Booklist articles from September 2004

Booklist archives from September 2004

Dowd, Maureen. Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Dowd, Maureen. Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk. Sept. 2004. 544p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15258-X). 973.931. Dowd, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the New York Times, has covered both Bush administrations, giving her a broad perspective...

Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink. Jan. 2005. 304p. index. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-17232-4). 153.4. Gladwell writes about subtle yet crucial behavioral phenomena with lucidity and contagious enthusiasm. His first book, The Tipping Point...

Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade. Jan. 2005. 464p. illus. index. Houghton, $27 (0-618-10469-0). 944.07. In 1787, 12 men met in a print shop in England to begin planning an...

Jamison, Kay Redfield. Exuberance: the Passion for Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Jamison, Kay Redfield. Exuberance: The Passion for Life. Oct. 2004. 352p. index. Knopf, $24 (0-375-40144-X). 152.4. Jamison, a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins, continues to produce groundbreaking work, following her controversial...

Lehr, Jennifer. Ill-Equipped [For a Life of Sex].(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Lehr, Jennifer. Ill-Equipped [For a Life of Sex]. Sept. 2004. 352p. illus. Regan, $24.95 (0-06-074157-0). 306.7. Can lackluster sex turn a beloved partner into an ex? That's the question pondered in this engaging--if overlong--memoir from...

Schieffer, Bob. Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Schieffer, Bob. Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast. Oct. 2004. 240p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (0-7432-6585-8). 791.45. In a bid to compete with NBC's Meet the Press, CBS...

Wooten, Jim. We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Wooten, Jim. We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love. Nov. 2004. 244p. Penguin, $19.95 (1-59420-028-9). 362.196. In 1989, the year that Mandela was released from prison, a Zulu baby named Nkosi was born...

Baker, Nicholson. Checkpoint.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Baker, Nicholson. Checkpoint. Aug. 2004. 128p. Knopf, $18 (1-4000-4400-6). Jay and Ben are old friends who haven't seen each other in a few years. A former teacher who has fallen on hard times, Jay is very, very upset about the war in...

The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Drabble, Margaret. The Red Queen. Oct. 2004. 368p. Harcourt, $24.95 (0-15-101106-0). Drabble read JaHyun Kim Haboush's translation of The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century...

Baldacci, David. Hour Game.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Baldacci, David. Hour Game. Oct. 2004. 438p. Warner, $26.95 (0-446-53108-1). Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, the former Secret Service agents from Baldacci's previous outing, Split Second (2003), are on the trail of a serial killer in this...

DeMille, Nelson. Night Fall.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... DeMille, Nelson. Night Fall. Nov. 2004. 500p. Warner, $26.95 (0-446-57663-8). In The Lion's Game (1999), DeMille left open the possibility for a sequel, and here it is. Former NYPD cop John Corey now works for the Federal Anti-Terrorist...

The Runes of the Earth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Donaldson, Stephen R. The Runes of the Earth: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Oct. 2004. 496p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15232-6). Donaldson returns, with the intent of saying farewell to his most successful creation, Thomas Covenant,...

Doyle, Roddy. Oh, Play That Thing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Doyle, Roddy. Oh, Play That Thing. Nov. 2004. 376p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03361-8). Times may be tough in 1920s New York, but for ex-IRA assassin Henry Smart, Ellis Island seems like heaven on earth. In this ebullient continuation of the...

Party time.(Booklist celebrates its 100th year in publication)(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... If you live in Chicago and you are even vaguely interested in sports, you know that it's unwise to unpack the champagne before you're sure there is going to be a party. Anniversaries, fortunately, are a little easier to count on than the...

Frank, Elizabeth. Cheat and Charmer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Frank, Elizabeth. Cheat and Charmer. Oct. 2004. 560p. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6091-5). Despite her nice Hollywood life as the wife of successful screenwriter Jake Lasker, Dinah has always been overshadowed by her glitzy, beautiful sister,...

Gould, Judith. The Parisian Affair.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Gould, Judith. The Parisian Affair. Oct. 2004. 320p. NAL, $23.95 (0-451-21274-6). Manhattan jewelry designer Allegra Sheridan is struggling, and just when it seems as though her business is about to go under, reclusive billionaire Hilton...

Kellerman, Faye and Kellerman, Jonathan. Double Homicide: Boston; Double Homicide: Santa Fe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Kellerman, Faye and Kellerman, Jonathan. Double Homicide: Boston; Double Homicide: Santa Fe. Oct. 2004. 280p. Warner, $23.95 (0-446-53296-7). It's a two-for-one bonanza--two mystery novellas from a husband and wife whose separate writing...

King, Cassandra. The Same Sweet Girls.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... King, Cassandra. The Same Sweet Girls. Jan. 2005. 416p. Hyperion, $23.95 (1-4013-0038-3). King, wife of Pat Conroy, is carving her own niche as a southern writer. In her third novel, six very different women meet at a small Methodist...

King, Stephen. The Dark Tower.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... King, Stephen. The Dark Tower. Sept. 2004. 864p. illus. Scribner/ Donald M. Grant, $35 (1-880418-62-2). The end of King's quantitative magnum opus, the Dark Tower, some 34 years in the making and god knows how many thousands of pages long,...

Livesey, Margot. Banishing Verona.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Livesey, Margot. Banishing Verona. Nov. 2004. 320p. Holt, $24 (0-8050-7462-7). Single and seven months pregnant, Verona quickly falls in love with Zeke and just as quickly leaves him in the lurch. She's off on a wild goose chase after her...

Parker, Robert B. Melancholy Baby.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Parker, Robert B. Melancholy Baby. Sept. 2004. 304p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15218-0). A Boston private eye who is both tough and literate and very, very witty and who has both a female shrink and a really mean muscle guy in the...

Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal. Oct. 2004. 384p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-001313-3). Alfred Spangler is dead. Moist von Lipwig, formerly known as Alfred Spangler, is presented with a choice: certain death or reviving the Ankh-Morpork...

Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram. Oct. 2004. 960p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-33052-9). A thousand pages is like a thousand pounds--it sounds like too much to deal with. Nevertheless, Roberts' very long novel sails along at an amazingly...

Roberts, Nora. Northern Lights.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Roberts, Nora. Northern Lights. Oct. 2004. 576p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15205-9). Nate Burke, a Baltimore police detective, blamed himself for the death of his partner in a shootout, and the resulting anger and grief sent him into a...

Rucka, Greg. A Gentleman's Game.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Rucka, Greg. A Gentleman's Game. Oct. 2004. 340p. Bantam, $24 (0-553-80276-3). This is a little tricky, so pay attention. This novel is based on Rucka's comic-book series, Queen & Country, which was in turn inspired by (or perhaps directly...

Saramago, Jose. The Double.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Saramago, Jose. The Double. Tr. by Margaret Jull Costa. Oct. 2004. 336p. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101040-4). The 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature continues to garner a reputation and readership far beyond his native Portugal. His...

Rozan, S. J. Absent Friends.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Rozan, S. J. Absent Friends. Oct. 2004. 384p. Delacorte, $24 (0-385-33803-1). As a boy, the yearning to be a New York City fireman burned under Jimmy McCaffery's skin. Now, after more than 25 years of service, he storms up the...

Stark, Richard. Nobody Runs Forever.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Stark, Richard. Nobody Runs Forever. Nov 2004. 304p. Mysterious, $23.95 (0-89296-798-6). He reaps fortunes in his heists, but fortune rarely smiles on taciturn tough guy Parker--and this might be his toughest-luck caper yet. Instead of...

Updike, John. Villages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Updike, John. Villages. Oct. 2004. 321p. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4290-9). Seventy-year-old Owen Mackenzie does what people his age often do: he dwells on the past. For Owen, this means he obsessively recollects the places he's lived and how...

Smith, Martin Cruz. Wolves Eat Dogs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Smith, Martin Cruz. Wolves Eat Dogs. Nov. 2004. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (0-684-87254-4). The terminally melancholic Russian investigator Arkady Renko, whose cynicism is perpetually at war with his need to dig a little deeper, was...

Vincenzi, Penny. Something Dangerous.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Vincenzi, Penny. Something Dangerous. Oct. 2004. 710p. Overlook, $26.95 (1-58567-482-6). Vincenzi continues the lush multigenerational and transatlantic family saga she began in the best-selling No Angel [BKL S 15 03], picking up the story...

Weldon, Fay. Mantrapped.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Weldon, Fay. Mantrapped. Dec. 2004. 320p. Grove, $24 (0-8021-1787-2). Things are never simple with Weldon. She created a firestorm with her last novel, The Bulgari Connection (2001), for accepting money from Bulgari in return for product...

Woods, Stuart. The Prince of Beverly Hills.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Woods, Stuart. The Prince of Beverly Hills. Oct. 2004. 336p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15220-2). The prolific Woods has started yet another mystery series, this one set in L.A. in 1939. Rick Barton is a recently demoted detective who made the...

Jacobs, A. J. The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Jacobs, A. J. The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. Oct. 2004. 384p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-5060-5). 031. This clever book stems from the author's herculean effort to read every volume...

Jacobs, Alan. Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Jacobs, Alan. Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling. Sept. 2004. 247p. index. Eerdmans, paper, $20 (0-8028-4894-X). 177. In a dozen essays on literature and culture, Jacobs reconfirms the impression he made in A Visit to Vanity Fair...

Wolcott, James. Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutts: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Wolcott, James. Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutts: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror. Sept. 2004. 256p. Hyperion/ Miramax, $22.95 (1-4013-5212-X). 070. If this volume only excoriated the policies of the current Bush...

De La Torre, Miguel A. Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... De La Torre, Miguel A. Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America. Sept. 2004. 264p. illus. index. Eerdmans, paper, $18 (0-8028-4973-3). 299.6. In Cuba, the Yoruba religion of the orishas melded with saint-rich...

Hamer, Dean H. The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Hamer, Dean H. The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes. Sept. 2004. 256p. index. Doubleday, $25.95 (0-385-50058-0). 200. Like his and Peter Copeland's Living with Our Genes (1998), geneticist Hamer's provocative new book begins...

The Manley arts.(reading advice for Martha Stewart)(Column)
September 1, 2004... Dear Martha, Soon you will be going to jail. As your biggest supporter, I greatly regret that society is putting you into this bind. Personally, I feel like you are paying a penance for the sins of others. We live in an era of corporate...

Jenkins, Philip. Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Jenkins, Philip. Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality. Sept. 2004. 300p. index. Oxford, $28 (0-19-516115-7). 299.7. The prolific Jenkins follows the attention-grabbing, cogent prognostication of The Next...

Jakes, T. D. He-Motions: Even Strong Men Struggle: Strength for Men, Solutions for Women.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Jakes, T. D. He-Motions: Even Strong Men Struggle: Strength for Men, Solutions for Women. Sept. 2004. 336p. Putnam, $19.95 (0-399-15196-6). 248.8. Jakes follows Woman, Thou Art Loosed! (1994) with a book aimed at aiding men reclaiming...

Robertson, David M. A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Robertson, David M. A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike. Sept. 2004. 304p. illus. index. Knopf, $24.95 (0-375-41187-9). 283. Very much a man of his time--the mid-twentieth century--Bishop James A. Pike was a...

Ault, James M. Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Ault, James M. Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church. Sept. 2004. 432p. Knopf, $27.50 (0-375-40242-X). 306.6. For a self-admitted left-wing sociologist, Ault provides as unbiased a glimpse into the hearts and minds of...

Jager, Eric. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Jager, Eric. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France. Sept. 2004. 272p. illus. index. Broadway, $25.95 (0-7679-1416-3). 394. Feudal society in the Middle Ages was founded on a hierarchy of...

Ayers, William. Teaching toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Ayers, William. Teaching toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom. Oct. 2004. 176p. Beacon, $23 (0-8070-3268-9). 371.102. Ayers, an activist for progressive teaching methods, has written and coauthored numerous...

Banister, Jim. Word of Mouse: The New Age of Networked Media.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Banister, Jim. Word of Mouse: The New Age of Networked Media. Sept. 2004. 209p. index. Agate, $24.95 (0-9724562-6-0). 303.48. Banister is a veteran media industry executive, who has worked with Disney, Spielberg, and Warner Brothers, but...

Beckwith, Carol and Fisher, Angela. Faces of Africa: Thirty Years of Photography.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Beckwith, Carol and Fisher, Angela. Faces of Africa: Thirty Years of Photography. Sept. 2004. 252p. illus. National Geographic, $35 (0-7922-6830-X). 305.896. The several hundred photographs in this album depict the traditional life of...

Best, Joel. More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Best, Joel. More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues. Sept. 2004. 222p. index. Univ. of California, $19.95 (0-520-23830-3). 303.3. In this sequel to Best's Damned Lies and Statistics (2001), the premise is simple:...

Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. Sept. 2004. 384p. illus. index. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7145-8). 345.73. In the steamy summer of 1925, Detroit, like many northern cities, was in the throes...

Chauncey, George. Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate over Gay Equality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Chauncey, George. Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate over Gay Equality. Sept. 2004. 192p. index. Basic, $22 (0-465-00957-3). 306.76. Chauncey says this short book, written on a three-month deadline and between two...

Comer, James P. Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Comer, James P. Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World. Sept. 2004. 312p. index. Yale, $28 (0-300-10391-3). 379.7. This book takes its name from the ideals of the Children's Defense Fund, not the controversial...

Crittenden, Ann. If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything: Leadership Begins at Home.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Crittenden, Ann. If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything: Leadership Begins at Home. Sept. 2004. 288p. Gotham, $25 (1-592-40073-6). 306.874. Leadership begins at home, Crittenden intones in this book that expresses the feeling of...

Smith, Tara Bray. West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Smith, Tara Bray. West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise. Oct. 2004. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-3679-3). 362.29. Smith has come home to Hawaii to find her mother, Karen Brewster Morgan is many things: a...

Nabhan, Gary Paul. Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Nabhan, Gary Paul. Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity. Sept. 2004. 223p. Island/Shearwater, $24 (1-55963-466-9). 394.1. Ethnobotanist and nutritional ecologist Nabhan continues the paradigm-altering investigation...

Hammes, Thomas. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Hammes, Thomas. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. Sept. 2004. 304p. MBI/Zenith, $29.95 (0-7603-2059-4). 355.02. Hammes is a career Marine Corps officer, and with this selection, he argues that the U.S. has adapted poorly...

Hill, Gregg and Hill, Gina. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Hill, Gregg and Hill, Gina. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. Oct. 2004. 246p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-52770-X). 364.1. While Martin Scorsese's almost-lovable wiseguy Henry Hill led a life of unbroken adventure with the Mob--finding haven in the...

Waller, Douglas. A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Waller, Douglas. A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation. Sept. 2004. 448p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-050547-81. 343.73. "Gee," a commercial TV producer supposedly said,...

Holland, Max. The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Holland, Max. The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath. Sept. 2004. 480p. index. Knopf, $26.95 (1-4000-4238-0). 364.152. This...

Holmes, Madelyn. American Women Conservationists: Twelve Profiles.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Holmes, Madelyn. American Women Conservationists: Twelve Profiles. Oct. 2004. 208p. illus. index. McFarland, paper, $35 (0-7864-1783-8). 333.72. A historian with the National Park Service, Holmes provides a concise history of environmental...

Klare, Michael T. Blood and Oil: the Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Klare, Michael T. Blood and Oil: the Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency. Sept. 2004. 288p. illus. index. Holt, $24 (0-8050-7313-2). 333.8. Agreeing with the premise of "No Blood for Oil" placards, a college...

Mathers, Chris. Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets the World of Business and Finance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Mathers, Chris. Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets the World of Business and Finance. Sept. 2004. 240p. illus. index. Firefly, paper, $16.95 (1-55297-993-8). 364.16. What exactly is money laundering? Mathers, a former...

Meier, Deborah and others. Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Meier, Deborah and others. Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools. Sept. 2004. 128p. Beacon, paper, $13 (0-8070-0459-6). 379.2. Two years after implementation of the No Child...

Moss, Barbara Robinette. Fierce.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Moss, Barbara Robinette. Fierce. Oct. 2004. 256p. Scribner, $24 (0-7432-2945-2). 362.292. In this follow-up to her highly regarded childhood memoir, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter (2000), artist and author Moss traces her determined...

Murphy, Ann Pleshette. The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of Your Life as a Mom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Murphy, Ann Pleshette. The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of Your Life as a Mom. Sept. 2004. 272p. index. Knopf. $22.95 (0-375-40643-3). 306.87. With so many parenting books focused on child development, Murphy, former editor of...

Rifkin, Jeremy. The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Rifkin, Jeremy. The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream. Sept. 2004. 448p. Putnam/Tarcher, $25.95 (1-58542-345-9). 306.3. The American Dream is not dead, says Rifkin, but it's showing...

Sember, Brette McWhorter. Seniors' Rights: Your Legal Guide to Living Life to the Fullest.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Sember, Brette McWhorter. Seniors' Rights: Your Legal Guide to Living Life to the Fullest. Sept. 2004. 296p. Sourcebooks, paper, $19.95 (1-57248-386-5). 342.730. The author endeavors to help seniors understand their rights involving...

Stuart, Gary L. Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Stuart, Gary L. Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent. Oct. 2004. 210p. index. Univ. of Arizona, $24.95 (0-8165-2313-4). 345.73. It seems odd to think of it, but a suspect's right to remain silent is only four decades old....

West, Cornel. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight against Imperialism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... West, Cornel. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight against Imperialism. Sept. 2004. 180p. index. Penguin, $24.95 (1-59420-029-7). 321.8. West, Princeton philosophy professor and renowned public intellectual, follows Race Matters (1993) by...

Ybarra, Michael J. Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Ybarra, Michael I. Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt. Sept. 2004. 864p. index. Steerforth, $35 (1-58642-065-8). 328.73. The infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy served as the poster boy for...

Banks, Erik. The Failure of Wall Street: How and Why Wall Street Fails--and What Can Be Done about It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Banks, Erik. The Failure of Wall Street: How and Why Wall Street Fails--and What Can Be Done about It. Sept. 2004. 298p. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $29.95 (1-4039-6402-5). 332.64. Banks, a Wall Street veteran, sets out to explore its...

Bowles, Sheldon and others. Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management.(Herbold, Robert J. The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies--and How to Overcome Them.)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Bowles, Sheldon and others. Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management. Jan. 2005. 192p. Hyperion, $19.95 (1-4013-0135-5). 658.4. Herbold, Robert J. The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and...

Gallagher, BJ and Ventura, Steve. Who Are "They" Anyway? A Tale of Achieving Success at Work through Personal Accountability.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Gallagher, BJ and Ventura, Steve. Who Are "They" Anyway? A Tale of Achieving Success at Work through Personal Accountability. Sept. 2004. 128p. Dearborn Trade, $14.95 (0-7931-8829-6). 650.1. Gallagher and Ventura, consultants and corporate...

Tisch, Jonathan M. The Power of We: Succeeding through Partnerships.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Tisch, Jonathan M. The Power of We: Succeeding through Partnerships. Sept. 2004. 256p. index. Wiley, $24.95 (0-471-65282-2). 658. Tisch is chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels, which also has sizable interests in the insurance, sports, and...

Fisher, Lester E. Dr. Fisher's Life on the Ark: Green Alligators, Bushman, and Other "Hare-Raising" Tales from America's Most Popular Zoo and around the World.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Fisher, Lester E. Dr. Fisher's Life on the Ark: Green Alligators, Bushman, and Other "Hare-Raising Tales" from America's Most Popular Zoo and around the World. Sept. 2004. 254p. index. illus. Racom, $26.95 (0-9704515-6-3). 590.73. Fisher...

Tennant, Alan. On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... * Tennant, Alan. On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon. Sept. 2004. 320p. illus. Knopf, $25 (0-375-41551-3). 598.9. Twenty years ago, peregrine falcons were slowly recovering after being decimated by DDT, and...

Robinson, Phillip T. Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Robinson, Phillip T. Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors. Oct. 2004. 248p. illus. index. Columbia, $27.95 (0-231-13248-4). 590.73. Zoos are the most popular attractions in the U.S., with attendance that annually...

Tyson, Neil DeGrasse and Goldsmith, Donald. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Tyson, Neil DeGrasse and Goldsmith, Donald. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. Oct. 2004. 336p. illus. index. Norton, $27.95 (0-393-05992-8). 523.1. Since Carl Sagan's book-and-television package Cosmos (1980),...

Coren, Stanley. How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Coren, Stanley. How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind. Sept. 2004. 352p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-2232-6). 636.7. Dogs are the oldest domesticated animal and our most common household pet. With all this time and intimacy, what...

Derr, Mark. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Derr, Mark. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. Sept. 2004. 352p. illus. index. Farrar/North Point, $25 (0-86547-631-4). 636.7. If dogs did not come with the first people to enter...

Ettus, Samantha and others. The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Ettus, Samantha and others. The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do. Sept. 2004. 320p. illus. Clarkson Potter, $19.95 (1-4000-5256-4). 640. Let's face it: most of us are never going to be in a position to get advice...

Carruth, Hayden. Letters to Jane.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Carruth, Hayden. Letters to Jane. Sept. 2004. 112p. Ausable, $24 (1-931337-17-9). 616. During the last year of her life, Carruth wrote fellow poet Jane Kenyon (1947-95) frequently enough to fill this slim volume. He didn't e-mail or fax...

Hawkins, Jeff and Blakeslee, Sandra. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Hawkins, Jeff and Blakeslee, Sandra. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines. Oct. 2004. 288p. index. Holt/Times, $25 (0-8050-7456-2). 612.8. A successful designer of...

Head, John. Standing in the Shadows: Black Men and Depression.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Head, John. Standing in the Shadows: Black Men and Depression. Sept. 2004. 224p. Broadway, $22.95 (0-7679-1353-1). 616.85. Head, a veteran journalist and a success by any objective standard, shares his 25-year struggle with depression...

McKenna, Maryn. Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... McKenna, Maryn. Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Sept. 2004. 336p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-5132-6). 614.4. Many federal agencies seem challenged when it...