Library Journal articles from March 2007, page 6

Library Journal archives from March 2007

Siegel, Robert Anthony. All Will Be Revealed.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Siegel, Robert Anthony. All Will Be Revealed. MacAdam/Cage. Mar. 2007. c.250p. ISBN 1-59692-189-7 [ISBN 978-1-59692-205-1]. $24. F Love knows no bounds. Set in late 19th-century New York City, this second novel from Siegel (creative...

Starling, Boris. Visibility.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Starling, Boris. Visibility. Dutton. Mar. 2007. c.336p. ISBN 0-525-94996-8 [ISBN 978-0-525-94996-1]. $25.95. F In December 1952, during London's "Great Fog," a miasma that would claim thousands of lives, visibility in the city is down to...

Torday, Paul. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Torday, Paul. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Harcourt. Apr. 2007. c.352p. ISBN 0-15-101276-8 [ISBN 978-0-15-101276-3]. $24. F The action in this debut novel centers on British fisheries scientist Dr. Alfred Jones, who has been enlisted by...

Turner, Nikki. Forever a Hustler's Wife.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Turner, Nikki. Forever a Hustler's Wife. One World: Ballantine. Apr. 2007. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-345-49385-9. pap. $13.95. F Lava, a secondary character in this sequel to A Hustler's Wife, epitomizes this novel's theme. Slipping her lover a...

Vachon, Dana. Mergers and Acquisitions.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Vachon, Dana. Mergers and Acquisitions. Riverhead: Putnam. Apr. 2007. c.256p. ISBN 1-59448-934-3 [ISBN 978-1-59448-934-1]. $23.95. F Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown graduate with family connections, lands a job with the prestigious New...

Wilder, Gene. My French Whore.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Wilder, Gene. My French Whore. St. Martin's. Mar. 2007. c.192p. ISBN 0-312-36057-6 [ISBN 978-0-312-36057-3]. $21.95. F In 1918, near the end of the Great War, Pvt. Paul Peachy, son of German immigrants, escapes a bad marriage by joining...

Sonenberg, Maya. Voices from the Blue Hotel.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Sonenberg, Maya. Voices from the Blue Hotel. Chiasmus. 2007. c.136p. ISBN 0-9785499-4-5 [ISBN 978-0-9785499-4-7]. pap. $14.95. F After a long hiatus, the winner of the 1989 Drue Heinz Literature Prize returns with a second story...

Bruce, Gordon. Eliot Noyes: A Pioneer of Design and Architecture in the Age of American Modernism.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bruce, Gordon. Eliot Noyes: A Pioneer of Design and Architecture in the Age of American Modernism. Phaidon. 2007. c.240p. ISBN 0-7148-4350-4 [ISBN 978-0-7148-4350-6]. $75. ARCHITECTURE This is the first scholarly monograph on the life and...

Ebony, David. Emily Mason: The Fifth Element.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Ebony, David. Emily Mason: The Fifth Element. George Braziller. 2007. 144p. illus. ISBN 0-8076-1570-6 [ISBN 978-0-8076-1570-6]. $39.95. FINE ARTS This book showcases the art and career of Emily Mason (art, Hunter Coll.), an abstract...

Emin, Tracey. Tracey Emin: Works 1963-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Emin, Tracey. Tracey Emin: Works 1963-2006. Rizzoli, dist. by Random. 2006. 416p. illus, bibliog. ISBN 0-8478-2877-8 [ISBN 978-0-8478-2877-7]. pap. $75. PHOTOG Generously illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions, this...

Follmi, Olivier. Africa.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Follmi, Olivier. Africa. Abrams. 2007. c.216p. photogs. ISBN 0-8109-4832-X [ISBN 978-0-8109-4832-7]. $55. PHOTOG The daily images of an Africa beset by war and destruction and by sorrow and suffering are hard to forget. Follmi's (Indian...

Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings and Photographs.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings and Photographs. Schirmer/Mosel, dist. by Prestel. 2007. 80p. ed. by Lothar Schirmer. photogs. ISBN 3-8296-0103-4 [ISBN 978-3-8296-0103-0]. $29.95. FINE ARTS This book combines color reproductions...

I Like America: Fictions of the Wild West.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... I Like America: Fictions of the Wild West. Prestel. 2007. 400p. ed. by Pamela Kort & Max Hollein. illus. index. ISBN 3-7913-3735-1 [ISBN 978-3-7913-3735-7]. $75. FINE ARTS This companion volume to an eponymous exhibition explores the...

Jones, Will. New Transport Architecture: Travel Hubs in the 21st Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Jones, Will. New Transport Architecture: Travel Hubs in the 21st Century. Mitchell Beazley, dist. by Sterling. 2007. 272p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-84533-218-0 [ISBN 978-1-84533-218-1]. $50. ARCHITECTURE The last couple of decades...

Khalili, Nasser D. Islamic Art and Culture: A Visual History.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Khalili, Nasser D. Islamic Art and Culture: A Visual History. Overlook, dist. by Penguin Group (USA). 2006. 192p. illus. index. ISBN 1-58567-839-2 [ISBN 978-1-58567-839-6]. $60. FINE ARTS Khalili's (Islamic art, Sch. of Oriental & African...

Loyrette, Henri &, Marie-Laure Bernadac. Candida Hofer: The Louvre.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Loyrette, Henri & Marie-Laure Bernadac. Candida Hofer: The Louvre. Schirmer/Mosel, dist. by Prestel. 2007. 48p. photogs. ISBN 3-8296-0250-2 [ISBN 978-3-8296-0250-1]. $39.95. ARCHITECTURE This book's text, presented in French, German, and...

Lurie, Samuel J. & Beatrice L. Chang. Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: Fired with Passion.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Lurie, Samuel J. & Beatrice L. Chang. Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: Fired with Passion. Eagle Art, dist. by ACC. 2006. 245p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 1-891640-38-0 [ISBN 978-1-891640-38-4]. $60. DEC ARTS Lurie, a wealthy New York lawyer,...

Rathgeb, Markus. Otl Aicher.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rathgeb, Markus. Otl Aicher. Phaidon. Mar. 2007. 240p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7148-4396-2 [ISBN 978-0-7148-4396-4]. $75. GRAPHIC ARTS More than simply a design text with a review of the life and work of German graphic designer Otl...

Renard, David. Last Magazine.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Renard, David. Last Magazine. Universe: Rizzoli. 2007. 288p. illus. index. ISBN 0-7893-1497-5 [ISBN 978-0-7893-1497-0]. pap. $45. GRAPHIC ARTS "Within 25 years, only 10 percent of the paper-based magazine industry will remain"--this is...

Schama, Simon. The Power of Art.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Schama, Simon. The Power of Art. Ecco: HarperCollins. 2006. 448p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-06-117610-9 [ISBN 978-0-06-117610-4]. $50. FINE ARTS Few writers have as good a command of language and culture as does Schama (art history &...

Stepan, Peter. Picasso's Collection of African & Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphosis.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Stepan, Peter. Picasso's Collection of African & Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphosis. Prestel. 2007. 136p. photogs. index. ISBN 3-7913-3691-6 [ISBN 978-3-7913-3691-6]. $85. FINE ARTS Art historian Stepan (Spirits Speak: A Celebration of...

The Turkic Speaking Peoples: 1,500 Years of Art and Culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Turkic Speaking Peoples: 1,500 Years of Art and Culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans. Prestel. 2006. 495p. ed. by Ergun Cagatay & Dogan Kuban. photogs. ISBN 3-7913-3515-4. $90. FINE ARTS The Turkic languages, arts, and material...

Vienna 1900: Art, Life, & Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Vienna 1900: Art, Life, & Culture. Vendome, dist. by Abrams. 2006. 400p. ed. by Christian Brandstatten illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-86565-175-2 [ISBN 978-0-86565-175-3]. $45. FINE ARTS Originally published in German as Wien 1900: Kunst...

Arendt, Hannah. Reflections on Literature and Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Arendt, Hannah. Reflections on Literature and Culture. Stanford Univ. 2006. c.354p. ed. by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb. index. LIT Arendt (1906-75; The Origins of Totalitarianism) was one of the most important American political thinkers...

Lerer, Seth. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Lerer, Seth. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. Columbia Univ. Apr. 2007. c.256p. ISBN 0-231-13794-X [ISBN 978-0-231-13794-2]. $24.95. LANG In 19 essays, Lerer (humanities, Stanford Univ.)--known for his "History of...

Mallarme, Stephane. Divagations.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Mallarme, Stephane. Divagations. Belknap: Harvard Univ. Mar. 2007. c.246p. tr. from French by Barbara Johnson. bibliog. ISBN 0-674-02438-9 [ISBN 978-0-674-02438-0]. $29.95. LIT Translator Johnson (English & comparative literature, Harvard...

Nuttall, A.D. Shakespeare the Thinker.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Nuttall, A.D. Shakespeare the Thinker. Yale Univ. Apr. 2007. c.416p. index. ISBN 0-300-11928-3 [ISBN 978-0-300-11928-2]. $30. LIT Nuttall (English, Oxford Univ.; A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination) focuses on the...

What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest. Univ. of Texas. 2007. c.336p. ed. by Susan Wittig Albert & others. ISBN 0-292-71630-3 [ISBN 978-0-292-71630-8]. pap. $19.95. LIT From western Oklahoma and Texas through the deserts...

Winokur, Jon. The Big Book of Irony.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Winokur, Jon. The Big Book of Irony. St. Martin's. 2007. c.192p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-312-35483-5 [ISBN 978-0-312-35483-1]. $16.95. HUMOR This gleefully witty treatise--a playful exploration of irony by someone who has mastered it...

Wolf, Christa. One Day a Year, 1960-2000.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Wolf, Christa. One Day a Year, 1960-2000. Europa, dist. by Consortium. Mar. 2007. c.640p. tr. from German by Lowell A. Bangerter. bibliog. ISBN 1-933372-22-2 [ISBN 978-1-933372-22-8]. pap. $16.95. LIT September 27 is in some ways a...

Bach, Steven. Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bach, Steven. Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl. Knopf. Mar. 2007. c.368p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-375-40400-7 [ISBN 978-0-375-40400-9]. $30. FILM German director Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) had 101 years to construct...

Brown, Carolyn. Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Brown, Carolyn. Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham. Knopf. Mar. 2007. c.656p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-394-40191-3 [ISBN 978-0-394-40191-1]. $35. DANCE Currently the artistic consultant to the Merce...

Kruth, John. To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kruth, John. To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt. Da Capo. Mar. 2007. c.320p. photogs. discog. bibliog. ISBN 0-306-81553-2 [ISBN 978-0-306-81553-9]. $26. MUSIC Musician and author Kruth (Bright Moments: The...

Leigh, Wendy. True Grace: The Life and Death of an American Princess.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Leigh, Wendy. True Grace: The Life and Death of an American Princess. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Apr. 2007. c.336p. photogs. ISBN 0-312-34236-5 [ISBN 978-0-312-34236-4]. $25.95. FILM The Grace Kelly story has been told so many times,...

McGowan, Todd. The Impossible David Lynch.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... McGowan, Todd. The Impossible David Lynch. Columbia Univ. (Film and Culture). Mar. 2007. c.288p. index. ISBN 0-231-13954-3 [ISBN 978-0-231-13954-0]. $69.50; pap. ISBN 0-231-13955-1 [ISBN 978-0-231-13955-7]. $24.50. FILM Filmmaker David...

Marchese, John. The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Marchese, John. The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop. HarperCollins. Apr. 2007. c.240p. ISBN 0-06-001267-6 [ISBN 978-0-06-001267-0]. $24.95. MUSIC Freelance trumpeter Marchese (Renovations: A Father...

Mordden, Ethan. All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Mordden, Ethan. All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959. St. Martin's. Apr. 2007. c.352p. photogs, index. ISBN 0-312-33898-8 [ISBN 978-0-312-33898-5]. $29.95. THEATER Like Mordden's other works on the theater...

Parish, James Robert. It's Good To Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Parish, James Robert. It's Good To Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks. Wiley. Mar. 2007. c.336p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-471-75267-3. $25.95. FILM Parish, the ubiquitous author of many a film--genre work (e.g.,...

The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese. Univ. Pr. of Kentucky. (Philosophy of Popular Culture). May 2007. c.288p. ed. by Mark T. Conard. index. ISBN 978-0-8131-2444-5. $35. FILM The greatest filmmakers do not simply tell stories, they create a...

True, Everett. Nirvana: The Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... True, Everett. Nirvana: The Biography. Da Capo. Apr. 2007. c.688p. photogs. discog. index. ISBN 0-306-81554-0 [ISBN 978-0-306-81554-6]. pap. $19.95. MUSIC British rock journalist True (Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones) was...

Kraut, Richard. What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kraut, Richard. What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being. Harvard Univ. Apr. 2007. c.312p. index. ISBN 0-674-02441-9 [ISBN 978-0-674-02441-0]. $35. PHIL Continuing in the tradition of Socrates and Plato, Kraut (philosophy,...

Unger, Robert Mangabeira. The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Unger, Robert Mangabeira. The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound. Harvard Univ. 2007. c.288p. index. ISBN 0-674-02354-4 [ISBN 978-0-674-02354-3]. $29.95. PHIL In this difficult work, Unger (law, Harvard Univ.) develops "a conception of...

Equi, Elaine. Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Equi, Elaine. Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems. Coffee House, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2007. c.270p. ISBN 1-56689-197-3 [ISBN 978-1-56689-197-4]. pap. $18. POETRY This omnibus includes poems from Equi's earlier collections (e.g.,...

Sheck, Laurie. Captivity.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Sheck, Laurie. Captivity. Knopf. 2007. c.96p. ISBN 0-307-26539-0 [ISBN 978-0-307-26539-5]. $25. POETRY This petite volume of 71 poems physically resembles a psalm book or a journal. And yet, because the poet is Scheck (Black Series, among...

Karabell, Zachary. Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Karabell, Zachary. Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence. Knopf. Mar. 2007. c.352p. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-4000-4368-9 [ISBN 978-1-4000-4368-2]. $26.95. REL If this reviewer were God, Allah, or...

Kripal, Jeffrey J. Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kripal, Jeffrey J. Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. Univ. of Chicago. Apr. 2007. c.512p. illus. index. ISBN 0-226-45369-3 [ISBN 978-0-226-45369-9]. $30. REL California's Esalen Institute is a center for alternative and...

Kripal, Jeffrey J. The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kripal, Jeffrey J. The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion. Univ. of Chicago. 2006. 232p. index. ISBN 0-226-45380-4. $60; pap. ISBN 0-226-45381-2. $24. REL Faith- and reason-based knowledge dominate American...

Kung, Hans. Islam: Past, Present and Future.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kung, Hans. Islam: Past, Present & Future. Oneworld, dist. by National Bk. Network. May 2007. c.1024p. maps. index. ISBN 1-85168-471-9 [ISBN 978-1-85168-377-2]. $39.95. REL Well-regarded theologian Kung (president, Fdn. for a Global...

Pearce, Joseph Chilton. The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Pearce, Joseph Chilton. The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart. Inner Traditions. Apr. 2007. c.304p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-59477-171-5 [ISBN 978-1-59477-171-2]. $22.95. REL ...

Schafer, Peter. Jesus in the Talmud.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Schafer, Peter. Jesus in the Talmud. Princeton. Mar. 2007. c.232p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-691-12926-6 [ISBN 978-0-691-12926-6]. $24.95. REL In his latest book, Schafer (Judaic studies, Princeton; Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of...

Segal, Jerome M. Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle between God and Mankind in the Bible Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Segal, Jerome M. Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Story. Riverhead: Putnam. Mar. 2007. c.320p. index. ISBN 1-59448-939-4 [ISBN 978-1-59448-939-6]. $24.95. REL Scholar Segal (Inst. for...

Simmans, Graham. Jesus after the Crucifixion: From Jerusalem to Rennes-le-Chateau.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Simmans, Graham. Jesus After the Crucifixion: From Jerusalem to Rennes-le-Chateau. Bear & Co. Mar. 2007. c.320p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-59143-071-2 [ISBN 978-1-59143-071-1]. pap. $18. REL Is it possible that Jesus did not die on...

Wilkinson, Tracy. The Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Wilkinson, Tracy. The Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century. Warner. 2007. c.256p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0--446-57885-1. $24.99. REL Los Angeles Times journalist Wilkinson documents the revival of the rite of...

Smith, Tommie with David Steele. Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Smith, Tommie with David Steele. Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith. Temple Univ. (Sporting). 2007. c.284p. illus. ISBN 1-59213-639-7 [ISBN 978-1-59213-639-1]. $27.50. SPORTS Although this book, written with the help of...

Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Sarah Crichton: Farrar. Mar. 2007. c.240p. ISBN 0-374-95191-8 [ISBN 978-0-374-95191-7]. $22. AUTOBIOG Rarely does one encounter anything but outrage, sadness, and pain when...

Bell, Madison Smartt. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bell, Madison Smartt. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography. Pantheon. 2007. 352p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-375-42337-6. $27. BIOG Toussaint Louverture is a historical figure more enigmatic and elusive than most. Born a slave in...

Brogan, Hugh. Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Brogan, Hugh. Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life. Yale Univ. Mar. 2007. c.720p. index. ISBN 0-300-10803-6 [ISBN 978-0-300-10803-3]. $35. BIOG Since its first publication in 1835, Tocqueville's Democracy in America has remained at the center...

Hart, Marjorie. Summer at Tiffany.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Hart, Marjorie. Summer at Tiffany. Morrow. Apr. 2007. c.272p. illus. ISBN 0-06-118952-9 [ISBN 978-0-06-118952-4]. pap. $14.95. AUTOBIOG Ah, old New York: city of Snow balls at the Stork Club, egg salad at the Automat, and breakfast at...

Rich, Doris L. Jackie Cochran: Pilot in the Fastest Lane.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rich, Doris L. Jackie Cochran: Pilot in the Fastest Lane. Univ. Pr. of Florida. Apr. 2007. c.288p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8130-3043-9 [ISBN 978-0-8130-3043-2]. $24.95. BIOG At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline...

Fuller, Bruce. Standardized Childhood: The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Fuller, Bruce. Standardized Childhood: The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education. Stanford Univ. Apr. 2007. index. ISBN 0-8047-5579-5 [ISBN 978-0-8047-5579-5]. $29.95. ED Should all preschool classrooms in the United States...

Asim, Jabari. The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Asim, Jabari. The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why. Houghton. Apr. 2007. c.288p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-618-19717-6 [ISBN 978-0-618-19717-0]. $26. HIST Asim's subtitle is misleading. This book is not so much a polemic about...

Butler, Daniel Allen. The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Butler, Daniel Allen. The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam. Casemate. Mar. 2007. c.304p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-932033-54-8 [ISBN 978-1-932033-54-0]. $32.95. HIST For those looking to find...

Craughwell, Thomas J. Stealing Lincoln's Body.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Craughwell, Thomas J. Stealing Lincoln's Body. Harvard Univ. Apr. 2007. c.234p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-674-02458-3 [ISBN 978-0-674-02458-8]. $24.95. HIST Craughwell (Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con...

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March 1, 2007... In these pages, you'll discover Mike Dash's Satan's Circus, the story of New York cop Charles Becker's 1915 execution for murder. For a more modern tale, see our web-only review of Guy Lawson & William Oldham's The Brotherhoods: The True...

Dash, Mike. Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Dash, Mike. Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century. Crown. Jun. 2007. c.448p. bibliog, index. ISBN 1-4000-5471-0 [ISBN 978-1-4000-5471-8]. $24.95. HIST Journalist and historian Dash...

Davis, Mike. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Davis, Mike. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb. Verso, dist. by Norton. Mar. 2007. c.228p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-184467-132-8. $19.95. HIST On September 16, 1920, an Italian anarchist named Mario Buda parked a horse-drawn...

Engerman, Stanley L. Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Engerman, Stanley L. Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. Louisiana State Univ. Apr. 2007. c.128p. bibliog. ISBN 0-8071-3236-5 [ISBN 978-08071-3236-4]. $25. HIST Engerman (economics & history, Univ. of Rochester;...

Halm, Heinz. The Arabs: A Short History.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Halm, Heinz. The Arabs: A Short History. Markus Wiener. Apr. 2007. c.190p. tr. from German by Allison Brown & Thomas Lampert. photogs. maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 1-55876-416-X [ISBN 978-1-55876-416-3]. $89.95. HIST While short in length,...

Krist, Gary. The White Cascade: The True Story of America's Deadliest Avalanche.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Krist, Gary. The White Cascade: The True Story of America's Deadliest Avalanche. Holt. 2007. c.336p. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-8050-7705-7 [ISBN 97B-0-8050-7705-6]. $26. HIST In 1910, two Great Northern Railway trains became trapped by snow...

Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War. Knopf. 2007. c.304p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 0-307-26520-X [ISBN 978-0-307-26520-3]. $25. HIST The expansion of slavery into California was of paramount...

Rushby, Kevin. Paradise: A History of the Idea That Rules the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rushby, Kevin. Paradise: A History of the Idea That Rules the World. Carroll & Graf. 2007. c.272p. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-78671910-9 [ISBN 978-0-7867-1910-5]. pap. $15.95. HIST Throughout time, humanity has sought perfection, and horror...

Streatfeild, Dominic. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Streatfeild, Dominic. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Mar. 2007. c.416p. index. ISBN 0-312:32572-X [ISBN 978-0-312-32572-5]. $26.95. HIST Streatfeild (Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography), a...

The World War I Reader: Primary and Secondary Sources.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The World War I Reader: Primary and Secondary Sources. New York Univ. 2006. ed. by Michael S. Neiberg. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8147-5832-0 [ISBN 978-08147-5832-8]. $75; pap. ISBN 0-8147-58339 [ISBN 978-0-8147-5833-5]. $25. HIST ...

Alderman, BJ. The Secret Life of the Lawman's Wife.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Alderman, BJ. The Secret Life of the Lawman's Wife. Praeger. 2007. c.400p. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-275-99305-1 [ISBN 978-0-275-99305-4]. $49.95. LAW Until the 1960s, the typical American jail was a small unit operated by the local sheriff...

Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. PublicAffairs: Perseus. 2007. c.768p. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-58648-350-1 [ISBN 978-158648-350-0]. $35. POL SCI "Freewheeling"...

Tanner, Michael D. Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Tanner, Michael D. Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution. Cato, dist. by National Bk. Network. 2007. ISBN 1-933995-00-9 [ISBN 978-1-933995-00-7]. $22.95. POL SCI Since President...

Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption. Other. May 2007. c.496p. ISBN 1-59051-129-8 [ISBN 978-1-59051-129-9]. $25.95. PSYCH A controversial therapy for autism, facilitated communication (FC) first...

Smith, Daniel B. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Smith, Daniel B. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination. Penguin. Mar. 2007. c.254p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-59420-110-3. $24.95. PSYCH Inspired by a desire to understand the...

Tolin, David F. & others. Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Tolin, David F. & others. Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding. Oxford Univ. Mar. 2007. c.176p. ISBN 0-19-530058-0 [ISBN 978-0-19530058-1]. pap. $16.95. PSYCH In this clear recovery manual, Tolin...

Bravo, Ellen. Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bravo, Ellen. Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation. Feminist Pr, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2007. c.296p. ISBN 1-55861-545-8 [ISBN 978-1-55861-545-8]. pap. $15.95. SOC SCI True equality...

Chapman, Matthew. 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Chapman, Matthew. 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin[R], and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania. Collins: HarperCollins. Apr. 2007. c.288p. ISBN 0-06-117945-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-117945-7]. $25.95. SOC SCI ...

McLaren, Angus. Impotence: A Cultural History.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... McLaren, Angus. Impotence: A Cultural History. Univ. of Chicago. Apr. 2007. c.344p. illus. index. ISBN 0-226-50076-4 [ISBN 978-0-226-50076-8]. $30. SOC SCI McLaren (history, Univ. of Victoria, B.C; The Trials of Masculinity: Studies in...

Markovits, Andrei S. Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Markovits, Andrei S. Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America. Princeton Univ. 2007. c.296p. index. ISBN 0-691-12287-3 [ISBN 978-0-691-12287-8]. $24.95. SOC SCI British novelist Margaret Drabble once wrote: "My anti-Americanism has...

Vollmann, William T. Poor People.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Vollmann, William T. Poor People. Ecco: HarperCollins. Mar. 2007. c.464p. photogs. ISBN 0-06-087882-7 [ISBN 978-0-06-087882-5]. $29.95. SOC SCI Paradoxically, perhaps, this book is highly recommended for all libraries. It is not...