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Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design
Alisa de Jong-Stout & Hannah Sigur
Timber Press
133 S.W. 2nd Avenue, #450, Portland, OR 97204-9743
088192539X $39.95 1-800-327-5680
Master Guide to the Art of Floral Design presents a fine survey culminating over thirty years'
experience in consulting, teaching, and creating custom floral designs, and provides a bright now
set of insights and tips on creating floral arrangements which can be used for everything from
competitions to weddings. Color and black and white photos blend with plenty of techniques and
insights.
Smokin' Rockets
Patrick Luccanio & Gary Coville
McFarland & Company
PO Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640
078641233X $35.00 1-800-253-2187
How have science and technology been celebrated in American film, radio and TV from
1945-1962? Smokin' Rockets examines science and science fiction worlds in American culture
from a scholarly standpoint; up to the Cuban missile crisis. Shifts in themes and presentation are
studied in chapters that link social and political changes to trends in science fiction.
MFA Publications
465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
1-800-338-2665 www.amazon.com
There have been other biographies of DuChamp on the market: Alice Goldfarb Marquis's Marcel
Duchamp: Bachelor Stripped Bare (087846644-4 $37.50) differs from competitors in presenting a
more balanced portrait and represents over twenty years of research on the author's part. It's the
first to present a psychological portrait of the man's nuances, blending personal relationships with
insights into his major achievements. First-hand interviews and research into unpublished sources
lends an exceptional tone and presentation. George Shackelford and Fronia Wissman's
Impressions Of Light (0878466479, $35.00) provides a lavish overview of masterworks with a
special focus on French landscape artists. The oversized presentation and full-color reproductions
accent coverages of both artists and major works, with an eye to revealing nuances in
Impressionist uses of light. A major achivement.
Guide To Identity Theft Prevention
Johnny May, CPP
1st Books Library
2595 West Vernal Pike, Bloomington, IN 47404-2782
0759647631 $17.95 www.1stbooks.com
How does identity theft happen, and how can it be prevented? Guide To Identity Theft Prevention
covers both personal and business protection and outlines what to do if you're a victim of this
rapidly-growing crime. From victim survey data to template letters of dispute, this provides an
important guide for any consumer.
Stress-Related Disorders Sourcebook
Joyce Brennfleck Shannon
Omnigraphics
PO Box 625, Holmes, PA 19043
0780805607 $78.00 1-800-234-1340
Stress-Related Disorders Sourcebook is a compendium of basic consumer information about
stress-related disorders. Ranging from early warning signs of stress based physical and emotional
disorders, to stress caused at home and at work and its effects on the body are all revealed in this
informative guide. Chapters survey everything from health risks to management techniques and
come packed with resources for further reference and study.
Cybertypes
Lisa Nakamura
Routledge
29 West 35th Street, NY, NY 10001-2299
0415938376 $18.95 1-800-634-7064
Cyberspace makes fluid the identification process and can allow for anonymity and even a kind of
liberation from race, age, and gender restrictions. Author Lisa Nakamura argues that racial
stereotypes are hardwired even in online interactions, with web directories narrowing racial
categories and anonymity associated with white. Cybertypes is a simply fascinating examination of
how racial ideas changed in the online environment.
Poets On The Peaks
John Suiter
Counterpoint Publishers
Box 65793, Washington, DC 20035-5693
1582431485 $40.00 1-800-242-7737
Writer-photographer Suiter provides a literary portrait of Beat era poets Gary Snyder, Philip
Whalen, and Jack Kerouac in Poets On The Peaks, which centers around their early experiences
as fire lookouts in the 1950s. As such, Poets On The Peaks provides a hard book to easily
categorize: it covers beautiful Cascade Mountain scenes and peaks, fire lookouts, and literature
and biography alike. The writings of these three juxtapose nicely with the photos and images,
making this a recommended gift choice for the holiday season.
Toward A Meaningful Life
Simon Jacobson
William Morrow & Company
10 E. 53rd St., New York NY 10022
0060511907 $22.95 1-800-242-7737
Simon Jacobson's Toward A Meaningful Life is a true classic which pairs spiritual and intellectual
concepts with advice and perceptions of everyday life: while its roots are in Judaism, its advice
and insights will appeal to a wide audience and may be used as a self-help approach to finding
wisdom in a chaotic modern life.
History Of Massage
Robert Noah Calvert
Healing Arts/Inner Traditions
PO Box 388, Rochester, VT 05767
089218816 $24.95 1-800-246-8648
Robert Noah Calvert's History Of Massage is an informative and illustrated history covers
massage techniques and rituals from around the world through the ages, from its ongoing medical
use as a therapy and curative to the varying techniques for addressing different illnesses and
needs. A fascinating coverage of the evolution of massage techniques.
Walker & Company
435 Hudson St., New York NY 10014
1-800-289-2553
Three new titles provide very different, intriguing histories. John Steele Gordon's Thread Across
The Ocean (0802713645, $26.00) covers the transatlantic cable and its revolutionary
communication and engineering challenges. The quest to lay the cable took twelve years, millions
of dollars, and overwhelming technical problems: this provides a lively history of the struggle.
Tom Standage's The Turk (0802713912, $24.00) provides a lively coverage of the famous
18th-century chess-playing machine devised on a dare. The Turk enjoyed an 80-year career across
Europe and America and baffled spectators who were challenged to consider if a machine could
indeed think. A fun, revealing account of a little-known story. Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle's
Sahara (0802713726, $27.00) provides an unusual natural history of a region common viewed as
empty except for desert. From the birth of the greatest desert in the world to its natural history
and wildlife, this is a startling, revealing account of a desert's life. All are appealing reads, both for
study and for leisure.
Bathtub Yoga Relaxation Book
Marjorie Jaffe & Barbara Isenberg
Healthy Living Publications.
c/o Book Publishing Company
PO Box 99, Summertown, TN 38483
1570671281 $19.95 1-888-260-8458
Collaboratively written by health and fitness experts Marjorie Jaffe and Barbara Isenberg, The
Bathtub Yoga Relaxation Book: Yoga In The Bath For Energy, Vitality & Pleasure is a useful
and "user friendly" guide for the non-specialist general reader to enjoying yoga in the bath for
increased flexibility, vitality, meditation, relaxation, and fun. Simple stretches and poses, as well as
basic breathing exercises, are fully discussed and illustrated with full-color photographs in this
straightforward and very clear introductory guide to the joy of yoga relaxation and
invigoration.
Marlowe & Company
c/o Avalon Publishing Group
161 William St., 16th Fl., NY NY 10038
1-800-788-3123 www.amazon.com
Two new Inside' books explore the peoples and major issues of very different Middle Eastern
nations. Inside Islam (1569245681, $15.95) is edited by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi and
provides fourteen accessible, insightful essays by many of the world's prominent writers and
historians, each of whom address the subject of Islam and its beliefs. The authors also edit Inside
Israel (1569245568, $15.95): finished books were not seen but the same general gist is followed.
Both are essential to an understanding of the region's sentiments and conflicts and are especially
recommended for young adult readers.
Hot Biscuits
Max Evans & Candy Moulton, Eds.
University of New Mexico Press
1720 Lomas Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1591
082632889X $24.95 1-800-249-7737
Hot Biscuits is a very highly entertaining and recommended anthology of 18 original stories about
the ranching West by both men and women provide a fine Western flavor and diversity, from a
story of cowpokes who wrangle bargain horses to Dick Hyson's story of cowboys, truth, and a
good yarn. Chatty, revealing, and filled with twists and turns are these old-fashioned
Westerns.
Milwaukee
Todd Dacquisto
Prairie Oak Press/Trails Media Group
PO Box 317, Black Earth, WI 53515
1931599149 $21.95 1-800-236-8088
Milwaukee by Wisconsin photographer Todd Dacquisto is a gorgeous, full-color montage visual
celebration of urban life and joy in Wisconsin's largest metropolis. Very few captions and almost
no text interrupt these pristine, clear, and memorably beautiful images. Milwaukee is a highly
recommended as a souvenir book for anyone looking to celebrate their fond memories of this
great Wisconsin city.
Helping Your Aging Parent
William J. Grote
Boomer Books
PO Box 2899, Vista, CA 92083
0971737304 $19.95 1-760-295-4498
Helping Your Aging Parent: A Step-By-Step Guide by William J. Grote is a superbly organized
and highly accessible instructional reference and guide to determining when an aging parent needs
help, to what extent one should step in and take charge, and presents easy-to-follow instructions
and recommendations for the non-specialist general reader needing to navigating the legal and
emotional maze of setting up trusts, power of attorney, finding the best and most affordable
housing, surviving hospitalization, coping with mental disorders, nursing homes, and much more.
An included CD-ROM contains 27 forms and checklists to help one sort through the book's
information and put its advice to practical use. Helping Your Aging Parent is very highly
recommended for anyone faced with the necessity of assisting their aged mother or father cope
with the medical, emotional, financial, legal, and physical problems of old age.
The People Came First
Jerry Apps
Epsilon Sigma Phi Foundation
601 Extension Building, 432 N. Lake St., Madison, WI 53706-1498
http://www1.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/order.cfm
1930596154 $18.95 1-608-263-1096
The People Came First: A History Of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension by Wisconsin author and
historian Jerry Apps tells the impressive story of the Cooperative Extension Society, an
organization committed to making Wisconsin a better state in which to live. Individual chapters
historically survey agricultural education in Wisconsin over the past 150 years, and the
Cooperative Extension's role in using science, market forces, positive examples, and especially
education, to help the next generation of big and small farmers get started. The People Came First
is an essential, core addition for all of Wisconsin's academic and community library Wisconsin
History collections.
The Women's Studies Shelf
Power Games
Kay Douglas & Kim McFregor
Women's Press/Trafalgar Square
PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257
0704344742 $16.95 1-800-423-4525
Power Games comprises a colection of interviews with more than fifty women contributing
informative descriptions of common gender relevant power struggles and how to express one's
personal power appropriately. Chapters examine the roots of hurtful behavior patterns and show
how to transform both children and adult patterns.
Inside Iran: Women's Lives
Jane Howard
Mage Publishers
1032 29th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007
0934211728 $19.95 www.amazon.com
Foreign correspondent Jane Howard made her home in Iran for five years and raised her two
children there: these experiences brought a more personal set of insights into the lives of everyday
Iranian women, explored here. From tea in a nomad's tent to presidential places, Inside Iran:
Women's Lives provides a different image of Iranian women than most books would offer, going
beyond the veil to explore how they work outside the home, drive, and even become politicians.
A fascinating report.
Expat
Christina Henry de Tessan, editor
Seal Press
c/o Avalon Publishing Group
161 William St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10038
1580050700 $16.95 1-800-788-3123
Compiled and edited by Christian Henry de Tessan, Expat: Women's True Tales Of Life Abroad is
an engaging and impressive collection of true stories about women who have lived in diverse
nations around the world, and learned firsthand the delicate balance between keeping true to
oneself while accommodating the ways of a different culture. Life in Mexico, Borneo, Japan,
Egypt, England, Croatian, the Mediterranean, and more is brought to life from unforgettable
perspectives in this original, fascinating, very highly recommended anthology.
Pregnant Woman's Companion
Christine D'Amico, MA
Attitude Press
Box 16095, Minneapolis, MN 55416
0971663106 $14.95 www.amazon.com
Christine D'Amcio's Pregnant Woman's Companion isn't just another overview of pregnancy's
monthly transition points: it is written by a personal coach and midwife and offers nine strategies
to help mothers through pregnancy into parenthood. From reducing worries about a changing
body and changing relationships with family to understanding a new set of priorities, Pregnant
Woman's Companion packs in details.
100 More Things
You Don't Need A Man For!
Alison Jenkins
Laurel Glen Publishers
5880 Oberlin Dr, San Diego, CA 92121
1571458255 $21.95 1-800-788-3123
100 More Things You Don't Need A Man For! by home improvement expert Alison Jenkins is a
highly practical, "user friendly", exterior home and yard maintenance guide written especially for
women, and useful for anyone who is unfamiliar with the basics of handling power tools, patching
exterior walls, weatherproofing wooden garden furniture, and so much more. Practical
instructions, full-color illustrations and diagrams, easy-to-understand terminology, and a touch of
humor make 100 More Things You Don't Need A Man For! a superbly presented and highly
recommended guide for any do-it-yourself homeowner -- regardless of gender!
The American History Shelf
Immortal Summer
Mary J. Straw Cook, editor
Museum of New Mexico Press
PO Box 2087, Santa Fe, NM 87504
0890134030 $24.95 1-800-249-7737
Compiled, edited and Annotated by Mary J. Straw Cook, Immortal Summer: A Victorian
Woman's Travels In The Southwest is a collection of letters and black-and-white photographs by
Amelia Hollenback, a Victorian woman who had the opportunity to see 1897 America with her
own eyes. With extensive contextual annotation, Immortal Summer is a vivid, superbly organized
and presented primary source which takes in what American life, land and people were really like
more than a century ago. One curious note: Author and historian Mary Cook lives in Santa Fe in
the very house that Amelia Hollenback commissioned John Gaw Meem to build in 1932!
Una Storia Segreta
Lawrence DiStasi, editor
Heyday Books
PO Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709
1890771406 $21.95 heydaybooks.com
Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History Of Italian American Evacuation And Internment During
World War II by researcher and historian Lawrence DiStasi is a shocking and revealing look into
a little-known incident of 20th Century American history: Italian-American internments during
World War II. Wartime law restricted the freedoms and demanded identity cards of 600,000
Italian "resident aliens"; some 10,000 of these along the West Coast were forcibly relocated; and
250 were imprisoned in military camps for up to two years. Even some naturalized
Italian-American citizens were required to abandon their homes and businesses because the
military deemed them too dangerous to reside in "strategic areas." Worst of all, these offenses
were entirely ignored after the war's end, completely eclipsed by the similarly reprehensible
internment that the government forced upon a much greater number of Japanese-Americans. Una
Storia Segreta is an important and long overdue contribution to American World War II history
shelves, for it sheds light on a topic chronically overlooked in traditional American history
education and reading lists.
General History Of Oregon
Charles H. Carey
Binford & Mort, Publishers
2505 S.E. 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97242
083230221X $35.00 1-503-884-4960
Now in its third edition, General History of Oregon by Charles H. Carey is an exhaustive,
complete-in-one-volume, 916 page history of the Oregon Territory. An impressive, definitive,
meticulously researched history ranging from the days of Spanish explorers in the New World to
the opening years of Oregon's statehood, General History Of Oregon is a classic repository of
knowledge, informed and informative reading, and highly recommended for academic American
History reference shelves and supplemental reading lists.
The Shirley Letters
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Marlene Smith-Baranzini, editor
Heyday Books
PO Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709
1890771007 $13.95 heydaybooks.com
Edited with an Introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini, The Shirley Letters: From The
California Mines 1851-1852 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe presents the contemporary
reader with vivid first-person accounts of what it was like to live in the midst of the great
California gold rush. Written in the form of letters by a doctor's wife who lived through the thick
and thin of boisterous events, The Shirley Letters encompass mob violence, summary justice, a
duel to the death, a rowdy July 4th celebration, and much, much more. A first-rate primary
source, The Shirley Letters offers especial insight to American history and is highly recommended
for both personal reading lists and academic reference collections.
Massacres Of The Mountains
J. P. Dunn, Jr.
Stackpole Books
5067 Ritter Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
0811728137 $21.95 stackpolebooks.com
Launching what promises to be a memorably impressive series titled "Frontier Classics" from
Stackpole Books, Massacres Of The Mountains: A History Of The Indian Wars Of The Far West
1815-1875 by J.P. Dunn, Jr. is an acclaimed and scholarly military study which was originally
published in 1886. This new, affordable, 816 page, paperback edition features an new introduction
by Western Historian David Dary and presents a meticulous and extensive accounting of
Indian-white conflict in western America. As informative today as it was a hundred years ago, and
enhanced with 160 b/w illustrations, Massacres Of The Mountains is a strongly recommended
acquisition for personal and academic American History and Native American Studies reference
collections and supplemental reading lists.
Bad & The Beautiful
Sam Kashner & Jennifer MacNair
W. W. Norton & Company
500 5th Ave., New York NY 10110
0393043215 $26.95 1-800-233-4830
Bad & The Beautiful is a fascinating and informative history of Hollywood in the 1950s which
offers a vivid inside portrait of sex and power games, from the rise of tabloid journalism to the
rise of legendary film icons. The authors focus as much on cultural trends and perceptions of stars
and Hollywood as upon the films and creations that kept it in the limelight of American culture
and innovation.
Children's Voices From The Trail
Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer
Arthur H. Clark Company
PO Box 14707, Spokane, WA 99214-0707
0870623133 $39.50 1-800-842-9286
Children's Voices From The Trail: Narratives Of The Platte River Road by Rosemary
Gudmundson Palmer is an astute collection and interpretation of primary sources, especially
letters and journals, of young people who set forth with their parents upon the pioneer trails west
and who wrote about their lives. Offering eye-opening insight into what it was really like to grow
up in the 1800's frontier, beset by both natural and human enemies, Children's Voices From The
Trail is a superb contribution to academic American History Studies reference collections and
highly recommended for the non-specialist reader with an interest in the real life conditions of
growing up in the American West.
Crisis in the Southwest
Richard Bruce Winders
Scholarly Resources
104 Greenhill Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19805-1897
0842028013 $17.95 scholarly.com
The latest addition to the outstanding Scholarly Resources "The American Crisis Series", historian
and civil war expert Richard Bruce Winders' Crisis In The Southwest: The United States, Mexico,
And The Struggle Over Texas is a thoroughly "reader friendly" historical study clearly laying out
facts, battles, and the profound impact the conflicts had upon history of Mexico, the European
powers of the day, and the emergence of the Republic of Texas, eventually culminating in the role
Texas was to play in shaping the events that were to ultimately result in the American Civil War.
Black-and-white maps and illustrations enhance the carefully researched text, which presents
life-and-death struggles in direct and simple language accessible for readers of all
backgrounds.
Song Of The City
Nathaniel Popkin
Four Walls Eight Windows
39 West 14th Street, NY, NY 10011
156858203X $24.95 www.4w8w.com
Song Of The City: An Intimate History Of The American Urban Landscape by Philadelphia
planner and activist Nathaniel Popkin, is a highly recommended, anecdotal history of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania in the second half of the twentieth century. Using varied stories drawn from the lives
of individual people to accurately reflect and bring to life this urban American community during
its years of late 20th Century evolution, Song Of The City embodies the quintessential human
experience which, taken as a whole, comprise the "soul" of the city.
After The Smoke Clears
Steve Mellon
University of Pittsburgh Press
300 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
0822941902 $29.00 1-800-666-2211
After The Smoke Clears: Struggling To Get By in Rustbelt America by Steve Mellon (a journalist
and staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is an informed and moving chronicle of
the rise and fall of the steel and mining industry in America. A tale of the communities
surrounding the employment bounty of the steel mills, and the struggle to survive when the
closure of this employment bounty left a void in people's ability to support themselves, After The
Smoke Clears is a compelling and highly recommended saga of twentieth-century American
history enhanced with black-and-white photography.
100 Hispanic-Americans Who Shaped American History
Rick Laezman
Bluewood Books/The Siyeh Group, Inc.
PO Box 689, San Mateo, CA 94401
0912517476 $7.95 1-650-548-0754
100 Hispanic-Americans Who Shaped American History by Rick Laezman is a remarkable
collection of informative biographical capsule portraits introducing one hundred Hispanic men and
women whose lives profoundly affected America. From the governor of Spanish Louisiana who
secretly aided the Americans during the Revolutionary War, to the entrepreneur who made the
Coca-Cola company a sensational success, 100 Hispanic-Americans Who Shaped American
History is an amazing and eclectic collection of fascinating figures, each of whom is given a
one-page biographical summary enhanced a black-and-white photograph or artistic portrait.
The Metaphysical Studies Shelf
Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences
Timothy Wyllie
Wisdom Editions
1122 Grant Ave., #C, Novato CA 94945
1931254168 $16.95 1-888-267-4446
Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences: Angles, Aliens, Dolphins & Shamans by Timothy
Wyllie is an original collection of amazing metaphysical adventure stories, exploring telepathic
experiences with angels, dolphins, and humans around the globe; planetary mysteries; and the
essence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences is highly
recommended reading for students of metaphysics and spirituality as an eye-opening, mind
expanding series of accounts revealing mysteries as yet unplumbed by modern science.
The Musicbook Shelf
Jump And The Net Will Appear
Robin Crow
New World Library
14 Pamaron Way, Novato, CA 94949
1577312309 $20.00 1-800-972-6657
Author Robin Crow worked twenty years to be a musician, achieving many goals through
grueling tour schedules and years on the road yet he had little to show from decades of work
but unhappiness. In his autobiography, Jump And The Net Will Appear, Crow tells how he turned
his life around from that of a struggling musician to a successful recording artist, then an
entrepreneur using many of the same tools for success. An inspiring, lively read.
The Timpani
Edmund A. Bowles
Pendragon Press
RR 1, Box 159 Ferry Road, Stuyvesant, NY 12173-9720
0945193858 $96.00 1-518-325-6100
The Timpani: A History In Pictures And Documents by expert musicologist and iconographer
Edmund A. Bowles, is a fascinating, comprehensive, and informative compendium enhanced
historical documents, more than 400 black-and-white photographs, years of meticulous research,
making it an enduring legacy concerning the history of orchestral timpani musical instruments and
instrumentation. Some narrative and informational text offers an overview of the history and
evolution of the timpani, but The Timpani largely consists of musical scores, artworks, and the
text of primary sources presented "as is" for the reader's judgement. A seminal contribution to
academic Music History reference collections, The Timpani is strongly recommended as a core
reference title.
The Light Crust Doughboys Are On The Air
John Mark Dempsey
University of North Texas Press
PO Box 311336, Denton, TX 76203-1336
1574411519 $29.95 1-800-826-8911
The Light Crust Doughboys Are On The Air: Celebrating Seventy Years Of Texas Music by John
Mark Dempsey (a native Texan and Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism, University of
North Texas) is an enjoyable and informative study of The Light Crust Doughboys band and their
Texas music, which was broadcast in the "golden era" of radio. Their long-lived radio show lasted
from 1930 to 1952, and their particular brand of gospel music was nominated for the Grammys in
1998, 1999, 2001, and 2002. An enjoyable, fact-filled, enthusiastically recommended blend of
biographical background and cogent musical assessment of this evolving group, The Light Crust
Doughboys Are On The Air is enhanced with a music CD featuring 30 of the band's most popular
and beloved songs.
Cuban Music
Maya Roy
Markus Wiener Publishers
231 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
1558762825 $22.95 markuswiener.com
Ably translated into English by Denise Asfar and Gabriel Asfar, Cuban Music: From Son And
Rumba To The Buena Vista Social Club And Timaba Cubana by Cuban music expert Maya Roy is
an information packed history of Cuba's musical heritage. Individual chapters address ritual music,
the rumba, "carnival" celebration music, music since the revolution, and a great deal more in this
broad-reaching, nicely organized survey of the unique and lively musical voice of a nation. A
superb addition to any personal or academic "World Music History" reference collection or
supplemental reading list, Maya Roy's Cuban Music is also available in hardcover (1558762817;
$49.95).
The Gardening Shelf
The Intuitive Gardener
Marilyn Raff
Fulcrum Publishing
16100 Table Mountain Parkway, #300, Golden, Colorado 80403
155591442X $24.95 1-800-992-2908
The Intuitive Gardener: Finding Creative Freedom In The Garden by gardening expert Marilyn
Raff is an impressively "user friendly" guide to imagining and creating the garden of one's dreams.
Raff accessibly teaches the reader how to follow intuition rather than be captive to overused and
stale rules. Individual chapters cover creative raising of roses, grasses, plants for shady sites, and a
great more. Vibrant color photographs add a visual appeal to the extensive text. The Intuitive
Gardener is a welcome and invaluable addition to any personal reading list or professional
gardening reference collection.
The Gardens At Filoli
Christopher McMahon, photographer
Timmy Gallagher, author
Pomegranate Artbooks
PO Box 6099, Rohnert Park, CA 94927
1566409934 $24.95 1-800-227-1428
The Gardens At Filoli is a superbly presented, full-color, 128 page photographic survey of the
beautiful gardens comprising the 654-acre Filoli estate about thirty miles south of San Francisco,
California. The lush and varied greenery, ranging from weeping cherry trees in full bloom to
Japanese maples and hydrangeas offering fall color contrast, make The Gardens At Filoli a
splendid treat for the eyes of any landscape gardening enthusiast. Timmy Gallagher's text and
captions fully showcase Christopher McMahon's breathtakingly beautiful photography in a work
that would grace any gardening connoisseur's reference shelf collection.
Southern Appalachian Wildflowers
Barbara Medina & Victor Medina
Falcon Guide/The Globe Pequot Press
PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437
0762711353 $24.95 1-800-962-0973
Collaboratively compiled and written by wildflower experts Barbara Medina and Victor Medina,
Southern Appalachian Wildflowers is an exquisitely beautiful and very practical volume illustrated
with a color photograph of each spotlighted variety of wildflower. The photographs enhance a
straightforward and informative text description with information on blooming seasons, habitat,
and useful comments. If you are a wildflower enthusiast planning an excursion through the
southern Appalachian countryside, or wanting to select and grow any of these plants in your own
garden or horticultural green house, then you will find Barbara and Victor Medina's Southern
Appalachian Wildflowers to be an excellent, illustrative, and well organized field guide.
The Artbook Shelf
Stencil Graffiti
Tristan Manco
Thames & Hudson
500 5th Ave., New York NY 10110
0500283427 $19.95 1-800-233-4830
In Stencil Graffiti, Tristan Manco profiles over four hundred of the most creative examples of
stencil graffiti, choosing from urban examples around the world. From a legendary Parisian
stenciler to works of art created on walls, Stencil Graffiti is packed with colorful examples and
biographies.
The History Of Art In Pictures
Gilles Plazy
MetroBooks
c/o Friedman/Fairfax Publishers
230 Fifth Ave., Suite 700, NY, NY 10001
1586633317 $9.98 1-800-367-9692
The History Of Art In Pictures by art critic Gilles Plazy is a gorgeous, full-color presentation
offering an informative overview of the history of Western art focusing on an astounding visual
gallery of classic works and artifacts. Brief captions supplement the lavish illustrations in this
straightforward yet aesthetically enchanting tour. The History Of Art In Pictures is very highly
recommended as an inexpensive but invaluable addition to any personal, school, and community
library art history collection.
Peter Gourfain
Russell Panczenko
The University of Wisconsin Press
1930 Monroe St., 3rd Floor, Madison, WI 53711
0932900798 $24.95 1-800-621-2736
Enhanced with an informative essay by Lucy R. Lippard, Peter Gourfain: Clay, Wood, Bronze,
And Works On Paper by features Russell Panczenko's interview with Peter Gourfain and is a
remarkable photographic showcase of the unique and extrinsic drawings and sculptures of that
minimalist expert. Some of the images are in color, but most photographs are black-and-white in
this extensive and recommended collection in celebration of Peter Gourfain's artistic achievements
and contributions as exhibited at the Elvehjem Museum of Madison, Wisconsin.
Frank Paul Sauerwein
Michael R. Grauer, et al.
Rio Grande Press
Glorieta, New Mexico 87535
0971867607 $149.95 www.amazon.com
In a stunning edition limited to only 500 copies, Frank Paul Sauerwein is the result of a
collaborative effort by Michael R. Grauer (Rio Grande Trust), Elaine Maher Harrison (Rio
Grande Press), and Steve Holmes (Burro Alley) and provides the reader with a vividly enhanced
biography and analysis of Frank Paul Sauerwein, a master painter of the American Southwest who
lived from 1871-1910. Sauerwein's brief life, brilliant career, and untimely death are explored in
this extensive study of his work, which also showcases his memorable artworks in full color. The
powerful, earthen tones and Sauerwein's human and realistic portrayal of Native American
subjects in his art mark this limited edition volume as an unforgettable biography and a strongly
recommended addition to American Art History reference collections.
The Poetry Of Everyday Life
Ronni Baer
MFA Publications
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
0878466452 $24.95 www.mfa.org
The Poetry Of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting In Boston By 17th Century Dutch And Felmish by
art specialist Ronni Baer (Mrs. Russell W. Baker Senior Curator of Painting in the Art of Europe
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) was produced to accompany the exhibition currently on
view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts showcasing and celebrating the
longstanding relationship between the Boston gentry and the 17th Century Dutch masters. The
Dutch painting style of the times was visually both physical and moral -- traits that had a strong
appeal for the early Bostonian upper classes and reflects a surprising collection of works that have
rarely, if ever, been seen by the general public. Collectors have lent their prized paintings to the
exhibition and made them available for reproduction and expert commentary in The Poetry Of
Everyday Life. Here are masterworks by Rembrandt, van der Heyden, van Ruisdael, and many
others making The Poetry Of Everyday Life an invaluable addition to any personal Art History
collection. Highly recommended for school and community libraries, The Poetry Of Everyday Life
is also available in a hardcover edition (0878466312, $40.00).
Drama In The Desert
Holly Kreuter, et. al.
Raised Barn Press
722 Page St. #2, San Francisco, CA 94117
0972178902 $45.00 desertdrama.com
Based on the images of Holly Kreuter, Drama In The Desert: The Sights And Sounds Of Burning
Man is a book and DVD set collecting full-color visuals and personal memories drawn from the
harsh desert of Black Rock City, Nevada. Capturing the sometimes quizzical, sometimes cruel,
sometimes dramatic art and documentary efforts of seventy contributors, Drama In The Desert is
strongly recommended as an eclectic, unique, and vibrant experience impressing its fiery artistic
message upon the reader's spirit.
The Philosophy Shelf
Ghost In The Universe
Taner Edis
Prometheus Books
59 John Glenn Dr., Amherst, NY 14228
1573929778 $29.00 1-800-421-0351
Is there a God which exists beyond the boundaries of nature? In Ghost In The Universe, physicist
Taner Edis informatively examines what we're learned about our world, which would seem to
support or refute ideas of metaphysical explanation. He postulates that complexity, intelligence,
and even religious experience ultimately emerge from the material world, arguing that nautralism
lends a better explanation of the workings of the world. An intriguing discussion.
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
Slavoj Zizek
Verso
180 Varick Street, NY, NY 10014-4606
1859844251 $18.00 versobooks.com
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion is an intensely
searching evaluation and analysis of precisely what totalitarianism is, and how the term has been
misused -- particularly in twentieth century political science and philosophical discussions.
Individual chapter sections address diverse, unusual, and controversial topics such as "The radical
ambiguity of Stalinism"; "A plea for material creationism"; and "The Pope versus the Dalai Lama".
Deviously written by Slavoj Zizek (Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Studies, Ljublijana) to
unweave conundrums about the cross-purpose classification of totalitarian power and governance,
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? is a complex, thought-provoking philosophical accounting
and a highly recommended addition to academic Political Science and Philosophy Studies
departmental reference collections and reading lists.
Western Historical Thinking
Jorn Rusen, editor
Berghahn Books
604 West 115th Street, NY, NY 10025
157181454X $22.50 1-800-540-8663
Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate, compiled and edited by European historian
and academician Jorn Rusen presents a scholarly examination of the philosophical question:
"What is history?" Theses of Western historical thinking, conflicting perspectives, and a search for
common ground amidst worldwide events, permeate this engaging, sophisticated and scrupulous
study, which includes contributions about historical thinking from Chinese, African, and East
Indian points of view as compared and contrasted with those of the West. Western Historical
Thinking is a strongly recommended, introspective and thoughtful compilation which would
enhanced any personal or academic Philosophy or History collection.
The Psychology Shelf
Learning From Our Mistakes
Patrick Casement
Guilford Publications, Inc.
72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012
1572308176 $25.00 1-800-365-7006
Learning From Our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma In Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy by practicing
psychoanalyst and therapist Patrick Casement is a practical-minded look at mistakes commonly
encountered in a mental healing profession, as well as what can be done to avoid them, and how
to minimize or mitigate their damage. Anecdotes, issues of technique, and practical-minded
reflections round out this informed and informative treatise which is especially recommended for
those members of the psychotherapist community who have the needs of their patients foremost in
mind.
Mind, Stress, & Emotions
Gene Wallenstein, Ph.D.
Commonwealth Press
Box 151701, San Diego, CA 92175-1701
0972060731 $29.95 www.amazon.com
Mind, Stress & Emotions: The New Science Of Mood by Gene Wallenstein (Neuroscience expert
and Adjunct Professor, University of California - San Diego) provides the reader with an
informative survey of all of the recent discoveries in brain science, immunology, and stress
research, as well as new treatment strategies for mood and anxiety disorders. A well-rounded and
thought-provoking examination of the science of human moods, written with technical
descriptions yet phrased to accommodate and teach a non-specialist general reader about the
workings of the brain, Mind, Stress & Emotions is strongly recommended for Psychology Studies
reading lists and academic reference collections as an unusually informative, educational, and
accessible survey.
Animus And Anima In Fairy Tales
Marie-Louise von Franz, author
Daryl Sharp, editor
Inner City Books
Box 1271, Station Q, Toronto, ON M4T 2P4, Canada
189457401X $16.00 1-416-927-0355
Written by Marie-Louise von Franz (a colleague of Jung who worked closely with him for nearly
thirty years), and capably edited by Daryl Sharp for contemporary readers, Animus And Anima In
Fairy Tales is a classic Jungian analysis of the contrasexual complexes (animus and anima) as
found in fairy tales, and what these say about the human mindset and human behavior. A
profound, philosophical, college-level dissection of deep-seated motivational concepts in a
powerful form of literature, Animus And Anima In Fairy Tales is a welcome and recommended
addition to Jungian Psychology Studies reading list or reference collection.
The Antiques/Collectibles Shelf
Antique Biedermeier Furniture
Rudolf Pressler, et al.
Schiffer Publishing
4880 Lower Valley Rd, Atglen, PA 19310
0764316486 $39.95 schifferbooks.com
Collaboratively compiled, organized, and written by antique furniture experts Rudolf Pressler,
Stefan Dobner, and Wolfgang Eller, Antique Biedermeier Furniture is extensively showcases a
wide and impressive variety of decorative and functional antique Biedermeier furnishings,
illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and complemented with a price guide for antique
dealers and collectors. A brief section of color photographs adds a vibrant touch to an informed
and informative introduction offering background history on these remarkable pieces, as well as
advice on their proper care and maintenance. The principle text offers illustrative photos of
individual furnishings accompanied by a one-paragraph description. Antique Biedermeier
Furniture is a simply superb and "user friendly" reference for dedicated collectors.
Tiffany Desk Treasures
George A. Kemeny & Donald Miller
Hudson Hills Press
1133 Broadway, Suite 1301, New York, NY 10010-8001
1555952178 $50.00 1-212-929-9051
Collaboratively compiled and written by Tiffany experts and appraisers George A. Kemeny and
Donald Miller, Tiffany Desk Treasures: A Collector's Guide is an informed and informative
history of the wealthy American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and his especially
crafted desk sets, as produced by Tiffany Studios and Tiffany Furnaces between the late 1890s
and 1933. Full-color photographs showcase memorable works of art, while the "reader friendly"
text accessibly describes the pieces' histories and subtle nuances of their creations. A superbly
organized and presented history for Tiffany antique collectors (it also includes a Catalogue
Raisonne of Tiffany Studies and Tiffany Furnaces Desk Accessories), as well as a gorgeous book
for connoisseurs of fine art to simply page through, Tiffany Desk Treasures is far more
inexpensive than (and the next best thing to) owning a personal Tiffany collection.
Collector Books
Box 3009, Paducah, KY 42002-3009
1-800-626-5420 www.amazon.com
This publisher's many solid reference guides continues to amaze, producing updated editions and
color-packed books which aid in both pricing and identification. The fifth edition of Patrick and
Joyce Olds' Barbie Doll Years (1-57432-271-0, $19.95) is updated for collectors who need the
latest prices: values of dolls and accessories lie at the heart of a book that lists dolls alphabetically
along with outfits, collections and accessories. Felicia Browell's Breyer Animal Collector's Guide
(296-6, $19.95) appears in its third edition to update prices and information on this collectible set
of toys. Carol Stover's Small Dolls Of The 40s & 50s (275-3, $29.95) excels in its guide to small
dolls ranging from baby dolls and toddlers to look-alikes and British dolls. Included here are
histories of makers, dolls, and the evolution of small doll sets. Florence's Big Book Of Salt &
Pepper Shakers (257-5, $24.95) holds color photos of appliance sets, animals, crystal and glass
virtually every type of shaker one could imagine. Vintage Quilts by Bobbie Aug, et.al. (285-0,
$24.95) covers not only identification and values, but collecting, dating and preserving vintage
quilts. Gene Florence continues with his glassware expertise in Elegant Glassware Of The
Depression Era (298-2, $24.95), appearing in its 10th edition to update prices and details on
Cambridge, Fostoria, and other glass company productions. For an all-in-one pricing reference,
try the 21st edition of Schoreder's Antiques Price Guide (1-57432-310-5, $14.95): what it lacks in
color pictures is more than made up for in a format cramming in values for over 50,000 antiques
and collectibles.
Krause Publications
700 East State St., Iola, WI 54990-0001
1-800-258-0929 www.amazon.com
David Harper edits 2003 North American Coins And Prices (0873494776, $17.95), which
appears in its updated 12th edition to provide the latest values for both US and Mexican coins.
Use the coin-sized black and white, clear photos to aid in identification purposes, then enjoy the
latest pricing available to help organize, categorize and value a collection. Roy Ritchie and Ron
Stewart's Standard Knife Collector's Guide (087349280X, $14.95) also appears in its updated
fourth edition, including clear black and white photos and drawings of knives, discussions of their
makers and history, and the latest value guide. Both are essential for libraries keeping up on the
ever-changing collector's market.
The Computer Shelf
The XSL Companion
Neil Bradley
Addison-Wesley
75 Arlington St., #300, Boston, MA 02116
0201770830 $39.99 www.awl.com
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, The XSL Companion by ISL expert Neil
Bradley covers all the features of the new XSLT language standard, which has been established as
an addendum to the XML language expressly for transformation needs. Sections cover
transformations using XSLT, XPath expressions, formatting with XSL, and a host of useful
references. Written especially for the experienced XSL programmer looking to catch up with the
latest evolution of this versatile and useful language, The XSL Companion offers step-by-step
instructions, sample code, numerous examples and more to help the reader quickly and easily
integrate new concepts into a fluid and dynamic program creation medium. Also highly
recommended for personal and professional computer reference collections are Neil Bradley's The
Concise SGML Companion (0201419998; $34.99) and The XML Companion: 3rd Edition
(0201770598; $44.99).
Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook
Andrew Glassner
A K Peters, Ltd.
63 South Avenue, Natick, MA 01760
1568811713 $45.00 www.akpeters.com
Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook: Further Recreations in Computer Graphics by computer
graphics researcher and expert Andrew Glassner is an inspiring, thought-provoking, full-color,
visual, mathematical, and tutorial tour of some of the artistic achievements that modern computers
are capable of. Individual chapters address programming functions and commands to craft
remarkable images of soap bubbles, Celtic knotwork, recreate special lighting and camera
techniques, transform sounds into shapes, and much more. Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook is
a very highly recommended supplementary resource for budding computer artists, hobbyists,
students, and professional designers seeking to create unique and memorable computer
graphics.
Learning Visual Basic.NET Through Applications
Clayton E. Crooks II
Charles River Media, Inc.
20 Downer Avenue, Suite 3, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043
1584502428 $49.95 charlesriver.com
Learning Visual Basic.NET Through Applicationsby Clayton E. Crooks II (a partner in Advanced
Information Systems, a consulting company specializing in custom hardware and software
solutions) is a straightforward companion reference and instructive guide to learning how to
program in Visual Basic.NET while developing applications such as MP3 players, encryption
programs, DirectX 8.1, word processors and much more. Easy-to-follow chapters cover an
introduction to the VB.NET language, math and random functions, strings, error handling, and
progress to more complex topics like Windows form applications drawing with VB.NET, and
Microsoft Agent. Screenshots, sample code, and step-by-step instructions make Learning Visual
Basic.NET Through Applications a superb supplement to any course in VB.NET, or even an
excellent self-taught course. An accompanying CD-ROM offers numerous tools, figures, and
source code for every project in the book - almost everything except for VB.NET itself is on it.
Learning Visual Basic.NET Through Applications is very highly recommended to anyone needing
to quickly and efficiently learn or deepen their understanding and utilization of VB.NET.
Special Edition Using Adobe Photoshop 7
Peter Bauer & Jeff Foster
Que Publishing
c/o Pearson Technology Group
201 West 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290-1097
0789727609 $49.99 www.mcp.com
Adobe Photoshop is simply the best image-editing software currently available and is the choice of
preference for millions of graphic artists worldwide. Its breadth of features and raw power to
manipulate any type of image has made it the recognized standard. New graphic artists need to
learn Photoshop, while established professionals need to keep their skill sets current with every
new revision. Collaboratively written by Adopbe Photoshop experts Peter Bauer and Jeff Foster,
Special Edition Using Adobe Photoshop 7 includes all the new features of Photoshop 7 including:
Macintosh OS X compliances (native mode and carbonized); an integrated image management
system; an improved painting engine for both PC and Mac versions; a more advanced web
workflow capability; and added editing features. User Level: Intermediate-to-Advanced, 1008
pages.
Osborne/McGraw-Hill
2600 Tenth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
1-800-722-4726
Three new and outstanding Osborne titles are invaluable additions to personal and professional
computer instructional reference collections. Readers can develop powerful XML-based wireless
applications using Mikael Hillborg's Wireless XML Developer's Guide (0072195363; 544 pages;
$49.99) as their professional resource. Packed with ready-to-use code that can be customized and
plugged into mobile applications, this advanced developer's guide is a must-have for building
robust wireless Internet applications. Jeffry Houser's ColdFusion 5: A Beginner's Guide
(0072191090; 550 pages; $29.99) is an this easy-to-follow guide to ColdFusion. The reader will
learn how to successfully and effectively navigate in this rapid development environment. From
design, to dynamic content creation, to deployment, all aspects of ColdFusion 5 are fully and
cogently covered. ASP.NET: The Complete Reference (0072195134; 1,008 pages; $49.99) by
Robert Standefer III provides a comprehensive wealth of information on all seven built-in .NET
Framework namespaces--plus plenty of other useful information for developers, including relevant
topics like security, Web services, database development, application deployment, and more.
The Flash Animator
Sandro Corsaro
New Riders
201 W 103rd St., Indianapolis, IN 46290
0735712824 $49.99 www.newriders.com
The Flash Animator by Sandro Corsaro teaches traditional animation techniques to create
broadcast-quality Flash animations and illustrates point-by-point how to use traditional animation
concepts in Flash. The accompanying CD included with the highly recommended instructional and
reference book contains all of the example files used in the text, plus a collection of exclusive
SWF files. The range of topics covered varies from simple ball bounces to complex character
design, sound, and optimization issues. Unlike a traditional animation book, The Flash Animator
illustrates both the concept of the animation and explains point-by-point its optimal use in
Flash.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
059600382X $39.95 1-800-998-9938
Now in a completely updated and significantly expanded fifth edition, HTML & XHTML: The
Definitive Guide by webmasters Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy is a straightforward,
user-friendly reference to designing practical, eye-catching web pages for either business or
personal websites. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide is enhanced with screenshots, sample
code, easy-to-understand instructions and more, tutoring the reader in HTML basics ranging from
lists and images, to cascading style sheets, forms, frames, and executable content. HTML &
XHTML: The Definitive Guide truly lives up to its title as being a solid introduction to the basics,
and very highly recommended for beginning HTML and XHTML users.
Murach's CICS Desk Reference
Raul Menendez and Doug Lowe
Mike Murach & Associates, Inc.
2560 West Shaw Lane, Suite 101, Fresno, CA 93711-2765
1890774170 $49.50 1-800-221-5528
Collaboratively written by CICS programmer and expert Raul Menendez with the assistance of
Doug Lowe, Murach's CICS Desk Reference is a solid and accessible resource for CICS/COBOL
programmers. Individual chapters cover useful programming guidelines for creating and
debugging readable, well-formatted code; syntax and option descriptions for 121 CICS
commands; Basic Mapping Support macros; CICS program development aids for working with
VSAM files, using RDO, using Master Terminal Transaction, and more. A "user friendly",
information-packed resource filled cover to cover with sample code, examples, tips, tricks, and
techniques, Murach's CICS Desk Reference is an excellent and recommended guide written
especially for experienced CICS/COBOL programmers looking to save time and headaches when
they need to look up reliable information quickly.
Database Programming With Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET
F. Scott Barker
Sams Publishing
201 W 103rd St., Indianapolis, IN 46290
0672322471 $39.99 www.mcp.com
The topic combination of VB.NET and ADO.NET is unbeatable. VB.NET is the most popular
language in which to code. And, every developer needs to understand ADO.NET to allow data to
be accessed from a Web site. In Database Programming With Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET:
Tips, Tutorials, And Code, professional developers will be shown numerous code examples that
will illustrate how to program database driven applications within the .NET Framework. Database
Programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET is aimed at both established and new VB
Developers. Important topics covered include: Visual Studio development environment,
ASP.NET applications, Windows Forms application, using VB.NET with ADO.NET, complex
queries, security, COM interop., and application deployment. User Level: Intermediate, 544
pages.
Creating Motion Graphics With After Effects
Trish Meyer & Chris Meyer
CMP Books
600 Harrison St., San Francisco CA 94107
1578201144 $54.95 1-800-500-6875
Now in an updated and expanded second edition which covers version 5.5, Creating Motion
Graphics with After Effects Volume 1: The Essentials is an eye-opening, full-color reference and
tutorial written for Adobe "After Effects" users of all skill and experience levels. "Learner
friendly" step-by-step tutorials effectively teach the reader how to exploit the animation
capabilities of the software from layering, to learning how to represent motion paths and velocity,
to masking, track mattes, and lighting in three dimensions, and more. A superb "how-to"
self-teaching and highly recommended reference for aspiring computer artists and digital video
makers, Creating Motion Graphics With After Effects is accompanied with a CD-ROM containing
a completed user-oriented and accessible tutorial enhanced with hundreds of movies, stills, objects
and audio clips, as well as the tryout version of Adobe After Effects 5.5 for the Macintosh or
Windows.
The Travel Shelf
Cheap Sleeps Europe
Katie Wood
Robson Books/Parkwest Publications
451 Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07304
186105307X $15.00 parkwestpubs.com
Now in a new and completely updated edition, Cheap Sleeps Europe is a thick, 614-page
compendium of more than 10,000 affordable lodgings all over the European continent, from
Austria to Finland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and more. From tips on book a bed in advance,
to detailed information about hotels, to warnings of trouble spots, Cheap Sleeps Europe is a truly
"user friendly" and highly recommended take-along guide for European business travelers and
vacationers on a budget.
Small Town Minnesota A To Z
Tony Andersen
Afton Historical Society Press
PO Box 100, Afton, MN 55001
1890434256 $24.95 aftonpress.com
Small Town Minnesota A To Z by Minnesota native Tony Andersen is an engaging and nostalgic
look at a wide variety of small-town communities in Minnesota from Argyle to Zumbro Falls.
Most of these distinctive Minnesota communities have fewer than 1,000 people. Full-color
photographs and an engaging text written with wry humor and replete with candid, anecdotal
stories of conversations and adventures with small-town folk make Small Town Minnesota A To
Z an engaging and refreshing tribute to an outstanding Midwestern state, as well as a less
crowded, less hyper, and less pressure-intense way of life.
Ulysses Press
Box 3440, Berkeley, CA 94703-3440
1-800-377-2542 www.amazon.com
Three excellent new Hidden' editions provide destination-bound travelers with practical
information on everything from local scenic drives to weekend getaways and camping. Richard
Harris' Hidden Southwest (1569752842, $19.95) appears in its sixth edition to provide selective
recommendations and reviews of all kinds of Southwest vacation opportunities. From a
narrow-guage train to an unusual redwood lodging to skiing and seeing abandoned relics, this
covers all points of interest. Richard Harris' Hidden Colorado (1569752907, $15.95) appears in
an updated fourth edition to re-visit little-known locales and vacation spots in all Colorado areas.
Hidden Idaho (1569752869, $14.95) also appears in its fourth updated edition to cover
everything from skiing to wildlife viewing. These are highly recommended take-along totes that
offer candid assessments of establishments and sightseeing opportunities.
No Place For A Lady
Barbara Hodgson
Greystone Books
c/o Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.
2323 Quebec Street, Suite 201, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4S7
1550549383 $36.95 greystonebooks.com
No Place For A Lady: Tales Of Adventurous Women Travellers by book designer and author
Barbara Hodgson is an exciting anthology of true stories drawn from the experiences and
adventures of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century women travelers who (very much
counter to the gender sterotypes of their day) traversed the world. Filled with maps, artwork, and
photographs (many of them in color), No Place For A Lady is a truly fascinating read and a study
of real-life adventurous women which is enthusiastically recommended for personal reading lists
and academic Women's Studies reference collections.
Seven Perfect Days In Colorado
Bill Ginnodo & Celia Ginnodo
Pride Publications, Inc.
4 North Wilshire Lane, Arlington Hights, IL 60004
0965658716 $9.95 pridepublications.com
Seven Perfect Days In Colorado: A Guided Driving Tour by Bill and Celia Ginnodo is a informed
and informative, thoroughly "user friendly", and highly recommended day-by-day planner for
developing an itinerary to explore the highlights of the state of Colorado which are readily
accessible by automobile or RV. From admiring the beauty and ecosystem of the Rockies, to
visiting a real ghost town, to visiting the museum of Denver, Seven Perfect Days In Colorado
provides the invaluable and time-saving blueprint for a vacation excursion that will be as fun as it
is educational!
Art-Sites Paris
Fronia W. Simpson, editor
art-SITES
894 Waller St., San Francisco, CA 94117
193187400X $19.95 www.art-sites.com
Deftly edited by Fronia W. Simpson, Art-Sites Paris: Art, Architecture, Design is a superbly
written and presented guide to the art and architecture to be seen while traveling among the many
beauties of Paris. Subdivided by geographical region into numerous entries with the addresses and
history of noteworthy sites, and enhanced throughout with black-and-white photography
including 15 detail maps and city tour routes, Art-Sites Paris is an extensive, comprehensive,
sophisticated, and thoroughly "user friendly" guide sure to keep the dedicated art and architecture
lover busy sightseeing throughout an extended tour. If you intend on visiting Paris, begin your
travel planning with Art-Sites Paris!
52 Great Florida Golf Getaways
Ed Schmidt Jr.
Pineapple Press, Inc.
PO Box 3889, Sarasota, FL 34230
1561642606 $14.95 pineapplepress.com
52 Great Florida Golf Getaways by Florida golfing expert Ed Schmidt Jr. is a handy, "user
friendly" guide to some of Florida's most vibrant, well-run, and enjoyable golf courses. Yet the
golf courses selected are particularly special in that each one of them has access to numerous
other recreational opportunities nearby - boutiques, water parks, museums, kids' activities, sailing,
tennis, fishing, and more - for the non-golfers in the family. Straightforward descriptions, contact
information, and black-and-white photographs form the heart of this solid reference which is
especially recommended for mixed golfer and non-golfer families in the Florida area. If you are
golfer and taking a trip to Florida, begin your itinerary planning with a thorough browsing
through Ed Schmidt's 52 Great Florida Golf Getaways!
Hunter Publishing
130 Campus Dr., Edison, NJ 08818
1-800-255-0343 www.amazon.com
Two new travel guides are excellent resources for planning a trip. Bruce and June Conord's Costa
Rica (1588432904, $17.95) appears in its fourth edition to update information on rainforest tours,
historic sights, and places to stay and eat in the country. Black and white and some color photos
pack pages of advice, which include information and maps. Ed & Lynn Readicker-Henderson's
updated and expanded fourth edition of Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska (1588432882, $17.95)
covers the coastal transport system and points of interest along the way, covering communities
which cannot be reached by auto. Tips on activities and side-trips are especially valuable in a
guide that covers Alaska's finest points of interest.
The Other Orlando
Kelly Monaghan
The Intrepid Traveler
KSB Promotions (publicity)
PO Box 531, Branford, CT 06405
1887140417 $16.95 intrepidtraveler.com
There is a great deal more to Orlando, Florida than the Disney World! Now in a revised, updated,
and expanded, 400 page second edition, The Other Orlando: What To Do When You've Done
Disney And Universal by Kelly Monaghan is a useful and "user friendly" vacation and travel guide
to the Orlando, Florida area that focuses on all of the many other tourist attractions with things to
do and see. From the attractions at Gatorland, to experiencing the mystique of Splendid China, to
a galaxy-spanning view of the Universe at the Kennedy Space Center, The Other Orlando offers
exciting, and extensively detailed examples of fun attractions, complete with comprehensive
contact, website, and scheduling information. If you are planning a personal, family, or business
trip to Orlando, Florida, begin compiling your itinerary by browsing through Kelly Monaghan's
The Other Orlando!
The Military Shelf
Arabs At War
Kenneth M. Pollack
University of Nebraska Press
233 N. 8th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0255
0803237332 $49.95 1-800-755-1105
Accessibly written by Kenneth M. Pollack (a former Persian Gulf military analyst for the CIA),
Arabs At War: Military Effectiveness 1948-1991 is a straightforward and comprehensive "power
history" of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria during the post-World War II
epoch. Studying in meticulous detail the often difficult evolution of Arab militaries in terms of
how they learned from their past experiences and conflicts, the frame of mind that permeates the
military strategy of these nations today, and much, much more, Arabs At War is a seminal and
sobering contribution to contemporary Military Studies and Middle East Studies reference
collections and supplemental reading lists.
Images Of Kursk
Nik Cornish
Brassey's, Inc.
22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, VA 20166
1574885766 $19.95 1-800-775-2518
Filled from cover to cover with black-and-white photographs, Images Of Kursk: History's
Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943 by Nik Cornish is a gritty, compellingly accurate, point-by-point
dissection of the pivotal tank battle of World War II, between Russian and German forces from
beginning to end. Vivid details, sobering statistics, and personal eye-witness testimonies enhance
the text of this unforgettable and very highly recommended study of a crucial piece of World War
II military history.
Xin Loi, Viet Nam
Al Sever
Quiet Storm Publishing
PO Box 1666, Martinsburg, WV 25402
http://www.quietstormbooks.com
0971429626 $25.95 1-361-992-5587
Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Memoir Of The War Over Viet Nam is the personal testimony of Al Sever, a
Vietnam veteran who served thirty-one months as a crew member on various military helicopters
during the Viet Nam conflict. Absolute, graphic, unvarnished truth of what it was like to survive
day by day in a war-torn land far away from home fills the pages of this gut-wrenching, honest,
and open account. Xin Loi, Viet Nam is a very highly recommended addition to the growing
library of Viet Nam War era personal memoirs, participant biographies, and military histories.
Pilot From The Prairie
Edgar J. Allen
Hara Publishing
PO Box 19732, Seattle, WA 98109
1883697581 $13.95 www.amazon.com
Pilot From The Prairie is the personal memoir of Edgar Allen, a World War II bomber pilot.
Edgar memorably relates the danger and horror of war, and the critical importance of courage and
keeping one's cool to survive in the midst of dangerously lethal situations. A raw and vivid
account that pulls no punches and makes the reader feel what it was really like to survive the thick
of devastating war, Pilot From The Prairie is a welcome and highly recommended contribution to
the growing library of World War II autobiographical accounts -- which is all the more
appreciated as that generation of men and women leaves us through the inevitable passage of the
years.
Battle Of Alamein
John Bierman & Colin Smith
Viking Press
375 Hudson St., New York NY 10014
0670030406 $32.95 1-800-847-5515
The Battle of Alamein stands out as one of the great triumphs of the Allied forces, where the
Egyptian railway stop became a center of a showdown between German commander Rommel and
British general Montgomery. In Battle Of Alamein the authors re-create this pivotal World War II
engagment, from events which led up to it to its aftermath, providing new insights on advisors on
both sides. A riveting story.
The Pets/Wildlife Shelf
The Health Of Your Dog
John Bower & David Youngs
Alpine Publications, Inc.
2456 E. 9th Street, Loveland, CO 80537
0931866456 $24.95 1-800-777-7257
Specifically written to be accessible to the lay pet owner by experienced veterinarians John Bower
and David Youngs, The Health Of Your Dog is a solid and reliable guide to taking optimum care
of a canine companion. From house training a puppy, to dealing with behavior problems, keeping
an eye out for symptoms of diseases and veterinary care options, The Health Of Your Dog is an
extremely practical reference for dog owners everywhere and a highly recommended addition to
community library Pets & Wildlife reference collections.
Solving The Mysteries Of Breed Type
Richard Beauchamp
Doral Publishing, Inc.
2501 W. Behrend Drive, Suite 43, Phoenix, AZ 85027-4148
0944875890 $24.95 www.doralpub.com
Solving The Mysteries Of Breed Type by Richard Beauchamp (syndicated columnist, dog show
judge, and former publisher of "Kennel Review" magazine) is a straightforward and detailed
instructional guide for aspiring dog breeders, and novice dog show judges, and purebreed
connoisseurs aspiring to acquire a degree of professionalism, about discerning the subtle
distinctions of breed type. Individual chapters competently address what to look for in various
physical characteristics, from coat and head shape to silhouette and movement. Black-and-white
photographs enhance the meticulous text descriptions in this succinctly written resource which
should be considered a core reference title for personal, professional, and community library
collections.
The Dolphins Of Hilton Head
Cara M. Gubbins
University of South Carolina Press
937 Assembly Street, 8th Floor, Columbia, SC 29208
1570034583 $12.95 1-800-768-2500
The Dolphins Of Hilton Head: Their Natural History by ecologist and conservation biologist Cara
M. Gubbins is an informed and informative introduction to the fascinating life and world of
dolphins, studying their feeding, socializing, communication, and much, much more.
Black-and-white photographs enhance the adventurous and detailed, "reader friendly" text,
making The Dolphins Of Hilton Head a truly exciting account which is most especially
recommended for marine wildlife students in general, and dolphin enthusiasts in particular.
Aquarium Plants
Christel Kasselmann
Krieger Publishing Company
PO Box 9542, Melbourne, FL 32902-9542
1575240912 $84.50 1-800-724-0025
Painstakingly translated from the original German edition, Christel Kasselmann's Aquarium Plants
is a meticulous, comprehensive, and practical resource describing a wide variety of common plant
species used for private aquariums. Aquarium Plants comprises an informed and informative
overview of factors necessary to the proper care of such plants and detailed, one-page studies of
individual plant varieties that include etymology, distribution, description, special care
instructions, ecology and more of each plant variety, as well as full-color photographs that vividly
portray the plants. Aquarium Plants is a reliable and excellent reference which is especially
recommended to dedicated aquarium hobbyists.
The Complete Chicken
Pam Percy
Voyageur Press, Inc.
PO Box 338, Stillwater, MN 55082
0896585573 $29.95 1-800-837-2210
The Complete Chicken: An Entertaining History Of Chickens by Pam Percy (who has been raising
chickens as a hobby since 1986 on her five-acre property near Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a
fascinating and detailed history of chickens in recorded human history, ranging from their
domestication and use as egg layers and a source of food, to popular culture features such as the
animated movie "Chicken Run." Full-color illustrations and photographs, famous chicken-themed
quotes, and a solid body of fascinating information mark The Complete Chicken as a fascinating,
bird-themed history which is a "must read" for chicken fanciers and fans.
The Judaic Studies Shelf
Out Of The Inferno
Mrs. Rachel Altein
Kehot Publication Society
291 Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11213
0826606830 $29.00
Out Of The Inferno charts the efforts that went into the rescue of Rabbi Yosef Schneersohn,
during which six months of lobbying with countless political figures led to the eventual rescue of
the Rebe from World War II Europe. Here are letters, memoranda, and documents detailing the
efforts to rescue a revered man and his trial, which continued even after his journey away from
Europe.
Escape Or Die
Ina R. Friedman
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 1316, Cambridge, MA 02238
0938756346 $12.95 1-617-776-2230
Escape Or Die: True Stories Of Young People Who Survived The Holocaust by Ina R. Friedman
is a compelling collection of stories about how twelve young men and women (all of whom were
under the age of 20 at the time) were able to save themselves from perishing in the Nazi holocaust
of World War II and its immediate aftermath from 1933 to 1948. These biographical episodes are
drawn from ten countries and are replete with courage, endurance, ingenuity, and luck against all
the odds. There is Robert, age 11, who suffered the deprivations and dangers of the Warsaw
Ghetto and the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau; Mayra who spent the first six years of her
life hiding out from soldiers in a series of cellars; Pieter, imprisoned as a spy at the age of 18;
Manny, who at 14 witnessed his family and home destroyed during the infamous incident of
Crystal Night; and more. Each story is accompanied by historical notes on each narrator's
homeland. A highly recommended and welcome addition to Holocaust Studies collections, Escape
Or Die is a tribute to the ultimate triumph of the human spirit in general, and their incredible
survival in particular, despite the unspeakably horrific conditions that led to the deaths of millions
all around these twelve boys and girls. Also very strongly recommended titles for Holocaust
Studies reference collections are Ina Friedman's two other works: Flying Against The Wind: The
Story Of A Young Woman Who Defied The Nazis (Lodgepole Press, 1886721009, $11.95) and
The Other Victims: First Person Stories Of Non-Jews Persecuted By The Nazis (Houghton
Mifflin, 0395745152, $6.95).
Surviving The Nazis, Exile And Siberia
Edith Sekules
Vallentine Mitchell/ISBS, dist.
5824 N.E. Hassalo Street, Portland, OR 97213-3644
0853033889 $17.45 1-800-944-6190
In 1916, Edith Sekules was born into a Jewish family as part of an established and flouring
Viennese community of almost 200,000 Jews. Today that same community is numbered at only a
few thousands. Most of those with whom Edith grew up with were slaughtered in the holocaust
of World War II. In 1938, together with her husband Kurt and her four month old daughter, Edith
escaped to Estonia. There they eked out a living until 1941 when they were labeled "enemy
aliens" and interned in Siberia by the Russians. In Surviving The Nazis, Exile And Siberia, Edith
reveals in candid and vivid detail what her life of confinement was like, and how only their good
health and optimism enabled the family to survive in harsh conditions. This is a story of a seven
year exile spend in the theater of war, three camps, and a 3,350-mile journey home. After the way
Edith helped to create a knitwear company in Northern Ireland and she went on to world-wide
success in that endeavor. Surviving The Nazis, Exile And Siberia is more than just another
indictment of holocaust era atrocity -- it is also a testament to the endurance and resilience of the
human spirit, and that the greatest revenge against those who do us wrong, and the finest
memorial we can provide to those who did not survive, is to go on ourselves and live a full,
rewarding, compassionate life.
One People, Two Worlds
Ammiel Hirsch & Yosef Reinman
Schocken Books
299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171
0805241914 $26.00 1-800-726-0600
One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi And An Orthodox Rabbi Explore The Issues That
Divide Them is a candid but respectful mutual exploration and exchange of ideas between Reform
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Reinman. Virtually every divisive issue upon
which Orthodox and Reform Jews differ is vigerously debated, from the role of women and the
value of secular culture, to the existence of a Supreme Being and differing beliefs about Israel.
Though the disagreements are sharp, these two very different Rabbis have a deep respect and
liking for one another in this thought-provoking and very welcome contribution to Judaic Studies
reading lists.
The Rituals & Practices Of Jewish Life
Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky
Rabbi Daniel Judson
Jewish Lights Publishing
PO Box 237, Woodstock, VT 05091
1580231691 $18.95 jewishlights.com
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Rabbis Kerry Olitzky and Daniel Judson, The Rituals &
Practices Of Jewish Life: A Handbook For Personal Spiritual Renewal is a straightforward and
practical instructional guide to the origin, manner, and modern-day practice of ten areas of Jewish
ritual: Upon Rising and Going to Bed; Covering the Head; Blessings throughout the Day; Daily
Prayer; Tefillin; Tallit and Tallit Katan; Talmud Torah; The Continuum of Kashrut; Mikvah; and
Entering Shabbot. Enhanced with an informative foreword by Vanessa L. Ochs, and illustrations
by Joel Moskowitz, The Rituals & Practices Of Jewish Life is a useful and "user friendly",
easy-to-follow, step-by-step, guidebook which is most especially recommended for readers who
may have little to no understanding of the proper ritual performance and what it means, yet who
want to incorporate more of the Jewish traditions into their daily lives.
The Jewish World In Stamps
Ronald L. Eisenberg
Schreiber Publishing, Inc.
51 Monroe Street, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20850
http://www.schreiberpublishing.com
1887563768 $36.00 www.amazon.com
The Jewish World In Stamps: 4000 Years Of Jewish Civilization On Postage Stamps by Ronald
L. Eisenberg is an amazing, full-color, 288 page volume that meticulously reproduces postage
stamps portraying events and people throughout the whole of Jewish history. The Jewish World
In Stamps ranges from biblical stories such as the tale of Esther, to the Diaspora, to rise of
Zionism and establishment of the state of Israel, to Jewish traditions and values, to World Jewish
Communities, to modern-day Jewish entertainers such as Groucho Marx. Succinct entries flesh
out the background detail on the individual or story represented by each stamp, and the color
illustrations are the next best thing to having an international stamp collection of one's own. The
Jewish World In Stamps is an exciting and seminal work that makes both the world of stamp
collecting and Jewish history itself come alive.
Franz Kafka
Sara Loeb
University Press of America
4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706
0761821414 $42.00 1-800-462-6420
Franz Kafka: A Question Of Jewish Identity by Sara Loeb (inter-disciplinary researcher and
expert on Western culture, Central European Judaism, and Holocaust Literature) is a meticulously
presented, in-depth focus on the life, philosophy, and Jewish identity of the renowned author
Franz Kafka. An extensive and scholarly study that contemplates Kafka's friendship with Max
Brod, reflections on the Diaspora, assimilation vs. self-hatred among Jews, and much, much more,
Franz Kafka: A Question Of Jewish Identity is highly recommended for students of Kafka's
writings as an unusually thoughtful, albeit sometimes technical account of the man, his life,
thought, and work.
The Business Shelf
Venture Management Handbook
Cliff Conneighton
VentureBooks
53 Depot Road, Hollis, NH 03049
0972167102 $29.95 venturebooks.biz
Venture Management Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Practical Guide To Stock, Finance And
Contracts by entrepreneur Cliff Conneighton's is a clearly written, nicely organized, experienced
based, informative instructional guide to the often complex and confusing subject of financing
business ventures. Conneighton's Venture Management Handbook is a very highly recommended,
complete-in-one-volume, "user friendly" reference.
Marketing To American Latinos
M. Isabel Valdes
Paramount Market Publishing, Inc.
301 S. Geneva St, #109, Ithaca, NY 14850
0967143926 $54.95 1-888-787-8100
Marketing To American Latinos: A Guide To The In-Culture Approach, Part 2 by Hispanic
marketing pioneer M. Isabel Valdes is a solidly presented, up-to-date, business oriented
examination and analysis of the Hispanic-American consumer market. From studying diversity,
geographic distribution, and buying power of Hispanic households to advertising strategies that
target the hearts, minds, and wallets of Hispanic consumers, to digital marketing and an
"integrated in-culture" strategy, Marketing to American Latinos is an extensively researched
reference written especially for big and small businesses alike. Also highly recommended is
Valdes' predecessor volume, Marketing to American Latinos: A Guide To The In-Culture
Approach, Part I (0967143934; $54.95).
John Carver On Board Leadership
John Carver
Jossey-Bass
989 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94103
0787958441 $40.00 josseybass.com
John Carver On Board Leadership is a collection of articles that demonstrate the Policy
Governance (R) model in board leadership, as written by its creator, John Carver, a man who has
over twenty years of experience working with a variety of corporation boards. Addressing how to
use the model of governance to improve communication and overall effectiveness, the role of
committees, means for resolving disagreements, and much, much more, John Carver On Board
Leadership is a solidly written, reader accessible, and effectively useful title recommended for
anyone charged with the often difficult and complicated task of coordinating or leading a
governing board.
Amacom
1-800-250-5308
Two important new titles provide valuable information. Gayle Backstrom's I'd Rather Be Working
(0-8144-7115-3, $14.95) covers financial self-support for those with chronic illness: a subject
seldom touched upon in the business world. From analyzing limitations and changed directions in
business life to improving skills, or understanding a changed employment situation, this is not to
be missed. Craig Settles' Wireless, Inc. (0-8144-0725-0, $29.95) provides an in-depth business
guide to how wireless technology can be integrated into existing business strategies. From using
mobile technologies for new and advanced communication channels with customers to saving
money, this tells managers how to make informed business decisions by understanding the
opportunities wireless technologies brings to the business world.
Building A Successful Consulting Practice
Patricia Pulliam Phillips, editor
ASTD
Box 1443, Alexandria, VA 22313-2043
1562863312 $49.95 www.astd.org
The newest title in the outstanding ASTD "In Action" series, Building A Successful Consulting
Practice is an impressive and informative collection of twelve case studies, each of which offers
invaluable advice and keen insight to anyone interested in launching a consulting firm. Each of the
studies focuses on lessons learned from that particular case example. Building A Successful
Consulting Practice is an excellent supplementary resource for determined entrepreneurs aspiring
to make their mark in the competitive world of professional consultation.
The Railroading Shelf
California Challenger
Pentrex
PO Box 94911, Pasadena, CA 91109
1563420856 $29.95 1-800-950-9333
Steam on the main line of the Challenger 3985 vintage style train with the aid of a survey that
follows the route of the train through desert and small towns. California Challenger is the largest
operating steam locomotive in the world and Pentrex's coverage of its history and freight action
will delight train fans who enjoy California scenery as an added plus.
Basic Model Railroad Benchwork
Jeff Wilson
Kalmbach Publishing Co.
21027 Crossroads Circle, Waukesha, WI 53187
0890246157 $18.95 1-800-533-6644
Basic Model Railroad Benchwork: The Complete Photo Guide by model railroading expert Jeff
Wilson, is thoroughly "user friendly", step-by-step guide illustrated with numerous full-color
photographs on building the foundation and layout for a model railroad hobbyist. From choosing
the proper tools and using them with the utmost regard to safety, to meticulously measuring and
crafting a sturdy benchwork (perhaps mounted on the wall to save space), to crafting smoothly
integrated backdrops and more, Basic Model Railroad Benchwork is a highly recommended
"how-to" book for devoted woodworkers and model railroading enthusiasts.
Those Magnificent Trains 2003 Datebook
Cedco Publishing Company
100 Pelican Way, San Rafael, CA 94901
0768357217 $12.99 www.cedco.com
Charles Ditlefsen's Those Magnificent Trains 2003 Datebook is a spiral-bound, medium-sized
calendar and appointment book combination for January through December of 2003. Featuring
full-color, superbly composed photographs of a variety of classic trains on almost every page
spread, Those Magnificent Trains is highly functional planner, and a simply joy for railroad
enthusiasts to just page through. Also very highly recommended for railroading enthusiasts is
Charles Ditlefsen's Those Magnificent Trains 2003 Desk Calendar (0768357764, $12.99).
The Fiction Shelf
Van Gogh's Room At Arles
Stanley Elkin
Dalkey Archive Press
ISU Campus Box 8905, Normal, IL 61790
1564782808 $14.95 dalkeyarchive.com
Van Gogh's Room At Arles is a collection of three original novellas by Stanley Elkin. A
wheelchair-bound professor is overwhelmed by a student party that catapults to extravagant
heights; a commoner suddenly becomes enmeshed in the world of royalty when Prince Larry of
Wales falls for her; and a community college professor overshadowed by Van Gogh embarks on a
quest for his own identity. The three involving, surprise-filled tales comprising Van Gogh's Room
At Arles admirably showcases the work of a true literary master of tragedy and comedy.
Liam's Going
Michael Joyce
McPherson & Company
PO Box 1126, Kingston, NY 12402
0929701666 $22.00 1-800-613-8219
Liam's Going by Michael Joyce is a deftly written novel about a young man named Liam who is
about to go off to college. Yet his departure has repercussions on the strained marriage of his
parents, each of whom must confront different pulls and separate loves in their lives. Liam's Going
is a introspective, thoughtful, and ultimately emotionally rewarding story. Also highly
recommended is Michael Joyce's early novel, The War Outside Ireland (Tinkers Dam Press,
0943608015, $9.95).
Past Tense
Bob Levy
Sunstone Press
Box 2321, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2321
0865343411 $24.95 sunstonepress.com
Past Tense by novelist Bob Levy is the gripping story of Adam Baldwin, a successful seven term
United States Senator and his party's front runner for President -- and who is accused of
committing murder in his younger years. Joe O'Riley is a retired chief of police who was once a
high school classmate of the senator, and feels compelled to investigate a cold trail of deceit. Joe
is lured in a race against time to prevent the nation from possibly electing a murderer as its
President. Past Tense is a well crafted, exciting and suspenseful tale. Also highly recommended is
Levy's suspense novel Broken Hearts (0865343128; $24.95).
John Daniel & Company
PO Box 21922, Santa Barbara, CA 93121
1-800-662-8351
Two new and superbly crafted novels are recommended picks, offering unusual contemporary
protagonists and plots which are anything but canned. Ann McLaughlin's House On Q Street
(1880284596, $14.95) tells of a family which moves to Washington in 1942 when war is
preoccupying the country. A ten-year-old's coming of age in this time of conflict is recounted in a
moving story of change both personal and political. Paul McComas' Unplugged (188028460X,
$14.95) tells of an aging rocker who decides to depart from the music world, setting out for parts
unknown and ending up in South Dakota. Her search for solitude and healing may unexpectedly
lead to a career she can't shake in this moving story.
Miniatures
Norah Labiner
Coffee House Press
27 North 4th Street, #400, Minneapolis, MN 55401
1566891361 $23.00 1-800-283-3572
Fern Jacobi is young and on a journey through Ireland when she meets two famous American
expatriots who befriend her. In the course of her work for them as a housecleaner, Fern comes to
uncover the mystery surrounding a dead wife and a house filled with secrets in Miniatures, a
compelling story of discovery and coming of age.
Labyrinth
Mark Sullivan
Atria Books
1230 Ave. of the Americas, NY NY 10020
0743439805 $25.00 www.amazon.com
If it's gripping fast action you like paired with the terror of a dangerous cave exploration, choose
Mark Sullivan's Labyrinth, a riveting story which deserves ongoing recommendation. A
professional caving family's survival is put to the test when a madman and a band of escaped
felons takes them on a caving journey to uncover a dangerous object. Strong psychological
profiles keep the action fast-paced.
Nerves Of The Heart
Lucy Ferriss
University of Tennessee Press
293 Communications Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-0325
1572331852 $27.50 1-865-974-3321
Nerves Of The Heart is a smoothly crafted novel by Lucy Ferriss about a painful drama involving
two families. When a young girl dies with her father in a traffic accident, the bereaved mother
acquiesces to transplanting her daughter's heart to save a nine-year-old boy. Hope for renewal,
grief over great loss, and the challenges of a daily medication routine that the young boy's parents
must oversee to ensure that the heart isn't rejected mark Nerves Of The Heart as a poignant,
memorable, and highly recommended story arising from the friction of family love and the
struggle to survive.
Crusader
Max Brand
Five Star Books
295 Kennedy Memorial Drive, Waterville, ME 04901
0786235330 $25.95 1-800-223-1244
Crusader by legendary western author Max Brand is a superbly written western novel about Harry
Camden, a man lured into the fighting ring, where his powerful punch could earn his greedy
manager a fortune. But the trappings and luxuries of civilization weighed heavily on a prizefighter
accustomed to life in the wilderness, and precipitate his slow decay into alcohol and crime. This
destructive spiral culminates in Harry's theft of the stallion Crusader, a horse so wild that only the
greatest fighter of a man can ride him. Crusader is highly recommended as an enthralling western
written in the spirit of the times and the genre -- and a "must" for all Max Brand fans!
The Wished-For Country
Wayne Karlin
Curbstone Press
321 Jackson St., Willimantic, CT 06226
1880684896 $16.95 www.curbstone.org
The Wished-For Country is an original and inherently interesting novel by Wayne Karlin which is
set in Maryland during early Colonial times, and opens in the year 1634. The interwoven tales of a
carpenter, an indentured servant, an African slave and a Piscataway Indian who was kidnapped to
England as a child blend in this evocative and masterful recreation of what it was like to live in the
New World centuries past. The Wished-For Country is a superbly written, thoroughly engaging,
and highly recommended historical novel.
The Tablets Of Ararat
C. J. Illinik
Kregel Publications
PO Box 2607, Grand Rapids, MI 49501
0825429080 $12.99 1-800-733-2607
The Tablets Of Ararat is an original novel by C. J. Illinik and based upon a fascinating premise:
What if Noah, the ark-builder of Biblical history, left behind a record of his life and work that
survived to the modern day? Arianna is an American archaeologist who discovers ancient tablets
in Turkey. Her find could create overwhelming potential repercussions for traditional
Judeo/Christian faiths and doctrines. Arianna soon finds herself at a crossroads, with a possible
romance on one side, and on the other, a lethal danger from men determined to exploit both her
and the tablets. The Tablets Of Ararat is an unique and original, superbly written, thoroughly
fascinating, thought provoking, and enthusiastically recommended drama.
Sealed In Stone
Toni Mariani
City Lights Books
261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
0872863883 $10.95 www.citylights.com
Expertly translated from the original Italian by Arthur K. Bierman, Sealed In Stone is the
English-language rendition of Anno 1424, a haunting and dramatic novel by Toni Maraini. Set
during the Hundred Years' War and based on the historical figure of Alix la Bourgotte, Sealed In
Stone is the story of a young Parisian recluse who lives within a cell located in the wall of the
Cemetery of the Holy Innocents and observes a boisterous, turbulent, and dangerous world of
thieves, scoundrels, rebels, intellectuals, heretics, and pilgrims. Enhanced with an introduction by
Alberto Moaravia, Sealed In Stone is very strongly recommended, literate and dramatic story of
love, passion, and death amidst a bygone world of violence and change.
The Library Video Shelf
Chair Dancing
Jodi Stolove
Chair Dancing
411 Video Information (publicity)
2658 Del Mar Heights Del Mar CA 92014
0963093967 $14.95 chairdancing.com
Chair Dancing: More...Sit Down & Tone Up is a 32 minute, "user friendly" exercise video
specifically designed for those viewers who are unable to participate in conventional exercise.
Developed by exercise enthusiast Jodi Stolove while recovering from a broken foot, Chair
Dancing offers safe, effective exercises for stimulating bone growth, improving posture,
decreasing body fat, and improving both balance and mobility. Also highly recommended are:
Chair Dancing Through The Decades: Seated Aerobics For Ages 5 To 95 ($19.95, 48 minutes)
and Chair Yoga: Stretching & Relaxation From The Comfort Of Your Chair ($19.95, 45
minutes).
Bullfrog Films, Inc.
Box 149, Oley, PA 19547
1-800-543-3764
Two outstanding educational videos from Bullfrog Films would make very welcome additions to
any school or community library collection. Boys Will Be Men is a fascinating look at how boys
grow up in America, what makes them violent, what hurts them, and how to help them. The best
thing about this video is that we hear not only from experts but also from the boys themselves.
This new documentary offers some real solutions for the problems young males face today.
Thomas Berry: The Great Story is the story of a pioneer in the field of spirituality and ecology.
Thomas Berry has created a quiet revolution. Berry sees his life work as waking us up to the
sacred story of creation. He calls us "mad" for the way we are despoiling our home, our planet, its
beauty, and its living systems. Berry urges us to change our ways and reminds us that "we are not
a collection of objects but a communion of subjects." In poetic language, he leads us into the
ecstasy of union with the divine beauty of creation.
Universal Studios Home Video
10 Universal City Plaza, Suite 700
Universal City, CA 91608
Two outstanding "widescreen" DVDs from Universal Studios are essential additions to the film
collections of all John Wayne fans. The War Wagon (#20298, $24.98) has the Duke teaming up
with Kirk Douglas in a lively western. Wayne plays the part of a rancher who was robbed of his
ranch and his liberty by a crooked cattle baron. Wayne and a small band of characters that include
Keenan Wynn, Howard Keel, and Robert Walker must capture a heavily protected transport
stagecoach which is shipping a fortune in gold, but that is also equipped with a gattling gun!
Rooster Cogburn (#20170, $24.98) finds John Wayne teamed up with Katharine Hepburn in this
wonderful story of an over-the-hill lawman in pursuit of a ruthless and murderous gang of thieves
who have murdered Hepburn's father. This outstanding film (and one of Wayne's last efforts
before his death) is a sequel to True Grit and offers the viewer one of his very best characters in a
riveting tale of the Old West. Both DVDs offer filmographies of the major players and directors,
along with Spanish and French alternative sound tracks. No personal or community library home
video collection of western movies can be considered complete without the inclusion of The War
Wagon and Rooster Cogburn!
The Cookbook Shelf
Valentina's Four Seasons Cookbook
Valentina Harris
Cassell/Trafalgar Square Publsihing
PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257
0304353884 $24.95 1-800-423-4525
Valentina's Four Seasons Cookbook is Italian food served up with a difference: it is aimed at busy
people who don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen, yet who want authentic Italian dishes.
Color photos of both Italy and finished dishes enhance recipes which range from Chicken Breasts
with Sun-Dried Tomatoes to Anchovy-Caper and Olive-Stuffed Peppers. Delicious meals in half
the time the usual Italian cookbook takes!
The New Eat Yourself Think Like I Did! Low Carb Cookbook
Nancy Moshier, RN
Nancy's Cookbooks, Inc./NBN, dist.
PO Box 338, Garrison, MN 56450
0970102909 $15.99 1-800-462-6420
Nancy Moshier draws upon both her personal experience in losing 102 pounds, as well as her
professional expertise as a registered nurse, in assembling the reader-friendly advice and
kitchen-friendly recipes comprising The New Eat Yourself Think Like I Did! Low Carb
Cookbook. From Smoked Sausage Appetizers; Spice Doughnut Holes; Oyster Stew; and Sun
Dried Tomato Mushroom Vinaigrette Salad Dressing; to Pizza Roll Meatloaf; Broiled Halibut
with Citrus Dill Butter; Sauteed Sesame Asparagus; and Cherry Cinnamon Dessert, The New Eat
Yourself Think Like I Did! Low Carb Cookbook showcases a culinary wealth of savory, sensible,
delicious, and dieting appropriate dishes that would grace any table and contribute to any weight
control regimen. Also very highly and enthusiastically recommended for sugar free, low carb
dieters is Nancy Moshier's Eat Yourself Thin With Fabulous Desserts (0970102917, $13.99).
Physiology Of Taste
Jean BrillatSavarin
Dover Publications
31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501
0486422534 $12.95 1-800-223-3130
Physiology Of Taste is an unabridged photomechnical reproduction of a classic 1925 edition and
should be on the shelves of any serious and dedicated gourmet cook. Physiology Of Taste
provides a timeless discussion of French food and cooking written in 1825 by a master at both
culinary insight and writing. Whimsical reflection mixes with serious food insights in a most
satisfying manner.
The Fantasy/SciFi Shelf
Inside The Rainbow
Eugene Goheen
Booklocker.com
PO Box 1605, Spring Valley, CA 91979
1591131626 $13.95 www.amazon.com
Great Escape is the story of a future world in which US energy shortages spark a human mutation
begins with a bang and doesn't let up: "I had to watch with my own eyes as my brother
disintegrated into something not human." Different voices document not only the mutation but the
changing nature of reality in an energy-shorted world. Fascinating and hard to put down.
The Annotated Chronicles
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
PO Box 707, Renton, WA 98057-0707
0786918705 $27.95 www.wizards.com
The Annotated Chronicles reprints the first Dragonlance fantasy trilogy collaboratively written by
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and includes: Dragons of Autumn Twilight; Dragons of
Winter Night; and Dragons of Spring Dawning. The Annotated Chronicles is enhanced with
meticulous annotations and black-and-white illustrations. Enriching inside notes by numerous
writers and game designers who contributed to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing universe of
Dragonlance add a special touch of "insider's insight" to an exceptionally popular saga that
launched one of the most popular shared worlds of fantasy literature and role gaming. Very highly
recommended for Dragonlance fans; the extensive annotations make this a must-read for
Dragonlance enthusiasts even if he or she already owns an earlier individual copies of this truly
classic trilogy.
Bilbo's Last Song
J.R.R. Tolkien
Alfred A. Knopf
280 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
0375823735 $12.95 1-800-726-0600
Don't expect a full-length story of Middle-Earth in J.R.R. Tolkien's Bilbo's Last Song, but a rather
lovely illustrated poetry/song piece considered to be Tolkien's epilogue to Lord of the Rings.
Pauline Baynes provides the gorgeous, delicate color drawings in this short but beautiful little gift
item.
Bronwyn: Silk & Steel
Ron Miller
Timberwolf Press, Inc.
202 N. Allen Street, #A, Allen, TX 75013
1587520664 $14.95 timberwolfpress.com
The second volume in the four-book fantasy epic featuring the heroic Princess Bronwyn,
Bronwyn: Silk & Steel by Ron Miller is an exciting, reader involving tale of a strong-willed
heroine and her reliable band of allies. Outcast from her own kingdom, Bronwyn and her
companions must undertake a long journey, confront unknown races, and evade the spies and
bounty hunters of her evil mortal enemies in this enthralling saga. Also very highly recommended
is the first volume of Bronwyn's saga, Bronwyn: Palaces & Prisons (1587520591; $14.95).
Baen Books
PO Box 1403, Riverdale, NY 10471
1-800-223-2336 www.amazon.com
Leo Frankowski's Conrad's Time Machine: A Prequel To The Adventures Of Conrad Stargard
(0743435575, $24.00) is spirited science fiction drama for any who enjoy a blend of
swashbuckling on-the-road type action and a good time machine story. Factor in a healthy dose of
humor and you have a solid read which offers a new twist on the time machine story. Jerry
Pournelle and S.M. Stirling's The Prince (0743435567, $28.00) provides the complete saga of
"Falkenberg's Legion" under one cover. It's the 21st century, the Soviet-American alliance has
kept the peace both on arth and in space, but now it's dying and nations are arming for war. This
story originally appeared in four parts as Falkenberg's Legion, Prince Of Mercenaries, Go Tell
The Spartans and Prince Of Sparta: having this interconnected complex story under one cover
contributes to an excellent read.
Martians And Madness
Frederic Brown
NESFA
P.O. Box 809, Framingham, MA 01701
1886778175 $29.00 nesfapress.com
Martians And Madness is the second of a two-volume set gathering all of Frederic Brown's fine
science fiction writings, and holds the complete novels What Mad Universe, Martins Go Home,
Rogue In Space, Lights In The Sky Are Stars and The Mind Thing plus the two novelettes
Gateway To Darkness and Gateway To Glory, which were rewritten to become "Rogue In
Space". Brown's satire, drama, and solid plots shine forth to invite both newcomers and prior
fans.
City Of Saints & Madmen
Jeff VanderMeer
Cosmos Books/Wildside Press
PO Box 36503, Canton, OH 44735
0966896882; $40.00 cosmos-books.com
Along side the River Moth, a city called Ambergris rose. Founded on the blood of its original
inhabitants shed in its making and evolution, and steeped for centuries in the aftermath of a
calamitous struggle, the cruelly beautiful and complex metropolis of Ambergris is a place of artists
and composers, thieves and murders. Enhanced with an introduction by Michael Moorcock, City
Of Saints And Madmen: The Book Of Ambergris, is a bizarre, eclectic, and unique science fiction
narrative enhanced with appendices of "reference" documents, written by Jeff VanderMeer, a
mysterious, reclusive, and brilliantly talented author. The unpredictable twists and turns, fantastic
setting, and exciting narrative make City Of Saints And Madmen: The Book Of Ambergris an
engrossing read for those seeking something fresh and different by way of a literary experience.
Highly recommended for a sophisticated readership, City Of Saints And Madmen: The Book Of
Ambergris is also available in a paperback edition (Wildside Press, 1587154366, $15.00).
Great Escape
Ian Watson
Golden Gryphon Press
3002 Perkins Rd., Urbana, IL 61802
1930846096 $23.95 www.amazon.com
Ian Watson's fine collection of stories comprising Great Escape, deserves repeat mention as an
excellent example of his unusual literary style. Science fiction and fantasy blends wonderfully in a
presentation of diverse topics; from a Hell where angels decide to invade Heaven, to nuclear
blackmail. It's the strong characters and their unexpected twists and turns which bring this to life
and make for an exciting, diverse collection. Highly recommended.
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers Of The Future, Volume XVIII
Algis Budrys, editor
Galaxy Press
7051 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 200, Hollywood, CA 90028
1592120520 $7.99 galaxy-press.com
Before he went on to invent Cybernetics, L. Ron Hubbard was a prominent author of science
fiction and eventually launched annual collections of science fiction and fantasy drawn from the
best and the brightest in the field. The newest addition to the L. Ron Hubbard "Writers Of The
Future" series is volume 18, ably compiled and edited by long time science fiction expert Algis
Budrys and highly recommended reading for any fantasy fan and science fiction enthusiast.
Included in this outstanding anthology are: The Dragon Cave (Drew Morby); The Haunted Seed
(Ray Roberts); Rewind (David D. Levine); Windseekers (Nnedi Okorafor); Magic Out Of A Hat
(L. Ron Hubbard); Lost On The Road (Ari Goelman); Graveyard Tea (Susan Fry); Carry The
God (Lee Battersby); A Few Tips On The Craft Of Illustration (H. R. Van Dongen); Memoria
Technica (Leon J. West); Free Fall (Tom Brennan); All Winter Long (Jae Brim); The Art Of
Creation (Carl Frederick); Advice To The New Writer (Andre Norton); The Road To Levenshir
(Patrick Rothfuss); Eating, Drinking, Walking (Dylan Otto Krider); Origami Cranes (Seppo
Kurki); A New Anthology (Tim Powers); Worlds Apart (Woody O. Carsky-Wilson); Prague 47
(Joel Best); and What Became Of The King (Aimee C. Amodeo). L. Ron Hubbard Presents
Writers Of The Future, Volume XVIII concludes with "The Year In Contests" by Algis Budrys
and "Contest Information".
Houghton Mifflin
222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116
1-800-225-3362 www.amazon.com
Two excellent books on Tolkien and his art will reach new audiences with insights and lively
color. Tom Shippey's J.R.R. Tolkien: Author Of The Century (0618257594, $13.00) considers
the Lord of the Rings as a linguistic and cultural marvel, providing some unique analyses of the
roots of evil in Tolkien's world and providing a rich accompaniment to the author's Middle Earth
world. Familiarity with Lord of the Rings will lend an appreciation to this literary commentary on
his myth and world. Tolkien expert Douglas Anderson provides The Annotated Hobbit
(0618134700, $28.00) in a revised, expanded edition packed with references to Old English,
definitions of puzzling terms, and cross-references to Tolkien's other works. The result will please
any who have enjoyed the original Hobbit and who want to re-look at the text with new, specific
interpretations at hand.
The Mystery/Suspense Shelf
How Still We See Thee Lie
Allana Martin, et al.
Worldwide Library
225 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, ON, Canada, M3B 3K9
0373264372 $6.99 www.amazon.com
How Still We See Thee Lie is a true treat for mystery buffs. Four outstanding writers are
anthologized with stories themed to the Christmas holidays -- but well worth reading any time of
the year! In Allana Martin's "The Christmas Bonus", a stranger hands Texana Jones a suitcase full
of money and she finds herself caught up in a deadly feud between the feds and the drug
smugglers. In Tom Mitcheltree's "A Merry Little Christmas", Paul Fischer must do some sleuthing
to find out way Adam Shipper, whom the whole town knew to be a good and saintly man, was
murdered, or else this could be Paul's last Christmas on Earth! In Connie Shelton's "Holidays Can
Be Murder", Charlie Parker has a friend who seemingly wants to find the dead body of her
mother-in-law under the Christmas tree -- and does! In Elizabeth Gunn's "Too Many Santas",
Jake Hines is called to investigate the disappearance of a child only to find himself dealing with
way to many department store Santas -- one of which is deadly.
Berkley Prime Crime
375 Hudson, New York NY 10014
1-800-847-5515 www.amazon.com
Two excellent new titles by tried, tested authors are highly recommended picks. Margaret Coel's
Shadow Dancer (0-425-18640-7, $22.95) tells of a missionary in danger of losing his charter
when a young man disappears and a friend becomes a prime suspect. Father John is willing to help
her and draws some frightening connections between the murder and an ancient religion's
resurrection. Solid characterization and subplots keep this mystery on the move. Miriam Grace
Monfredo's Children Of Cain (18641-5, $22.95) follows others in the series, bringing both
historical events and mystery to life. Bronwen Llyr is heading for the Union lines, only to find
herself in the middle of Robert E. Lee's offensive. War threatens all she believes in and thwarts
romance and ambition alike in this moving account of a young woman caught in the middle of
conflict.
The Library CD Music Shelf
Canyon Records
3131 West Clarendon Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85017
1-800-268-1141
Five new Native American cds from this specialty publisher provide new generations and all
peoples with strong tribal music. Eli Secody's Following Generation Navajo Prayer Songs will
appeal to listeners of solo voice/chant productions, captivating listeners with a set of Navajo
prayers sung in the tradition of the Native American church. Thomas Duran Jr.'s Life Giver
provides a very basic set of Peyote songs, accompanied by rattle and water drum also associated
with the Native American Church and bringing an extra percussive element to the religious music.
Blackstone's Around The Horn presents live pow-wow songs recorded at Coeur D'Alene, a lively
collection of celebrations and dances which captures and music and feel of the pow-wow
experience. Also powerful is Tha Tribe's Winter Storm, also presenting live pow-wow songs from
a contemporary Native viewpoint. The singing style is quite unique and vigorous, blending both
traditional and modern Native music. Southern Cree's Drum For Life provides the Montana drum
group's pow-wow music. Singing and exceptionally strong drumming styles set this group's music
apart. All are excellent choices for seekers of authentic Native music.
Through The Round Window
Eamonn Coyne
Compass Records
117 - 30th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
7-4345-2 $17.98 compassrecords.com
Through The Round Window debuts and showcases the remarkable talents of Irish tenor banjo
player Eamonn Coyne. Assisted by flautist Michael McGoldrick, Tommy Peoples, and Jerry
Donahue. The selections comprising this enthusiastically recommended CD collection include:
Connaught Jigs (3:00); Whistling Reels (3:38); Mazurka & Jigs (4:48); Western Swing (4:38);
Mary J (3:53); Tommy & Jerry (5:02); Hendon Road (3:32); Nine String Susannah (4:26);
Walpoles Pipes (3:17); Highlands (2:59); Long Roads (3:26); Ash Plant (2:55); There and Back
Again (2:34); and The Wet Ones (4:11).
The Photography Shelf
Mother Earth
Judith Boice, editor
Sierra Club Books
85 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94105
1578050650 $24.95 1-800-726-0600
Now in a revised tenth-anniversary edition and edited by writer, photographer, naturopathic
physician, and acupuncturist Judith Boice, Mother Earth Through The Eyes Of Women
Photographers And Writers is a full-color compendium of stunningly beautiful photographs truly
capturing the impressive and memorable splendor of the natural world, alongside brief yet moving
essays and poems written in reverence of the earth's bounty. A vivid celebration of life itself,
Mother Earth Through The Eyes Of Women Photographers And Writers is a especially attractive
coffee table book and a fine addition to any nature lover's personal collection.
Business Of Studio Photography
Edward R. Lilley
Allworth Press
10 E. 23rd t. #510, New York NY 10010
158115254X $21.95 1-800-491-2808
Any interested in studio photography as a business will find Edward Lilley's Business Of Studio
Photography to be an important guide to building a studio photography venture from the ground
up. From choosing a location and equipping it to pricing work and catering to the wedding,
portrait or commercial markets, Business Of Studio Photography provides an excellent blend of
business savvy and specifics tuned to the studio photography world.
The Poetry Shelf
The Girl Who Married The Reindeer
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Wake Forest University Press
PO Box 7333, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
1930630077 $18.95 1-336-758-5448
The first-person poetry revealed in The Girl Who Married The Reindeer presents lively reflections
and insights blended with striking imagry, as in Inheriting the Books: They've come and made
their camp/Within sight, within slingshot range/A circle of bulked shapes/Dark inside like
wagons.) A bright, shining light in the sea of poetry chapbooks and books on the market.
Selected Poems: 1950-2000
Nathaniel Tarn
Wesleyan University Press
110 Mount Vernon Street, Middletown, CT 06459-0433
0819565423 $19.95 1-800-421-1561
Founding Editor of Cape Editions and the Cape Goliard Press, Nathaniel Tarn has published more
than twenty-five books and his writings have ben translated into over a dozen languages. Selected
Poems: 1950-2000 is a 347 page retrospective compilation of his verse drawing from his Random
House, Penguin, New Directions, and Black Sparrow anthologies and collections, as well as from
more limited and small press editions which are mostly out of print. A major innovator in
American poetry and ethnopoetics, Selected Poems: 1950-2000 documents Nathaniel Tarn as a
major American poet and a welcome addition to any personal or academic poetry collection. The
Curtains: The leaves are coming down/the walls of my life/are not more solid//I hear the leaves
coming down/at night they make the noise of footsteps/or the kisses of children/they fall like a
curtain/between the leaves/bits of a sky we try to remember//"There was in that man/had he been
left unshaken by his stars/a happy disposition"//On the other side of the curtain/the fathomless
country lies about us/the farms/sitting like loaves among the fields/the animals/at home in their
own breaths/needing no byres/and birds never a roost//We have seen it/we know it by heart/men
of no season//I shall build on nothing/on nothing build my house/out of the iron nail
remorselessly/hammered into the ground of this dead year//the nail so bald so cold/out of
humiliation and the grinding feet/on nothing build my house/and when the leaves are fallen/and
hammering is done/the curtains of the house will have been hung//Through which we glimpse/the
place we shall inhabit/full void that memory
Dwellings Of Doom
Julius Balbin
The Edwin Mellen Press
Box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092-0450
0773427902 $14.95 1-716-754-2788
Dwellings Of Doom (Damnejoj) showcases the poetry of Julius Balbin who, along with his family
in Cracow Poland, suffered confinement in the Jewish Ghetto of Cracow in 1939, the death of his
mother in a Nazi gas chamber, and with his father, was kept in four Nazi concentration camps
until liberated by American troops on May 5, 1945. Balbin went on in the post-war years to work
as a translator, researcher, and professor of foreign languages. Dwellings Of Doom is dedicated to
the memory of Balbin's mother, martyred by the Germans in the Nazi death camp of Belzec on
October 28, 1942. Salts And Tears: After having survived/Cracow's ghetto/and the slave labor
camp of Plaszow/we arrive din Wieliczka/to work in the largest salt mines/in Europe.//Every
morning/we leave our barracks/under the escort of SS guards and kapos/and having reached the
mines/we board huge elevators/slowly descending/to the lowest shafts.//The SS stay
above/guarding the entrances./They fear/going down with us.//We are accompanied/by Polish
miners/showing us through/the labyrinthine paths/in the darkness./Many share their bread/and
even sausage with us.//In the darkness/it is easy to recall the recent past--/the Plazsow camp/the
ghetto...//For the first time/since our enslavement/we are able to still our hunger./For the first
time/in the darkness of the shaft/we meet the ghosts of/our dear ones/urging us/not to give up.//It
is very cold here/and everything tastes of salt--/especially our tears/moistening the miner's bread.
(Translated by Charlz Rizzuto, 1978).
The Devil's Workshop
Demetria Martinez
The University of Arizona Press
355 South Euclid Avenue, Suite 103, Tucson, AZ 85719
0816521972 $14.95 1-800-426-3797
The Devil's Workshop is a collection of brief yet emotionally memorable free-verse poems by
novelist and poet Demetria Martinez. Poignant and memorable, reaching out to people, The
Devil's Workshop is a compendium of verse which embraces both the light and the dark of
humanity. Today I was told that the words/'War is bad'/Make for/Bad poetry./ OK./Then
consider/This poem/Dispensable,/Depleted/As uranium,/A poor poem,/A colored poem.
The White Fire Of Time
Ellen Hinsey
Wesleyan University Press
110 Mt. Vernon St, Middletown CT 06459
0819565571 $12.95 1-800-421-1561
The White Fire Of Time is a collection of original, free-verse poems by Ellen Hinsey (who teaches
writing and literature at the Skidmore College program in Paris and the Ecole Polytechnique)
about endurance, consciousness, the earth itself and emotional respite in the face of merciless
eternity. A thought-provoking and introspective anthology. Under the thunderous silence, under
the shadow/Of a Word, in terror or indifference, or in slow advancement,/Each body moving
along the horizon of days,/Each in its own motion, each compelled by the temporal axis.
Leviathan With A Hook
Kimberly Johnson
Persea Books
853 Broadway, #604, NY, NY 10003
0892552824 $23.00 1-800-233-4830
Leviathan With A Hook is the debut collection showcasing the poetry of Kimberly Johnson.
Drawing upon her scholarship in 16th and 17th century poetry, Johnson writes a lucid and
energetic verse noted for a unique musical form and literary vision that will fully engage and
reward her reader's attention. Pater Noster: This garden is a betrayal. It has nothing/to do with
me--the brooding columbine,/anemones measuring the wind, the rose/involved, roes
interrupted//not in their browse through roes of indigo./Cardinals hinge on air, draw flight/in a
thread of scarlet. Fishpools gaze/at clouds, full of clouds//like fish and fish like clouds, golden/in
sunlight, finning the doubled blue./The wallflower flings pale kisses at the sky./The silver maple
flaps its silver at any passerby.
Surely As Birds Fly
H. L. Hix
Truman State University Press
100 East Normal Street, Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
1931112053 $14.95 1-800-916-6802
Surely as Birds Fly is a collection of uniquely inspired free-verse poetry by H. L. Hix. From
laments written on behalf of various body parts to the dark contemplations in the second section
under the general heading "Thistle, Clover, Rape", Surely As Birds Fly offers a voice apart from
the crowd, blending elements of sexuality, sadism, grief, and a navigation of the human soul.
Among Trees And Stones: Souls wince. They glow in mist./Constant to their suffering, they hide
themselves/in circadian rhythm, hoping only, like dry leaves/at autumn's end, to fall quietly to the
grass./Still, the will cannot be wholly sacrificed:/periodically in the dark mist two souls/blunder
into each other's burning footprints/calling god as their sole witness.
The Time, The Hour, The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness Of The Place
Louis Phillips
Livingston Press
University of West Alabama
Station 22, Livingston, AL 35470
0942979877 $11.00 www.uwa.edu
Louis Phillips is an accomplished and seasoned poet who writes his verse with great wit and a
keen sense of the human condition. The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness Of The Place is his
latest collection showcases a poet who uses words and paper the way an artist uses paint and
canvas to evoke a recognition and reflection within the mind's eye of the reader. Cantrip: Sleep
lively now/While I mortal weave/About your breathing/Hush now sounds,/Your world
displaced/Where now the night/Imprints & now/The wind. Breathe/Yourself thru/This forest of
sighs,/Gorgeous the moon/Pranking round hollow,/Now to awake./The spell is broken/& yes you
are free.
Bellocq's Ophelia
Natasha Trethewey
Graywolf Press
2402 University Avenue, Suite 203, Saint Paul, MN 55114
1555973590 $14.00 1-651-641-007
Bellocq's Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey is a complete novel told in a series of verses inspired by
the early 1900 E. J. Bellocq photographs of prostitutes in the red-light district of new Orleans.
Bellocq's Ophelia is the imaginative and original tale of a woman who's brothel Madame tells her
to act like statue on display for the male patrons of the establishment. Bellocq - April 1911: There
comes a quiet man now to my room--/Papa Bellocq, his camera on his back./He wants nothing, he
says, but to take me/as I would arrange myself, fully clothed--/a brooch at my throat, my white
hat angled/just so--or not, the smooth map of my flesh/awash in afternoon light. In my
rom/everything's a prop for his composition--/brass spittoon in the corner, the silver/mirror, brush
and comb of my toilette./I try to pose as I think he would like--shy/at first, then bolder. I'm not so
foolish/that I don't know this photograph we make/will bear the stamp of his name, not mine.
The Needlecraft Shelf
Rowan Junior
Kim Hargreaves
Rowan
Green Lane Mill, Holmfirth
W. Yorkshire, England, HD9 2DX
0954094956 $19.95 www.amazon.com
Over thirty modern knitting designs for babies and kids up to age twelve are included in Rowan
Junior: Over Thirty Five Knitting Designs For Babies And Children Up To Twelve Years, a
project-oriented knitter's guide which covers everything from hats and scarves to garments. Add
the artistic and colorful photography of children modeling these creations and you have a practical
guide packed with inspiration and instructions.
American Quilter's Society
Box 3290, Paducah, KY 42002-3290
www.aqsquilt.com
Two new project guides are recommended picks for quilters. Diane Gaudynski's "user friendly"
Guide To Machine Quilting (1574327968, $24.95) provides tips and techniques for all skills
levels, answering common questions about machine quilting and providing tips and shortcuts.
Different styles, marking techniques, and finishing tips accompany the proejcts. Barbara Dieges' A
Thread Runs Through It (1574327933, $19.95) focuses on stitches used in quilting, using a
number of traditional pieced quilt and applique projects to demonstrate these stitches. Add
insights into 1800s quilter's lives and you have a satsifying blend of stories, quilting history, and
projects.
That Dorky Homemade Look
Lisa Boyer
Good Books
PO Box 419, Intercourse, PA 17534-0419
1561483516 $9.95 www.goodbks.com
That Dorky Homemade Look: Quilting Lessons From A Parallel Universe by quilter,
pattern-designer, and sewing-machine mechanic Lisa Boyer is a lighthearted and fun guide to
making quilts that appear as amateurish and thrown together as reasonably possible -- or perhaps,
how not to make a nice-looking quilt. Tongue-in-cheek guidelines such as "Keep in mind that the
colors will fade after a hundred years or so. This being the case, you will need to start with really
bright colors" make for quite humorous reading. The Dorky Homemade Look can be taken as a
straightforward instruction manual for creating silly, scruffy quilts, or just as a hilarious parody of
quilting; either way it is highly enjoyable to read by anyone who has ever put needle and thread to
cloth!
C&T Publishing
PO Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549
1-800-284-1114
Diana McClun and Laura Nownes' Q Is For Quilt (1571201815, $26.95) provides almost twenty
projects made with traditional quilt blocks. These projects outline the basics of simple blocking
techniques and encourage learning through slow absorption of more complicated techniques.
From Quilter's Newsletter Magazine comes All About Quilting From A-Z (1571201823, $29.95),
which tells how to design, create, and use quilts from applique and block styles to choosing basic
quilting tools. Everything is covered here, from pros and cons of fiber and material choices to
embellishing finished projects. Carol Armstrong's Cats In Quilts (1571201750, $23.95) is certain
to be popular with a wide audience: here fourteen wallhanging quilts featuring realistic cats in
garden settings provide quilters with beautiful projects. Patterns, instructions and techniques are
accompanied by color photos for added impact. Velda Newman's Workshop (1571201858,
$22.95) is recommended for quilters beyond the basics, who want to add different dimensions to
quilting skills. Color, shape and texture are explored as methods for turning out different quilts.
Very highly recommended.
Knitted Throws And More For The Simply Beautiful Home
Linden Phelps & Beryl Hiatt
Martingale & Company
20205 144th Avenue NE, Woodinville, WA 98072-8478
156477421X $27.95 martingale-pub.com
Collaboratively compiled and written by Linden Phelps and Beryl Hiatt (co-owners of Tricoter, a
popular Seattle yarn shop), Knitted Throws And More For The Simply Beautiful Home is an
appealing, full-color book of practical instructions for crafting a variety of colorful, practical, and
warm knitted throw coverings. The vivid photographs clearly portray finished works of
handcrafted art. The various knitting project instructions are precise and enhanced with helpful
tips, and are especially recommended for those who have had prior experience knitting and are
already familiar with knitting terminology and basic stitches.
The Literary Shelf
Writing Los Angeles
David L. Ulin, editor
The Library of America
14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022
1931082278 $40.00 www.loa.org
Compiled and edited by David L. Ulin, Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology is a unique
and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, diaries, and more, contributed by over
seventy writers (ranging from William Faulkner, M.F.K. Fisher, and Bertolt Brecht, to Ray
Bradbury, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe), and showcasing the "City of Angels". Through
varied eyes, the teeming and diverse West Coast metropolis manifests its best and its worst during
its eventful history as Writing Los Angeles explores a wide range of issues and events ranging
from the post World War I economic boom to recent and nationally televised violence. A very
highly recommended compendium of artistic, emotional, severe, gritty, nostalgic, and clear-eyed
literary pieces, Writing Los Angeles vividly brings a city and its people to life throughout the
generations.
This Child's Gonna Live
Sarah E. Wright
The Feminist Press
c/o The City University of New York
311 East 94th Street, NY, NY 10128
0935312676 $10.95 feministpress.org
Set in a Maryland fishing village in the early 1930's, This Child's Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright
is the harshly candid story of Mariah Upshur, the African-American wife of a poor oysterman, and
who is struggling to keep her family together despite smothering press of poverty and despair.
This Child's Gonna Live is the superbly written and heartrending tale of a monumental effort for
family survival under the harsh realities of rural poverty. Of special interest in this Feminist Press
edition of an African-American literary classic is the inclusion of the Sarah E. Wright's essay, "The
Writer's Responsibility".
Chinese Storytellers
Vibeke Bordahl & Jette Ross
Cheng & Tsui Company
25 West Street, Boston, MA 02111-1213
0887273564 $45.00 cheng-tsui.com
The collaborative production of Vibeke Bordahl (Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for
Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen) and
photographer and Chinese culture expert Jette Ross (1936-2001), Chinese Storytellers: Life And
Art In The Yangzhou Tradition is a remarkable and informative study of the ancient Chinese art
form of narrating classic stories. A survey of the history of this practice, as handed down from
master to student, precedes several adventurous and vivid tales, each presented both in English
and in the original Chinese. Black-and-white photographs offer a visual glimpse of the storyteller's
gestures and poses, and an accompanying VCD gives a glimpse of the full experience of a master
storyteller's craft. Chinese Storytellers is a unique and highly recommended addition to Chinese
Culture Studies collections and supplemental reading lists.
Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion
Robert N. Essick, editor
Huntington Library Press
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108
087328187X $21.95 www.huntington.org
Deftly edited by Robert N. Essick (Professor of English, University of California - Riverside),
Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a full color reproduction of William Blake's classic literary
blend of verse and art, which was first printed in 1793. Enhanced with a straightforward,
easy-to-read, separate transcription of Blake's poem, drawings from Blake's sketchbook related to
the final work, and an extensive and erudite literary commentary on the images plate-by-plate,
Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion is the definitive edition of a timeless classic and would grace
the collection of any academic reference library or William Blake enthusiast.
Meddling With Ghosts
Ramsey Campbell, editor
The British Library
c/o University of Toronto Press
2250 Military Rd, Tonawanda, NY 14150
0712311254 $29.95 1-800-565-9523
Knowledgeably compiled and ably edited by Ramsey Campbell, Meddling With Ghosts is an
outstanding anthology of memorable short stories by a variety of talented authors, all of whom
deliberately offer sumptuous and bone-chilling tales of supernatural horror in the literary tradition
of M. R. James. From J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "The Familiar" (1872) to Terry Lamsley's "Two
Returns" (1993), this compendium of spooky tales set in bygone decades ranges from the 1870's
to the 1990's and make Meddling With Ghosts a spiritually transcendent literary journey through
time as well as through the occult planes of the mind-chilling, spine-tingling unknown.
The Audiobook Shelf
Time Warner Audiobooks
1-800-759-0190
Four new presentations will provide leisure listeners with entertainment and food for thought.
Nicholas Sparks' latest Nights In Rodanthe (156821439X, $26.98) enjoys a spirited narration by
JoBeth Williams, film star, who brings to life this story of a woman facing big changes when her
husband abandons her for a younger woman. Her journey leads to new self-discoveries and
romance. John Maxwell's Running With The Giants (1568213970, $12.98) tells listeners how to
tap into potential through stories of the Old Testament heroes. Life and leadership lessons are
imparted from the foundations of sage wisdom. Adrian Slywotzky's Art Of Profitability
(1568214705, $25.98) profiles some big-ticket money-making successes and how they became so
big. Part of the focus here is the governing principles of business success. Louie Anderson's
Thefword (1568213997, $25.98) tells of how to survive a family. Comedy is the method of
delivery in this observational piece about real family problems and how to handle them.
Tantor Media Inc.
931 Calle Negocio, Suite F, San Clemente, CA 92673
Five exciting new unabridged CDs pair sterling narrative performances with high drama. Take Sax
Rohmer's The Return Of Dr. Fu-Manchu for example (1-4001-0051-8, $39.00): this sequel to the
original The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (0050-X, $39) continues the story of the mysterious and
evil doctor and his plans to further his Mandarian province. John Bolen narrates both
presentations and his lively voice creates a spell-binding performance involving reads in both The
Return Of Dr. Fu-Manchu, telling of a poisonous cat and a mummy among other Fu Manchu
denizens, to The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu , which tells of his secret Oriental organization. Fans of
James Bond will discover in Fu Manchu the ultimate evil technician: the audio format brings his
adventures to life. Bolen also narrates Sir Arthur Doyle's Valley Of Fear (0040-2, $33.00), an
excellent Holmes and Watson whodunit revolving around a murder with no motive. A range of
clues exist, but all seem to lead nowhere. Bolen brings the mystery to life. Shelly Frasier's voice
adds smooth drama and a rippling tension to Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat (0041-0, $36.00),
a classic mystery about an isolated country mansion and a spinster who finds herself the victim of
an elusive master criminal. A deadly game between them could result in disaster in this gripping
mystery packed with twists and turns. Frasier's voice also lends high drama and an atmosphere of
intrigue to Henry Rider Haggard's Child Of Storm (0029-1, $42.00), a sequel to Marie which tells
of Allan Quartermain's battle to win 100 cattle for his dowry. A seductress almost wrecks his
plans and life with her witchcraft in this mix of adventure and the supernatural. All are highly
recommended picks.
Book Of Illusions
Paul Auster
Harper Audio
10 East 53rd Street, NY, NY 10022-5299
0060511893 $39.95 1-800-242-7737
The author narrates his own unabridged novel Book Of Illusions, which tells of a man who turns
to alcohol after losing his family in a plane crash until he sees a clip from a lost film by a
comedian which changes his life. Embarking on a search for a vanished man, David's research
turns up some doubtful evidence in this moving story, powered by an author's unusually talented
reading voice.
America At War
Radio Spirits
974 Estes Court, Schaumburg, IL 60193
#4562 $69.98 1-800-723-4648
It was radio that brought the American people together during the dark and worrisome days of
World War II. America At War is a superbly presented, masterfully reproduced, twenty-disc
collection showcasing unique wartime broadcasts starring Hollywood's greatest stars as well as
the influential political speeches that helped to shape homefront sentiments and resolve. From Bob
Hope, Bing Crosby, James Stewart, and Rita Hayworth, to Orson Welles, Jimmy Durante, Clark
Gable, and Bette Davis, to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General Douglas
MacArthur, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the listener is treated to twenty hours worth of
classic radio programming directly tied to America's wartime experiences from the beginning
battlefield salvos to the ultimate American triumph over our Axis enemies. America At War is a
very strongly recommended addition to personal, school, and community library collections.
Battletech: Wolves On The Border
Robert N. Charrette
Defiance Audio/Listen & Live Audio
PO Box 817, Roseland, NJ 07068
1931953287 $9.95 1-800-653-9400
Robert N. Charrette's science fiction story about warriors who operate mobile machines of war
and destruction, Battletech: Wolves On The Border is the abridged audiobook version and based
on the famous science-fiction role-gaming campaign setting. MechWarrior Minobu Tetsuhara is
bound by loyalty and the strict code of bushido to serve a manipulative warlord, yet when his
commands pit him against an honorable foe he is trapped between duty and conscience. An
exciting story that perfectly captures the far-flung and technology-heavy feel of the
pencil-and-paper roleplaying game, Battletech: Wolves On The Border is dramatically narrated by
Christopher Graybell, resulting in a 3 hour, 2 cassettes audiobook which is enthusiastically
recommended listening for fans of mechanoid and robotech scifi.
In Their Own Words: D-Day
First Person Productions
2060-D Avenida de los Arboles, # 675, Thousand Oaks, Ca. 91362
www.firstpersonaudio.com
0971569002 $19.95 1-805-492-0738
In "Their Own Words" is a unique and remarkable series of CD audiobooks showcasing
memorable stories by the men who fought their way across the battlefields of World War II -- and
told in their own words and in their own voices. D-Day presents more than four hours of
compelling, vividly remembered first-hand accounts of the June 6th, 1944 assault of Allied troops
against the German European defenses in "Operation Overlord", the code-name for the massive
invasion of Normandy that involved more than a quarter of a million soldiers, sailors and airmen,
5000 ships, and 3000 aircraft. These are the individual stories by veterans of that bloody and
pivotal day, and include decorated heroes and ordinary troops, a great many of which were mere
teenagers in their very first fire fight. The storytellers include Tom McCarthy (504th Parachute
Infantry Regiment); Francis Lamoureux (508th Parachute Infantry Regiment); John Talton (Naval
Combat Demolition, Unit 44); Jerry Markham (Naval Combat Demolition, Unit 46); Leonard
Lomell (2nd Ranger Battalion); Sidney Salomon (2nd Ranger Battalion); William Horn (Glider
pilot); and Leo Cordier (Glider Pilot). Also very highly recommended for personal, school, and
community library World War II collections, are the two other titles in this truly outstanding
series: In Their Own Words: Race Across Europe (0971569010, $19.95) and In Their Own
Words: War In The Pacific (0971569029, $19.95).
Brilliance Audio
PO Box 887, Grand Haven, MI 49417
1-800-854-7859
Brilliance publishes exceptional audios for the casual listening audience, pairing solid readers with
plots that are intriguing and exciting. These newest releases don't disappoint. Julie Garwood's
Killjoy (1590862414, $24.95) enjoys Joyce Bean's professional, smooth voice as it provides a
strong thriller powered by a female FBI agent who must track down a woman kidnapped by a
clever killer. Iris Johansen's Reap The Wind (1590861302, $24.95) receives veteran Sandra Burr's
studied voice as it tells of Caitlin's search for an elusive killer in a business deal. J.D. Robb's Purity
In Death (159086691X, $24.95) receives Susan Ericksen's stage and TV expertise as she narrates
the drama of a strange death which may be linked to either a computer virus or a serial killer.
Linda Barnes is always good for a refreshing mystery: Big Dig (1590865057, $19.95) receives
Bernadette Quigley's Broadway background skills as it tells of Carlotta's latest investigation into
Boston fraud. Anne Perry's Death Of A Stranger (159086235X, $24.95) fits the bill with David
Colacci pairing his seasoned reading skills with this story of a brilliant private investigator's new
client, Greg Iles' Black Cross (1590861213, $24.95) receives Jay O. Saunders' smooth voice as it
tells of international intrigue and Nazis, Anne Lamott's Blue Shoe (1590863534, $24.95) enjoys
Laural Merlington's skills in capturing high drama as it tells of family interactions and love;
Rochelle Krich's Blues In The Night (1590864263, $19.95) receives newcomer Deanna Hurst's
voiceover background and melodic voice as it debuts the protagonist of Molly Blue's probe into a
hit-and-run accident. What brings Stephen White's Privileged Information (1590864751, $24.95)
comes to live under veteran narrator Dick Hill's voice as it tells of a dubious patient/therapist
relationship in the face of death, Thomas Steinbeck's Down To A Soundless Sea (1590864344,
$19.95) also enjoys Colacci's smooth voice as it presents five short stories about a cast of
coastline characters; and Dave Barr's humor comes to life in Tricky Business (1590864158,
$19.95, with Dick Hill powering this story of irony and murder. Paul Lindsay's Traps
(1590864387, $19.95) to life is J. Charles' 40 years of background in professional theater, lending
to a quietly dramatic embellishment of a white-knuckle thriller of revenge. All these flawlessly
recorded audiobook titles are excellent, appealing listens.
Wolf Moon
Edward Gorman
Americana Publishing
PO Box 11546, Albuquerque, NM 87192
www.americanabooks.com
1588070506 $22.00 1-888-883-8203
Wolf Moon by Edward Gorman is a 215 minute, 3 cassette audiobook and the story of a
double-crossed ex-convict determined to get vicious revenge on the man who murdered his
brother, sent him to prison for ten years, and permanently scarred his face by siccing a killer wolf
on him. Highly recommended listening for fans of suspense thriller fiction, Wolf Moon is
dramatically narrated by Alan Zimmerman who is impressively skilled at bringing Gorman's dark,
compelling tale of determination and brutal ruthlessness.
Audio Editions/Audio Partners
1133 High Street, Auburn, CA 95603
www.audiopartners.com
Four new releases are outstanding picks for listeners who like their mysteries and stories of
intrigue. Rex Stout's Mother Hunt (1572702761, $24.95) comes to life under the voice of actor
Michael Prichard, who again brings a Nero Wolfe audio to life. Here a young widow finds an
abandoned baby and enlists Wolfe's aid in identifying the mother. Georgette Heyer's Behold,
Here's Poison (1572702028, $29.95) receives Hugh Dickson's calm blend of reading and wry
humor, a perfect spice to this story of an odd family, all of whom are murder suspects. Agatha
Christie's At Bertram's Hotel (157270280X, $29.95) presents a Miss Marple mystery set in a
distinguished London hotel where police track a series of thefts to the finest clients. John
Mortimer's Rumpole Rests His Case (1572702818, $29.95) receives distinguished actor Tony
Britton's seasoned voice as it presents the British lawman's latest probe into a variety of mysteries,
outlined in seven new, complete short stories. All are excellent leisure listens.
Innerverse
John DeChancie
Ziplow Productions, Inc.
PO Box 7765, Hilton Head Island, SC 29938
1889974072 $15.95 1-888-717-2434
Innerverse by John DeChancie is an eerie science fiction audiobook (5 hours, 4 cassettes) drama
about a nation, once part of the United States, now utterly controlled by nanotechnology that
absolutely dictates the will of its zombie-like citizens. DeChancie story is brought to life in a
full-cast dramatization presentation that offers the listeners a frightening glimpse of the logical
extension of totalitarian power, and a powerful dark dystopia of technology at its worst,
Innerverse is a captivating listening experience and highly recommended for science fiction fans
and community library collections.
Dark Horse
Tami Hoag
Books On Tape, Inc.
PO Box 7900, Newport Beach, CA 92658
0736687742 $90.00 1-800-541-5525
Dark Horse by Tami Hoag is a complete and unabridged (15 hours, ten cassettes) audiobook
thriller introducing Elaina Estes, a reckless female cop who is cast out of the ranks when her
tactics cost the life of a fellow cop. Dispirited, Elaina retreats to Florida horse racing country,
where she stumbles across a murderous intrigue of power and drugs behind an international riding
competition. Yet proving her case could bring about the death of another innocent person - or
quite possibly, herself! A raw, emotional tale of hard choices and insidious corruption is brilliantly
narrated by Beth McDonald and enthusiastically recommended for anyone who enjoys a deftly
written tale of crime and suspense.
Hidden Empire
Kevin J. Anderson
Recorded Books
270 Skip Jack Road, Prince Frederick, MD 20678
1402524048 $57.95 1-800-638-1304
Written by science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson who may be best known for his books in the
Star Wars and Dune series, Hidden Empire is an complex and thoroughly engaging saga of the
distant future, in which humans discover a miraculous technology left behind from a vanished
civilization, with the power to create new suns from gaseous planets. Yet the use of this
technology awakens an enraged and terrible new alien species. Complete and unabridged (20.25
hours, 14 cassettes), Hidden Empire is book one of "The Saga of Seven Suns" series and a
sweeping epic of war and the threat of extermination, written with majesty and intense emotional
impact. Dramatically narrated by George Guidall, Hidden Empire is highly recommended listening
for science fiction enthusiasts, and will prove a welcome and popular addition to any community
library audiobook collection.
In Audio
100 Weems Lane, Winchester, VA 22601
www.amazon.com
Over a period of decades Islamic terrorists have changed from a grassroots organization to a
global network of sophisticated warriors. Quentin Wiktorowicz's Global Jihad, Understanding
September 11: Primary Source History Packaged For Libraries (158472269X, $30.00) provides
an involving, in-depth examination of Islamic Jihad and its meaning for understanding the
foundations of Sept. 11th: its presentation on audio cd format lends to easy absorption, as cds are
tracked at every chapter, and every three minutes. The result is an outstanding coverage highly
recommended for library lending, packaged in a sturdy plastic, lending-appropriate format. Five
other audios receive the same sturdy packaging and unabridged formats which lend to library
acquisition. Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol (1584721022, $34.00) pairs narrator Ralph
Cosham's smooth and intriguing voice with the classic story of a miser's encounter with ghostly
reminders of goodwill. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Stories (1584721472, $25.00) pairs Kimberly Schraf's
smooth reading style with two of Fitzgerald's stories Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Jelly-Bean..
Rudyard Kipling's classic Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1584721073, $16.00) also receives Cosham's
excellent, clear voice as it provides both adults and kids with a classic story of courage. James
Joyce's Dead And Other Stories (158472093X, $25.00) isn't the full Dubliners, but selects five
notable stories: some of the best-known from the collection. WWII Airmen (1584721154,
$25.00) provides actual accounts of airmen recorded during the war; many taken from the AAF
radio reports. Two segments separate the broadcasts into Pacific and European experiences. All
are notable performances.
The Golden Fleece
Padriac Column
Blackstone Audio Books
PO Box 969, Ashland, OR 97520
0786121963 $64.00 1-800-729-2665
The Golden Fleece by Padriac Column (1881-1972) is a complete and unabridged (10 hours, 8
compact discs) audiobook based on the classic Greek legend of Jason, the Argonauts, and their
quest for the fabled Golden Fleece. A dramatic and spirited saga of an immortal legend,
chronicling the exploits and soul-searing conflicts of mortals, monsters, and the gods themselves.
Fred Williams's superb narrative skills brings Padriac Column's epic tale to live in a true "theater
of the mind" experience while the compact disc format features tracks every 3 minutes for
bookmarking. The Golden Fleece would make a perfect addition to any personal or community
library audiobook collection.
Random House Audio Books
1540 Broadway, 15th fl., NY, NY 10036
1-800-726-0600
Three exceptional audio cds will appeal to listeners of novels and literary pieces. Les Standiford's
Last Train To Paradise (07393758842, $29.95) enjoys Richmond Hoxie's smooth rendition as it
tells of one Henry Flagler and the rise and fall of an ocean-crossing railroad in 1904. The history
comes to life and will involve a wide range of nonfiction listeners. Anna Quindlen's complex
Blessings (0739301047, $32.95) enjoys an unabridged presentation paired with a powerful
reading by Joan Allen, who brings to life this story of a teen couple who change the lives of the
inhabitants of the Blessings estate with a mid-night drop-off. Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner
(0739302027, $29.95) enjoys a fine narration by Graeme Malcolm, whose theater background
lends passion and vocal drama to this story of a British piano tuner sent into Burma in the 19th
century. All are welcome, involving listens.
Oasis Audio
289 South Main Place, Carol Stream, IL 60188-2425
$17.99 Each 1-800-323-2500
Two strong biographical sketches speak of hope and belief in the face of adversity. Dayna Curry
and Heather Mercer work with Stacy Mattingly in Prisoners Of Hope (1589260708, $17.99),
telling the true story of two young women who journey to Afghanistan as missionaries, only to
find themselves imprisoned and in the middle of a global war on terrorism. Antonia Felix's Laura
(1589260759, $17.99) tells the story of Laura Bush, from her childhood in Texas to her road to
the White House as First Lady. Both are involving.
Simon & Schuster Audio
1-800-223-2336
Volume One of Ernest Hemingway's The Short Stories (0743526317, $28.00) is narrated by
Stacy Keach, who brings the unabridged short stories to life. There's quite a selection here; from
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber to The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway fans will
find his works come to life in audio form. Jennifer Weiner's In Her Shoes (0743528271, $26.00)
receives Karen Ziemba's strong style and narrative talents as it tells of a woman who dreams of
fame and fortune and a program to enhance her dowdy big sister. Sisterly relationships and a
journey of discovery make for a warm story.
Audio Renaissance
1-800-266-2834
Leisure listeners seeking a complex story that is packed with twists will want to consider Jeffrey
Eugenides' Middlesex (1559277307, $49.95):a college student at a girls' school finds herself
drawn to a gifted classmate and leads to Callie's realization that she's not really a girl at all. Her
discovery of her genetic mutation and its family links provides a satisfyingly complex story of
self-discovery and change. Thich Nhat Hanh's No Death, No Fear (155927803X, $25.95) also
appears in CD form (1559278048, $30.00); both narrated by Ken McLeod who adds passion to
poet/Zen master Hanh's reflections on Buddhism and death. Packed with wisdom and insights on
how to live life fully. Val McDermid's riveting thriller Last Temptation (1559277564, $25.95)
tells of a twisted killer who begins targeting psychologists in Europe. The growing danger forces
Tony out of retirement. Four biographies of American leaders will appeal to nonfiction listeners.
Mary Jane Clark's Nobody Knows (1559277351, $25.95) receives Fran Tunno's calm narrative
style as it tells of Cassie, a reporter who finds her career in shambles and her credibility in
question. Add a hurricane and romance and you have a winding plot filled with subplots. Louis
Auchincloss' Theodore Roosevelt (1559277386), Henry Graff's Grover Cleveland (155927736X),
Garry Wills James Madison (1559277378) Robert Remini's John Quincy Adams (1559277394,
$25.95 each) each receive Ira Claffey's fine narrative style, which brings to life these stories of
Presidential achievements. All are notable acquisitions.
Hyperion Audio
77 West 66th St., NY, NY 10023-6298
1-800-759-0190
Cassandra King's The Sunday Wife (1401396631, $25.98) receives Joan Allen's dramatic style
and technique, gleaned from a film background and translating well into audio, as it tells of a
minister's wife who moves to a new community and finds a friendship which encourages her to
break free from old restrictions. The story of discovery and growth is moving. Peter Jennings and
Todd Brewster's In Search Of America (1401369518, $25.98) explores controversial debates of
the day but also injects a healthy dose of American history into the discussions, revealing how the
ideals and guiding foundations of American beliefs have evolved over time. Mattie J.T. Stepanek's
Celebrate Through Heartsongs (1401396933, $12.98) is read by the author, who conveys the
message that there is always room for happiness, even in the face of adversity. The young
messenger struggles with cancer, which makes the message particularly poignant and
meaningful.
The Buddhist Studies Shelf
Universal Compassion
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Tharpa Publications
PO Box 430, Glen Spey, NY 12737
0948006722 $13.95 www.tharpa.com
Universal Compassion: Inspiring Solutions For Difficult Times by the Venerable Geshe Kelsang
Gyatso is a patient and inspirational explanation of the acclaimed Buddhist poem "Training the
Mind in Seven Points". Universal Compassion: Inspiring Solutions For Difficult Times is a
heartwarming and "reader friendly" guide to learning, understanding, and embodying the way of
altruism. The rigors of training one's mind and the eternal evolution toward enlightenment are
reverentially discussed in this fascinating study which is especially recommended reading for
anyone seeking to learn more about Buddhist philosophy and spiritual teachings.
Transmission Of Light
Zen Master Keizan, author
Thomas Cleary, translator
Shambhala Publications, Inc.
300 Massachusetts Hall Boston MA 02115
1570629498 $16.95 shambhala.com
Transmission Of Light: Zen In The Art Of Enlightenment is a fascinating translation of the classic
Denkoroku, attributed to Zen Master Keizan (1268-1325), and presenting timeless wisdom in
how to attain the enlightening experience of satori. Fifty-three short tales about spiritual
awakening and more are smoothly translated by Thomas Cleary, who is himself an experienced
translator of Taoist writings. Transmission Of Light: Zen In The Art Of Enlightenment is a highly
recommended and rewarding reading for serious students of Zen Buddhism.
Introduction To The Middle Way
Chandrakirti, author
Jamgon Mipham, commentator
Shambhala
300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-4544
1570629420 $29.95 shambhala.com
Carefully translated into English by the Padmakara Translation Group, Introduction To The
Middle Way: Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara With Commentary by Jamgon Mipham is a
seminal and highly recommended treatise drawn from the Madhyamika school of Buddhism.
Introduction To The Middle Way contains Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara, enhanced with
Jamgon Mipham's extensive textual outline and interpretation of this classic text called "The Word
of Chandra: The Necklace of Spotless Crystal", as well as a brief yet highly informative
introduction to the Madhyamika school and Chandrakirti's role in it, including a background on
Jamgon Mipham's point of view. An absolute "must-read" for serious students and dedicated
followers of the Madhyamika school of Buddhism, Introduction To The Middle Way is very
highly recommended for Buddhist Studies reference collections and reading lists.
Life & Death
James Hilgendorf
The Tribute Series
PO Box 641056, Los Angeles, CA 90064
1929159161 $12.95 1-800-989-9441
Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective by James Hilgendorf is a sensitive and profound look into
the eternal questions of God, creation, life, and death from a Buddhist perspective. The wisdom of
enlightenment and the unifying truths of Buddhism add a unique dimension to the eternal issues in
Life & Death, which gathers numerous quotes from figures such as Carl Jung, Albert Einstein,
and Leo Tolstoy to better present its perspective. Of special and particular interest is the
transcript of a panel discussion which took place in Los Angeles (July, 2000) and revealed unique,
practical insights for contemporary students of Buddhist philosophy. Life & Death is a welcome
and highly commended addition to Buddhist Studies collections and supplemental reading
lists.
The Self-Help Shelf
Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice
Robert W. Firestone, et al.
New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
5674 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
1572242876 $15.95 newharbinger.com
Collaboratively written by clinical psychologists Robert W. Firestone and Lisa Firestone, with the
assistance of author/lecturer Joyce Catlett, Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice is an impressively
"user friendly" self-help guide to learning how to overcome negative thoughts and self-imposed
limitations. Individual chapters address how excessive self-criticism can interfere with intimacy,
career, and general quality of life, and how it can co-opt oneself into addictive and unhealthily
dependent behaviors. Strategies for learning how to restore balance and contentment to one's way
of life, and also for choosing an effective therapist, offer a way out of the endless downward spiral
of self-depreciating negativity. Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice is a highly recommended
addition to personal reading lists and community library self-improvement, self-help reference
collections.
Setting Yourself Free
SaraKay Smullens, MSW, LCSW, BCD
New Horizon Press
PO Box 669, Far Hills, NJ 07931
0882822241 $14.95 1-800-533-7978
Setting Yourself Free by marriage and family therapist SaraKay Smullens is a thoroughly "user
friendly" self-help book designed help the reader escape from the endless cycle of emotional
abuse. Anecdotes, wisdom, encouragement, and guidelines are all present in this sober and
informative account of classic negative relationships, such as ones characterized by rage,
dictatorial behavior, excessive whining, overprotection, or worse. Negative relationships can
make one's life miserable at home, in school, or in the workplace; Setting Yourself Free accessibly
offers a wealth of sound and highly recommended advice for coping and dealing with such
behavior no matter where it is encountered.
The Comix/Graphic Novel Shelf
Sorcerer Hunters, Volume 11
Satoru Akahori & Ray Omishi
Tokyopop
c/o Mixx Entertainment
1931514267 $12.99 www.tokyopop.com
Volume 11 of the Sorcerer Hunters manga (Japanese comics) is the latest graphic novel
installment in this alternately comedic and dramatic saga of a fantastic land ravaged by cruel
sorcerers, and the elite team of enforcers who must punish the guilty - often with a death sentence
- to protect the lives of innocent citizens who are powerless in the ways of magic. Some nudity
and sexually suggestive themes make the entire Sorcerer Hunters recommended for those age 16
and older, but Sorcerer Hunters is primarily an action/fantasy that tends to alternate between
ridiculous slapstick comedy and overpowering heavy drama. Continuing the build toward the
imminent climax of the saga, Volume 11 offers insight into the history and creation of the world,
the origin of godlike figures such as Big Mama, and the true source of Sorceror's power.
Furthermore, the hidden monster within the protagonist Carrot's soul threatens to come to the
surface -- with potentially world-shattering results! Fans of the Sorcerer Hunters anime should
note that the "Sorcerer Hunters" television series ran its course well before the original manga
published its conclusion - and so the graphic novel storyline diverges significantly from the
ambiguous anime ending.
X/1999 Crescendo
CLAMP
Viz Communications Inc.
655 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA 94107
1591160502 $15.95 1-800-394-3042
With story and art by Clamp, X/1999 Crescendo is the eighth graphic novel in an original and
visionary artistic saga about the forces of preservation and destruction coming together in a
deadly, earth-shattering collision course at the turn of the second millennium. CLAMP is group of
four female artists and storytellers, who collaborate in this fantastic Japanese anime tale that
combines heroes, killers, violence, a young protagonist who wants nothing to do with the
larger-than-life drama that swirls about him, and the frail young woman he loves. In the
penultimate installment of Crescendo, the youth Kamui seems to have the option to either save or
destroy the world - but the whole truth spirals beyond his control, dragging friend, beloved, and
foe alike into inevitable confrontation in this dark saga featuring fantastic art.
NBM Press
555 8th Avenue, #1202, NY, NY 10018
http://www.nbmpublishing.com
Dave McKean's weighty and superbly drawn black and white graphic novel Cages (1561633194,
$50.00) is hard to easily categorize but deserves mention as an outstanding collection of graphic
cartoon vignettes revolving around the idea of 'cages'. Chapters almost surreal in approach blend
from wordless images to short dialogues and detailed reflections. Dave McKean's Cages isn't your
usual graphic novel its depth and layers are multiple and those used to the form will relish this
expansive effort. Ted Rall's Attitude: New Subversive Political Cartoonists (1561633178,
$13.95) includes political cartoons with a new twist: imagine a collection influenced by R. Crumb
and providing charged political insights beyond the mainstream and you have a fine gathering of
angry, pointed observations which will seldom make mainstream papers.
The Genealogy Shelf
Directory Of Family Associations
Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Deborah Ann Carl
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202
0806316799 $34.95 1-800-296-6687
Now in an updated and expanded fourth edition, Directory Of Family Associations is a complete
and reliable research resource for amateur and professional genealogists alike. Contact, website,
and other basic information on approximately 6,000 family associations across the United States
(ranging from the Archibald Clan Clearinghouse to the Zwigart Association of America), make
the Directory Of Family Associations an excellent first step for consultation references when
searching for the history behind a family name.
Pocket Guide To Irish Genealogy
Brian Mitchell
Clearfield Company
200 East Eager St, Baltimore, MD 21202
#9240 $12.95 1-410-625-9004
Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition, Brian Mitchell's Pocket Guide To Irish
Genealogy skillfully blends case studies, maps, and charts, to provide a useful and "user friendly"
introductory guide for the novice genealogist wanting to research their Irish family roots. Of
special interest is a new chapter on "Irish Genealogy and the Internet" which introduces all of the
principal web sites for conducting Irish genealogical research online. If you are contemplating an
Ireland oriented genealogical investigatory research, begin with a careful reading of Brian
Mitchell's superbly organized and informative instructional reference.
A Genealogist's Guide To Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors
Linda Jones & Paul Milner
Betterway Books/F&W Publications
4700 E Galbraith Rd Cincinnati OH 45236
1558705996 $19.99 1-800-289-0963
Collaboratively written by knowledgeable genealogists Linda Jonas (Director of the McLean
Family History Center specializing in British Ancestry) and Paul Milner (a professional family
historian specializing in British research), A Genealogist's Guide To Discovering Your Scottish
Ancestors: How To Find And Record Your Unique Heritage is a useful and user friendly
"how-to" manual that teaches beginning genealogists the basic guidelines they need to follow in
the research process of tracking down their family history. From combing a database of Scottish
origins, to extracting useful information from census and church records, to avoiding common
genealogical research pitfalls, A Genealogist's Guide To Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors is a
very highly recommended resource for anyone of Scottish descent interested in learning more
about their family origins and genealogical linkages.
The Humor Shelf
What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle?
Scott Adams
Andrews McMeel Publishing
4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
0740726633 $14.95 1-800-851-8923
What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? (answer: a co-worker) is the sixth, hilarious
treasury of some of the best daily strips and full-color Sunday strips of the Dilbert cartoons --
which now appear in two thousand daily newspapers and sixty-five countries. A biting satire of all
that is inept, soul-devouring, moronic, or just plain nuts in the corporate world, What Do You
Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? is side-splittingly funny in its merciless jibes against the foibles of
idiot bosses and thoughtless employees: "If I use the speakerphone it will annoy my co-workers.
Luckily for me, I'm a sociopath."
Dilbert And The Way Of The Weasel
Scott Adams
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022
0060518057 $24.95 harpercollins.com
Written by the acclaimed (or perhaps just ridiculed) author of "The Dilbert Principle" and the
Dilbert daily comic strip, Dilbert And The Way Of The Weasel is a hilarious yet frighteningly
insightful look at a simple principle of human nature: People are Weasels. That is, most people fall
into a massive grey area between ethical behavoir and outright criminal behavior, which author
Scott Adams refers to as the Weasel Zone. Side-splitting anecdotes, real-life weasel strategies
(such as salesmen giving small gifts to potential customers, triggering the human compulsion to
reciprocate the gift by making a big purchase), and much more about the venal, self-serving, yet
technically legal side of human behavior fills Dilbert And The Way Of The Weasel from cover to
cover. An absolute must-read and impossible to put down - cynics will relish every word, and
optimists should regard the wisdom herein as a basic manual for survival in a weasel-ridden
world.
The Parenting Shelf
The Back Door To Your Teen's Heart
Melissa Trevathan & Sissy Goff
Harvest House Publishers
990 Owen Loop North, Eugene, OR 97402-9173
0736908374 $9.99 1-800-547-8979
Collaboratively written by youth and family counseling experts Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff,
The Back Door To Your Teen's Heart: Learning What They Need And Helping Them Find It is a
gentle and informative guide specifically designed for parents struggling to deal with their difficult
teenaged children. From ways to get around brief, rote responses and communicating with a
seemingly reluctant or sulky young adult, to learning about and understanding the problems
buffeting young people today, The Back Door To Your Teen's Heart is excellent and highly
recommended supplement reading for parents, teachers, counselors, and anyone else charged with
the responsibility of assisting teens to deal constructively with their lives and life experiences.
A Will of His Own
Kelly Harland
Woodbine House, Inc.
6510 Bells Mill Rd, Bethesda, MD 20817
1890627194 $16.95 1-800-843-7323
A Will Of His Own: Reflections On Parenting A Child With Autism by Seattle-based singer,
teacher, and writer Kelly Harland is the touching, emotional, and deeply personal memoir of
having raised an autistic son who reacts fearfully to everyday, commonplace and non-threatening
noises and sights which other children consider harmless, such as a divider stick separating
customer groceries. Dealing with tantrums, poor adaption to change, and other hurdles with love
and support sometimes comes across as an uphill battle, A Will Of His Own sends a powerful and
essentially positive message of hope, learning, and growth. A Will Of His Own is very highly
recommended reading for any parent having to cope with an autistic child of their own.
Reaching The Autistic Child
Martin A. Kozloff
Brookline Books
Box 381047, Cambridge, MA 02238-1047
1571290567 $15.95 1-800-666-2665
Now in a revised and updated edition, Reaching The Autistic Child: A Parent Training Program
by academician, educator, and autism expert Martin A. Kozloff, presents a program created and
designed to help the autistic child develop new patterns of behavior to better function in the
world. Emphasizing the means to teach a child basic skills of speech and cooperation, and to
realize intellectual and emotional potentials, Reaching The Autistic Child consists both of a
description of general techniques and several very detailed and positive anecdotal case studies. An
excellent guide grounded firmly in experience and behavioral psychology, Reaching The Autistic
Child is an essential, core contribution to Autism Studies and Disability Education reference
collections and reading lists.
How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing Up
Joshua Shane Evans and his step-mother
Pale Horse Publishing
POB 1447, Livingston, TX 77351-1104
1587470411 $15.00 1-800-646-5590
How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing Up is a book for young children about coping with
regular visitation to separate parents, especially long-distance visitation. Written in very simple
language arising from the point of view of a young boy who had a hard time adjusting to the
stress of traveling back and forth to visit his mother, How To Go To Visitation Without
Throwing up offers more than just a mere advisory text - it has point-by-point observations, travel
safety tips, and numerous fun activities to pass the travel time. How To Go To Visitation Without
Throwing Up is highly recommended reading and a great resource for any parent having to take a
child on a long distance trip to visit friends and relations.
The Education Shelf
Fundamentals Of Homeschooling
Ann Lahrson-Fisher
Nettlepatch Press
PO Box 1279, Carson, WA 98610
www.nettlepatch.net/homeschool
0964081369 $24.95 www.amazon.com
Fundamentals Of Homeschooling: Notes On Successful Family Living by writer, public speaker,
workshop leader, and homeschooling expert Ann Lahrson-Fisher is an extensive, "parent friendly"
guide to the techniques, pitfalls, and advantages of homeschooling. From using homeschooling to
teach reading and writing to young children, to creating a useful curriculum for teenagers, to
adequately preparing a young person to succeed in community colleges, universities, the military,
or other educational or job training venues, Fundamentals Of Homeschooling is a strongly
recommended primer and an invaluable supplementary resource to creating a balanced
homeschooling teaching plan, as well as offering a wealth of tips, tricks, and techniques to
creating the best home learning environment possible. If you are seriously considering, or are
already involved with, homeschooling, then give Ann Lahrson-Fisher's Fundamentals Of
Home-Schooling a very careful and thorough reading!
Overcoming Inertia In School Reform
R. Murray Thomas
Corwin Press
2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks CA 91320
076194592X $27.95 1-800-818-7243
Overcoming Inertia In School Reform: How To Successfully Implement Change by R. Murray
Thomas is a solidly written, eminently practical look at why educational models tend to resist
change, and how to bring about school reform improvements in spite of administrative, faculty,
and community reluctance. Analyzing cultural, traditional, political, and economic obstacles, as
well as means to efficiently support and promote educational improvements, Overcoming Inertia
In School Reform is an excellent and highly recommended supplementary resource with sound
advice and implications for dealing with a good many more intractable institutions than just
schools.
Math For Moms And Pops
William E. Steinman
Wesoomi Publishing
PO Box 656, Ortonville, MI 48462
0965373266 $17.95 www.wesoomi.com
A superbly designed self-study work book by William E. Steinman, Math For Moms And Pops:
It's All Just Counting is a straightforward, "user friendly" guide to understanding basic arithmetic
(addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, decimals, and story problems)
and written especially for parents trying to help their young children learning arithmetic for the
first time. Presenting the basic material in a very easy-to-understand format, Math For Moms And
Pops is a top-quality educational guide perfect for both home schooling curriculums as well as
conventional school curriculum homework assistance resources.
How To Prepare For And Respond To A Crisis
David J. Schonfeld, et al.
ASCD
1703 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311-1714
0871207222 $18.95 www.ascd.org
Now in an updated second edition, How To Prepare For And Respond To A Crisis,
collaboratively written by David J. Schonfeld (Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine), Robert Lichetenstein (Consultant,
School Psychology and School Social Work, Connecticut State Department of Education),
Marsha Kline Pruett (Research Scientist, Law and Psychiatry Division, Yale University School of
Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center), and Dee Speese-Linehan (Supervisor, Social
Development Department, New Haven Public Schools), is a very useful and "user friendly"
manual offering guidance for forming safety and security plans for a school in response to a crisis
situation. Individual chapters present a basic crisis intervention model, the establishment of crisis
teams, clinical support, and much, much more. A brief (96 page) yet solidly helpful preparatory
guide, How To Prepare For And Respond To A Crisis is essential reading for anyone charged
with the responsibility of planning and implementing school emergency response programs and
resource development.
So Much Stuff, So Little Space
Susan Nations & Suzi Boyett
Maupin House Publishing
PO Box 90148, Gainesville, FL 32607
0929895525 $14.95 maupinhouse.com
So Much Stuff, So Little Space: Creating And Managing The Learner-Centered Classroom is a
straightforward guide collaboratively written by Susan Nations (literacy resource teacher for
grades K-5, Gocio Elementary School, Sarasota, Florida) and Suzi Boyett (literacy consultant,
Lebanon Community Schools, Lebanon, Indiana) for the purpose of helping kindergarten through
fifth grade teachers efficiently and effectively keeping track of all their stuff, from paperwork and
lesson plans to art supplies and bulletin boards. Individual chapters address how to handle
disorderly closets and libraries, preparing for absences, keeping student information organized,
and a great deal more. Packed from cover to cover with practical and helpful advice to make the
most out of the least space, So Much Stuff, So Little Space is highly recommended reading for
both classroom instructors, and space-challenged home schoolers.
The Hunting/Fishing Shelf
Peter M. Pringle: Master Decoy Maker
William C. Reeve
McGill-Queen's University Press
3430 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1X9
0773523480 $44.95 1-800-387-0141
Peter M. Pringle: Master Decoy Maker by William C. Reeve (Professor, Department of German,
Queen's University) and organizer of a showing of Pringle decoys for the Canadian Decoy and
Outdoor Collectibles Association in October 2001) is impressive and biographical study of the
late Peter Pringle, a truly gifted decoy maker for duck hunting. Chronicling Pringle's life through
his death in 1953, and following the fate of Pringle's effective and artistic creations through
extensively researched text and enhanced with both color as well as black-and-white photography,
Peter M. Pringle: Master Decoy Maker is a highly enjoyable reading experience, and is especially
recommended reading for dedicated duck hunters and appreciative connoisseurs of the specialized
art of decoy making.
Eastern Tides
Frank Daignault
Burford Books, Inc.
PO Box 388, Short Hills, NJ 07078
1580801048 $22.95 burfordbooks.com
Eastern Tides: A Surfcaster's Life is the personal memoir of Frank Daignault, a fishing
connoisseur who has written a thorourghly engaging work with a special appeal for his fellow
fishermen. Celebrating experiences with the art and joy of fishing throughout the seasons of the
years, Eastern Tides makes for especially excellent reading while anticipating a fishing trip or
when waiting for something to nibble on the line!
Small Stream Bass
John Gifford
The Countryman Press
PO Box 748, Woodstock, VT 05091
0881505250 $16.95 countrymanpress.com
Small Stream Bass: A Complete Angler's Guide To Bass Fishing Off The Beaten Path by stream,
river, and lake fishing expert John Gifford is an easy-to-follow, "user friendly" guide to tackle,
tactics, timing, and techniques to fishing for bass in overlooked freshwater streams. Bass can live
in many streams that can't support trout, and so bass fishermen have more options for their search
of a prime fishing site. Individual chapters address assessing the potential of a fishing stream, as
well as practical techniques for adapting and improving one's methods. Overall, Small Stream
Bass is a superb guide for fishermen who want to get away from noisy boats and crowded locales
and a highly recommended addition to any personal or community library reference
collection.
The Gaming Shelf
Rifts Bionics Sourcebook
Kevin Siembieda
Palladium Books, Inc.
12455 Universal Drive, Taylor, MI 48180
1574570757 $13.95 palladiumbooks.com
Rifts Bionics Sourcebook by Rifts creator, designer and chief writer Kevin Siembieda is an
indispensable reference for cyberpunk role-playing game campaigns within the Palladium gaming
universe. Written especially for the Rifts campaign, yet containing ideas and information readily
adaptable to any sci-fi fantasy gaming world, the Rifts Bionics Sourcebook goes into detail about
cybernetic implants for both player characters and villains, character archetypes such as "city
rats", young punks who live on the edge of the law and in pulse with the city, and
"cyber-snatchers", horrific killers who rip out innocent people's bionic implants for sale on the
black market. Black-and-white illustrations round out this exciting, imaginative, adventurous,
"must have" supplement for all dedicated Rifts gamers.
The Interior Design Shelf
Furniture Design
Cristina Montes, editor
teNeues Publishing Company
16 West 22nd Street, NY, NY 10010
3823855751 $24.95 www.teneues.com
Furniture Design is a compact yet extensive guide, with 400 pages, enhanced for the reader with
more than 750 color photos of a wealth of unique, eye-catching, emotional, and functional
furniture designs from around the world. A welcome and very highly recommended addition to
personal, professional, academic, and community library Interior Design reference collections, the
multi-lingual text is presented in English, French, Spanish, and German for readers of all
nationalities in this superbly presented visual, practical, and inspirational guide.
Taunton's Home Storage Idea Book
Joanne Kellar Bouknight
The Taunton Press
Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470-5506
1561585262 $29.95 1-800-888-8286
Taunton's Home Storage Idea Book by licensed architect Joanne Kellar Bouknight is a veritable
cornucopia of beautifully utilitarian and visually appealing ideas for economizing space in the most
aesthetic, practical, and easy-to-use manner. Full-color photographs offer splendid visual
examples of cabinetry, economical racks, free-standing storage and more, while the text presents
thoughtful and applicable ideas in plain and simple terms. An excellent and visually splendid guide
to consult when running out of places to put things, Taunton's Home Storage Idea Book is
especially recommended reading for anyone contemplating remodeling as well as providing a
wealth of ideas to raise with the architectural designers of new homes as well.
Shell Chic
Marlene Hurley Marshall, author
Sabine Vollmer von Falken, photographer
Storey Books
210 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247
158017440X $35.00 storeybooks.com
Packed cover to cover with full-color photographs, Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide To
Decorating Your Home With Seashells by painter and artist Marlene Hurley Marshall is a
practical and inspirational guide to using seashells for vibrant and dramatic visual effect in one's
home. From eye-catching table centerpieces to dazzling furniture enhancement, the text describes
the practical methods for decorating with shells and the wondrous photographs by Sabine Vollmer
von Falken portray the opulent results in both historic and modern creations. Also very highly
recommended for the do-it-yourself enthusiast is Marlene Marshall and Sabine von Falken's earlier
work, Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects For Home & Garden (1580170153;
$24.95)
The Writing/Publishing Shelf
How To Start & Run A Small Book Publishing Company
Peter I. Hupalo
HCM Publishing
Box 18093, West Saint Paul, MN 55118
0967162432 $18.95 hcmpublishing.com
How To Start & Run a Small Book Publishing Company: A Small Business Guide To
Self-Publishing And Independent Publishing by author, publisher, and book reviewer Peter I.
Hupalo is a highly practical, useful and "user friendly" guide written especially for authors who
are considering private publishing as an alternative to being published by an established press, as
well as those who are considering launching their own independent publishing businesses for
producing their own works and/or those of others. Individual chapters address a range of relevant
issues ranging from the determination of how many copies of a book to print, to successful and
unsuccessful marketing techniques (direct mail is strongly discouraged due to its expensive nature
and low likelihood of turning a profit), to pricing the book for maximum commercial return, to
itemizing deductible costs, inventory accounting, book production, record keeping, and much,
much more. A first-rate primer and a "must-read" for anyone seriously thinking of entering the
exciting and often competitive world of independent publishing, How To Start & Run A Small
Book Publishing Company is a welcome and recommended addition to any personal reading list
or professional "do-it-yourself" instructional reference shelf.
The AP Stylebook And Briefing On Media Law
Norm Goldstein, Editor
Perseus Publishing
Eleven Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
0738203084 $17.00 1-800-242-7737
The AP Stylebook And Briefing On Media Law is a classic reference has been fully revised and
updated to provide readers with the latest details on media law, probing newsrooms, journalism
classes, and different styles of writing. Fifty new entries and revisions keep up with world events,
common usage, and AP procedures and include sections on the Internet and current media law.
An excellent technical guide.
Writing The Thriller Film
Neill D. Hicks
Michael Wiese Productions
11288 Ventura Blvd., Suite 621, Studio City, CA 91604
0941188469 $14.95 www.mwp.com
Writing The Thriller Film: The Terror Within by professional screenwriter Neill D. Hicks
("Rumble in the Bronx", "First Strike") is a practical guide to creating a professional quality,
tension-inducing, commercially viable movie script. Intended for authors who are already familiar
with the basics of screenwriting, Writing The Thriller Film concentrates on what the movie genre
of the "thriller" expects from a good script, how to make the narrative credible and engrossing,
the qualities and actions needed for an engaging conflict between protagonist and antagonist,
dramatic action as hard choices forced upon the characters, and more. Writing The Thriller Film
explores the much-beloved genre in-depth and is an excellent and recommended primer for
aspiring thriller and action movie screenwriters. Also highly recommended are Neill Hicks two
other outstanding "how to" screenwriting instructionals: Writing the Action-Adventure Film: The
Moment Of Truth (0941188396; $14.95), and Screenwriting 101: The Essential Craft Of Feature
Film Writing (0941188728; $16.95).
Nonstandardized Quests
David E. LeCount
Heinemann/Reed Elsevier, Inc.
361 Hanover St., Portsmouth, NH 03801
0867095229 $15.00 heinemann.com
Nonstandardized Quests: 500+ Writing Prompts That Matter by highschool English teacher David
E. LeCount is an invaluable aide for creative writing teachers. Nonstandardized Quests is packed
cover to cover with ideas for unusual writing assignments meant to get young people to think and
put effort into expressing themselves. Each topic (such as "a guidebook for horses on how to get
along with flies") has a corresponding website for research, and samples of student writings
intersperse the abundant ideas. Nonstandardized Quests is also useful and highly recommended
for aspiring writers looking to flex their creative muscles via self-administered mini-projects.
The Architecture Shelf
David Adler, Architect
Martha Thorne, editor
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603-6110
0300097026 $60.00 1-312-443-3600
Knowledgeably edited by Martha Thorne, featuring essays by Richard Guy Wilson, Pauline C.
Metcalf, and Ghenete Zelleke, and enhanced with color photography by Bob Harr and Hedrich
Blessing, David Adler, Architect: The Elements Of Style is an astounding visual and descriptive
tour of the unique and influential architecture of David Adler (1882-1949) famous for designing
homes and estates in America during the period of the "great American house." His elegant style,
blending classical inspiration with a uniquely modern finish that shows through the test of time, is
presented through memorable color and black-and-white photographs as well as diagrams and
extensively detailed text (beginning with an informative foreword by Robert A. M. Stern) and
offers enriched background information as to the creation of David Adler's most well-known
masterpieces. David Adler, Architect: The Elements Of Style is very highly recommended for
connoisseurs of grand architecture and a core acquisition for professional and academic
Architectural Studies reference collections and American Architectural History supplemental
reading lists.
Revelations Of Byzantium
Alan Ogden
Center for Romanian Studies/ISBS
5804 NE Hassalo St., Portland, OR 97213
9739432328 $89.95 1-800-944-6190
Revelations Of Byzantium: The Monasteries And Painted Churches Of Northern Moldavia by
Alan Ogden (with an historical introduction by Kurt W. Treptown and enhanced with original
illustrations by Octavian Ion Penda), is an impressive and informative survey of the architecture
and artwork of Moldavian religious institutions dating back to the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. Splendid full-color photography offers compelling visual testimony of the grandeur and
faith behind these stunning works of architecture and their impressive interior murals. The
informed and "reader friendly" text offers both historical and critical background of the religious
institutions and their remarkable artworks. Revelations Of Byzantium is a strongly recommended
contribution to personal, professional, and academic Architectural History reference collections
and supplemental reading lists.
Build Smarter With Alternative Materials
Leon A. Frechette
Craftsman Book Company
PO Box 6500, Carlsbad, CA 92018
1572180749 $34.75 1-800-829-8123
Build Smarter With Alternative Materials by experienced general contractor and business owner
Leon A. Frechette is a practical, no-nonsense, do-it-yourself guide to home repair projects using
alternative materials to save expense and man-hours, or simply to add a unique touch to one's
dwelling. From foundations, to concrete wall systems, to roofing, bathrooms, insulation, decking,
to vinyl-type siding products, to techniques for environment-friendly building, and more, Build
Smarter With Alternative Materials is an excellent supplementary resource for the do-it-yourself
homeowner, and is especially recommended as an invaluable and indispensable reference for
construction professionals!
The Jobs/Career Shelf
A Job To Die For
Lisa Cullen
Common Courage Press
PO Box 702, Monroe, Maine 04951
156751216X $17.95 1-800-497-3207
A Job To Die For: Why So Many Americans Are Killed, Injured Or Made Ill At Work And What
To Do About It by Lisa Cullen is a candid, honest, hard look at the phenomena of work-related
injuries and fatalities in America, and just what can be done to reduce the unnecessary trauma,
suffering, and economic impact of workplace accidents. Individual chapters denounce the myth of
widespread worker compensation fraud, review practical-minded and cost-effective measures to
increase safety, the issue ergonomics, and a great deal more. Touting a combination of
information and exposure as the means to combat a very real problem, A Job To Die For is
strongly recommended reading as a book that just might avoid an illness, prevent an injury, or
even save a worker's life.
No One Will Hire Me!
Ron Krannich & Caryl Krannich
Impact Publications
9104 Manassas Drive, Suite N, Manassas Park, VA 20111
www.impactpublications.com
1570231877 $13.95 www.amazon.com
Collaboratively written by career and travel writers Ron and Caryl Krannich, No One Will Hire
Me! Avoid 15 Mistakes And Win The Job is a solidly written and extremely practical guide
designed especially for intelligent job-seekers who have trouble getting hired because they do not
fully understand business culture protocols. An extensive, easy-to-follow, and straightforward
informational manual on identifying and avoiding mistakes as well as what positive attitudes to
project, No One Will Hire Me! warns against such commonplace errors as spending too much
time on the Internet and not enough time networking when searching for a job, arriving late for
the interview, inadequate presentation, appearing too eager, appearing too apathetic, reading
frivolous magazines in the interview waiting lobby when other personnel may be watching, failing
to thank the interviewer for his time, and a great deal more. Highly recommended for serious
applicants entering the job market for the first time, as well as those who because of corporate
downsizing must re-entering the competitive job application process, No One Will Hire Me! is a
"must-read" for anyone having to adapt to the conditions of today's job market.
The Criminology Shelf
The Pale Criminal
Stephen J. Costello
H. Karnac Books Ltd.
c/o Other Press LLC
224 West 20th Street, NY, NY 10011
1855752956 $35.00 1-877-843-6843
The Pale Criminal by Stephen J. Costello (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Lecturer, Trinity
College - Dublin, University College - Dublin, and LSB College) is a scholarly, painstaking study
of what Nietzsche and Freud describe as "pale criminals", those who commit criminal acts out of
unconscious guilt. Offering an in-depth and perceptive psychoanalysis of behavior and philosophy,
The Pale Criminal is a technically complex yet highly engaging dissertation contributing
significantly to our understanding of human motivational impulses. The Pale Criminal is a
welcome and invaluable contribution to professional and academic Psychoanalytic Studies and
Criminology Studies reference collections and reading lists.
The Environmental Studies
Shelf
Justice On Earth
Tom Turner
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Box 428, White River Junction, VT 05001
1931498318 $40.00 1-800-639-4099
Justice On Earth: Earthjustice And The People It Has Served by Tom Turner (Earthjustice Senior
Editor) is a compelling collection of true stories about the endless battles to protect the earth from
the depredations of big and small businesses. Illustrated with numerous full-color photographs,
the informed and informative text recounts legal battles of the environmentally oriented
Earthjustice legal organization, the centuries of history leading up to these often seminal
litigations, as well as the very people and places that devoted public servants struggle to protect.
Justice On Earth is a highly recommended addition to any personal, academic, or community
library Environmental Issues reference collection or reading list.
The Environmental Guidebook
Jeff Staudinger
Environmental Frontlines
PO Box 43, Menlo Park, CA 94026
0972068503 $50.00 envirofront.org
The Environmental Guidebook: A Selective Reference Guide To Environmental Organizations
And Related Entities by Jeff Staudinger (Director of Operations for Environmental Frontlines) is a
comprehensive and "user friendly" directory filled with capsule entries offering basic facts, contact
information, revenue sources, key programs, mission statements and more about almost 500
different environmental organizations. Each entry offers a concise yet accurate snapshot of
organizations ranging from the Sierra Student Coalition to the American Wind Energy
Association. An essential and very highly recommended reference manual for environmental
workers and Environmental Studies reference libraries, The Environmental Guidebook is also
available in an e-book CD-ROM format (0972068511, $60.00).
Oceans 2020
John G. Field, et al.
Island Press
1718 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., #300, Washington, DC 20009
1559634707 $25.00 1-800-828-1302
Oceans 2020: Science, Trends, And The Challenge Of Sustainability, collaboratively written by
John G. Field (Professor of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa),
Gotthilf Hempel Professor Emeritus, university of Kiel and Science Advisor to the Senate of
Fremen, Germany), and Colin P. Summerhayes (Director, GOOS Project Office at the IOC, Paris,
France) is an extensively researched study of the science and social issues regarding ocean
management for the next twenty years. Individual chapters address the issues of climate change,
the problem of overfishing and the questionable sustainability of the fishing industry,
oceanographic technologies, and much, much more. A very highly recommended scholarly survey
and analysis (which is also available in hardcover (1559634693, $60.00), Oceans 2020 is a vitally
important and seminal contribution to Marine Science and Environmental Studies reference
collections and reading lists.
The Woodworking Shelf
Woodcarving: Book 1 Basic Techniques
Ian Norbury
Linden Publishing
2006 S. Mary, Fresno, CA 93721
0941936783 $15.95 www.lindenpub.com
Woodcarving: Book 1 Basic Techniques by woodcarving expert Ian Norbury is a brief yet
detailed guide featuring 17 quick and simple carving projects for beginning woodworkers. Each
project has step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs depicting numerous intermediate
stages and the finished product. The projects include an ergonomic cane handle, a dragon clothes
hanger, a fish platter, and more. Overall, Woodcarving: Book 1 Basic Techniques is an excellent
workbook for novice woodcarver aspiring to improve their skills and create useful works of art,
and is also recommended for even the more experienced woodworker seeking interesting and
satisfying weekend woodcarving projects for themselves.
The Social Issues Shelf
Understanding Marijuana
Mitch Earleywine
Oxford University Press
Gulotta Communications (publicity)
198 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10016
0195138937 $29.95 1-800-451-7556
Understanding Marijuana: A New Look At The Scientific Evidence by Mitch Earleywine
(Associate Professor of Clinical Science and director of Clinical Training in Psychology,
University of Southern California) is a scholarly and painstakingly objective analysis of the highly
controversial and largely illegal and pharmaceutically controlled substance known as cannabis,
marijuana, ganja, as well as a host of other street names. Carefully scrutinizing the results of
numerous studies of the drug, as well as taking special note of the importance not to confuse
causality, Understanding Marijuana does its best to answer issues such as: Is marijuana really a
gateway to "hard" drugs such as cocaine or heroin? Does it truly impair driving ability or cause
auto accidents? What are its effects upon motivation, schoolwork, or job productivity? The
evidence is often conflicting, but sometimes it points to answers which may be surprising.
Understanding Marijuana is as free of bias as a book on a hot-button social/political/legal/medical
issue can possibly be, and is especially recommended for its repeated cautions against the very
common fallacies of assuming causation. Just because one thing (i.e. marijuana use) precedes
another thing or coexists with another thing (such as lack of motivation) does not necessarily
mean that the first item caused the second! But neither does it rule causation out, hence the need
for careful, meticulous research of this highly complex issue.
Out Of Bounds, Out Of Control
James V. DeLong
Cato Institute
1000 Masschusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001
1930865309 $16.95 www.cato.org
Out Of Bounds, Out Of Control: Regulatory Enforcement At The EPA James V. DeLong (Senior
Fellow, Project on Technology and Innovation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington,
D.C.) is a straightforward survey and analysis of the enforcement activities of the Environmental
Protection Agency, and comes up with documented conclusion regarding the EPA's miserable
deficiency record. Taking the stand that the EPA's enforcement provisions interpret its power too
broadly, blurs separation of governmental powers, and does not comply with the rule of law, Out
Of Bounds, Out Of Control strongly advocates EPA reforms and calls for EPA regulated
industries to defend themselves more vigorously and overtly.
Hooked On Hoops
Kevin McNutt
African American Images
www.AfricanAmericanImages.com
0913543764 $14.95 www.amazon.com
Hooked On Hoops: Understanding Black Youths' Blind Devotion To Basketball by Kevin
McNutt (Founder and Executive Director of Sports Enhancements Inc. - a non-profit company
devoted to educating and exposing youth to jobs and careers within the sports industry) is a
sobering and expert examination of a very real problem facing African-American communities
today - that of overemphasis on athletic sports, particularly basketball, to such a degree that
young athletes do not adequately prepare themselves for other possible life plans, resulting in an
extensively disproportionate black college athletes failing to graduate with a degree. Hooked On
Hoops is not a unilateral denouncement of basketball; it is a powerful study of ingrained social
attitudes and perceptions, emphasizing the need to encourage balance in athlete's lives. Hooked
On Hoops is very highly recommended reading, especially for the parents and coaches of aspiring
youngsters of any ethnicity or background who think to use sports in general, and basketball in
particular, as the basis for establishing and financing their life goals and expectations.
Choose Hope
David Krieger & Daisaku Ikeda
Middleway Press
Phenix & Phenix (publicity)
606 Wilshire Bouledvard, Santa Monica CA 90401
0967469767 $23.95 middlewaypress.org
Choose Hope: Your Role In Waging Peace In The Nuclear Age by David Krieger (President of
the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) and Daisaku Ikeda (President of the Soka Gakkai
International and recipient of the 1983 United Nations Peace Award), is an uplifting, inspiring,
and practical inquiry into what ordinary people can do to help eliminate the threat of nuclear war.
Individual chapters address the critical importance of nongovernmental organizations, the future
of the United Nations, the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and much, much more. Choose
Hope is a highly recommended reading for anyone concerned with the proliferation of nuclear
weapons technology and the resultant, globally engaging threat of nuclear warfare in these
troubled times.
Damned For Their Difference
Jan Branson & Don Miller
Gallaudet University Press
800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002-3695
1563681218 $34.95 1-800-621-2736
Collaboratively researched and written by Jan Branson (Director of the National Institute for Deaf
Studies and Sign Language Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) and
Don Miller (Head of Anthropology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Damned
For Their Difference: The Cultural Construction Of Deaf People As Disabled is a sharply written
criticism of various societies' tendency to classify deaf people as "disabled", a term that excludes
them from the mainstream of the culture -- often with harmful side effects. In examining the
question of what "disabled" really means, Branson and Miller blend history, biography, and social
structures with a justifiably critical perspective at the over-emphasis on oral aspects of Western
culture in the past and present. Damned For Their Difference is a very strongly recommended,
inherently fascinating and arguably persuasively written account of an endemic social issue with
respecting to the hearing impaired.
The Theatre/Cinema Shelf
Afterglow
Francis Davis
Da Capo Press
11 Cambridge Ctr., Cambridge MA 02142
0306811928 $18.00 1-800-242-7737
Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael by Francis Davis (Contributing Editor of
Atlantic Monthly magazine) is an absorbingly written memory of the wit, wisdom, and wonder of
a truly great actress, and the memorable chat she had with author Francis Davis shortly before her
unfortunate death. Written in question-and-answer format, Afterglow preserves this remarkable
woman's keen insights on movies, television, literature and much, much more in her own
words.
Japanese Movie Posters
DH Publishing, Inc.
2-3-3F Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 101-0051
http://www.dhp-online.com
0972312404 $30.00 jen@al.rimnet.ne.jp
Japanese Movie Posters: Yakuza, Monster, Pink And Horror is an eye-opening, full-color
presentation of movie posters representational of the best and the worst of Japan's cinema. From
lurid and graphic horror to yakuza movies to posters of Hayao Miyazaki's wondrous words of
animation, Japanese Movie Posters offers an unforgettable slice of Japanese popular culture in the
twentieth century. Brief yet erudite and scholarly commentaries by Chuck Stephens (contributing
editor to "Film Comment", a columnist for "Kinema Junpo, and a freelance specialist in Asian
cinema for publications worldwide), Tetsuya Masuda (vintage poster expert and head of the
cinema section of wonder antiquarian books), and Kairakutei Black (a Japanese film critic and
traditional "rakugo" comic storyteller) offer informed and informative insights into the psychology
and media background of the individual posters round out this impressive collection. A unique
compendium of cinematic poster art, Japanese Movie Posters is a welcome and highly
recommended addition to any personal or academic Cinematic Studies reference collection.
The Biography Shelf
Katherine Dunham
Joyce Aschenbrenner
University of Illinois Press
1325 South Oak St, Champaign, IL 61820
0252027590 $29.95 press.uillinois.edu
Katherine Dunham: Dancing A Life is the in-depth biography of Katherine Dunham, a truly
talented, remarkably gifted, and influential twentieth century dancer, choreographer, and founder
of the first self-supporting African American dance company. Incorporating Dunham's published
memoirs, archival documents, and extensive interviews with Dunham's colleagues, students, and
dance company members, Katherine Dunham: Dancing A Life by Joyce Aschenbrenner (Professor
Emerita of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville) is a meticulously
researched, objectively presented, accessibly written, biographically based revelation of what a life
of dance is truly like, as well as revealing the heart and soul behind the graceful movements on
stage.
Diana: Closely Guarded Secret
Inspector Ken Wharfe & Robert Jobson
Michael O'Mara Books Limited
9 Lion Yard, Tremadoc Road, London, SW4 7NQ, United Kingdom
1843170051 $22.95 mombooks.com
Diana: Closely Guarded Secret is an intimate, tell-all account written by Inspector Ken Wharfe, a
British police officer who was once one of many charged with the responsibility of protecting
Princess Diana and her family from harm. Candidly written with the assistance of Robert Jobson,
and enhanced with an insert section of color photographs, Diana: Closely Guarded Secret dares to
dispel commonly believed myths about the princess and showcases her true humanity, her genuine
strengths, and her all-to-human weaknesses. Diana: Closely Guarded Secret is a "must read" for
anyone who has ever found themselves emotionally affected by the complex life and untimely
death of Princess Diana.
Theodosia
Richard N. Cote
Corinthian Books
PO Box 1898, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465
1929175310 $29.95 corinthianbooks.com
Meticulously researched and superbly written, Theodosia by biographer Richard N. Cote is the
fascinating and informative biography of Aaron Burr's singular and strong-willed daughter,
Theodosia Burr Alston. Both she and her father embraced the philosophy of Englishwoman Mary
Wollstonecraft, one of the founders of feminism in the late eighteenth century, perhaps best
known for her then-radical advocacy of equal education for boys and girls. A remarkable portrait
of human strength and resilience, as well as a highly recommended addition to Women's Studies
and American Biography reading lists, Theodosia is an engaging and remarkable look into a
formidable woman's life in the early nineteenth century.
Vera Brittain
Paul Berry & Mark Bostridge
Northeastern University Press
360 Huntington Avenue, 416CP, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
1555535186 $24.95 1-800-666-2211
A collaboratively written biography by the late Paul Berry (who was Vera Brittain's close friend
for 28 years and her literary executor) and London-based biographer Mark Bostridge, Vera
Brittain: A Life is a lengthy and informative survey of the life and times of the writer, pacifist, and
feminist Vera Brittain (1893-1970), who is perhaps best known as the author of "Testament of
Youth," the memoir of her traumatic World War I experiences. The crushing loss of her fiance,
younger brother, and two friends in World War I, her uphill battle to earn recognition as a writer,
her controversial stance against the Allies' saturation bombing of Germany in World War II, and a
great deal more are engagingly examined in thorough, candid detail. Vera Brittain is very highly
recommended as a solidly written, deeply engaging, and totally involving study of a unique and
outspoken woman's life.
Ozzy Unauthorized
Sue Crawford
Michael O'Mara Books Limited
c/o Andrews McMeel Publishing
4520 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64111
1854798995 $14.95 1-800-851-8923
Ozzy Unauthorized by biographer Sue Crawford is an informed and informative charting heavy
metal icon and unforgettable personality Ozzy Osbourne. Enhanced with 32 pages of
photographs, a full discography and chronology, a specially commissioned astrological chart, this
succinctly written biography offers a candid, no-holds-barred study of the man whose latest
achievement is bringing record ratings to MTV as the star of uniquely irreverent "reality"
documentary "The Osbournes." Ozzy Unauthorized is "must" reading for Ozzy's legions of
fans.
Henry & Mary Ponsonby
William M. Kuhn
Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
c/o International Publishers Marketing
22841 Quicksilver Dr., Dulles, VA 20166
0715630652 $29.95 1-800-758-3756
Henry & Mary Ponsonby: Life At The Court Of Queen Victoria by William M. Kuhn (Associate
Professor of History, Carthage College) is the informed and informative, meticulous and scholarly
biographical portrait of Henry and Mary Ponsonby, two high-ranking courtiers who served Queen
Victoria during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Henry & Mary Ponsonby is
an enthusiastically recommended, intimate portrayal of court life which offers unique insights into
the recent history of Great Britain's royal family in general, and the court of Queen Victoria in
particular.
Sparrow
Ursula Perrin
The Stillwater Press
PO Box 265, Stillwater, NJ 07875
0971697701 $24.95 1-973-579-6127
Sparrow: The Wartime Journey Of Rosemarie Von Wedel is the biography of Rosemarie von
Wedel, an extraordinary young woman who survived a childhood affliction of polio, partial
paralysis, the death of her father, the abandonment of her mother and stepfather, and then life in
Germany under Hitler, who implemented a state policy of genocide against those deemed
physically or mentally unfit, a policy that was to evolve to include Jews, gypsies, homosexuals,
dissidents and others the Nazis considered defective or a danger. Sparrow is strongly
recommended as a powerful story of upbeat personal courage in a place and time of unspeakable
horror.
Diego Rivera
Pete Hamill
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
0810990822 $19.95 abramsbooks.com
Unforgettable reading, Diego Rivera is a vivid, emotionally written biography of the famous
Mexican artist, mural painter, and Communist activist Diego Rivera (1886-1957). Biographer
Pete Hamill narration of Rivera's remarkable life is enhanced with Rivera's great works of art both
in full color replications and through black-and-white photographs. With an informed and
informative text more heavily weighted toward relating Rivera's life story than simply being a
showcase of Rivera's great murals, Diego Rivera blends both the highs and lows in his struggle
through life for meaning against a background of turbulent politics, as well as the overwhelming
messages of his art.
The Martial Arts Shelf
Fighting Strategies Of Muay Thai
Mark Van Schuyver
Kru Pedro Solana Villalobos
Paladin Press
7077 Winchester Cir., Boulder, CO 80301
1581603584 $30.00 1-800-392-2400
Fighting Strategies Of Muay Thai: Secrets Of Thailand's Boxing Camps by martial arts expert
Mark Van Schuyver with the assistance of Kru Pedro Solana Villalobos (owner, director, and
head instructor of the Thailand Arts Institute) is a straightforward presentation of timing elements,
strategies, and training techniques of the martial art of Muay Thai boxing. An informative text
illustrated with black-and-white photographs explores individual techniques in-depth, as well as
conditioning methods, and the four basic types of fighter, and much more in this excellent
overview of Muay Thai discipline. Fighting Strategies Of Muay Thai is essential reading for
anyone with an interest in Thai martial arts.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Self-Defense Techniques
Royce Gracie & Charles Gracie
Invisible Cities Press
50 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
1931229279 $29.95 1-800-888-4741
Collaboratively written by martial arts champions Royce and Charles Gracie (with the assistance
of martial arts writer and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt holder Kid Peligro), Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Self-Defense Techniques is a superbly organized and presented martial arts self-defense resource
offering direct, practical, "user friendly" instructions and effectively illustrated with numerous
full-color photographs throughout. Techniques for protecting oneself when accosted in a wide
variety of situations are carefully presented, along with cautions against common errors. Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu Self-Defense Techniques is a strongly recommended instructional and reference guide,
especially for those who already have some experience in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and is the next best
thing to taking a course from a certified instructor in person.
The Library Science Shelf
Introduction To Technical Services
G. Edward Evans, et al.
Libraries Unlimited
7730 East Belleview Ave., Suite A200, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
156308922X $49.50 1-800-225-5800
Now in an extensively updated and significantly expanded seventh edition, Introduction To
Technical Services by librarians G. Edward Evans, Sheila S. Intner, and Jean Weihs is a
exhaustive reference and guide written especially for those involved in library and information
services, and offers invaluable, practical advice, a wealth of technical details, and innovative
strategies for upgrading the ability to manage data to keep up with the twenty-first century.
Individual chapters address contrasts between the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Library
of Congress Classification systems, how to efficiently manage the cataloging department, print
based and electronic serials, dealing with distributors and vendors, and much, much more. An
excellent all-around primer, Introduction To Technical Services is an important and core addition
to any Library Science collection, and highly recommended for academic, corporate, and
community librarians charged with the responsibility of coping with the rapidly evolving
technologies relevant to all aspects of library operations.
Starting And Operating Live Virtual Reference Services
Marc Meola & Sam Stormont
Neal-Schuman Publishers
100 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
1555704441 $59.95 neal-schuman.com
Collaboratively written by Marc Meola (Humanities Librarian, College of New Jersey) and Sam
Stormont (Digital References Services Coordinator and Communications Subject Specialist,
Temple University), Starting and Operating Live Virtual Reference Services: A How-To-Do-It
Manual For Librarians is a straightforward, "user friendly" instructional guide for librarians
seeking ways to update their service to the needs of a twenty-first century public. Starting And
Operating Live Virtual Reference Services demonstrates how to make logging in and out a snap
for of web-browsing library patrons, and is very highly recommended as an extensive "how-to"
manual for handling and customizing a functional 24-hour-a-day virtual library reference
desk.
The Librarian's Guide To Intellectual Property In The Digital Age
Timothy Lee Wherry
American Library Association
50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611
083890825X $38.00 1-800-545-2433
The Librarian's Guide To Intellectual Property In The Digital Age by Timothy Lee Wherry
(Director, The Robert E. Eiche Library, Pennsylvania State University) is a solid reference and
informative introduction to the basics of copyrights, patents, and trademarks and written
especially to serve the needs and questions of librarians. The issue of what constitutes fair use,
modern-day disputes over file swapping services such as Napster, common misconceptions about
patents, and a great deal more, is presented in easy-to-understand terms, in a text that sometimes
adopts a question-and-answer format. The Librarian's Guide To Intellectual Property In The
Digital Age is a highly recommended addition to professional and academic "Library Science"
supplemental reading lists and reference collections.
The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide
Irene E. McDermott
Information Today, Inc.
143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055-8750
157387129X $29.50 www.infotoday.com
Deftly edited Barbara Quint (Editor, Searcher Magazine), The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide:
Strategies for the High-Tech Reference Desk by Irene E. McDermott (Reference Librarian and
Systems Manager, San Marino Public Library, California) is a useful and "user-friendly"
instructional guide, especially written for librarians concerned with how they can get the most out
of computer search engines, how to find people and public records with a minimum of fuss,
tracking down both current and dated news, cyber-shopping, web-based email, creating web
pages, computer troubleshooting, and much, much more. Although written and especially
recommended for the unique needs and problems of a librarian, this very practical primer can also
come in quite handy for any lay user still adjusting to the onset of the information age and what
school and community libraries can offer them.
The Science Fiction And Fantasy Readers' Advisory
Derek M. Buker
ALA Editions
PO Box 932501, Atlanta, GA 31193-2501
0838908314 $38.00 alastore.ala.org
The Science Fiction And Fantasy Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide To Cyborgs, Aliens,
And Sorcerers by science fiction expert, library webmaster, and youth services specialist Derek
M. Buker, is a unique and straightforward introduction to selecting science fiction and fantasy
books for community library collections that are likely to be enjoyable and well-read, whether for
one's personal reading pleasure or to serve science fiction/fantasy enthusiast in a library collection.
A practical and utilitarian guide that includes information on the nature of each subgenre of sci-fi
and fantasy, recommended picks, the lowdown on Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic, and World
Fantasy award-winning books, and synopses of a few highly recommended picks, The Science
Fiction And Fantasy Readers' Advisory is an informed and informative planning tool for
developing an ideal collection attractive to anyone new to the wonders of science fiction and
fantasy, as well as returning fans of the genre who want to learn more about the best of the very
best titles in the field -- past, present, and forthcoming.
The Native American Shelf
Alaska Natives And American Laws
David S. Case & David A. Voluck
University of Alaska Press
PO Box 756240-UAF, Fairbanks, AK 99775-2640
1889963089 $29.95 1-888-252-6657
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Alaska Natives And American Laws by David
S. Case and David A. Voluck is a straightforwardly presented and extensively researched listing
of American laws and their direct effect on the Native American communities of Alaska. The legal
relationships of federal and state governmental laws, statutes, regulations and policies with
respect to the indigenous populations of Alaska ranging from aboriginal titles, to a history of
native services in Alaska, to Alaska Native claims to self-government and sovereignty.
Meticulously documented examples of individual court cases add clarity to this solid and
information-laden resource. Alaska Natives And American Laws is a seminal and valued
contribution to Native American Studies reference collections.
The Cherokees And Their Chiefs
Stanley W. Hoig
The University of Arkansas Press
McIlroy House, 201 Ozark Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701
1557285276 $34.00 1-800-626-0090
The Cherokees And Their Chiefs: In The Wake Of Empire by historian Stan Hoig is a solidly
researched and superbly presented history of the Cherokee Native American nation, with
particular emphasis on the tribe's leaders throughout the centuries. Individual chapters also focus
on the conflicts and traumas that involved the tribe from before the United States' independence,
to their removal westward and the infamous Trail of Tears, to their rise in political and social
clout during the twentieth century. The Cherokees And Their Chiefs is a highly literate,
thoughtful, and readable account and a welcome addition to personal and academic Native
American Studies collections.
Comanche Society
Gerald Betty
Texas A&M University Press
Drawer C, College Station, TX 77843
1585441902 $39.95 1-800-826-8911
A highly recommended contribution to Native American Studies, Comanche Society: Before the
Reservation by Gerald Betty (History Department, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi) is a meticulous
and scholarly study of Comanche society from the beginning of New World Colonization by
European powers through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing especially on how the
bonds of kinship affected the interplay within Comanche clans, and how the Comanches came to
adopt horses, pastoralism, and other Iberian traits into their own culture, Comanche Society is a
fascinating and analytical history of the evolution of this Native American nation.
The Civil War Studies Shelf
Fields Of Glory
Jim Miles
Cumberland House Publishing, Inc.
431 Harding Industrial Drive, Nashville, Tennessee 37211
1581822561 $16.95 cumberlandhouse.com
Now in its second edition and part of the outstanding Cumberland House "Civil War Explorer"
series, Fields Of Glory by American Civil War expert Jim Miles is an informed and informative
study and tour guide of the American Civil War in the west, culminating with the Atlanta
campaign of 1864. The meticulously detailed text traces the path of the war, chronicles its
skirmishes and battles, and provides detailed directions for a self-guided driving tour that follows
the path of history. Black and white photographs illustrate this superbly presented and highly
recommended travel resource for an unforgettable journey that recounts the life-and-death saga of
nearly a hundred and fifty years ago.
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