Booklist articles from September 2006

Booklist archives from September 2006

Grant, Marshall and Zar, Chris. I Was There When It Happened: My Life with Johnny Cash.(book)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Grant, Marshall and Zar, Chris. I Was There When It Happened: My Life with Johnny Cash. Sept. 2006. 400p. illus, index. Cumberland House, $24.95 (1-58182-510-7). 781.642092. Streissguth, Michael. Johnny Cash. Sept. 2006. 320p. illus, index....

Huffington, Arianna. On Becoming Fearless: In Love, Work, and Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Huffington, Arianna. On Becoming Fearless... in Love, Work, and Life. Sept. 2006. 240p. Little, Brown, $21.99 (0-316-16681-2). 155.633. Huffington, nationally syndicated columnist and one of the hundreds of candidates for California...

Meyerowitz, Joel. Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Meyerowitz, Joel. Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive. Sept. 2006. 349p. illus, index. Phaidon, $75 (0-7148-4655-4). 974.7. Renowned photographer Meyerowitz has a loft on 19th Street that granted him a magnificent view of the World Trade...

O'Reilly, Bill. Culture Warrior.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... O'Reilly, Bill. Culture Warrior. Sept. 2006. 216p. Broadway, $26 (0-7679-2092-9). 320. Forget the battle between liberals and conservatives. According to the anchor of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, the real action is the battle between...

Vidal, Gore. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Vidal, Gore. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006. Nov. 2006. 272p. illus, index. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51721-1). 818.54. One of America's most distinguished writers recalls, once again, following his previous glance backward...

Peterson, Dale. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Peterson, Dale. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man. Nov. 2006. 714p. illus, index. Houghton, $35 (0-395-85405-9). 590.92. Born in England in 1934, the eldest daughter of a marvelously competent mother and a race-cardriver father,...

Wills, Garry. What Paul Meant.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Wills, Garry. What Paul Meant. Nov. 2006.208p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03793-1). 225.9. Lacking the distracting critiques of WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) buttons and Benedict XVI that bracketed the main text of What Jesus Meant (2006), that...

Baldacci, David. The Collectors.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Baldacci, David. The Collectors. Oct. 2006.438p. Warner, $26.99 (0-446-53109-X). Crime Fiction. The four disillusioned, aging gentlemen featured in Baldacci's 2005 bestseller, The Camel Club, are back in this engaging offering. The...

Munro, Alice. The View from Castle Rock.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Munro, Alice. The View from Castle Rock. Nov. 2006. 352p. Knopf, $25.95 (1-4000-4282-8). General Fiction. Munro is universally accepted as one of the outstanding writers of the short story in English, but her new book is both frustrating...

Rankin, Ian. Bleeding Hearts.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Rankin, Ian. Bleeding Hearts. Nov. 2006. 400p. Little, Brown, $24.99 (0-316-00912-1). Crime Fiction Like Witch Hunt (2004) and Blood Hunt (2006), the latest Rankin is not an installment of his stellar Inspector Rebus series but a first...

Vincenzi, Penny. Almost a Crime.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Vincenzi, Penny. Almost a Crime. Oct. 2006.627p. Overlook, $26.95 (1-58567-852.X). Crime Fiction. Londoners Tom and Octavia Fleming seem the very image of marital bliss. They each run successful businesses; they have three lovely children...

Allende, Isabel. Ines of My Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Allende, Isabel. Ines of My Soul. Nov. 2006. 320p. HarperCollins, $ 25.95 (0-06-116153-5). General Fiction. Fiction about the conquistador experience in the New World (although a long list does not immediately come to mind) nevertheless...

Wambaugh, Joseph. Hollywood Station.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Wambaugh, Joseph. Hollywood Station. Nov. 2006. 352p. Little, Brown, $ 24.99 (0-316-06614-1). Crime Fiction. Wambaugh, awarded the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2004, returns to the crazed world of the LAPD for the first...

Kosner, Edward. It's News to Me: The Making and Unmaking of an Editor.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kosner, Edward. It's News to Me: The Making and Unmaking of an Editor. Sept. 2006. 352p. index. Thunder's Mouth, $25.95 (1-56025-907-8). 070.1. Kosner has helmed some of the best-known and best-regarded publications in the U.S., including...

Bess, Michael. Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Bess, Michael. Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. Nov. 2006. 400p. illus. Knopf, $27.50 (0-307-26365-7). 172. Excluding ardent pacifists, Americans generally view World War II as the "good war" in which the goals of...

Lear, Jonathan. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Lear, Jonathan. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Sept. 2006. 178p. illus, index. Harvard, $22.95 (0-67402329-3). 170. Lear, a psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, delves into what he calls the "blind spot" of...

Schoch, Richard. The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Schoch, Richard. "The Secrets of Happiness: "Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life. Nov. 2006. 256p. index. Scribner, $23 (0-7432-9292-8). 170. More than 2,000 years ago, the Greeks considered happiness a civic virtue. Things...

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... This I Believe" The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. Ed. by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman. Oct. 2006. 320p. Holt, $23 (0-8050-8087-2). 170. National Public Radio listeners have been moved to tears by the personal essays...

Cozzens, Donald. Freeing Celibacy.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Cozzens, Donald. Freeing Celibacy. Sept. 2006. 128p. index. Liturgical, $15.95 (0-8146-3160-6). 253. Priest and writer Cozzens calmly explains the celibacy Roman Catholic priests have been obliged to assume since the late eleventh century....

The Manley arts.(Management Style)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The June 5, 2006, issue of Time magazine contains an interview with America's most distinguished living author, John Updike. Having just finished his fifty-fourth book, Updike is in a unique position to assess the cultural state of America. He...

Craughwell, Thomas J. Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints.(Book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Craughwell, Thomas J. Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints. Sept. 2006. 208p. Doubleday, $15.95 (0-385-51720-3). 270.092. Saints aren't born they're made; out of, as...

Kidd, Sue Monk. Firstlight.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kidd, Sue Monk. Firstlight. Oct. 2006. 240p. Guideposts, $19.95 (0-8249-4706-1). 242. Before her phenomenal success with the novels The Secret Life of Bees (2001) and The Mermaid Chair (2005), Kidd wrote inspirational stories, spiritual...

Mullins, Edwin. Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Mullins, Edwin. Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire. Oct. 2006. 256p. illus, index. BlueBridge, $24.95 (1-933346-00-0). 271. The Benedictine monastery of Cluny in Burgundy, France, was born of the darkness and desperation of life in the...

Newberg, Andrew and Waldman, Mark Robert. Why We Believe What We Believe: Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Newberg, Andrew and Waldman, Mark Robert. Why We Believe What We Believe: Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth. Sept. 2006. 256p. illus, index. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-7497-0). 200.1. When Newberg, a professor of...

Idliby, Ranya and others. The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Idliby, Ranya and others. The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding. Oct. 2006. 320p. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-9047-X). 291.1. Ranya Idliby is a Palestinian Muslim; Suzanne Oliver, an ex-Catholic now...

Sutin, Lawrence. All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Sutin, Lawrence. All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West. Sept. 2006. 416p. index. Little, Brown, $25.99 (0-316-74156-6). 294.3. Sutin, biographer of Philip K. Dick and Aleister Crowley, proves himself to be a...

Walter, Philippe. Christianity: The Origins of a Pagan Religion.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Walter, Philippe. Christianity: The Origins of a Pagan Religion. Tr. by Jon E. Graham. Sept. 2006. 224p. illus, index. Inner Traditions, paper, $16.95 (1-59477-096-4). 263 All those millions of Da Vinci Code fans will probably not flock...

Roiphe, Anne. Water from the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Roiphe, Anne. Water from the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah. Sept. 2006. 288p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-073796-4). 222. In this lovely meditation on the innate power of women, critically acclaimed author Roiphe focuses on four biblical...

Wright, Vinita Hampton. A Catalogue of Angels: A Guide to the Heavenly, the Fallen, and the Holy Ones among Us.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Wright, Vinita Hampton. A Catalogue of Angels: A Guide to the Heavenly, the Fallen, and the Holy Ones among Us. Sept. 2006. 240p. Paraclete, paper, $15.95 (1-55725421-4). 291.2. A book editor, novelist, and believer in angels, Wright...

Bremmer, Ian. The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Bremmer, Ian. The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall. Sept. 2006. 320p. illus, index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-7471-7). 320.3. On a graph on which the vertical axis measures a nation's stability and the...

Buchanan, Patrick J. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Buchanan, Patrick J. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America. Sept. 2006. 300p. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-31236003-7). 325.73. In his wide-ranging argument about immigration, perennial...

Burns, Eric. The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Burns, Eric. The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco. Sept. 2006. 296p. index. Temple Univ., $29 (1-59213-480-7). 394.1. Today, tobacco is universally recognized as toxic, and its consumption is a major public-health problem. As...

Callahan, David. The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Callahan, David. The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots. Sept. 2006. 288p. index. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101151-6). 303.3. Callahan, cofounder of...

Corriero, Michael A. Judging Children as Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Corriero, Michael A. Judging Children as Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System. Sept. 2006. 232p. Temple Univ., $25 (1-59213-168-9). 345.73. As presiding judge in a Manhattan juvenile court since 1992, Corriero has seen...

Gordon, Gary and Crabtree, Steve. Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most out of America's Classrooms.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Gordon, Gary and Crabtree, Steve. Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most out of America's Classrooms. Sept. 2006. 316p. Gallup, $24.95 (1-59562-010-9). 371.01. Drawing on 20 years as principal, teacher, and district administrator and...

Iversen, Jeremy. High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Iversen, Jeremy. High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student. Sept. 2006. 447p. Atria, $25 (1-7432-8363-5). 373.73. An overachiever in high school (and equally driven in college), Iversen reached his mid-twenties yearning to...

Kohn, Alfie. The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kohn, Alfie. The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing. Sept. 2006. 256p. Da Capo/Lifelong Books, $24.95 (0-7382-1085-4). 372.13. Kohn has mapped for himself an uphill struggle against widely held beliefs that American...

Kammen, Michael. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Kammen, Michael. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture. Oct. 2006.496p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (1-4000-4129-5). 306.4. Art and controversy have gone together like day and night throughout American history,...

Lueders, Bill. Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Lueders, Bill. Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice. Nov. 2006. 296p. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, $29.95 (0-299-21960-7). 364.15. This is a powerful example of how an investigative reporter can right...

Kunich, John Charles. Killing Our Oceans: Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kunich, John Charles. Killing Our Oceans: Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life. Sept. 2006. 224p. index. Praeger, $49.95 (0-275-98878-3). 346.04. Star Trek told us that space is the final frontier, but, in fact, it's the deep...

Lamb, Sharon and Brown, Lyn Mikel. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Lamb, Sharon and Brown, Lyn Mikel. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes. Sept. 2006. 320p. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-35250-6). 306.3. Lamb and Brown have created high-profile careers studying and...

Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty. Ed. by Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy. Sept. 2006. 168p. index. Cato Institute, $19.95 (1-93086593-7); paper, $11.95 (1-930865-86-4). 379.1. When economist Milton Friedman...

MacDonald, Michael Patrick. Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... MacDonald, Michael Patrick. Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under. Sept. 2006. 240p. illus. Houghton, $24 (0-618-47025-5). 305.891. Seven years after All Souls (1999), a memoir of growing up in the poor Irish neighborhood...

Mann, Thomas E. and Ornstein, Norman J. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Mann, Thomas E. and Ornstein, Norman J. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track. 2006. 260p. Oxford, $22 (0-19-517466-1). 328.73. Mann and Ornstein are affiliated with different political parties...

Rubin, Aviel. Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Rubin, Aviel. Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting. Sept. 2006. 304p. Doubleday/Morgan Road, $24.95 (0-76792210-7). 324.6. Rubin, a professor of computer science, found himself at center stage...

Russo, Gus. Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Russo, Gus. Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers. Sept. 2006. 640p. index. Bloomsbury, $34.95 (1-58234-389-6). 364.109. Russo is the acclaimed author of three previous books on...

Scrimgeour, J. D. Themes for English B: A Professor's Education in and out of Class.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Scrimgeour, J. D. Themes for English B: A Professor's Education In and Out of Class. Sept. 2006. 144p. Univ. of Georgia, $22.95 (0-8203-2847-2). 370. Semicolons in compound sentences can never capture the rhythms of a pickup basketball...

Wood, John. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Wood, John. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children. Sept. 2006. 272p. index. Collins, $25.95 (0-06112107-X). 370.91. If work is the rent you pay for the space you occupy on Earth,...

Brands, H.W. The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Brands, H. W. The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar. Oct. 2006. 224p. Norton, $23.95 (0-393-06184-1). 332.092. Brands, historian and author, identifies five Americans who played critical...

Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed. Oct. 2006. 307p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-307-26348-7). 333.72092. The mother of three, the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate, and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,Wangari...

Knee, Jonathan A. The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Knee, Jonathan A. The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street. Sept. 2006. 256p. index. Oxford, $26 (0-19-530792-4). 332.66. Knee, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs for four years beginning in 1994...

Landes, David S. Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Landes, David S. Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses. Sept. 2006. 96p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03338-3). 338.7. Historian Landes profiles business dynasties from the seventeenth century to the present....

Arthur, Wallace. Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Arthur, Wallace. Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom. Sept. 2006. 272p. index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-80904321-1). 591.3. Discussing the evolution of life in this spry work, Wallace advances the argument that the process...

The Best American Science Writing, 2006.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Best American Science Writing, 2006. Ed. by Atul Gawande and Jesse Cohen. Sept. 2006. 384p. HarperCollins/Ecco, paper, $13.95 (0-06-072644-X). 500. This installment of a popular annual has a new selection criterion: if editor Gawande...

Poynter, Jane. The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes inside Biosphere 2.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Poynter, Jane. The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2. Sept. 2006. 384p. Thunder's Mouth, $26.95 (1-56025-775-X). 551.9. On September 26, 1991, eight bold-spirited adventurers entered the 3.15-acre,...

Kosko, Bart. Noise.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kosko, Bart. Noise. Sept. 2006. 272p. illus, index.Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03495-9). 534. From the author of the hugely popular and influential Fuzzy Thinking (1993) comes this exploration of what seems like a fairly simple concept: noise....

Degroot, Gerard J. Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Degroot, Gerard J. Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest. Nov. 2006. 352p. NYU, $29.95 (0-8147-1995-3). 629.45. If asked to name the greatest technological achievement of the twentieth century, many...

Katz, Jon. A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Katz, Jon. A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life. Oct. 2006. 240p. Villard, $21.95 (1-4000-6189-X). 636.737. Katz's previous books have detailed his life with dogs (A Dog Year, 2002, and The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, 2004), the...

Sunderland, Margot. The Science of Parenting.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Sunderland, Margot. The Science of Parenting. 2006. 288p. illus, index. DK, $25 (0-7566-1880-0). 649.1. The market is awash in opinionated child-rearing guides, and it's hard to argue with opinion. Sunderland takes a smarter approach....

Hager, Thomas. The Demon under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Hager, Thomas. The Demon under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug. Sept. 2006. 352p. index. Harmony, $24.95 (1-40008213-7). 615. In medical-writer Hager's...

Tudge, Colin. The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Tudge, Colin. The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter. Oct. 2006. 464p. illus. index. Crown, $27.95 (1-4000-5036-7). 582.16. British biologist and science-writer-extraordinaire Tudge offers a...

Perry, Michael. Truck: A Love Story.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Perry, Michael. Truck: A Love Story. Oct. 2006. 288p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-057117-9). 629.223. One wouldn't think that repairing a beat-up old pickup could become a life-altering undertaking. And yet, for Perry, it was all that and...

Kuczynski, Alex. Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kuczynski, Alex. Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery. Oct. 2006. 290p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50853-0). 617.9. New York Times reporter Kuczynski's documentary-like narrative on the U.S. cosmetic...

Max, D. T. The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Max, D. T. The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. Oct. 2006. 336p. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6245-4). 616.8. Just when you thought you were familiar with most of the really unusual medical ailments, along comes fatal familial...

Oz, Daphne. The Dorm Room Diet: The 8-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Oz, Daphne. The Dorm Room Diet: The 8-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works. Sept. 2006. 240p. index. Newmarket, paper, $16.95 (1-55704-685-9). 613. Oz, daughter of Mehmet Oz, who coauthored You: The Owner's...

Sykes, Tom. What Did I Do Last Night? A Drunkard's Tale.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Sykes, Tom. What Did I Do Last Night? A Drunkard's Tale. Oct. 2006. 256p. Rodale, $22.95 (1-59486-463-2). 616.86. As a teenager, Sykes was expelled from Eton, which freed up time to focus on what he was really good at: being wasted. As he...

Alexander, Rosemary. The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Alexander, Rosemary. The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook. Sept. 2006. 376p. illus. Timber, $34.95 (0-88192-771-6). 635. The joy of creating a garden--whether with professional help or by one's own efforts--is followed by the...

Kingsbury, Noel. Seedheads in the Garden.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kingsbury, Noel. Seedheads in the Garden. Sept. 2006. 144p. illus, index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-796-1). 635.9. Prolific writer and designer Kingsbury focuses on a key element of the naturalistic garden style with which he is associated:...

Paterson, Allen. A History of the Fragrant Rose.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Paterson, Allen. A History of the Fragrant Rose. Sept. 2006. 288p. illus, index. Trafalgar/Little Books, $19.95 (1-90443552-1). 635.9. The rose has a history and pedigree as lustrous as its blossoms and as vibrant as its fragrance. An...

Caggiano, Biba. Biba's Italy: Favorite Recipes from the Splendid Cities.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Caggiano, Biba. Biba's Italy: Favorite Recipes from the Splendid Cities. Sept. 2006. 336p. illus, index, artisan, $29.95 (1-57965-317-0). 641.59. Caggiano adds to her already impressive list of outstanding cookbooks with this urban-based...

Samuelsson, Marcus. The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Samuelsson, Marcus. The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa. Oct. 2006. 368p. illus. index. Wiley, $40 (0-7645-6911-2). 641.59. Samuelsson established his reputation as one of the foremost exponents of...

Burke, Ken and Griffin, Dan. The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Band.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Burke, Ken and Griffin, Dan. The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Band. Sept. 2006. 320p. illus, index. Chicago Review, $24.95 (1-55652-614-8). 781.66092. While Elvis' fame is vast, the same cannot be said of his original...

Carradine, David. The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen through the Eyes of a Screen Legend.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Carradine, David. The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen through the Eyes of a Screen Legend. Nov. 2006. 304p. HarperCollins, paper, $16.95 (0-06-082346-1). 791.43. Distilled from the diary that Carradine kept during...

Davitt, Keith. Hardscaping: How to Use Structures, Pathways, Patios & Ornaments in Your Garden.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Davitt, Keith. Hardscaping: How to Use Structures, Pathways, Patios & Ornaments in Your Garden. Sept. 2006. 255p. illus, index. Sterling, $24.95 (1-4027-1876-4). 717. Gardens consisting solely of flowering and foliage plants may be lovely,...

Ebert, Roger. Awake in the Dark: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Ebert, Roger. Awake in the Dark: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews. Sept. 2006. 489p. index. Univ. of Chicago, $29 (0-226-18200-2). 791.43. Ebert, probably the most prolific film critic of all time, here distills his massive...

Friedland, Roger and Zellman, Harold. The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Friedland, Roger and Zellman, Harold. The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship. Sept. 2006. 704p. illus, index. Regan, $34.95 (0-06-039388-2). 720.9. Whatever visionary brilliance Frank Lloyd Wright...

Harris, Bob. Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Harris, Bob. Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! Oct. 2006. 352p. index. Crown, $23.95 (0-307-33956-4). 791.45. Jennings, Ken. Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs. Sept. 2006. 288p....

Irons, Greg. You Call This Art?! A Greg Irons Retrospective.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Irons, Greg. You Call This Art?! A Greg Irons Retrospective. Ed. by Patrick Rosenkranz. Sept. 2006. 296p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $29.95 (1-56097-754-X). 741.5. Irons was in the second tier of underground-comics artists. He joined the...

John Byrne: Modern Masters, v.7.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... John Byrne: Modern Masters, v.7. Ed. by Jon B. Cooke and Eric Nolen-Weathington. 2006. 128p. illus. TwoMorrows, paper, $14.95 (1-893905-56-X). 741.5. With his work on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and subsequent revamping of...

Larner, Jesse. Forgive Us Our Spins: Michael Moore and the Future of the Left.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Larner, Jesse. Forgive Us Our Spins: Michael Moore and the Future of the Left. Sept. 2006. 272p. illus, index. Wiley, $24.95 (0-471-79306-X). 791.4302. Dedicated liberal Lamer is definitely unhappy about would-be cinematic Leftist...

McCloud, Scott. Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... McCloud, Scott. Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels. Sept. 2006. 272p. illus. index. HarperCollins/Harper, $22.95 (0-06-078094-0). 741.5. To his earlier comics primers, Understanding Comics (1993) and...

McKechnie, Donna and Lawrence, Greg. Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... McKechnie, Donna and Lawrence, Greg. Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life. Sept. 2006. 304p. illus, index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-5520-8). 792.6. McKechnie won a 1976 Tony Award for her smart, sensitive portrayal in the innovative,...

Poundstone, Paula. There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Poundstone, Paula. There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say. Nov. 2006. 288p. Harmony, $24 (0-609-60316-7). 792.702. In 2001 comedian Poundstone was convicted of DWI--with her three adopted children in the car. The court placed the...

Smiley, Tavis and Ritz, David. What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Smiley, Tavis and Ritz, David. What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America. Oct. 2006. 320p. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-50516-7). 791.4502. Readers will likely be particularly interested in the popular radio and television talk...