Booklist articles from September 2007

Booklist archives from September 2007

All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes. Ed. by Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan. Sept. 2007. 384p. Knopf, $26.95 (0-307-26612-5). 332.6. The Forbes 400, the now-legendary list of the wealthiest...

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. By Oliver Sacks. Oct. 2007. 256p. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4081-7). 781. Music seems to be meaningless, and our love of it inexplicable, but neurologist Sacks, one of the foremost physician-essayists of...

The Bone Garden.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Bone Garden. By Tess Gerritsen. Sept. 2007. 425p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-49760-0). Medical examiner Maura Isles returns in another thriller that joins past and present. In the present, in the backyard of Julia Hamill's old Boston...

Book of the Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Book of the Dead. By Patricia Cornwell. Oct. 2007.405p. Putnam. $26.95 (0-399-15393-4). It's hard to fault Cornwell for trying to redeem herself after missing the mark with her last few Kay Scarpetta novels, but this new one won't do the...

Head and Heart: American Christianities.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Head and Heart: American Christianities. By Garry Wills. Oct. 2007. 552p. Penguin, $25.95 (9781594201462). 277.3. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The history of Christianity in the U.S. is a dialectic of the intellect and the emotions, Wills...

Death Star: Star Wars.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Death Star: Star Wars. By Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. Oct. 2007. 382p. Del Key, $25.95 (0-345-47742-1), Action sf (and Star Wars) veterans join forces to tell the story of the first Death Star from the point of view of its imperial...

The Dilemma.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Dilemma. By Penny Vincenzi. Oct. 2007. 662p. Overlook, $25.95 (9781585679492). One of Britain's most dynamic real-estate moguls, Bard Channing is so arrogant, ruthless, and egotistical, he makes Donald Trump look like Mr. Rogers....

The Elephanta Suite.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Elephanta Suite. By Paul Theroux. Sept. 2007. 256p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-94332-3). Theroux's latest book is a trio of short novellas, each featuring Americans on a path of discovery in India. A pampered couple explores a bit too far...

Bridge of Sighs.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Bridge of Sighs. By Richard Russo. Oct. 2007. 544p. Knopf, $26.95 (9780375414954). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Here is the novel Russo was born to write. Coursing with humor and humanity, the sixth novel by the bard of Main Street U.S.A....

Eureka.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Eureka. By Jim Lehrer. Oct. 2007. 226p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6487-2). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Earnest, honest lifelong Kansan Otis Halstead is plodding toward his sixtieth birthday when he impulsively spends $12,000 for a cast-iron...

Foreigners.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Foreigners. By Caryl Phillips. Oct. 2007. 256p. Knopf, $24.95 (1-4000-4397-2). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In each of his somberly beautiful and lacerating books, Phillips, a virtuoso, prizewinning novelist with a biographer's avidity for...

Pontoon.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Pontoon. By Garrison Keillor. Sept. 2007. 247p. Viking, $25.95 (9780670063567). When the angel of death came for Evelyn Peterson, she didn't know that Debbie Detmer would be back in Lake Wobegon for the first time in ages to be married,...

The Quiet Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Quiet Girl. By Peter Hoeg. Tr. by Nadia Christensen. Nov. 2007.416p. Farrar, $26 (0-374-26369-8). Hoeg, author of the international best-seller Smilla's Sense of Snow (1993), returns with another demanding, often befuddling, but...

The Race.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Race. By Richard North Patterson. Oct. 2007.352p. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7948-3). Patterson's latest absorbing thriller centers on a timely topic, a heated presidential primary. Corey Grace is a war hero turned moderate Republican senator...

Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly. Ed. by Howard Gardner. 2007. 353p. Jossey-Bass, $27.95 (0-7879-9475-8). 174. Any work authored or edited by Gardner (Harvard professor, author of Changing...

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! By Scott Adams. Oct. 2007. 356p. Portfolio, $24.95 (9781591841852). 158.1. Adams, creator of the wildly popular Dilbert comic strip and 23 books, including the bestselling Dilbert Principle (1997) and...

A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith. By Nancy Malts. Sept. 2007. 160p. Beacon, $23.95 (9780807077320). 282.092. For those struggling with contradictions between organized religion and their personal beliefs, this...

Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge. By Don Lattin. Oct. 2007. 240p. illus. HarperOne, $24.95 (97800611 18043). 299. Lattin's true-crime story concerns a cult left over from the 1970s boom in disturbing...

Discovering God: A New Look at the Origins of the Great Religions.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Discovering God: A New Look at the Origins of the Great Religions. By Rodney Stark. Oct. 2007. 496p.illus. HarperOne, $25.95 (9780061173899). 200. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skeptics such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett have just...

My Retirement Plan.(The Manley Arts)
September 1, 2007... A couple of years ago, one of my department heads came to me on a fine Monday morning in June and said, "Will, I'm going to retire." I replied casually, "Yes, Bob, aren't we all?" "No, Will, you don't understand. I am giving you my...

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul. By Marlo Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary. Sept. 2007. 400p. HarperOne, $25.95 (9780060858834). 200. 1. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design. By Peter J. Bowler. Sept. 2007. 266p. Harvard, $24.95 (0-67402615-2). 231.7. Bowler's exemplary review of debate over Charles Darwin's ideas...

Muhammad: Islam's First Great General.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Muhammad: Islam's First Great General. By Richard Gabriel. Sept. 2007. 288p. Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (9780806138602). 297.6. Gabriel argues that neither the faith nor the prophet would have survived had Muhammad not been an innovative and...

Torah through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Torah through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times. By Shai Cherry. Oct. 2007. 208p. Jewish Publication Society, $25 (9780827608481). 221.601. The Torah is the first five books or sections of the...

The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. By Mark Lilla. Sept. 2007. 336p. Knopf, $26 (1-4000-4367-0). 201. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Political science begins in the wars-of-religion-devastated seventeenth century with...

UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture. By Gregory L. Reece. Sept. 2007. 224p. I. B. Tauris, paper, $15.95 (1-84511-451-5). 001.942. Reece's highly readable inspection of ufologists who find religious meaning in their passion...

Angels of a Lower Flight: One Woman's Mission to Save a Country ... One Child at a Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Angels of a Lower Flight: One Woman's Mission to Save a Country... One Child at a Time. By Susie Scott Krabacher. Oct. 2007.288p.Touchstone, $24.95 (1-4165-3514-4). 362.709. Memoirs documenting childhood abuse have proliferated, but few,...

The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics. By Matt Bat. 2007. 306p. Penguin, $25.95 (9781594201332). 324.2736. Fed up with the calcification of the Democratic Party, progressives have independently...

The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster. By Jon Keller. Sept. 2007. 288p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-36831-3). 320.51. In a state long enamored of progressive liberalism and...

The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals. By Todd Gitlin. Sept. 2007. 336p. Wiley, $25.95 (9780471748533). 320.51. According to journalism professor Gitlin, the Republicans have...

Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy. By Donald B. Kraybill and others. Sept. 2007. 288p. Wiley, $24.95 (0-7879-9761-7). 364.152. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The crime--shooting innocent schoolchildren in a one-room...

Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship. By Martin Gilbert. Nov. 2007. 352p. Holt, $30 (9780805078800). 320.54. Winston Churchill has been the subject of many of this author's 54 books, including an 8-volume biography, and some of...

Father Knows Less; or, "Can I Cook My Sister?" One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Father Knows Less; or, "Can I Cook My Sister?" One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions. By Wendell Jamieson. Sept. 2007. 272p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15442-6). 306.874. When Jamieson was a little boy, he had a lot of...

The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine. Ed. by Barry Lopez. Sept. 2007. 408p. Milkweed, paper, $18 (1 -57131-306-0). 304.2. Lopez has as much respect for language as he does for the living world, so when he...

Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System. By Roberto Saviano. Tr. by Virginia Jewiss. Nov. 2007. 320p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-16527-0). 364.106. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Saviano,...

The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life. By John Baez and others. 2007. 405p. Random/Princeton Review, paper, $13.95 (9780375766237). 370.193. "The face and experience of GLBTQ college students is dramatically different than 10--or even...

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad. By Frances Moore Lappe. Oct. 2007. 205p. Small Planet, paper, $14.95 (9780979414244). 320. The indefatigable Lappe turns her finely tuned sense of outrage and her deeply...

God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America. By Hanna Rosin. Sept. 2007. 320p. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101262-8). 378.755. Patrick Henry College, just outside the nation's capital, is a small school preparing Christian...

A Great Day to Fight: Mann Gulch, 1949.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... A Great Day to Fight: Man Gulch, 1949. By Mark Matthews. Oct. 2007. 280p. Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (9780806138572). 363.37. Readers of stories about fires and firefighters might feel there's something a bit familiar about this one. That's...

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's. By John Elder Robison. Sept. 2007. 304p. Crown, $25.95 (9780307395986). 362.196. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If one looked at only Robison's impish sense of humor (he once ordered a blow-up sex...

Hard Corps: From Gangbanger to Leatherneck Hero.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Hard Corps: From Gangbanger to Leatherneck Hero. By Marco Martinez. Sept. 2007. 288p. Crown Forum, $24.95 (0-307-38304-0). 359.9. Hard corps is a term of praise for a really dedicated marine. It's highly merited by Martinez, who pulls no...

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance. By John Berger. Sept. 2007. 160p. Pantheon, $21 (0-375-42509-8). 355. Berger's concentrated essays deal with the essentials: how we sustain ourselves, who has power, and how we...

The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror. By Dina Temple-Raston. Sept. 2007. 304p. PublicAffairs, $26 (9781586484033). 363. The Lackawanna Six, Yemeni American friends living in straitened circumstances...

Just Breathe Normally.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Just Breathe Normally. By Peggy Shumaker. Sept. 2007. 236p. Univ. of Nebraska, $24.95 (9780803210950). 362.197. In 2000, while out bicycling with her husband on a picture-perfect Alaska day, poet Shumaker was struck by a speeding ATV. She...

Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources. By Norman Pearistine. 2007. 320p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-22449-8). 342.7308. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A generation after Watergate, "Plamegate" has reignited...

Letters to a Young Teacher.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Letters to a Young Teacher. By Jonathan Kozol. Sept. 2007. Crown, $25.95 (0-307-39371-2). 371. 1. Acclaimed author Kozol began a correspondence with Francesca, a young first-year teacher at an inner-city school in Boston. His letters offer...

McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire. By Jeffrey Rothfeder. Sept. 2007. 272p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780060721848). 338.7. Few other food products are so immediately recognizable as that ubiquitous bottle of...

No Place Safe: A Family Memoir.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... No Place Safe: A Family Memoir. By Kim Reid. Oct. 2007. 310p. Kensington/Dafina, paper, $15 (0-7582-2052-9). 303.324. Part mystery thriller, part coming-of-age story, and part civil-rights history, this gripping memoir is set at the time of...

Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. By John Bowe. Sept. 2007. 320p. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6209-8). 331.11. The very human impulse to get ahead in life even at the expense of others' suffering...

One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War. By Charles London. Oct. 2007. 336p. HarperCollins, paper, $13.95 (9780061240478). 355. Today there are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers around the globe. American college student...

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Sept. 2007. 304p. Knopf, $24 (1-4000-4159-7). 305.42. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ulrich never could have imagined that a comment she made in a scholarly article in 1976...

Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools. By Rudy Crew and Thomas Dyja. 2007. 240p. Farrar, $23 (0-374-29401-1). 371.010973. The odds are 50/50 that any given 10-year-old in a large American city can read. That is only one of the horrid...

Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth. By Herbert Kohl. Sept. 2007. 176p. illus. Bloomsbury, $19.95 (1-59691-052-6). 371.1. In spite of all his accomplishments as an eminent educator and the author of many...

Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School. By Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley. Sept. 2007. 336p. Morrow, $25.95 (9780061192050). 373.22. In 2005, a student sex scandal marred the reputation of Milton Academy,...

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. By Naomi Klein. Sept. 2007. 672p. Holt/Metropolitan, $27.50 (0-8050-7983-1). 330.12. Both admirers and detractors agree that the late Nobel Prize laureate Milton Friedman was an...

Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade. By Linda Perlstein. 2007. 304p. Holt, $30 (0-8050-8082-1). 379. 1. The predominately minority and low-income students at Tyler Heights Elementary School in Annapolis, Maryland, showed...

Watching: Encounters with Humans and Other Animals.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Watching: Encounters with Humans and Other Animals. By Desmond Morris. Oct. 2007. 624p. Trafalgar, $35 (1-904435-54-8). 301.092. For his studies of human behavior, Morris has traveled to 91 countries and has written 50 books that have been...

Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed. By Robert L. Dilenschneider. 2007. 224p. McGraw-Hill, $22.95 (0-07-148976-2). 650. 1. Dilenschneider, a communications expert, offers insight into power, success, and happiness in our global,...

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees).(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees). By Patrick Lencioni. Sept. 2007. 272p.Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (9780787995317). 658. Anyone who's been employed--whether self- or by an organization--will recognize...

The Stuff of Thought.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Stuff of Thought. By Steven Pinker. Sept. 2007. 512p. illus. Viking, $29.95 (9780670063277). 400. Experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist Pinker is fascinated by the symbiosis between language and thought. In this stimulating...

Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science. By James D. Watson. Sept. 2007. 336p. illus. Knopf, $26.95 (0-375-41284-0). 572.8092. In this memoir, Watson shows by example how to get to the top and stay there. Spanning his boyhood...

Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature. By Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan. Sept. 2007. 256p. Chelsea Green, $25 (1-9333923-1-2). 501. To make sense of the natural world around us, now and into the future, it will not be...

Golden Wings and Hairy Toes: Encounters with New England's Most Imperiled Wildlife.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Golden Wings and Hairy Toes: Encounters with New England's Most Imperiled Wildlife. By Todd McLeish. Oct. 2007. 256p. Univ. Press of New England, $26 (1-58465-626-3). 574.529. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is probably the single most...

The Jesuit and the Skull.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Jesuit and the Skull. By Amir D. Aczel. Oct. 2007. 304p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-59448-956-4). 569.9. Earlier research into mathematical mysticism (The Mystery of the Aleph, 2000; Descartes's Secret Notebook, 2005) well qualifies Aczel...

Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature. By Ira Flatow. Sept. 2007. 368p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780060732646). 500. Host of the NPR program Science Friday,...

Turtles: An Extraordinary Natural History 200 Million Years in the Making.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Turtles: An Extraordinary Natural History 200 Million Years in the Making. By Carl J. Franklin. 2007. 160p. illus. MBI, $35 (0-7603-2981-8). 597.92. Anyone can recognize a turtle. These ancient reptiles evolved their protective shell...

Winged Wonders: A Celebration of Birds in Human History.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Winged Wonders: A Celebration of Birds in Human History. By Peter Watkins and Jonathan Stockland. Oct. 2007. 224p. illus. BlueBridge, $22 (1-933346-07-8). 598. As stated in the introduction, this lovely book is a "celebration of some of...

Dogs: A Natural History.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Dogs: A Natural History. By Jake Page. Oct. 2007. 256p. illus. Smithsonian, $24.95 (9780061132599). 636.7. Page and his wife live with six dogs, and as he observed them in one big group, he thought to himself, "Who are these guys?" The...

Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. By Pat Duggins. Oct. 2007. 232p. Univ. Press of Florida, $24.95 (9780813031460). 629.45. Surveying the history of the space shuttle, Duggins delivers descriptions of the...

Furniture Restoration: Step-by-Step Tips and Techniques for Professional Results.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Furniture Restoration: Step-by-Step Tips and Techniques for Professional Results. By Ina Brosseau Marx and Allen Marx. Sept. 2007. 272p. illus. Watson-Guptill, $50 (0-8230-2070-3). 684. 1. Contemplating a career in furniture restoration?...

Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today. By Jay Barbree. Sept. 2007. 352p. Smithsonian, $26.95 (9780061233920). 629.450973. Barbree got his first taste of covering the space race in 1957 when he did a...

Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. By Jennifer Ackerman. Oct. 2007. 272p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-18758-8). 612. When are we the most mentally alert? What makes us feel hungry? A skilled and personable science...

Sick to Death: A Manipulative Surgeon and a Health System in Crisis--a Disaster Waiting to Happen.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Sick to Death: A Manipulative Surgeon and a Health System in Crisis--a Disaster Waiting to Happen. By Hedley Thomas. Oct. 2007. 428p. illus. Allen & Unwin, paper, $19.95 (9781741148817). 610.92. Australian journalist Thomas' good news--bad...

The Authentic Garden: Five Principles for Cultivating a Sense of Place.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Authentic Garden: Five Principles for Cultivating a Sense of Place. By Claire E. Sawyers. Jan. 2008. 288p. illus. Timber, $34.95 (9780881928310). 712. English cottage borders, Japanese serenity havens, classic Italian vistas: all have...

Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. By Douglas W. Tallamy. Dec. 2007. 280p. illus. Timber, $27.95 (9780881928549). 639.9. Tallamy takes an obvious observation--wildlife is threatened when suburban...

At Oma's Table: More Than 100 Recipes and Remembrances from a Jewish Family's Kitchen.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... At Oma's Table: More than 100 Recipes and Remembrances from a Jewish Family's Kitchen. By Doris Schechter. Sept. 2007. 272p. illus. Penguin/Home, $23.95 (1-55788-521-4). 641.5. Schechter, who operates a New York eatery and has already...

I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made the World's Most Popular Wine.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made the World's Most Popular Wine. By Rudolph Chelminski. Oct. 2007. Gotham, $27.50 (9781592403202). 641.2. In the highly snobbish wine universe, Beaujolais lacks the cachet of...

Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers. By Daniel Leader and Lauren Chattman. Sept. 2007. 448p. illus. Norton, $35 (0-393-05055-6). 641.8. After perusing the remarkable recipes in Leader's...

Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine. Ed. by Barry C. Smith. Oct. 2007. 288p. Oxford, $27.95 (0-19-533146-X). 641.2. This collection of essays springs from a recent London congress of wine experts investigating what, if any, words...

Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day. By Padma Lakshmi. Oct. 2007. 288p. illus. Weinstein, $34.95 (1-60286-006-8). 641.5. Reality cooking shows have never been more popular (Gordon Ramsay currently has three programs...

Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home. By Kim Sunee. Jan. 2008. 372p. Grand Central, $24.99 (0-446-57976-9). 641.5092. Twentysomething Sunee seems to have it all: beauty, talent, and a charming, wealthy, and very attentive...

Comics Gone Ape!(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Comics Gone Ape! By Michael Eury. 2007. 144p. illus. TwoMorrows, paper, $16.95 (9781893905627). 741.5. DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz, who was largely responsible for the early-1960s revival of the superhero genre, steadfastly believed...

Diana Ross.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Diana Ross. By J. Randy Taraborrelli. Sept. 2007. 560p. Citadel, $26.95 (0-8065-2849-4). 782.42. In his acknowledgments, Taraborrelli asks if there is anything he can say about Diana Ross in this book that he hasn't already said in his...

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... * Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America. By Jonathan Gould. Oct. 2007. 630p. illus. Harmony, $35 (9780307353375). 782.421. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gould's combination group biography, cultural history, and musical...