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Table of Contents

Reviewer's Choice Environmental Shelf Parenting Shelf
Poetry Shelf Native American Shelf Philosophy Shelf
Photography Shelf Women's Studies Shelf Aviation Shelf
Interior Design Shelf Psychology Shelf Education Shelf
Hunting/Fishing Shelf Holocaust Studies Shelf Law/Justice Shelf
Library Video Shelf Writing/Publishing Shelf Railroading Shelf
Myth/Folklore Shelf Library Science Shelf Military Shelf
Pets/Wildlife Shelf Computer Shelf Mystery Shelf
Theatre/Cinema Shelf Self-Help Shelf Buddhist Studies Shelf
Civil War Shelf Science Shelf Needlecraft Shelf
Cookbook Shelf Biography Shelf Economics/Fundraising Shelf
Journalism Shelf Metaphysical Studies Shelf Jobs/Careers Shelf
Musicbook Shelf International Studies Shelf Social Issues Shelf
Antiques/Collectibles Shelf Audiobook Shelf Library CD Music Shelf
Architecture Shelf Fantasy/SciFi Shelf Health/Medicine Shelf
Travel Shelf World History Shelf Gardening Shelf
Human Sexuality Shelf American History Shelf Business Shelf
Judaic Studies Shelf Fiction Shelf Art Shelf
Political Science Shelf Literary Shelf Sports Shelf



Reviewer's Choice

Lighthouses Of Europe
Daniel Charles
Watson-Guptill Publications
770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
0823027783 $45.00 1-800-451-1741

Lighthouses Of Europe is visually an amazing book, with over 200 photographs of lighthouses on the Atlantic coast of Western Europe. Ranging among Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and the gates of Africa, the beautiful color and breathtaking variety of these historical structures is truly daunting. For each geographical region, author and sailing journalist Daniel Charles reconstructs the history and maritime tales of showcased lighthouses. And, in an age when automation is gradually taking over, Lighthouses Of Europe offers what may be the last glimpse into the lives of lighthouse keepers themselves. Strongly recommended for all lighthouse enthusiasts with an interest in these venerable, fascinating beacons of light on the high seas.

The New Complete Book Of Herbs,
Spices, & Condiments
Carol Ann Rinzler
Facts On File, Inc.
11 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001
0816041520 $TBA 1-800-322-8755

The New Complete Book Of Herbs, Spices, & Condiments: A Nutritional, Medical, And Culinary Guide presents a new, unique, and comprehensive way of approaching herbs and condiments as individual health products. Included is specific information for each plant or item. The "reader friendly" format is one of a guide presented alphabetically and all entries are completely up-to-date. Each entry includes basic information abut the plant or item including its origins and what parts are used as food or drink; a nutritional profile; how it is used as flavoring; how it affect the body (including benefits, adverse effects, and plant/drug interactions); how to use the plant in preparing food, around the house, in the garden, or as a home remedy; and significant, new information for women who are pregnant or nursing. The text is enhanced with extensive appendices listing plans and condiments used only in medicine, as well as those hazardous to health. A comprehensive index enables quick and easy referencing. The New Complete Book Of Herbs, Spices, & Condiments is an important and core addition to any alternative medicine, personal, family, or community library reference collection.

Einstein's Refrigerator
Steve Silverman
Andrews McMeel Publishing
4520 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64111
0-7407-1419-8 $9.95 1-800-851-8923

Steve Silverman was seeking ways to add spice to his high school lectures when he realized that strange true-life stories would attract attention. The result is Einstein's Refrigerator, a blend of science and history stories which are real and told with high drama and fun.

Infinite Thread
Alexandra Kennedy
Beyond Words
20827 N.W. Cornell Rd. #500, Hillsboro, OR 97124
1-58270-046-X $14.95

How can one heal relationships affected by the death of a loved one? By using visualization, letters and inner dialogue techniques to heal past relationships and mend ties with those still living. The chapters comprising Infinite Thread provide plenty of insights and examples of such techniques, with the case histories providing the practical applications of theory.

Sterling Publishing
387 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 100016

Two excellent 'Masterworks' titles focuses on world decorative art specialties gather the new, original innovations form modern designers around the world. Decorative And Functional Art: Decoupage, Painted Finishes, et.al. (1-86351-276-4, $29.95) covers ceramics, glass, woodworking, jewelry and decoupage, with over forty designers contributing their works. Embroiders, Cross Stitch, Rugs, Collectibles (275-6, $29.95) gathers the works of over thirty designers. Projects are described in details, many include step-by-step instructions for duplication, and all include exceptional color examples.

The Encyclopedia Of Extraterrestrial Encounters
Ronald D. Story, Editor
New American Library
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014
0-451-20424-7 $19.00

From alien abductions to flying saucers, lights, and photos of strange objects, The Encyclopedia Of Extraterrestrial Encounters is simply packed with an A-Z guide of not only alien sightings, but the accounts of those who observed them. Add black and white illustrations, theories and speculations and you have an intriguing leisure read.

My Friend, You Are Legally Blind
Charles Champlin
John Daniel & Company
Box 21922, Santa Barabra, CA 93121
1-880284-48-0 $8.95

Writer Champlin's struggles with macular degeneration are here provided on a personal level, which reveals not only medical facts about the condition, but its effects upon a sighted person. Surprisingly good humor pervades a title which provides a personal view of the disease.

University of Chicago Press
1427 E. - 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637

Patricia Heidotting Conley's Presidential Mandates (0-226-11484-8, $15.00) provides an important guide to how elections shape national agendas and is highly recommended reading for any student of political science from the high school level on up. Presidential mandates should not be taken as statements of facts about voter preferences: they have undertones and power which goes beyond passive presentation, and Conley outlines just how. Paolo Rossi's Logic And The Art Of Memory (72826-9, $32.00) will appeal to college-level readers of linguistics and language. It's based on analyses of original texts and reveals the history of searches for universal language. Chapters present an important history of the evolution of these ideas.

Memoirs Of A Book Snake
David Meyer
Waltham Street Press
Box 427-MB, Glenwood, IL 60425
0916638545 $23.00 1-708-757-4950

Larry McMurtry is one of those diminishing legions of folks for whom the book is at the core of their life's passion. Memoirs Of A Book Snake is a succession of intriguing and entertaining, true anecdotal stories about acquiring collectible books and the eclectic, eccentric, and interesting people he encountered down through the years. Enhanced with photographs, Memoirs Of A Book Snake is a highly recommended and rewarding read for all bibliophiles and fellow bookworms!

Moby Dick
Will Eisner
NBM
555 - 8th Ave. #1202, NY, NY 10018
1-56163-293-7 $15.95

It's hard to easily categorize Will Eisner's Moby Dick: this classic of American literature by Herman Melville is here translated to the graphic novel form, translating the story of one man's obsession with a huge whale into a series of color panels which bring the classic alive. Reluctant readers as well as fans of graphic novels will find this illuminating.

Once And Future Myths
Phil Cousineau
Conari Press
2550 - 9th St. #101, Berkeley CA 94710
1-57324-146-6 $24.95

How have myths affected lives? The author, a student and colleague of Joseph Campbell, here provides a book which shows how myths are similar to life stories. Insights on myths and beliefs surrounding time, mentorship and creative struggles makes for an involving, moving account linking myths to daily living.

Running Press
125 S. 22nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19103

Two fine postcard collections aren't for the lending library, but for individuals who love zany humor; many of whom will want to keep these packages for their own collections. Weekly World News (0-7624-0823-5, $12.95) gathers tabloid 'true stories' - such as space aliens who return for their baby, or a woman killed by her own fur coat. Pulp fiction revolving around the 'bad girl' theme is the topic of Bad Girls In The Big City (0936-3, $12.95), a candid presentation of dramatic pulp paperback covers which display women at their worst. An added bonus: these are 'magnetic postcards' suitable for refrigerator display. A fine gift recommendation for that friend who 'has everything' - and a large refrigerator just asking for displays.

River Stories
Delores Chamberlain
Prairie Oak Press
821 Prospect Place, Madison, WI 53703
187948370X $14.95 1-888-833-9118

River Stories: Growing Up On The Wisconsin is a wonderful compendium of reminiscences of growing up on the lower Wisconsin River during the 1950s and '60s. Dace Chamberlain was truly a man of the river and these intimate stories of faith, courage, love, and family were written by his widow and children. River Stories is enthusiastically recommended reading and a "must" for all Wisconsin community library collections.

Lam Chi Phat
Tri Lam
Lam Inter Media Corp.
5010, King Edward Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4V 2J6
0968573525 $11.00 lamintermedia.com

In the late 1800s, more than two million people left China to escape wars, disease, famine, poverty, -- all in the hope of beginning safe and prosperous new lives in new lands. These migrants were known as the "Overseas Chinese". Author Tri Lam's grandfather became one of these when he emigrated to Vietnam. Lam Chi Phat: The Chronicle Of An Overseas Chinese Family is Tri Lam's personal memoir of daily life in Vietnam where husking rice, schools and festivals are vividly recounted. But life was not idyllic as the family found themselves caught up in the Vietnam war, kidnaping, imprisonment, intrigue, and escape. Lam Chi Phat is a compelling memoir that provides the reader with a kind of "window in time" to another land, another way of life, and a gentle family whose courage, solidarity, and hard work are a testament to the endurance of the human spirit.

Good People
Jon Hassler
Loyola Press
3441 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
0829416366 $12.95 1-800-621-1008

In Good People, Jon Hassler (an award-winning author of eleven novels) treats the reader to a powerful memoir featuring engaging sketches of the good people he has known throughout the course of his life. Starting with his parents, and continuing with friends, colleagues, and even characters from his novels, Hassler concentrates on the quality of goodness, -- showing that it is a much more complicated and surprising virtue than is commonly recognized. Good People is enthusiastically recommended reading and a literate, much appreciated antidote to the pessimism and disappointments of life in these modern times.

Abandoned
Alden Todd
University of Alaska Press
Fairbanks, Ala 99775-1580
1889963291 $22.95 1-888-252-6657

In Abandoned, Alden Todd tells the complete story of the Greely Arctic Expedition (1881-1884) which was launched as part of the United State's participation in the first International Polar Year. Commanded by Adolphus W. Greely, the expedition consisted of twenty-five volunteers who went to what is now Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic. The men were left to endure short rations and unbroken isolation at their icy base when the first ship to resupply them in 1882 was forced to turn back. The second relief ship (sent in 1883) was crushed in the ice. In 1884, the six survivors of the original twenty-five man crew were finally rescued and brought home. The national excitement of their return was scandalized as rumors of cannibalism during their dreadful, final winter became supported by grisly evidence of cannibalism. Abandoned is a gripping, true life account and history of men battling for their very lives as they are pitted against the elements and each other. Out of print for more than forty years, this University of Alaska Press trade paperback edition is also available in hardcover (1889963534, $35.95) and highly recommended, dramatic reading.

Snow In The Kingdom
Ed Webster
Mountain Imagery
PO Box 210, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025
0965319911 $29.95 1-866-400-4440

Snow In The Kingdom: My Storm Years On Everest is Ed Webster's personal story of how he dared to climb and conquer Mount Everest with the smallest team ever to do a new route to the summit -- and told in his own words. Printed on glossy paper and profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and breathtaking color photographs, Snow In The Kingdom dazzles the eyes as much as the imagination. Heroic, upbeat, and powerful, with an exhaustive index as well, Snow In The Kingdom is highly recommended for mountaineering enthusiasts, armchair adventurers, and anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to stand on the shoulders of a rocky giant and look out at the world!

ReFirement
James V. Gambone
Kirk House Publishers
PO Box 390759, Minneapolis, MN 55439
1886513260 $15.95 1-888-696-1828

In ReFirement: A Boomer's Guide To Life After 50, author James Gambone challenges a generation on the brink of retirement to "ReFire, Don't Retire!". Gambone outlines a practical process that anyone facing retirement can utilize that goes beyond traditional financial planning models to crate an individual ReFirment Plan to take maximum advantage of the years ahead. ReFirement presents a compelling, optimistic, and practical vision of how aging boomers can take charge of the rest of their lives, and at the same time leave a valuable legacy for their posterity. More than eighty concrete suggestions for a ReFired lifestyle are offered, along with an identification of the core values which enable boomers to create an attitude of ReFirement possibilities. This is a "must read" for anyone wanting more out of retirement that a rocking chair on some porch.



The Environmental Studies Shelf

A Forest Journey
John Perlin
Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
0674308921 $24.95 1-800-448-2242

Embellished with numerous black and white photographs, maps, and etchings, John Perlin's A Forest Journey: The Role Of Wood In The Development Of Civilization is the extensive history of deforestation and the role wood has played in world history. From the Romans' colonization of Gaul and Spain for their forests to England's desire for the virgin timber of the New World, A Forest Journey covers it all in straightforward, factual, heavily researched text. Recommended for conservationists, environmentalists, and everyone who has a strong interest in or relationship to the natural world.

Who Owns The Sky?
Peter Barnes
Island Press
1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20009-1148
1559638540 $22.95 1-800-828-1302

Who Owns The Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism offers opinions and economical solutions to the complex problem of global warming. Author Peter Barnes (cofounder and president ofthe socially responsibile telephone company "Working Assets") argues persuasively in favor of treating the sky as a commonly owned asset, through a non-governmental Sky Trust that would charge rent for carbon emissions and pay equal yearly dividends, which would make the burden easier to bear for workers and firms that have the most difficult transition to a lower-carbon economy. A unique melding of capitalism, enlightened self-interest, environmentalism, and hope for the future, Who Owns The Sky? is just what the world needs most - a brainstorm of workable solutions to one of the potentially most monumental of global environmental problems.

Wild Solutions
Andrew Beattie & Paul Ehrlich
Yale University Press
Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040
0-300-07636-3 $25.95 1-800-987-7323

In Wild Solutions, ecologists Andrew Beattie and Paul Ehrlich here discuss how ecosystems can provide a range of new resources and products, if they are allowed to co-exist with humans. From systems which maintain air and water quality to biological diversity which allows for the use of new medicines, Wild Solutions draws important links between nature's systems and human objectives.

War And Nature
Edmund Russell
Cambridge University Press
40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211
0521799376 $19.95 1-800-872-7423

War And Nature: Fighting Humans And Insects With Chemicals From World War I To Silent Spring is based on Edmund Russell's doctoral dissertation which won the Rachel Carson Prize from the American Society for Environmental History. This compelling and impressive work of original and rigorous scholarship begins with an informative 16-page introduction, then proceeds with chronologically organized chapters: The Long Reach of War (1914-1917); Joining the Chemists' War (1917-1918); Chemical Warfare in Peace (1918-1937); Minutemen in Peace (1918-1937); Total War (1936-1943); Annihilation (1943-1945); Planning for Peace and War (1944-1945); War Comes Home (1945-1950); Arms Races in the Cold War (1950-1958); Back Fires (1958-1963). An essential, core title for any personal, professional, or academic environmental studies collection, War And Nature is enhanced further with an Epilogue; Primary Sources; Abbreviations; Notes; Author Index; and Subject Index. Highly recommended.



The Parenting Shelf

Defining Your Own Success
Diana West
La Leche League International
1400 North Meacham Road, Schaumburg, IL 60173-4840
0912500867 $24.95 1-847-519-7730

Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Beast Reduction Surgery is specifically written to enable mothers who have had breast reduction surgery to breastfeed their babies. Though breastfeeding after such surgery is generally thought impossible, recent advances in breast reduction surgical techniques now allow lactation capabilities to be better retained than in the past. Trial and error experience combined with knowledge has allowed thousands of post-surgical women to breastfeed in spite of the obstacles. Defining Your Own Success explicitly describes how to maximize a woman's milk supply and confront challenges. A special section is also devoted specifically to the professional perspective, from health care providers to plastic surgeons and maternity nurses. Personal anecdotes and several appendices round out this well thought-out reference. Highly recommended.

Raising Your Jewish/Christian Child
Lee F. Gruzen
Newmarket Press
18 East 48th St., New York, NY 10017
1557044147 $16.95 1-800-669-3903

Now in a completely revised, expanded and updated second edition, Lee Gruzen's Raising Your Jewish/Christian Child: How Interfaith Parents Can Give Children The Best Of Both Their Heritages continues to be an invaluable compendium of keen observation and sound advice for interfaith parenting. All of the problems and challenges confronting a Jewish/Christian family are drawn from hundreds of interviews as well as Gruzen's extensive professional research and personal experience. The issues covered wide range from beginning talking with children about God, and moving on to planning ceremonies, celebrating holidays, relationships with grandparents, developing and sense of self, and more. Raising Your Jewish/Christian Child is enthusiastically recommended and invaluable reading for anyone in an interfaith marriage and seeking to instill values and an appreciation of heritage within the character of their children.

Parenting An Only Child
Susan Newman, Ph.D.
Broadway Books
1540 Broadway, New York NY 10036
0-7679-0629-2 $12.95 1-800-726-0600

In recent years one-child families have risen: Parenting An Only Child covers all the basics; from understanding the decision or need to have only one child to disciplining the only child and fostering his independence and communication skills with peers. Singe parenting and family networks are also covered.

Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy!
Michael J. Bradley
Harbor Press/NBN, dist.
4270 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706
0936197439 $19.95 1-800-462-6420

In Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind, psychologist Michael Bradley provides parents insight, hope, and help in safely steering their teenage son or daughter through the often problematic years of adolescence. Dr. Bradley offers an informed and guided tour through a teenager's mind while explaining why teens act the way they do and the training and skills required to assist a teen in maturing into a strong, confident, productive, successful adult. Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy! is an invaluable addition to any personal or community library human growth and development collection, and a "must read" for the parents of teenage offspring!

LifeBooks
Beth O'Malley
Adoption Works
PO Box 520178, Winthrop, MA 02152
0970183275 $13.95 1-800-469-9666

In LifeBooks: Creating A Treasure For The Adopted Child, Beth O'Malley provides the adoptive parent with a unique, invaluable, practical, highly recommended, step-by-step guide for explaining the truth of their child's history in ways that the child can understand, accept, and feel good about. Drawing upon her own seventeen years of experience and expertise as an adoption worker to write clearly and informatively for a non-specialist general reader. The result will help any adoptive parent to assist their child in creating a record of his or her life from birth using words, photos, graphics and artwork in the form of a "LifeBook" that is more effective than a general scrapbook or traditional baby book.



The Poetry Shelf

Guts
Catherine May
Diversity, Inc.
PO Box 8573, Madison, WI 53708
0970409826 $9.00 1-608-345-2363

Guts is Catherine May's debut collection showcasing her undeniable talents as a poetry. Her memorably crafted verses explore a diversity of issues ranging from gender and class to ethnicity and the human condition. SummerSong: Grandma's been dying for weeks and weeks./You can see drying eyes and she even speaks/with a tone in her voice that is close to dead./But she doesn't know it. She's out of her head/with dry skin and tumors and her Medicaid/and memories like movies of much better days./So she rests on the couch and complains of the cold,/says "A chill in the bones is the curse of the old,"/as her head slowly rocks in my shaky embrace,/only twitches of life still remain in her face.

Singular Bodies
Ruth L. Schwartz
Anhinga Press
PO Box 10595, Tallahassee, FL 32302
0938078690 $12.00 www.anhinga.org

Ruth L. Schwartz is a singularly remarkable poetry whose work is as passionate as it is lyrical. Singular Bodies (winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry) will admirably serve to introduce a major poetic talent to reading public. Now The Crows Are Courting Us: cawing, spreading brilliant wings/feather by dark gleaming feather, as a lover would/if give wings; we picnic in the wild air.//before and after rain, suspended between storms,/the sparrows gathered at our feet,/the syrup taste of other countries//on the melons' flesh./Listening with such attention/to the music of each breath --//exuberant, recalcitrant,/the way life pulses shining/and demand in our hands.

Poems And Drawings By Cilla McQueen
Cilla McQueen
University of Otago Press/ISBS, dist.
5824 NE Hassalo St., Portland, OR 97213
1877276065 $39.95 1-503-287-3093

Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand's major poets. Poems And Drawings By Cilla Mcqueen is a remarkable anthology comprising poetry drawn from the past twenty years of her work as represented in five volumes of her published poetry, and is enhanced with a selection of her drawings and musical scores. Wild Sweets: what I mean by/love? A terrorist incident/a torn artery an electric arc a/touch without fear/hand in a flame/leather seduction cup of tea/curly rose cushion scrambled eggs/stroke wheel stomp stiletto/in the arch of the foot/spearing the bones/sucking wild sweets/without word talk, it's/not that I love for any at-all/things to get from you/but my learning to cease/expectation.

The Breath Of Parted Lips
Julie Agoos, et al.
CavanKerry Press Ltd.
177 Main St., #442, Ft. Lee, NJ 07024
0967885620 $28.00 1-800-243-0138

The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost Place, Volume One is a remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets, each of whom won that honor of a summer's residency and document the success of the original concept as a means of generating outstanding poetry while nurturing the poet's muse in the rooms and views that were once the inspiration of the great Robert Frost. Poem At 40: Windwashed--as if standing next to the highway,/a truck long as the century sweeping by,/all things at last bent in the same direction./An opening, as if all/the clothes my ancestors ever wore/dry on lines in my body:/wind-whipped, parallel with the ground,/some sleeves sharing a single clothespin/so that they seem to clasp hands,/seem to hold on.//And now that I can see/up the old women's dresses,/there's nothing but a filtered light./And now that their men's smoky breath/has traversed the earth,/it has nothing to do with them./And now that awkward, fat tears of rain/slap the window screen,/now that I'm naked too,/cupping my genitals, tracing with a pencil/the blue vein between my collar bone and breast,/I'll go to sleep when I'm told.

My Vice Is Verse
Bernard Yaeger
Brunswick Publishing Corporation
PO Box 555, Lawrenceville, VA 23868
1556181876 $12.95 1-800-336-7154

My Vice Is Verses will aptly serve to introduce the poetry of Bernard Yaeger, a Midwesterner dedicated to family, church, country, and his fellow man. His poetry describes love, life, frustrations, triumphs, humor, and contemplations on the state of mankind. Here also are pleas for tolerance, peace, love, and understanding. The poetry ranges across diverse forms including sonnets, ballads, and four liners. Conversational Tennis: Some conversations that I watch/Are often like a tennis match./The words are battered back and forth/But the entire talk is seldom worth/The time it takes to listen to/The Things they say but seldom do.//And when the thought is talked to death/The talkers stop to catch their breath/Then take up where they were before/And talk and talk and talk some more./Although tennis is a finite endeavor/Some people seem to talk forever.



The Native American Shelf

Blood On The Wind
Lucile Bogue
Western Reflections, Inc.
Box 1647, Montrose, CO 81402-1647
1890437506 $10.95 1-800-993-4490

Blood On The Wind: The Memoirs Of Flying Horse Mollie, A Yampa Ute, is an eye-witness account of the events of 1880 when U.S. Army troops expelled the Yampa Utes from Colorado and compelled them to reside on a Utah reservation. Flying Horse Millie was a teenager at the time and tried to come to terms with the overwhelming forces that seemed designed to drive her people's traditional way of life into extinction. Now in her nineties and with a dozen books and several awards to her credit, author Lucile Bogue's account of Flying Horse Millie, her fears for the future, her disappointments in the adults who failed to protect her, her sadness in the face of loss, and her eventual personal maturity and assumed responsibility for the well-being of her tribe's next generation is an invaluable contribution to Native American studies and a compelling read for anyone who enjoys a riveting memoir of an ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances.

Chief Seattle
B.J. Bullert
Bullfrog Films, Inc.
Box 149, Oley, PA 19547
1560298928 $TBA 1-800-543-3764

Chief Seattle is a beautifully produced 57 minute video showcasing the legendary Native American Puget Sound leader who welcomed the Americans to settle on the land where a modern city now bears his name. Directed by B.J. Bullert, Chief Seattle recounts a chronological journey from Seattle's birth in the 1780s to his death in 1866. This was a time frame in which epidemics decimated the native population and resulted in the displacement of the Duwamish peoples who became refugees in what had been their traditional homeland. Period photography, interviews with Duwamish descendants and historians, contemporary landscape and city scapes all combine to serve to aptly present to viewers ages ten through adult this remarkable and often tragic story of a Native American experience.

Legends, Letters And Lies
Mary Hawker Bakeman
Park Genealogical Books
Box 130968, Roseville, MN 55113-0968
F-532 $28.95 www.parkbooks.com

In March 1857, Inkpaduat and his band of Native Americans attacked several frontier Iowa and Minnesota settles leaving some forty dead and taking four young women captive. Rumors spread rapidly about the event. The U.S. Amry from Fort Ridgely and citizen militia rom Fort Dodge and Webster City, Iowa, and form New Ulm, Mandato, St. Peter, and Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota, marched through snowdrifts and spring floods to provide assistance to the survivors of the raid. Rescue of the captives and punishment of the renegades became a top priority of the government. Legends, Letters And Lies: Readings On The Spirit Lake Massacre Of 1857 includes readings from all facets of the event including military reports, contemporary newspaper accounts from the area (and from the East Coast), reports from the missionaries who helped rescue the captives, first person stories of the burial parties and more. Also included are lists of those involved including the militias and the U.S. Army unit, the Native Americans who went in search of Inkpaduta and his band, and the claims filed to recover losses resulting from the event. Highly recommended for students of Native American studies, as well as Iowa and Minnesota frontier history, Legends, Letters And Lies is a superb example of regional frontier history and is enhanced for the reader with maps, illustrations, a bibliography, and an index.

Winter Thunder
Anne M. Dunn, editor
Holy Cow! Press
PO Box 3170, Mount Royal Station, Duluth, MN 55803
0930100700 $12.95

Compiled and edited by Anne Dunn, Winter Thunder: Retold Tales is a compendium of forty imaginative tales drawn from the Anishinabeg oral tradition. Taken as a whole, this anthology of engaging stories offers keen and loving insights into the mythic origins of the natural and supernatural worlds around and within the reader. Living on the Leech Lake Reservation near Cass Lake, Minnesota, Anne Dunn is an Anishinabeg grandmother and elder story-teller who has provided a compelling and invaluable contribution to Native American folklore studies. Also very highly recommended are her previous books: Grandmother's Gift (Holy Cow! Press) and When Beaver Was Very Great (Midwest Editions).

The Eagle's Voice
Gary J. Maier, M.D.
Trails Books/Wisconsin Trails
Box 317, Black Earth, WI 53515-0317
1879483742 $14.95 1-800-236-8088

Gary Maier's The Eagle's Voice: Tales Told By Indian Effigy Mounds is a kind of anthropological detective story based on Maier's research involving a group of about fifty Indian effigy and conical mounts located on the north shore of Lake Mendota, in Madison, Wisconsin. In his explorations Maier developed a new understanding and insight into these structures which had fascinated and puzzled Europeans and Americans from the 1830s down to the present day. Exceptionally "reader friendly", The Eagle's Voice is enthusiastically recommended reading for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in Native American culture in general, and the effigy mounds of Wisconsin in particular.

The Great Peace Of Montreal Of 1701
Gilles Harvard
McGill-Queen's University Press
3430 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1X9
0773522190 $24.95 1-800-387-0141

Translated from French into English by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Gilles Havard's The Great Peace Of Montreal Of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy In The Seventeenth Century focuses on how the persistent, bloody, and often desolating wars between the French and their Native allies on the one side, and the Iroquois confederacy on the other was brought to a conclusion in the summer of 1701. 1,300 represents of forty First Nations (which ranged from the Maritimes to the Great Lakes and from James Bay to southern Illinois) met with the French at Montreal and, after a month-long ceremony, signed "The Great Peace of Montreal" which ended the Iroquois wars. The treaty, Gilles Havard persuasively argues, was the culmination of the French colonial strategy of native alliances and adaptation to Native political customs. The treaty process illustrates the extend of cultural interchange between the French and their Native allies and the crucial role the Native Americans would later play in the French conflicts with the Iroquois and the British. The Great Peace Of Montreal Of 1701 is a scholarly and invaluable contribution to both Canadian history and Native American studies.

Hunting Sacred: Everything Listens
Larry Littlebird
Western Edge Press
126 Candelario St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
1889921106 $10.95 1-505-988-7214

Larry Little bird is a Pueblo Indian. In Hunting Sacred: Everything Listens, Littlebird offers the reader a personal legacy of story, song, and art from a rich Native American oral tradition. This remarkable book is organized in four parts, each symbolizing four days of hunting sacred. A mythic hunter, a young Pueblo Indian hunter, his elders, and a narrator all weave their thoughts and actions into a complete song to reveal that the act of hunting sacred is a way of giving life, of listening and learning, and a way to remember a complex heritage and generational tradition stretching back beyond recorded history. Hunting Sacred: Everything Listens is a superbly written and highly prized addition to personal and academic Native American history and cultural reference collections.



The Philosophy Shelf

Ancient Wisdom I
P. Zbar
Capital Books
22841 Quicksilver Dr., Dulles, VA 20166
1892123452 $17.95 captial-books.com

Ancient Wisdom I: The Mythical Tale of the Scholar Chu Shui Hu is a fable of Chinese calligraphy, philosophy and wisdom brought to brilliant life for a Western audience. Scholar Chu Shui Hu embarks on a spiritual journey, using calligraphy as his path of metamorphosis, for his mentor has charged him to find "the greatest secret of Chinese life." Each page spread of Ancient Wisdom I shows a Chinese calligraphic character on the left, with its definition offered in a sidebar, and a short passage of prose illuminating the scholar's struggle on the right. Highly recommended for students of Eastern philosophy and Chinese wisdom, Ancient Wisdom I is a unique and inspiring book.

Rhythm And Self-Consciousness
William McGaughey
Thistlerose Publications
1702 Glenwood Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55405
0960563040 $14.95 1-612-374-5916

William McGaughey's Rhythm And Self-consciousness: New Ideals For An Electronic Civilization is a treatise on rhythm as the essence of human personality and talent in any performance, whether in music, athletics, or conversational wit. Divided into three main sections on Form, Rhythm, and Self-Consciousness, this book takes a hard, analytical look at each facet and how all three relate to the human psyche. Highly intriguing, especially for musicians, athletes, and philosophers alike - it would seem these three groups have far more in common than one would guess. Also recommended is the previous book in this series, Five Epochs of Civilization. Rhythm And Self-Consciousness is strongly recommended reading for students of philosophy and the impact that moving from print to an electronic culture has had on contemporary notions of "civilization".

Skepticism And Humanism
Paul Kurtz
Transaction Publishers
Rutgers - The State Univ. of New Jersey
35 Berrue Circle, Piscataway, NJ 08854
0765800519 $39.95 1-888-999-6778

Paul Kurtz is the founder of Prometheus Books, the premier publishing house for humanist, freethought, and rationalist publishing. In Skepticism And Humanism: The New Paradigm, Kurtz addresses the fundamental issues of how scientific naturalism, rational thought, and secular humanism contribute to the new global civilization that is emerging today with all its painful adjustments, changes, and challenges. A very strongly recommended acquisition for personal, academic, and community library freethought reading lists and humanist philosophy collections, Skepticism And Humanism comprises 31 chapters devoted to core considerations ranging from "Antiscience Paradigms" to "The Evolution of Contemporary Humanism". Also highly recommended is Toward A New Enlightenment: The Philosophy Of Paul Kurtz (1560001186, $44.95)

Plagues Of The Mind
Bruce S. Thornton
ISI Books
Box 4431, Wilmington, DE 19807-0431
188292634X $24.95 1-800-526-7022

In Plagues Of The Mind, Bruce Thornton (Professor of Classics at the California State University, Fresno) presents an articulate, reasoned, and persuasive advocacy for the use of reason and rational thought in the "information age". Part One of Plagues Of The Mind races the historical and cultural roots of such ancient myths as "The Golden Age" and "The Noble Savage", while discussing the present corruption of mind resulting from those myths as embedded in the media and education. Part Two provides a detailed examination of three popular myths: romantic environmentalism, Noble-Savage Indianism, and the Old Europe Mother Goddess. A very strongly recommended addition to school and library philosophy, political science, and social issues collections, Plagues Of The Mind is a much needed antidote to the kind of intellectual cancers that contaminate so much of the discourse and assumptions rampant in the general populace today.

The Politics Of Exodus
Mark Dooley
Fordham University Press
2546 Belmont Avenue, University Box L, Bronx, NY 10458-5172
0823221253 $20.00 1-800-247-6553

In The Politics Of Exodus: Soren Kierkegaard's Ethics Of Responsibility, Mark Dooley (Newman Scholar in Theology, University College, Dublin) argues persuasively Kierkegaard's affiliations with Jacques Derrida are deeper and more significant than has been traditionally believed. Dooley maintains that Kierkegaard is not a proponent of asocial individualism, but an advocate of "open quasi-community". The Politics Of Exodus is highly recommended reading for students of Kierkegaard's philosophy, as well as those with an interest in the area of ethics and politics, religion and postmodernism.



The Photography Shelf

Photographing Creative Landscapes
Michael Orton
Amherst Media, Inc.
PO Box 586, Buffalo, NY 14226
1584280484 $29.95 1-800-622-3278

In Photographing Creative Landscapes: Simple Tools For Artistic Images And Enhanced Creativity, professional landscape photographer Michael Orton shows how to expand one's creativity and learn to photograph artistic images drawn from the world that surrounds us. He shows how to develop a more artistic approach to photography, expand options for photographing the landscape, how to apply creative photographic controls to any image, as well as find sources of creative inspiration and using them to improve photographic works. Orton also draws upon his many years of expertise and experience to show how to use color to capture mood and emotion; add motion for dynamic images; capture subtle details; the dramatic use of natural light; adding flash for artistic effects; incorporation multiple exposures and sandwiched images for a "painterly" look. Photographing Creative Landscapes is enthusiastically recommended for students of photography in general, and photography buffs seeking to improve their images of natural landscapes in particular.

Welcome Aboard!
Edition Patrick Frey
SCALO
560 Broadway, #301, NY, NY 10012
3905509326 $42.50 www.scalo.com

In Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980-2000, Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer's works take the reader on a visually and sexually charged photographic journey that ranges from wind-swept beaches to majestic mountaintops, and twentieth century suburbia to the horse races at Ascot. Here are still-lifes, lush landscapes, and intimate portraits that celebrate glamour and hedonism with sophistication, irony and wit. Welcome Aboard! is enthusiastically recommended for students of photography in general, and Walter Pfeiffer fans in particular!



The Women's Studies Shelf

Girlhood In America
Miriam Forman-Brunell, editor
ABC-CLIO
Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA 93116-1911
1576072061 $175.00 1-800-368-6868

Girlhood In America: An Encyclopedia is a massive, 800 page, two volume reference work presented hundreds of signed articles by more than eighty high-profile interdisciplinary scholars covering girlhood from a range of academic perspectives including history, cultural studies, education, media studies, literature, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Ably edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell (associate professor of history and former director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City) this impressive compendium showcases how portrayals of girls in children's literature, magazines, movies, toys, music, and other media have deeply influenced girls' perceptions of themselves. Also presented is a wealth of clinical information on, and insights into, such issues for girls as body image, eating disorders, emerging sexuality, and depression. Excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and autobiographical novels help to illustrate the subjective experiences of girls throughout American history from the first settlements along the Atlantic coastline down to the present day. Strongly recommended for academic and community library reference collections, Girlhood In America is enhanced with numerous black-and-white illustrations, end-of-entry bibliographies, and a comprehensive index. Girlhood In America is also available in an ebook format (1576075508, $235.00).

Unbroken Homes
Wendy Paterson, Ph.D.
Haworth Press
10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904
0-7890-1140-9 $TBA 1-800-429-6784

Unbroken Homes provides a 'story quilt' of personal narratives constructed from case study interviews of five single-parent mothers, detailing their challenges and experiences as mothers and daughters. From gender conflicts and identification issues to sexuality and relationships, this is an important gathering of experiences.

Working Woman's Art Of War
Chin-Ning Chu
AMC Publishing
PO Box 2986, Antioch, CA 94531
0929638298 $19.95 1-925-777-1888

Written and designed for women in the 21st century workplace, Chin-Ning Chu's Working Woman's Art Of War: Winning Without Confrontation offers timeless, proven tactics derived from the 2,500 year-old Chinese classic on warfare, Sun Tzu's "The Art of War". It's important to not that Chu's compendium of observations and advice is not hostile to men, but simply and effectively promotes a women's ability to successfully compete with men in any business, trade or profession from CEO, entrepreneur, educator, to stock broker, film producer, or astronaut -- and at the same time continue to be an effective wife, a good mother, and a well-rounded person. Working Woman's Art Of War shows how to turn liabilities into assets, swing "blue moments" into opportunities, the difference between a trophy wife and a working woman, channeling the rage of sexual harassment into a tool for advancement, simultaneously embracing family and career, overcoming gender discrimination, dealing with other women's professional jealousy, possessing style as well as substance, and a whole lot more. Working Woman's Art Of War is essential reading for every woman engaged in a career in any field and at any level.



The Aviation Shelf

Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Nicholas A. Veronico
Specialty Press
11605 Kost Dam Road, North Branch, MN 55056
1580070477 $16.95 1-800-895-4585

Boeing's model 377 was originally developed from the B-29 bomber that flew so effectively during World War II. The four-engine civilian passenger liner model was named "Stratocruiser" and bridged the gap for Boeing in its transition from war-time bomber production to the development of the all-jet 707 in the late 1950s. The Stratocruiser set the standards for airborne luxury travel and ushered in a romantic era in the golden age of commercial aviation. Highly recommended for all aviation history enthusiasts and the ninth volume of the outstanding AirlinerTech series, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser's text is enhanced with 160 photos and line art, including eight pages of color photography.



The Interior Design Shelf

The Dewey Color System
Dewey Sadka
Energia Press
1854 Marietta Blvd., NW, Altanta, Ga 30318
0967120705 $18.95 1-866-351-5001

The Dewey Color System: Embrace Hue You Are is the first color oriented self-awareness guide book to utilize sixty colors in identifying personality traits. With the simple approach of picking favorite and least favorite shades of color, Dewey Sadka's system provides insights into who a person is, how they relate to others, make decisions, solve problems, and approach the world. The use of color preferences bypasses the limitations of language relied on in traditional but imprecise questionnaires. Sadka also discusses how color preferences can help guide men and women in the course of their everyday life. A highly recommended resource for anyone decorating (or re-decorating) their home or office, The Dewey Color System is both fun and informative self-discovery tool. Also highly recommended is Dewey Sadka's companion guidebook, The Dewey Color Coordinator (0967120713, $28.00).



The Psychology Shelf

The Mark Of Cain
J. Reid Meloy, editor
The Analytic Press
101 West Street, Hillsdale, NJ 07642
0881633100 $55.00 1-800-927-6579

The Mark Of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight And The Psychopath focuses on providing a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the psychopathic mind as presented in a series of twenty-one psychoanalytic papers by experienced researchers and practitioners. From David M. Levy's Primary Affect Hunger (1937) and Wilhelm Reich's The Phallic-Narcissistic Character (1933), to Ben Bursten's Some Narcissistic Personality Types (1973) and Otto F. Kemberg's The Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the Differential Diagnosis of Antisocial Behavior (1989), The Mark Of Cain offers a superbly presented historical survey of seminal, scholarly contributions that significantly contribute to our understanding of the complex inner world of the psychopath and the necessity of a clinical realism in dealing with the deception, manipulation, exploitation, and physical danger psychopathic patients present to the therapist.



The Education Shelf

Building A School Web Site
Wanda Wigglebits
Duomo Press
6668 North Sioux Avenue, Chicago, IL 60646
0967945631 $12.95 duomopress.com

Wanda Wigglebit's Building A School Web Site is the ideal "how to" guide for anyone wanting to create a website for their class or school but don't know how. Teachers and their students are provided with a hands-on project with "user friendly" and accessible instruction that covers every aspect (HTML, web editors, standards, bandwidth, search engine placement, animation, etc.) of building a school website. If you are inexperienced with developing and operating a website for your class or school, then begin by a careful reading of Wanda Wigglebits' Building A School Web Site!

Characters With Character
Diane Findlay
Upstart Books
PO Box 800, Ft. Atkinson, WI 53538
1579500641 $16.95 1-800-558-2110

Diane Findlay's Characters With Character: Using Children's Literature In Character Education is an invaluable, highly recommended tool for classroom educators grades K-6 who seek to instill character values in their lesson plans. This highly recommended compendium of through-provoking discussion starters and activities which allow for further exploration and challenging reproducible worksheets which reinforce the concepts of responsibility, respect, caring, honest, perseverance, courage, self-discipline, fairness, friendship and citizenship.

Personalized Instruction
James W. Keefe & John M. Jenkins
Eye on Education
6 Depot Way West, Suite 106, Larchmont, NY 10538
1883001862 $29.95 eyeoneducation.com

Personalized Instruction: Changing Classroom Practice is a strongly worded, persuasive argument for improving merely average American schools with environments that offer more guidance, feedback, and flexibility, by more fully taking into account the individual needs of each student. Thought-stimulating and down-to-earth sensible, with many point-by-point enumerations, Personalized Instruction discusses strategies to improve the future of education, and therefore the future of America. A ten-page list of references is included. Personalized Instruction is strongly recommended for education students, administrators, and policy makers.

Problem-Based Learning
Peter Schwartz, et al.
Stylus Publishing
22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012
0749434929 $29.95 1-800-232-0223

Collaboratively edited by Peter Schwartz, Stewart Mennin, and Graham Webb, Problem-Based Learning: Case Studies, Experience, And Practice, is a strong guide to and advocate of the problem-based learning technique, which is used in numerous academic fields as a critical approach to teaching students practical applications and helping them better grasp abstract material. Problem-Based Learning uses numerous, clearly detailed case studies from a wide variety of teaching situations involving the problem-based learning approach. Problem-Based Learning addresses everything from teaching methodology to recalcitrant students to skeptical scholastic system politics. Recommended for teachers, lecturers, tutors, course leaders, and curriculum developers.

Empowering Students With Technology
Alan November
Skylight Professional Development
2626 South Clearbrook Drive, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
1575173727 $27.95 1-800-348-4474

Alan November's Empowering Students With Technology was specifically written to assist classroom teachers with the task of integrating technology into their curriculums and classrooms for the purpose of enhancing their student's learning and critical thinking skills. The focus is on students building educational relationships with others beyond their own immediate classroom through the use of the Internet. Students will learn to work with other learners in other places around the world by learning the technical skills that will allow them access to information -- and acquire social interaction and teamwork skills while doing so. Innovative, "user friendly', and fully up-to-date with new technological advances, Empowering Students With Technology is an essential addition to the educational reference shelf for classroom instruction from grade school through high school and college.

Hobbies Through Children's Books And Activities
Nancy Allen Jurenka
Teacher Ideas/Libraries Unlimited
Box 6633, Englewood, CO 80155-6633
1563087731 $28.00 1-800-237-6124

In Hobbies Through Children's Books And Activities, Nancy Jurenka offers classroom instructors for grades 3 through 6 a compendium of ideas and suggestions for utilizing hobby activities to enhance reading and reasoning skills. Each of the 30 chapters comprising this "user friendly" book focuses on a different hobby ranging from bird-watching, canine care, and drawing to stamp collecting, puppeteering, and kite construction. Hobbies Through Children's Books And Activities is a strongly recommended addition to elementary school and home schooling curriculum development resources reference collections.



The Hunting/Fishing Shelf

Catching Big Fish On Light Fly Tackle
Tom Wendelburg & Jeff Mayers
University of Wisconsin Press
1930 Monroe Street, Madison, WI 53711
0299171043 $19.95 1-773-568-1550

Catching Big Fish On Light Fly Tackle distills decades of Tom Wendelburg's fly-fishing expertise. Here is Wendelburg's philosophy of using light tackle, his insights on surface and underwater tactics, discussions of his favorite fish (trout, bass, bluegills, salmon, and steelhead) and is favorite flies, including Wendelburg's own celebrated fly patterns. Written by a consummate fisherman and a first-rate instructor, Catching Big Fish On Light Fly Tackle is an enduring and much appreciated contribution to the annals of fly-fishing.

Fly Fishing The Madison
Craig Mathews & Gary LaFontaine
Greycliff Publishing Company
PO Box 1273, Helena, MT 59624-1273
1890373133 $14.95 greycliff.com

Volume three in the oustanding Greycliff "River Books" series, Fly Fishing The Madison offers the aspiring angler a distillation of decades of experience, knowledge, and insight in this "user friendly" guide to fishing Montana's Madison river. Here is a wealth of information on the hatches, seasons, and reaches of the river, along with "tips, tricks & techniques" for unlocking the secrets of an surprisingly diverse river. The authors show how to fish the Madison with dry flies, nymphs, and streamers, as well as pointing out the right moments for each type of fly. Of special interest is Craig Mathews' contributions about fishing the Madison's two "stillwater" areas -- Hebgen Lake and Quake Lake. If you are planning an excursion to the Madison, begin by a thorough reading of Craig Mathews and Gary LaFontaine's Fly Fishing The Madison! Also very highly recommended for the angler's reference shelf are the other volumes in this outstanding series: Fly Fishing The Beaverkill; Fly Fishing The Henry's Fork; and Fly Fishing The Yellowstone In The Park.

Heartsblood
David Peterson
Island Press
1718 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009-1148
1559637617 $24.95 1-800-828-1302

In Heartsblood: Hunting, Spirituality, And Wildness In America, author, editor, and wilderness expert David Peterson provides the reader with an informed, intensely personal, candid, and occasionally unsettling exploration on the subject of hunting in American culture. Petersen documents his observations with compelling first-person hunting narratives, as he also draws upon philosophy, evolutionary theory, biology, and scholarly studies on hunters and the "hunting culture". Hunting issues are as topical as today's newspaper headlines. Heartsblood is a welcome and very highly recommended contribution to familial, environmental, and political dialogues over the role of hunters and hunting in our lives, culture, and society for both good and ill.



The Holocaust Studies Shelf

Destined To Live
William Ungar & David Chanoff
University Press of America
4270 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706
0761818065 $30.00 1-800-462-6420

When the Germans invaded and conquered Poland, a young Polish soldier was in more peril than most. Wilo Ungar was Jewish and badly wounded. Because he wore the Polish uniform he was given the last rites by a priest who thought Ungar was Catholic. For the months after his recovery that he was held prisoner by the Germans he was saved by his captors ignorance of his ethnicity. Finally released he made his way back through war-ravaged Poland on crutches. He was given refuge by Polish families and eventually smuggled himself across the German-Soviet border, was captured by the NKVD and imprisoned as a spy. Ultimately he made his way back to the city of Lvov and reunion with his girl. They married and when Germany turned on Russia, they and their baby Michael managed for a while to evade Nazi roundups but in 1942 they were caught and separated in a time when the Nazi holocaust was being carried out in earnest. Highly recommended for students of the Holocaust, Destined To Live is the riveting story of Wilo's search for his family in a world of love and death, organized violence and the indomitable human spirit.

Double Jeopardy
Judith Tydor Baumel
Vallentine-Mitchell/ISBS, dist.
5824 N.E. Hassalo Street, Portland, OR 97213-3644
0853033463 $52.50 1-800-944-6190

Double Jeopardy: Gender And The Holocaust is an invaluable, indispensable collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender. Each of the seven sections comprising Double Jeopardy focuses on a different aspects of the discourse between gender and identity within the context of the Holocaust. Holocaust expert Judith Baumel (who teaches at the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa) concludes with an epilogue and extensive multi-lingual bibliography of sources and studies dealing with various gender-related aspects of the Holocaust. No Holocaust Studies reference collection can be considered complete without the inclusion of Judith Baumel's Double Jeopardy.

Good And Evil After Auschwitz
Jack Bemporad, et al.
KTAV Publishing House
900 Jefferson Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030
0881256927 $29.50 1-201-963-9524

The collaborative editorial skills of Jack Bemporad, John T. Pawlikowski, and Joseph Sievers has rendered Good And Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical Implications For Today into an essential body of work that is a "must" for all serious Holocaust Studies reading lists and reference collections. The contributing essays are drawn from papers presented at an extraordinary symposium convened at the Vatican in 1998 and represents the view of more than thirty of the world's foremost theology and religious thinkers on the inescapable moral question of how, if at all, believers can reconcile their faith in a just and merciful god with the phenomena of the deliberate mass murder of millions of men, women and children during the Holocaust. Included is an interview with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and excerpts from the writings of Moshe Flinker, Etty Hillesum, and Dietrich Bonhoffer.



The Law/Justice Shelf

The Underground Lawyer
Michael Louis Minns
Gopher Publications
9119 South Gessner, Suite One, Housten, TX 77074
0929801016 $34.95 www.minnslaw.com/

Reprinted in a new Millennium Edition, Michael Minns' The Underground Lawyer is comprehensive, highly detailed introduction to the American legal system, written specifically to be understood by lay people. The next best thing to a law school education, The Underground Lawyer covers everything from criminal law to bankruptcy. A must for anyone with immediate need to quickly learn more about criminal or civil law, the judicial system, the role of the attorney, constitutional rights, bankruptcy, wills, or any other aspect of American jurisprudence.



The Library Video Shelf

How To Dance Through Time
Dancetime Publications
5 Broadway, Kentfield, CA 94904
www.DancetimePublications.com

How To Dance Through Time is a unique and superbly presented series of instructional videos providing accurate and inspiring instruction in a rich spectrum of dance forms throughout western cultural history. The two newest additions to this remarkable series: Volume V: Victorian Era Couple Dances (55 minutes, $39.95) offers 32 intricate step variations drawn from dances popular around the midpoint of the 19th century including the Waltz, the Polka, the Galop, and the Mazurka. Volume VI: A 19th Century Ball - The Charm Of Group Dances (50 minutes, $39.95) focuses on the group dances popular as part of a 19th century Ball and include the Grand March, Lancers Quadrille, and the Cotillion. The other very strongly recommended and wonderfully produced volumes in this truly unique and outstanding full-color video series includes Volume I: The Romance Of Mid-19th Century Couple Dances (35 minutes, $29.95); Volume II: Dances Of The Ragtime Era - 1910-1920 ($39.95, 50 minutes); Volume III: The Majesty Of Renaissance Dance (40 minutes, $39.95); and Volume IV: The elegance Of Baroque Social Dance (45 minutes, $39.95).

On The Ballykissangel Trail
Janson Associates, Inc.
88 Semmens Road, Harrington Park, NJ 07640
1568390858 $24.95 www.janson.com

Ballykissangel is a British television program that has won a wide and appreciate audience in America where viewers tune in every week on their local PBS channel to see the goings on in a small rural Irish community and the folks who live there. A "must see" documentary for all Ballykissangel fans, On The Ballykissangel Trail features new, previously unseen material, behind-the-scenes footage, on-set secrets, and cast interviews of this long-running series that is set in the seaside village of Avoca, County Wicklow, Ireland. Highly recommended.

The Heart Has Its Reasons
Vision Video
Box 540, Worcester, PA 19490-0540
1563645033 $19.99 1-800-523-0226

The Heart Has Its Reasons: Jean Vanier And L'arche is a full color, 57 minute video documentary showcasing the l'Arche communed founded in France by Jean Vanier in 1964. The focus is on the joys and struggles of daily life with mentally and physically handicapped people. This is a community of small homes created as an alternative to the large institutional settings which had been the traditional alternative for the disabled. Underscoring the l'Arche philosophy we are treated to a portrayal of daily chores and special celebrations in this unique community where the handicapped person is the heart of the residential experience. Throughout this remarkable and highly recommended video we are treated to Jean Vanier's expert insights arising from his twenty-five years of Christian service.

Inventions That Changed Our Lives
Goldhil Home Media International
137 East Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 207, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
GH489 $TBA 1-800-250-8760

Inventions That Changed Our Lives is a superbly presented, six-volume video boxed set on the history of inventions in the 20th century and aptly narrated by Tom Baker. Each 27 minute, narrated volume is dedicated to a different area and include Communications & Transportation (GH490); Inventions & Innovations (GH491); Medicine (GH492); Plastic Planet (GH493); The Technology Of Warfare (GH494); and The Wonder of Electricity (GH495). The visuals are dynamic and wonderfully enhance the informative, often surprising, narrative history behind some of the inventions that dramatically altered and made possible the world we live in today. Although each volume can be acquired separately, Inventions That Changed Our Lives boxed set is a very strongly recommended addition to school and community library video collections.

N. Gutman
Shuli Eshel
Calvacade Communications, Inc.
3600 North Lake Shore Drive, Suite 1205, Chicago, IL 60613
0970629109 $29.95 cavalgroup.com

Shuli Eshel's N. Gutman is a superbly presented, 21 minute video showcasing the inspiring story of filmmaker Nahum Gutman (1898-1980). Gutman's passion for life and his hope for the future left a legacy of paintings, mosaics, sculptures and writings as he told the story of Israel's rise from an arid, merciless, Palestinian desert to a great, new, democratic nation that decried anti-semitism and prejudice. Releases in both English and Hebrew versions, N. Gutman is a video memorial that will well serve to introduce new generations to the life and work of a truly gifted man who celebrated his life and country.

Superman
Max Fleisher & Dave Fleischer
Bridgestone Multimedia
c/o Alpha Omega Publications
300 North McKemy Avenue, Chandler, AZ 84226-2618
1563711702 $19.95 1-800-523-0988

Superman is a nicely packaged three volume boxed set of videos showcases the Max and Dave Fleischer theatrical, full-color cartoon series based on the comic book superhero, "Superman". This marvelous and nostalgic collection showcases all seventeen of these original, "Golden Age of Animation" productions. It's interesting to note that while most of the episodes have strong science fiction themes, four of them dealt with war time issues: one set in Japan with Superman wrecking havoc with Japanese shipyards; another set in the U.S. with Japanese saboteurs; and two more dealing with German saboteurs. All of these Technicolor classics were made from 35mm prints transferred onto high grade video tape. A "must" for all comic book superhero fans and comic book enthusiasts, Superman is an enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal or community library video collection.



The Writing/Publishing Shelf

The Writer's Handbook 2002
Elfrieda Abbe
Kalmbach Publishing Company
PO Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187
0871161893 $29.95 1-800-533-6644

The Writer's Handbook 2002 is a superbly presented 700 page compendium of practical advice and informative insight on how to succeed as a professional writer. This outstanding anthology of articles and essays by established and successful writers covers every aspect of the writing process from original concepts to research to marketing. From Stephen King, Anne Rice, and John Updike, to Jane Yolen, Elmore Leonard, and Wallace Stegner, the range of diverse authors is nothing short of impressive and their counsel will provide invaluable for any aspiring author yearning to break into print and make a living out of what they write.



The Railroading Shelf

Steam To Spokane: SP&S 700
Pentrex
Box 94911, Passadena, CA 91109-4911
SPS700 $29.95 1-800-950-9333

After many years on display in Portland, Oregon, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 steam locomotive was put back on the rails in April, 2001. The locomotive's shiny black paint and yellow lettering fascinated railroading enthusiasts of all ages as it traveled the route between Vancouver, Washington, and Spokane. This 60 minute, full color video showcases the 4-8-4 Northern-type locomotive as it pulls 18 cars (complete with passengers) through awe-inspiring backgrounds from the Columbia River Gorge to the rolling wheat fields and pine forests of Washington, as well as such scenic locations as North Bonneville, Pasco, Providence Hill, Sprague Lake, Latah Junction, Ritzville, and more. Also available in a DVD formate (SPS700DVD, $29.95) Steam To Spokane: SP&S 700 is a superb and highly recommended addition to any railroading video collection.



The Myth/Folklore Shelf

The Fish Prince And Other Stories
Jane Yolen & Shulamith Oppenheim
Interlink Publishing Group
46 Crosby St., Northampton, MA 01060
1566563909 $15.00 interlinkbooks.com

The Fish Prince And Other Stories: Mermen Folk Tales is an extensive anthology of folklore tales drawn from cultures around the world, and all of which are about the mermaid's masculine counterpart the more popular female image. From Russia to Mali and Chile, the stories herein embody a vast wealth of different cultures and traditions. Retold by the collaborative efforts of award-winning children's authors and folklorists Jane Yolen and Shulamith Oppenheim, The Fish Prince And Other Stories is an exciting, exotic, enthusiastically recommended anthology for anyone entranced by mythological and folklore legends of the seafolk!

Imagined States
Luisa Del Giudice & Gerald Porter, eds.
Utah State University Press
78 Old Marin Hill, Logan, UT 84322
0874214122 $22.95 1-800-239-9974

Aptly edited by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter, Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, And Longing In Oral Cultures draws from international folklore scholars who have examined the ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively utilized "imagined states of existence", in the construction of cultural identities for themselves and for others. The original materials examined by scholarship includes oral traditions as found in traditional ballads, broadsides, and folk lore stories. Imagined States is an impressive and highly recommended body of original scholarship that is a strongly recommended, core addition to anthropological, sociological, and cultural history reference collections.



The Library Science Shelf

Literacy & Libraries
GraceAnne A. DeCandido, editor
American Library Association
155 North Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606
0838935168 $40.00 1-800-545-2433

Literacy & Libraries: Learning From Case Studies is a collection of true-to-life stories of library directors, teachers, tutors, librarians, and adult students who have seen firsthand the positive effect of adult literacy programs at libraries all over the nation. In addition to personal anecdotes, there are numerous persuasive accounts and advice on how to conduct and improve the invaluable public service of teaching adult literacy, from adjusting teaching methods to respond to a multicultural environment to teaching computer skills along with literacy. Powerful, uplifting, and eminently practical, Literacy & Libraries is highly recommended for library science students, as well as anyone involved in teaching adults the eye-opening, life-enhancing, crucial skill of reading.



The Military Shelf

Honor And Sacrifice
Anthony J. Blondell
Hellgate Press
Box 3727, Central Park, OR 97502-0032
1555715338 $21.95 1-800-228-2275

Anthony Blondell became involved with the Montagnards of South Vietnam in the early 1960s when he was part of the U.S. Army Special Forces Airborne unit stationed there. Honor And Sacrifice: The Montagnards Of Ba Cat, Vietnam is Blondell's personal and compelling narrative of those times and that place within the larger context of the Viet Nam war. Honor And Sacrifice is a welcome and much appreciated contribution to American military history in general, and the growing library of Viet Nam military memoirs in particular.

The Black Devil Brigade
Joseph A. Springer
Pacifica Military History
1149 Grand Teton Dr., Pacifica CA 94044
0935553509 $29.95 1-800-453-3152

The Black Devil Brigade is an "oral history" relating the true and incredible story of the joint American/Canadian First Special Service Force. An elite and deadly combat unit formed in Montana, this blended military force was rushed to battle in the Aleutian Islands, then reinforced by a fresh batch of Canadian and American volunteers, saw action in Italy where it was used for the nastiest, deadliest missions the leadership of the U.S. Fifth Army could devise. Committed to the Anzio invasion they struck terror into the hearts of seasoned Germany troops and were dubbed "Schwartzer Teufel" -- Black Devils. Indeed, these "devils" were among the first to enter Rome. They went on to a key role in the invasion of southern France in 1944 suffering tremendous casualties (their commander was wounded nine times). They were eventually withdrawn from combat and shut down with the Canadian contingent dispersed as combat fillers and the Americans used as the core of a new standard infantry regiment. The stuff of battlefield legend, the lives and accomplishments of this unique unit is memorialized in Joseph Springer's The Black Devil Brigade and a welcome, much appreciated contribution to both military studies and the history of World War II.

Long Night's Journey Into Day
Charles G. Roland
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5
0889203628 $28.95 1-519-884-0710

Long Night's Journey Into Day: Prisoners Of War In Hong Kong And Japan, 1941-1945 reveals the plight of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured when Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in December 1941. The grim experiences of American POWs are also represented throughout this seminal military history. Starvation, diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, tuberculosis, and harsh punitive conditions were endemic among the prisoners. Yet many of the men were able to find ways to improve their bleak existence, sustain their morale, and survive these hostile conditions. Author Charles Roland draws upon hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as archival material from around the world to detail and document the extreme conditions that the prisoners were compelled by their captors to endure. Long Night's Journey Into Day is an essential, core title for any serious World War II studies reference collection.

Death On The Hellship
Gregory F. Michno
Naval Institute Press
2062 Generals Highway , Anapolis, MD 21401-6780
1557504822 $32.95 1-800-233-8764

Death On The Hellships: Prisoners At Sea In The Pacific War is a sobering, comprehensive, superly written and accurate survey of life and death as an Allied prisoner of war aboard the Japanese submarines, under conditions as hellish as any concentration camp. More that 126,000 prisoners were transported on these hellships with more than 21,000 fatalities, due to beatings, starvation, disease, and worst of all, friendly fire. The statistics lead author Gregory Michno to conclude that it was more dangerous to be a prisoner on Japanese hellships than to be an active U.S. marine in the campaign. Disturbing in its detail, Death On The Hellships is a vivid and unforgettable reminder of the horrors of war and an invaluable contribution to 20th Century military history collections.

The Bridges Of Vietnam
Fred L. Edwards, Jr.
University of North Texas Press
Box 311336, Denton, TX 76203-1336
1574411381 $18.95 1-800-826-8911

Fred Edwards served as an intelligence officer during the Vietnam War and visited very major ground unit from Special Forces camps and ground reconnaissance unites, to armored calvary units, and waterborne reconnaissance units. An invaluable and strongly recommended contribution to the military annals of the Viet Name conflict, Edward's The Bridges Of Vietnam: From The Journals Of A U.S. Marine Intelligence Officer is as vivid and candid memoir of the war from the perspective of a front-line intelligence officer as is available to the non-specialist general reader or military buff.

In The Philippines And Okinawa
William S. Triplet
University of Missouri Press
2910 LeMone Blvd, Columbia, MO 65201
0826213359 $29.95 1-800-828-1894

In The Philippines And Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945-1948 is the third volume of the autobiography of Colonel William S. Triplet. It completes his personal story by recounting the American occupations after World War II. From overseeing the temporary burial of thirteen thousand U.S. servicemen to rounding up Japanese holdouts who refused to believe the war was ended, In The Philippines And Okinawa is a powerful, dramatic, first-hand look at the dawn of a new history arising from the horrors and heroism of World War II. A very highly recommended contribution to military history collections dedicated to the aftermath of the war in the Pacific.

Thirteen Desperate Hours
Marill Johnson
Sunflower University Press
PO Box 1009, Manhattan, KS 66505-1009
0897452585 $19.95 1-800-258-1232

Thirteen Desperate Hours is the vivid, albeit fictional account of a Liberty Ship's crew and their Naval escort's fight for sheer survival while grounded on a Japanese held island in the south Pacific when it was anybody's guess as to the war's ultimate outcome. It was a time when some 733 Merchant ships were sunk in their attempts to deliver vital war supplies to the Allied Troops. Strongly recommended for military buffs and anyone else who enjoy's a great action/adventure tale, Thirteen Desperate Hours is a superlative written, absolutely riveting and harrowingly true account of an incredible incident -- the stuff of which military legends are made.

Potpourri Of War
Noonie Fortin
Langmarc Publishing
Box 90488, Austin, TX 78709-0488
1880292246 $15.95 1-800-864-1648

Potpourri Of War: Labors Of Love Remembered is the story of Americans who were not "career military" but who loved their country and everything that America has come to stand for within the community of civilized nations. This compelling volume of wartime reminiscences ranges from the stunning to the fondly nostalgic to the profound. Here are the stories of the women of World War II -- the USO performers, military personnel, Red Cross Workers, Hollywood celebrities, as well as the legions of mothers of sons and daughters gave up their lives in the defense of their country on far flung battlefields. Potpourri Of War is a timely and much needed contribution -- both as a remembrance of things past, and a clarion reminder of how we can meet the demands of war that have suddenly come upon us in our own time.

Aces In Command
Walter J. Boyne
Brassey, Inc.
22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, VA 20166-2019
1574883100 $26.95 1-800-775-2518

Aces In Command: Fighter Pilots As Combat Leaders is a superbly researched and written military history of combat aviation leadership. Aviation historian Walter Boyne details the careers of four legendary aces (Eddie Rickenbacker, Hub Zemke, Boots Blesse, Robin Olds) who went on to using their leadership skills in positions of command in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Although the advances in military aviation were rapid and transformative, the qualities that each of these men exhibited in their respective eras is nothing short of fascinating. Painstakingly researched, Aces In Command combines the best qualities of superb scholarship with a flair for narration that is an entertaining as it is informative. Aces In Command is "must" reading for all military aviation history enthusiasts.



The Pets/Wildlife Shelf

Cranes: The Noblest Flyers
Alice Lindsay Price
La Alameda Press/Univ. New Mexico
9636 Guadalupe Train NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114
1-888809-24-8 $20.00

Cranes: The Noblest Flyers is an outstanding natural history title which blends scientific observation and studies with the author's own field observations and line drawings, thereby providing a lovely survey of the bird and its habitat. Poetic descriptions and first-person insights and experiences abound, along with a healthy dose of science.

Alpine Publications
Box 7027, Loveland, CO 80537

Two excellent animal titles will appeal to pet owners. James B. Spencer's Training Retrievers For Marshes And Meadows (1-57779-007-3, $34.95) will hold a specific appeal for hunters who use retriever dogs in their work. Beginners are taught how to gain rapport and train dogs, from basic obedience to training for the hunt - and receive instructions particular not only to retrieving in general, but to the breed. Sam Powell and Lane Carter's Almost A Whisper (026-X, $29.95) provides a basic guide for horse owners who want to work with their horses. From the foundations of basic horse behavior patterns to understanding horse psychology for more effective training, this provides a general focus on understanding and communicating with horses.

Color Of Horses
Dr. Ben K. Green
Mountain Press Publishing Company
Box 2399, Missoula, MT 59806
0-87842-437-7 $20.00 1-800-234-5308

In Color Of Horses, Darol Dickinson's outstanding illustrations pairs R. Green's descriptions of various horse breeds and characteristics with detailed descriptions of color and over thirty reproductions of oil paintings by western artist Dickinson. The result is an excellent basic visual guide which should be a part of any horse owner's library.

Bats Of Southern Africa
Peter John Taylor
University of Natal Press/ISBS, dist.
5824 NE Hassalo St., Portland, OR 97213
0869809822 $29.95 1-503-287-3093

Enhanced with both color photographs and drawings, as well as b/w sketches and illustrations, Peter Taylor's Bats Of Southern Africa showcases 78 species of bats native to southern Africa. The reader is provided with clear descriptions and accurate diagnostic features, as well as a wealth of information on the bat's habitat, social and roosting habits, diet, reproduction, echolocation call, distribution, and conservation status. A superb introduction and reference, Bats Of Southern Africa is a welcome and highly recommended addition to wildlife reference collections in general, and the Bat in particular.



The Computer Shelf

Book Of Javascript
David Thau
No Starch Press
555 DeHaro St. #250, San Francisco CA 94107
1-886411-36-0 $29.95

JavaScript helps make a web site dynamic and interactive, but many beginners new to writing code are intimidated in their attempt to understand the complicated books on the topic. Enter David Thau's Book Of Javascript, which is geared toward beginners who have experience with HTML and who want to learn JavaScript. Chapters use tutorials and practical project applications to provide examples of how JavaScript works in the real world.

Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Bruce Gooch & Amy Gooch
A. K. Peters Ltd.
63 South Ave., Natick, MA 01760-4626
1568811330 $39.00 www.akpeters.com

In Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Bruce and Amy Gooch effectively collaborate to present the computer graphics student with an informative introductory survey of realistic rendering techniques that have long been utilized by artists and which can be applied in computer graphics to emphasize the subtle attributes of images while omitting extraneous visual information. The process of non-photorealistic rendering is fully explained, along with the provision of pseudo-code for some simple methods. The wide range of techniques are illustrated throughout and the text is additionally enhanced with a 32-page color insert. Non-Photorealistic Rendering is an invaluable contribution and a much appreciated addition to the computer graphics reference shelf.

The VoiceXML Handbook
Bob Edgar
CMP Books
1601 West 23rd Street, Suite 200, Lawrence, KS 66046
1578200849 $39.95 1-800-848-5594

In The VoiceXML Handbook: Understanding And Building The Phone-Enabled Web, computer telephony expert Bob Edgar takes the reader through a step-by-step introduction through all the features of VoiceXML (including VoiceXML 2.0). Readers will learn about Graphical Web Browsing, HTML, and HTTP; Telecommunications; Computer Telephony; Voice Recognition and Text-to-Speech; and XML. Also provided are a VoiceXML Tutorial and instructions on using Voice Browsers to crated Phone-Enabled Web Sites. The VoiceXML Handbook is an indispensable "how to" reference for anyone who needs to enhance their website with telephony-enabled technology and ability.

MySQL: Building User Interfaces
Matthew Stucky
New Riders/Pearson Technology Group
201 West 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290-1097
073571049X $49.99 newriders.com

Matthew Stucky's MySQL: Building User Interfaces is a 656 page companion volume to Paul DuBois' MySQL, written for both Linux and Windows developers and designed to teach the reader how to implement and handle the transition issues in moving to the MySQL database by presenting valuable insight from his experience with different companies. MySQL: Building User Interfaces starts by introducing the functionality of GTK+ and how to migrate from Microsoft's Visual Basic. It then introduces MySQL as a simple, fast, reliable database for corporate applications. It then transitions into the how-to of combining GTK+ and MySQL through the coverage of the C API for MySQL because it is the "backend" to a GTK+ application. A very highly recommended instructional reference MySQL: Building User Interfaces also covers heterogeneous network and deployment issues, as well as migration from existing systems to MySQL.

Upgrading And Repairing PCs
Scott Mueller
Que/Pearson Technology Group
201 West 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290-1097
0789725428 $59.99 pearsonptg.com

Now in a fully updated and expanded thirteenth edition, Soctt Mueller's 1620 paged Upgrading And Repairing PCs offers comprehensive coverage of AMD and Intel processors. Muller has an undeniable knack for explaining just exactly what the intermediate to advanced level do-it-yourselfer is up against when matching motherboards and RAM to these processors. An indispensable, core reference title, Mueller's Upgrading And Repairing PCs presents cutting edge coverage of the Pentium 4 - Intel's long awaited Pentium 4 processor hit the shelves in 2000. Scott also steers readers through what promises to be the biggest - and most demanding - processor upgrade since the world shifted from 486 processors to the Pentium.

Holograms & Holography
John R. Vacca
Charles River Media
20 Downer Avenue, Suite 3, Hingham, MA 02043
1886801967 $59.95 1-800-382-8505

Holograms & Holography: Design, Techniques, & Commercial Applications is a complete, in-depth book and CD-ROM technical manual for the combination of physics and optics that allows the creating of a beautiful, shiny, three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional surface. From the myriad uses of hologram technology to the economic value of holograms and how to create them with a computer, Holograms & Holography Design is more than a straightforward instruction book - it also has helpful instructions for how to best put holograms to commercial and practical use. The text is "intermediate to advanced" level; while it covers some very complex and technical subjects, it strives to do so in an explicitly clear manner, that anyone with a basic understanding of the physics involved can grasp. Diagrams, appendices, glossary, and an index complete the handy accessibility of this reference. The CD-ROM that comes with the book contains hologram-related images, animations, and web sites. In order to view the CD-ROM's files, a separate graphics program software such as Paint Shop Pro or Visio is required for the image files, and a separate movie player such as Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or Real Player Plug-in is required for the movies. Adobe Acrobat Reader and any web browser software (such as Netscape) are also useful for taking full advantage of the CD-ROM. Highly recommended!

Frontpage 2002 Virtual Classroom
David Karlins
Osborne/McGraw-Hill
2600 Tenth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
0072191724 $39.99 1-800-722-4726

Text and multimedia combine in David Karlins' 384 page instructional reference guide, Frontpage 2002 Virtual Classroom to create an effective and "user friendly" learning experience. Readers will learn how to create large or small Web sites that are sophisticated and attractive, and effectively manage the organization, content, and style of their site. Readers can follow along on the CD-ROM as the on-screen guru explains and demonstrates the techniques discussed in the text. Frontpage 2002 Virtual Classroom is a confidently recommended "how to" introduction for all Frontpage 2002 users.



The Mystery Shelf

Criminal Kabbalah
Lawrence W. Raphael, editor
Jewish Lights Publishing
PO Box 237, Woodstock, VT 05091
1580231098 $16.95 1-800-962-4544

Criminal Kabbalah is a unique and impressive anthology of Jewish mystery and detective stories from a roster of twelve undeniably talented writers. Included are Terence Ball's The Banality of Evil; Sandra Levy Ceren's Silver Is Better Than Gold; Martin S. Cohen's Death Has Beckoned; Richard Fliegel's The Golem of Bronx Park East; Michael A. Kahn's Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper; Stuart M. Kaminsky's The Tenth Man; Rochelle Krich's Bitter Waters; Ronald Levitsky's Thy Brother's Bloods; Lev Raphael's Your Papers, Please; Shelley Singer's Reconciling Howard; Janice Steinberg's Hospitality In A Dry Country; and Batya Swift Yasgur's Without A Trace. Criminal Kabbalah is simply outstanding and enthusiastically recommended to all mystery buffs.

Blue Wolf
Lise McClendon
Walker & Company
435 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014
0-8027-3352-2 $24.95

Alix Thorssen views the wolf as a beautiful creature, but her rancher neighbors disagree. A dead wolf divides the community and art gallery owner Alix finds her sleuthing skills at maximum strength when one of her best clients requests her help in researching an old death. Excellent tension in this complex story of environmentalism and murder.

Faces Of Fear
Christine Spindler
Avid Press
5470 Red Fox Drive, Brighton, MI 48114
1929613636 $22.95 1-888-284-3257

Faces Of Fear: An Inspector Terry Mystery is a page-turning, pulse-pounding mystery about a serial killer who systematically tortures a therapists' clients to death, using their deepest phobias. Inspector Rick Terry becomes involved to stop the killing, in a horrific quest to bring the murderer to justice. Shocking, puzzling, and gripping to the very end, Faces Of Fear is a definite recommendation for suspense thriller enthusiasts and mystery buffs.

Milwaukee Autumns Can Be Lethal
Kathleen Anne Barrett
Worldwide Mystery
225 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, ON, Canada, M3B 3K9
0373263996 $5.99 1-416-445-5860

Don Balstrum is an old law-school acquaintance who hires Beth Harley to some work for him. But when Hartley finds her old school mate murdered in his office her meticulous mind for detail leads her onto the path of a complex crime. A ruthless and tragic picture of money laundering, blackmail, embezzlement and broken hears begins to emerge along with warning notes to back of -- or else! Highly recommended for mystery buffs, Milwaukee Autumns Can Be Lethal is a terrific read from cover to cover.

Pluto Rising
Karen Irving
Polestar Book Publishers
9050 Shaughnessy Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6P 6E5
189609595X $8.95

Katy Klein is a witty and opinionated psychologist turned professional astrologer who also struggles to make ends meet for herself and her teenage daughter. Then she meets Adam -- a client who feels Katy can help him unravel half remembered terrors from his childhood. What follows is a gripping mystery as Katy uncovers dark secrets that targets her as a killer's prey. Highly recommended for mystery buffs everywhere, Pluto Rising debuts what promises to be a terrific series of truly gripping mysteries featuring unique astrological twists.

Brave Man Dead
Hannah Blank
Hightrees Books
P.O. Box 20775, Cherokee Station, New York, NY 10021-0075
0965277836 $24.95 1-212-517-5828

Hannah Blank's Brave Man Dead is a mystery set in 1954 Paris. Alphonse Dantan of the Paris Police Judiciare must investigate the seeming murder of a decorated American lieutenant. Motives are unclear yet the pool of suspects is large, and Dantan has only three or four days to solve the crime before he must hand over the case to U.S. brass. With its vivid feel of postwar Paris, wry humor, and memorable characters, Brave Man Dead is a mystery not to be missed. Also highly recommended is Hannah Blank's A Murder Of Convenience, which debuted the determined Parisian detective Alphonse Dantan.

Berkeley Prime Crime
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014

Margaret Coel's Thunder Keeper (0-425-18188-X, $22.95) presents yet another fine Native American mystery. Here a chilling confession to a priest reveals one murder and a string of deaths to follow. It's up to Vicky and Father O'Malley to understand who or what is behind the string of murders. Miriam Grace Monfredo's Brothers Of Cain (18189-8, $22.95) is based on events of the Civil War and joins others in the author's Seneca Falls series, a rich re-enactment of war times. Here a young courier finds himself with amnesia in enemy territory, while undercover agent Bronwyn works to engineer his freedom. Tense action and history make this riveting. Both are excellent stories, backed with strong characterization.

Soldier's Gap
Dave Schwinghammer
Hats Off Books
610 East Delano Street, Suite 104, Tucson, Arizona 85705
158736039X $19.95 1-888-934-0888

Dave Schwinghammer's Soldier's Gap is a intriguing and entertaining mystery centering on the murder of James Egge, a local high school principal. Arriving on the scene of a gruesomely bludgeoned corpse, Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins has a psychic experience of the murdered victim's life. Now Dave Jenkins has a unwilling but personal stake in searching for the killer, through small-town politics, trailer park kids, and an illicit love triangle. Meanwhile, the night deputy and Mescalero Apache Mingo Jones wants to hold a ghost medicine ceremony for his former small-town friend Egge, to ensure that Egge's soul is not trapped between the Shadow World and the Land of Ever Summer. Soldier's Gap is enthusiastically recommended reading for mystery buffs!

Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co.
Box 21922, Santa Barbara, CA 93121

Three excellent, different mysteries with unusual themes will draw even the hardened gumshoe detective reader. Penny Warner's Blind Side (1-8802-8442-1, $12.95), for example, features death publisher Conner, the annual Jumping Frog contest, romance, and murder. A frog's murder is soon followed by something more serious in this intriguing plot. The final Rothenberg botanical mystery by Rebecca Rothenberg is completed by Taffy Cannon in Tumbleweed Murders (43-X, $12.95), which blends romance, science, and intriguing botanical-based clues. Plant pathologist Claire is drawn into an old murder in California's central valley in this intriguing plot. Janet LaPierre's Keepers (44-8, $12.95) is set in Port Silva and features an unusual mother/daughter investigative team. California's Lost Coast area is the setting for their latest case revolving around a missing child. It's refreshing to have mysteries which blend solid characterization with more than casual dose of regional color, and plots which are anything but canned. These are highly recommended, different, literary works.



The Theatre/Cinema Shelf

Beyond Popcorn
Robert Glatzer
Eastern Washington University Press
526 5th St., Cheney, WA 99004-2431
091005570X $14.95 1-800-508-9095

A film critic, screenwriter, and host of the weekly NPR show "Movies 101", Robert Glazer draws upon his many years of experience and expertise in Beyond Popcorn: A Critic's Guide To Looking At Films to provide the movie buff with a basic guide to understanding cinema as an art form, and not just as a popular entertainment. Readers will learn how to assess a movie the way film critics do; obtain an "insider's view" of directing, writing, and acting; what goes into determining the differences between a good film and a great film; as well as understanding all those credits. A "must" for all movie buffs and aspiring film critics, Beyond Popcorn also offers a list of all the films that you simply have to see before you die!



The Self-Help Shelf

The Real Thing
Alan Mann
Indypub, L.L.C.
109A North Jefferson Street, Suite 8, Huntsville, AL 35801
0970983336 $10.99 www.alanmann.net

Alan Mann's The Real Thing: The 4 Essential Components Of Authentic Relationships is a coherent, straightforward, no-nonsense guide to overcoming obstacles in a relationship. A practicing attorney and experienced public speaker, Mann presents an uncomplicated premise: that only true, authentic love has the power to turn an ordinary relationship into true fulfillment. The four essential components of an authentic relationship are summarized as Commitment, Courage, Credibility, and Compassion. Aptly written in easy-to-understand, lay terminology yet geared toward all who seek true love, The Real Thing is a must-read for anyone who wants to reach past the barriers in their current or future relationships.



The Buddhist Studies Shelf

Dakini's Warm Breath
Judith Simmer-Brown
Shambhala Publications
300 Massachusetts Ave Boston MA 02115
1570627207 $29.95 www.shambhala.com

In Tibetan Buddhism, the dakini or "sky-dancer" is a semi-wrathful spirit-woman who manifests in visions, dreams, and meditation experiences. Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle In Tibetan Buddhism persuasively argues that this phenomena cannot be adequately explained in terms of Jungian psychology or feminist goddess theology as a psychological "shadow", a feminine savior, or an objectified product of patriarchal fantasy. Author Judith Simmer-Brown (professor and chair of the religious studies department at Naropa University) reveals that the dakini symbolizes levels of personal relations, the sacredness of the body (both female and male), the profound meeting pint of body and mind in mediation, the visionary realm of ritual practice, and the empty , spacious qualities of the human mind itself. Dakini's Warm Breath is thoughtful, insightful, stimulating reading and strongly recommended for Buddhist studies and library reference collections.



The Civil War Shelf

General William Dorsey Pender
Edward G. Longacre
Combined Books, Inc.
PO Box 307, Conshohocken, PA 19428
1580970346 $29.95 1-800-418-6065

General William Dorsey Pender: A Military Biography is a superbly presented contribution to Civil War studies as biographer Edward Longacre relates the life and career of this Confederate officer. William Pender of North Carolina first came to prominence during the Seven Days' Battle when a number of junior Confederate officers took bold action to counter the battlefield errors of some of their better-known superiors. From id-1862 to mid-1863 he commanded a North Carolina brigade and soon came to the attention of General Robert E. Lee as he distinguished himself on a series of battlefields including Seven Pines, Gaines's Mills, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Pender meet his fate at Gettysburg in July of 1863 when he was felled by a wound that would eventually take his life. General William Dorsey Pender is a meticulous, articulate, and valued contribution to Civil War Studies reading lists and reference collections.

Making And Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War
William Blair & William Pencak, editors
Penn State University Press
820 North University Drive, University Park, PA 16802-1003
0271020792 $35.00 1-800-326-9180

Making And Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War is a welcome compendium of new information about Pennsylvania during the Civil War including such noteworthy facts as their being as many as two thousand Pennsylvanians who defected to the Confederacy to fight for the Southern cause. The focus of the ten essays compiled in this excellent history are on our current understanding regarding the motivations of the soldiers and the impact of the war on civilians, rather than on the Civil War battles or military leadership. Making And Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War is a highly recommended and informative addition to the growing body of Civil War scholarship.



The Science Shelf

Searching For Black Holes
Andrew Vulcz
American Literary Press
8019 Belair Road, Suite 10, Baltimore, MD 21236
1561676713 $9.95 1-800-873-2003

Offering readers a thoughtful and provocative perspective on human existence, Andrew Vulcz's Searching For Back Holes challenges many of the prevailing theories in major fields of science. With a kind of "everyman" sense of logic and reasoning, Vulcz rethinks the wisdom of using mathematical formulas to make sense of the modern world. Vulcz even calls into questions such fundamental issues as the existence of God, the concept of time, and the reasoning behind Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Vulcz goes on to prose a new theory introducing the concept of invisible granules with no detectable mass or energy as making up everything in the universe. With this premise Vulcz defines a fascinating theory which explains mass, energy, gravity, black holes, and other elusive questions regarding the past, present, and future of the galaxy. Provocative, iconoclastic, thoughtful and thought-provoking, Searching For Black Holes is highly recommended reading for students of the physical sciences in general, and physics, biology, and astronomy in particular.

Aquagenesis
Richard Ellis
Viking Press
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014
0-670-03023-6 $25.95

How did early life evolve in our oceans, and how did they evolve from the sea to become land creatures? Aquagenesis provides a history of sea life and its evolutionary processes, combining the author's illustrations with a scientific examination of the origin of life in the sea.

The Postmodern Adventure
Steven Best & Douglas Kellner
Guilford Publications
72 Spring Street, New York NY 10012
1-57230-665-3 $19.95

This college-level survey of science, technology and cultural studies provides challenges to theory, politics and issues which we face in modern times. A cross-section of disciplines is revealed in a title which is billed as philosophy but which includes a strong examination of science and culture. Students within many scientific disciplines will find its discussions intriguing - and scholarly.

Farrar Straus Giroux
19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003

Richard Hamblyn's Invention Of Clouds (0-374-17715-5, $27.00) isn't just another examination of how meteorology works, but a biography of largely forgotten British meteorologist Luke Howard, who introduced scientists to simple terms helping to classify clouds. His cloud classifications withstood skepticism and testing, forming the foundation of a new branch of science: this intriguing title tells how. Glenn Seaborg's Adventures In The Atomic Age (29991-9, $25.00) explores the life and experiences of a scientist who won the Nobel Prize before he was forty. His autobiography tells of his career, discoveries, and experiences with wartime chemistry.

Impact Of The Gene
Colin Tudge
Hill & Wang
19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003
0-374-17523-3 $27.00

In the mid-19th century a friar discovered the basic laws of heredity: Tudge examines the influence of Mendel's ideas from the 1850s to modern times, considering the evolution of genetics as a science, and including questions of ethics and human paths of development. A fascinating blend of biography and science.

Chemistry And Medical Debate
Allen G. Debus
Science History Publications/USA
c/o Watson Publishing International
PO Box 493, Canton, MA 02021-0493
0881352926 $52.00 www.shpusa.com

In Chemistry And Medical Debate, Allen Debus (Morris Fishbein Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago) offers an erudite and engaging discussion of the chemical philosophy of the followers of Paracelsus and van Helmont as it affected the development and practice of medicine. Professor Debus articulately describes the complex relationship of chemistry to medicine in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries by way of providing the reader with a clear and accurate understanding of the background to modern chemistry. Chemistry And Medical Debate is an impressive work of outstanding scholarship and a highly recommended, core contribution to the study of the history of medicine.



The Needlecraft Shelf

Quilting Curves
Vikki Pignatelli
Contemporary Books
Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121
0-8442-4249-7 $27.95 1-800-722-4726

In Quilting Curves, experienced needlecrafter Vikki Pignatelli has developed an innovative method of quiltmaking which almost guarantees professional results, even for newcomers to quilting. Her book shares this method, showing how to create the curved-line designs which can be done by machine for added quick results. Nine complete patterns accompany photos of finished products and directions for incorporating extra effects.

Oxymorons: Absurdly Logical Quilts
Dianne S. Hire, editor
American Quilter's Society
P.O. Box 3290, Paducah, KY 42002-3290
1574327542 $18.95 1-800-626-5420

Aptly edited by experienced needlecrafter Dianne Hire, Oxymorons: Absurdly Logical Quilts is a fascinating book that displays quilts constructed from the inspiration of oxymorons, innately contradictory phrases such as Clearly Ambiguous, Extinct Life, Silent Scream, Linear Curve, Icy Hot, Deafening Silence, and more. Each quilt's weaving embodies the riddle, and brings the subtle paradoxes of a common yet bizarrely meaningless phrase to life. With sketches and glimpses into the thought processes of the quilt designers, Oxymorons: Absurdly Logical Quilts offers a rare and recommended view into creative consciousness of quilt makers.

The Devil's Cloth
Michel Pastoureau
Columbia University Press
136 South Broadway, Irvington NY 10533
0-231-12366-3 $22.95 1-800-944-8648

Michel Pastoureau's The Devil's Cloth is a unique and unusual history of stripes and striped fabric will appeal to the interested needlecrafter, costumer and quirky artist, as well as anyone else who would receive insights into fashion, styles or changing clothing. From a medieval scandal revolving around striped habits to national stripes and displays of stripes in clothing, The Devil's Cloth is an impressive and scholarly work which is informative reading and an enthuiastically recommended survey.



The Cookbook Shelf

In The Sweet Kitchen
Regan Daley
Artisan
708 Broadway, New York NY 10003
1-57965-208-5 $35.00

In The Sweet Kitchen isn't just another home cook's dessert collection, but a thick 704-page reference which explains the secrets of good baking, from the components which go into the dishes to techniques of producing perfect results. While there are plenty of recipes, it's the guide to ingredients and techniques which sets In The Sweet Kitchen apart from competitors.

French Food
Lawrence Schear & Allen Weiss
Routledge
29 W. 35th Street, New York NY 10001
0415936284 $22.00

This cultural history of French food provides essays which examine a range of topics; from food issues throughout French history to historical and cultural transition points in the culinary world. These literary essays go beyond most recipe-oriented titles to examine the foundations of French affections with food.

Fearless Baking
Elinor Klivans
Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of Americas, New York, NY 10020
0-684-87259-5 $30.00

Pastry chef Klivens here presents a step-by-step course designed for beginning bakers - starting with the basics of baking equipment and moving to very simple first recipes. Fearless Baking is essentially a baking course conducted by a professional chef - on paper. Chapters quickly move from the basics to exciting, more complex presentation desserts.

Fruit: The Ripe Pick
T.M. Gorman
Vine Publishing
Box 17912, Honolulu, HI 96817-9998
1931141207 $9.95 1-888-235-1630

Fruit: The Ripe Pick is a superbly presented, pocket-sized guide which describing fifty different kinds of fruit ranging from the ordinary to the exotic. Family cooks and shoppers are provided with time-saving and money-saving techniques for selecting, buying, and storing fruit properly to ensure both great taste and lasting freshness for fruits selected for the dining table and snack menus. Nutritional data, popular varieties, and peak seasons for each fruit are clearly laid out in a text specifically designed for quick access and featuring an easy-to-read, bulleted text. Historical facts and culinary lore on all fifty fruits enhance this lively, practical, "user friendly" guide that both informs and entertains. Fruit: The Ripe Pick is enthusiastically recommended to anyone confronted with the necessity of acquiring fruits from supermarkets to roadside stands.

Boungiorno!
Norman Kolpas
Contemporary Books
4255 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood, IL 60712-1975
0-8092-9733-7 $19.95

An unusual focus on breakfast and brunch Italian dishes points out that the American affection for both Italian food and breakfast can lead to a wonderful combination. From quiches and scones to sweet risotto puddings with fruits and baked polenta, Boungiorno! provides an excellent set of Italian specialties which lend well to brunch. The profusion of color photos peppered throughout are distinctive attractions for the cookbook collector.

I Don't Do Pie Crusts
Dianne Hunter & Traci Hunter Abramson
Parker Publishing, LLC
PO Box 337, Garrisonville, VA 22463
0970837046 $12.95 1-540-287-1179

I Don't Do Pie Crusts: Easy And Fast Recipes For Today's Busy Lifestyles is just what the homemaker needs to create practical, efficient, nutritious, and delicious meals when time is of the essence and family meal-time is swiftly approaching. Along with a section of "Helpful Hints", there are outstanding recipes for appetizers, soups & salads, breads & brunch, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts. From Crab-Stuffed Mushrooms; Shrimp Pasta Salad; and Cheese Streusel Muffins; to Hawaiian-Style Hamburgers; Twice Baked Potatoes; and Chocolate Caramel Delight, I Don't Do Pie Crusts will prove to be an invaluable and much appreciated addition to any kitchen cookbook collection!

Hippocrene Books
171 Madison Ave., New York NY 10016

Alamelu Vairavan and Patricia Marquardt's Healthy South Indian Cooking (0-7818-0867-7, $24.95) holds both new and revised recipes from Art Of South Indian Cooking, which feature a newfound focus on healthy recipes. The Chettinad cooking tradition is featured in these mostly-vegetarian dishes which are easily prepared at home. Access to an Indian grocery will be necessary - plus an affection for spicy foods which also happen to be low-fat and low-calorie. Georgia Sarianides' Best Of Greek Cuisine: Cooking With Georgia (0883-9, $12.95) presents the chef's easily-followed recipes for traditional Greek favorites. No color photos, but the dishes are easy enough not to need them - and lose nothing of their authenticity in the process.

Healing Secrets Of Food
Deborah Kesten
New World Library
14 Pamaron Way, Novato, CA 94949
1-57731-188-4 $14.95

Blend issues of food and healing with a spiritual approach to nutrition and health and you have Healing Secrets Of Food, a treatise which provides both a history of food in various cultures and religions and a survey of Western nutritional science. Chapters probe the importance of food in healing various ailments.

Clarita's Cooking Lighter
Clarita Garcia
Seaside Publishing
PO Box 14441, St. Petersburg, FL 33733
0942084829 $19.95 1-888-352-2665

In Clarita's Cooking Lighter, 82-year-old Clarita Garcia draws upon her family of distinguished Spanish chefs and restaurateurs, as well as her husband Manuel Garcia's world-famous Las Novedades in Tampa's Ybor City to present a compendium of delicious, nutritious recipes as suitable for family dining as they are festive celebrations. From Fillet of Grouper with Hot Honey Sauce, Baked Chicken Segovia, and Spinach au Gratin with Angel Hair, to Rice Pudding Navarra, Garlic Soup, and Meat Loaf "Italiano", Clarita's Cooking Lighter is a welcome and recommended addition to any cookbook collection.

The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook
Karen Ward
Crabtree Publishing Company
350 Fifth Avenue, #3308, NY, NY 10118
0778702952 $8.95 1-800-387-7650

The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook series is an excellent set of four, 40 page, illustrated, easy-to-prepare recipes with step-by-step instructions, intended for young cooks ages 7-12 with eighth grade reading skills. With plenty of full color photographs, kitchen safety instructions, and a special section featuring the costumes, food, and fun of the Day of the Dead festival, The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook is a superb treat to cook and eat from. Also very highly recommended for any budding young chef are the companion books in the Crabtree Publishing Company's outstanding "Young Chef" series for kids: The Young Chef's Italian Cookbook (0778702936), The Young Chef's Chinese Cookbook (0778702944), and The Young Chef's French Cookbook (0778702960).

Vegetarian Barbecue Cookbook
Mary Gwynn
Whitecap Books, Ltd.
351 Lynn Avenue, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, V7J 2C4
1552851869 $12.95 1-888-980-9852

Everyone loves a good barbeque -- and vegetarians are no exception! Mary Gwynn's Vegetarian Barbecue Cookbook is a splendid compendium of superb dishes that would grace any barbecue event, and please non-vegetarians with a variety of delicious appetizers, salads, sauces, desserts, and more! From Roasted Eggplant and Cilantro Pate; Falafel in Pita Pockets with Tahini Mint Dressing; and Grilled Bread Salad with Parmesan and Mushrooms; to Grilled Goat Cheese and Herb Focaccia; Hot Tomato and Pepper Salsa; and Peach and Blueberry Parcels with Pecan Butter, Vegetarian Barbecue Cookbook promises to be a family favorite for summertime outdoor or indoor dining!



The Biography Shelf

Edgar Lee Masters
Herbert K. Russell
University of Illinois Press
1325 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6975
0252026160 $39.95 1-800-545-4703

Edgar Lee Masters is the author of "Spoon River Anthology", one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of American poetry ever written. Biographer Herbert Russell reveals that Masters was also a successful Chicago lawyer who detested the practice of law, married twice and constantly pursuing other women, and at the same time, one of America's most prolific authors, publishing 53 books during his lifetime. Yet only one of works afforded him lasting recognition. Russell draws from Master's diaries, correspondences, unpublished chapters of a 1936 autobiography, and information from his two wives, children, lovers, and contemporaries (including Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow) to reveal the poet's many relationships, impulsive business decisions, and artistic struggles. Edgar Lee Masters is a superbly researched and written biographical portrait of a man who changed the course of American poetry, yet was unable to achieve personal fulfillment and artistic success within his own life.

Mother Jones
Elliott J. Gorn
Hill & Wang/Farrar Straus Giroux
19 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003
0809070936 $27.00 1-888-330-8477

This biography recalls early American radicalism and the efforts of one Mary Jones, a force in the early labor movement. She traveled throughout the country lobbying for civil rights, labor laws and basic worker's rights: her career, life, and long-ranging effects on American labor are recounted in a lively coverage.

A Child's Christmas In Brooklyn
Frank Crocitto
Candlepower
PO Box 787, New Paltz, NY 12561
0967755824 $10.95 candlepower.org

Frank Crocitto's A Child's Christmas In Brooklyn is a wonderful memoir of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s. What is particularly striking is not just the wonderful anecdotal stories but the way they are physically and visually laid out for the reader in a line-on-the-page format that is almost lyrically poetic in its presentation. A Child's Christmas In Brooklyn is marvelous reading for any Christmas season and a delight for anytime of the year -- especially for that "window in time" feeling taking us back on a nostalgic tour of Brooklyn through a child's eyes.

A Biography Of Mrs. Marty Mann
Sally Brown and David R. Brown
Hazelden Press
PO Box 11, Center City, MN 55012-0011
1568386265 $21.95 1-800-328-9000

As its title implies, A Biography Of Mrs. Marty Mann, The First Lady Of Alcoholics Anonymous is the uplifting life story of a singularly strong and incredible woman - one who crusaded to teach all of America, men and women, that alcoholism is a treatable disease. Her life, which spanned most of the 20th century encompasses despair, hope, and redemption through crusading to battle the pernicious evils of alcoholism, and perhaps just as bad, ignorance about the nature of alcoholism. In Marty's own words, "People who dislike the terms 'alcoholic' and 'alcoholism' should consider the alternative of not knowing what was the matter with them and could believe only that they were hopelessly insane." An unforgettable biography of one of America's most fervent public-health reformers.

A Lucky Life
Everett Cutler
Unlimited Publishing, LLC
PO Box 3007, Bloomington, IN 47402
1588320103 $11.99 www.UnlimitedPublishing.com

A Lucky Life is the personal and engaging memoir of Everett Cutler, who candidly tells of his life as a child of the Great Depression, a sailor on a World War II battleship, an aerospace engineer, a divorced Bay Area man in the 70s, and an entrepreneur in England. Now, Everett Cutler is a retiree with a passion for traveling, motorcycling, boating, and skiing. Filled with humorous character sketches and fascinating vignettes, A Lucky Life makes for diverse and entertaining reading, particularly for armchair travelers!

Gamaliel Patiner
W. Storrs Lee
Eriksson Publishers
PO Box 125, Forest Dale, VT 05745
0839723431 $24.95 1-802-247-4210

Gamaliel Painter: Biography Of A Town Father is the story of how one adventurous pioneer transformed a cluster of log huts into a thriving village and one of Vermont's most influential towns. Gamaliel Painter, a man of forceful personality that combined daring, shrewdness and caution, arrived in Middlebury from Connecticut in the mid-eighteenth century. He took on many trades and professions including pioneer town founder, college founder, associate of Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Captain of Artificers in the Continental Army, a two-fisted sheriff, judge, singer of Vermont's Declaration of Independence, legislator, surveyor, land speculator, industrialist, and toll-road tycoon. Biographer Storrs Lee has drawn upon a wealth of historical material to produce a vivid, lively, accurate, and impressive account of Gamaliel Patiner, a most remarkable and accomplished man who left a lasting imprint on Vermont's colonial and revolutionary history.



The Economics/Fundraising Shelf

The Death Of "e" And the Birth Of The Real New Economy
Peter Fingar & Ronald Aronica
Meghan-Kiffer Press
310 East Fern Street, Tampa, FL 33604
0929652207 $44.95 www.mkpress.com

Doing business on the Internet is now a mainstream phenomena ranging from novice online entrepreneurs to established multinational conglomerates. In The Death Of "e" And the Birth Of The Real New Economy, Peter Fingar and Ronald Aronic effectively collaborate to survey and explain the rapid and fundamental changes affecting how individuals and companies are doing business in this age of the computer whether the transactions are across town or on the other side of the world. The authors explain the emerging business models of the electronic marketplace, peer-to-peer commerce, e-hubs, B2B exchanges, auctions, wireless applications, m-commerce, intelligent agent technology, collaborative commerce, digital strategies, and more. The Death Of "e" And the Birth Of The Real New Economy is very highly recommended, essential reading for corporate executives, economists, business managers, and anyone with an interest in how the Internet is impacting upon local, regional, national, and international economies and business practices.

Raise More Money
Kim Klein & Stephanie Roth, editors
Chardon Press
3781 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611
1890759104 $28.00 1-888-458-8588

Raise More Money: The Best Of The Grassroots Fundraising Journal is a compendium of the most compelling articles every to pub published in the pages of the "Grassroots Fundraising Journal" which is now celebrating its twentieth year of publication. This invaluable "how to" reference offers practical, up-to-date information on the latest fundraising strategies, often illustrated by case studies. Raise More Money covers fundraising principles and philosophy, planning, strategies, organizational and board development, and fundraising as a profession. Readers will learn how to choose the right fundraising strategy for them and their organization, how to cope with the loss of foundation or government funding, how to develop effective written materials, how to track fundraising results, how to organize special events, how to ask current donors to money, how to get over the fear of asking, how to produce an ad journal, and how to run better and more effective board meetings. Raise More Money is a "must read" for anyone and everyone engaged in a fundraising project.

Bleeding Bull
Vladimir Sarkoff
Red Eye Books, Inc.
1020 Green Acres Road, #4-1152, Eugene, OR 97408
0970563922 $18.50 redeyebooks.com

In Bleeding Bull: The Stock Market Bubble And The American Middle Class, Vladimir Sarkoff reveals the role of Wall Street brokerages, the Feds, the media, and the ordinary, unsophisticated investor in the creation of the stock market bubble of the 90s and the democratization of stock ownership during that turbulent decade. An insightful and sardonic writer, Sarkoff's focus on the aftermath of the stock bubble bursting is as insightful as it is revealing. Of special note is Sarkoff's warnings that the next bubble might be forming. Vladimir Sarkoff's Bleeding Bull is highly recommended reading for anyone contemplating investing in the market or who has already engaged in the development of an investment portfolio.



The Journalism Shelf

Leaving The Reader Behind
Gene Roberts, editors
The University of Arkansas Press
201 Ozark Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72701
1557287090 $29.95 1-800-626-0090

Leaving The Reader Behind: The Age Of Corporate Newspapering surveys a generation of relentless "corporatization" that has radically transformed journalism and newspaper publishing. Unprecedented in the 300 year history of American newspapers, the blitz of buying, selling, and consolidation of newspapers has effected the industry from small town weeklies to the nationally renowned dailies. Gene Roberts (an immensely respected newspaper reporter and editor) has provided the reader with a unique and documented history that is as engaging as it is informative. Leaving The Reader Behind is essential reading for aspiring journalists and students of American newspaper publishing.



The Metaphysical Studies Shelf

Astrology On The Job
Carolyn Reynolds
Contemporary Books
Two Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10121
0-7373-0552-5 $15.95 1-800-722-4726

Astrology On The Job isn't just another astrology book; it's one with a particular focus on sun signs and personality types, and how to apply an understanding of astrology to the work environment. Chapters cover how sun and moon signs affect communication, and how to use astrology to aid in overcoming conflict on the job.

Pagan Mysteries Of Halloween
Jean Markale
Inner Traditions
Box 388, Rochester, VT 05767-3726
0-89281900-6 $14.95

Just in time for Halloween comes Pagan Mysteries Of Halloween, an informative consideration of the enduring myths surrounding the October holiday. The author has researched the roots of rituals and ceremonies surrounding Halloween: her focus on the festivals which marked the transition from the light to the dark side of the year makes for a revealing account.

Egyptian Cosmology
Moustafa Gadalla
Tehuti Research Foundation
Box 39406, Greensboro, NC 27438-9406
0965250938 $11.95 egypt-tehuti.org

Now is an expandedand and enhanced second edition, Moustafa Gadalla's Egyptian Cosmology: The Animated Universe offers the reader a an unusual and articulate introduction to the advanced and sophisticated cosmology of ancient Egypt. The metaphysics of Egyptian antiquity is coherent, comprehensive, consistent, logical, analytical, rational, and had an influence that went well beyond the borders of Egypt to influence the cultures of Rome and the western world. A native Egyptian and independent Egyptologist, Moustafa Gadalla provides the non-specialist general reader with highly recommended commentaries and insights into the Egyptian concepts of monotheistic mysticism; the description of the"Big Bang" origins of the universe as described in Egyptian texts; the numerical codes of creation; and much, much more. Egyptian Cosmology is enthusiastically recommended reading for students of Egyptology and metaphysics.

Reliance On The Light
Diane Stein
Crossing Press
Box 1048, Freedom, CA 95019
1-58091-090-4 $16.95

Blend a coverage of psychic protection plans with an overview of how to heal through psychic energy and you have Diane Stein's Reliance On The Light, a title which will appeal to both healers and lay readers. Chapters tell how to identify negative interference in lives and how to psychically protect oneself.

From The Heart
Joyce Ann Stevens
Joyce's Books
1111 Westfield Street, F-6, West Springfield, MA 01089
0970864515 $20.00

In From The Heart, Joyce Ann Stevens shares with the reader her personal experiences with angelic visitation. She writes of the spiritual and personal insights she gained from God's gifts to her, including the ability to see spirits, as well as the divine gifts of prophecy and visions. From The Heart is a remarkable compendium of wisdom that will be read with compelling interest and insight by students of metaphysics and spirituality.

Lizard Diary
Ellen Heath
Mission Books
PO Box 31492, Santa Fe, NM 87594-1492
0970490402 $15.95 1-505-466-8240

Lizard Diary is the fascinating and informative story of a shamanic transformation and thus finding a new way of being. Author Ellen Heath recounts how her spiritual metamorphosis began with a career change, a move, and meeting a magical guide that appeared in the form of a chameleon-like lizard. When the author learned how to contact the Lizard when in an altered conscious state, the two embarked on a journey to revelation and rapture. Highly recommended for students of spirituality, metaphysics, and shamanism, Lizard Diary is ultimately mystical study of reinventing oneself, in order to rise above ordinary ways of living and thinking.

Swedenborg's Dream Diary
Lars Bergquist
Swedenborg Foundation
320 North Church Street, West Chester, PA 19380
0-87785-198-0 $24.95

Swedenborg's Dream Diary is one of the earliest known records of an individual's dream life: Swedenborg not only notes his dreams, but applies observational and analytic skills to consider their interpretation - two hundred years before Freud developed his own interpretation of dreams theory. Swedenborg's Dream Diary was originally published in Sweden in 1859 and this new edition will provide new generations with timeless insights.

The Real World Of Fairies
Dora van Gelder
Quest Books
PO Box 270, Wheaton, IL 60189-0270
0835607798 $14.00 1-800-669-9425

The Real World Of Fairies relates Dora van Gelder's enchanting and joyous encounters with the fairy realm. Her gentle stories will delight, inform and entertain the reader interested in the magical, mysterious, and quite genuine world of fairies. This new and very highly recommended edition of a metaphysical classic is enhanced with a foreword by Celtic folk expert Caitlin Matthews whose own personal experiences and insightful knowledge of the fairy world contribute a fresh perspective to Dora van Gelder's intimate and personal account.



The Jobs/Careers Shelf

What Else Can I Do?
Cynthia L. Jones, et. al.
Interactive Theraputics
PO Box 1805, Stow, Ohio, 44224-0805
1931065004 $29.95 1-800-253-5111

What Else Can I Do?: Career Planning For Life is a excellent and "user friendly" book for anyone at a crossroads or a transition point in their career. It encourages the reader to look into all aspects of the self and best use who he or she is to find a career that is both personally fulfilling and of service to the world. In an age where jobs and work environments change at the drop of a hat, What Else Can I Do? is an superb primer for setting out on the path to the best possible job, future, and life.



The Musicbook Shelf

Holler If You Hear Me
Michael Eric Dyson
Basic Books
10 E. 53rd Street, New York NY 10022
0-465-01755-X $24.00

Fans of rap music in general and Tupac Shankur in particular will find this biography of the artist blends interviews with reporting as it seeks an understanding of the cultural icon's life, music, and untimely death. Of particular interest are examinations of Tupac's role as a mentor for black youth.

Sonic Boom
John Alderman
Perseus
11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
0-7382-0405-6 $26.00

What happens when rock stars fight business over copyright issues and online downloads? Sonic Boom examines the advent of Napster, the response of musicians, and the fans who have come to view access to free music as a right. Blend in assessments of new technologies and key issues of artists' rights and you have an absorbing musical and cultural history.

Trumpet Kings
Scott Yanow
Backbeat Books
600 Harrison, San Francisco CA 94107
0-87930-640-8 $22.95

Fans of jazz music in general and the trumpet in particular will appreciate this survey of the great jazz trumpeters from Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis to lesser-known players. The profiles read like fiction, providing dramatic biographical coverage of each player's life and musical abilities. An A-Z reference type approach makes this easy to quickly access.

Blues Odyssey
Bill Wyman
DK Publishing
95 Madison Avenue, New York N 10016
0-7894-8046-8 $40.00

This rich personal history of the world of blues music blends a history of the movements of blues from Africa to the US with a personal exploration of the society and places which fostered the rise of blues music. From location shots of juke joints to biographical sketches of big names in blues music, this is packed with color images which bring a far more personal touch to the subject than most.

Profiting From Your Music And Sound Studio Project
Jeffrey Fisher
Allworth Press
10 E. 23rd St. #510, New York NY 10010
1-58115-100-4 $18.95

Musicians, producers and others will learn how to set up and promote a one-stop audio soundtrack shop with the help of Profiting From Your Music And Sound Studio Project, an invaluable, "user friendly" guide which covers virtually everything from equipment to marketing and promotion. Chapters come packed with practical tips on how to gain the most profit from streamlining a music studio project.

Jazz In New Orleans
Charles Suhor
Scarecrow Press
4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706
0810839075 $45.00 1-800-462-6420

Born and raised in New Orleans, Charles Suhor draws upon his many years of experience and a wealth of friendships as a musician in this famous jazz community to present a fascinating and informative history of New Orleans jazz ranging from the postwar years down through the decade of the 70s. Jazz In New Orleans focuses on three main themes: jazz and the establishment; the traditional revival in jazz; and the mostly invisible early bebop and avant-garde movements. Suhor's essays and commentaries are as authoritative as they are insightful. Jazz In New Orleans is enthusiastically recommended reading for all students of American music in general, and the history of jazz in particular.

Welcome Rain
225 W. 35th St. #1100, NY, NY 10001

Ahmet Ertegun's What'd I Say (1-56649-048-0, $75.00) isn't for the casual lay reader of modern music history, but for the avid fan who will appreciate both the depth of approach and the attention to color and detail which is contained in this history of Atlantic Records and its artists. An oversize format lends to beautiful color and black and white photos, while chapters provide revealing insights into the musicians and their performances. Ravi Shankar's autobiography Raga Mala (104-5, $25.00) deserves ongoing mention as an exceptional blend of personal insights and photos and documents from personal archives. Indian sitar player Shankar has led a rich and moving life; his coverage documents his many interactions with other musicians as well as his own life.



The International Studies Shelf

Irrigating India
Sol Resnick
Printstar Books
5630 N. Lake Drive, Suite 200, Milwaukee, WI 53217
0970653131 $12.95 1-800-304-3269

Irrigating India: My Five Years As A USAID Advisor is the story of Sol Resnick, a USAID advisor who served faithfully in India from 1952 to 1957, as told in his own worlds to Elaine Minow Resnick. Sol Resnick, a civil and agricultural engineer, worked hard to help make the basic human needs of food and water stable and attainable to a populace that was previously at the bitter mercy of the annual rainfall. He would later look on that time as the best five years of his life. Heartwarming, inspiring, and highly recommended to students of international studies as well as the modern history and agricultural development of India.



The Social Issues Shelf

Death In The Air
Leonard G. Horowitz
Tetrahedron Publishing Group
206 North 4th Avenue, Suite 147, Sandpoint, ID 83864
0923550305 $29.95 1-208-265-2575

Death In The Air: Globalism, Terrorism And Toxic Warfare is a timely and much needed contribution to our present national dialogue. Leonard Horowitz surveys and explains the widespread abuses in the field of public health; the links between globalism and genocide; new concepts in "non-lethal" biological and chemical warfare; the controversial "chemtrails" issue; advances in electromagnet methods of population management; the documented targeting of African Americans for genocide by intelligence organizations; and the instigators of globalism with their use of coercion and terrorism in the world today. Informative, controversial, iconoclastic, Death In The Air is very highly recommended reading offering a provocative and thoughtful perspective on the political, economic, and cultural conflicts active in the world today.



The Antiques/Collectibles Shelf

Warman's Sports Collectibles
Tom Mortenson
Krause Publications
700 East State St., Iola, WI 54990
0-87349-247-1 $21.95

With Warman's Sports Collectibles, fans of specific sports as well as overall collectors of sports memorabilia receive an excellent guide to the finer art of sports collecting, with values accompanying black and white photos of the pieces. From yearbooks to boxing memorabilia, the collectibles are organized both by sport and type, making Warman's Sports Collectibles easy to refer quickly to for a variety of memorabilia.

Collector Books
Box 3009, Paducah, KY 42002-3009

Schroeder's Antiques Price Guide edited by Sharon & Bob Huxford (1-57432-258-3, $14.95) appears in its 20th updated edition. This 'Bible' of antiques prices identifies and values over 50,000 antiques and collectibles from toys and furniture to glassware and photos. Use this as an updated valuation resource more than an identification guide: while it lacks the color embellishments of narrower price guides, it does provide historical introductions, dates, and text descriptions which allow for easy initial identification. Quite narrow indeed is Earlene Wheatley's Collectible Glass Shoes (216-8, $24.95), which appears in its second edition to cover shoes from metal and pottery to porcelain. Clear color photos of all collectible glass show styles highlight the many different collectible varieties. Carol O. Burns' Northwood Carnival Glass 1908-1925 (254-0, $19.95) is organized by pattern which makes it easy to locate different carnival glass styles. Color photos of all types of patterns and styles make for an excellent, recommended guide. Candace Davis & Patricia Baugh's Treasury Of Scottie Dog Collectibles V. 3 (230-3, $24.95) provides a very specific reference for any who collect this particular dog's memorabilia, from clocks to paperweights and stamps. Color photos for each collectible accompany values insights.



The Audiobook Shelf

The Audio Partners
1133 Hight Street, Auburn, CA 95603

Four excellent audios provide strong, unabridged recordings of popular writers' works. Nagio Marsh's Night At The Vulcan (1-57270-165-X, $29.95) receives James Saxon's fine acting skills as it tells of a theater's opening and the sudden death of the leading man. It's up to Scotland Yard inspector Alleyn to solve the mystery. Georgette Heyer's Unfinished Clue (201-X, $29.95) provides an excellent story line, powered by Clifford Norgate's ability to bring Heyer's mix of humor and mystery to life. An arrogant man's murder involves Inspector Harding with too many suspects. G.K. Chesterton's Scandal Of Father Brown (181-1, $24.95) blends John Graham's drama background and vocal skills with the story of amateur sleuth Father Brown's solutions to problems. A host of complete short stories provide plenty of unexpected twists and turns. Agatha Christie's N OR M? (210-9, $24.95) pairs actor James Warwick's powerful voice with a spy story grounded in World War II experiences. All are superior recordings and stories.

Time Warner Audio
1271 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020

Fans of either abridged or unabridged recordings will appreciate the simultaneous issues of Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age in abridged form (1-58621-112-9, $24.98) or unabridged (114-5, $49.98): both narrated by Jennifer Wiltsie, whose smooth voice brings to life the science fiction tale set in a future Shanghai, where high technology falls into the hands of a street urchin and changes her world and humanity. Stephenson's Snow Crash also appears abridged (111-0, $24.98) and unabridged (113-7), with Jonathan Davis creating a memorable reading of a story of a pizza delivery boy who's really a warrior prince on the trail of a computer virus. Unexpected settings and twists make this exceptional. J.F. Friedman's Bird's Eye View (097-1, $24.98) is presented abridged with Gregory Harrison's television acting skills contributing to the story of an isolated man who observes illegal activity and a string of murders. All feature unusual plots and absorbing narrators.

Simon & Schuster Audio
1230 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020

Five new presentations assure leisure listeners will have plenty to involve them. Faye Kellerman's Forgotten (0-671-58271-2, $25.00) receives Dennis Boutsikarts' evocative style as it tells of Rina and Peter's confrontation with anti-Semitic threats. Murder involves them all on a personal level. Linda Howard's Open Season (0471-2, $25.00) receives Kate Forbes' smooth style as it tells of Daisy, a bored small-town librarian on a makeover kick - and the target of a killer. Robert Tanenbaum's Enemy Within (0765-7, $26.00) receives Lee Sellars' powerful voice as it tells of a New York murder and a serial killer. The multi-faceted, complex story comes alive under Sellars' voice. Stephen King's LT's Theory Of Pets (2004-1, $15.00) enjoys a live narration by the author as it presents an odd short story of a vanished wife and a pet. Gary Pomerantz's Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds (0591-3, $26.00) provides interviews with survivors of a plane crash, from the moments of terror to the events beyond. All are fine choices.

Uproar Entertainment
3663 Twin Lake Ridge, Westlake Village, CA 91361

This publisher's many comedy audios features both old hands and new stand-up comedians and stage personalities, and will prove welcome acquisitions for any library looking to strengthen its diversity in contemporary comedy holdings. George Burns' 100 Years, 100 Stories (1-929243-19-7) features Burns' personal favorite stories of the events which influenced his comedy career. There's plenty of laughter and typical Burns wit. Heidi Joyce's Comedy Stand Up Against Domestic Violence V. 2 (32-4) gathers 13 of Los Angeles' funny women, from the compiler herself to Jackie Hashian, Roz Browne, and others. While non-residents may not recognize the names, they surely will appreciate the local humor and commentary on world and social affairs. Denis Leary's Comics Come Home VI (33-2) is also a benefit for the Neely Cancer Fund and provides skits by Eddie Brill, Dane Cook, Jay Mohr and more. Many of all ages will relish Love, Groucho (22-7), which features letters from Groucho to his daughter Miriam as performed by Frank Ferrante. The ups and downs of his life are recounted with both humor and reflection in this autobiography presentation. John Pinette's Show Me The Buffet (18-9) presents the round man's best weight-oriented skits and will appeal to any who are fascinated by food. Kate Clinton's Read These Lips (25-1) is racy and feminist and funny all at once: here are five outrageous skits which remind the listener of a modern Belle Barth, with an attitude. Gilbert Esquivel's Just Representin (35-9) comments on Mexicans, white folks, ghettos and outrageous urban living: any living in an urban world will appreciate the humor. Margaret Cho's Drunk With Power (12-X) features an unusual blend of Asian/American commentary/humor and social reflection, with fifteen skits presenting some eye-opening details. All are soothing to the soul if not revealing and startling.

Blackstone Audio
Box 969, Ashland, OR 97520

These new audio additions are outstanding choices for discriminating leisure listeners. Charles Portis' Norwood (0-7861-9721-8, $32.00) comes on 4 cds and provides an excellent novel set in New York. A man becomes involved on a wild vehicle journey which will change his life; with reader Barrett Whitener adding to the drama. Donna Leon's Acqua Alta (9568-1, $64.00) comes on 8 cds and allows for easy bookmarking as it tells of Brett, who has suffered a savage beating, and the friend which investigates the attack and subsequent murder. Anna Fields does an excellent narration. James W. Huston's Fallout (9570-3, $96.00) provides an excellent narration by Adams Morgan, who brings to life this gripping thriller of a man who begins an aerial combat school only to find his students involved in domestic terrorism - too close to home, almost. Ann Patchett's Bel Canto (9731-5, $80.00) is enhanced by Fields' excellent voice as it tells of a lavish birthday party invaded by terrorists. Michael DiMercurio's Threat Vector (1997-7, $83.95) enjoys a powerful narration by Adams Morgan who brings to life this story of a submarine commander with a special mission to wreck international havoc with its new weapon. For a taste of real life, turn to Debra Koontz Traverso's Outsmarting Goliath (1996-9, $44.95), narrated by Fields and telling of the paradox in which customers retain a flighty brand loyalty easily changed by influence. The small business starter can use this to his advantage, the account advises. All are excellent.

Bantam Audio
1540 Broadway, New York NY 10036

John Irving's The Forth Hand (0-375-41895-4, $39.95) enjoys an excellent unabridged narrative style by Jason Culp as it tells of a reporter who has his hand eaten by a lion, and faces a revolutionary new transplant and the intentions of a married woman who wants to donate her living husband's hand. High drama here. Suze orman narrates her own Road To Wealth (52837-8, $24.95) as she explores the basics of understanding money and its management. Diana Gabaldon's Dragonfly In Amber (0-553-71451-1, $29.95) and Outlander (71453-8, $31.95 both appear in audio cd format, with Geraldine James providing the dramatic narration to these time-travel novels. In Outlander, the first, a 1945 woman is transported to war-time Scotland in 1743. She makes her way home but returns to the past and romance in Dragonfly In Amber, where a country's health is at stake. Both are powerful accounts. Sue Grafton's E Is For Evidence (41842-3, $23.95) receives Judy Kaye's excellent style as it provides a Kinsey Millhone mystery revolving around a wealthy family, a junkie ex-husband, and murder. These are all exceptional leisure listens.

Putnam Berkeley Audio
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014

Take your pick of listening formats and even readers with the simultaneous publication of three versions of Clive Cussler's classic Dirk Pitt novel Valhalla Rising. Scott Brick narrates the unabridged cassette version (0-399-14818-3, $49.95), which revolves around the sinking of a luxury cruise ship in 2003, and Pitt's confrontation with mystery and monsters. Ron McLarty narrates the abridged audio cd version (14817-5, $29.95), and also the abridged cassette version (14816-7, $24.95). All invite listeners to enjoy Cussler's action magic.



The Library CD Music Shelf

Edge Of The Century
R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo-Ute)
Canyon Records
3131 West Clarendon Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85017
CD $TBA 1-800-268-1141

In Edge Of The Century, R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo Ute) combines his performance of the Native American flute as well as the trumpet, percussion, and vocals with Amo Chip Dabney (African/Native American/European), who contributes his own style of percussion, vocals, saxophones, guitar, and synthesizer. The result is a musical blend of Native American and other ethnic music, with elements of urban rhythm and classic jazz. All twelve songs are unique, original compositions by artists who refuse to remain entrenched by traditional boundaries. The music and title of Edge Of The Century relate to a common creative theme: the end of the old century and the beginning of the new. Excellent and engrossing listening.

Ray: Ethereal Journey
Ray Leonard
Ray Leonard Records
25531 Crocket Lane, Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381
RLR 42001-2 $15.98 1-800-887-1140

Ray: Ethereal Journey offers what contemporary instrumental recording artist Ray Leonard describes as "melodic ambient" music that brings synthesizer compositions to a whole new level. The compositions showcased in this remarkable and memorable collection include Great Beast of Wisdom; Deep Cavern; Seventh Journey; Enchanted; Sacrifice; Thusness; Prophecies; Doha; Tara; The Holiness; and Inseparable Universe. Ray: Ethereal Journey is an enthusiastically recommended addition to any New Age CD music collection.



The Architecture Shelf

The Victorian Home In America
John Maass
Dover Publications
31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501
0486412520 $16.95 1-800-223-3130

Over two hundred black and white illustrations blends an architectural survey with a history of Victorian times from 1840-1900, examining the many styles of town and country homes of the times and describing both interiors and exteriors. The Victorian Home In America presents fascinating architectural coverage.

Boldt Castle
Paul Malo
Syracuse University Press
1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210
0966972902 $19.95 1-800-365-8929

Written with precise research and personal flair by Paul Malo (architectural historian and professor emeritus at Syracuse University), Boldt Castle: In Search Of The Lost Story contains the history of its title's namesake, which is a castle on the border of New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario. The magnificent mansion of Boldt Castle attracts millions of visitors from both sides of the international border, and its tragic history, including the premature death of Luisa Boldt, is the source of a wealth of folklore. Boldt Castle: In Search Of The Lost Story contains numerous interviews with Boldt family members and associates, creating an excellent primary reference to the history of this fascinating architectural structure.

Moving To Commercial Construction
Stephen S. Saucerman
Craftsman Book Company
6058 Corte del Cedro, Carlsbad CA 92009
1572181036 $42.00 1-800-829-8123

In Moving To Commercial Construction, commercial construction estimator and project manager Stephen Saucerman draws upon his many years of experience and expertise to present a complete introduction and instruction guide for those seeking to move from residential to commercial construction -- along with all the forms needed to keep track of commercial work. A "user friendly" text is augmented with an accompanying CD-ROM and detailed guidelines for deciding the size and scope of the intended commercial business; using networks, services and organizations to find work; understanding the complexities of the commercial bid process; organizing subcontracting and supplier bids; compiling an accurate estimate and presenting a bid; getting through the submittal and shop drawing process; working with owners, architects, subcontractors, suppliers, and employees; controlling business and construction overhead costs; marketing tools, trade shows; customer presentations and advertising; and dealing with local and governmental requirements affecting a commercial construction business. For anyone considering transforming their operation into a full fledged commercial construction company, Stephen Saucerman's Moving To Commercial Construction is an essential reference.



The Fantasy/SciFi Shelf

Visions Of Spaceflight
Frederick Ordway III
Four Walls Eight Windows
39 West 14th St. #503, NY, NY 10011
1-56858-181-5 $50.00

Author Ordway's absorption with rockets and spaceflight began before NASA even existed: he was one of the first to work in the space industry and assembled a beautiful collection of images relating to astronautics and rockets. Five centuries of spaceflight images are presented here, in a stunning collection of both real rockets and illustrations of imagined creations. Many a science buff as well as science fiction fans will find Visions Of Spaceflight fascinating.

Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
Ace Books
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014
0-441-00835-6 $23.95

Fans of space opera will find this author's first novel is far-ranging. The mysterious disappearance of an alien species millions of years before human arrival doesn't concern most new colonists, but Dan is convinced it's important - and his investigations threaten his life. Mingle a mystery with drama set on another world and you have a fast-paced, involving story.

TOR Books
175- 5th Avenue, New York NY 10010

Brian Lumley's imposing Necroscope: Avengers (0-312-87923-7, $25.95) requires a lengthy introduction be read, and newcomers may find it a challenge to enter without prior familiarity with the ever-changing Necroscope series about alien vampire invasions into human realms. Those with such background will relish this latest book, which details Jake's struggle with the vampire inhabitant of his mind. Harry also returns in this satisfyingly complex story with its signature twists and turns unique to Lumley's writings. Paul McAuley's Secret Of Life (30080-X, $25.95) is set in 2026, when a strange organism growing in the ocean may threaten the entire food chain. It's possibly extraterrestrial in origin, and it's also up to Dr. Anders to journey to Mars to discover the secret of the slick. Tense action, twists, and exceptional characterization keep this nicely written, intriguing, fast-paced and logical. Jack Williamson's Terraforming Earth (87200-3, $24.95) provides the unusual story of ongoing threats to humanity's longevity and the perseverance of cloned humans who live on the moon tended by computers who produce new generations each time humanity threatens to die out. An excellent story of a massive effort to repopulate a doomed world.

Here Comes Civilization
William Tenn
NESFA
Box 809, Framingham, MA 01701
1-886778-28-0 $29.00

Fans of Tenn's writings will relish this second volume adding to the complete science fiction of the satirical works of one Philip Klass. Many of the stories only appeared one time before in other magazines: this provides over thirty short stories which are funny, revealing and pointed.

Doctor Who: Regeneration
Philip Segal & Gary Russell
HarperCollins UK/Trafalgar Square
PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257
0-00-710591-6 $29.95 1-800-423-4525

In 1996 over nine million Britains tuned in to watch the new Dr. Who science fiction TV show. Doctor Who: Regeneration charts the show's history and its newly revamped appearance, providing insights into television politics and the challenges involved in returning Dr. Who to new audiences. Prior fans of the series will consider this a keepsake packed with fine color photos.

Baen Books
1230 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020

Robert Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon (0-671-31836-5, $17.00) paints a picture of a Utopia which contains one bored man: the end result of thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton amy be the ultimate man, but he sees no purpose in either his life or human ways - until a band of revolutionaries against the new utopia change his life. An intriguing concept. William Keith Jr. and Keith Laumer's Bolo Strike (31835-7, $19.00) provides military science fiction at its best, telling of a shadowy species which enslaves others with the promise of immortality. When a space war begins, a trap leads Colonel Stricher into some dangerous confrontations and deadly decisions.

The Mutant Files
Martin Greenberg & John Helfers
DAW Books
375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014
0-7564-0004-X $6.99

These very different stories of mutants with different abilities provide involving, unusual accounts which focus as much upon the mutant's perception of his humanity as his strengths. Especially notable and moving: Nye's 'Rite of Passage', in which an exiled mutant prison ship is saved by its prisoners' unique abilities; and DuBois' 'In the Dark Valley', of a woman who returns to an unknown home and a strange past.

The Seven Isles Of Ameulas
Casey Fahy
iUniverse.com, Inc.
5220 South 16th Street, #200, Lincoln, NE 68512-1274
0595191614 $22.95 iuniverse.com

Author Casey Fahy takes the reader into an enhanced world of romance and high adventure as a young man with god-like powers inherits both a kingdom and a curse. What he loves most will be his doom. The Seven Isles Of Ameulas is an exhilarating, sweeping, sophisticated fantasy of a man's struggle against fate for the sake of true love. This debut fantasy adventure showcases a genuine narrative talent and will leave readers looking eagerly toward's Casey Fahy's next epic novel!

Orphans Of The Sky
Robert A. Heinlein
Stealth Press
336 College Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603
1588810070 $26.95 stealthpress.com

Written by celebrated master of science fiction Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans Of The Sky is the very highly recommended and engaging story of a self-contained human microcosm upon an interstellar spaceship, long after the world that created humans met its doom. Yet when Hugh Hoyland uncovers the secret of the Ship, the discovery could spell oblivion for all. An entrancing saga of an evolving civilization drifting among the galaxies, Orphans Of The Sky is the very essence of a classic science fiction story: taking a futuristic premise and drawing it to its coldly logical conclusion.

Stories For An Enchanted Afternoon
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Golden Gryphon Press
3002 Perkins Road, Urbana, IL 61802
1930846029 $24.95 1-800-888-4741

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has authored more than fifty novels, won numerous awards, and is an effective, talented, and experienced storyteller. Stories For An Enchanted Afternoon showcases her best short fiction in the field of science fiction and will serve to introduce her to a whole new generation of readers. The stories comprising this outstanding anthology include: Skin Deep; Echea; Coolhunting; Going Native; Millennium Babies; Harvest; Strange Creatures; Monuments to the Dead; Spirit Guides; Burial Detail; and The Gallery of His Dreams. Augmented with a foreword by science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson, Kristine Rusch's Stories For An Enchanted Afternoon truly lives up to its title!



The Health/Medicine Shelf

Consumer Guide To Medical Tests
Simeon Margolis, M.D.
Johns Hopkins Publications
632 Broadway, New York NY 10012
0-929661-63-X $39.95 1-800-537-5487

Dr. Simeon Margolis' Consumer Guide To Medical Tests provides a detailed overview of the latest medical tests; from what to expect from them to how to interpret results. Unusual in this presentation are general costs, and tips on special health care requirements after the test.

ER
Joel Cohen, MD
New Horizon Press
PO Box 669, Far Hills, NJ 07931
0882822055 $14.95 1-800-533-7978

Hospital emergency rooms are typically understaffed, overstuffed, and manned with inexperienced doctors and nurses rendering them potentially hazardous to patients. This is the persuasively argued premise of Dr. Joel Cohen's ER: Enter At Your Own Risk. Dr. Cohen goes on to recommend a solid plain of action to avoid real and perceived dangers inside contemporary hospital emergency rooms that will enable non-specialist general readers on how to get treated by experts rather than the inept; how to provide children with the best care; and how to decide when and where to seek emergency professional care. ER is a welcome and invaluable compendium of sound advice in dealing with doctors and medical personnel on call so that when an emergency strikes, they will have all the facts and strategies in hand for being healed and not harmed in a hospital emergency room environment.

Your Genetic Destiny
Aubrey Milunsky, MD
Perseus Publishing
11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
0738203777 $27.50 1-800-242-7737

This informed family health guide discusses the health implications of genetic disorders in a family history, drawing on the latest research and findings to discuss genetic predispositions to common ailments, tests available for identification, and when to seek genetic counseling. Your Genetic Destiny is an excellent and informative guide to the latest findings about how genetics influence health.

How To Sleep Soundly Tonight
Barbara Heller
Storey Books
105 Schoolhouse Rd., Pownal, VT 05261
1-58017-314-4 $8.95 1-800-722-7202

Whether sleep problems are intermittent or chronic, author Heller provides over two hundred easy, effective, and highly recommended techniques ranging from simple exercises and easy recipes for sleep-inducing foods to useful herbal baths and productive room sprays in How To Sleep Soundly Tonight. Some approaches, such as visualization and bedtime sleep rituals, may be familiar to any who have struggled with this problem; other suggestions, such as the recipes for herbal baths, are unique in How To Sleep Soundly Tonight. If you suffer from insomnia or other sleep related difficulties, read Barbara Heller's How To Sleep Soundly Tonight.

Aging As A Shared Journey
Monteen Lucas, PhD, CNS, RN
Health Positive! Inc.
1510 E. 1584 Road, Lawrence, KS 66046
0965869016 $22.95 1-785-843-5884

Monteen Lucas, the author of Aging As A Shared Journey: A Guide For Healthy Aging, is a professional who has spent 25 years as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and psychotherapist. Aging as a Shared Journey is about learning to cope with the pitfalls of aging, sickness, loss, and death in relationships. With illustrative anecdotes, poems, years of experience, and psychological terminology explained so that a lay person can easily understand, Aging As A Shared Journey is a crucial, life-affirming self-help guide that offers comfort and wisdom in the face of forces greater than any human. Highly recommended reading for anyone concerned with avoiding or minimizing the physical and emotional health problems typically associated with the aging process.



The Travel Shelf

Departures And Arrivals
Eric Newby
The Lyons Press
123 West 18 St., New York NY 10011
1585742244 $22.95 1-800-836-0510

In Departures And Arrivals, British writer Newby and world traveller Eric newby describes his latest travel adventures with a gift for irony and description: here his experiences in Calabria, with canal travels, and in Beijing capture the vivid peoples and personalities he encounters. An excellent armchair read.

A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Tizian Terzani
Harmony Books
299 Park Avenue, New York Ny 10171
0-609-60841-X $23.00

In 1976 a Hong Kong fortune teller warned Italian journalist Terzani not to travel by plane in 1993: when the year approached, the journalist chose instead to make his reports via foot. A Fortune-Teller Told Mes relates how he chose to live for that year, his consultations with other fortune-tellers about his future, and his investigations into Asian cultures. A rich, riveting story.

Eat Smart In Morocco
Joan Peterson
Ginkgo Press, Inc.
Box 5346, Madison, WI 53705-0346
0964116863 $12.95 ginkgopress.com

Eat Smart In Morocco is the latest addition to Joan Peterson's superb series of travel guides for the culinarily adventurous. This time the focus in on Moroccan cuisine and is as much fun to browse through as it is to cook from, -- or to plan a trip with The reader/traveler will learn how to decipher Moroccan menus, learn about Moroccan market places, and add exotic Moroccan dishes to their dining and meal preparing repertoires. The informative and lively text is enhanced with a chapter devoted to such resources as mail-order suppliers of Moroccan foods, tours and travel agencies, and thematically useful organizations. There is also a chapter on "Helpful Phrases" including phrases for ordering in restaurants and shopping in food markets. The "Menu Guide" section lists menu entries in transliterated Moroccan Arabic with English translations. A "Food and Flavors Guide" provides the reader with a comprehensive glossary for ingredients, kitchen utensils, and cooking methods. If you are planning a trip to this fabulous North African country, begin with reading Joan Peterson's Eat Smart In Morocco!

Hidden Canada
Norman Ravvin
Red Deer Press
Box 5005, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, T4N 5H5
0889952264 $18.95 1-800-663-5714

Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue reveals a vast, story-filled country where travel author Norman Ravvin showcases unexpected experiences and delights of anecdotal and documented histories, places, and people. Ravvin combines all the best qualities of a research journalist, animated storyteller, sharp-eyed archeologist, and intuitive historian to present seven major chapters showcasing vanished ways of Canadian life and a still observable Canadian present.

Hidden Highways Arizona
Richard Harris
Ulysses Press
Box 3440, Berkeley, CA 94703-3440
1-56975-233-8 $14.95

Enjoy Hidden Highways Arizona, an almost pocket-sized paperback which covers all the ghost towns, canyons, and back roads of the state of Arizona, with a map-oriented approach packing in almost fifty maps and written descriptions providing both insights of the natural and man-made attractions and histories of each area. Add black and white photos and you have a practical take-along tote.

Mexico By RV
Kathy Olivas
SunSeeker Publications
1970 North Leslie Avenue, Suite 2003, Pahrump, NV 89060
0971193622 $19.95 1-702-498-2612

Mexico By RV is a user friendly, step-by-step, "how to" guide to traveling and exploring through Mexico in a Recreational Vehicle. There is invaluable and experienced advice on crossing the border, vehicle and medical insurances, driving Mexican highway systems, negotiating an RV through city traffic, communications, money, RV Parks, buying groceries and eating out, health services, assistance with mechanical problems, and itinerary suggestions (complete with information as to routes, mileages, and travel time). If you are anticipating traveling and vacationing in Mexico with an RV, begin your planning with a thorough reading of Kathy Olivas' Mexico By RV!

Hunter Publishing
130 Campus Drive, Edison, NJ 08818

The third edition of Lynn & Ed Readicker-Henderson's Alaska Highway (1-58843-117-7, $17.95) provides an updated guide to outdoors opportunities in the rugged state, from roadside stop-offs along the highway to descriptions of the parks, trails, and shortcuts around areas. Tips on notable back-roads stops are particularly well done. Paris Permenter and John Bigley's Romantic Escapes In The Caribbean (914-6, $15.95) focuses on small pieces of paradise geared to honeymoons or anniversary celebrations. From local festivals and wedding spot choices to romantic activities, chapters cover everything from recommended romantic restaurants to exceptional beaches.



The World History Shelf

Born In Blood And Fire
John Charles Chasteen
W.W. Norton
500 - 5th Ave., New York NY 10110
0-393-05048-3 $26.95 1-800-233-4830

Born In Blood And Fire is a superbly presented and concise history of Latin America which covers six centuries and twenty countries, linking accounts of individuals, economics, politics and social structure in a uniform, logical progression of events which will delight both general readers and students seeking an introduction to the region's history. Chapters provide many insights on Latin issues in the process of revealing the history of different nations. Born In Blood And Fire is an invaluable introduction and survey for students of Latin American history.

Dreaming Of Cockaigne
Herman Pleij
Columbia University Press
61 West 62nd Street, NY, NY 10023-7015
0231117027 $35.00 1-800-944-8648

Written by a professional lecturer of Dutch historical literature, Herman Pleij's Dreaming Of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies Of The Perfect Life is a meticulously researched and superbly presented history of the medieval fantasy paradise of Cockaigne, a dream world noticeably more accessible than the more exclusive heavenly afterlife. Ably translated into English by Diane Webb, this compendium of actual stories and artwork provide rich reference for the legend of Cockaigne; black and white illustrations add depth to Dreaming Of Cockaigne's extensive historical account of the myths people held. Numerous appendixes, a bibliography, and an index round out this scholarly, comprehensive, and strongly recommended study.

The Welsh King And His Court
T.M. Charles-Edwards, et al.
Cardiff/University of Wales Press
c/o Paul & Company Publishers
814 North Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610
0708316271 $65.00 1-800-888-4741

Aptly edited by the collective efforts of T.M. Charles-Edwards, Morfydd M. Owen, and Paul Russell, The Welsh King And His Court is a massive compendium of essays filled with meticulous discourse of the Welsh royal household and the governmental roles of those officers charged with upkeep of horses, sleeping quarters, meals, etc. Primary source texts are presented in English translation, and the essays are written at a college reading level. The Welsh King And His Court is a scholarly text that combines deep thought with multi-level analysis of historical politics. An intriguing and recommended historical study, with a very helpful glossary, abbreviation list and index.

Ukraine: A History
Orest Subtelny
University of Toronto Press
10 St. Mary St., Suite 700, Toronto, ON, M4Y 2W8, Canada
0802083900 $40.00 1-800-565-9523

First published in 1988, Orest Subtelny's Ukraine: A History has again been newly updated in a third edition. This 736 page volume spans from the earliest times to the modern day, covering everything from ancient Greek colonization to the recent Ukraine diaspora. Orest Subtelny (Professor of History and Political Science at York University) goes into extreme depth and detail with a text that is significantly enhanced with maps, tables, and the occasional black-and-white photograph. Highly recommended for its lucidity, meticulous attention to detail, and scholarly precision, Ukraine: A History is a "must" for anyone who wants to learn about this fascinating land and its people.

Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History
Benjamin Stora
Cornell University Press
512 E. State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
0801437156 $35.00 1-800-666-2211

Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History directly addresses the history and root causes of the deadly, long-term civil war that has killed at least 80,000 people out of this nation of 28 million. Written with painstaking detail about the 1954-1962 Algerian civil war and the nation's history since its independence, Algeria 1830-2000 features college-level narration and analysis supplemented by tables, a very convenient acronym list, a 26-page chronology, and an index. Benjamin Stora (Professor of History at the University of Paris, Saint Denis) has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and revised the final section with up-to-date information, making Algeria 1830-2000 a clear, detailed, rigorously factual, and up-to-date account of this troubled nation from 1830 down to the present day.



The Gardening Shelf

Wild Berries Of The West
Betty Derig & Margaret C. Fuller
Mountain Press Publishing Company
Box 2399, Missoula, MT 59806
0878424334 $16.00 1-800-234-5308

Mimi Osborne illustrates Wild Berries Of The West, a comprehensive, "user friendly" guide to over a hundred berries and fruits of the western U.S. Color photos pack a guide which includes tips on both medicinal and culinary use, Native American lore, and berry history and cultivation. An excellent, practical reference.

Minnesota Gardens
Susan Davis Price
Afton Historical Society Press
PO Box 100, Afton, MN 55001
0963933833 $49.00 1-800-436-8443

Gardening on the Minnesota prairie had its origins with the advent of pioneer homesteads in the 1840s. Because of the climate (especially the severe and extended winters), prospects for horticulture were grim. But in the following 150 years, Minnesota saw the development of estate gardens whose beauty and opulence would rival those of Europe, and who public landscapes would be numbered among the best America had to offer. Hundreds of new plant varieties, a flourishing seed industry, and gardens of all kinds and sizes would extend to every corner of Minnesota. In Minnesota Gardens: An Illustrated History, reference librarian and dedicated gardener Susan Price has drawn upon original sources (including old newspaper accounts, diaries, historic photos, and interviews) to showcase Minnesota gardening past and present in the first comprehensive and superbly illustrated history of the subject that is enthusiastically recommended for the all gardening enthusiasts -- and would serve as an admirable template for similar works celebrating the history of regional gardening anywhere else in the nation.

Botany In A Day
Thomas Elpel
HOPS Press
12 Quartz St., Pony, MT 59747
1-892784-07-6 $19.95

Most plant books cover a few hundred species: Botany In A Day covers over 100 plant families and over 700 genera, from edible plants to medicinal plants, providing a focus on herbal plant families which users will find easy and important. No color photos; black and white line drawings serve as the illustration for descriptions which are detailed, from the plant's appearance to the author's experiences using the plant in applications. Botany In A Day is simply packed with information and an invaluable reference for aspiring gardeners and neophyte horticulturalists.

The Illustrated Rhododendron
Pat Halliday
Timber Press
133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland OR 97204-3527
0881925101 $69.95 1-800-327-5680

With its 120 color illustrations and four line drawings, Pat Halliday (on the staff of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, from 1947 to 1990 and an experienced rhododendron expert horticulturalist) offers a superbly organized and presented contribution to the literature of rhododendrons. A veritable showcase of botanical art, each of the exquisite color engravings are drawn from the pages of "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" or "Kew Magazine". The species is presented within the conceptual framework of Halliday's own personal choice of classification systems and she updates the information that accompanied the original historical plates throughout the Botanical Magazine's 213 years of publication. A personal selection rather than an encyclopedic volume, Halliday's descriptions comprising The Illustrated Rhododendron are nonetheless informative, thorough, experienced, and professional. Highly recommended, essential reading for gardeners and horticulturalists with an interest in the species, Pat Halliday's informative overview of the cultivation requirements for the rhododendron is especially recommended.

Houghton Mifflin
215 Park Avenue, New York NY 10003

These two gardening guides in the "Taylor's Guides" series pair a known gardening name with beautiful color embellishment and facts about cultivation which gardeners will appreciate. Barbara W. Ellis' Bulbs (0-618-06890-2, $23.00) covers facts ranging from the best cultivars of hardy bulbs to which bulbs bloom by particular season, and how to propagate bulbs. Color photos abound. Susan A. Roth's Trees (06889-9, $23.00) discusses over 200 genera and 350 species of shade trees and ornamentals, from the best for spring bloom or fall color to trees which will thrive across different weather conditions in North America. The color photos are outstanding in these practical gardener's guides.



The Human Sexuality Shelf

Don't Be Afraid To Dance
Jay Brock
Dorrance Publishing Company
643 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2505
080595001X $10.00 1-800-788-7654

Don't Be Afraid To Dance is a slim book wich provides the shy man with a guide to dating and sex, using the author's own experiences as a foundation for showing how to win attention and develop a process for meaningful discovery. Exercises at the end of each chapter encourage self-reflection and knowledge.

Wired Not Weird
Christy Clement and Kay McLean
Synergetic Publications
Box 792, Goodlettsville, TN 37070-0792
0963224891 $9.95 wirednotweird.com

Wired Not Weird: A Woman's Guide To Dating Online begins with a ominous disclaimer: the reader must assume all responsibility for personal decisions or actions, regardless of whether they are influenced by reading this book. It is an unfortunate consequence of our unpredictable, sometimes dangerous, and unquestionably litigious society that such a warning must be so boldly declared, but the disclaimer also doubles as sound advice for life in general. Wired Not Weird dares to tackle a subject that is at best made light of in vapid comedy movies, at worst demonized with horror stories: online dating. Collaboratively written by Christy Clement and Kay McLean as a guide specifically for women, Wired Not Weird incorporates personal anecdotes, a hefty dose of common sense, and simple, easy-to-understand advice and strategies about what to expect, what to stay away from, and what to say or not say during the first meeting in person. Wired Not Weird's suggestions are also directly relevant to placing personal ads in the newspapers, which is basically the low-tech local equivalent of using the Internet to look for a date. Wired Not Weird is highly entertaining, with plenty of appraising observations to carefully consider -- even if you're not interested in using the Internet to find love.

Let's Talk Marriage
F. Dean Lueking
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
255 Jefferson Avenue, S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49503
0802849040 $10.00 1-800-253-7521

Let's Talk Marriage: A Guide For Couples Preparing To Marry focuses on the role of communication in married life. Dean Lueking (visiting professor at Lutheran Seminary, Bratislava, Slovakia and retired from the pastorate at Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, Illinois) offers affirmation appropriate to couples who are already confident in their relationship but require some degree of practical assistance in getting at the touchier issues of marital relationships often difficult to address directly. Replete with questions and comments designed to help a couple begin conversations which will reveal personal interests and need, Let's Talk Marriage also surveys and discusses the physical side of married life while providing insights into the benefits of basing a marriage upon shared spiritual values. Let's Talk Marriage is strongly recommended, practical, and insightful reading for anyone planning to enter the life-long bonds of matrimony.



The American History Shelf

A History Of The Mesilla Valley, 1903
Maude Elizabeth McFie (Bloom)
Yucca Tree Press
2130 Hixon Drive, Las Cruces, NM 88005
1881325334 $8.95 yuccatree.com

The McFie family were active in the history of Mesilla Valley, New Mexico. In 1903, Maude Elizabeth McFie (Bloom) as a senior at New Mexico A&M, and for her regional history drew from original interviews with the men and women who settled in the Dona Ana Bend Colony Grant (and the other grants in the Valley), members of the Missouri Volunteers who marched south through the Valley to El Paso in order to participate in the Battle of Brazito, the California Column which arrived in the Mesilla Valley during the Civil War and remained to settle. Edited by Lansing B. Bloom with annotations by Jo Tice bloom, A History Of The Mesilla Valley, 1903 is a small gem of regional history made available for a new generations of readers. It is as engaging as it is informative, and would aptly serve as a model for similar histories for other parts of the American southwest.

Voices From The Gathering Storm
Glenn M. Linden
Scholarly Resources
104 Greenhill Av., Wilmington, DE 19805
0-8420-2999-0 $19.95 1-800-772-8937

Voices From The Gathering Storm isn't another survey of the Civil War itself, but a focus on the coming of the Civil War and the changes in thinking which preceded the event, from 1846-1861. What results is an excellent account of both Northerners and Southerners who lived through the fifteen years prior to the war. Letters and diaries describe their lives and experiences.

Lone Star Picture Shows
Richard Schroeder
Texas A&M University Press
Drawer C , College Station, TX 77843
1585440973 $34.95 1-800-826-8911

To attract movie-goers during the "golden age" of movie theaters throughout the early decades of the 20th century, the movie theater industry in Texas built many of their theaters as palatial buildings complete with smoking rooms, nurseries, and even "love seats" for couples. When money was tight during the years of the Great Depression Texas movie house operators lured audiences with free dishes and accepted canned goods in lieu of money for tickets. Then came the great and novel draw of "air conditioning" to lure theater patrons during the scorching Texas summers. All of this and more is ably showcased in Lone Star Picture Shows, Richard Schroeder's meticulously researched, splendidly written, and wonderfully illustrated history. Highly recommended reading for students of American popular culture, as well as nostalgic movie buffs.

North From The Mountains
John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball
Mercer University Press
6316 Peake Road, Macon, Georgia 31210
0865547033 $19.95 www.mupress.org

North From The Mountains is the latest in "The Melungeons: History Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature" series from Mercer University Press. This groundbreaking series is the first such to extensively study the Carmel Melungeon settlement since 1950. John Kessler and Donald Ball effectively collaborate to trace the history of the Carmel Melungeon settlement from 1700 onward, and provide the reader with exhaustive firsthand information connecting the Carmel population to the Melungeons and other mixed-blood populations in the Mid-Atlantic region. With documentary evidence and facts gathered from visits to and informants of the Carmel area, North From The Mountains is a highly detailed documentary offering fascinating insight into the lifestyle and relationships of the Carmel community and recommended for students of American history and regional development.

American Towns
David J. Russo
Ivan R. Dee
1332 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60622
1-56663-348-6 $28.95 1-800-462-6420

American Towns: An Interpretive History is a survey of small town history and development examines not only specific locales, but the overall changing of the life they present and represent from colonial to modern times. Towns across America are contrasted for atmosphere and direction, histories are compared, and a healthy dose of American history is enjoyed in the process.

Electrifying The Piedmont Carolinas
Robert F. Durden
Carolina Academic Press
700 Kent St., Durham, NC 27701
0890897433 $30.00 www.cap-press.com

Robert Durden's Electrifying The Piedmont Carolinas: The Duke Power Company, 1904-1997 is the inside story of how industrialization in the form of the Duke Power Company changed the Piedmont Carolinas from a poverty-stricken land into a popular and economically successful place. One J. B. Duke speculated that hydroelectric power would bring textile industries to the rural south and recharge the local economy; the rest is economic history. Electrifying The Piedmont Carolinas is an engrossing, unique, comprehensive, "reader friendly", and highly recommended regional American history that spans nearly all of the 20th century.

Pirates Of The Carolinas
Terrance Zepke
Pineapple Press
PO Box 3899, Sarasota, FL 34230
1561642053 $10.95 pineapplepress.com

In Pirates Of The Carolinas, author/photographer Terrance Zepke evaluates thirteen buccaneers, male and female, all of whom share a connection to the Carolinas. From the universally feared Blackbeard to infamous Anne Bonny, who ran to avoid marrying a rich man her father chose for her husband, the adventurous and deadly histories of these watery thieves is vividly recreated as best known from the evidence - conjecture and surmise help flesh out the rest, for there are some pirate mysteries known only to the depths of the ocean. Easily understandable to the lay reader, Pirates Of The Carolinas is written with flair, confidently informative, and highly entertaining.

The Wagon Box Fight
Jerry Keenan
Savas Publishing Company
P.O. Box 307, Conshohocken, PA 19428
1882810872 $14.95 1-800-418-6065

Now in a newly revised edition (copyright 2000) incorporating additional details discovered about the titular fight, Jerry Keenan's The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode Of Red Cloud's War is a complex historical analysis of a singularly crucial wartime battle. With black and white photographs, diagrams, exhaustive notes, a bibliography of primary sources and an index, The Wagon Box Fight spares no resource in its in-depth analysis. Very highly recommended for historical recreationists, 19th century military buffs, Native American studies, western historians, or anyone with a keen interest in the juncture of American history that formed the background for "Red Cloud's War".

Best Companions
Eliza Cope Harrison
University of South Carolina Press
937 Assembly St, Carolina Plaza, 8th fl., Columbia, SC 29208
1570033757 $39.95 1-800-768-2500

Best Companions is a 532 page compendium of letters between Eliza Middleton Fisher and her mother, Mary Hering Middleton. The letters bridge Charleston, Philadelphia to Newport, through the years 1839-1846. This seven-year conversation, encompassed in some 375 letters, connect the cultural and social life of the North and the South even as other forces conspired to tear America part from within. Enhanced with an Epilogue, extentensive bibliography, and comprehensive index, Best Companions is intimately showcases the joys, sorrows, frustrations, and widespread opinions of a close mother and daughter. Best Companions is not to be missed!

Hometown Heroines
Betty Bolte
Bolte Enterprises/iUniverse
153 Hog Farm Circle, Canton, GA 30115
0595167934 $20.95 iuniverse.com

Betty Bolte's Hometown Heroines is a superbly presented collection of historical biographies of young women who lived in 19th century America. Each of the nineteen young women featured is so extraordinary that she is remembered with at least one memorial ranging from a city park to a mountain peak. For example, Kate Shelley is remembered for crawling across a high railroad trestle to stop the next train during a dangerous storm, while the young teacher Minnie Freeman led her seventeen students to safety through a blizzard. Very highly recommended for women's studies, Hometown Heroines is a rare and exciting glimpse of how women contributed to Americans history in spite of the male-dominated stories found in textbooks.



The Business Shelf

Habitudes Of Highly Successful Traders
Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
Traders Press
Box 6206, Greenville, SC 29606
0-934380-74-0 $19.95

The price tag's expensive for a 100-page softcover with no spine lettering, and the audience is very specific - to traders expert at Wall Street stocks - but Habitudes Of Highly Successful Traders outlines 12 strategies for trading success and teaches the mental skills necessary for a good trader, from arranging for data and information to preparing goals. Some are simple ideas but all are geared to work together.

Thriving In 24/7
Sally Helgesen
Free Press
1230 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020
0-684-87303-6 $25.00

Six strategies for taming the 'new world of work' address the problems inherent in the breakdown between barriers between work and home life. Readers who find themselves working not only harder but all the time will find Thriving In 24/7 a practical guide to adjusting routines and recognizing the hidden obstacles to success at home and at work.

Managing Software Acquisition
B. Craig Meyers & Patricia Oberndorf
Addison-Wesley
75 Arlington Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116
0201704544 $44.99 www.awl.com

Managing Software Acquisition: Open Systems and COTS Products is an in-depth guide to gaining open systems and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products. Getting the right software and using it properly can save great amounts of time and cost during the life of a computer system. Business managers and staff must closely understand what is entailed in the often difficult transition from in-house, custom-made software to commercial market products. With reference models, projected cost implications, contracting strategies, and much more, Managing Software Acquisition is strongly recommended for anyone in a business who needs to upgrade their software regularly!

Work Naked
Cynthia C. Froggatt
Jossey-Bass
350 Sansome Street, San Francisco CA 94104
0-7879-5390-3 $24.95

How can employers cultivate peak workplace performance in a virtual environment? This addresses new problems faced by employers who would manage a virtual staff - and keep them accountable and productive. From exploring remote and mobile work potentials to adjusting workplace options for both remote and on-site work, Work Naked provides practical advice to managers and owners.

Call Centers Made Easy
Stephen Medcroft
Aegis Publishing
796 Aquidneck Ave., Newport, RI
1-890154-45-8 $24.95

Call centers can be as small as a two-person reservations desk or a five-person customer service line. This tells how to build and budget for a call center to achieve goals and increase profits; from designing a customer service call center to using call center technology and software. Chapters are quite specific on how to build call center designs around business needs.

Headquarters USA 2002
Omnigraphics
615 Griswold, Detroit, Michigan, 48226
0780804597 $175.00 1-800-234-1340

With a hefty 2,500 pages, Headquarters USA 2002 (formerly Business Phone Book USA) is an utterly thorough reference of more than 123,000 unique listings for the headquarters of major businesses and other organizations in the United States. Headquarters USA 2002 offers up-to-date contact information for these businesses as well as a vast range of organizations, agencies, institutions, and even high-profile individuals. Also included are fax numbers, toll-free numbers, World Wide Web addresses, stock symbols and stock exchanges for the businesses that have these features. Headquarters USA 2002 has also been updated with many new categories, such as book festivals, book producers, computer system design services, electronic bill presentment and payment services, Greek letter organizations, language schools, and more. There are also area code tables in both state and area code order, area code and zip code guides, indexes of classified headings, and a table of conglomerates and their subsidiaries, among countless other features. Overall, Headquarters USA 2002 is a superb, first-rate reference for anyone who needs to look up business information quickly and accurately!

The Marketing Plan, 3rd Edition
William M. Luther
Amacom
1601 Broadway, New York NY 10019
0-8144-7101-3 $19.95

Marketing plan books abound but in new markets with new strategies, do their approaches remain modern? This examines three marketing processes, encouraging readers to assess customer needs, development and service strategies, and competition. The information may be used to create a desirable business personality and to market a brand or product. A fine, business-grounded approach.

Get Smart
Chuck Wilson
Mullaney Publishing Group
PO Box 833383, Richardson, TX 75083
0967446058 $35.00 1-972-234-5310

In Get Smart: The Emergence Of Smart Cards In The United States And Their Pivotal Role In Internet Commerce, Chuck Wilson provides the first practical and comprehensive survey of "smart" credit cards and how they can be utilized in the reader's business activities and personal life. Wilson draws upon his more than twenty years of experience and expertise in the credit card processing services industry to write a thoroughly "reader friendly" compendium packed with information and insights into the coming wave of smart card-based applications at home and abroad -- with special attention to the rapidly expanding and borderless phenomena of e-commerce. Get Smart is essential reading for all entrepreneurs, business managers, corporate officers, economists, and credit card users.

Dearborn Trade
155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606
1-800-621-9621

Two excellent titles provide keys to understanding how businesses and economy are networked. Bernadette Tiernan's Hybrid Company (0-7931-4294-6, $27.00) tells how to reach customers through multi-channels rather than just one. Retailers with a blend of physical stores, catalogs and web sites tend to be more profitable than those which choose a single course: this tells how the 'hybrid company' may be formed. Jeffrey Shuman and Janice Twombly's Collaborative Communities (44530-3, $22.00) covers partnering efforts in a networked community. Chapters tell how to organize a business around customers in collaboration with business partners and suppliers, showing how the new business pattern works and how to benefit from such an arrangement.

Watch It!
Godfrey Harris
The Americas Group
9200 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 404, Los Angeles, CA 90069-3506
0935047336 $14.95 americasgroup.com

Most people pay less attention to "what" is being said than to "how" it is being said. In Watch It!: The Use Of Body Language In Word Of Mouth Advertising, Los Angeles based public policy consultant Godfrey Harris explores how body language can be made part of an effective word of mouth advertising campaign regardless of the product or services being promoted. Readers will gain an appreciation for the importance of body language and guidance on the use of nonverbal movements, gestures, and signals to convey information that can enhance the emphasis and impact on word of mouth commentary with respect to products, services, places, and events. Watch It! is a unique, invaluable, and reader friendly contribution to the "how to" marketing and promotion reference shelf.



The Judaic Studies Shelf

Women And The Study Of Torah
Joel B. Wolowelsky, editor
KTAV Publishing House
900 Jefferson Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030
0881256900 $19.95 1-201-963-9524

Ably edited by Joel Wolowelsky, Women And The Study Of Torah is a collection of thoughtful and informative essays about advanced Torah study, all of which originally appeared over the course of two decades in the periodical "Tradition: The Journal of Orthodox Thought", published by the Rabbinical Council of America. There is an age-old debate in Jewish Law on whether it is proper for women to study the Oral Law. The first collection of essays in Women And The Study Of Torah concern encouragement for women to engage in some study of the Oral Law, including Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's case for why women should be allowed to study Talmud. The second part of Women And The Study Of Torah is a collection of more individual and personal essays by people who work in the field of Jewish education, including heads of schools that offer advanced Torah study for women. A fascinating and persuasive book, very highly recommended for students of Judaic philosophy, culture, and religion.

Must A Jew Believe Anything?
Menachem Kellner
Littman/ISBS, dist.
5824 NE Hassalo Street, Portland, OR 97213-3644
1874774498 $19.95 1-503-287-3093

One of the central questions confronting the Jewish community in assimilation friendly United States and Western Europe is whether or note their grandchildren will be Jewish. Menachem Kellner (Sire Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, University of Haifa) addresses the core concern and provides a coherent and persuasive analysis of what religious faith means in classical Judaism. He concludes with arguing for a new way of construing the relationship of Orthodox to non-Orthodox Jewish and Jewish institutions. Must A Jew Believe Anything? is an invaluable, timely, and much appreciated contribution to Judaic Studies collections and reading lists.



The Fiction Shelf

The Legend Of Wappato
Donald Bruner & Marilyn Bruner
Book Partners, Inc.
PO Box 922, Wilsonville, OR 97070
158151039X $16.95 bookpartners.com

An historical novel set in the Pacific Northwest where the Willamette and Columbia rivers meet, Donald and Marilyn Bruner's The Legend Of Wappato: Chief Cassino Of The Multnomah is the story of Native American and white cultures colliding against each other in the opening decades of the 1800s. Chief Cassino had consolidated several tribes to face the intruding threats of white fur traders and settlers when in 1824, John McLoughlin set up the Hudson's Bay Company trading post at Fort George and then another one at Fort Vancouver. Chief Cassino and McLoughlin became friends and worked together to control conflict during the settlement of the Oregon Territory. But in the winter of 1830 an epidemic swept through the native villages. The result was the near extinction of a once great Multnomah tribe from the Wappato lands. Chief Cassino survived and continued to be friends with McLoughlin for the rest of their lives. The Legend Of Wappato is superbly crafted, historically astute, and highly recommended reading.

Omar: A Novel
Craig O. Thompson
StrataGem Press
c/o Brightwater Publishing Company
3249 Oak Tree Drive South, Indianapolis, IN 46227-9703
0967520703 $24.95 1-800-247-6553

Craig Thompson's Omar is a suspenseful and thrilling novel of escalating global terrorism. When a priceless book is found 2077 fathoms under the North Atlantic Ice Barrier, the CIA/FBI, a private billionaire oilman, and a fanatic terrorist group compete to recover and claim it. The competition has potentially cataclysmic effects for the known world. Omar is a shocking, action-packed, highly recommended page-turner filled with suspense and plot twists to the end. Omar is also available in paperback (0967520711, $14.95)

SoulSource
Stan Howard
iUniverse.com, Inc.
5220 South 16th Street, #200, Lincoln, NE 68512-1274
0595192041 $27.95 1-877-823-9235

Stan Howard's SoulSource is an account of the life of Jesus Christ translated from the First Century to the 21st Century. A riveting story that opens with a heavenly scene (prologue) preparing the reader for Christ's earthly mission, this fascinating story is set in Chicago as the author draws from the New Testament account for the story of Christ's mission and then translates that story into modern dress, language, and events that are as humorous and entertaining as they are compelling and insightful. SoulSource is highly recommended, riveting reading that will be remembered long after the last page is read and the book returned to the shelf.

The Sheik
E.M. Hull
University of Pennsylvania Press
4200 Pine Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4011
0812217632 $14.95 1-800-445-9880

Rather bored by the endless parties of the English aristocracy and the shallowness of the current crop of eligible bachelors, the wealthy, young and lovely Diana Mayo deserts to travel by horseback through the Algerian desert. There she is kidnaped by the powerful Sheik Ahmed Ban Hassan who compels her submission. Diana resists but can't help falling in love with this dark and handsome stranger. E.M. Hall was the pseudonym of Edith Maude Winstanley, and her 1920s era novel, The Sheik (and the basis for the famous Rudolph Valentino silent movie of the same name), has weathered the years very nicely and continues to be an outstanding and highly recommended romance novel for a whole new generation of readers.

Open Your Heart: A Mid-Life Fable
Ruth Cherry, Ph.D.
[self published - order from author]
Box 15728, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
0971361800 $12.00 www.RuthCherryPhD@aol.com

Ruth Cherry's Open Your Heart: A Mid-life Fable is the fictionalized account of a female baby boomer in mid-life, who must meet the giants and specters of her inner world. They take physical form to guide her with kindness, wisdom, friendly humor. Truly a labor of love, Open Your Heart is a comforting message in the face of uncertain crossroads. Recommended for anyone caught in the throes of a mid-life reexamination of their existence.

The Trial Of Davy Crockett
Fletcher Rhoden
Trafford Publishing
2333 Government Street, Suite 6E, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8T 4P4
1552127338 $12.95 1-888-232-4444

One of the obscure facts about the famous stand at the Alamo during the Texas war for liberation from Mexico is that Davy Crockett and a handful of others were captured alive by Santa Anna's forces when the mission-turned-fort fell. He and the others were summarily executed soon after. Fletcher Rhoden has carefully crafted a novella that is based on the facts of the Texas revolution that gives fair and equal expression to both sides of the conflict and is thoughtful yet riveting reading from first page to last.

India Treasures
Gary Worthington
TimeBridges Publishers
1001 Cooper Point Road SW, Suite 140-#176, Olympia, WA 98502
0970766203 $15.95 1-360-867-1883

Gary Worthington's India Treasures: An Epic Novel Of Rajasthan And Northern India Through The Ages is an engaging and entertaining sequence of eight dynamic novellas about Rajasthan and Northern India across the length of human history, all connected by a modern-day treasure hunt. Incorporating crucial events of Indian history seamlessly into the story, India Treasures brings the reader before the wisdom of the Buddha, the canvas of a medieval artist, the throne of the Sultan of Delhi, and many more wondrous places. An utterly absorbing historical. Also highly recommended is the sequel, India Fortunes.

The Powder Monkey
George J. Galloway
1stBooks Library
2511 West 3rd St., Bloomington IN 47404
0759604770 $28.04 1stbooks.com

Georg Galloway's The Powder Monkey is an engaging and entertaining seafaring historical novel set during the War of 1812. The story is one of a young man who ventures forth to search for his father -- and for the meaning of the code of Aquinas. The Powder Monkey is filled with romance, mystery, and high seas adventure; it is a quest within the heart as well as among the waves. Georg Galloway is an undeniably talented author who has written an unforgettable tale of adventure.

Idiots In The Machine
Edward Savio
Babelfish Press
425 Market Street, Suite 2200, San Francisco, CA 94105-2434
0970673019 $28.00 1-415-955-0599

Noel "Satan" Dorobek is a thirty-year old eccentric at odds with just about every aspect of society as he vainly attempts to find some peace in his rather disappointing life which he unexpectedly becomes famous for extolling the health benefits of wearing aluminum foil in an increasingly ozone depleted world. Gathering a cult-like following, our reluctant hero is dragged into the media spotlight by a young, beautiful, charming, emotionally bankrupt woman. What follows is darkly funny, engagingly poignant, highly recommended adventure into contemporary pop culture and a very possible tomorrow.

Battle
Kenneth Macksey
Grub Street
c/o Seven Hills Book Distributors
1531 Tremont, Cincinnati, OH 45214
1902304470 $24.95 1-800-545-2005

Battle: Normandy 1944, Life and Death in the Heat of Combat is a brutally realistic novel of combat life and death near the end of World War II, in Normandy 1944. Author Ken Macksey has meticulously researched actual incidents and learned from survivors true, personal accounts of the deadly conflict, weaving them into a story that could just as well come straight from the pages of history. Though the novel is technically a work of historical fiction, the details and feel of close-combat warfare are eerily real because they are based firmly on fact. Battle is a highly recommended novel for those who prefer the vividly accurate battle re-creations of the "Saving Private Ryan" film to the historical liberties of the "Pearl Harbor" movie.

The Man From The Brazos
Ermal Williamson
Seven Locks Press
3100 West Warner Avenue, Suite 8, Santa Ana, CA 92704
1931643024 $7.95 1-800-354-5348

When abolitionists and slavers clash for control of the Kansas territory just before it was to achieve statehood, Matt Jorgenson found himself caught up in their bloody, brutal conflict. Matt was fast and fatal when handling a pistol, but being an accomplished gunhand with a widening reputation is no defense against falling in love with another man's woman or being able to stop the murder of his best friend in a time when pre-Civil War politics was setting neighbor against neighbor. Highly recommended for all western buffs, The Man From The Brazos is an entertaining and vivid read.



The Art Shelf

Damascus
Brigid Keenan & Tim Beddow
Thames & Hudson, Inc.
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
0500282994 $39.95 1-800-233-4830

Brigid Keenan's informative and highly recommended text comprising Damascus: Hidden Treasures Of The Old City, is enhanced throughout with 214 illustrations and photographs (171 in color) by Tim Beddow. This superb introduction to the architectural grandeur of Damascus incudes descriptions of individual houses and the people who built and lived in them. The amazing photographs reveal the facades, courtyards, alleyways , fountains and amazing interiors behind unassuming walls will delight students of Islamic culture, architecture, history, and lifestyles.

Impressionist Still Life
Eliza Rathbone, et al.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
100 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011
0810906139 $45.00 1-800-759-0190

Impressionist Still Life showcases more than 80 masterworks of still-life painting by seventeen Impressionists working in the latter half of the nineteenth-century. The featured artists include Cezanne, van Gogh, Monet, Cassatt, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Caillbotte, and Gauguin. Impressionist Still Life is the companion book to a traveling exhibition currently touring the United States beginning with The Philips Collection, Washington, DC (September 22, 2001 - January 13, 2002) and then traveling to The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (February 17 to June 9, 2002). A strongly recommended addition to academic, personal, and community library artbook collections, the superbly reproduced paintings comprising Impressionist Still Life are enhanced with informative essays by noted art scholars Eliza Rathbone (Phillips Collection); George Shackelford (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); Jeannene M. Pryblyski (independent art historian and critics based in San Francisco); John McCoubrey (University of Pennsylvania); and Richard Shiff (University of Texas, Austin).

Dryden Pottery Of Kansas And Arkansas
G.L. Dybwad & Joy V. Bliss
The Book Stops Here
1108 Rocky Point Court, N.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87123-1952

Dryden Pottery Of Kansas And Arkansas showcases A. James Dryden's fifty-five years in the pottery business and is the first collectibles catalog for this long-standing and prestigious enterprise. The text is enhanced with 80 pages of pottery catalogs with labels and bottom markings, and is illustrated with almost one thousand black-and-white images. It is the first available price guide on current values for collectors and dealers. The inclusion of an accompanying CD-ROM complete with high resolution color, makes Dryden Pottery Of Kansas And Arkansas an outstanding and highly recommended contribution for students of this distinctive art form.

Dante Marioni: Blown Glass
Dante Marioni, et al.
Hudson Hills Press
1133 Broadway, Suite 1301, New York, NY 10010-8001
1555952046 $45.00 1-212-929-4994

Showcasing Dante Marioni's glassblowing with 139 colorplates and four black/white photographs, Tina Oldknow (Curator of Modern Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York); Joseph Marioni (twice artist-in-residence at the Pilchuck Glass School); and Edward R. Quick (Curator, Presidential Materials Staff, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.) offer an informative text and commentary that enhances our understanding of this truly gifted man and his work. Very highly recommended for all serious personal, academic, professional, and community library collections, Dante Marioni: Blown Glass provides a "reader friendly" step-by-step depiction of the process used in the making of a blown-glass vase, a list of public collections, solo and group exhibitions, bibliography, biography, and index.

A Royal Menagerie
Samuel Wittwer
Getty Publications
1200 Getty center Drive, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1682
0892366443 $14.95 1-800-223-3431

Enhanced with 30 color and 17 b/w illustrations, A Royal Menagerie is a superbly presented survey of extraordinary 18th-century porcelain animals from Dresden in all its grandeur. The pieces were created between 1730 and 1735 at the Saxon royal porcelain manufactory in Meissen, near Dresden, were commissioned by Friedrich August I, Elector of Saxony. Samuel Wittwer draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as curator of the ceramics collections at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, and the archives of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin in writing an informative and insightful text. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Getty Museum which will run until January 2002, A Royal Menagerie is highly recommended for students and collectors of 18th century porcelain.

Fortune
Daniel Okrent
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
PO Box 667, Layton UT 84041
087905932X $39.95 1-800-748-5439

Fortune: The Art Of Covering Business is a compendium of cover art drawn from past issues of Fortune magazine in celebration of its 70th anniversary. These covers are reproduced in full color and span the magazine from 1930 to 1950. Informatively enhanced with a Foreword by John Huey and an Historical Essay by Daniel Okrent, Fortune: The Art Of Covering Business is a welcome celebration drawing from a spectrum of artistic talents who provided visual symbols of America's burgeoning industrial society on the cover of one of the nation's most influential and prestigious magazines.

Howard Finster: The Early Years
Thelma Finster Bradshaw
Crane Hill Publishers
3608 Clairmont Avenue, Birmingham, AL 35222
1575871718 $24.95 1-800-841-2682

In Howard Finster: The Early Years, Thelma Bradshaw (Finster's daughter) provides an informative, intimate memoir and tribute to her 80 year old father's life and work. The reader is treated to rare and previously unpublished family photos of Finster in Trion, Georgia, along with his early work. Howard Finster: The Early Years is a welcome contribution to American art history and highly recommended reading for those who appreciate his original artistic visions -- including his "Paradise Garden", which is an incredible maze of found-object art and sculpture which he created near his home in Summerville, Georgia.

Arcimboldo: Spring
Federico Zeri
NDE Publishing
15-30 Wertheim Court, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4B 1B9
155321028X $14.95 ndepublishing.com

Part of NDE Publishing's "One Hundred Paintings", an outstanding series of studies on the world's greatest artists, Federico Zeri's Arcimboldo: Spring showcases a refined and cultivated sixteenth century European artist who created visual works filled with symbols, living metamorphoses, and thought-provoking composition. Here are 48 pages of superbly produced color reproductions along, enhanced with a knowledgeable commentary (Federico Zeri is a renowned art historian, critic, and formerly vice-president of the national Council for Cultural and Environmental Treasures) that deftly introduces the reader to the full range of Arcimboldo's imaginative talents and skills. Also very highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library art book reference collections are Federico Zeri's Vermeer: The Astronomer (1553210123, $14.95) and Bocklin: The Isle Of The Dead (1553210255 $14.95).



The Political Science Shelf

Famous First Facts About American Politics
Steven Anzovin & Janet Podell
The H. W. Wilson Company
950 University Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452
0824209710 $105.00 1-800-367-6770

A vast compendium of useful reference materials, Famous First Facts About American Politics is the latest in the venerable Wilson Facts Series. With an introduction that clearly explains how to best find and make use of the political facts you need, and five different indexes (there is a separate index by subject, years, month/day, personal names, and geography), Famous First Facts About American Politics is the perfect book for someone who needs to look up something about American politics without a second to spare. Highly recommended for political writers, columnists, debaters, and anyone else charged with research under a tight deadline (which also aptly describes just about everyone involved in American politics), Famous First Facts About American Politics is a strongly recommended, core title for academic and public library American political science reference collections.

Think Free To Live Free
Claire Wolfe
Lompanics Unlimited
PO Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368
1893626458 $14.95 1-800-380-2230

Claire Wolfe's Think Free To Live Free: A Political Burnout's Guide To Life, Activism And Everything should be read cover to cover by anyone who has every dedicated themselves to a political, social, or philanthropic cause -- most especially the controversial ones! A life-long activist, Claire Wolfe effectively focuses on the fatigue factors that create the phenomena of "burnout" and how to resuscitate passion and altruism out of the ashes of disillusion and cynicism. Think Free To Live Free should be in every public library and NGO reference collection in the country!

Unlocking City Hall
Michael W. Homel
Krieger Publishing Company
Box 9542, Melbourne, FL 32902-9542
0894649876 $18.50 1-800-724-0025

Michael Homel's Unlocking City Hall: Exploring The History Of Local Government And Politics explores the complex, ever-evolving history of local government and politics. With clear, practical, carefully explained information on everything from public employees to local campaigns and elections, Unlocking City Hall is excellent reading and reference for teachers and students of political science, as well as community residents who want to get more involved in the political life of their community. Highly recommended.

The Battle For Congress
James A. Thurber, editor
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2188
0815784635 $17.95 1-800-275-1447

The Battle For Congress: Consultants, Candidates, And Voters was published to specifically to help readers understand modern campaigns for seats in Congress, as well as the workings of America's representative democracy. It contains in-depth examinations of six political campaigns from the heated House election year of 1998: specifically, the House contests in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Washington, and Wisconsin. With case studies that closely evaluate professional political consultants, The Battle For Congress is a "must-read" for anyone wanting to learn more about the electoral process that determines America's future.



The Literary Shelf

Discovering The World
Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur
Mercer University Press
6316 Peake Road, Macon, Georgia 31210
0865547181 $25.00 www.mupress.org

Thomas Vasseur's Discovering The World: Collected Stories is an outstanding anthology of thirteen stories set in the disappearing rural South, the New South, and the grand world at large. Variety spices the tales, from a little boy who discovers the wonder of flight to the rocky relationship between a German woman who has immigrated to the Deep South and her troubled teenage daughter. In the title novella, a "Southern Native" and a veteran of the Vietnam War travel to an island in Fiji to repair a damaged sailboat. A common theme of looking within the self unites all the tales, which take a hard look at America's class structure and at human spirituality. Thomas Vasseur's stories are as original and thought-provoking as they are highly recommended.

Canterbury Marriage Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Little Leaf Press
P.O. Box 468, Lavalette, WV 25535
0967955718 $11.95 1-877-548-2431

With the original Chaucerian "Old English" aptly editeed and translated into modern spellings by Michael Murphy, Canterbury Marriage Tales: A Reader-Friendly Edition presents four of Geoffrey Chaucer's well-known, racy stories of love and marriage gone awry. In this edition, however, the sometimes confusing Old English of Chaucer's day has been made reader-friendly with modern spelling and numerous notes and references. Such meticulous annotation is especially helpful considering that the four stories in this volume - The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, The Merchant, and the Franklin - are all written in lyrical verse. Ribald, lusty, yet often thought-provoking, perhaps the true soul of Chaucer's work is best summed up in his own words: Love will not be constrained by mastery. When mastery comes, the god of love, anonm beateth his wings, and farewell, he is gone! Canterbury Marriage Tales is a strongly recommended addition to Chaucerian Studies reading lists and literary collections.



The Sports Shelf

The Pastime In Turbulence
Brent Kelley
McFarland & Company Publishers
Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640
0786409754 $29.95 1-800-253-2187

Brent Kelley's The Pastime In Turbulence: Interviews With Baseball Players Of The 1940s is a fascinating and informative collection of opinions, anecdotes, thoughts and advice from great baseball players of the 1940s, all in their own words and drawn from a tremendous, aggregate collection of interviews. Black and white photographs and tables of baseball statistics are provided for most of the players, and an index in the back allows for quick reference. Stongly recommended for baseball buffs and historians, The Pastime In Turbulence is an entertaining and memorable look into the minds, attitudes and experiences of great American baseball stars from the decade of the '40s.

Play Golf In The Zone
Garry Martin & Derek Ingram
Van der Plas Publications
Seven Hills Book Distributors, dist.
1282 7th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122
189249535X $14.95 sevenhillsbooks.com

Garry martin and Derek Ingram's Play Golf In The Zone is not so much a walk-through of the physical techniques of golf, as it is a informative guide to using mental concentration and focus to improve one's golf game. Basic familiarity with standard golf swings, putts, and rules is assumed. Checklists and simple, cartoon-like line drawings help clarify the mental strategies designed to take your golf game to a higher level. Well-written, savvy, and highly recommended for devotees of the sport, Play Golf In The Zone is the perfect gift for golf enthusiasts who are always seeking to improve their game!

Curve Ball
Jim Albert & Jay Bennett
Copernicus Books
37 East 7th Street, NY, NY 10003
0387988165 $29.00 1-212-228-0175

Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics And The Role Of Chance In The Game provides the non-specialist, general reader with a sophisticated by accessible approach to statistics that can greatly enhanced their understanding and appreciation of baseball numbers and the game itself. With their unique and original approach to the subject, Jim Albert and Jay Bennett have successfully collaborated to present a coherent and informative introduction and survey of the many statistics that are a part of the baseball experience. Curve Ball is a "must read" for all baseball fans and enthusiasts.

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