Publishers Weekly articles from May 2006, page 10

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2006

So This Is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... So This Is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories GILBERT REID. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-34985-8 This debut collection (first released in Canada in 2004) examines love's many intricacies and, given the stories that follow,...

Warrener's Beastie: A Novel of the Deep.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Warrener's Beastie: A Novel of the Deep WILLIAM R. TROTTER. Carroll & Graf, $16.95 paper (704p) ISBN 0-78671-328-3 Historian (The Civil War in North Carolina) and novelist (The Fires of Pride) Trotter sends up Nordic myth in this...

Dark Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Dark Gold DAVID ANGSTEN. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-34373-6 Take a quest to find a lost brother, hot sex with incredibly beautiful babes, a giant man-eating beast that may or may not be a god, a sunken ship and a...

The Saudi Connection.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Saudi Connection JACK ANDERSON AND ROBERT WESTBROOK. Forge, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0765-31144-5 In this engaging novel of Middle East intrigue from Anderson, who died in 2005, and Westbrook (Ancient Enemy), muckraking journalist Ron...

Wives Behaving Badly.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Wives Behaving Badly ELIZABETH BUCHAN. Viking, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-670-03488-6 Rose, the protagonist in the best-selling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, stood tall when Minty Lloyd stole both her husband and her job. Buchan now gives...

Taking Off.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Taking Off ERIC KRAFT. St. Martin's, $23.95 (208p) ISBN 0-312-31884-7 This addition to Kraft's well-received body of work (Passionate Spectator, etc.) serves as the premier installment of the Flying trilogy and features the ever-engaging...

The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom ROBYN HARDING. Ballantine, $21.95 (304p) ISBN 0-345-47630-1 Like an episode of Desperate Housewives, this suburban murder mystery from Harding (follow-up to her well-received debut, The Journal of...

First Friends.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... First Friends MARCIA WILLETT. St. Martin's Griffin $12.95 (416p) ISBN 0-312-30662-8 There's a solid story to be found in this novel, the first of Willett's 11-year career (in its first American publication), but there's also a lot of...

Lost Girls & Love Hotels.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Lost Girls & Love Hotels CATHERINE HANRAHAN. Harper Perennial, $13.95 (272p) ISBN 0-06-084684-4 Margaret, a 20-something Canadian has fled to Tokyo to escape her past and now instructs aspiring stewardesses in "cabin-crew and airline...

Scar Tissue.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Scar Tissue CHARLES WRIGHT. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (80p) ISBN 0-374-25427-3 The phrasemaking lyricism of this 17th volume plays to Wright's familiar strengths: 42 long-lined poems mix calm, Taoist-inflected wisdom with lush...

Forth a Raven.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Forth a Raven CHRISTINA DAVIS. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (80p) ISBN 1-882295-57-9 Simple metaphysical questioning characterizes this strong first collection: "Every question/I have ever asked," says Davis's title...

The Selected Poems of Wang Wei.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * The Selected Poems of Wang Wei WANG WEI, TRANS. FROM THE CHINESE BY DAVID HINTON. New Directions, $14.95 paper (128p) ISBN 0-81121618-7 A member of the intellectual class and a government official by profession, Wang Wei (A.D. 701-761)...

Sanctuary.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Sanctuary ADRIENNE SU. Manic D (Consortium, dist.), $13.95 paper (64p) ISBN 1-933149-06-X Su's debut gained her attention as a poet of Chinese-American identity; keeping one eye on her heritage, this clear, even conversational sophomore...

Spectral Waves.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Spectral Waves MADELINE DEFREES. Copper Canyon, $16 paper (103p) ISBN 1-55659-240-X For 38 years, Madeline DeFrees lived as a nun and was known as Sister Mary Margaret. She left the convent in middle age, but her work has never been far...

Blue Front.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Blue Front MARTHA COLLINS. Graywolf, $14 paper (94p) ISBN 1-55597-449-X Collins's fifth volume and first book-length poem concerns a horrifying lynching in her father's hometown. In Cairo, Ill., in 1909, two men (one black, one white)...

All the Lavish in Common.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * All the Lavish in Common ALLAN PETERSON. Univ. of Massachusetts, $14.95 paper (80p) ISBN 1-55849-526-6 From out of left field, or rather north Florida, comes a smart and mature second collection. Peterson's sinuous lines and careful...

The Pitch.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Pitch TOM THOMPSON. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (78p) ISBN 1-882295-56-0 Inspired by that infamous city-dwelling poet Baudelaire, the 48 poems of Thompson's second collection swagger, looking with equal parts wonder...

Mulberry.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Mulberry DAN BEACHY-QUICK. Tupelo (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 paper (72p) ISBN 1-932195-24-6 The prolific Beachy-Quick (Spell, 2004) returns to the familiar lyric territory of his arresting debut in this challenging third book: the...

Theory of Prepositions.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Theory of Prepositions CLAUDE ROYET-JOURNOUD, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY KEITH WALDROP. Fence Books/La Presse (UPNE, dist.), $12 paper (64p) ISBN 0-9771064-1-1 Royet-Journoud is associated in France with poets Anne-Marie Albiach and...

Dark Familiar.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Dark Familiar ALEDA SHIRLEY. Sarabande, $21.95 cloth (86p) ISBN 1-932511-35-0; $13.95 paper (86p) ISBN 1-93251136-9 Shirley's third book--her first in the decade since Long Distance (1996)--Long fuses the everyday and the otherworldly...

Antiques Roadkill: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Antiques Roadkill: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery BARBARA ALLAN. Kensington, $22 (288p) ISBN 0-7582-1911-0 In this pseudonymous series debut, a run-of-the-mill cozy by the husband-and-wife team of Barbara Collins (Too Many Tomcats) and Max...

Still Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Still Life LOUISE PENNY. St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-35255-7 Canadian Penny's terrific first novel, which was the runner-up for the CWA's Debut Dagger Award in 2004, introduces Armand Gamache of the Surete du...

Snapshot.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Snapshot GARRY DISHER. Soho, $23 (337p) ISBN 1-56947-426-5 Fans of grim, uncompromising police procedurals will welcome Australian Disher's gritty, well-plotted third novel to feature Insp. Hal Challis (after 2005's Kittyhawk Down). A...

Learning to Kill.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Learning to Kill ED McBAIN. Harcourt/Penzler, $25 (480p) ISBN 0-15-101222-9 The 25 crime stories the late MWA Grand Master (1926-2005) wrote between 1952 and 1957 and selected for this thematically arranged collection display in embryo...

Cat in a Quicksilver Caper.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Cat in a Quicksilver Caper: A Midnight Louie Mystery CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS. Forge, $19.95 (384p) ISBN 0-765-31400-2 Midnight Louie, hard-boiled feline PI, and his human pal, Temple Barr ("Miss Nancy Drew on killer spikes"), whose Vegas PR...

Second Burial for a Black Prince.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Second Burial for a Black Prince ANDREW NUGENT. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-312-32761-7 Nugent's second Dublin police procedural falls short of the high mark set by the first of the series, The Four Courts Murder...

A Conspiracy of Violence: Chaloner's First Exploit in Restoration London.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A Conspiracy of Violence: Chaloner's First Exploit in Restoration London SUSANNA GREGORY. Time Warner U.K. (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-316-73110-2 At the start of this rapidly paced if sometimes confusing first in a...

Pegasus Descending.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel JAMES LEE BURKE. Simon & Schuster, $26 (368p) ISBN 0-7432-7772-4 Drawing on classical antecedents, bestseller Burke peoples his 15th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2004's Crusader's Cross) with...

The Mirror Prince.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Mirror Prince VIOLETTE MALAN. DAW, $15 paper (320p) ISBN 0-7564-0339-1 In Malan's Narnia-spiced fantasy debut, which also contains dashes of de Lint, Rowling and Tolkien, Canadian Max Ravenhill thinks he's just a young professor of...

Candles Burning.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Candles Burning TABITHA KING AND MICHAEL McDOWELL. Berkley, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 0425-21028-6 A mix of magic realism and Southern gothic, this stunning collaboration between King (Survivor) and McDowell (The Elementals), who died in...

The Long Last Call.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Long Last Call JOHN SKIPP. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $40 (210p) ISBN 1-58767-136-0 Readers with a taste for the blood and guts of films like The Devil's Rejects will enjoy Skipp's latest excursion into "Splatterpunk,"...

The Burning Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Burning Girl HOLLY PHILLIPS. Prime (www.primebooks.com), $29.95 (296p) ISBN 08095-5065-2 Canadian Phillips's challenging first novel, a dense literary fantasy, requires two readings--first to appreciate the sensuous prose, second to...

Destinations Unknown.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Destinations Unknown GARY A. BRAUNBECK. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $40 (220p) ISBN 1-58767-085-2 The open road is a malleable metaphor pregnant with dark and dangerous possibilities in this uneven trilogy of tales from...

May publications.(SF/FANTASY/HORROR NOTES)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com) offers two special signed editions: Joe R. Lansdale's Lords of the Razor, a horror anthology edited by Bill Sheehan and William Schafer, with original stories by such genre notables as P.D. Cacek, Ardath...

Until the Knight Comes.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Until the Knight Comes SUE-ELLEN WELFONDER. Warner Forever, $6.50 (400p) ISBN 0-446-61729-6 Welfonder's newest is a medieval romance set in Scotland. Lady Mariota Macnicol stands falsely accused of murdering her lover, but escapes,...

Rogue Angel: Destiny.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Rogue Angel: Destiny ALEX ARCHER. Worldwide Library, $6.50 (352p) ISBN 0-373-62119-1 History, mystery and metaphysics are at the center of an inspired adventure novel, the first in a series by debut author Archer. This present-day tale...

The Stork Reality.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Stork Reality MALENA LOTT. Making It, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 0-8439-5725-5 Taylor Montgomery never intended to get pregnant--she's got too much invested as a creative director at a top Dallas advertising company. Her husband, equally...

Kindred Spirit.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Kindred Spirit JOHN PASSARELLA. Pocket Star, $7.99 (400p) ISBN 0-7434-8480-0 Stoker Award-winning horror novelist Passarella (Wither) brings a paranormal twist to this thriller about a television reporter probing the murder of her twin....

Sloth.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Sloth GILBERT HERNANDEZ. DC Comics/ Vertigo, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 1-4012-0366-5 The much heralded Love & Rockets cartoonist turns in his first original graphic novel and it showcases a creator still making vital work after two decades....

Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing Vol. 1.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing Vol. 1 FRED VAN LENTE AND RYAN DUNLAVEY. Evil Twin Comics (www.eviltwincomics.com), $6.95 paper (96p) ISBN 0-9778329-0-2 Not so much in the spirit of Classic Comics, but more in the spirit of...

Basilisk Volume 1.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Basilisk Volume 1 FUTARO YAMADA AND MASAKI SEGAWA. Del Rey, $13.95 paper (210p) ISBN 0-345-48270-0 This mature readers manga follows a battle between rival ninja clans graphic violence or nudity. The Tokugawa clan is using ninjas for a...

Hellboy: Strange Places.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Hellboy: Strange Places MIKE MIGNOLA. Dark Horse, $17.95 paper (128p) ISBN 1-59307-475-1 Mignola's first collection in his popular Hellboy series (since the 2004 film based on it) features two odd, bleak fables. The first and more...

Last Fantasy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Last Fantasy CREATIVE HON AND YONG-WAN KWON. Tokyopop, $9.99 paper (192p) ISBN 1-59532-526-3 The two young heroes on the cover of Tokyopop's latest manhwa offering look blandly conventional; this misconception isn't dispelled until our...

The Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products on the World's Poorest Patients.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products on the World's Poorest Patients SONIA SHAH. New Press, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 1-56584-912-4 In a trenchant expose of a sinister new trend in the pharmaceutical industry,...

Grayson.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Grayson LYNNE COX. Knopf, $18.95 (148p) ISBN 0-307-26454-8 On a clear California morning when Cox (Swimming to Antarctica) was 17 years old, she had an unusual experience that stayed with her for 30 years, creating a spiritual foundation...

Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales HORATIO CLARE. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-7432-7427-X In this memoir, Clare, a Welsh former barman and BBC radio producer, narrates how his parents came to own a...

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York TIMOTHY J. GILFOYLE. Norton, $27.95 (544p) ISBN 0-393-06190-6 George Appo, the antihero of this fascinating historical study, was a pickpocket and con man who gained...

The blind traveler: PW talks with Jason Roberts: McSweeney's contributor Jason Roberts focuses his first book, A Sense of the World, on James Holman, who overcame his blindness to become the most famed adventurer of the 19th century. [Q&A].(Interview)
May 1, 2006... You've published mostly short criticism and fiction. What drew you to such a different project? Two things: it was essentially a quest, which almost became a personal mission. I didn't have to do too much research to become aware that we...

The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty JEAN ZIMMERMAN. Harcourt, $26 (400p) ISBN 0-15-101065-X In 1659, 22-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in New Amsterdam as a highly...

Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History GEORGE ROSIE. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-35416-9 This fun book makes no claim to scholarly rigor, but is instead "an autodidact's anthology of neglected episodes in...

The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague PETER MARSHALL. Walker, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-8027-1551-6 When Rudolf II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1576, he quickly filled his castle with artistic and...

The Museum of Lost Wonder: A Graphic Guide to Reawakening the Human Imagination.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * The Museum of Lost Wonder: A Graphic Guide to Reawakening the Human Imagination JEFF HOKE. Red Wheel/Weiser, $49.95 (176p) ISBN 1-57863-364-8 Every now and then, a book comes along that's almost impossible to categorize, like...

Hunting Fish: A Cross-Country Search for America's Worst Poker Players.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Hunting Fish: A Cross-Country Search for America's Worst Poker Players JAY GREENSPAN. St. Martin's, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 0-312-34783-7 Greenspan, the editor of Winning Internet Poker for Dummies, narrates three-month odyssey in which...

Fast, Cheap, and Under Control: Lessons from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Fast, Cheap, and Under Control: Lessons from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time JOHN GASPARD. Michael Wiese Productions (www.mwp.com), $26.95 (284p) ISBN 1-932907-15-7 Films like Night of the Living Dead and sex, lies and...

Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom BRETT PAESEL. Warner, $23.99 (256p) ISBN 0-446-57873-8 Paesel would love to spend "an evening doing half a gram of coke in the back of a limo with her...

Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown: Notes from a Single Girl's Closet.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown: Notes from a Single Girl's Closet ADENA HALPERN. Gotham, $25 (256p) ISBN 1-592-40221-6 Halpern, a 30-something writer for Marie Claire, rehashes her life's pinnacles and pitfalls, epitomized by...

Hollywood Jock: 365 Days, Four Screenplays, Three TV Pitches, Two Kids, and One Wife Who's Ready to Pull the Plug.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Hollywood Jock: 365 Days, Four Screenplays, Three TV Pitches, Two Kids, and One Wife Who's Ready to Pull the Plug ROB RYDER. Harper, $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 0-06-079150-0 Although the conceit for Ryder's sloppily entertaining book is...

The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir Toby Young. Da Capo, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-306-81456-0 British journalist Young scored big with How to Lose Friends and Influence People, a dishy account of his dire mishaps in the world of glossy...

Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop".(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop" Derrick Parker With Matt Diehl. St. Martin's, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0312-35251-4 Parker's career with the New York...

Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark Robert Sullivan. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 1-58234-527-9 Sullivan (Rats; The Meadowlands) offers a boisterous, busily...

Romancing Spain: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Romancing Spain: A Memoir Lamar Herrin. Unbridled (www.unbridledbooks.com), $23.95 (272p) ISBN 1-932961-22-4 Herrin (House of the Deaf) invokes the patron saints of picaresque, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, to furnish a conceit on which...

The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific Charles Montgomery. HarperCollins, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-06-076516-X Montgomery's great-grandfather Henry was an Anglican missionary in the South Pacific at the end...

The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come from?(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come from? Victor J. Stenger. Prometheus, $28 (275p) ISBN 1-59102-424-2 Stenger(Has Science FoundGod?), emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, goes to great...

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall & Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson Peter Ames Carlin. Rodale, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 1-59486-320-2 In this exhaustive tome, former People magazine writer Carlin chronicles the lives of the Beach Boys...

Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos Gavin Newsham. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (224p) ISBN 0-87113-941-2 Sportswriter Newsham has managed to tack a narrative arc on what is basically the story of a failed business...

The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories Anthony V. Riccio. State Univ. of New York, $40 (384p) ISBN 0-7914-6773-2 As he lovingly did in his book on Boston's North End in Portrait of n Italian American...

Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change Anne Firth Murray. New World Library, paper $14.95 (224p) ISBN 1-57731-533-2 Part do-it-yourself guide and part memoir, this inspirational primer is aimed at budding social...

Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing Bryan And Jeffrey Eisenberg with Lisa T. Davis. Nelson Business, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 0-7852-1897-1 The Eisenberg brothers (Call to Action: Secret Formulas to...

The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time Chris Murray et al. Portfolio, $24.95 (282p) ISBN 1-59184-105-4 As the editor of Soundview Executive Book Summaries, which distills business books into 5,000-word...

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity and the Radical Remaking of Economics Eric D. Beinhocker. Harvard Business School, $29.95 (544p) ISBN 1-57851-777-X Accounting for the creation of wealth has long challenged humanity's best...

Two for the Money: The Sensible Plan for Making It All Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Two for the Money: The Sensible Plan for Making It All Work Jonathan And David Murray with Max Alexander. Carroll & Graf, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-7867-1787-4 This is the rare financial book that's entertaining as well as informative....

The Wisdom Network: An 8-Step Process for Identifying, Sharing, and Leveraging Individual Expertise.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Wisdom Network: An 8-Step Process for Identifying, Sharing, and Leveraging Individual Expertise Steve Benton And Melissa Giovagnoli. Amacom, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 0-8144-7318-0 With all the information available in today's networked...

The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People around the World Buy and Live As They Do.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Culture Code: Why People Around the World Really Are Different, and the Hidden Clues to Understanding Us All Clotaire Rapaille. Broadway, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-7679-2056-2 French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille...

Eisenhower on Leadership: Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory Management.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Eisenhower on Leadership: Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory Management Alan Axelrod. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-7879-8238-5 While Osama Bin Laden on Leadership has not yet turned up, it seems every other historical figure...

Grant: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Grant: A Biography John Mosier. Palgrave, $21.95 (224p) ISBN 1-4039-7136-6 Palgrave's Great Generals series continues with this sketchy, unbalanced homage to the Union war hero. Military historian Mosier (The Myth of the Great War)...

Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty Ali Gheissari And Vali Nasr. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (240p) ISBN 0-19-518967-4 Few countries today appear so erratic and unknowable as Iran, where Islamist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's...

Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America Josef Joffe. Norton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-393-06135-3 While not the first or even the thousandth evaluation of America as the world's sole superpower, Joffe's version is more insightful than...

Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq Richard S. Lowry. Berkley Caliber, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 0-425-20988-1 This account of "the bloodiest battle in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein" in An Nasiriyah...

Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora PERSIS M. KARIM. Univ. of Arkansas, $24.95 paper (380p) ISBN 1-55728-820-8 The diversity of voices represented in |this stunning collection of poetry, fiction...

The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts JAMES SMALL. Temple Univ., $35 (240p) ISBN 1-59213-305-3 If readers know Carl Van Vechten's name today, it is probably as a minor character in Ann Douglas's...

The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation MAX WOLF VALERIO. Seal, $15.95 paper (280p) ISBN 1-58005-173-6 The best thing about this aggressive, emotional memoir by a former lesbian, female-to-male transgender is that...

In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation FRANCOIS FURSTENBERG. Penguin Press, $27.95 (325p) ISBN 1-59420-092-0 How were the ideals that were articulated in America's founding documents--freedom,...

Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Archie and Amelie: Love and Marriage in the Gilded Age DONNA M. LUCEY. Harmony, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 1-4000-4852-4 A great-great-grandson and heir of John Jacob Astor, John Armstrong Archie" Chanler was born with the proverbial platinum...

I Golfed Across Mongolia: How an Improbable Adventure Helped Me Rediscover the Spirit of Golf (and Life).(Brief article)(Book review)
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