Publishers Weekly articles from August 2000, page 10

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2000

AMERICA IN 1900.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... NOEL JOEL KENT. ME. Sharpe, $29.95 (22 8p) ISBN 0-7656-0595-3 The year 1900 may well seem like another era: Men wore top hats, women endured whalebone corsets, and the marches of John Philip Sousa were all the rage. But as Kent (a...

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: Forty Years of High-Risk TV.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... ALAN SCHROEDER. Columbia Univ., $24.95 (280p) ISBN 0-231-11400-1 Ever since the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate, televised candidate confrontations have been a staple of presidential campaigns; they've gone from being a novelty, to being an...

HOMAGE TO CHIAPAS: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... BILL WEINBERG. Verso, $29 (448p) ISBN 1-85984-719-6 Weinberg's compelling, often shocking report presents a picture of U.S.-Mexico relations that vastly differs from the one usually seen on prime-time news. It was NAFTA, he charges, that...

BANANAS: An American History.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... VIRGINIA SCOTT JENKINS. Smithsonian, $16.95 paper (232p) ISBN 1-56098-966-1 "A study of the banana at first may appear frivolous," writes Jenkins (The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession). But "the use of everyday food can offer a...

GETTING WHAT YOU WANT: Seven Principles of Rational Living.(Review)
August 7, 2000... ROBERT J. RINGER Putnam, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-399-14686-5 More than 20 years ago, Ringer had two sensational bestsellers, Winning Through Intimidation and Looking Out for #1. In an attempt to recapture the limelight, he has written...

THE LOVE THEY LOST: Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... STEPHANIE STAAL. Delacorte, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-385-33409-5 Anyone contemplating divorce, or marriage for that matter, will think twice about the health and well-being of their children over the long haul after reading this intensely...

Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... JULIET MITCHELL. Basic, $30 (384p) ISBN 0-456-04613-4 Positing that the concept of hysteria, which has recently gone out of favor with clinicians, is "everywhere around us... as broad and expansive as human culture," Mitchell proposes to...

THE END OF CHANGE: How Your Company Can Sustain Growth and Innovation While Avoiding Change Fatigue.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... PETER SCOTT-MORGAN, ERIK HOVING, HENK SMIT AND ARNOUD VAN DER SLOT. McGraw-Hill, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 0-07-135700-9 In this conceptually challenging treatise on business management, the authors clearly diagnose a major contemporary...

For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE. Yale, $18.50 (176p) ISBN 0-300-08205-3 The strength of this book lies less in its words than in the experiences of the author--Goldstone, a South African who chaired the commission that investigated atrocities...

Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... DAVID R. STONE. Univ. of Kansas, $39.95 (304p) ISBN 0-7006-1037-5 Based on extensive research in newly opened Russian archives, this careful study 15 the best analysis to date of the central role of militarization in the development of...

WOLFSANGEL: A German City on Trial 1945-48.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... AUGUST NIGRO. Brassey's, $22.95 (192p) ISBN 1-57488-245-7 On the morning of August 26, 1944, eight hours after a punishing RAF air raid on the German city of R[ddot{u}]sselsheim, members of a captured American bomber crew in transit...

A Youth in the Meuse-Argone: A Memoir of World War I, 1917-1918.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... WILLIAM S. TRIPLET, EDITED BY ROBERT H. FERRELL. Univ. of Missouri, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 0-8262-1290-5 At the age of 17, the author of this memoir left high school in a Missouri town to enlist in the National Guard for the Great War and...

PRIVATE WARRIORS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... KEN SILVERSTEIN. Verso, $25 (258p) ISBN 1-85984-756-0 A book needs to be written on the relationship between retired military officers and the defense industries of their respective countries. A book needs to be written on think tank...

THE COOPER'S WIFE IS MISSING: The Ritual Murder of Bridget Cleary.(Review)
August 7, 2000... JOAN HOFF AND MARION YEATES. Basic, $26 (352p) ISBN 0-465-03087-4 One of two books this season on the legendary death in 1895 of an Irish country woman, this account illuminates more broadly "how Ireland suffered, how she struggled and...

THE BURNING OF BRIDGET CLEARY.(Review)
August 7, 2000... ANGELA BOURKE. Viking, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-670-89270-X A wonderful example of narrative cultural history, this text examines a pivotal moment in Irish history, through folklore and language. In 1895, Bridget Cleary, of Ireland's County...

SILVIE.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... SILVIA GROHS-MARTIN, Welcome Rain, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 1-56649-150-9 This highly literary and often engagingly witty new addition to the culturally vital genre of the Holocaust memoir details Grohs-Martin's life from her middle-class,...

The Legacies of World War II.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... The title of The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? raises a question that continues to haunt the U.S. and Europe in the form of Kosovo and other sites of horror. Edited by Michael J. Neufeld, National Air and...

Art's People & Places.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... The first Tate Gallery opened in London in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art, and began collecting 20th-century art in 1917. More than 8o years later, the conversion of a power station on the south bank of the Thames has yielded a...

Bless This Mess.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Patricia H. Livingston (Lessons of the Heart) applies chaos theory to everyday life in her spiritual yet light collection of essays, This Blessed Mess: Finding Hope Amidst Life's Chaos. Once upon a time, Livingston believed that if you did...

Making Sense of Talking Heads.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Funny guy Tony Hendra, editor-in-chief of Spy magazine and band manager in the faux rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, presents the ultimate guide to Internet lingo, E: The Gigawit Dictionary of the E-nglish Language. Hendra's irreverent,...

September Publication.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Inspired by her close relationship with her 10-year-old adopted niece, Sarah, Gail Kinn spoke with an array of adoptive parents, adopted children (both young and grown) and birth mothers to create the candid and exuberant coffee-table book Be...

August Publication.(Review)
August 7, 2000... Using a novelistic style to create his own version of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in '70s Dublin, Adrian Kenny (Istanbul Diary) recounts the events surrounding his attempts to write The Family Business. This impressionistic and...

THE BEST QUICK BREADS.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... BETH HENSPERGER. Harvard Common, $14.95 paper (256p) ISBN 1-55832-171-3 In her no-fuss, straightforward style, Hensperger (The Bread Bible, etc.) expertly lays out the basics for making quick breads in this exhaustive, offbeat book. She...

HIGH FIBER, HIGH FLAVOR: More Than 180 Recipes for Good Health.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... ROSEMARY MOON. Firefly, $19.95 paper (224p) ISBN 1-55209-518-5 "The word diet can be off-putting... with its connotations of weight reduction," notes home economist and author Moon (The American Harvest Cookbook), so The finds ways to add...

BIG BOWL: Noodles and Rice.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... BRUCE COST AND MATT MCMILLIN. HarperCollins, $25 (224p) ISBN 0-60-01 9420-0 Restaurateur Cost and chef McMillin estimate that customers at their popular Midwestern Big Bowl eateries slurp down at least a ton of Asian noodles every...

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE CAKES.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... MARCEL DESAULNIERS. Morrow, $32.50 (244p) ISBN 0-688-16297-5 The chef of the Trellis Restaurant in Williamsburg, Va., Desaulniers (Death by Chocolate) offers 50 extravagant, elaborate, indulgent chocolate cakes. These are not treats for...

HIGH ENERGY LIVING: Switch on the Sources To: Increase Your Fat-Burning Power; Boost Your Immunity and Live Longer; Stimulate Your Memory and Creativity; and Unleash Your Hidden Passions and Courage.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... ROBERT K. COOPER. Rodale, $29.95 (512p) ISBN 1-57954-126-7 The promises made by the subtitle of this volume reveal a key element of Cooper's (Low-Fat Living) success as a writer and motivational speaker for the Lessons in Leadership...

A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SLEEP: Guaranteed Solutions for a Good Night's Rest.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... JOYCE A. WALSLEBEN AND RITA BARON-FAUST. Crown, $23 (320p) ISBN 0-8129-3259-5 Combining knowledge and writing skill, Walsleben, the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at NYU's School of Medicine, and Baron-Faust (What Every Woman...

ADOPTING ON YOUR OWN: The Complete Guide to Adopting As a Single Parent.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... LEE VARON. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $14 paper (256p) ISBN 0-374-12883-9 Herself an adoptive mother of two and a counselor who has helped thousands of clients through their adoption decisions, Varon candidly covers just about every issue...

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers Love, Laughter and Limits.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... MAURICE J. ELIAS, STEVEN E. TOBIAS AND BRIAN S. FRIEDLANDER. Harmony, $24 (272p) ISBN 0-609-60298-5 Starting with the premise that "the only thing more difficult than being a parent is being a teenager," psychologists Elias, Tobias and...

FIELD GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN TEENAGER.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... MICHAEL RIERA AND JOSEPH DI PRISCO. Perseus, $25 (256p) ISBN 0-7382-0267-3 Seasoned educators Riera and Di Prisco cover many of the heavy-hitting topics that teens face, including drinking and driving, sexual issues, eating disorders,...

Breads and Baking.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Bread machines undeniably make life easier. They are simple to use, economical and produce wholesome, nutritious staples. Championing the great invention is professional home economist and food stylist Shirley Ann Holmes, author of Easy Bread...

Cooking with Tradition.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Generations of women have contributed their recipes and recollections to At Grandmother's Table: Women Write about Food, Life, and the Enduring Bond between Grandmothers and Granddaughters, edited by Ellen Perry Berkeley. Lest the idea of...

Sight and Cycle.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... As Americans live longer, the incidence of age-related macular degeneration, which can leave its victims legally blind, is increasing dramatically. Robert D'Amato, an ophthalmologist and pioneer in ARMD research, and Joan Snyder, an ARMD...

Walk This Way.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Maggie Spilner, editor of Prevention Magazine, was once agoraphobic. One of the ways she overcame her problem was through walking. In Prevention's Complete Book of Walking: Everything You Need to Know to Walk Your Way to Better Health she...

Ascertaining and Overcoming Obstacles.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Brown University seniors Jonathan Mooney and David Cole become hugely Inspiring models in Learning Outside the Lines: Two Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution, with a...

Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa: And Other Talking Drum Rhymes.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... UZO UNOBAGHA, ILLUS. BY JULIA CAIRNS. Chronicle, $16.95 ISBN 0-8118-2378-4 In the introduction to this collection, inspired by traditional Mother Goose rhymes, Nigerian-born Unobagha says that she hopes these verses about Africa will...

JUST ENOUGH.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... TERI DANIELS, ILLUS. BY HARLEY JESSUP. Viking, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-670-88873-7 Rather than describe their preschool hero in terms of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, Daniels (The Feet in the Gym) and Jessup (Grandma Summer) rely on...

THE EVERYTHING BOOK.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... DENISE FLEMING. Holt, $18.95 (64p) ISBN 0-8050-6292-0 * Part concept book, part word book and part nursery rhyme anthology, Fleming's (In the Small, Small Pond) vibrant picture-book hodgepodge surely lives up to its title. Exuberant...

DR. POMPO'S NOSE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... SAXTON FREYMANN AND JOOST ELFFERS. Scholastic/Levine, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-439-11013-0 Vegetable wranglers Freymann and Elffers, who photographed anonymous produce in How Are You Peeling?, stage an all-pumpkin performance. In this...

NIGHT NIGHT, CUDDLY BEAR.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... MARTIN WADDELL, ILLUS. BY PENNY DALE. Candlewick, $14.99 ISBN 0-7636-1195-6 "It was bedtime and Joe started playing his Cuddly Bear game," begins Waddell's (Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?) latest take on comforting nighttime rituals....

THE MOUSE THAT SNORED.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... BERNARD WABER. Houghton/Lorraine, $15 (32p) ISBN 0-395-97518-2 In Waber's (Did You See a Mouse?) latest tale starring a feisty rodent, the title character takes up residence in a house whose occupants-a couple and their cat and...

MADLENKA.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Peter Sfs. FSG/Foster, $17(48p) ISBN 0-374-39969-7 * Incorporating many of the visually astonishing methods of Tibet Through the Red Box, Sis chronicles the adventures of a New York City girl (based on Sis's own daughter) whose lose...

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... AMY LOWRY POOLE. Holiday, $16.95 ISBN 0-8234-1477-9 This smooth retelling of Aesop's classic fable is set in the summer palace of the Chinese emperor. Poole (How the Rooster Cot His Crown) once again applies the techniques of...

BONAPARTE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... MARSHA WILSON CHALL, ILLUS. BY WENDY ANDERSON HALPERIN. DK Ink, $16.95 ISBN 0-7894-261 7-X * Fresh as a newly baked croissant, this delightful confection finds a lonely pooch longing for his young master's warm lap and "determined to...

MARTHA AND SKITS.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... SUSAN MEDDAUGH. Houghton/Lorraine, $15 (32p) ISBN 0-618-05776-5 * In this fifth Martha adventure, the talking dog hears a phrase well known to middle-aged pets: "Meet your new brother." Martha's owners introduce a brown puppy, Skits, who...

CINDERELLA: The Dog and Her Little Glass Slipper.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... DIANE GOODE. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $15.95 (40p) ISBN 0-439-07166-6 As she did in The Dinosaur's New Clothes, Goode gives a familiar fairy tale an unexpected cast, this time introducing a pack of canines with a good-natured spaniel as the...

IT'S RAINING PIGS AND NOODLES.(Review)
August 7, 2000... JACK PRELUTSKY, ILLUS. BY JAMES STEVENSON. HarperCollins/Creenwillow, $17.95 (160p) ISBN 0-06-029194-X * Following A Pizza the Size of the Sun, the reigning czars of silliness are back on the warpath, wreaking poetic havoc with yet...

CRICKWING.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... JANELL CANNON. Harcourt, $16 (48p) ISBN 0-15-201790-9 Tired of being bullied, an artistic cockroach with a crooked wing and a penchant for culinary sculpture ("I just like to play with my food") begins picking on creatures even smaller...

The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... RETOLD BY KATRIN TCHANA, ILLUS. BY TRINA SCHART HYMAN. Little, Brown, $19.95 until Dec 31; then $21.95 (l28p) ISBN 0-316-38701-0 From the Chinese tale of Li Chi who slays a serpent and saves her village to the Gambian story of an offbeat...

THE HIGH-RISE PRIVATE EYES: The Case of the Missing Monkey; The Case of the Climbing Cat.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... CYNTHIA RYLANT, ILLUS. BY G. BRIAN KARAS. HarperCollins/Greenwillow, $14.95 each (48p) ISBN 0-688-16306-8; -16310-6 Rylant (Missing May; the Henry and Mudge series) delivers two snappy stories full of humor, action and tenderness in the...

LIZZIE AT LAST.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... CLAUDIA MILLS. FSG, $16 (160p) ISBN 0-374-34659-3 This engaging sequel to Losers, Inc. and You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman gives the title character of the latter novel a minor role, while placing the refreshingly candid Lizzie...

THE COLOR OF MY WORDS.(Review)
August 7, 2000... LYNN JOSEPH. HarperCollins/Cotler, $14.95 (144p) ISBN 0-06-028232-0 In finely wrought chapters that at times read more like a collection of related short stories than a novel, Joseph (Jump Up Time) presents slices from the life of Ana...

SPACE RACE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... SYLVIA WAUGH. Delacorte $15.95 (244p) ISBN 0-385-32766-8 Thomas, 11, and his father, Patrick, live a seemingly ordinary existence in the cozy northern English village of Belthorp. In reality, however, Thomas and Patrick are Tonitheen and...

THE PLAYMAKER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... J.B. CHEANEY. Knopf, $15.95 ISBN 0-375-80577-X A strong foundation in Elizabethan politics and religious conflicts will benefit those wading through the murky waters of this cloak-and-dagger mystery set in London in 1597. Young Richard...

THE MINSTREL'S TALE.(Review)
August 7, 2000... BERIT HAAHR. Delacorte, $15.95 ISBN 0-385-32713-7 This first novel, set in 4th-century England, succeeds more as an extended fairy tale than a work of historical fiction. When 13-year-old Lady Judith meets her intended husband at her...

MY SEASON WITH PENGUINS: An Antarctic Journal.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... SOPHIE WEBB. Houghton, $15 (48p) ISBN 0-395-92291-7 Invited to Antarctica in 1996 to study Ad[acute{e}]lie penguins, biologist and artist Webb (illustrator for A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America) returned with the...

Can't Get Enough.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Fall brings a bounty of sequels and series additions. Redwall fans will pounce on Lord Brocktree, the 13th installment in Brian Jacques's fantasy series. Here the badger warrior Lord Brocktree, aided by the "haremaid" Dotti, reclaims...

Newfound Treasure.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Well before Roald Dahl published his first children's book, James and the Giant Peach, in 1961, he was writing for U.S. magazines. In 1946, the Saturday Evening Post published his true account of a Suffolk farm worker who discovered a...

A Collector's Item.(Review)
August 7, 2000... Marthe Jocelyn follows up her eye-catching picture book Hannah and the Seven Dresses with the equally handsome Hannah's Collections. Tidy and temptingly tactile collages show the young heroine contemplating her many collections, here neatly...

All in a Day's Work.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2000... Its covers designed to look like the real McCoy, My Little Red Toolbox by Stephen T. Johnson offers a wealth of materials to occupy kids' minds-- and hands. Seven punch-out "tools" include a wrench that can turn three movable "bolts" and a...

MONDAY'S TROLL.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
August 7, 2000... MONDAY'S TROLL JACK PRELUTSKY, ILLUS. BY PETER Sis. Harper Trophy, $5.95 ISBN 0-688-27529-5. "This dynamite team dishes up a smorgasbord of verbal and visual delights," said PW in a starred review of this original poetry collection. Ages 3-7....

STARRY MESSENGER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
August 7, 2000... STARRY MESSENGER PETER Sis. FSG, $5.95 ISBN 0-374-47027-8. In a starred review of this Caldecott Honor book, PW wrote, "Extraordinary pictures light up this tribute to Galileo." Ages 6-up. (Sept.)

DANGEROUS GAMES.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
August 7, 2000... DANGEROUS GAMES JOAN AIKEN. Yearling, $4.99 ISBN 0-440-41593-4. In a starred review, PW wrote, "Aiken's storytelling is fearless.... Dido's adventures will linger in the reader's mind long after these games have ended." Ages 8-12.(July)

CHECKERS.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Review)
August 7, 2000... CHECKERS JOHN MARSDEN. Laurel-Leaf $4.99 ISBN 0-440-22860-3. An unnamed narrator describes her time in a psychiatric ward and the family crisis that brought her there. "The pervasive sadness will make this worthwhile for teenagers who find...

HATE YOU.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Review)
August 7, 2000... HATE YOU GRAHAM MCNAMEE. Laurel-Leaf, $4.99 ISBN 0-440-22762-3. "First-novelist McNamee offers a biting account of domestic violence but never moves out of the problem-novel arena," said PW of this story about a girl and her abusive father....

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