Library Journal articles from October 1997

Library Journal archives from October 1997

The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... DK. 1997. 1092p ed. by Christopher Brickell & Judith D. Zuk. photogs. index. LC 97-10941. ISBN 0-7894-1943-2. $79.95. REF Under the imprimatur of the American Horticultural Society and the Royal Horticultural Society, this substantial...

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Routledge. 1997. 675p. ed. by Noel Sheehy & others. index. LC 96-343333. ISBN 0-415-09997-8. $150. REF By surveying histories, psychology encyclopedias, introductory textbooks, and the awards lists of psychological associations, the...

What Historical Novel Do I Read Next?, 2 vols.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Burt, Daniel S. Gale. 1997. c.1986p. permanent paper. index. LC 97-10702. ISBN 0-7876-0388-0. $128. REF The standard guides to historical fiction of all times and places are very out-of-date. Ernest Baker's Guide to Historical Fiction was...

Guide to American Cinema: 1965-1995.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Curan, Daniel. Greenwood. (Reference Guides to the World's Cinema). Oct. 1997. c.479p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. LC 9653269. ISBN 0-313-29666-9. $79.50. REF Though he claims to be subjective, Curran, a screenwriter and teacher,...

Family Encyclopedia.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Oxford Univ. Nov. 1997. 750p. ed. by Steve Luck. illus. maps. LC 97-3153. ISBN 0-19-521367-X. $45. REF Clearly written, impressively compact, and attractively put together, this new encyclopedia digests the world's knowledge in 13,000 brief,...

Medical Tests You Can Do Yourself: Safe, Simple Procedures for Diagnosing Illnesses, Injuries, and Other Medical Conditions at Home.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Haessler, Herbert, M.D. NTC Pub. Oct. 1997. c.240p. index. LC 97-14640. ISBN 0-8092-3038-0. pap. $14.95. In today's managed-care environment, where patient-education issues are emphasized by accrediting agencies, the fourth edition of The...

The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests: Everything You Need to Know About the Tests Your Doctor Prescribes.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Stauffer, Joseph & Joseph C. Segen, M.D. Facts on File. 1997. c.432p. index. ISBN 0-8160-3471-0. $29.95; pap. ISBN 08160-3530-X. $17.95. REF In today's managed-care environment, where patient-education issues are emphasized by accrediting...

Witches: An Encyclopedia of Paganism and Magic.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Jordan, Michael. Kyle Cathie, dist. by Trafalgar Square. Nov. 1997. 192p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 1-85626-193-X. $29.95. REF Jordan (Encyclopedia of Gods, LJ 7193) gives brief definitions of the terms, events, people, and holidays of the pagan...

Washington '97: A Comprehensive Directory of the Key Institutions and Leaders of the National Capital Area, 14th ed.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... 14th ed. Columbia. 1997. 1250p. ed. by R. Willson Hardy & others. index. ISBN 1-880873-25-7. pap. $85. REF Not another government directory, this book focuses on 4400 institutions, companies, and organizations that its editorial staff...

The Women's Sports Encyclopedia.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Holt. Dec. 1997. c.304p. permanent paper. ed. by Robert Markel & others. illus. index. LC 97-8850. ISBN 0-80504494-9. $30. REF Announced as "the first popular comprehensive reference of female athletes, their achievements, and their sports,"...

Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Abbott, James A. & Elaine M. Rice. Van Nostrand Reinhold. Oct. 1997. c.256p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 97-825. ISBN 0-442-02532-7. $50. ARCHITECTURE This illuminating study documents the transformation of the White House from the home of...

Lillian Bassman.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Bassman, Lillian (photogs.) & Martin Harrison (text). Bulfinch: Little, Brown. 1997. 76p. ed. by Catherine Chennayeff & others. photogs. bibliog. LC 96-80020. ISBN 08212-2376-3. $50. Photography is a medium alive with masters who pushed the...

Clifford Coffin: Photographs from Vogue 1945 to 1955.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Muir, Robin (text) & Clifford Coffin (photogs.). Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Nov. 1997. 140p. photogs. LC 97-65595. ISBN 155670-654-5. $60. PHOTOG Photography is a medium alive with masters who pushed the envelope beyond the raw elements of...

Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Benson, Elizabeth P. Univ. Pr. of Florida. 1997. c.184p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog. index. LC 97-2976. ISBN 0-8130-1518-9. $39.95. FINE ARTS A research associate at the Institute of Andean Studies, Bethesda, Maryland, Benson addresses...

Gods, Men, and Heroes: Ancient Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Bromberg, Anne R. & Karl Kilinski. Univ. of Washington. pub. in assoc. with Dallas Museum of Art. 1997. 144p. photogs. index. LC 96-22975. ISBN 0936227-18-4. pap. $24.95. The Dallas Museum has been very busy fulfilling its mandate to educate...

Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Deppert-Lippitz, Barbara. Univ. of Washington. pub. in assoc. with Dallas Museum of Art. 1997. 150p. photogs. bibliog. LC 96-22974. ISBN 0936227-19-2. pap. $24.95. The Dallas Museum has been very busy fulfilling its mandate to educate the...

Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Cornell Univ. pub. in assoc. with Dallas Museum of Art. Oct. 1997. c.300p. illus. maps. bibliog. ISBN 0-8014-34823. $60. FINE ARTS The Dallas Museum has been very busy fulfilling its mandate to educate the public producing two books about its...

Art and Life in Bangladesh.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Glassie, Henry. Indiana Univ. Nov. 1997. c.520p. permanent paper. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 96-6518. ISBN 0-253-33291-5. $49.95. FINE ARTS The premier English-language academic folklorist of our time, Glassie (Indiana Univ.) is a world...

Braque: The Late Works.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Golding, John & others. Yale Univ. 1997. 134p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 96-51627. ISBN 0-300 07159-0. $40. FINE ARTS The Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Menil Collection, Houston, collaborated on this exhibition catalog of later...

Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Hoving, Thomas. Artisan: Workman. Oct. 1997. c.272p. illus. ISBN 1-885183-53-4. $50. FINE ARTS This volume delivers exactly what one would expect from the author and title. Hoving, the well-publicized former director of the Metropolitan...

Lost Treasures of Persia: Persian Art in the Hermitage Museum.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Loukonine, Vladimir & Anatoli Ivanov. Mage Pubs. Nov. 1997. 279p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 0-934211-49-3. $59.95. FINE ARTS Persia's history is a complex and fascinating tale. Loukonine, former director of the Oriental Art Department of the...

The Ukrainian Icon, 11th-18th Centuries: From Byzantine Sources to the Baroque.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Miliayeva, Liudmila. Parkstone/Aurora, dist. by Liber T. 1997. 239p. photogs. ISBN 1-85995241-0. $55. FINE ARTS Despite destruction at the hands of religious, social, and political forces, Ukraine retains a rich heritage of religious icons....

A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Pal, Pratapaditya. A Collecting Odyssey: Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton in assoc. with Art Inst. of Chicago. Nov. 1997. 360p. photogs. index. LC 97 60325. ISBN 0-500-97454-3. $70. FINE ARTS The ethics of wrenching sculptures from religious...

Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Parks of Windsor.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Roberts, Jane Yale Univ. 1997. 596p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 97-15718. ISBN 0-30007079-9. $125. DEC ARTS Drawing on over 20 years' residence at Windsor Castle, Roberts, curator of the Print Room in the Royal Library, has written an eloquent...

Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Simpson, Marc & others. Yale Univ. 1997. I91p.permanent paper. illus. index. LC 97-5781. ISBN 0-300-07177-9. $40. FINE ARTS Sargent's star is in the ascendancy this year, with a new catalog of the complete paintings soon expected from Yale....

Peter Paul Rubens: The Pride of Life.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Varshavskaya, Maria & Xenia Yegorova. 176p. bibliog. ISBN 1-85995-166-X. $40. Two titles from an extensive series on paintings by European and Russian masters in Russian collections, these volumes display strengths and weaknesses. On the...

Nicolas Poussin: The Master of Colours.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Zolotov, Yuri & Natalia Serebriannaia, 190p. ISBN 1-85995-069-8. ea. vol: Parkstone/Aurora, dist. by Liber T. 1997. illus. $40. FINE ARTS Two titles from an extensive series on paintings by European and Russian masters in Russian collections,...

The Elgin Affair: The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions It Aroused.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Vrettos, Theodore. Arcade, dist. by Little, Brown. Nov. 1997. c.256p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 97-12442. ISBN 1-55970-386-5. $25.95. FINE ARTS Few arts controversies have inflamed passions as long as have Lord Elgin's removal of the...

Miniature Baltimore Album Quilts.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Buechel, Jenifer. That Patchwork Place. 1997. c.96p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 96-30983. ISBN 1-56477-176-8. pap. $17.95. CRAFTS Baltimore album quilts are a particular style of ornately appliqued quilt first made in the Baltimore area in the...

Dried Flower Style.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Cameron Shaw. Trafalgar Square. Oct. 1997. c.120p. illus. LC 97-60114. ISBN 1-57076-0950. $24.95. Cameron Shaw is a professional dried-flower design business founded by British entrepreneur Russell Longmuir. The projects in this book are...

Harvesting, Preserving and Arranging Dried Flowers.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Miller, Cathy (text) & Rob Gray (photogs.). Artisan: Workman. Oct. 1997. c.208p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 97-15287. ISBN 1-885183-51-8. $30. CRAFTS Cameron Shaw is a professional dried-flower design business founded by British...

Creating Extraordinary Beads from Ordinary Materials.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Casey, Tina. North Light. 1997. c.128p. illus. index. LC 97-3649. ISBN 0-89134-763-1. pap. $22.99. Beads have become so popular that entire shops are now devoted to selling beads and bead accessories. However, it is possible to make colorful...

Making Glass Beads.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Jenkins, Cindy. Lark: Sterling. 1997. c.112p. illus. index. LC 96-49598. ISBN 1-887374-16-7. $24.95. CRAFTS Beads have become so popular that entire shops are now devoted to selling beads and bead accessories. However, it is possible to make...

The Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques and Know-How.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Cavitch, Susan Miller. Storey Communications. 1997. c.288p. illus. index. ISBN 0-88266-956-6. pap. $18.95. CRAFTS This book was written as a sequel to the author's The Natural Soap Book (Storey Communications, 1995), but it includes enough...

The Complete Candlemaker: Techniques, Projects, Inspirations.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Coney, Norma. Lark: Sterling. 1997. c.128p. illus. index. LC 97-3615. ISBN 1-887374-42-6. $24.95; pap. ISBN 1-887374-50-7. $16.95. Both these books cover essentially the same ground and are good basic guides for making candles. They deal with...

The Candlemaker's Companion: A Complete Guide to Rolling, Pouring, Dipping, and Decorating Your Own Candles.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Oppenheimer, Betty. Storey Communications. Oct. 1997. c.176p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-88266-994-X. pap. $16.95. CRAFTS Both these books cover essentially the same ground and are good basic guides for making candles. They deal with...

Creative Glass Techniques: Fusing, Painting, Lampwork.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Eberle, Bettina. Lark: Sterling. 1997. c.152p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 96-53011. ISBN 1887374-30-2. pap. $24.95. CRAFTS Here is a manual for three specialized techniques in working with glass. Fusing, the joining and shaping of two glass...

Heirlooms in Needlepoint: 50 Classic Original Designs.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Hawkins, Sue. New Holland, dist. by Sterling. 1997. c.128p. illus. index. ISBN 1-85368-618-2. pap. $17.95. CRAFTS Hawkins drew on her experience with a dealer in 17th-century embroidery in making her own adaptations of designs from antique...

500 Cross Stitch Charted Designs.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Hasler, Julie with Valerie Janitch. David & Charles, dist. by Sterling. 1997. c.160p. illus. index. ISBN 0-7153-06197. pap. $17.95. CRAFTS Hasler is noted for her collections of counted thread designs (e.g., 500 Flower and Animal Cross...

How to Make Enchanting Miniature Teddy Bears.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Kesling, Debbie. North Light. 1997. c.128p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 97-1599. ISBN 0-89134-738-0. pap. $22.99. CRAFTS Miniature teddy bears standing only three inches high are a recent entry in the world of collectible stuffed toys. They are...

Handcoloring Photographs Step by Step.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Laird, Sandra & Carey Chambers. Amherst Media. 1997. c.108p. illus. index. LC 96-079314. ISBN 0-936262-54-0. pap. $29.95. CRAFTS The hand coloring of black-and-white photographs began almost as soon as the photograph was invented and has...

Jewelry: Fundamentals of Metalsmithing.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... McCreight, Tim. Hand Bks: North Light. Oct. 1997. c.144p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-880140-29-2. $29.99. CRAFTS A professional metalsmith and teacher well known as the author of a standard text, The Complete Metalsmith (Davis, 1991. rev....

Handbuilt Ceramics.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Triplett, Kathy. Lark: Sterling. 1997. c.160p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 96-40099. ISBN 1-887374-29-9. $24.95. CRAFTS For those who equate pottery with the finely turned symmetrical products of the potter's wheel or the slip mold, the...

Embroidered Flowers.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Watts, Pamela. Batsford, dist. by Trafalgar Square. 1997. c.127p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7134-8161-7. pap. $24.95. CRAFTS Original ideas for embroidery don't come along very often, because many stitchers prefer to work in traditional...

Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Touchstone: S. & S. Oct. 1997. c.576p. ed. by Miguel Algarin & Lois Griffith. ISBN 0-684-82611-9. pap. $14. DRAMA This title collects 19 previously unpublished works from the theater wing of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a premier venue in New...

The Herbert Huncke Reader.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Huncke, Herbert. Morrow. Oct. 1997. c.352p. ed. by Benjamin G. Schafer. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 0-688-15266-X. $24. LIT Petty thief, drug addict, and Times Square hustler, Huncke (Guilty of Everything, LJ 4/1/90) led the writers of the Beat...

James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Lord, Graham. Carroll & Graf. Nov. 1997. c.288p. photogs. index. LC 97-19741. ISBN 0-7867-0460-8. $23. LIT Lord, former literary editor and books columnist of the Sunday Express in the United Kingdom, offers a warm, candid portrait of one of...

Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... McManus, Patrick F. S. & S. Oct. 1997. c.224p. ISBN 0-684-84440-0. $20. HUMOR In this collection of tales, McManus, one of America's most prominent humorists, frequently returns both in place (the backcountry Northwest) and time (his...

Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Marler, Regina. Holt. 1997. c.256p. permanent paper. LC 97-13624 ISBN 0-8050-4416-7.$22.50. LIT Attracted by their pacifism, unconventional behavior, and sexual liberty, the 1960s saw a dramatic rise in interest in the Bloomsbury group, the...

William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Singal, Daniel Joseph. Univ. of North Carolina. (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies). 1997. c.357p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. LC 96-51459. ISBN 0-8078-2355-4. $29.95. LIT Published on the centennial of its subject's birth...

Openly Bob.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Smith, Bob. Rob Weisbach: Morrow. Oct. 1997. ISBN 0-688-15120-5. $22.50. HUMOR The first openly gay comedian to appear on the Tonight Show, star of an HBO special, and member of the popular comedy troupe Funny Gay Males (with whom he...

Survival Stories: Memories of Crisis.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Doubleday. 1997. c.320p. ed. by Kathryn Rhett. LC 96-52427. ISBN 0-385-48449-6. $23.95. Rhett, a poet who has taught writing workshops at Johns Hopkins, the University of Iowa, and the University of San Francisco, opens with a discussion of...

Surviving Crisis: Twenty Prominent Authors Write About Events That Shaped Their Lives.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Tarcher: Putnam. (Creative Nonfiction Reader). 1997. c.256p. permanent paper. ed. by Lee Gutkind. LC 97-12387. ISBN 0-87477-889-1. pap. $15.95. LIT Rhett, a poet who has taught writing workshops at Johns Hopkins, the University of Iowa, and...

Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Tagore, Rabindranath. Griffin: St. Martin's. Nov. 1997. c.432p. ed. by Krishna Dutta & Andrew Robinson. illus. ISBN 0-312-16973-6. $27.95. LIT Though Tagore won the Nobel prize in literature in 1913, he and his work have been largely...

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Baxter, John. Carroll & Graf. Oct. 1997. c.400p. photogs. filmog. bibliog. LC 97-19738. ISBN 0-7867-0485-3. pap. $13.95. FILM This book is timed to appear with the release of Kubrick's new film, Eyes Wide Shut, his first movie since Full...

Bird's Eye View: Dancing with Martha Graham and on Broadway.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Bird, Dorothy & Joyce Greenberg. Univ. of Pittsburgh. 1997. c.257p. permanent paper. photogs. index. ISBN 0-8229-3980-0. $29.95. DANCE The defining moment in Bird's life occurred while the 17-year-old Canadian was attending the Cornish...

The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Edwards, David Honeyboy as told to Janis Martinson & Michael R. Frank. Chicago Review. 1997. c.224p. photogs. bibliog. index. discog. ISBN 1-55652-275-4. $24. MUSIC Honeyboy Edwards is one of the last of the original practitioners of the...

Johann Sebastian Bach.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Headington, Christopher. ISBN 1-86205-026-0. These six books, part of a 12-title series published in Great Britain, all carry a small portrait of the composer on the cover and the tag line "an essential guide to his life and works." They are...

Dmitri Shostakovich.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Jackson, Stephen. ISBN 1-86205-016-3. These six books, part of a 12-title series published in Great Britain, all carry a small portrait of the composer on the cover and the tag line "an essential guide to his life and works." They are all...

Ralph Vaughan Williams.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Jameson, Michael. ISBN 1-86205-021-X. These six books, part of a 12-title series published in Great Britain, all carry a small portrait of the composer on the cover and the tag line "an essential guide to his life and works." They are all...

Ludwig Van Beethoven.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Johnson, Stephen. ISBN 1-86205-001-5. These six books, part of a 12-title series published in Great Britain, all carry a small portrait of the composer on the cover and the tag line "an essential guide to his life and works." They are all...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Nice, David. ISBN 1-86205-043-0. These six books, part of a 12-title series published in Great Britain, all carry a small portrait of the composer on the cover and the tag line "an essential guide to his life and works." They are all the...

Joseph Haydn.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Wenborn, Neil. ISBN 1-86205-011-2. ea. vol: Pavilion, dist. by Trafalgar Square. (Classic FM Lifelines). Oct. 1997. 112p. index. pap. $9.95. MUSIC These six books, part of a 12-title series published in Great Britain, all carry a small...

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: The Ultimate Guide to the Rolling Stones.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Karnbach, James & Carol Bernson. Facts on File. 1997. c.400p. photogs. index. LC 97-1056. ISBN 0-8160-30359. $40; pap. ISBN 0-8160-3547-4. $24.95. MUSIC Archivist Karnbach (The Rolling Stones in Europe, Beaufort, 1983) and photojournalist...

Freak: A Semi-Demi-Quasi-Pseudo Autobiography.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Leguizamo, John with David Bar Katz. Riverhead: Putnam. 1997. c.144p. permanent paper. ISBN 1-57322-092-2. $19.95. THEATER This is the narrative of an upcoming Broadway show by and about popular Latin American actor and comedian Leguizamo,...

Blue: The Murder of Jazz.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Nisenson, Eric. St. Martin's. Nov. 1997. c.272p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-312-16785-7. $22.95. According to some critics, jazz today is in a renaissance. Yet others take the view that jazz is dead, that today's young players are trapped in the...

Blues Up and Down: Jazz in Our Time.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Piazza, Tom. St. Martin's. Nov. 1997. c.208p. ISBN 0-312-16789-X. $21.95. MUSIC According to some critics, jazz today is in a renaissance. Yet others take the view that jazz is dead, that today's young players are trapped in the past. These...

Dreams upon the Stars: A Memoir of a Century.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Pachl, Jarmila. Star Group. 1997. c.284p. photogs. ISBN 1-884886-03-5. $24.95. FILM Written awkwardly in the third person and at times as cloying as a romance novel, this autobiography by Czech actress Pachl transgresses the "show, don't...

Classical Music for Dummies.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Pogue, David & Scott Speck. ISBN 0-7645-5009-8. Though musicians and other music lovers continue to lament the lack of classical music enthusiasts, their concern may have diminished somewhat over the last 25 years. The "Hooked on Classics"...

Opera for Dummies.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Pogue, David & Scott Speck. ISBN 0-7645-5010-1. ea. vol: IDG Bks. Oct. 1997. c.384p. illus. $24.99. MUSIC Though musicians and other music lovers continue to lament the lack of classical music enthusiasts, their concern may have diminished...

The Ultimate Audition Book: 222 Monologues 2 Minutes and Under.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Smith & Kraus. (Monologue Audition). 1997. c.272p. ed. by Jocelyn A. Beard. LC 97-10471. ISBN 1-57525-066-7. $19.95. THEATER This latest entry in the publisher's popular monolog series contains choice selections from mostly major dramatic...

Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Nicholsen, Shierry Weber. MIT. (Studies in Contemporary German). Oct. 1997. c.272p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-262-14062-4. $27.50. PHIL Nicholsen (environment and community, Antioch Univ.) contends that Adorno's work has suffered neglect, as...

Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Phelps, Christopher. Cornell Univ. Dec. 1997. c.280p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-8014-3328-2. $35. PHIL Sidney Hook came to believe that socialism as an economic system had failed in our time because it had neither solved the problem of...

The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Ashbery, John. Ecco, dist. by Norton. 1997. c.400p. LC 96-36982. ISBN 0-88001-527-6. $25. POETRY At a time when so much routine poetry is being churned out by poets intent on self-promotion, it's heartening to realize that a poet as rigorous...

The Profile Makers.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Bierds, Linda. Holt. Nov. 1997. c.80p. LC 97-13623. ISBN 0-8050-5535-5. $23; pap. ISBN 0-8050-5536-3. $12.95. POETRY Bierds's fifth collection (following The Ghost Trio, LJ 9/1/94) will take your breath away. Using interrelated poems to...

The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Clampitt, Amy. Knopf. 1997. c.496p. ISBN 0-375-40008-7. $30. POETRY "I find it tempting to imagine what/...the light was like," muses Clampitt in one of her finest poems, and now that her light has been tragically snuffed, we can at least be...

El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poets.
October 15, 1997... Univ. of Massachusetts. Dec. 1997. c.128p. ed. by Martin Espada. LC 97-22019. ISBN 1-55849-110-4. $30; pap. ISBN 1-55849-111-2. $13.95. POET Espada (English, Univ. of Massachusetts) has compiled a successful assortment of 43 Latino poets...

What the Living Do.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Howe, Marie. Norton. Nov. 1997. c.82p. ISBN 0-393-04560-9. $21. POETRY This compassionate memorial to illness and the loss of Howe's brother, John, and other friends ably depicts the growth and development of personal bonds against which...

Through One Tear.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Nobles, Edward. Persea. 1997. c.96p. ISBN 0-89255-2271. $22. POETRY The haunted narrator of Nobles's first book of poems inhabits a weird, nightmarish universe, "a place/ where no one belongs." Yet this unreal world oddly mirrors the real...

Shroud of the Gnome.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Tate, James. Ecco, dist. by Norton. Nov. 1997. c.96p. LC 97-16224. ISBN 0-88001-561-6. $23. POETRY In this slim volume, following on the heels of his National Book Award-winning Worshipful Company of Fletchers (LJ 9/15/94) and Pulitzer...

Reading the Water.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Webb, Charles Harper. Northeastern Univ. Nov. 1997. c.85p. ISBN 1-55553-325-6. pap. $10.95 POETRY In his introduction to this first volume, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, Edward Hirsch praises Webb's stand-up comic stance, but do...

Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Albert, James A. Open Court. Nov. 1997. c.536p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8126-9369-8. $39.95; pap. ISBN 0-8126-9370-1. $17.95 REL Albert, a trial attorney and Drake University law professor, helped with imprisoned televangelist Jim...

Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... Craig, Mary. Counterpoint, dist. by Publishers Group West. Oct. 1997. c.416p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 1-887178-64-3. $26. REL Books on Tibetan Buddhism are gaining a growing readership. Craig (Mother Theresa, Trafalgar, 1991) takes a different...

Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from St. Peter to John Paul II.(Brief Article)
October 15, 1997... McBrien, Richard P. HarperSanFrancisco: HarperCollins. Nov. 1997. c.448p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-06-065303-5. $2950. REL Reviewing 262 popes, McBrien (theology, Univ. of Notre Dame) expands the sketches in his Encyclopedia of...