur, Terkel has always tackled the big questions of poverty, race, war, work, and, in Will the Circle Be...

Turow, Scott. Ultimate Punishment: a Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 120p. Farrar, $17 (0-374-12873-1). 364.66. Popular legal-fiction writer Turow takes on the divisive topic of the death penalty in this concise, thoughtful essay. A self-proclaimed "death penalty agnostic," Turow didn't consider...

* Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 128p. Doubleday, $19.95 (0-385-50794-1). 818. Lovers of adventurous literary fiction relished Whitehead's novels, The Intuitionist (1998) and John Henry Days (2001), recognizing him as an original, sardonic, yet compassionate...

* Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything: the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 304p. illus. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-860702-4). 423. The story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary has been burnished into legend over the years, at least among librarians and linguists. In The Professor and the...

* Hazzard, Shirley. The Great Fire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 288p. Farrar, $24.95 (0-374-16644-7). Despite this Australian writer's absence from the world's fiction stage--since the 1981 publication of The Transit of Venus, which earned her great acclaim, including the National Book...

Albom, Mitch. The Five People You Meet in Heaven.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 208p. Hyperion, $19.95 (0-7868-6871-6). Albom, newspaper columnist and radio broadcaster, is, of course, best known as the author of the astonishingly successful Tuesdays with Morrie (1997). This is his first novel, with an...

Brown, Sandra. Hello, Darkness.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 416p. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (0-7432-4552-0). Brown's latest thriller is full of thrills and chills that will keep readers turning the pages. Paris Gibson is a late-night DJ who gives advice to the lovelorn. One night, she...

Bujold, Lois McMaster. Paladin of Souls.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 464p. HarperCollins/Eos, $24.95 (0-380-97902-0). The eagerly awaited sequel to The Curse of Chalion (2001) continues the story of the world of Chalion, though not strictly of Chalion, after Iselle and Bergon have defeated one lot...

King, Stephen. Wolves of the Calla.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 736p. illus. Scribner/Donald M. Grant, $35 (1-880418-56-8). Wizard and Glass (1997), volume 4 of King's massive, postapocalyptic, chivalrized western, The Dark Tower, was rather a snooze, not for lack of action but because it...

Carey, Peter. My Life as a Fake.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 304p. Knopf, $25 (0-375-41498-3). Australian-born Carey is a wily and enthralling storyteller with two Booker Prizes to his credit, the second for his last novel, True History of the Kelly Gang (2001), a fictionalized portrait of...

Gaiman, Neil and others. Endless Nights.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 160p. illus. DC Comics/Vertigo, $24.95 (1-4012-0089-3). 741.45. When Gaiman ended his phenomenally popular comic-book series The Sandman in 1996, he promised to eventually revisit the characters. Now he keeps that promise, with...

* Martin, Steve. The Pleasure of My Company.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 160p. Hyperion, $19.95 (0-7868-6921-6). Martin's first novel, Shopgirl (2000), was charming and clever, and his second is even more accomplished. Daniel Pecan Cambridge (his middle name is taken from his grandmother's successful...

Gould, Judith. The Greek Villa.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 352p. NAL, $23.95 (0-451-21047-6). Tracey Sullivan is a hardworking news writer for a minor Miami TV station but has hopes of becoming a published author. She lives with her eccentric father and has a handsome, moneyed fiance,...

Hickam, Homer. The Keeper's Son.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 368p. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-30189-8). This excellent story of World War II on the Outer Banks will surprise no one who remembers Hickam's Torpedo Junction (1989), his nonfiction account of the U-boat war off...

Janowitz, Tama. Peyton Amberg.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 352p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31844-8). Billed as a modern-day Madame Bovary, Janowitz's tenth book traces the rise and eventual ruin of a woman who believes her only resource is her beauty. Bored with her job and desperate...

Levinson, Barry. Sixty-Six.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. Broadway, $24 (0-7679-1533-X). Levinson, the extraordinarily successful film director (Rain Man, Bugsy), screenwriter (... And Justice for All), and producer (The Perfect Storm, Analyze This), debuts in a new medium. Known...

McMurtry, Larry. By Sorrow's River.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 368p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-3304-2). A party of Ute warriors placidly negotiates the price of trade goods with a group of mountain men whose encampment they had murderously raided the previous day. A pair of slightly...

Parker, Robert B. Stone Cold.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 336p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15087-0). Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is an addictive personality. Booze cost him his job as a homicide detective with the LAPD, and after that blew up, he traveled across the...

Piercy, Marge. The Third Child.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 352p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-621116-6). Piercy is adept at fashioning provocatively topical plots and vivid characters in order to explore the psychological complexities of families, relationships between men and women, and various...

Rendell, Ruth. The Babes in the Wood.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 368p. Crown, $25 (1-4000-4930-X). Although this isn't the inspector Wexford novel to give readers new to the series, fans of the detective won't have any trouble picking right up on the Wexford family dynamics or Wexford's...

Rice, Anne. Blood Canticle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 320p. Knopf, $25.95 (0-375-41200-X). Elements and characters from many of Rice's previous books come together in her new novel, which picks up where her previous one, Blackwood Farm (2002), left off. This time, popular antihero...

* Phillips, Caryl. A Distant Shore.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. Knopf, $23 (1-4000-4109-0). "They do not know who I am," thinks Solomon, an African man living just outside an English village where the local racists make their hatred known. In that lightning-bolt observation,...

* Straub, Peter. lost boy lost girl.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 282p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6092-3). Once more, Straub employs the scene (Millhaven, Illinois) and the protagonists--'nam-vet novelist Tim Underhill and rich, super-attentive and -intuitive P.I. Tom Pasmore of his hefty...

Robbins, Harold. Heat of Passion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 448p. Tor/Forge, $25.95 (0-765-30002-8). If you've been holding your breath waiting for another entry in the Robbins' oeuvre, this is your lucky day. The deceased yet still prolific author (actually a ghostwriter working with...

Sandford, John. The Hanged Man's Song.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 336p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15139-7). Bobby is the Houdini of computer hackers: no password too cryptic, no firewall too sophisticated. When he disappears from cyberspace, Kidd is the man to find out why. To the straight world,...

Slaughter, Karin. A Faint Cold Fear.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 352p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-688-17458-2). Slaughter returns with the third riveting entry in her Grant County series, in which her lead characters seem to suffer as much as the victims of the horrific crimes they investigate. County...

Sparks, Nicholas. The Wedding.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 264p. Warner, $23.95 (0-446-53245-2). Sparks returns to characters from The Notebook (1996) and writes about Allie and Noah Calhoun's oldest daughter, Jane, and her husband, Wilson. As their thirtieth anniversary approaches,...

Stephenson, Neal. Quicksilver.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 928p. Morrow, $27.95 (0-380-97742-7). This colossal novel by the author of the equally plethoric Cryptonomicon (1999) begins the Baroque Cycle, a trilogy set in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when the...

Uris, Leon. O'Hara's Choice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 400p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-056873-9). This new work by the author of, most famously among his previous novels, the popular and filmed Exodus (1958), which focused on the founding years of Israel, turns out to be Uris'...

Wolff, Tobias. Old School.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 198p. Knopf, $22 (0-375-40146-6). There are ways to lie without saying a word. It is 1960, and the narrator is beginning his final year at a private school of strong literary traditions. Aspiring writers edit the literary journal...

* Turtledove, Harry. In the Presence of Mine Enemies.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 464p. NAL, $24.95 (0-451-52902-2). Another magisterial alternate-history novel from the master of the form features a modest, middle-class family in near-future Berlin: Heinrich Gimpel; his wife, Lise; and their daughters Alicia,...

Woods, Stuart. Capital Crimes.(Book Review)(Brief Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15090-0). After focusing on Stone Barrington and Holly Barker in his most recent books, Woods turns back to the hero of his early novels, Will Lee. Will is now president of the U.S., and his wife,...

Pearl, Nancy. Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 288p. Sasquatch, paper, 516.95 (1-57061-381-8). 011 Pearl is the director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle (WA) Public Library, and she is the author of a two-volume readers'-advisory reference set, Now Read This...

Piven, Joshua. As Luck Would Have It: Incredible Stories, from Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 224p. Villard, $17.95 (1-4000-6055-9). 123 Readers who remember the television series That's Incredible! will have some idea what to expect from this book, Piven has assembled a handful of stories about people whose lives were...

Wilkinson, Alec. Mr. Apology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 336p. Houghton, $24 (0-618-12311-3). 081 In My Mentor (2002), longtime New Yorker writer Wilkinson paid tribute to the late great William Maxwell, the man who taught him to Write, and Wilkinson's original profiles of Maxwell...

Zaid, Gabriel. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Tr. by Natasha Wimmer. Sept. 2003. 144p, Paul Dry, paper, $9.95 (1-58988-003-X). 028. "The human race publishes a book every thirty seconds," observes Mexico City-based poet and essayist Zaid, and therefore "how is a single book among the...

Epstein, Joseph. Envy: the Seven Deadly Sins.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Epstein, Joseph. Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins. Sept. 2003, 102p. illus, index. Oxford, 517.95 (0-19-515812-1). 179. Prose, Francine. Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins. Nov. 2003. 128p. illus. Oxford, 517.95 (0-19-515699-4), 178 Seven...

The Manley arts: Lost Moon.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... A literary game I like to play is trying to figure out what books written during my lifetime will be enjoyed by future generations of readers. Looking into "the seeds of time to see which grain will grow and which will not" can be, as Macbeth...

Lecouteux, Claude. Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doublers in the Middle Ages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Tr. by Clare Frock. Sept. 2003. 224p. Inner Traditions, paper, $16,95 (0-89281-096-3). 133.1. This is one of those rare delights, a book as readable as it is scholarly on a subject appearing to general readers, especially to those...

Zagorin, Perez. How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003.400p. index. Princeton, $29.95 (0-691-09270-2), 261.7. Americans who regard Islamic fundamentalists as peculiarly intolerant have much to learn from distinguished historian Zagorin, whose insightful research reminds us that for...

Postrel, Virginia. The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 256p. index. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-018632-1). 111. It's enough to make your head hurt, this very conscious, contemporary, intellectual interpretation of Keats' "Beauty is life, life, Beauty." On the other hand, social...

Levinson, Tom. All That's Holy: a Young Guy, an Old Car, and the Search for God in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003, 320p. Jossey-Bass, $23.95 (0-7879-6166-3). 200. Usually road trips and pilgrimages don't mix, but in Levinson's entertaining cross-country tale, they do. He set out to talk to people of as many faiths as possible, throughout...

Mathewes-Green, Frederica. The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 172p. illus. Paraclete, $14.95 (1-55725-341-2). 246. Perhaps most think of icons as examples of Christian art, powerful and often mysterious--indeed, intimidating somehow. Yet, whether painted or in mosaic, they are more than...

Warner, Brad. Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 224p. Wisdom, paper, $14.95 (0-86171-380-X). 294.3. The last thing Buddha reportedly told his followers was to question authority, which is something Warner, as bass player in an Ohio hardcore band and later a toiler on Japanese...

Wolfe, Alan. The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 320p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-2839-1). 200. The egalitarian individualism that sociologist Wolfe has previously taken as his interpretive key for understanding American morality (Moral Freedom, 2001) now guides him in an...

Aiello, Josh and Shultz, Matthew. A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 210p. illus. Broadway, paper, $12.95 (0-7679-1372-8). 305.9. With once-populous rebel groups (hippies, punks, grunge rockers) reduced to cliques that converge at nightclubs for themed outings ("Wednesday is Anarchy Night,"...

Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 544p. illus. Knopf, $30 (0-679-45435-7). 306. The influential social anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, unalike in age, appearance, and demeanor, met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student and Benedict...

Bezanson, Randall P. How Free Can the Press Be?(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. index. Univ. of Illinois, $34.95 (0-252-02866-X). 342.73. Does the First Amendment protect broadcasters from prosecution when their reporters have broken the law in gathering their stories? When can the courts prohibit the...

Berry, Wendell. Citizenship Papers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 192p. Avalon/ Shoemaker and Hoard, $24 (1-59376-000-0). 338-1. Berry says that these recent essays mostly say again what he has said before. His faithful readers may think he hasn't, however, said any of it better before. So it...

Bork, Robert H. Coercing Virtue: the Worldwide Rule of Judges.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.168p. AEI, $25 (0-8447-4162-0). 303.48. It may not reach the best-seller lists, as the much bigger Slouching towards Gomorrah (1996) did, but this concentrated and cogent statement on the preeminent object of his concern--the...

Burns, Eric. The Spirits of America: a Social History of Alcohol.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nov, 2003. 352p. index. Temple Univ., $29 (1-59213-214-6). 394.1. Humans have lapped up alcohol since the Babylonians began brewing beer, Americans, says Burns, have done so with special abandon, from colonial days, when harsh living...

Collins, Gail. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct, 2003. 576p. illus, index. Morrow, $27.95 (0-06-018510-4). 305.4. In a vibrant history of American women that is as vast and varied as the nation itself, Collins elegantly and eruditely celebrates the hard-won victories, overwhelming...

The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Ed. by George Packer. Sept. 2003, 304p. HarperPerennial, paper, $13.95 (0-060-53249-1). 320.973. Because neither stealth bombers nor laser-guided munitions can well serve a nation that doesn't know what it is fighting for, liberal...

Gilbert, Bill. Air Power: Heroes and Heroism in American Flight Missions, 1916 to Today.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 288p. illus. Kensington/Citadel, $24.95 (0-8065-2479-0). 358.4. Gilbert, author of 20 other books, recounts I 1 missions by the U.S. Air Force, from the pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916 to the Persian Gulf War in 1991....

Halpin, Brendan. Losing My Facilities: a Teacher's Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 256p. Villard, $21.95 (1-4000-6083-4). 371.1. A 10-year veteran of the Boston Public School system, Halpin shares his recollections with the kind of humor and affection reserved for a family scrapbook. Starting with his days as...

Hanson, Victor Davis. Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003.288p. Doubleday, $27.50 (0-385-50400-4). 355.02. Arguing for the primacy of military history and its crystallization around key moments of life and death, Hanson looks at three highly influential, yet often overlooked, battles in...

Hirsh, Michael. None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 320p, index, NAL, $24.95 (0-451-20983-4). 355.3. Medics in paratrooper gear, "PJs" are the air force's elite search-and-rescue personnel, ready in peacetime to save civilians (as recounted in Jack Brehm's That Others Might Live...

Humes, Edward. School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 400p, index. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-100703-9). 373.794. Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, spent a year in suburban L.A. at Whitney High, one of the most successful public high schools in the nation, to examine the...

Kroeger, Brooke. Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 240p. PublicAffairs, $25 (1-891620-99-1). 302. The term passing is most often thought of as racial minorities passing for white to receive the privileges denied them due to race. But Kroeger plumbs the varieties and complexities...

Laufer, Peter. Exodus to Berlin: the Return of the Jews to Germany.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 240p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663-529-2). 305.892. Laufer writes of the resurgence of the Jewish community in Germany, which began after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and the simultaneous rise of neo-Nazi, racist,...

McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: the Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept, 2003.416p. index, Free Press, $30 (0-684-85975-0). 324.27. The progressive movement, historian McGerr writes in this fresh and incisive overview of the era that shaped the America we know now, was essentially a middle-class revolution...

Mishler, William. A Measure of Endurance: the Unlikely Triumph of Steven Sharp.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept, 2003. 320p. illus. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41133-X). 346.79503. At 16 years o/d, Steven Sharp was horribly injured in a machinery accident in his rural farming community in eastern Oregon. On the last day of his summer job at a local ranch,...

Moran, Molly Hurley. Finding Susan.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 240p. illus. Southern Illinois Univ., $29.50 (0-8093-2519-5). 364.15. In August 1994, Susan Hurley Harrison disappeared from her Maryland home. Two years later her body was discovered; she had been murdered. No one has been...

Oppenheimer, Todd. The Flickering Mind: the False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 512p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6044-3). 371.33. The other side of the much-ballyhooed promise of technology in improving education is the reality that it often distracts from real education, provides new opportunities for...

Ouchi, William G. Making Schools Work: a Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept, 2003. 304p. index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-4630-6), 371.2. Ouchi, a professor of management, studied 223 schools in nine school systems to develop a theory on how to manage schools successfully. He focuses on public and...

Parenti, Christian. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America: from Slave Passes to the Patriot Act.(Book Review)(Brief Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 320p. illus. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-05484-6). 303.3. Concerns about the tension between national security and privacy rights are as old as the nation itself. Parenti explores the historical and sociological roots of government...

Perlstein, Linda. Not Much, Just Chillin': the Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 304p. Farrar, 524.95 (0-374-20882-4). 305.234. Perlstein, education reporter for the Washington Post, chronicles a school year at a suburban Maryland middle school, exploring the changes in personalities and school performance...

O'Hanlon, Michael and Mochizuki, Mike. Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003 224p. McGraw, $19.95 (0-07-143155-1). 355. Even if one discounts North Korea's ongoing program to develop nuclear weapons, the Korean peninsula remains a highly dangerous place. North Korea maintains around a million troops in...

Putnam, Robert D. and others. Better Together: Restoring the American Community.(Book Review)(Brief Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 336p, index. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (0-7432-3546-0), 307. Putnam, Harvard professor of public policy, ended his highly acclaimed Bowling Alone (2000) with hints that renewed social activism would soon counteract social...

Rella, Francis R. Manhattan Medics: the Gripping Story of the Men and Women of Emergency Medical Services Who Make the Streets of the City Their Career.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 224p, Princeton Book/Elysian Editions, $22.95 (0-87127-258-X); paper, $14.95 (0-87127-260-1). 362.18. Teacher, ex-marine, emergency medical technician, and paramedic Rella began work on this book as a way of debriefing himself...

Sharp, Debra Puglisi. Shattered: Reclaiming a Life Torn Apart by Violence.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 304p. Atria, $24 (0-7434-2916-9). 362.88. This is the kind of story to which the phrase "living nightmare" applies. In April 1998, the author was working in her garden when a cocaine-addicted factory worker abducted her. He...

Silver, Daniel B. Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 296p. index. Houghton, $24 (0-618-25144-8). 362.1. When Soviet troops liberated the Jewish Hospital in Berlin in April 1945, they found 800 Jewish doctors, nurses, and patients that had survived there during World War II. The...

Walker, Anthony. Siren's Dance: My Marriage to a Borderline: a Case Study.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Sept, 2003. 192p. Rodale, $19.95 (1-57954-831-8). 362.1. Walker, then a student at a Miami medical center, met and fell in love with a young patient who had attempted suicide. He should have buckled up, for the beautiful Michele was to take...