Publishers Weekly articles from April 2000, page 9

Publishers Weekly archives from April 2000

Barbara Cooney 1917-2000.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Celebrated author and illustrator Barbara Cooney, creator of more than 100 books for children, died on Friday, March 10 in Portland, Maine., following a long illness. She was 83 years old. Cooney's career began in 1940 with the...

BEA to Highlight Licensing.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... BookExpo America will debut a Licensing Arena at the BEA convention at Chicago's McCormick Place, June 2-5. Intended as a showcase for licensors and licensing agents, the Arena is sponsored by the International Licensing Industry...

American Boy.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Pleasant Co., best known for its American Girl brand, will launch a line of eight Matchbox board books for boys 3-5 in September 2000, a result of synergy with its new parent (and Matchbox owner) Mattel. Each 12-page book retails for $5.95...

S&S Goes Wild.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Simon & Schuster's Simon Spotlight imprint plans to support its May introduction of five licensed titles based on Nickelodeon's animated series The Wild Thornberrys with a raft of promotions. Consumers with proofs of purchase of Campbell's...

Dummies.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... IDG Books has licensed The Learning Company, a division of Mattel, for educational software under its Dummies brand. The first four titles will debut in fourth quarter 2000.

The Berenstain Bears, Thomas and the Magic Railroad.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Briarpatch, known for literature-based board and card games, recently acquired rights for Eloise, The Berenstain Bears, Thomas and the Magic Railroad (the Thomas the Tank Engine movie scheduled for this summer), Cheerios and JumpStart.

Angela Anaconda.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Simon & Schuster is among the initial four licensees for Angela Anaconda, a paper cutout-style Fox Family Channel TV series. It will introduce picture books in early 2001.

Jellabies.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Reader's Digest has signed a worldwide deal for board and activity books tied to Jellabies, a U.K.-origin 3D animated preschool series running on Fox Family.

APA Sets Its Schedule.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... The APA announces its conference schedule and Audiobook Month Poster winner The Audio Publishers Association's annual conference will be June 1 at the Chicago Downtown Marriott Hotel, and the schedule has been announced. The first...

Jimmy B's Celebrates 10 Years.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Jimmy B's Audiobooks, in Redondo Beach, Calif., has become the first audio-only store to celebrate a decade in business. The store opened in 1989 and had its best year ever in 1999, said owner Jimmy Belson, who expects 2000 to top 1999's...

Albert's Audiobooks Closes.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Albert's Audiobooks in Agoura Hills, Calif., has gone out of business. The store, founded by Amy Bell and named for her dog, Albert, had struggled ever since a mall opened a short distance away several years ago. An avid audiobook fan...

AudioFile Offers Review Database.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... AudioFile magazine has launched an electronic database of its reviews at its Web site, www.audiofilemagazine.com. The database, called AudioFile plus, offers unlimited access to the magazine's complete archive of more than 6,000 fulltext...

AFIM's INDIE Nominees.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... The Association for Independent Music has announced the nominees for this year's INDIE awards, presented to independent recording companies. The spoken word nominees are Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Naxos Audiobooks; The Alamo, Toy Box...

Gershel Still in Touch with Audio.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Although Seth Gershel has resigned his position as senior v-p and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio (PW, Feb. 21), he will still be involved with the audiobook industry. "My expectation is to take some time to reflect and then to stay...

THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... BARBARA MICHAELS. UNABRIDGED READING BY NORMA WEST. Audio Partners. Eight cassettes, 11 hrs., 25 mins., $34.95 ISBN 1-57270-131-5 West is the kind of classic, theatrically trained British narrator that makes listening to audiobooks such a...

IN THE FALL.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JEFFREY LEANT. READ BY STEPHEN LANG. Harper. Four cassettes, 6 hrs. $25 ISBN 0- 694-52274-0 Lent begins his keen tale of family and race with Norman Pelham, a Civil War soldier from Vermont who is left wounded on a Virginia battlefield...

HORSE HEAVEN.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JANE SMILEY. READ BY MARY BETH HURT. Random. Four cassettes, 5 hrs., $25.95 ISBN} 0-375-41575-0 Smiley (A Thousand Acres, etc.) explores the world of thorouhbred racing in which the ultrarich hold the purse strings. For them, owning a...

BRIDGET JONES: The Edge of Reason.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... HELEN FIELDING. READ BY TRACEY BENNET. Random. Four cassettes, 5 hrs., $25.95 ISBN 0-375-41604-8 The insecure but lovable 30-something television journalist returns in Fielding's sequel to her blockbuster Bridget Jones's Diary. Still a...

GAP CREEK.(Review)
April 3, 2000... ROBERT MORGAN. UNABRIDGED READING BY JILL HILL. HighBridge. Four cassettes, 5 hrs., $24.95 ISBN 1-56511-386-1 Written in the first person, Morgan's latest novel is well suited to audio; the country dialect of his characters works even...

THE TIPPING POINT: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MALCOLM GLADWELL. READ BY THE AUTHOR. Time Warner. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $17.98 ISBN 1-57042-793-3 New Yorker writer Gladwell's book shows how popular ideas and products behave like viral epidemics, spreading through society in...

EATING WELL FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ANDREW WEIL. UNABRIDGED READING BY THE AUTHOR. Random. Six cassettes, 10 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 0-375-40963-7 Weil (8 Weeks to Optimum Health, etc.) discusses nutritional topics ranging from the benefits of vegetarianism to eating for...

THE PROMISE OF SLEEP.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... WILLIAM C. DEMENT AND CHRISTOPHER VAUGHN, READ BY JEFF MCCARTHY. Simon & Schuster. Four cassettes, 6 hrs., $24 ISBN 0-671-04726-4 Dement, one of the first sleep specialists in the country, argues that sleep problems often mask a variety...

A SEASON ON THE RESERVATION: My Sojourn with the White Mountain Apache.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... KAREEM ABDUL-JABOAR. READ BY CARL LUMBLY; INTRO. READ BY THE AUTHOR. Simon Schuster. Four cassettes, 4 hrs., $25 ISBN 0-671-78849-3 In 1998, retired basketball great Abdul-Jabbar was invited to spend a season coaching the Alchesay...

OUR SOULS HAVE GROWN DEEP LIKE THE RIVERS: Black Poets Read Their Work.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... PRODUCED BY REBEKAH PRESSON MOSBY WITH TED MYERS. Rhino Word Beat. Two CDs $29.98 ISBN 0-7379-0062 -1 It would be enough to hear the voices of Langston Hughes (who provides the title), W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and Countee...

Audio Bestsellers.
April 3, 2000... Audio Bestsellers Fiction Nonfiction 1 The Brethern (abr.). 1 How to Know God (abr.). John Grisham. Read by Michael Beck Deepak Chopra. Read by the...

Microsoft Readies Reader Rollout.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... E-book software for Windows debuts this month on handheld Compaq, HP computers Microsoft Corp. will begin delivering its Reader software for e-books this month, according to an announcement made at the Waterside Conference for computer...

Digital Ingram? In Wake of King, Softlock Emerges.
April 3, 2000... When Simon & Schuster made the announcement several weeks ago that it would release a story via the Web through a variety of partners, one little-known name to surface was Softlock. In the weeks that followed, consumers and the publishing...

M.J. Rose: E-book Queen Inks Print, Digital Deals.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Author and freelance journalist M.J. Rose--who became an e-publishing sensation when she parlayed online buzz about her self-published novel, Lip Service, into a five-figure print deal with Pocket Books--is at it again. In a spate of recent...

Project Gutenberg Sets 10,000 Book Goal.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... It is the granddaddy of all e-text archives; the Alexandria Library of the digital age. This year Project Gutenberg, a nonprofit, free electronic library of public-domain e-texts, will post its 2,500th book on the Internet. Project founder...

What's New & Novel for 2001.(calendars)
April 3, 2000... ABRAMS Wall calendars featuring art from New York City's Museum of Modern Art include Secret Gardens ($13.95); Modern Love, with photographers depicting the ways in which love endures ($12.95); Modern Posters ($13.95). Also available in...

Poetry Without Borders.(poet Anne Carson)(Interview)
April 3, 2000... At poet Anne Carson's house in the Berkeley hills, hard by the university campus, a mint-green fence defends the high, pale greenery of a raw Bay Area spring. The plants hide the glass front door from the street, so Carson can work at her...

LAURA.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... LARRY WATSON. Pocket, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-671-56774-8 Watson at his best (Montana 1948 captures smalltown life with searing acuity and vigorous heart, though other efforts (White Crosses) don't achieve the intensity or dramatic...

GETTING OVER IT.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ANNA MAXTED. HarperCollins/Regan Books, $24 (416p) ISBN 0-06-039320-3 Had Maxted published this sharp, witty tale of a British woman's love life and real life before the Bridget Jones phenomenon, Fielding's novel might have been...

NAME DROPPING.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JANE HELLER. St. Martin's, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-25234-X Heller proves once again that she has breeziness down to an artful science. In her latest romantic suspense novel (after Sis Boom Bah), there's another powerful premise as...

HOME TRUTHS: A Novella.(Review)
April 3, 2000... DAVID LODGE. Penguin, $11.95 paper (121p) ISBN 0-14-029180-6 Bearing traces of its first incarnation as a stage play, this lighthearted and timely farce from veteran British writer Lodge (Therapy) skewers the media's voracious...

FLUDD.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... HILARY MANTEL. Holt/Owl, $13 paper Originally published in 1989 in the U.K., Mantel's slim, intense novel displays the author's formidable gift for illuminating the darker side of the human heart, offering metaphoric and literal...

BECOMING MADAME MAO.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... Anchee Min. Houghton Mifflin, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-618-00407-6 * Historical fiction acquires new luster and credibility in Min's brilliant evocation of the woman who married Mao and fought to succeed him. As she proved in her memoir, Red...

THE ROSE GROWER.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MICHELLE DE KRETSER. Carroll & Graf, $25 (448p) ISBN 0-7867-0733-X In an ambitious first novel, de Kretser records five years of the French Revolution (1789-1794) from the perspective of one family in southern France. Relying on passive...

FEMALE RUINS.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... GEOFF NICHOLSON. Overlook, $24.95 (204p) ISBN 1-58567-036-7 This 12th novel by the popular British author is a meditative tale of a physical and psychological homecoming that builds its quiet and riveting plot through the dreams,...

THE BOOMER.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MARTY ASHER. Knopf $15 paper (160p) ISBN 0-375-41009-0 Tracing the life of his protagonist, identified as "the boomer," from birth to death in childlike, "see Spot run" prose, Vintage Books editor-in-chief Asher delivers a spare...

HEADLOCK.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ADAM BERLIN. Algonquin, $21.95 (276p) ISBN 1-56512-266-6 Twin addictions overlap in Berlin's noir, on-the-road debut novel. Odessa Rose, the narrator, has become something of a serial assaulter, attacking men in bars in New York...

VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... PAULO COELHO, TRANS. BY MARGARET JULL COSTA. HarperCollins, $24 (224p) ISBN 0- 06-019612-2 The bestselling Brazilian author of The Alchemist delicately etches this morose but ultimately uplifting story of the suicidal Veronika, who...

THE EMPTY CHAIR.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JEFFERY DEAVER. Simon & Schuster, $25 (432p) ISBN 0-684-85563-1 Lincoln Rhyme, the gruff quadriplegic detective and forensic expert of Bone Collector fame, strays far from his Manhattan base to a spooky North Carolina backwater in this...

NO GREAT MISCHIEF.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ALISTAIR MACLEOD. Norton, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-393-04970-1 * MacLeod, a Canadian of Scottish lineage, has earned a sterling reputation north of the border based on two collections of stories (Barometer Rising; As Birds Bring Forth the...

NEVER MIND NIRVANA.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MARX LINDQUIST. Villard, $2195 (256p) A former star of Seattle's legendary grunge scene is forced to grapple with his past in this poorly imagined novel about youth passing into angst-ridden middle age by the author of Carnival Desires....

GONE FOR SOLDIERS.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JEFF SHAARA. Ballantine, $26.95 (512p) Shaara's latest historical novel abandons the Civil War era of his two previous works, Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, which completed a trilogy begun by his father with the Pulitzer...

READY TO FALL.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... CLAIRE Cook. Bridge Works, $22.95 "I feel as if the only time anyone even talks to me is to complain or criticize or to place an order for something they need," laments frustrated wife and mother Beth Riordan in this debut novel of...

MYSTIC VISIONS.(Review)
April 3, 2000... ROSEANNE BITTNER. Forge/Doherty, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-86512-0 Picking up where she left readers in Mystic Dreamers, the initial volume in this series, Bittner explores the efforts of holy woman Buffalo Dreamer and her warrior husband,...

STARDOG.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JACK DRISCOLL. DK Ink/Jackson, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-7894-2626-9 Driscoll's ironic but meandering follow-up to his well-received first novel, Lucky Man, Lucky Woman, charts the exploits of Earl Patrick Godfrey, an antihero so...

KRUPP'S LULU.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... GORDON LISH. Four Walls Eight Windows, $22 (208p) ISBN 1-56858-154-8 Lish has gone through many literary incarnations. Fiction editor at Esquire in the '70s, he famously mentored Raymond Carver; then he flourished as a Knopf editor and...

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ALYSON HAGY. Graywolf, $14 paper (202p) The stoic characters in Hagy's third collection of short stories are intimately involved with the sea, hut in their interpersonal relationships they tend to be as distant as ships passing in the...

MEMORIAL DAY: And Other Stories.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... PAUL SCOTT MALONE. TCU, $15.95 paper Malone (In an Arid Land) returns to the genre of short fiction to tell tales about a subtle code of Texas masculinity that sorts men into two categories: the losing kind and the winning kind. In...

KICK IN THE HEAD.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... STEVEN RINEHART. Doubleday, $22 (228p) From childhood days at camp to barhopping nights as adults, men who do not want to grow up and women at least as peculiar find inventive ways to hurt each other in this quirky, affecting debut...

May Publications.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... The first draft of The Great Gatsby, as originally submitted to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner, was titled Trimalchio. After substantial revisions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the book was retitled and published in the version readers know today, but...

THE ITALIAN GIRL.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... PATRICIA HALL. St. Martin's Minotaur, $21.95 (208p) ISBN 0-312-26489-5 Careful attention to psychology and skillful plotting distinguish Hall's contemporary police procedural set in Bronte country. On Coronation Day 1953, popular...

BELLADONNA AT BELSTONE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MICHAEL JECKS. Headline (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $28 (332p) ISBN 0-7472-7402-9 When Moll, a young nun, dies mysteriously at St. Mary's Priory in Belstone, England, the suffragan bishop orders Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's...

THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER.(Review)
April 3, 2000... JOANNE FLUKE. Kensington, $20 (32Op) Independent-minded Hannah Swenson makes her debut in a cleverly plotted cozy, full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes. Returning after her father's death to her hometown of Lake Eden,...

BLOOD RAIN.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MICHAEL DIBDIN. Pantheon, $23 (288p) The cynical Venetian inspector fears that his employers view his growing older as a liability when, in this seventh, involving Aurelio Zen mystery (after A Long Finish), they assign him to a lowly post...

KILLER MATERIAL.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... DAN BARTON. St. Martin's Minotaurl Dunne, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-25222-6 Ladies and gentlemen, introducing for your reading pleasure, L.A.-based stand-up comic Biff Kincaid. Having accepted a last-minute request to fill in for friend...

FAULT LINES.(Cooper, Natasha)(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... NATASHA COOPER. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-25316-8 British author Cooper brings back her feisty barrister Trish Maguire (first seen in Creeping Ivy). Trish is in the midst of trying a harrowing child sexual abuse...

JACKPOT JUSTICE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... MARILYN WOOLEY. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-25455-5 This winner of the 1999 St. Martin's Malice Domestic First Novel Award marks the debut of an appealing new sleuth, Cassandra Ringwald--who, like the author, is a...

SHOOTING CHANT: An Ella Clah Novel.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... AIMEE AND DAVID THURLO. Forge/Doherty, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-87061-2 Special investigator Ella Clah of the Navajo Tribal Police gets taken for an exceptionally rough ride in this fifth novel in the series (after Enemy Way), as she...

MAGI'I OF CYADOR.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... L.E. MODESITT JR. Tor, $27.95 (544p) ISBN 0-312-87226-7 Once again Modesitt (Colors of Chaos, The Spellsong Cycle series) returns to the fantasy world of his popular Saga of Recluce series, now with the first book in a new story line set...

DARKNESS DESCENDING.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... HARRY TURTLEDOVE. Tor, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 0-312-86915-0 Trust Turtledove to deliver plenty of grungy military action spiked with dollops of sex and a keen and accurate depiction of the realties of warfare. The sequel to his alternate...

PEGASUS IN SPACE.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ANNE McCAFFREY. Del Rey, $25 (384p) ISBN 0-345-43466.8 The next in McCaffrey's popular Saga of the Talents series (Pegasus in Flight, To Ride Pegasus), this novel follows the adventures of a group of psychically gifted scientists who...

LEGACY OF PROMETHEUS.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ERIC KOTANI JOHN MADDOX ROBERTS. Forge, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-312-87298-4 In the near future, an old-fashioned space race begins. Earth's energy crisis is coming to a head, and conventional alternative energies are falling short....

EAGLE-SAGE: Book II of The Lon Tobyn Chronicle.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... DAVID B. COE. Tor, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 0-312-86791-3 The third and concluding volume of the LonTobyn Chronicle will appeal to those who like their epic fantasy based on politics, economic forces and historic motifs rather on than fairy...

FORGE OF THE ELDERS.(Brief Article)(Review)
April 3, 2000... L. NEIL SMITH. Baen, $25 (544p) ISBN 0-671-57859-6 Smith's latest outing combines portions of his previously published Contact and Commune and Converse and Conflict with a never-before-seen sequel. Set in the 21st century, this space...

FRESH AIR FIEND: Travel Writings.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... PAUL THEROUX. Houghton Mifflin, $27 130 (480p) ISBN 0-618-034064 In the 15 years since his first collection, Sunrise with Seamonsters, novelist and travel writer Theroux has gotten around. He's sailed the Yangtze River in China, crossed...

WITHOUT RESERVATIONS: The Travels of an Independent Woman.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ALICE STEINBACH. Random, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-375-50188-6 In a travel-book-cum-memoir set against a glamorous background of European cities, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Steinbach describes the months she spent traveling after she took a...

THE LEAP: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... TOM ASHBROOK. Houghton Mifflin, $26 (304p) ISBN 0-395-76165-4 In 1996, after 12 years as an international reporter and top editor at the Boston Globe, Ashbrook reconnected with his old college roommate, Rolly Rouse, to begin a quixotic...

AMERICAN DAUGHTER: Discovering My Mother.(Review)
April 3, 2000... ELIZABETH KENDALL. Random, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-679-45292-3 The oldest of six children, Kendall was so close to her mother that she could say: "We confused each other about where one of us started and the other ended." This extraordinary...

THE APACHE DIARIES: A Father-Son Journey.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... GRENVILLE GOODWIN AND NEIL GOODWIN. Univ. of Nebraska, $29.95 (304p) ISBN 0-8032-2175-4 During this continent's long and bitterly fought conflict between Native Americans and white invaders, perhaps no people fought more savagely or were...

LEAP.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS. Pantheon, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-679-43292-2 When naturalist writer Williams was a child staying over at her grandmother's house, she would sleep beneath images of Paradise and Hell thumbtacked to the wall above her...

PW Talks with Jacques Barzun.(Publisher's Weekly)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... PW: Your book From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life is o wide-ranging, it covers everything from the literary to the culinary. How do you define "Culture"? JB: Cultural history cannot be defined, because it really has...

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: An Autobiography.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... SARA HENDERSON. St. Martin's/Dunne. $27.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-24397-9 An Australian bestseller in 1992, this memoir of a woman's adventure-filled life is marred by a lack of insight. Born in 1936 in comfortable circumstances only slightly...

FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JACQUES BARZUN. HarperCollins, $35 (816p) ISBN 0-06-017586-9 * Now 92, Barzun, the renowned cultural critic, historian and former Columbia provost and professor, offers much more than a summation of his life's work in this profound,...

SLANTING THE STORY: The Forces That Shape the News.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... TRUDY LIEBERMAN. New Press, $21.95 (224p) ISBN 1-56584-577-3 "How the right wing has come to dominate the public policy debates is one of the most significant political stories of the last two decades," declares Lieberman, health...

PATIENT NUMBER ONE: A True Story of How One CEO Took On Cancer and Big Business in the Fight of His Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... RICK MURDOCK AND DAVID FISHER. Crown, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-609-60391-4 In 1996, Murdock used an experimental procedure -- which involved removing stem cells from his bone marrow, cleaning them with chemotherapy and radiation and then...

A SYMPHONY IN THE BRAIN: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... JIM ROBBINS. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (256p) ISBN 0-8711-3807-7 If you thought biofeedback was a passing fad, freelance journalist Robbins will enlighten you. Far from a 1970S fringe treatment, neurofeedback (as it has been renamed) is being...

THE BALANCE WITHIN: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ESTHER M. STERNBERG, M.D. W.H. Freeman, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 0-7167-3479-6 The immune system was long believed to be autonomous-unconnected to the brain; Sternberg, a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, focuses...

DARK MIDNIGHT WHEN I RISE: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... ANDREW WARD. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (464p) ISBN 0-374-18771-1 In the fall of 1871, while the country was reeling from the effects of the Civil War, 2 choir of former slaves and freedmen took to the road to raise money for their...

WESTSIDE: Young Men and Hip-Hop in L.A.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... WILLIAM SHAW. Simon & Schuster; $22 (320p) ISBN 0-684-86506-8 The has-beens, the almost-weres and the still-might-bes constitute the core of this look at the contemporary below-the-radar hip-hop scene in South-central Los Angeles. The...

LEA'S BOOK OF RULES FOR THE WORLD.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 3, 2000... LEA DELARIA WITH MAGGIE CASSELLA. Dell, $12.95 paper (224p) ISBN 0-440-50854-1 If your experience of lesbian comedy begins and ends with Ellen DeGeneres, say hello to Lea DeLaria, a brassy, foulmouthed butch who, after traveling the...