Booklist articles from September 2005

Booklist archives from September 2005

Alda, Alan. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Alda, Alan. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned. Oct. 2005. 224p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6409-0). 792.02 Alda, Emmy winning star of television's M*A*S*H as well as a writer and director, candidly details his turbulent...

Bloom, Harold. Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Bloom, Barold. Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. Oct. 2005.256p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-57322-322-0). 232.9 The most prolific American literary critic maintains a lesser career as a critic of the religious imagination. His most famous...

Wallace, Mike and Gates, Gary Paul. Between You and Me.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Wallace, Mike and Gates, Gary Paul. Between You and Me. Nov. 2005.304p. index. Hyperion, $25.95 (1-4013-0029-4). 070.92 From the perspective of 60 years of reporting, most notably with 60 Minutes, respected newsman Wallace, in his second...

Weil, Andrew. Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Well, Andrew. Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being. Oct. 2005. 320p. index. Knopf, $26.95 (0-375-40755-3). 612.6. "Well's most important and far-reaching book to date," Knopf gushes, and insofar as the...

Farm Aid: A Celebration of the American Family Farm.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Farm Aid: A Celebration of the American Family Farm. Ed. by Holly George-Warren. Sept. 2005. 256p. illus, index. Rodale, $35 (1-59486-285-0). 781.64. Twenty years ago, Willie Nelson decided to have an all-star, open-air concert to call...

Baldacci, David. The Camel Club.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Baldacci, David. The Camel Club. Oct. 2005.438p. Warner, $26.95 (0-446-57736-3). Crime Fiction. Baldacci returns to Washington D.C., the setting of his first hit, Absolute Power (1996). The Camel Club is made up of four middle-aged men:...

Boxer, Barbara and Hayes, Mary-Rose. A Time to Run.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Boxer, Barbara and Hayes, Mary-Rose. A Time to Run. Nov. 2005. 368p. Chronicle, $24.95 (0-8118-5043-9). General Fiction. On the eve of the nomination of an ultraconservative Hispanic female Supreme Court justice, liberal Senator Ellen...

Clarke, Richard A. The Scorpion's Gate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Clarke, Richard A. The Scorpion's Gate. Oct. 2005. 320p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15294-6). General Fiction. In the Reagan administration, Clarke was the deputy assistant to the secretary of state for intelligence and served as the assistant...

Evans, Ricbard Paul. The Sunflower.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Evans, Ricbard Paul. The Sunflower. Oct. 2005. 368p. Simon & Schuster, $19.95 (0-7432-8701-0). General Fiction. Evans, author of The Christmas Box (1994) and A Perfect Day (2003), returns with a heartwarming tale about two people who have...

Seth, Vikram. Two Lives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Seth, Vikram. Two Lives. Nov. 2005.512p. HarperCollins, $27.95 (0-06059-966-9). 929.2. Seth is the author of the hugely popular novel A Suitable Boy (1993), and with the same attention to atmospheric detail and nuance of character he...

Connelly, Michael. The Lincoln Lawyer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Connelly, Michael. The Lincoln Lawyer. Oct. 2005. 384p. Little, Brown, $26.95 (0-316-73493-4). Crime Fiction. Defending deadbeats is a way of life for Los Angeles attorney Michael "Mickey" Hailer. Operating out of the back seat of his...

Gabaldon, Diana. A Breath of Snow and Ashes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gabaldon, Diana. A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Sept. 2005. 992p. Delacorte, $28 (0-385-32416-2). General Fiction. After waiting nearly four years since The Fiery Cross (2001), readers will find every expectation fulfilled in the sixth book of...

Gordimer, Nadine. Get a Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gordimer, Nadine. Get a Life. Dec. 2005. 160p. Farrar, $20 (0-374-16170-4). General Fiction For more than 50 years, the groundbreaking fiction of Nobel Prize--winning Gordimer has told the human story of a changing South Africa, from the...

Kellerman, Faye. Straight into Darkness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Kellerman, Faye. Straight into Darkness. Sept. 2005. 416p. Warner, $25.95 (0-446-53040-9). Crime Fiction. Kellerman, perhaps best known for her Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels, takes a hiatus from things contemporary in this ambitious...

King, Stephen. The Colorado Kid.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... King, Stephen. The Colorado Kid. Oct. 2005. 186p. Dorchester/Hard Case, paper, $5.99 (0-8439-5584-8). Crime Fiction. King's latest is published by Hard Case Crime, a small imprint hell-bent on bringing the pulps back to life (see "Pulp...

Ludlum, Robert. The Ambler Warning.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Ludlum, Robert. The Ambler Warning. Oct. 2005. 496p. St. Martin's, $25.95 (0-312-31671-2). Crime Fiction. This is Ludlum's twenty-sixth, a remarkable feat given that he is deceased, The locale is a barrier island six miles off the coast of...

Piercy, Marge. Sex Wars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Piercy, Marge. Sex Wars. Dec. 2D05.416p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-078983-3). General Fiction. The title Sex Wars sounds like Star Wars, and although Piercy's latest is set on Earth, it does illuminate a strange and treacherous world: the...

Pratchett, Terry. Thud!(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Pratchett, Terry. Thud! Oct. 2005.384p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-081522-6). SF/Fantasy. Unwilling to get caught up in the fact that he is the duke of Ankh-Morpork, Commander Vimes still shaves himself and runs the Watch as well as he...

Steel, Danielle. Toxic Bachelors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Steel, Danielle. Toxic Bachelors. Oct. 2005.336p. Delacorte, $27 (0-385-33827-9). General Fiction .. Steel's latest novel traces the lives and loves of three confirmed bachelors who are forced to face their worst commitment fears when...

Parker, Robert B. School Days.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Parker, Robert B. School Days. Sept. 2005. 304p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15323-3). Crime Fiction. Spenser returns! He fights, he flirts, he cooks, he wisecracks, he quotes poetry! This thirty-third outing for the Boston private eye is one...

Gibbons, Kaye. The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Gibbons, Kaye. The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster. Jan. 2006. 224p. Harcourt, $ 23 (0-1510-1204-0). General Fiction It's been four years since orphaned Ellen Foster, whom we first met in Gibbons' eponymous 1987 novel, presented...

Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning. Oct. 2005. 496p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15301-2). General Fiction. Although Tan's fiction is vitally realistic, she is drawn to otherworldly realms, however archly. The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) is,...

Turow, Scott. Ordinary Heroes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Turow, Scott. Ordinary Heroes. Nov. 2005. 384p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-18421-6). Crime Fiction. Chicago defense lawyer and best-selling author Turow trades the courtroom for the battlefield in this tale of a son probing the dark depths of his...

Turtledove, Barry. End of the Beginning.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Turtledove, Barry. End of the Beginning. Nov. 2005. 448p. NAL, $25.95 (0-451-21668-7). SF/Fantasy, The Japanese occupation of Hawaii after Pearl Harbor has delayed the U.S. cross-Pacific offensive for two years. But it is coming, with Joe...

Woods, Stuart. Iron Orchid. .(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Woods, Stuart. Iron Orchid. Oct. 2005. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15325-X). Crime Fiction. AS Woods' three different contemporary crime series evolve, their storylines begin to converge. His latest thriller brings them even closer, when...

Corrigan, Maureen. Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Corrigan, Maureen. Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. Sept. 2005. 240p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50425-7). 028 Corrigan's passion for books has led her to become an English professor, a book reviewer for NPR's...

Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love. Ed. by Anne Fadiman. Sept. 2005. 224p. Farrar, $20 (0-374-24942-3). 028. As demonstrated in Ex Libris (1998), Fadiman is a superb literary essayist with a great appreciation for the art...

Behrendt, Greg and Ruotola-Behrendt, Amiira. It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Behrendt, Greg and Ruotola-Behrendt, Amiira. It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy. Oct. 2005. 208p. Broadway, $19.95 (0-7679-2185-2). 1582 Behrendt, coauthor of the wildly popular dating guide He's Just...

Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Oct. 2005. 310p. illus. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05962-6). 129 Roach, who explored the fate of cadavers donated to science in Stiffed (2003), now turns her sharp eye and droll observations to...

Tucker, Jim B. Life before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Tucker, Jim B. Life before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives. Sept. 2005. 272p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-32137-6). 133.9. Is reincarnation possible? Tucker's book full of real-life evidence and an...

Walton, Stuart. A Natural History of Human Emotions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Walton, Stuart. A Natural History of Human Emotions. Oct. 2005. 432p. index. Grove, $25 (0-8021-1804-6). 152.4. Even though a Chinese audience hearing Electra sing her poignant lamentation song would not understand her words, they would...

The Manley arts: Sayonara, Martha.(Martha Stewart)(Column)
September 1, 2005... All good things must pass. Martha, we've had a great time together--me writing glowing columns about you, your books, and your business ventures, and you, Martha, entertaining me with your spunk, courage, and creativity. It was a great...

Casey, Michael. Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of Saint Benedict.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Casey, Michael. Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of Saint Benedict. Sept. 2005. 228p. Paraclete, $26.95 (1-55725-462-1); paper, $15.95 (1-55725-460-5). 255 Casey, a Cistercian monk, remarks on...

Castro, Joy. The Truth Book: Secrets of a Jehovah's Witness Family.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Castro, Joy. The Truth Book: Secrets of a Jehovah's Witness Family. Sept. 2005. 240p. Arcade, $25 (1-55970-787-9). 289.9. Jehovah's Witnesses have something they call "the truth book," Castro says, which lays the groundwork proving theirs...

Gushee, David P. Only Human: Christian Reflections on the Journey toward Wholeness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gushee, David P. Only Human: Christian Reflections on the Journey toward Wholeness. Sept. 2005. 216p. index. Jossey-Bass, $22.95 (0-7879-6415-8). 248.4. In the first in a prospective series on the enduring questions in Christian life,...

Jaffe, Azriela. What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in My Home? A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less-Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Jaffe, Azriela. What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in My Home? A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less-Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along. Sept. 2005. 185p. Schocken, $23 (0-8052-4221-X). 296.7. Orthodoxy. It's like a different...

Pinsky, Robert. The Life of David.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Pinsky, Robert. The Life of David. Sept. 2005. 224p. Schocken, $19.95 (0-8052-4203-1). 222. Renowned poet, critic, translator of Dante's The Inferno, and former U.S. poet laureate, Pinsky brings his learnedness, literary finesse, and flair...

Robinson, James M. The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of the Original Good News.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Robinson, James M. The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of the Original Good News. Sept. 2005. 272p. HarperSanFrancisco, $21.95 (0-06076-217-9). 2329. Like many others throughout history, Robinson thinks he knows what Jesus really preached. But...

Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah. Sept. 2005. 352p. illus. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $26.95 (0-06084-467-1). 291.4. Schmidt's readable and fascinating study examines the...

Smith, Huston. The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Smith, Huston. The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition. Sept. 2005. 160p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $22.95 (0-06-079478-X). 230. Renowned religious scholar Smith believes we are living through the second of two great...

Bushman, Richard Lyman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Bushman, Richard Lyman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. Oct. 2005.784p. illus, index. Knopf, $35 (1-4000-4270-4). Peter Burnett, California's first governor, never converted to Mormonism, but he came away from his encounter with the...

Amar, Akhil Reed. America's Constitution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Amar, Akhil Reed. America's Constitution. Sept. 2005. 672p. illus, index. Random, $29.95 (1-4000-6262-4). 342.7302. Amar, a Yale Law School professor, approaches the Constitution with a perspective that is both accessible and...

The Best American Crime Writing, 2005.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Best American Crime Writing, 2005. Ed. by Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook. Sept. 2005. 368p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $14.95 (0-06-081551-5). 364.973. One of the strengths of this true-crime anthology series comes simply from...

Cobbs, Price. My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Cobbs, Price. My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement. Sept. 2005. 272p. index. Atria, $24.95 (0-7434-9619-1). 305.89. In the mid-1960s, Cobbs, along with a fellow black psychiatrist, wrote Black Rage, a seminal book on race relations as...

Helget, Nicole Lea. The Summer of Ordinary Ways.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Helget, Nicole Lea. The Summer of Ordinary Ways. Oct. 2005.182p. Borealis, $19.95 (0-87351-543-9). 362.292. What passes for ordinary in Helget's life is conventional in name only. Lurking behind outwardly bucolic scenes of rural Minnesota...

Godfrey, Rebecca. Under the Bridge.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Godfrey, Rebecca. Under the Bridge. Oct. 2005. 368p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-1091-3). 364.152. Godfrey approaches a brutal crime in an unlikely spot the way a novelist would, by tracing, first of all, how the victim and...

Goldstein, Brandt. Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Sued the President--and Won.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Goldstein, Brandt. Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Sued the President--and Won. Sept. 2005. 384p. index. Scribner, $26 (0-7432-3001-9). 342.7308. Goldstein has written a compelling story with contemporary significance that...

Gornick, Vivian. The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gornick, Vivian. The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Sept. 2005. 144p. Farrar, $17 (0-374-29954-4). 30542. An icon of the American feminist movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton devoted her life to the cause of women's...

Greene, Jay P. Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe about Our Schools--and Why It Isn't So.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Greene, Jay E Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe about Our Schools--and Why It Isn't So. Sept. 2005. 256p. illus, index. Rowman & Littlefield, $24.95 (0-7425-4977-1). 379.73. Researcher Greene debunks several...

Gumbel, Andrew. Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gumbel, Andrew. Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America. Sept. 2005. 362p. index. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, paper, $15.95 (1-56025-676-1). 364.1324. Despite the great surprise and concern about...

Gurian, Michael and Stevens, Kathy. The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gurian, Michael and Stevens, Kathy. The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life. Sept. 2005. 339p. index. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (0-7879-7761-6). 371.823 Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys (1996), and Stevens...

Haglund, Brent M. and Still, Thomas W. Hands-On Environmentalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Haglund, Brent M. and Still, Thomas W. Hands-On Environmentalism. Sept. 2005. 180p. Encounter, paper, $17.95 (1-59403-085-5). 333.72. When the first Earth Day catapulted environmental awareness onto the global mindset in 1970, average...

Jadhav, Narendra. Untouchables: One Family's Triumph over the Caste System in Modern India.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Jadhav, Narendra. Untouchables: One Family's Triumph over the Caste System in Modern India. Oct. 2005. 320p. Scribner, $26 (0-7432-7079-7). 305.5. Jadhav, head of economic research for the Reserve Bank of India, is a member of India's...

Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Oct. 2005. 672p. illus, index. Houghton, $28 (0-618-57458-1). 387.1. When gifted high-school students apply to the nation's most...

Katan, Tania. My One-Night Stand with Cancer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Katan, Tania. My One-Night Stand with Cancer. Sept. 2005. 286p. Alyson, paper, $15.95 (1-55583-890-1). 362.196. Katan, shown naked above the waist in her back-of-the-book photo, sacrificed a breast to stage three cancer at 21. The disease...

Kleinfield, Sonny. His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Kleinfield, Sonny. His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond. Sept. 2005. 288p. Holt/Times, $24 (0-8050-7580-1). 305.26. Margaret Oliver, living in a Manhattan nursing home, in her 90s and wheelchair-bound, was physically frail but...

Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. Oct. 2005. 280p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-009904-6). 30685. In 1985, while writing an article for his school newspaper, the author learned something extraordinary. His granduncle, his grandfather's...

Naim, Moises. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Naim, Moises. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy. Oct. 2005. 288p. index. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51392-5). 364.1. Naim explores the massive trade in illegal goods and services that has...

Nathan, Rebekah. My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Nathan, Rebekah. My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student. Sept. 2005. 208p. index. Cornell, $24 (0-8014-4397-0). 378.1. After nearly two decades as a university professor, the author (writing under a pseudonym)...

O'Faolain, Nuala. The Story of Chicago May.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... O'Faolain, Nuala. The Story of Chicago May. Sept. 2005. 304p. illus. Putnam, $24.95 (1-57322-320-4). 364.1. Award-winning memoirist O'Faolain takes a new direction with her latest book, a biography of Chicago May, who was an unremarkable...

Sentilles, Sarah. Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Sentilles, Sarah. Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton. Sept. 2005. 216p. Beacon, $23.95 (0-8070-3272-7). 372. Sentilles joined Teach for America following graduation from Yale in 1995 and was placed in a first-grade...

Russell, Sharman Apt. Hunger: An Unnatural History.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Russell, Sharman Apt. Hunger: An Unnatural History. Sept. 2005.288p. Basic, $23.95 (0-465-07163-5). 363.8. Russell's refined works of narrative nonfiction include Anatomy of a Rose (200 I). Now, in her most hard-hitting book to date, she...

Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... * Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present. Ed. by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler. Sept. 2005.806p. illus. Dial, $35 (0-385-33553-9). 305.4. Following up on their book Letters of the Century (1999), the...

Wright, William. Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Wright, William. Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals. Oct. 2005. 304p. index. St. Martin's, $25.95 (0-312-32271-2). 378.744. The Nathan Marsh Pusey Library houses the Harvard Archives, a collection of three...

Baskin, Elizabeh Cogswell. How to Run Your Business Like a Girl: Successful Strategies from Entrepreneurial Women Who Made It Happen.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Baskin, Elizabeh Cogswell. How to Run Your Business Like a Girl: Successful Strategies from Entrepreneurial Women Who Made It Happen. Sept. 2005. 224p. index. Adams Media, paper, $14.95 (1-59337-455-0). 658.02. What's the difference...

Cartagena, Chiqui. Latino Boom! Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Business in the U.S. Hispanic Market.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Cartagena, Chiqui. Latino Boom! Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Business in the U.S. Hispanic Market. Sept. 2005. 256p. index. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-48235-2). 658.8. Cartagena, a marketing expert on the U.S. Hispanic...

Dusenberry, Phil. Then We Set His Hair on Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-Fame Career in Advertising.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Dusenberry, Phil. Then We Set His Hair on Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-Fame Career in Advertising. Sept. 2005. 320p. index. Portfolio, $24.95 (1-59184-082-1). 658.4. Dusenberry, advertisings legendary chairman and chief...

Thomas, Jim. Negotiate to Win: The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Thomas, Jim. Negotiate to Win: The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiation. Sept. 2005. 320p. index. Collins, $22.95 (0-06-078106-8). 302.3. Americans as a whole are really bad at negotiating. We find haggling to be beneath us and we're...

The Best American Science Writing, 2005.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Best American Science Writing, 2005. Ed. by Alan Lightman. Sept. 2005. 320p. HarperPerennial/Ecco, paper, $13.95 (0-06-072642-3). 500. One of the many pleasures found in this excellent annual is the introductory essay by each volume's...

Bowen, Mark. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of the World's Highest Mountains.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Bowen, Mark. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of the World's Highest Mountains. Nov. 2005. 480p. index. Holt, $30 (0-8050-6443-5). 551.51. Bowen is a science writer and climber. Lonnie Thompson is a climatologist from Ohio State University...

Brunier, Serge and Lagrange, Anne-Marie. Great Observatories of the World.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Brunier, Serge and Lagrange, Anne-Marie. Great Observatories of the World. Oct. 2005. 240p. illus. Firefly, $59.95 (1-55407-055-4). 522.1. A tour of 56 professional astronomical observatories, this oversize album will bowl over readers....

Coenraads, Robert R. Rocks and Fossils: A Visual Guide.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Coenraads, Robert R. Rocks and Fossils: A Visual Guide. Sept. 2005. 304p. illus, index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55407-068-6). 552. A basic introduction to geology and paleontology, this predominantly pictorial treatment will lure newcomers to...

Gessner, David. The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons from a Life in Nature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Gessner, David. The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons from a Life in Nature. Sept. 2005. 192p. Beacon, $19.95 (0-8070-8568-5). 508.744. In an era when the average person moves every 3.5 years, the notion oft man living 60 years on one piece of...

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us about the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us about the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship. Sept. 2005. 192p. illus. Ballantine, $22.95 (0-345-46613-6). 591.5. Masson, best-selling author of...

Meloy, Ellen. Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Meloy, Ellen. Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild. Sept. 2005. 352p. Pantheon, $26 (0-375-42216-1). 599.6. Meloy, adventurer and keen observer, has sharpened our ecological perceptions in her previous books, including The...

Mitchell, Forrest L. and Lasswell, James L. A Dazzle of Dragonflies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Mitchell, Forrest L. and Lasswell, James L. A Dazzle of Dragonflies. 2005. 224p. illus. index. Texas A & M Univ., $39.95 (1-58544-459-6). 595.7. Dragonflies, those "mosquitohawk" denizens of wetlands, are the subject of this beautiful...

Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. Sept. 2005. 512p. illus, index. Ecco, $27.95 (0-06-053108-8). 530. A theoretical physicist who specializes in the so-called standard model of...

Dick, Ron and Patterson, Dan. Aviation Century: Wings of Change.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Dick, Ron and Patterson, Dan. Aviation Century: Wings of Change. Oct. 2005. 288p. illus, index. Firefly, $39.95 (1-55046-428-0). 629.13. This is the fourth volume in the Aviation Century series, which explores the 100-year history of...

Edgerton, Clyde. Solo: My Adventures in the Air.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Edgerton, Clyde. Solo: My Adventures in the Air. Sept. 2005. 296p. Algonquin/ Shannon Ravenel, $23.95 (1-56512-426-X). 629.130. Edgerton has written a most intriguing memoir of his love affair with flying and how he fulfilled it as a combat...

Hansen, James R. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Hansen, James R. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. Oct. 2005. 848p. illus. index. Simon & Schuster, $30 (0-7432-5631-X). 629.45. For the first time, the cool, precise, and celebrity-averse Neil Armstrong has authorized a biography....

Hunter, Sherri Warner. Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture & More.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Hunter, Sherri Warner. Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture & More. 2005. 176p. illus, index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-585-4). 684.1. Hunter introduces the fundamentals of concrete...

Wilson, Diane. An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Wilson, Diane. An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas. Sept. 2005.400p. Chelsea Green, $27.50 (1-931498-88-1). 639. In the battle to halt the monstrous pollution...

Katz, Jon. Katz on Dogs: A Commonsense Guide to Training and Living with Dogs.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Katz, Jon. Katz on Dogs: A Commonsense Guide to Training and Living with Dogs. Oct. 2005. 256p. illus. Villard, $24.95 (1-4000-6403-1). 636.7. Katz began as a reporter, columnist, and author of suburban detective mysteries, and had pretty...

Pastore, Christopher. Temple to the Wind: The Story of America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Pastore, Christopher. Temple to the Wind: The Story of America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Masterpiece, Reliance. Sept. 2005. 304p. illus. Lyons, $22.95 (1-55228-557-0). 623.822. Pastore indicates in the book's preface that in 1903,...