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Space Planes
Andrew Dewar
Periplus Editions/Tuttle Publishing
364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, VT 05759-9436
0794602223 $15.95 tuttlepublishing.com
Space Planes: Paper Airplanes That Really Fly!, with it's punch-out plane samples, isn't
appropriate for library lending; but that shouldn't keep it from the hands of consumers interested
in planes and flights. Fifteen exciting space plane examples, from the Space Shuttle to the
Mercury, are provided along with scale, original model kits which have been die-cut for minimal
assembly time. Instructions for flying them are also included. A fun combination of lesson plan on
space planes and game book for building them: all you need is glue and scissors.
Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501
www.doverpublications.com
There are always a number of excellent Dover guides to choose from in the area of mythology and
these latest releases are some winning reprints of classics. E. Nesbit's Book Of Dragons
(0486436489, $6.95) provides some enchanting folk tales surrounding dragons and heroes who
challenge them, reprinting a 1900 classic. An excellent set of classic tales. S.H. Hooke's Middle
Eastern Mythology (048-6435512, $9.95) reprints a 1963 coverage discussing the role of
mythology in ritual and images of the Middle East. Legends of Hittites, Egyptians and regional
legends are all surveyed by a scholar who presents a documented discussion. Here it comes again:
Thomas Bulfinch's classic Medieval Methology: The Age Of Chivalry (04-86436536, $5.95): a
coverage which explores ideals of chivalry in Medieval myths. From King Arthur to Robin Hood
and more, these are a host of vigorous tales under one cover. Jeremiah Curtin's Native American
Creation Myths (04864-37361, $14.95) reprints an 1989 treatise by myth collector Jeremiah
Curtin, who gathered myths and tales in the course of his work with the Smithsonian Institution.
Two myth cycles developed by the Wintu and Yana groups of Indians are described in detail in
this special edition of rare ideas. Remember ghost story writer Oliver Onions? It's been quite some
time since his The Beckoning Fair One (0486436-470, $5.95) first appeared in 1911, but the story
was one of the first contributing to ghost stories and has been heralded by Lovecraft and
Blackwood as one of the best in the English language. W.B. Yeats' The Celtic Twilight: Faerie
And Folklore (0486436578, $6.95) returns a 1902 work to print and expands Yeats' familiar
poetry edge with a focus on his Irish folklore. Yeats was a leader in the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn: his affection for faerie is reflected in a gathering of stories recounted to the poet by
his friends and neighbors. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (0486428338, $14.95)
receives noted illustrator Arthur Rackham's black and white and color illustratons throughout,
returning a romantic comedy from 1908 to print complete with Rackham's signature
embellishments. A gorgeous, affordable reprint of a classic.
New World Library
14 Pamaron Way, Novato, CA 94949
www.newworldlibrary.com
There's no one source of inspiration for Susan Chernak McElroy's All My Relations: Living With
Animals As Teachers And Healers (1577314301, $14.95): indigenous wisdom, myths, science and
personal encounters weave their distinct and separate influences on a title which celebrates
contact between animals and people. McElroy discusses why people are receptive to stories, how
they acknowledge human-animal bonds, and how people can enjoy a rejuvenating influence from
animal encounters. All My Relations is recommended for anyone already interested in or involved
with animals and nature. Peter Russell's From Science To God: A Physicist's Journey Into The
Mystery Of Consciousness (1577314948, $12.95) provides a satisfying blend of spiritual and
scientific reasoning, embedding an autobiography of scientist Russell's lifelong exploration of the
nature of consciousness and move from atheism to spirituality with a survey of the scientific
investigations which led to his transition. Essential food for thought.
Cowtoons
Bob Artley
Voyageur Press
123 North Second Street, Stillwater MN 55082-0338
www.voyageurpress.com
0896586146 $9.99 1-800-888-9653
Cowtoons is comprised of a series of Bob Artley's all-too-true tales of life on the farm which
come to life in black and white sketches of cows and cow antics. 'Hilarious' is the only word
appropriate to describe the zany descriptions provided by Artley, who covers everything from flies
in the cow barn to new calves.
Chronicle Books
85 Second St., San Francisco CA 94105
www.chroniclebooks.com
Richard Evans Schultes explored the Amazon, earning the name as the 'father of ethnobotany' in a
journey which began with his leave from Harvard in 1941, where he surveyed the Amazon basin
for twelve years and lived among the tribes mapping rivers and working for the US government
during WWII. His real passion was plants: over the period he collected and named 30,000
botanical specimens from the region, took hundreds of black and white photos of tribes and land,
and in The Lost Amazon (0811845710, $35.00) finally receives the recognition he deserves. The
Lost Amazon is an exhibition of his photos and notes, and the first major title to examine his
works, providing an excellent introduction by his prot‚g‚ and fellow explorer Wade Davis and
surveying his works with full-page photo reproductions. It's a winning production of high
recommendation to any library specializing in armchair travel or exploration, or Amazon or
botanical history. For a travel guide to San Francisco which depends only upon fancy footwork,
choose Christina Henry de Tessan's City Walks: San Francisco (081184563X, $14.95) presents an
unusual deck of cards format which provides a self-guided walking adventure with a map on one
side and insider details on the other. Included in the suggestions are places to shop, walk, drink
and eat, making City Walks: San Francisco the perfect take-along tote to pack for a visit.
Personal Security Handbook
Silver Lake Publishing
PO Box 29460, Los Angeles, CA 90029
www.silverlakepub.com
1563437759 $11.95 1-888-663-3091
Both personal and home security are increasing issues in our dangerous world - and The Personal
Security Handbook tackles both, with chapters offering practical, tested tools for keeping both
self and possessions safe, whether at work or at home. From physical security to online risks,
disaster preparation, and watching out for encounters with strangers during travel, The Personal
Security Handbook is one of the few to address all kinds of security issues pertaining to both
possessions and self, and should be on the bookshelf of every consumer.
Being Dead Is No Excuse
Gayden Metcalfe & Charlotte Hays
Miramax Books
77 W. 66th St., NY, NY 10023-6298
1401359345 $19.95 www.amazon.com
Southern life and death receive close inspection and a healthy dose of humor in Being Dead Is No
Excuse; The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting The Perfect Funeral.. Traditional
Southern recipes for casseroles, relishes, and 'funeral and wake food' dish up a healthy (or
unhealthy, at times) dose of authentic Southern cooking and observation mixed with a pinch of
humor. Plenty of social and cultural insights throughout.
Native To Nowhere
Timothy Beatley
Island Press
1718 Connecticut Ave. NW #300, Washington, DC 20009
www.islandpress.org
1559634537 $30.00 1-800-828-1302
What elements constitute a real community, and how is that sense of community changing in the
wake of global connections? Timothy Beatley's Native To Nowhere: Sustaining Home And
Community In A Global Age uses research and the author's own travels to communities across
North America and Europe to examine concepts of place in modern life. Trends which have
undermined these roots, new ideas set forth to maintain connections, and descriptions of designs,
technological considerations, and new political structures for sustaining these modern ideas of
community are all considered in chapters which will appeal to college-level students of social
issues as well as concerned general-interest adult readers.
The Real History Behind The Da Vinci Code
Sharan Newman
Berkley Books
375 Hudson St., New York NY 10014
www.penguin.com
0425200124 $15.00 1-800-847-5515
Readers of The Da Vinci Code who want more to contemplate will benefit from medieval scholar
Sharan Newman's special expertise in The Real History Behind The Da Vinci Code: a guide which
asks questions and reveals historical truths behind common myths. From the conspiracy to
downplay the human and sexual sides of Jesus to the workings of the Opus Dei Awareness
Network, or ODAN, The Real History Behind The Da Vinci Code probes many religious
questions from the original bestseller.
Sourcebooks
1935 Brookdale Rd. #139, Naperville, IL 60563
www.sourcebooks.com
Three new titles provide important keys to understanding finances, business, and political savvy.
Attorney Richard C. Busse's Fired, Laid Off Or Forced Out: A Complete Guide To Severance,
Benefits And Your Rights When You're Starting Over (1572484594, $14.95) provides some
important strategies to surviving a disciplinary action and changing an abusive work situation,
from preventing termination to handling the termination itself and negotiating a severance
agreement. Fired, Laid Off Or Forced Out! Doesn't just apply to the line worker either; from the
factory to management, all levels of employee receives important advise. Carl Semmelroth's The
Anger Habit In Relationships: A Communication Workbook For Relationships, Marriages And
Partnerships (1402203578, $12.95) is the next title to turn to, providing a communication primer
for all kinds of relationships; from partnerships and marriages to work. Exercises, case histories
and advise come from a doctor and advise on how to handle everything from criticism and
constant arguing to habitual unhappiness. Learn the underlying needs and motivations in anger
situations and learn how to diffuse tension and address problems more realistically with The
Anger Habit In Relationships. The staff of U.S. News and World Report provides parents with a
realistic view of finances in What College Really Costs (1402203411, $17.95), providing
step-by-step guidance for everything from long- and short-term savings plans to financial aid
offers, education tax breaks, college tuition and fees and more. An added enhancement: survey of
which colleges and universities give the most value for the dollar spent, which are cheapest and
which priciest, and understanding the financial aid programs.
Collectors Press
Box 230986, Portland, OR 97281
www.collectorspress.com
Brian S. Alexander's Atomic Kitchen (1888054980, $19.95) isn't a collector's book per say: it's a
showcase of the gadgets, cooking devices and kitchen utensils which appeared and often vanished
during the 1950s, displaying original ads, packaging, and materials with a profile of 1950s
housewife items. A fun, colorful survey of the housewife's heyday is packed with vintage ads and
color illustrations for eye-catching memories. Jane Briggeman's Burlesque (1888054948, $39.95)
comes from an author who spent years collecting stories and interviews from some of the greatest
names in burlesque. Vintage ads, illustrations, and contemporary color photos pack a memorable
celebration of burlesque's most notable moments. Vintage Prints (1888054972, $19.95) presents a
poster art book for collectors who want affordable full-color lithographs printed on poster paper
for a 11x14 frame. Ideal for a child's room or a children's bookseller, Vintage Prints profiles
childhood art in a different manner.
Speed, Style And Beauty
Beverly Rae Kimes & Winston Goodfellow
MFA Publications
465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
0878466851 $60.00 www.mfa.org
Fans of race car styling will relish Speed, Style And Beauty: Cars From The Ralph Lauren
Collection, a gorgeous blend of lovely photos by Micahel Furman with texts by Beverly Kimes
and Winson S. Goodfellow. Featured here are some of the most notable cars of the collection,
from Bugattis and Aston Martins to Mercedes and McLaren. More than just a book display,
Speed, Style And Beauty is a catalog for a major exhibition featuring almost thirty of these cars,
and is the first to focus on the car as an art object in and of itself.
The Biography Shelf
Piano Girl
Robin Meloy Goldsby
Backbeat Books
600 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94107
www.backbeatbooks.com
0879308249 $22.95 1-866-222-5232
Piano Girl: Lessons In Life, Music And The Perfect Blue Hawaiian is Robin Meloy Goldsby's
entertainting and occasionally mesmerizing memoir, tracing her "accidental" career as a cocktail
lounge piano player. Her calling took her across the globe, from exclusive island resorts to
third-world countries, and her story offers both musical insights into the art of piano playing and
the life lessons she encountered on her unlikely path. Piano Girl also recounts the varied character
of her audience, from the rich and famous to the down and out and everyone in between.
Individual vignettes perfectly capture timeless moments in this enthralling and honest personal
story.
War Movies
Wayne Karlin
Curbstone Press
321 Jackson St, Willimantic, CT 06226
193189616X $15.00 www.curbstone.org
War Movies: Journeys To Viet Nam, Scenes And Out-Takes is Wayne Karline's personal story of
when he returned to Vietnam as a scriptwriter and actor in the award-winning Vietnamese film
"Song of the Stork". A moving memoir that chronicles the connection between film and reality, as
the author researches a war of the past even as a new war in Iraq rages during the present.
Especially powerful in its contrast between younger and older generations of Vietnamese and
Americans, War Movies is a skillfully told, highly recommended, insightful narrative.
Don't Fear The Big Dogs
Bill Vancil
Tate Publishing
3420 South Stone Creek Circle, Madison, WI 53719
www.tatepublishing.com
1933290374 $16.95 1-888-361-9473
Don't Fear The Big Dogs is the very personal story of executive vice-president and part-owner of
five radio stations Bill Vancil, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January 2004. His
determination to overcome the attack on his body marks this remarkable, can-do memoir, which
also informs the reader of a scientifically advanced option to treat prostate cancer - a procedure
called proton radiation therapy, offered at only a few places in America. Told in plain terms, Don't
Fear The Big Dogs is filled cover to cover with personal inspiration, drive, and dedication.
Grape Man Of Texas
Sherrie S. McLeRoy & Roy E. Renfro
Eakin Press
PO Drawer 90159, Austin TX 78709-0159
www.eakinpress.com
1571688196 $39.95 1-800-880-8642
Grape Man Of Texas is the biography of Thomas V. Munson, a Texan credited with saving the
world's grape crops from the scourge of "phyloxera" more than a century ago. The collaborative
work of Sherrie S. McLeRoy (former museum curator and professional author) and Roy E.
Renfro (Vice President, Resource Development, Grayson County, Texas), Grape Man Of Texas
chronicles the life and work of a Texas horticulturist who, working from his North Texas base,
was able to develop more than three hundred new grape varieties suited for production in the
climates and terrains of the Southern United States, this was in addition to his innovative grafting
of "vinifera" onto certain native Texas rootstocks and thereby achieving a means of keeping the
growing of grapes as a viable commercial operation in the face of the "phyloxera" epidemic of the
late 1800s which almost wiped out the world's grape production. Munson was awarded numerous
accolades for his achievement, including the "Chevalier du Merite Agricole" in the French Legion
of Honor. This informative, recommended biography is enhanced with vintage photographs and
color reproductions of Munson's life and work.
Diego Rivera The Red
Guadalupe Rivera Marin
Arte Publico Press
University of Houston
452 Cullen Performance Hall, Houston, TX 77204-2004
www.artepublicopress.com
1558854347 $23.95 1-713-743-2999
Ably translated into English by Dick Gerdes, Diego Rivera The Red is written by Guadlupe
Rivera Marin, the daughter of the renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Rivera's murals and
paintings grace iconic buildings and cultural centers throughout Mexico as a result of his personal
commitment to making his art available to the working-class people he so often portrayed in his
works. In addition to his art, Rivera was also engaged in the struggle for societal change and
became an active participant in the movements of his day, including fighting alongside the
Zapatistas in the hills of southern Mexico and the socialist/anarchist revolutionaries on the streets
of Barcelona and Paris. This 256-page biography of Marin includes his encounters with and
attitudes towards such history making figures as Emiliano Zapata and Vladimir Lenin. Highly
recommended and very informative reading, Diego Rivera The Red is the definitive biography of a
most remarkably talented and quite passionately dedicated man of "interesting times" and
accomplishments.
This Life I've Loved: An Autobiography
Isobel Field
Great West Books
PO Box 1028, Lafayette, CA 94549
www.greatwestbooks.com
0944220185 $18.95 www.amazon.com
Isobel Field was the stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson and published her autobiography in
1937, covering her life from birth until 1894, when she was just 35. Her colorful life and memoir
tells of moves between mining camps in Texan and Nevada, months spent in the art worlds of
Europe, and her father author Robert Louis Stevenson. A lively first-person observational style
throughout keeps the stories alert and spicy.
In Black And White
Wil Haygood
Billboard Books/Watson-Guptill
770 Broadway, New York NY 10003
www.wgpub.com
0823083950 $19.95 1-800-451-1741
Wil Haywood, staff writer for the Washington Post, won the 2004 Hurston-Wright Legacy
Award in Nonfiction, plus a host of other awards for In Black And White: The Life Of Sammy
Davis Jr., so it's only fitting his impressive and entertaining biography of the life of Sammy Davis
Jr. be reprinted in paperback to reach new generations of audiences with his award-winning life of
one of America's most popular and versatile performers and entertainers of the 20th Century.
The Reluctant Spiritualist
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Harcourt Trade
15 East 26th St., New York NY 10010
www.harcourtbooks.com
0151010137 $25.00 1-800-543-1918
It began as a prank where Maggie Fox and her sister rapped out messages from the 'spirit world'
in 1948 and soon lead to a vast movement of believers in the otherworld - a movement Fox
eventually denounced forty years later, revealing her hoax. Maggie Fox's life, prank, and
phenomenon is revealed in The Reluctant Spiritualist, a powerful biographical coverage surveying
not just her prank and its powers, but the famous people of her era who became engrossed in the
promise of tangible evidence of an afterlife.
Full Bloom
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip
W.W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
www.wwnorton.com
0393058530 $35.00 1-800-233-4830
Georgia O'Keeffe has had numerous books written about her, focusing on both her art and her
life; but few have the impact and narrowed focus of Full Bloom: The Art And Life Of Georgia
O'Keeffe, discussing the passionate physical and artistic relationship of O'Keeffe and art
photographer Alfred Stieglitz. O'Keeffe's works, letters, and dozens of interviews blend with
Drohojowska-Philip's unique opportunity as the first biographer to have access to the complete
catalogue of O'Keeffe's works as well as access to Dorothy Norman. The result is a biography
with more depth than most.
Greenwood Publishing Group
88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
1-800-225-5800 www.greenwood.com
Greenwood's fine biographical series covers everything from notable modern figures to
historically significant contributors to science, politics and literature: these recent arrives are some
top picks for high school to college-level collections. Baseball fans will welcome Bruce
Markusen's Ted Williams (0313328676, $29.95), sure to be a lasting reference of the top baseball
hitter. Williams was the last player to hit .400 in the Major Leagues and his biography cover his
batting wins, his service in two wars, and his Major League highlights. Also a baseball winner,
Lou Gehrig is profiled in William C. Kashatus' biography (0313328668, $29.95), telling of a
player whose record for consecutive games stood for decades until broken in 1995. While most
recall him for the disease which claims his life, his baseball record is also of more than passing
note. Michael Dittman's Jack Kerouac (03133-28366, $29.95) tells of a literary figure who
became a cultural icon in the 19t0s, sparking a newfound interest in literature among young
people. Kerouac is identified with the Beat movement, utilized many of his own life events in
some of his finest works, and yet remains shrouded in myth in many similar coverages. Michael
Dittman focuses on the facts surrounding his life and literature and provides many alternative
views of these events which students should find intriguing. Patricia Cronin Marcello's Ralph
Nader (031333-0042, $29.95) provides an excellent biography of a politician who is certain to be
a lasting figure. Nader is known for advocating citizen rights and safety: his work in politics has
been long-time and this biography of his life promises lasting interest. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie's
Marie Curie (0313325294) tells of one of the most important women scientists in history - and
one of the most influential in the 20th century. Her work on radiation - which eventually killed her
- led to the discovery of two new elements and won her two Nobel Prizes, and her enigmatic
personality also is explored here.
The Criminology Shelf
Fleecing Grandma & Grandpa
Betty L. Alt & Sandra K. Wells
Praeger Publishers
88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
0275981797 $34.95 greenwood.com
The elderly are particularly susceptible to scams and cons and new ones pop up each day: that's
why Fleecing Grandma And Grandpa: Protecting Against Scams, Cons, And Frauds is so
important as a basic consumer reference: it covers everything from identity theft and
telemarketing fraud to caregiver scams, it follows case histories and descriptions with preventative
advice, and its absorption will make for a more savvy senior.
Cracking More Cases
Dr. Henry C. Lee & Thomas W. O'Neil
Prometheus Books
59 John Glenn Dr., Amherst, NY 14228
www.prometheusbooks.com
1591021995 $26.00 1-800-421-0351
While other books probe forensic techniques in crime-solving, Cracking More Cases: The
Forensic Science Of Solving Crimes: The Michael Skakel-martha Moxley Case, The Jonbenet
Ramsey Case And Many More! probes some of the cases of one of the 'legends' in his industry,
Dr. Henry C. Lee, presenting his personal descriptions of his work on five puzzling homicide
cases. The entire process from initial puzzle to final conclusion is presented in a set of case
histories capturing the gripping moments of forensic science. Cracking More Cases is especially
commended reading for fans of the CSI series and students of Forensic Medicine.
Arcata Eye
PO Box 451, Arcata, CA 95521-0451
www.arcataeye.com
Crime logs: you may have them in your own local paper, often buried towards the back pages and
dutifully recounting all reported crimes from stick-ups to graffiti and drunks. Well, there's more to
it than simple narration of criminals and victims, especially if the "Arcata Eye" and Kevin L.
Hoover are involved. The Police Log (0974766208, $12.95), taken from the pages of the Arcata
Eye, adds an extra dose of insight to reports: "Imagine the creep-out factor: a resident of the 1600
block of 11th Street went out to her car and found the door opened and the inside rummaged
through. What scaly, wraithlike hands had passed over her stuff?" Arranged by type of crime
reported, from 'Critters' to 'Love', The Police Log alternate poignant observation with laughs.
Want more? Then his Police Log II: The Nimrod Imbroglios (0974766216, $16.95) is the item of
choice, providing even more laughs and oddities from the small California town of Arcata's police
logs. It's an offbeat brand of media humor evident in these wonderfully refreshing slices of honesty
from the police logs of life, and you don't have to be from Arcata to get the jokes, either.
The Computer Shelf
Real-Time Cinematography For Games
Brian Hawkins
Charles River Media
10 Downer Ave., Hingham, MA 02043
1584503084 $49.95 charlesriver.com
Modern game player expect high-tech cinematography in their games, which demands game
programmers understand the basics of lighting, camera positioning, and more. If it's a brush-up on
the basics and insights into how programmer translates into high-quality real-time gaming which is
needed, then Brian Hawkins' Real-time Cinematography For Games is your ticket. Hawkins is
well versed in using scripted character animation and game development routines: his expertise
translates to technical discussions which explain how to translate programming techniques into
effective games. Programmers who have basic programming and graphics concepts down already
will find Real-Time Cinematography takes the next step.
Cisco Press
800 E. 96th St., Indianapolis IN 46240
www.itu.int/publications
Paul Giralt, Addis Hallmark and Anne Smith's A Cisco Avvid Solution: Troubleshooting Cisco IP
Telephony (1587050-757, $60.00) isn't for the faint of heart: it's a solution-oriented technical
reference of master troubleshooting techniques for Cisco IP Telephony professionals, covering
methodologies for all parts of telephony, IP phones, Call Manager, gateways and more. Learn
what troubleshooting tools are out there and how they work, learn to resolve gateway problems
using a successful breakdown strategy, and uncover the causes of problems before they limit a
system using A Cisco Avvid Solution's in-depth technical specs. For a handy companion volume
on the topic, choose Stephanie L. Carhee's The Road To IP Telephony: How Cisco Systems
Migrated From PBX To IP Telephony (1587200-880, $34.95), a survey of how Cisco
successfully moved its own organization to a coverged networking system. This isn't just a
history: it covers what worked, what didn't, and how the decision was made to move to IP
Telephony for the first time. In understanding the paths Cisco choose to make its move, similar
businesses can learn from experience - and managers will learn how to manage the process of
change.
Aggressive Network Self-Defense
Neil R. Wyler, Tech Editor
Syngress Press
800 Hingham St., Rockland, MA 02370
1931836205 $49.95 www.syngress.com
Most computer security books focus on how to defend a computer system or network from
outside attack: that's the basic difference between them and Neil R. Wylder's Aggressive Network
Self-Defense: I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore! The focus here is on the
technical, legal and financial ramifications of a 'strike-back' and 'active defense' program which
promotes doing more than just defense. Chapters cover 'cyber dogfights' between hackers and
defender/attackers, offers up tales of revenge and following the trail of an attacker, accounts of
fights at different network levels, and stories of problem-solving in network attacks. Both fictional
and many real-life scenarios are covered, with plenty of technical computer detail. A lively,
satisfying book for all levels of computer user, but particularly administrators who want to do
more than just defend.
New Riders
800 E 96th St, Indianapolis, IN 46240
www.newriders.com
Two excellent guides are recommended picks. Catherine Seda's Search Engine Advertising:
Buying Your Way To The Top To Increase Sales (0735713995, $29.99) tells how to use a
combination of keywords, paid placement programs, and search engines to use the internet to
reach the right customers. The emphasis isn't just on creating new revenue sources, but on
tracking it, monitoring profits, and protecting a site from fraud. Programmers interested in game
programming will relish Wendy Stahler, Dustin Clingman and Kaveh Kahrizi's Beginning Math
And Physics For Game Programmers (0735713-901, $45.00), focusing on the basic elements
necessary to program games. Chapters consider 3D simulation environments and the math
concepts backing them, key formulas used for game development. C++ routines, and more,
including exercises with each section, an answer key, and an approach which hones not only math
and physics but programming skills. A 'must' for any beginning to program games.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Idea Kit
Lisa Matthews
Adobe Press
c/o Pearson Technology Group
801 East 96th Street, #300, Indianapolis, IN 46240-3759
www.mcp.com
0321270797 $19.99 1-800-428-5331
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Idea Kit is a slim but idea-packed sourcebook of creative
applications and tips, tricks, and techniques for getting the most out of Adobe Photoshop
Elements 3.0. Written by Adobe Systems insider Lisa Matthews, Idea Kit is packed with full-color
illustrations revealing its tips, tricks, and techniques from how to remove red-eye and touch-up
photos to applying ready-made templates on the accompanying CD-ROM to create stickers,
T-shirts, and tattoos, and much more. Straightforward instructions clarify everything from basic
functions to design tips such as the "rule of thirds" for shooting panoramic images to be merged
and much more. A superb introduction to what Adobe Photoshop is capable of.
Alpha/Penguin Group
375 Hudson St., New York NY 10014
$19.95 Each www.idiotsguides.com
Two new 'Complete Idioit's Guide' titles are designed to provide step-by-step instructions any
idiot could understand. Ron Black's Project Management With Microsoft Project 2003
(1592573088) covers all the basics for handling Microsoft Project 2003, 2000 and 2002,
providing updated terms, tips for approaching workgroup projects and communication
requirements, and project presentation. Chapters show how to both operate the application itself
and get the most from project goals. Barbara Weltman's Starting An eBay Business
(1592-573339) covers all the basics of starting an online ebay business, from insurance coverage
and handling sales tax quirks between states to advertising, promotion, accepting and pursuing
payments and more. Those who recall the old ebay auction-only model will find much changed:
you can now set up a shop with fixed prices on ebay and Starting An eBay Business covers both
stores and auction formats.
Struts Recipes
George Franciscus & Danilo Gurovich
Manning Publications Company
209 Bruce Park Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830
1932394249 $44.95 www.manning.com
J2EE consultant and Struts authority George Franciscus and web engineer Danilo Gurovich
present Struts Recipes, a programming guide written especially for developers and architects who
need to craft secure, robust, and maintainable applications, particularly for business or commercial
use. Chapters instruct the reader in how to unit test an application for function, performance, and
coverage; how to make an application secure; how to integrate with Hibernate; dealing with
exceptions; generating alternative views with PDF and XSL; how to design a layered Struts
application; and much more. Each offered recipe is designed to be adaptable to the user's need, as
well as speedy to learn and apply, and the list of recommended "best practices" such as "Do not
use wild cards in Ant scripts" and "Prefer classes over interfaces to store constants" will keep
one's code legible and easily modifiable to co-workers, assistants or successors. A "must-have"
for any serious-minded Struts programmer.
Fun with Photoshop Elements 3
Rhoda Grossman
Sams Publishing
c/o Pearson Technology Group
801 East 96h Street, #300, Indianapolis, IN 46240-3759
www.mcp.com
0672327309 $24.99 1-800-428-5331
Photoshop expert Rhoda Grossman's Fun With Photoshop Elements 3: Foto-Fak-ery For
Everyone superbly showcases just what can be done for fun with Photoshop! Extraordinarily
informative, even the most novice user of Photoshop software can immediately engage the
program and turn out fun and useful projects. Readers will learn all about key Photoshop
Elements tools in a thoroughly "user friendly" and hands-on approach. Sidebars provide additional
information for Photoshop CS users. The diverse projects provided as learning templates and
examples include: combining the best elements of two photos into one finished image; head
transplants; background switches; extreme makeovers for your face, clothes, and home; grafting
animal images together to create comical beasts undreamed of through evolution; editing people
into and out of images; creating artistic greeting cards, outrageous T-shirts, personalized
calendars, phony product labels, fake street signs and so much more. 224 pages.
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
1005 Gravenstein, Highway N, Sebastopol, CA 95472-2811
1-800-998-9938 www.oreilly.com
These excellent new references will find good homes with computer users seeking solutions to
common problems, and practical applications. Matthew MacDonald's Excel: The Missing Manual
(0596006-640, $39.95) provides exceptionally clear details, from how to understand spreadsheets
and what separates a professional one from an amateur effort, to tips on writing formulas and use
functions, and understanding how Excel can interact with other programs. Excel: The Missing
Manual covers versions 2002 and 2003, and is simply packed with screen shot examples, tips to
tracking down templates and creating effective charts, and advanced functions such as pivot tables
and VBA language. Very highly recommended. Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest's Google Hacks
(0586008570, $24.95) tells how to work more effectively with Google's unique search engine,
how to pull results from difficult places using advanced Google web functions, and how to
understand how Google ranks web sites for searches. Either frequent internet searchers or website
builders will find Google Hacks an essential guide. If you want to learn more about computer
history, don't miss Andy Hertzfeld's excellent Revolution In The Valley: The Insanely Great Story
Of How The Mac Was Made (0596007191, $24.95): the development of Macintosh is followed
from its inception as an underground research project in 1979 to its introduction in the 1980s.
This isn't just an outsider's view: author Andy Hertzfeld was a core member of the team that built
the Mac's systems, one of the few to work with Steve Jobs, and one of the pulses of the system:
add color photos and lively, personable writing style and you have a history any Mac enthusiast
will relish. Michael D. Bauer's Linux Server Security (0596006705, $44.95) isn't for the casual
learner; it's a computer toolbox in a book offering intermediate Linux system users a second
edition of a classic, adding numerous new security topics and discussions of encryption and mail
delivery processes for Linux system administrators and server hsts alike. You don't have to have a
security background to use Linux Server Security: just a working familiarity with the system
overall. Preston Gralla's Internet Annoyances (0596007353, $24.95) covers all the possible
annoyances of navigating the web; from spam and spyware to thwarting hackers and
troubleshooting connections with both cable and DSL. The emphasis on real-world common
gripes and solutions makes for a practical application guide. Kathy Iens' Home Networking
Annoyances (0596008082, $24.95) accomplishes the same for home networking problems, from
hardware and wireless problems to fighting worms, hackers, and more. From problems in saving
database files and communications to issues revolving around creating a mapped drive, Home
Networking Annoyances is packed with common problems and solutions in a question/answer
format lending to easy look-up. Patrick Collandre's Creating Photomontages With Photoshop: A
Designer's Notebook (0596008589, $24.95) is a recommended reference for advanced Photoshop
users who have the basics down: photomontages are multiple images skillfully combined to
provide new thought-provoking results, and William Rodamor translates from its original French
an extraordinary feast of Photoshop photomontage results from a variety of leading French artists,
using the projects to demonstrate execution steps and the finer art of special effects.
The Artbook Shelf
Edward Hopper's New York
Avis Berman
Pomegranate Communications, Inc.
Box 808022, Petaluma, CA 94975-8022
www.pomegranate.com
0764931547 $30.00 1-800-227-1428
With an informed and informative text by New York resident, writer and art historian Avis
Berman, Edward Hopper's New York showcases more than 50 color and b/w paintings, etchings
and drawings focusing exclusively on famed artist's Edward Hopper's New York City inspired
artwork. Many of the artworks have a paragraph of commentary exclusive to them, but the
overall narrative tour continues from cover to cover. Realistic in its artistic style, with a slightly
softer than life texture to the paintings that is just about the only thing that prevents one from
mistaking them for photographs, Edward Hopper's New York is a unique tour of the city
itself.
April Gornik
Donald Kuspit & Dede Young
Hudson Hills Press
PO Box 205, 74-2 Union Street, Manchester, VT 05254
1555952038 $50.00 hudsonhills.com
April Gornik: Paintings And Drawings is a collaboration between the Neuberger Museum of Art
(Purchase, New York) and the Hudson Hills Press. Featuring an informative essay Fictional
Freedom: April Gornik's Landscapes by distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit, and a conversation
by Dede Young (curator of Modern and contemporary Art for the Neuberger Museum of Art)
with April Gornik on and about here work, this superbly presented 167-page monograph
beautifully showcases April Gornik's stunningly impressive ethereal landscapes, flawless technical
skills, and her own unique "inner eye" as an artist revealing here aesthetic interpretation of natural
images. Additionally enhanced with listings of exhibitions, collections, awards, bibliography, and
an index, April Gornik is an important, core addition to personal and academic 20th Century Art
History collections.
Artist's Materials
Lorraine Harrison
Firefly Books Ltd.
4 Daybreak Lane, Westport, CT 06880
www.fireflybooks.com
1552979954 $35.00 1-800-387-5085
Artists receive a comprehensive, in-depth guide to the range of materials used today, from
applicability to specific kinds of projects to various techniques specific to different mediums, from
blending and mixing colors to layering applications on different papers. What sets Lorraine
Harrison's Artist's Materials: All The Materials You Will Ever Need To Make Art apart from
competitors is a powerful visual approach which illustrates the results of techniques and materials
applications.
The Art Of Charles Partridge Adams
Dorothy Dines, et al.
Fulcrum Publishing
350 Indiana Street, #350, Golden, CO 80401-5093
www.fulcrum-books.com
1555915434 $24.95 1-800-992-2908
Charles Partridge Adams was a major Colorado landscape painter during the 19th and early 20th
centuries, focusing on the mountains and plains of his area and producing Colorado landscapes
which earned him acclaim. The collaborative effort of Dorothy Dines, Stephen J. Leonard, and
Stanley L. Cuba, The Art Of Charles Partridge Adams reproduces some ninety of his works of
Colorado, California, New England and Europe alike, including some preliminary sketches and
journal selections to round out the offerings. A lively tribute to Adams and his life's work
Tim Hawkinson
Lawrence Rinder, et al.
Whitney Museum of American Art
c/o Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
www.abramsbooks.com
0874271444 $60.00 1-800-759-0190
Painter, sculpture, photographer, printmaker, and multi-media artist Tim Hawkinson is primarily
known for his large-scale kinetic and sound-producing works. He has also created such eccentric
art as a bird skeleton utilizing his own fingernail parings, a latex cast of his body inflated with air,
and clocks fashioned from a Coke can, a manila envelope, and a toothpaste tube. Now for the first
time, modern art enthusiasts can explore the art of this exceptional and versatile American artist in
Tim Hawkinson by Lawrence Rinder (Adjunct Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art).
Assisted by Howard N. Fox (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art) and Doug Harvey (art critic and writer for LA Weekly), Rinder has compiled this
accompaniment to the display of Hawkinson's art and artistry showcased in an exhibit at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The 250 color illustrations are enhanced with
three informed and informative essays, along with the artist's own commentary on more than 150
of his diverse, often ground-breaking work. Tim Hawkinson is an impressive contribution to both
academic and community library Contemporary American Art History collections.
The Garden Of Art
Don Kerr
University of Calgary Press
2500 Unviersity Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
www.uofcpress.com
1552381226 $29.95 1-800-565-3770
Artist Vic Cicansky has been creating garden sculptures which are whimsical and fun, for over
forty years: The Garden Of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor celebrates his style with a biographical
and artistic coverage: the first book-length treatment of his work. Undoubtedly there will be many
who will not have heard of Cicansky: don't let that stop you: pages come packed with black and
white and color examples of the man and his many works, while text fills in biographical and
artistic insights.
David Aronson
Asher D. Biemann
Pucker Art Publications
c/o Syracuse University Press (dist.)
1600 Jamesville Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210
www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu
1879985128 $90.00 1-800-365-8929
David Aronson: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture is a truly beautiful, full-color coffee table book
displaying and showcasing the artistic creations of David Aronson, an immigrant artist of Jewish
background and cultural heritage who has deftly incorporated Christological, Jewish, mystical and
modernist motifs. Works from 1946 to 2002 fill the pages of this fantastic volume, surely the next
best thing to viewing Aronson's art in person. Most of the pages are devoted entirely to pictures
of art, many of which have a soft blurred color tone and fuzzy delineations that give them a feel of
transition between the borders of existential planes. A medium-length essay by Dr. Asher
Biemann, Assistant Professor for Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Virginia, and a
transcript of a 1967 lecture by Aronson himself round out this superb volume.
The Theatre/Cinema/TV Shelf
Casting Directors' Secrets
Ginger Howard Friedman
Limelight Editions
118 East 30th St., New York, NY 10016
www.limelighteditions.com
0879103094 $16.95 1-800-554-0626
Now in a newly updated and significantly expanded edition, Casting Directors' Secrets: Inside
Tips For Successful Auditions by actress, acting teacher, concert producers, and Broadway
casting director Ginger Howard Friedman is a wide-ranging manual packed with welcome advice
on everything from audition etiquette to choosing and performing monologues, effective use of
the voice and body, "ice cold" readings, conquering callbacks, keeping realistic expectations and
much more. The no-nonsense style of writing will instantly appeal to career-minded acting
professionals and casually interested lay readers alike. An extremely practical, plain-terms
handbook strongly recommended for aspiring actors everywhere, Casting Directors' Secrets offers
no-frills straight talk on an often mystifying process.
Ridiculous!
David Kaufman
Applause Theatre Books
c/o Hal Leonard Corporation
151 W. 46th Street, 8th fl , NY, NY 10036
www.applausepub.com
155783637X $26.95 1-800-637-2852
Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life And Times Of Charles Ludlam is the award-winning biography of
an especially talented man who first appeared in in an Off-Broadway production in the early 1960s
and continued with a theatrical passion until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987 at the age of
44. Ludlam's theatrical genius included a pioneer of drag performance, a practice since adopted
into mainstream entertainment and comedy. Ludlam's exuberant personality is wondrously
captured through meticulous detail, numerous quotes from those who knew him, and insert
sections of black-and-white photographs. An impressive life's record of an entertainer whose flair
for life itself cannot be underestimated.
The Yakuza Movie Book
Mark Schilling
Stone Bridge Press
PO Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707
www.stonebridge.com
1880656760 $19.95 1-800-947-7271
A resident of Japan and a teacher of Japanese film at Tokyo International University, Mark
Schilling has also been reviewing films for the "Japan Times" since 1989. He brings that special
expertise to bear in The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide To Japanese Gangster Films. Filled with
director profiles and interviews, actor profiles and interviews, 123 film reviews, and
black-and-white photographs, The Yakuza Movie Book is an absolute "must-have" for anyone
enthusiastically interested in Japan's underworld as depicted on the cinema screen. A guide to
finding films on video and DVD as well as a bibliography and glossary round out this excellent
and literate guide written by a connoisseur, for connoisseurs.
Everything Was Possible
Ted Chapin
Applause Books
151 W. 46th St., New York NY 10036
www.applausepub.com
1557836531 $17.95 1-800-637-2852
Recommended for fans of the musical is one of the best books you'll see on how major Broadway
production was created: Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible: The Birth Of The Musical
Follies. Chapin's insider's account tells a bewitching story of the musical's evolution, from its
initial casting to rehearsals, growth, and the fostering of stars. All the roots of a major Broadway
production are clarified and given lively analysis, with plenty of first-person insights and
observations throughout. The next best thing to attending a Broadway musical in production!
Encyclopedia Of Superheroes On Film And Television
John Kenneth Muir
McFarland & Company
PO Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640
www.mcfarlandpub.com
0786417234 $59.95 1-800-253-2187
Most coverages of superheroes focus on comic books and illustrators for the comic book world.
John Kenneth Muir's Encyclopedia Of Superheroes On Film And Television narrows the focus to
film and television superheroes, with entries by show discussing shows ranging from short-run
productions like 'Isis' to 'M.A.N.T.I.S', 'Shazam!' and more. Each film and show receives critical
quotes, overviews of plot and premise, cast and crew listings, and seasonal episode overviews. An
excellent and recommended reference for film and television buffs.
Hollywood In Wide Angle
Jack Rothman
Scarecrow Press
4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706
www.scarecrowpress.com
081085015X $24.95 1-800-462-6420
Hollywood In Wide Angle: How Directors View Filmmaking is a fascinating, insightful, and at
times very blunt view of the ins and outs of the film trade specifically from the view of more than
thirty directors, all interviewed by social scientist Jack Rothman with the guarantee their
responses would remain anonymous. The result is a bitingly canded of everything wrong in the
American film industry today, and perhaps the occasional acknowledgement of the few things that
have not completely soured yet. From regret over award-winning foreign films that are shown in
barely 2 theaters in the U.S., to reactions to studio's emphasis on the bottom line that puts
increasing pressure and control, forcing directors to shoot in other nations or to modify the film
according to audience testing, to the practice of replacing seasoned or visionary directors with
"shooters" - young kids straight out of film school who will work for less and be easier to control
- Hollywood In Wide Angle dishes out the dirt and offers a hard, realistic look at the industry.
Fascinating for the lay reader, and an absolute must-read for anyone interested in getting into the
director trade - there is no better place to learn about the hard knocks of directing short of
interviewing 30 directors personally.
The Science Shelf
The Volcano Adventure Guide
Rosaly Lopes
Cambridge University Press
40 West 20th St., NY, NY 10011-4211
www.cambridge.org
0521554535 $50.00 1-800-872-7423
The Volcano Adventure Guide by Rosaly Lopes (a planetary volcanism expert for NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California) is a marvel for both amateur volcano enthusiasts
and professional volcanologists. Written especially for those who desire to personally explore
volcanoes without being foolish or taking reckless risks, chapters are packed with advice for
preparing for a volcano trip, including how to avoid common dangers, contact details for societies
and holiday companies offering volcano tours, geological and travel maps, tour descriptions of 42
different volcanoes and much more. As enjoyable for the armchair traveler as it is for the gung-ho
enthusiast determined to see a volcano up close and personal, The Volcano Adventure Guide is a
delight enhanced with full-color photographs cover to cover.
Fossil Revolution
Douglas Palmer
HarperUK/Trafalgar Square, dist.
PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257
www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com
0007118287 $29.95 1-800-423-4525
Fossil discoveries have changed our ideas of Earth's history and the nature of humanity itself: yet
modern man wasn't the only one who appreciated fossils: early man collected them too. Fossil
Revolution documents the particular finds that helped change views of the past and world history,
packing in b/w and color illustrations to add life to the accounts of fossil research and discovery.
Lay readers will find Fossil Revolution quite accessible.
The Travel Shelf
Artwalks In New York
Marina Harrison & Lucy D. Rosenfeld
New York University Press
838 Broadway, 3rd fl., NY, NY 10003
www.nyupress.org
0814736610 $17.95 1-800-996-6987
Art enthusiasts who also love the big city will relish this third revised, updated edition of Artwalks
In New York: Delightful Discoveries Ofp Ublic Art And Gardens In Manhattan, Brooklyn,
Queens, The Bronx And Staten Island. Here are over thirty walking tours paired with simple
maps, written directions, and details covering all boroughs in New York, including not just
museums but auction galleries, parks, hotel lobbies and subway stations alike. Anywhere in the
region where superior art is to be found, Artwalks In New York guides you there.
Tokyo City Atlas
Kodansha America, Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10022
www.kodansha-intl.com
4770025033 $24.00 1-800-451-7556
Now in an updated and expanded third edition, Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide is a
comprehensive, "user friendly" English/Japanese collection of 51 maps invaluable to business and
leisure travelers visiting Japan's capital city. 21 area maps of Metropolitan Tokyo list not only
chome numbers but also block numbers (banchi); 18 maps of Central Tokyo include guidance to
numbered subway station entrances; 7 maps of central Yokohama and Kawaski and access maps
to U.S. Military bases Yokosuka, Yokota, and Zama round out this useful and practical full-color
resource. An English/Japanese index allows for fast consultation in this "must-have" for
Tokyo-bound tourists, students, and business travelers.
Wilderness Press
1200 - 5th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
www.wildernesspress.com
If only one book on California's scenic Point Reyes National Seashore were to be chosen as a
take-along tote or basic destination-oriented reference, it should be Jessica Lage's Point Reyes:
The Complete Guide To The National Seashore & Surrounding Area (0899973507, $15.95).
Why? It not only includes the anticipated maps and park suggestions, but rounds out the tips on
hiking and trails with small town local higlights, a seasonal calendar of nature's cycles and local
cultural events, and includes trail distance, type, difficulty and park facilities ratings. Armed with
this information, would-be campers and day visitors like are fully able to plan strategies for either
a few hours, a few days, or a few weeks in the park and surrounding area. Oh, and don't forget
Wilderness Press' waterproof recreational map Point Reyes National Seashore And West Marin
Parklands (0899973558, $9.95): it shows all established trails, parking, campsites, restroom, and
more. California travelers and residents should also be sure Analise Elliot's Hiking & Backpacking
Big Sur (0899973254, $19.95) is a basic part of any take-along tote to Big Sur: this complete
guide to trails not only covers Big Sur wilderness area, but the nearby Ventana and Silver Peak
Wilderness areas as well. From day hikes to longer backpacking routes, details include trails,
facilities, difficulty ratings, and recommended 'theme hikes' for any type of mood or ability.
Bijaboji: North To Alaska By Oar
Betty Lowman Carey , author
Neil G. Carey, editor
Harbour Publishing
PO Box 219, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0
www.harbourpublishing.com
1550173405 $34.95 1-604-883-2730
In 1937 one Betty Carey embarked on the ultimate adventure, rowing from Puget sound Alaska
by dugout canoe but her adventure didn't end there. Her explorations of the Inside Passage and
adventures with loggers, lightkeepers, fishermen, missionaries and other residents recounted in
Bijaboji: North To Alaska By Oar creates an astounding adventure story armchair readers won't
want to miss.
Hunter Publishing
130 Campus Plaza Dr., Edison, NJ 098818
www.hunterpublishing.com
Two excellent guides make fine planner references for destination-oriented travelers; especially
those who wish outdoor adventures. Bette Flagler's New Zealand Adventure Guide (1588434052,
$21.99) is an activity guide packed with detail on everything from horseback riding and camping
to fishing, cruising, hiking and more. Chapters are organized regionally and make it easy to look
up local accommodations and eateries, inland and water adventures, and even small local maps for
quick consultation. Chelle Koster Walton's third edition of Tampa Bay & Florida's West Coast
(1588433501, $18.99) is out, and it updates all the basics on accommodations, restaurants,
natural areas and historic sites alike. This adventure-oriented guide outlines the best in inland and
water trips, includes museums and shopping, and provides an outdoor focus and budget-minded
focus which will appeal to trip planners.
The Jobs/Careers Shelf
Get Hired Fast!
Brian Graham
Adams Media Corporation
57 Littlefield St., Avon, MA 02322
1593372639 $9.95 1-800-872-5627
Get Hired Fast! Tap The Hidden Job Market In 15 Days is a guide to using a direct-calling
strategy to get a job quickly in the wake of dot-com failures, increased automization, and other
twenty-first century obstacles that make earning a living more difficult than ever before. Chapters
addressed how to break the old rules when they don't work, how to identify key contacts in target
companies, how to follow through and nail the job, staying even keel in a face-to-face interview,
how to keep a new job once one has it, why it is important to keep looking even when one has a
job, and more. Management expert Brian Graham offers the benefit of his many years of expertise
in plain terms, in this practical "how-to" manual that walks the reader through direct calling and
beyond step-by-step.
The World History Shelf
Tarquinia: An Etruscan City
Robert Leighton
Duckworth
c/o International Publishers Marketing
22841 Quicksilver Dr., Dulles, VA 20166
www.ducknet.co.uk
0715631624 $27.00 1-800-758-3756
University of Edinburgh Archaeology Lecturer Robert Leighton presents Tarquinia: An Etruscan
City, a historical account of one of the great cities of ancient Etruria, one of the most powerful
and creative civilizations of pre-Roman Italy. Charting Tarquinia's growth from prehistory to late
antiquity, Tarquinia: An Etruscan City covers everything from what modern archaeology can tell
us about the society to literary impressions of Tarquinia by great writers and poets such as
Stendhal and D.H. Lawrence. An extensively researched and scholarly historical account,
illustrated throughout with black-and-white diagrams and photographs, ideal for college library
collections and historical reference shelves.
Gates Of Africa
Anthony Sattin
St. Martin's Press
175 - 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010
www.stmartins.com
0312336438 $27.95 1-888-330-8477
In 1899 in London a group of geographers, scholars, and traders decided it was time to solve
Africa's mysteries: they formed the African Association, the world's first geographical society, and
several over decades sent adventurers to explore the 'dark continent'. These early adventurers
were to change the image and shape of Africa, and Anthony Sattin describes their journeys of
adventure in The Gates Of Africa, lending a lively and engrossing atmosphere of adventure and
discovery to the account. Sattin is a journalist and broadcaster who himself has traveled
extensively over the region in which the early African Association operated: his personal
familiarity with the area lends Gates Of Africa an additional air of authority.
The Political Science Shelf
Dick: The Man Who is President
John Nichols
The New Press
38 Greene Street, New York NY 10013
www.newpress.com
1565848403 $23.95 1-800-233-4830
George Bush may officially hold the power, but Dick Cheney is the real man in office: that's the
message of John Nichols' Dick: The Man Who Is President, an unauthorized first biography of the
most powerful VP in American history. From his involvements in Reagan-era scandals to his
promotion of the war in Iraq, John Nichols' close inspection of Dick Cheney is damning and
eye-opening.
The Cookbook Shelf
Yogi In The Kitchen
Elaine Gavalas, M.A., M.S.
Avery/Penguin
375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014
www.us.penguingroup.com
1583332022 $17.95 1-800-847-5515
For Yogi In The Kitchen, author Elaine Gavalas draws upon her years of experience and expertise
as a yoga instructor, exercise physiologist, nutritionist, weight-management specialist, and kitchen
cook to provide more than 100 wonderfully presented recipes for dishes that are as good for the
soul as they are nourishing for the body. Embracing the philosophy that Yoga is about healthier
living in general, not just exercise, Yogi In The Kitchen begins with advice for eating the Yoga
way, including how to stock one's pantry and seek balance in one's diet, as well as tips for staying
healthy when eating out. Sample recipes include Baked Tofu and Vegetables, Garden de Vida
Smoothie, Fresh Fruit Sorbet, and more. An excellent resource for making light, healthy, and
fitness-promoting foods for oneself and one's family.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030-5773
1-800-225-5945 www.wiley.com
Widely acclaimed chef Leslie Revsin and prolific cookbook author Rick Rodgers present two new
mouth-watering cookbooks especially for folks who enjoy rich flavors but want to keep
preparation simple. The Simpler The Better: Sensational Italian Meals (0471482323, $17.95)
aptly proves that one doesn't have to spend hours simmering, stirring, roasting, and braising to
create mouth-watering Italian flavor - all of its recipes can be completed in less than an hour,
some in less than thirty minutes. Taste treats include Spaghetti with Grape Tomatoes and Pesto,
Arugula Blood Orange and Fennel Salad, Baked Apples with Amaretti Cookies and Mascarpone,
and so much more. The Simpler The Better: Sensational One-Dish Meals (0471482331, $17.95)
further extends upon the theme of reducing preparation hassle without sacrificing nutrition or
taste; the one-hour-or-less meals include Tuna, Sun-Dried Tomato, and White Bean Salad,
Spanish Chicken and Garbanzo Stew, Creamy Turkey Soup with Celery Dumplings, and many
more culinary delights. Both cookbooks are very highly recommended for anyone looking to
prepare truly fine dining in a limited time.
Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
North Atlantic Books
1435 Fourth St., Berkeley, CA 94710
www.northatlanticbooks.com
1556434650 $30.00 1-800-337-2665
Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens (one of the world's foremost experts in the
preparation and nutritional values of raw food consumption for the mind and body) offers
sophisticated recipes for true gourmet dining and drawn from multinational menus showcasing
natural, organic, living foods. Written and dedicated to those who wish to embrace eating patterns
that benefit not only themselves, but for the Earth's technology and inhabitants, Rainbow Green
Live-Food Cuisine encourages readers to select a diet that best fits one's unique constitution and
eat as nature itself intended. The first portion of Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine is filled
with advice and recommendations for structuring a diet tailored to one's needs; the second is filled
with mouth-watering recipes such as Southwestern Stuffing, Peace and Love Porridge (with
almonds and cranberries), Lemon Poppy Seed Biscotti . Addition tips on everything from proper
nutrition for children to preventing jet stress round out this wonderful raw foods cookbook and
dietary guide especially recommended for the health and ecology conscious.
American Sandwich
Becky Mercuri
Gibbs Smith
PO Box 667, Layton, UT 94041
www.gibbs-smith.com
1586854704 $12.95 1-800-748-5439
Regional American sandwich recipes from all fifty states are profiled in American Sandwich:
Great Eats From All 50 States, a unique cookbook which has gleaned sandwich recipes from
across the country, from diners to delis and beyond. Pair a state-by-state organization for quick
regional reference with introductions to each outlining the best delis and sandwich houses and
recipes of many delights and you have a fun, appealing celebration of the sandwich which even
Dagwood would enjoy.
Flavorful India
Priti Chitnis Gress
Hippocrene Books, Inc.
171 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10016
www.hippocrenebooks.com
0781810604 $22.50 1-212-685-4371
Flavorful India: Treasured Recipes From A Gujarati Family is a collection of authentic family
recipes from Gujarat, a state in western India famous for its flavorful vegetarian dishes. An
introduction to Gujarati culture and basic information about common spices, ingredients, and
utensils in Gujarati cooking begins this cookbook of taste treats such as Sesame-Nutmeg Squares,
Stuffed Banana Peppers, Chicken Biryani, Mango Frozen Yogurt, and so much more. Each recipe
is prefaced with a tip about how to prepare it, where to find ingredients, or the ideal situations to
serve it. An index for quick and easy reference rounds out this welcome contribution to
internationally themed cookbook shelves.
Eldorado Grill Cookbook
Kevin Tubb
Itchy Cat Press
5452 Hwy. K, Blue Mounds, WI 53517
0976145006 $20.95 1-608-924-1443
Kevin Tubb is the executive chef of the Eldorado Grill in Madison, Wisconsin and draws upon his
many years of experience and expertise in preparing uniquely flavorful dishes showcasing
Southern, Texan, and Southwestern dishes ranging from a truly classic Chicken Fried Steak to
Jalape¤o Lemon Chicken Breast; Four Cheese Chiles Rellenos; and Cochinita Pibil (Achiote Pork
Stew). Not to be missed are Tubb's colorful tequila recipes including City Slicker, Blazing Saddle,
and Eldorado Margarita. Enhanced with menus and ideas for pairing sauces and side dishes with
all manner of meats and entrees, Eldorado Grill Cookbook: Southwestern Cuisine is as much fun
to browse through as it is to cook from. The Eldorado Grill Cookbook is a welcome,
recommended, and "kitchen cook friendly" addition to any and all family cookbook
collections.
Delicious Heart-Healthy Meals In No Time
Charlene Bolstad
Que Publishing
801 East 96h Street, #300, Indianapolis, IN 46240-3759
www.mcp.com
0789733544 $16.95 1-800-428-5331
Charlene Bolstad's "user friendly" and enthusiastically recommended compendium of kitchen cook
friendly recipes comprising Delicious Heart Healthy Meals In No Time is the heart-conscious
person's 216 page "food bible". Filled from cover to cover with an impressive diversity of
delicious recipes that can be made quickly and easily, anyone can awaken their family's bored
taste-buds to a new world of mouth-watering, low-fat, low-cholesterol meals for any and all
occasions. By using easy-to-find ingredients and including tips on food substitutions, dietary menu
planning, as well as ways to cook ahead for the week, kitchen cooks drawing upon the diverse
culinary delights comprising Delicious Heart Healthy Meals In No Time will have their loved ones
eating healthier, tastier meals with timely efficiency for today's busy lifestyles!
Africa Uncorked
John and Erica Platter
Wine Appreciation Guild
360 Swift Avenue, Unit 34, South San Francisco CA 94080
www.wineappreciation.com
1891267523 $24.95 www.amazon.com
John and Erica Platter helped bring south African wine to the knowledge of the rest of the world
with the country's first wine travel guide, and their Africa Uncorked, Travels In Extreme Wine
Territory follows the idea of unusual African wines through Africa in a travelogue which journeys
from Algeria to Madagascar and beyond. Unusual wine and food discoveries, strange characters,
and adventure permeates Africa Uncorked, which provides equal attention to cultural and culinary
discoveries on the continent. A bold topic, a bold adventure, and a bold approach makes Africa
Uncorked hard to put down.
Sweetness & Light
Hattie Ellis
Harmony Books
1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019
www.randomhouse.com
1400054052 $23.00 1-800-726-0600
It's amazing to receive two books on honey and honeybees virtually simultaneously from different
publishers, but that's how the publishing world goes, and Sweetness And Light is one of the two,
following the stories of bees and honey from ancient to modern times. Hattie Ellis' history blends
social issues, science, travel and nature insights, and comes from a columnist who specializes in
writing about food. Lively anecdotes follow the history, especially the individuals involved in
pioneering discoveries in the field. A 'must' for honey historians.
Kyle Books
c/o National Book Network
4501 Forbes Blvd., Lanham, MD 20706
www.kylecathie.com
The Iberian Peninsula has long been noted for its culinary traditions, influenced by the passage of
many different peoples throughout history: and who better to explore this rich diversity than
Elisabeth Luard, a winning food writer who has brought her children up in Andalusia and spent
much of her own childhood in Spain. The Food Of Spain And Portugal: A Regional Celebration
(1904920101 $29.95) melds history and food insights, providing chapters packed with color
photos, recipes, and plenty of historic background. Recipes range from very easy - such as
Scrambled Eggs with Chorizo - to more complex, as in a complex and lovely Spiced Braised
Oxtail. Dedicated cookbook enthusiasts shouldn't miss Darina Allen's Irish Traditional Cooking
(190492-011X, $19.95), either: anecdotes and history also blend with recipes exploring the dishes
which are central to Irish culture. You may need some specialty ingredients to follow such dishes
as Rowanberry Preserves or Medlar Jelly; but most of the dishes are simple, made from
ingredients easy to locate.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030-5773
1-800-225-5945 www.wiley.com
Widely acclaimed chef Leslie Revsin collaborated with prolific cookbook author Rick Rodgers to
present two new mouth-watering cookbooks in the John Wiley & Sons "The Simpler The Better"
which is especially intended for those who enjoy rich flavors but want to keep preparation easy
and "kitchen cook firendly". The Simpler The Better: Sensational Italian Meals (0471482323,
$17.95) proves that one doesn't have to spend hours simmering, stirring, roasting, and braising to
create mouth-watering Italian flavor - all of its recipes can be completed in less than an hour,
some in less than thirty minutes. Taste treats include Spaghetti with Grape Tomatoes and Pesto,
Arugula Blood Orange and Fennel Salad, Baked Apples with Amaretti Cookies and Mascarpone,
and much more. The Simpler The Better: Sensational One-Dish Meals (0471482-331, $17.95)
further extends upon the theme of reducing preparation hassle without sacrificing nutrition or
taste; the one-hour-or-less meals include Tuna, Sun-Dried Tomato, and White Bean Salad,
Spanish Chicken and Garbanzo Stew, Creamy Turkey Soup with Celery Dumplings, and so much
more. Both cookbooks are highly recommended for anyone looking to prepare fine dining in a
limited time.
The Health/Medicine Shelf
Nursing America
Sandy Balfour
Jeremy P. Tarcher
c/o The Penguin Group, USA
375 Hudson St, NY, NY 10014-3657
www.us.penguingroup.com
1585422819 $23.95 1-800-847-5515
Nursing America: One Year Behind The Nursing Stations Of An Inner-City Hospital by journalist
and television producer Sandy Balfour is a straightforward look at the daily lives of skilled nurses
who must deal with the tragedies of sickness and all too often violence in an urban American
public hospital. "Nobody ever came to the hospital to see a nurse", one of the profiled nurses
mentions, yet it is often the nurses whom the patients remember most vividly. Black-and-white
photographs illustrate this detailed account of a profession so often misunderstood, and the men
and women who hold human lives in their hands from day to day, as surely as air traffic
controllers and law enforcement officers do. Especially recommended for anyone looking to
better understand what a nurse's life is like, from students considering a career in the field to
writers striving to accurately portray nursing to lay readers looking to enrich their
knowledge.
Live Longer, Live Better
Peter H. Gott, M.D.
Quill Driver Books
1831 Industrial Way, #101, Sanger, CA 93657
www.QuillDriverBooks.com
1884956351 $14.95 1-800-497-4909
In Live Longer, Live Better: Taking Care Of Your Health After 50, popular medical columnist
and physician Peter H. Gott, offers the non-specialist general reader a straightforward primer for
all-around better health. Chapters address a wide range of common health concerns such as
hypertension, anxiety and depression, sex, diabetes, stroke, cholesterol, osteoporosis, memory
loss, senility and dementia, and much more. Presented in a simple question-and-answer format,
Live Longer, Live Better is recommended reading; the health advice is quite pertinent to all ages,
and in today's era of skyrocketing health care insurance prices, an ounce of prevention is worth
much more than a pound of cure.
The Natural Estrogen Diet & Recipe Book
Lana Liew, M.D. & Linda Ojeda
Hunter House Publishers
PO Box 2914, Alameda, CA 94501-2914
www.hunterhouse.com
0897934156 $14.95 1-800-266-5592
The Natural Estrogen Diet & Recipe Book by family physician Lana Liew and women's health
care expert Linda Ojeda is a guide to obtaining estrogen naturally through food, rather than
synthetically through hormone replacement therapy and medicines. Packed with simple, creative,
and delicious estrogen-rich recipes from Cooked Dried Chickpeas to Poached Spice Chicken,
Stir-Fried Tempeh and Vegetables, Banana Berry Whip and more, The Natural Estrogen Diet &
Recipe Book includes nutritional information concerning proteins, carbohydrates, fat/saturated
fat, sodium, fiber, and the amount of natural estrogen for each serving. Extensive information
concerning how estrogen foods can ease the transition through menopause, health concerns
regarding plant hormones for women, tips, tricks, and techniques for integrating natural estrogens
into one's life, and much more round out this welcome and recommended cookbook contribution
to women's health.
Clinical Care Of The Diabetic Foot
David G. Armstrong & Lawrence A. Lavery
American Diabetes Association
1701 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311-1717
http://store.diabetes.org
1580402232 $34.95 1-800-232-6733
Medical experts David Armstrong and Lawrence Lavery editorially collaborate in Clinical Care Of
The Diabetic Foot to present the reader with up to date information on all aspects of diabetes as
related to foot care and symptoms. Written especially as a handbook for foot care specialists, but
also useful to lay readers seeking to educate themselves concerning how to care for their own feet
or the feet of loved one's and hopefully prevent amputation, Clinical Care Of The Diabetic Foot
covers foot exams, wound care, managing infections, preventive footwear, charcot foot and
peripheral arterial disease, and much more. Black/white photographs, charts, and reference lists
round out this highly recommended and welcome contribution to medical handbook and diabetes
reference shelves.
The Estrogen Alternative
Raquel Martin & Judi Gerstung, D.C.
Healing Arts Press
One Park St., Rochester, VT 05767
www.innertraditions.com
1594770336 $16.95 1-800-246-8648
If The Estrogen Alternative: A Guide To Natural Hormonal Balance sounds familiar, that's
because this is a completely updated fourth edition of a classic, providing the latest research and
information on how HRT therapy can provide a natural solution to hormone deficiency.
Misinformation and common misconceptions are discussed, chapters provide a gentle push to
natural alternative therapies, and current controversies in women's health are surveyed. An
important, useful guide.
Splendid Solution
Jeffrey Kluger
Putnam
375 Hudson Street, NY, NY 10014-3657
0399152164 $25.95 1-800-847-5515
In 2005 the U.S. celebrates its 50th anniversary of the first national polio vaccination program
which helped eradicate the disease in this country: it's hard to believe a generation is growing up
without ever having known the ravages of polio. New York Times writer Jeffrey Kluger's
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk And The Conquest Of Polio is both a biography of Dr. Salk and his
search for the vaccine and a social history of polio. Chapters based on exclusive interviews with
his friends and colleagues and access to his private papers provides new details on Salk's life and
career, setting this life in context of both his times and contemporaries.
Type 2 Diabetes For Beginners
Phyllis Barrier, MS, RD, CDE
American Diabetes Association
1701 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311
1580402240 $14.95 www.diabetes.org
Phyllis Barrier has over 25 years experience as a nutritionist and diabetes educator: her
background lends to Type 2 Diabetes For Beginners: an especially important guide considering
that most Type 2 diabetics receive the news later in life, long after habits are established. From
meal planning and pre-diabetes diagnosis and indicators to blood sugar monitoring and weight
loss, chapters provide very simple explanations and guidelines for standards of care. The simple
approach allows the newly diagnosed to readily understand the myriad of concerns affecting the
diabetic: Type 2 Diabetes For Beginners should thus be the first self-help handbook given to the
new diabetic upon diagnosis.
The Rules Of 'Normal Eating'
Karen R. Koenig, LICSW, M.ED.
Gurze Books
PO Box 2238, Carlsbad, CA 92018
0936077212 $14.95 www.gurze.com
There are four 'rules' that 'normal' eaters follow instinctively: negative thinking and unhealthy
habits follow from ignoring them: thus maintains psychotherapist and educator Karen Koenig,
who has over 20 years experience on eating and body image issues to contribute to Rules Of
'normal' Eating: A Commonsense Approach For Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional
Eaters, And Everyone In Between! Chapters discuss and contrast rational and irrational beliefs,
the impact of these beliefs and emotions on food choices and eating patterns, and how to develop
better eating programs. An essential guide for a wide audience, from young adults and those
newly on their own to caregivers and students alike.
University of Michigan Press
839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 49104
www.press.umich.edu
Two excellent college-level studies are recommended picks for discriminating health science
collections with special interests in social issues. Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee's The DNA
Mystique: The Gene As A Cultural Icon (0472030043) provides a new preface and conclusion to
an updated edition surveying the gene's image, importance and realities in mass culture. Students
of bioethics, sociology, medicine and anthropology alike receive chapters centering around issues
of image, responsibility and blame, eugenics, and natural distinction: virtually any public area
where the image and mystique of DNA are prevalent. Robert Allen's The Dioxin War: Truth And
Lies About A Perfect Poison (0745322123, $$19.95) probes the chemical industry and its
cover-up of the realities of dioxin. Dioxin was the toxic component of Agent Orange, but its
presence in human lives doesn't stop with the military: it can also be found in detergents,
cosmetics, and even plastics. Chapters reveal how a small group of people fought to uncover and
bring to public attention the perils of dioxin, against all industry efforts to suppress it.
Scoot Over, Skinny
Donna Jarrell & Ira Sukrungruang
Harcourt
15 East 26th St., New York NY 10010
www.harcourtbooks.com
0156030225 $14.00 1-800-543-1918
Essays pack an anthology largely original in content, which explore fat, reality, and confrontations
with biases surrounding fat people. Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology is packed
with angst, observation, admonition, humor, and serious reflection by such notable writers as
Anne Lamott and David Sedaris. Any reader interested in body image will find Scoot Over Skinny
a most provocative collection of insights.
Type 2
Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Walker & Company
104 - 5th Avenue, New York NY 10011
www.walkerbooks.com
0802776663 $12.00 1-800-289-2553
Type 2 diabetes is a confusing disease: it often sets in long after dietary habits are established, diet
and exercise modifications aren't the same for everyone, and there are few support groups to help.
Type 2: A Book Of Support For Type 2 Diabetics is designed to be a support group in the form
of a book. The issues dealt with range from handling food cravings and understanding how to
stabilize blood sugar levels, to reducing anxiety during glucose testing, to making peace with
adjusted diet and medication regimens. Type 2 juxtaposes case history examples with practical
management tips.
Thomson/Gale
27500 Drake Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535
www.gale.com
Two excellent guides are recommended picks beyond the high school audience they were
originally intended for: each provides excellent introductory articles suitable for reports and
discussion alike. Gene Therapy (0737722568, $28.70) holds under a pages but its topics and
discussions represent cutting-edge analysis, tackling such diverse and technical topics as whether
gene therapy should be a parental choice, and whether it supports religious values or is dangerous
to human health. William Dudley edits Antidepressants (0737719516, $34.95) which joins others
in the 'History of Drugs' series to offer nearly 200 pages of facts on antidepressants. Experts and
informed lay writers provide students and adults alike with plenty of insights for reports and
debates
Drug Abuse Sourcebook
Catherine Ginther, Editor
Omnigraphics
615 Griswold Street, Detroit, MI 48226
www.omnigraphics.com
0780807405 $78.00 1-800-234-1340
The new second edition of Drug Abuse Sourcebook updates and expands details on illicit
substances of abuse both over the counter and illegal, from depressants and hallucinogens to
marijuana and more. From symptoms and effects both long- and short-term to prevention
programs, addiction terms, and a directory of resources, chapters delve into all the physical,
psychological and social ramifications of drug abuse, covering all the basics of intervention,
treatment, and prognosis. An excellent library reference for libraries.
The Musicbook Shelf
Louie Louie
Dave Marsh
University of Michigan Press
839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
047203023X $17.95 press.umich.edu
A new preface by the author graces the pages of Louie Louie: The History & Mythology Of The
World's Most Famous Rock N Roll Song. While it's hard to see how any song, however famous,
could earn an entire book discussion, once you delve into Dave Marsh's Louie Louie, with its
intrigue, high drama, and twists and turns, it's hard to see what took so long for the full tale to
come to light - and yes, it earns its own book. This new edition provides a new preface by Marsh
as it covers the complexities of a song which involved even the FBI.
Like A Rolling Stone
Greil Marcus
Public Affairs
250 W. 57th Street, #1321, NY, NY 10017
www.publicaffairsbooks.com
1586482548 $24.00 1-877-782-1234
Plenty of biographies and critical surveys of rock musician Bob Dylan have been written: author
Greil Marcus saw Dylan for the first time in 1963: he may not have known his name, but he
recognized talent when he saw it. Thus began a long relationship between critic and musician
which has led to Marcus' in-depth survey Like A Roling Stone: Bob Dylan At The Crossroads.
Chapters consider song origins, Dylan's major concerts, and the search for exceptional lyrics. If
you've read all the other Dylan coverages, Like A Rolling Stone provides a more precise look at
the sources of his inspiration - from an insider's view.
Amadeus Press
512 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444
www.amadeuspress.com
The Sybil Sanderson Story: Requiem For A Diva (1574670948, $29.95) by Jack Winsor Hansen
presents an authorized biography of a little-known diva, including rare, previously unpublished
photos to illustrate the story of a controversial diva. Hansen was a friend of the Sanderson family
with complete access to the family archives, and spent decades researching this first full-length
biography of Sanderson: her rich Victorian California childhood and her rise to an opera star's
fame brings to light scandals, talents, and drama alike. David Hurwitz's Getting The Most Out Of
Mozart: The Instrumental Works (1574670964, $19.95) comes with a full-length cd packaged in
back and covers the unique instrumental works of Mozart. First in a two-volume set covering
Mozart's orchestral and vocal works, Getting The Most Out Of Mozart guides readers through
the body of work with chapters discussing movements, unique Mozart stylings, and more.
The American History Shelf
Coming Apart
William O'Neill
Ivan R. Dee
1332 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60622
www.ivanrdee.com
1566636132 $18.95 1-800-462-6420
There have been other histories of America during the 1960s, but Coming Apart: An Informal
History Of America In The 1960s is both readable and involving, presenting the political and
cultural focus with a twist of wit and sympathetic insight rare to an interpretation of the times.
Discussions of two very different cultures which clashed, surveys of traditions challenged by the
counter-culture, and discussions of civil rights issues alike are involving reads.
The Alamo
Frank Thompson
University of North Texas Press
PO Box 311336, Denton, TX 76203-1336
1574411942 $24.95 unt.edu/untpress
The Alamo is an illustrated history of the fort that became a symbol of courage and sacrifice for
freedom. Though the Alamo fell in battle to the Mexican army forces of General Antonio Lopez
de Santa Anna, it ultimately bought time for the Texas Army under Sam Houston to consolidate
forces, and two months later "Remember the Alamo!" was the rallying cry for Santa Anna's rout
at the Battle of San Jacinto. The Alamo explores the site of Alamo itself, as well as what history
has to say about the men and women who lived there, then reflects upon the Alamo as it is
immortalized in popular culture to this day. Illustrated in full color throughout with photographs
and artworks, and thoroughly researched with the latest known historical detail, The Alamo is a
welcome contribution to both private and library American history shelves.
God And Country: Politics In Utah
Jeffrey E. Sells, Editor
Signature Books
564 W. 400 North, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-3411
www.signaturebooks.com
156085183X $34.95 1-800-356-5687
Plenty of books have been written about the history and religion of Mormons; but far fewer
consider the modern political and social impact of Mormonism in Utah today. Enter God And
Country: Politics In Utah, edited by Jeffrey Sells, Rector of St. David of Wales Church in
Washington. His religious involvement lends authority and background to his discussion of
religious influence in civic affairs, offering insights not into Mormon and Utah political and
religious connections, but into church and state issues and interactions across the country. Legal,
theological and ethical concerns alike are revealed in chapters which utilize Utah experiences and
interactions as solid examples.
Jefferson's Western Explorations
Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Silby, and William Dunbar, authors
Compiled by Thomas Jefferson
The Arthur H. Clark Company
PO Box 14707, Spokane, WA 99214
www.ahclark.com
0870623354 $62.50 1-800-842-9286
Jefferson's Western Explorations: Discoveries Made In Exploring The Missouri, Red River, And
Washita presents a historical reproduction of the document delineating President Thomas
Jefferson's 1806 "Message from the President", a summary of not only the Lewis and Clark
expedition, but of other expeditions of the time. The cutting edge of news and information for the
U.S. Congress and the American people in its day, Jefferson's Western Explorations presents
facsimile representation of the original document, with shoulder notes clarifying different
relationships between texts. An extensive introduction allows for historical setting and context of
the document, and appendices present extra pages, and transcripts of the correspondence of John
Sibley now at the Library of Congress among the Thomas Jefferson Papers, including a letter
from Jefferson to Sibley. A superb presentation of a historical primary source, especially
recommended for scholarly American History and university library collections.
The Business Shelf
Brand Sense
Martin Lindstrom
The Free Press
1230 Avenue of Americas, New York, NY 10020
www.simonandschuster.com
0743267842 $26.00 www.amazon.com
Martin Lindstrom's Brand Sense: Build Powerful Brands Through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight And
Sound provides an unusual treatise based on Millward Brown's study linking branding and sensory
awareness. 'Sensory branding' is a relatively new concept: Brand Sense takes the next step from
study results to outline a six-step program for bringing brand building into modern times.
Examples cover products and retail marketing alike, demonstrating the basics of establishing an
appealing marketing approach based on more than sight and sound alone.
Amacom
1601 Broadway, NY, NY 10019
www.amacombooks.org
No! How One Simple Word Can Transform Your Life (0814472303, $12.95) by Jana Kemp
advises employees that it is possible to say 'no' in the workplace, responding to unreasonable
deadlines, demands, and questionable behavior. Managers and professionals have to learn to say
'no' effectively - and Kemp's title tells how, using exercises and case history examples throughout.
Ask a manager why an employee leaves and most likely money will be cited as the reason: in
reality, the workplace atmosphere itself may have 'push' factors which encourage leaving over
staying. Leigh Branham has identified the real categories into which almost all reasons fall in The
7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How To Recognize The Subtle Signs And Act Before It's
Too Late (0814408516, $24.95), from identifying mutual expectations between employer and
worker to incorporating tangible growth and advancement opportunities which keep employees
motivated and happy. Branham's an expert in employee engagement and retention, and The 7
Hidden Reasons Employees Leave covers essential points.
Book-Keeping & Accounting For The Small Business
Peter Taylor
HowTo Books/Parkwest Publications
PO Box 20261, NY, NY 10025-1512
www.howtobooks.co.uk
http://www.parkwestpubs.com/
1857038789 $22.75 1-646-215-9003
It's hard to believe the classic Book-Keeping & Accounting For The Small Business: How To
Keep The Books And Maintain Financial Control Over Your Business is now in its 7th revised,
updated edition: its new incarnation and updated details will continue to appeal to modern
readers, whether they be sole proprietors, partners, or limited corporations. Because this is
written in the UK, some issues, such as VAT taxes, may not apply outside; but the basics of
understanding wages, taxes, accounts, and double entry book-keeping are essential to any small
business.
Point Of Purchase
Sharon Zukin
Routledge
270 Madison Ave., New York NY 10016
www.routledge-ny.com
0415950430 $18.95 1-800-634-7064
New in paperwork is an excellent social history, Sharon Zukin's Point Of Purchase: How
Shopping Changed American Culture. Zukon is Broeklundian Professor of sociology at Brooklyn
college and City University of New York: her background in cities and culture lends well to an
analysis of shopping as the American dream ideal, tracing the history of American shopping from
mid-19th century to modern shopping trends. A fascinating social history evolves.
The Woodworking Shelf
Framing: Techniques & Decorating Ideas
Aaron Brothers
Sterling Publishing Company
387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810
1402714858 $24.95 1-800-805-5489
Framing: Techniques & Decorating Ideas presents the collected wisdom of the Aaron Brothers,
who have been custom framers since 1946. Chapters discuss the basics of framing, wall
arrangements, photo frame vignettes, matting, custom framing, hanging artwork, tools of the
trade and how to use them, and much more. Color photographs illustrate this detailed and candid
"how-to" book on every page, expressly revealing the tips, tricks and techniques of
professional-quality framing. An excellent do-it-yourself guide.
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide To Turning
Richard Raffan
Taunton Press
PO Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470-5506
www.taunton.com
1561586722, $39.95 1-800-477-8727
Richard Raffan's Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide To Turning is a woodworker's 'bible' on
master techniques for turning bowls and spindles. Turning is typically covered in general
woodworking guides; not afforded its own specific title: a quick access organization makes for
specific tips and techniques paired with over 800 photos and drawings on using turning tools,
specialty finishing techniques, and more.
The Pets/Wildlife Shelf
Easy-Gaited Horses
Lee Ziegler
Storey Books
210 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247
1580175627 $19.95 storeybooks.com
Easy-Gaited Horses is a "rider friendly" no-nonsense guide to the distinctions between easy-gaited
horses and other types of horse, and the fine nuances of how to train and ride these animals for
pleasure. Chapters address riding basics and safety, issues of pacing, the flat walk, the
intermediate gaits, and the canter, sample lesson plans for developing and improving gait, and
much more. An in-depth, serious-minded resource especially for horse lovers and horse trainers,
written by a horsemanship expert of 30 years experience.
The Lyons Press
PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437
www.lyonspress.com
Three fine wild animal guides are recommended additions to general library holdings. Robert H.
Busch's The Grizzly Almanac: A Fully Illustrated Natural And Cultural History Of America's
Great Bear (1592283209, $19.95) provides a lively history of the grizzly's interactions with
mankind, from its place in myth and legends to real encounters and descriptions of grizzly attacks.
The color photos are outstanding - and surprising, in a paperback. Robert H. Busch also provides
a similar coverage in The Cougar Almanac: A Complete Natural History Of The Mountain Lion
(1592282954, $14.95), a survey of one of the most misunderstood big cats of modern times. Also
known as pumas, mountain lions, or panthers, cougars are one of North America's last big
predators, and one of the most elusive. For a narrowed focus on their dangers alone, obtain Kathy
Etling's Cougar Attacks: Encounters Of The Worst Kind (159228-2962, $14.95): cougar history
is also offered here, with a focus on gripping details of terrifying encounters. Despite its
sensationalist title, Etling strives for fairness in separating myths from reality, in the process
imparting a great deal of natural history details on the cougar's habits and habitat.
The Literary Shelf
Spoken Here
Mark Abley
Houghton Mifflin
222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116
www.hmco.com
0618565833 $14.00 1-800-225-3362
Mark Abley's Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages may sound like a travel title
and at times may read like an armchair adventure; but its more important application to literary
and language studies should not be missed. Abley travels around the world to document its
endangered languages: of the six thousand spoken In the world today, only six hundred are likely
to survive into the next century. Chapters provide social and cultural insights in the process of
considering these vanishing languages and why they are threatened.
Reading The Medieval Book
Kathryn Starkey
University of Notre Dame Press
310 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556
0268041091 $25.00 undpress.nd.edu
Also available in a hardcover edition (0268041083, $50.00), Reading The Medieval Book: Word,
Image, And Performance In Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm by Kathryn Starkey (Assistant
Professor, Department of Germanic Languages, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill),
examines one of the most important epic poems in 13th Century Germany and its redaction in a
richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition. Professor
Starkey's meticulous research reveals that the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript (c. 1270) of
Woflram von Eschen-bach's Willehalm (c.1215) was compiled with both oral performance and the
written medium in mind. A seminal work of flawless scholarship, Reading The Medieval Book
would serve as an ideal template for the study of other medieval poetry, and is particularly
commended to students of Medieval era art history, culture, and literature.
Three Short West Indian Folk Tales
Gregory Thorne
RoseDog Books
701 Smithfield Street, 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-3906
www.rosedogbookstore.com
0805995692 $10.00 www.amazon.com
Gregory Thorne is a native of Trinidad, raised with older siblings and his grandparents: he heard
the three short stories in this collection from his relatives, and in Three Short West Indian Folk
Tales pre-sents them for general readers. 'Black Water' is a folk story from Guyana and seeks to
apply legend to the disappearances of swimmers, the other two Trinidad stories survey the legend
of a deadly woman wraith and an isolated village woman who may drink blood.
Land Of Orange Groves And Jails
Lauren Coodley, Editor
Heyday Books
PO Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709
1890771953 $16.95 heydaybooks.com
Novelist/political commentator Upton Sinclair may best be known for his flaming critiques of the
Chicago meatpacking industry in "The Jungle"; but he's equally notorious in California for his
harsh critiques of Southern California's culture and excesses. Land Of Orange Groves And Jails:
Upton Sinclair's California assembles fifty years of these writings: plays, articles and essays
demonstrate his political activism and his controversial impressions of the area. While Sinclair
students will be the likely audience for this assembly, Southern California residents and students
of literature alike will relish the unusual perspective on Sinclair's politics and life.
The Battle For Middle-Earth
Fleming Rutledge
William B. Eerdmans
255 Jefferson Avenue, SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
www.eerdmans.com
0802824978 $20.00 1-800-253-7521
Fans of Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings have a new scholarly commentary to celebrate: an in-depth
survey of themes and hidden allusions demonstrating Tolkien's underlying spiritual design. The
Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings" provides Fleming
Rutledge's own interpretation of how Tolkien's faith is embedded in his entire narrative. Chapters
assume close reader familiarity with Lord Of The Rings as it considers how Tolkien works
religious ideas into the fundamental assumptions of his story line, and how he creates an overwork
work reflecting divine design. An intriguing blend of theological and literary analysis evolves.
The Indestructible Man
William Jablonsky
University of West Alabama Press
UWA Station 22, Livingston, AL 35470
1931982473 $14.95 www.uwa.edu
William Jablonsky's literary short stories comprising The Indestructible Man are nothing short of
unique: they blend fantasy and reality in unusual settings and protagonists who seek such
adventures as going to the moon or conquering heights. From a man who has the Devil in him and
needs help to aliens received on the radio, a touch of the extraordinary spices every tale.
The Exercise Shelf
Quick Fit
Richard R. Bradley III & Sarah Wernick
Atria Books
1230 Ave. of Americas, NY, NY 10020
0743471032 $14.00 www.simonsays.com
Don't have time to exercise? The last of the good excuses is gone with this guide to 15-minute,
no-sweat workouts presenting 10 minutes of aerobic activity, 4 minutes of strengthening
exercises, and 1 minute of stretches. Step-by-step illustrations demonstrate just how to do them,
case history successes link exercises to positive results, and the author comes with credentials:
he's directed the Occupational Health and Fitness program at the U.S. DOT for the past
twenty-five years, and presented extensive seminars to business and government groups alike.
With Quick Fit: The Complete 15-Minute No-Sweat Workout, even those who are most pressed
for time have no excuse now.
One Hundred Stretches
Jim Brown
Burford Books
PO Box 388, Short Hills, NJ 07078
1580801250 $12.95 burfordbooks.com
It's hard to imagine a smaller tote - or one easier to take anywhere. One Hundred Stretches:
Head-to-Toe Stretches For Exercise & Sport is a pocket- or purse-sized pleaser, detailing a
hundred stretches to help any athlete at any level in any sport. Body-to-toe coverage is
accompanied by one clear diagram per page illustrating just how to do the stretches, adding to
written instructions of the same. An outstanding guide for any athlete and exercise buff.
The Social Issues Shelf
Inspired To Serve
Mark H. Masse
Indiana University Press
601 N Morton St, Bloomington, IN 47404
http://iupress.indiana.edu
0253217148 $19.95 1-800-842-6796
Inspired To Serve: Today's Faith Activists by Mark H. Masse (Associate Professor of
Journalism, Ball State University) profiles deeply religious contemporary men and women who
are actively working to change their communities, their society, and even the world. From an Irish
American nun working with migrants in central Florida, to a Muslim "messenger of good news" to
an Islamic community in Texas, to a Jesuit priest working in a poor Portland neighborhood and
more, the common themes of belief, hope, and personal sacrifice connect the stories of each
individual, enhanced with notes and references. A small black-and-white photograph is included
with each profile, in this inspirational and motivational anthology of real-life stories of
spiritually-minded people who dare to make a difference.
The Digital Person
Daniel J. Solove
New York University Press
838 Broadway, New York NY 10003
0814798462 $29.95 www.nyupress.org
Electronic data-mining systems are gathering and processing information about consumers 24
hours a day, tracking Internet surfing, probing personal files and public records, and creating an
overall database for each individual containing details on everything from activities and interests
to credit and product purchasing habits. The creation and use of the 'digital dossiers', as author
Daniel J. Solove calls them, has largely gone unregulated, and the purpose of his The Digital
Person: Technology And Privacy In The Information Age is to explain how these digital profiles
are a threat to privacy. From government tapping to business purposes, chapters describe the
nature of the data, its sources, and how it's used in profiling attempts.
Biological Weapons
Jeanne Guillemin
Columbia University Press
61 W. 62nd St., New York NY 10023
www.columbia.edu/cu/cup
0231129424 $27.95 1-800-944-8648
Biological weapons and their potentials has received public attention relatively recently in this
country, and for a basic primer on the topic, don't miss Jeanne Guillemin's Biological Weapons,
designed to help readers understand the relevance of these weapons and their use. Chapters
examine policies of use, deterrence, and proliferation, considering conflicts between media rights
and secrecy in development, public awareness issues and rights, and preventative measures against
attack.
The Self-Help Shelf
Happiness Is.
Shawn Christopher Shea
Health Communications, Inc.
3201 S.W. 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-8190
0757300669 $19.95 1-800-441-5569
Happiness Is.: Unexpected Answers To Practical Questions In Curious Times by Shawn
Christopher Shea (Director of the Training Institute for Suicide Assessment & Clinical Interview
and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dartmouth School of Medicine) combines practical philosophy,
applied spirituality, and everyday psych-ology to explore the true nature of happiness and how
best to achieve it. Describing happiness as determined by five interacting processes - biologies,
perspectives, relationships, environments, and spiritual quests - Happiness Is. focuses especially
upon the importance of the quest and its rules inside the human matrix. A thoughtful and
inspirational exploration of processes used to find meaning and bring joy to one's life.
The 7 Steps Of Spiritual Intelligence
Richard A. Bowell
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
3704 Beard Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55422
www.nbrealey-books.com
1857883446 $18.95 1-888-273-2539
The 7 Steps Of Spiritual Intelligence: The Practical Pursuit Of Purpose, Success And Happiness
by Richard A. Bowell (founder of SQ Training and lecturer on spiritual intelligence for more than
twenty years) walks the reader through the seven steps of spiritual intelligence: Awareness,
Meaning, Evaluation, Being Centered, Vision, Projection, and Mission. Each step of the journey
is described and explained through positive psychology and brain science, as well as made tangible
through real-life case studies. Simple black-and-white diagrams illustrate the principles behind
honing one's mind and spirit. Development exercises to foster better comprehension and shed
unconscious prejudices, such as standing with one's head a little back when looking at a
problematic individual in order to better see them as part of the world about them, round out this
clearly worded self-help and self-improvement guide.
Embracing Your Power Woman
Barbara Wilder
Wild Ox Press
421 Francis St., Boulder, CO 80501
www.barbarawilder.com
0967334624 $19.95 www.amazon.com
Take a guided journey to build your woman strength as you are through Barbara Wilder's
refresher course Embracing Your Power Woman: Coming Of Age In The Second Half Of Life.
Yes, it's New Age: it uses myths, stories, and essays to explore aging concepts in women's lives -
but it's deftly juxtaposes spiritual and health concerns with social issues as well, showing women
how to become more focused and directed. An intriguing survey of money, health and beauty,
self-directed power and motivation which is very highly recommended for Women's Studies and
Self-Help supplemental reading lists.
The Nautical Shelf
Battleships
Stanley Sandler
ABC-CLIO
Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA 93116-1911
1851094105 $85.00 www.abc-clio.com
Battleships: An Illustrated History Of Their Impact, as part of ABC-CLIO's 'Weapons and
Warfare' series, could also have been featured in a military history column, but deserves mention
in our transportation section as an excellent illustrated history of their construction and impact.
Chapters begin with wooden battleships from 2000 BC and move through steam, dreadnought
and later eras, covering different approaches to styles and warfare effectiveness and drawing
important links between battleship construction and changing military approaches. Both military
readers and those interested in boats and naval activities will find Stanley Sandler's Battleships a
lively analysis of all the major warships.
The Biggest Boat I Could Afford
Lee Hughes
Sheridan House
145 Palisade St., Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
www.sheridanhouse.com
1574091921 $19.95 1-888-743-7425
Lee Hughes' autobiography of his solo sail 2500 miles up the US coast in a small dinghy, The
Biggest Boat I Could Afford, is one of adventure, humor, and insight as he journeys up the
Intra-Coastal Waterway and learns his seafaring lessons the hard way - by trial and error. Hughes'
voyage to becoming a real sailor holds many gripping moments, accounts of danger and success,
and invites armchair sailors to relish the drama.
The Needlecraft Shelf
Beautiful Borders Backings Bindings
Jill Reber and Margaret Sindelar
Landauer Corporation
12251 Maffitt Rd, Cumming, IA 50061
1890621811 $24.95 1-800-557-2144
Beautiful Borders Backings Bindings offers the wisdom of professional quilters and designers Jill
Reber and Margaret Sindelar to enhance one's quilted creations. Walking the reader through six
classic quilt border treatments including applique, as well as 38 different finishing techniques,
creative edgings, and instructions for creating quilts from start to finish, Beautiful Borders
Backings Bindings is illustrated in full color with diagrams and step-by-step photos. An excellent
how-to guide for quilters of all skill and experience levels, and especially recommended for
quilters who want to try something different than plain square or rectangular quilts with ordinary
borders.
Make Money Quilting
Sylvia Landman
Allworth Press
10 E. 23rd St., New York NY 10010
1581153996 $19.95 allworth.com
Plenty of books covers the basics on making quilts, but too few cover how to market a quilt to
turn a quilting hobby into a real business. Quilters receive all these financial basics in Make Money
Quilting, from creating designs that sell to marketing and promoting quilts and selling either retail
or wholesale. While some chapters are more general to small business practices, most are specific
to quilting, which makes for a much more valuable guide.
Martingale & Company
20205 - 144th Ave. NE, Woodinville, WA 98072-8478
www.martingale-pub.com
Knitters have something to celebrate with the lovely sweaters featured in Ann McCauley's fine
The Pleasures Of Knitting: Timeless Feminine Sweaters (156-4775666, $27.95): classic styles and
lovely textures are profiled in 13 designs emphasizing fine gauges and high-fashion styles with a
touch of elegance. Quilters will find most accessible Pamela Mostek's Scatter Garden Quilts: 10
Designs That Flower In Fabric (1564775836, $24.95), a pattern book of 10 designs for flowers in
fabric. Use large-scale fabrics to create roses, wildflowers and other blocks which are based on
garden blossoms and patterns. A lovely collection of gardening colors is created. Patti Eaton's
Summertime Quilts: Fresh Designs In Chenille (1564775798, $24.95) tells how to use classic
blocks to create chenille fabrics with new looks. Quilts are designed for summertime use and
provide fun twists and accents on summer themes.
Hip To Stitch
Melinda A. Barta
Interweave Press
201 E. 4th St., Loveland, CO 80537-5655
1931499608 $19.95 interweave.com
Twenty modern projects use thread embellishments to turn an accessory into something hip and
eye-catching, from hair ties and purses to ordinary one-color mittens and picture frames. Geared
to the beginning stitcher, chapters in Hip To Stitch: 20 Contemporary Projects Embellished With
Thread provide easy steps, many ideas, and clear pictorial examples of stitches to help new
embroiderers and sewers get a feel for different techniques.
C&T Publishing
PO Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549
www.ctpub.com
Four outstanding new quilter's guides are top picks for avid quilters who seek new design ideas
and for knitters who want a set of new designs. Sally Harding's Fast Knits Fat Needles
(1571203117, $25.95) provides simple patterns and different designs for over 20 projects to be
worked on giant needles. The beginner's emphasis on producing finished products quickly means
Fast Knits Fat Needles will appeal more readily to knitters with nary a project to brag about.
Chapters cover size, yarn, stitches, and more. Sharon Rexroad's Pineapple Stars: Sparkling Quilts,
Perfectly Pieced (157202684, $27.95) crosses the traditional Lone Star quilt pattern with the
Pineapple to produce Pineapple Stars. These are large, eye-catching stars which can be used
with all kinds of fabrics, from plain to patterned, and rely on paper-pieced construction for exact
results. A workbook complete with large patterns makes them easy to produce. Consider a new
strip-piecing idea with Rita Hutchens' Totally Tubular Quilts; A New Strip-Piecing Technique
(1571202080, $23.95), which uses a template-free technique to demonstrate five sample projects
relying on an unusual tubular design approach to geometrics. Fabric and color receive added
dimension and innovation in an idea book packed with color examples. Dilys A. Fronks'
Enchanted Views: Quilts Inspired By Wrought-iron Designs (1571201327, $25.95) tells how to
create captivating window views and garden scenes using a backdrop of garden gates, windows,
grilles and more. Use reverse applique designs on everything from landscapes to backgrounds:
Enchanted Views provides complete patterns and instructions including fabric recommendations
and step-by-step finishing touches. All are exceptional guides.
American Quilter's Society
Box 3290, Paducah, KY 42002-3290
www.AmericanQuilter.com
These wonderful new crafter's guides are recommended picks for their unusual approaches and
extensive detail. Elly Sienkiewicz's Applique Paper Greetings: A Quilt Approach To
Scrapbooking (15743-28697, $25.95) provides eight different lessons on making cards, from
pop-ups and mobiles to banners and sewing machine cards. Scrapbookers and card makers alike
will find the unusual quilt approach to scrapbooking provides an innovative approach, mixing
media and providing patterns and finished examples for optimum results. Helen R. Scott's Ladies'
Day Out With The Bonnet Girls (15743-28743, $22.95) provides a highly recommended sequel to
Scott's prior Bonnet Girls, using old-fashioned full-skirted girls to provide appliques which are
whimsical and fun. 35 doll patterns provided herein may be used to dress up events and provide
paper patterns for fabric results. Rebecca Barker's Quiltscapes II (157432-8786, $21.95) is simply
outstanding: quilts here are used to create lovely scenes, from block patterns which correspond
with painted quilts to demonstrations of contrasting colors to create quilt scenes. The blends of
quilt blocks and landscape scenes are unique, and the inclusion of patterns for each sample project
make them easy to reproduce. Susan Purney-Mark and Daphne Greig's Fat Quarter Frenzy
(1574328700, $21.95) provides sixteen quilt patterns geared to fat quarter bundles. Cutting
charts, bundle arrangements, and assembly tips provide very specific details for producing quilts
which look complicated, but are quick. All are unusual, appealing guides.
Amish Quilts Of Lancaster County
Patricia T. Herr
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
4880 Lower Valley Rd, Atglen, PA 19310
0764320173 $29.95 schifferbooks.com
Illustrated with full-color photographs on every page, Amish Quilts Of Lancaster County is a
gorgeous showcase of its title. Brief text introductions ground the reader in Amish quiltmaking
history and techniques, but the majority of Amish Quilts Of Lancaster County is effectively a
textile artbook, showcasing the quilts themselves in all their bold color and down-to-earth
patterns. Most sample quilts are shown in an overall photograph, a detail photograph, and a
photograph of the quilt's back. A truly beautiful sampling, and a joy for avid quiltmakers and quilt
aficionados to simply page through.
Beautiful Borders Backings Bindings
Jill Reber & Margaret Sindelar
Landauer Corporation
12251 Maffitt Road, Cumming, IA 50061
1890621811 $24.95 1-800-557-2144
Beautiful Borders Backings Bindings offers the wisdom of professional quilters and designers Jill
Reber and Margaret Sindelar to enhance one's quilted creations. Walking the reader through six
classic quilt border treatments including applique, as well as 38 different finishing techniques,
creative edgings, and instructions for creating quilts from start to finish, Beautiful Borders
Backings Bindings is illustrated in full color with diagrams and step-by-step photos. An excellent
how-to guide for quilters of all skill and experience levels, and especially recommended for
quilters who want to try something different than plain square or rectangular quilts with ordinary
borders.
Quilts In America
Patsy Orlofsky & Myron Orlofsky
Abbeville Press
116 West 23rd St., #500, NY, NY 10011
0789208571 $35.00 1-212-577-5555
Quilts In America is a needlecraft treasury spanning nearly three hundred years of quilt history,
techniques, patterns, and styles since America's colonial roots. Black-and-white and color plates
illustrate a wide variety of historic quilts, while chapters discuss the evolution of quilts as both a
practical craft and as folk art. Co-written by the director of the Textile Conservation Workshop in
South Salem, New York, a nonprofit regional conservation laboratory devoted to rare and fragile
textiles, Quilts In America is both an enlightening read and a reverberating experience especially
for quilt lovers everywhere, and the vintage designs in the plates will prove inspirational for
anyone interested in creating new quilts in historic American styles.
The Library CD Music Shelf
Distancias
Jason McGuire
Bolero Records
18653 Ventura Blvd., Suite 314 , Tarzana, CA 91356
bolero-records.com $18.98 818-888-1059
Distancias is the debut music CD of Jason "El Rubio" McGuire, one of America's most
captivating flamenco guitarists and the Musical Director for the acclaimed New World Flamenco
Festival, one of the top flamenco festivals in the US. His extensive formal training, personal
admiration for the work of Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia, and his performing career in Spain
and the U.S. distinguish him as one whose true love, passion, and talent for flamenco transcends
nationality or ethnic heritage. Nine of the ten flamenco tunes have no lyrics; a CD insert prints the
Spanish-language lyrics for "Lagrimas de Sal" (Salty Tears). The tracks, all performed on
Montalvo guitars, are "Noche Caliente" (3:26); "Lagrimas de Sal - Colombianas" (4:41); "Sangre
Jejana - Rumba" (3:46); "Distancias - Tangos" (4:50); "Euridice" (4:17); "Aires de Mozambique"
(4:05); "Loisaida - Rumba" (3:11); "Rachel Camela - Alegrias" (4:51); "Pavan - Bulerias" (3:54);
and "A Mi Arturo - Tarantas" (6:15).
Su
Mercan Dede
www.mercandede.com
c/o Rock Paper Scissors
216 West Allen Street, Suite 137, Bloomington, IN 47403
$16.98 rockpaperscissors.biz
The latest and highly recommended album by Turkish Sufi photographer and musician Mercan
Dede, who has been featured on the cover of Global Rhythm magazine for drawing an amazing
musical connection between Turkish Sufism and contemporary Western electronic music, Su is
named after "Water" and immersed in metaphors of liquid. Composed and performed to flow as
seamlessly as a river itself, Su is superb music for meditation or simply learning to feel rather than
become too lost in intellectual distractions. Individual songs reflect on the nature of the self and
transformation, mourn those whose lives came to an end during the Iraq War, draw upon Sufi
literature and traditions of mysticism, and more. Approximate English translations of the track
titles are "Surface of the Water" (5:22); "Red Water" (5:44); "Very Calm Water" (5:45); "Ecstatic
Calm State" (6:16); "Never-Ending Water" (6:30); "Magical Remedy/Love" (7:37); "Water
Tears" (5:43); "Red Ocean" (5:43); "Water Connectedness" (6:27); "Water of Remedy" (5:02);
"Water of the Fall Season" (6:19); and "Rose Water" (6:37).
Nhava
Oliver Mtukudzi
Heads Up
23309 Commerce Park Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44122
HUCD 3102 $18.98 www.headsup.com
Nhava is the debut album of Zimbabwe music artist Oliver Mtukudzi. Combining empathetic
rhythm and melodies with powerful lyrics, Nhava's title is the Zimbabwean word for "carrying
bag", which is adept since it is akin to a portable jackpot of advice, encouragement, and wisdom
for all bound on life's journey. Individual songs range from a celebration of the power of unity, as
often witnessed in the animal kingdom, to cautionary tales concerning how selfish activities lead
to heartbreak, to a lament for a lost loved one and much more. English interpretations and
summaries of the lyrics are printed on the CD insert. Pure message and audio experience without
divisions or political agenda, Nhava is highly recommended listening. The tracks are "Ninipa";
"Izere Mhepo"; "Pindirai"; "Menzva Kudzimba"; "Hazvireve"; "Hope"; "Tiregerereiwo"; "Handiro
Dambudziko"; "Tiri Mubindu"; "Dzokai"; "Tozeza"; and "Dzidziso".
Collectables Records Corp.
PO Box 35, Narberth, PA 19072-0035
www.oldies.com 1-800-446-6426
Collectables Records Corp. continues its tradition of reviving great 70's and 80's albums at a very
affordable price. Two classic albums by DEVO - a band whose presentation defied categorization
as rock, punk, or other genres, and whose music is perhaps described as "cautionary tales" with
rhythm and showstopping pizzazz - have been re-released in CD format. Duty Now For The
Future (COL-CD-6554 $12.98) features thirteen tracks including "Devo Corporate Anthem",
"The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize", and the toe-tapping "Secret Agent Man". New
Traditionalists ($12.98 COL-CD-6555) has even more biting and relevant social commentary
embedded in its songs, such as "Love Without Anger" (Isn't Love At All), "It's a Beautiful World"
(For You), "Through Being Cool", and "Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth". The themes underlying of
DEVO's music - warnings against false senses of human superiority, suggestions that so-called
human "devolution" is all too real and readily embraced, suspicion of unrestrained nuclear
proliferation and/or warmongering, as well as questioning social myths about how man relates to
man (or woman) all resound as truthfully today as they did a quarter century past. Both albums
sound flawless in the latest CD repackaging, and are must-have leisure listening for anyone an
interest
in the devolved band that dared to be different. Also very highly recommended are the
Collectables Records Corp. re-releases of DEVO's albums Shout (COL-CD-6553) and Oh No!
It's Devo! (COL-CD-6552).
The Audiobook Shelf
Mind Wide Open
Steven Johnson, author; Alan Sklar, narrator
Tantor Media, Inc.
114 Mill Rock Road East, Old Saybrook, CT 06475
www.tantor.com
1400101166 $29.99 1-877-782-6867 x24
Author of the 2001 New York Times Notable Book "The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities
and Software" Steven Johnson presents Mind Wide Open, an audiobook that explores today's
cutting edge brain research. Describing the latest discoveries in layman's terms, Johnson explains
how the human brain works, and uses himself as a test subject to answer the nuances of the
ancient question: who am I? From the neurochemistry behind love and sex, to the immense
amount of chemicals closely akin to recreational drugs within the brain, to the real source of
breakthrough ideas and more, Mind Wide Open reveals how human consciousness works in fine
detail. Skillfully read aloud by award-winning narrator Alan Sklar, Mind Wide Open is very highly
recommended for personal and community audio libraries. 7 CDs, 8 hours unabridged.
Judgment Calls
Alafair Burke, author; Betty Bobbitt, narrator
Bolinda Publishing, Inc.
PO Box 307, Shelton, CT 06484
www.bolinda.com
1740935535 $80.00 1-888-235-2019
Judgment Calls is the debut thriller audiobook about a seemingly simple assault case that leads to
a prostitution ring of underage girls and a possible serial killer. Set in the dark side of Portland,
Judgment Calls follows Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid, as she is called upon
following the brutal assault of a thirteen-year-old girl left for dead. Author Alafair Burke, himself
a former deputy district attorney and now a teacher of criminal law, reveals her inside knowledge
of the justice system in this stunning and unnerving saga. 10 CDs, 9 hours 45 minutes, tracks
every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking.
Brilliance Audio
PO Box 887, Grand Haven, MI 49417
www.brillianceaudio.com
Robert Crais narrates his own gripping thriller of a L.A. convenience store robbery turned violent
and a former hostage negotiator's re-involvement in a dangerous world in Hostage (1597374555
$29.95), the gripping drama of an L.A. crime lord's involvement in a nightmare. A vivid listen
which is gripping and just won't quit, the audio version brings Hostage's peak moments to life.
Greg Iles' Bloody Memory (1596002468, $26.95) receives veteran Joyce Bean's smooth and
seamless, compelling voice as it tells of a forensic odontologist whose latest case involves a New
Orleans murder. Cat's confrontation with a dangerous serial killer at large results in a gripping
story of insanity which reaches even into her safest refuges in the South. Robert Crais' The
Forgotten Man (1596008318, $24.95) also benefits from the author's moving reading style, which
brings to life the story of a P.I. who is in the process of facing both his own past and a brutal killer
just as determined to keep him from seeing the truth. Karen Kingsbury and Gary Smalley's
Redemption (159355883X, $21.95) enjoys Sandra Burr's long-time audio narration experience
and background as it relates the story of a woman who discovers her respected professor husband
is having an affair with a student. Kari's anger can't last long when an old flame shows to confuse
her thoughts further. Speaking of romance, Sandra Brown is the queen of romance in Eloquent
Silence (1593559062, $29.95), with veteran reader Joyce Bean again adding her impressionable,
seasoned voice to the story of a dedicated young teacher for the deaf whose career hides a deep
loneliness. A lonely father facing a handicapped daughter and dead wife finds solace in her
teachings.
Miracles On Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen
Full Cast Audio
618 Westcott Street, 1st Floor, Syracuse, NY 13210
1932076689 $31.00 fullcastaudio.com
It's the first Newbery Award winner to achieve full-cast audio production, it reaches out to
families with a story of a 1950s family's retreat to the country to heal from spiritual wounds
suffered during the war, and it springs to life thanks to the spirited participation of the full cast
production: what more could one wish for in an audio production? Cynthia Bishop and the Full
Cast family do an exquisite job with Miracles On Ample Street, the unabridged presentation on cd
leaves not a word missing, and an added folk song enhances the overall effort. Simply lovely.
Random House Audio
1745 Broadway, NY, NY 10019
www.randomhouse.com/audio
Random House audios promise exceptional leisure interest: they take seasoned authors with
proven track records, pair them with equally seasoned readers, and add unabridged productions
for maximum appreciation of the original author's intentions. Robert B. Parker's Cold Service
(07393-18594, $29.95), for example, pairs another gripping Parker 'Spenser' mystery with Joe
Mantegna's seasoned and smooth rendition, which comes from his film and acting background.
Spencer's Boston crime scene focus again comes to life when Spenser's close ally Hawk is brutally
injured while on an investigating, leaving Spenser to investigate a Ukrainian hit mob alone.
Stephen Frey's The Chairman (07-39318802, $27.50) receives Erik Singer's gripping rendition
which perfectly captures the tension underlying the story of an equity legend who meets an
untimely death, involving his replacement in a deadly position which may also prove his demise.
Dangerous alliances and necessary actions break rules and bring out a dangerous assassin in The
Chairman's gripping story. Kevin Guilfoile's Cast Of Shadows (0739318268, $29.95) features
narrator Peter Francis Jame's excellent voice and skilled television background, bringing to life the
story of a bereaved doctor who undertakes a dangerous medical experiment against all moral,
ethical and safety rules. A killer's DNA evokes a dangerous investigation into a child's connection
to a killer. Jeremy J. Siegel's The Future For Investors (0739317334, $29.95) receives veteran
audiobook narrator James Lurie's smooth, clear voice and provides nonfiction listeners with an
assessment of future stock picking and trends. Siegel is one of the world's leading investment
experts: his predictions of future market trends offers some surprising food for thought.
Simon & Schuster
1230 Ave. of the Americas, NY NY 10020
www.simonsaysaudio.com
Stephen King's compelling novel Carrie (0743536983, $36.98) returns to life with a new reading
by actress Sissy Spacek, who played the character of Carrie in the film. Add a special introduction
by the author, a bonus excerpt of The Shining, and chilling high drama and you have an audio
production which simply can't be beat for tension and excitement throughout. Carol Higgins
Clark's Burned (0743536746, $29.95) enjoys the author's own reading, bringing to life the
gripping ongoing adventures of L.A. private detective Regan Reilly, who has come to Hawaii for
one last girls' weekend before marriage, only to find a body, a missing valuable lei, and a threat to
the resort. It's up to Regan to uncover a decades-old murder which may still be affecting the
resort today. Three solid nonfiction listens offer the unique opportunity to learn from pros. Take
The Five Essential People Skills: How To Assert Yourself, Listen To Others, And Resolve
Conflicts (07671403495, $39.85): here lessons from the Dale Carnegie training program provide
all the insights needed to learn about assertiveness, problem solving, and conflict resolution.
Seven major personality types are revealed, personal and business success assessed, and
Carnegie's own professional template for business-conducive communications is presented as a
foundation. Richard Carlson, Ph.D.'s Don't Sweat The Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff:
Simple Ways To Keep The Little Things From Taking Over Your Life (0743540654, $29.95)
receives Carlson's on excellent explanations and reading as it tells how to live in the present, build
stress tolerance, and trust intuition through making small daily changes and choosing battles
wisely. Gentle suggestions promote stress-free living choices. What makes some people a success
while others fail? Learn from Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in First, Break All The
Rules (0743510119, $24.00), presenting the authors' own advice based on tried and tested
managerial success strategies. Career lessons and performance tips are deftly tiedto personal
strengths and achievement goals in a lively discourse on company strategies which can apply
equally to personal and management challenges.
Alice In Jeopardy
Ed McBain
Books On Tape
400 Hahn Road, Westminister, MD 21157
www.library.booksontape.com
1415908303 $63.00 1-800-733-3000
Ed McBain is a veritable master of mystery and suspense. With Alice In Jeopardy we meet 34
year old Alice Glendening eight months after her husband's unexpected death in a boating
accident. Alice has had to find someway to support herself and her two children while awaiting
the insurance payout for her late husband. She finds employment as a real estate agent and meets
Charlie Hobbs when she is sent to buy his waterfront land for a developer. But when Alice's
children are kidnapped, and the kidnapper wants a ransom exactly in the amount of the insurance
check for her husband's accidental death, she doesn't go to the police. She turns to Charlie for
help. What follows is another superb Ed McBain thriller with plot twists, memorable characters,
and "page turner" action. Very highly recommended for library audiobook collections, Alice In
Jeopardy is deftly narrated by Bernadette Dune and expertly recorded complete and unabridged
on 6 audiocassettes with a total running time of 8 hours, 30 minutes.
The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis
Harper Audio
10 East 53rd St, NY, NY 10022
www.harpercollins.com
0060597828 $27.50 1-800-242-7737
The concluding story of the Narnia fantasy chronicles receives a powerful audio narration by Star
Trek actor/star Patrick Stewart, whose smooth British voice perfectly captures the drama
revolving around a missing great Lion, the heart of Narnia's magic, and children's efforts to find
him. Add the perils of a king who now must fight the last struggle without Aslan's magic and you
have a gripping saga indeed. Familiarity with the prior books is essential to a full appreciation of
this concluding drama.
Stories Of The Pilgrims
Margaret Pumphrey
Blackstone Audiobooks
PO Box 969, Ashland, OR 97520
www.blackstoneaudio.com
0786121696 $23.95 1-800-729-2665
Superbly written by Margaret Pumhrey and wonderfully narrated by Marguerite Gavin, Stories Of
The Pilgrims is especially appropriate for young listeners with informed and entertaining accounts
of how the Pilgrims left England to escape religious oppression in the native England, their escape
to Holland, and their eventual, hazardous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the sailing ship
Mayflower to arrive in America. Their story continues with descriptions of the early days of
Pilgrim settlement in New England. Soundly founded on historical facts and records, the
individual stories comprising this outstanding 4 hour, 30 minute, complete and unabridged
audiobook presentation brings the listener the detailed, everyday life of those pioneering Pilgrims
and their families as they struggled to survive while maintaining their faith in the New World.
Listen and Live Audio
PO Box 817, Roseland, NJ 07068
www.listenandlive.com
Two wonderful audio guides are top picks for leisure listeners. Business listeners in particular will
wish to choose Ari Weinzweig's Zingerman's Guide To Giving Great Service: Treating Your
Customers Like Royalty (1593160461, $19.95): yes, the market is flooded with books on how to
provide exceptional customer service, but there's room for one more: particularly when it's an
inviting audio detailing a success story's approach. From simple hiring tips to measuring service
and handling customer complaints, the author himself provides the lively reading style for his
book. Caroline Winterson narrates Sharon Owens' The Tea House On Mulberry Street
(1593160496, $34.95): Winterson's warm voice makes for a lovely pairing to a gentle story of a
beloved tea house, its weary husband/wife proprietors, and the string of characters who love the
tea house for more than its dessert sustenance.
The Homeowner's Shelf
The Mold Survival Guide For Your Home And For Your Health
Jeffrey C. May & Connie L. May
Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363
www.press.jhu.edu
0801879388 $18.95 1-800-537-5487
Mold growth is a wide-ranging problem only recently receiving recognition in the process: turn to
the The Mold Survival Guide For Your Home And For Your Health for significantly more depth
and advice than any ordinary newspaper article could offer. Indoor air quality professional teams
join a writing specialist to describe different types of molds and how to eradicate them while
maintaining health. Tips on prevention are particularly well done.
Building Wealth One House At A Time
John W. Schaub
McGraw-Hill
Two Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10121-2298
www.books.mcgraw-hill.com
0071448357 $18.95 1-877-833-5524
The key to investing wisely in real estate is buying good houses in good neighborhoods - but
there's more to it than that: buy at wholesale prices, properly fund an investment, and learn how
to gain tenants who will increase a property's investment value in Building Wealth One House At
A Time, a practical guide by real estate expert John Schaub, an investing expert whose program is
taught through seminars and home-study courses. Plenty of similar-sounding investment guides
promise wealth; this is one of the few to provide the step-by-step program on just how.
Spa
Allison Arieff & Bryan Burkhart
Taschen
6671 Sunset Boulevard, #1508, Los Angeles, CA 90028
3822858900 $39.99 www.taschen.com
Nothing is more lovely or inviting than a spa, and the best mimic pools and lovely outdoors
environments. Whether you're a traveler seeking the ultimate spa or a homeowner seeking ideas
for reproducing paradise in your own backyard, Spa is the book of choice for locating both ideas
and destinations. Spas around the world, from resorts and hotel spas to, are profiled and packed
into a lovely book filled with photos and ideas. Spa prices and services will appeal to
destination-oriented travelers, while the extensive color shots of spa surroundings, both interior
and exterior, offer plenty of ideas for homeowners who would create smaller versions of
paradise.
Taunton Press
PO Box 5506, Newton, CT 06470-5506
www.taunton.com
Taunton Press is the publisher of choice for woodworkers at all stages: it produces high-quality
project-oriented books homeowners will appreciate, with plenty of project ideas, tips on using
tools and working with woods and materials, and home ideas. Dale Mulfinger's The Getaway
Home: Discovering Your Home Away From Home (1561585998, $30.00), for example, looks at
over twenty houses designed and built solely for recreation. Different outdoor settings are
considered, house design options and requirements are reviewed, and nearly 300 color photos
packs in plenty of visual detail of both interior and exterior homes. Or, consider Matthew
Schoenherr, Linda Mason Hunter and Wendy Jordan's House Transformed: Getting The Home
You Want (1561-587117, $32.00): here architect Schoenherr lends his knowledge to re-designing
homes to produce successful working models from not-so-perfect places. Nineteen successful
remodels are explored, from basic site pros and cons and design options to wedding old with new
features and creating a workable living environment. Mary Ellen Polson's The Trim Idea Book
(1561587109, $19.95) is packed with new ideas for a home, taking a room-by-room approach to
decorating with trim. Literally hundreds of trim ideas uses all kinds of material and different
approaches to showcase windows, doors, ceilings and more. Discussions cover how each trim
affects the room's overall style and feel, and how enrichments and wainscoting work to tie
together the whole. Woodworkers receive two practical how-to guides to handling tools and
equipment: Working With Handplanes (1561587486, $17.95) comes from the editors of Fine
Woodworking magazine and covers all the basics of using the handplane for a range of projects,
from choosing the right handplane for the job to sharpening and maintaining them. There's all
kinds of considerations in using handplanes, from working with different grains to achieving good
results: Working With Handplanes is packed with tips. Lon Schleining's The Workbench: A
Complete Guide To Creatng Your Perfect Bench (1561585947, $34.95) comes from an
experienced benchman who teaches seminars at woodworking shows across the country, and has
contributed numerous articles on the topic to woodworking magazines - and is a licensed
contractor to boot. Chapters cover all the basics; from building a bench from scratch and
understanding the dynamics which differentiates a workable bench from one which isn't as
functional, to considering commercial bench options, kits, and components. All are wonderful
references promising lasting library lending.
Affordable Home Design
Martha Torres
HarperDesign
10 E. 53rd St., New York NY 10022-5299
www.harpercollins.com
0060589086 $35.00 1-800-242-7737
Affordable Home Design; Innovations And Renovations is packed with solutions to appeal to
designers on a budget who want to keep quality without high expense. Here are projects which
focus on budget-saving ideas and sustainable designs, covering both new construction and
renovation projects from single family homes to apartments. Energy saving ideas are a big part of
Affordable Home Design, with discussions revolving around originally commissioned idea versus
finished project considerations. Martha Torres received a degree in architecture in Venezuela and
has coordinated a number of design projects: her expertise lends to a fine set of ideas.
American Nightmare
Richard Lord
Common Courage Press
121 Red Barn Rd., Monroe, ME 04951
www.commoncouragepress.com
1567513042 $16.95 1-800-497-3207
Many homeowners who can't borrow from banks have relied on the subprime lending industry for
mortgages - an industry which has increasingly assessed huge fees and then foreclosed on the
house when a buyer couldn't make payments; in effect becoming a predatory lender. American
Nightmare: Predatory Lending And The Foreclosure Of The American Dream is one of the first to
probe in detail the methods of predatory lending sources, discussing the plight of borrowers who
have been taken, lenders cheated, and state efforts to regulate the industry. An intriguing title all
pre-homeowners should read!
Decorating Junkmarket Style
Sue Whitney & Ki Nassauer
Meredith Books
1716 Locust St., Des Moines, IA 50309
www.meredithbooks.com
0696222825 $19.95 1-800-678-8091
Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer are the original 'Junkmasters': hockey moms who take 'junk' from
broken umbrellas to strange machine parts, and transform it into a stylish home project. Here are
instructions on how to create over twenty pieces from 'junk', along with nearly two hundred
photos packed with ideas for decorating with 'repurposed junk'. The ultimate recycler's guide,
Decorating Junkmarket Style is a fun, whimsical guide filled with ideas which work surprisingly
well. Color photos abound.
Storey Publishing
210 Mass MoCa Way, North Adams, MA 01247
www.storey.com
Two new guides for homeowner/builders assure libraries have solid repeat references: each covers
construction planning and basics, and each is packed with contrasting ideas. Peter Jeswald's How
To Build Paths, Steps & Footbridges: The Fundamentals Of Planning, Designing, And
Constructing Creative Walkwys In Your Home Landscape (1580174876, $19.95) provides
construction basics for every kind of medium, from wood to rock. From working with stone and
wood to creating forms and considering unique environments, How To Build Paths, Steps &
Footbridges is packed with ideas and eye-catching examples of completed projects, as well as
plenty of how-to planning ideas along the way. Jeff Beneke's The Fence Bible (1580175309,
$24.95) isn't just for wood fences: it covers all kinds, from ornamental wrought-iron and barbed
wire to rustic wood and prefab panels. Terms are explained, pros and cons of each fencing choice
considered, and budgets are given an overview in step-by-step instructions covering everything
from initial plans to final projects. The Fence Bible is the book of choice for any builder.
Curb Appeal
Sunset Publishing
80 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
www.sunsetbooks.com
037601167X $19.95 1-800-643-8030
Curb Appeal: Exciting Ways To Enhance The Appearance Of Your Home provides fascinating
before-and-after photos to show how changes in paint, decoration and landscaping can create a
new look to a tired home. Fifteen projects are geared to the do-it-yourself homeowner, from
fences to outdoor lighting and trim, and provide fresh ideas for enhancing a home's
appearance.
The Metaphysical Studies Shelf
Dreamways Of The Iroquois
Robet Moss
Destiny Books/Inner Traditions
One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767
www.InnerTraditions.com
1594770344 $16.95 1-800-246-8648
In Dreamways Of The Iroquois: Honoring The Secret Wishes Of The Soul, author Robert Moss
offers a spirited and spiritual approach to dreaming, called "Active Dreaming". The ancient
Iroquois people believed that dreams were the experiences of the soul; Moss draws upon their
wisdom and reveals the connections between dreams, spirit, wishes, and healing. Part visionary
testimony, part instructional in the art of dream control and interpretation, and part mystical
journey, Dreamways Of The Iroquois is an insightful discussion of how dreams can be used to
reclaim the vital energy of the soul itself.
The Serpent Myths Of Ancient Egypt
William Ricketts Cooper
Red Wheel/Weiser
368 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210
www.redwheelweiser.com
0892541393 $10.95 1-800-423-7087
In The Serpent Mythos Of Ancient Egypt, amateur Egyptologist William Ricketts Cooper
(1843-1878) focused upon the two main aspects of the serpent in ancient Egyptian arts and
artifacts. One the one side, the serpent was a destroyer; on the other, a protector. From the
serpent as the embodiment of evil during the Ritual of the Dead and the trials of the afterlife, to
winged serpents symbolizing gods and goddesses, The Serpent Mythos Of Ancient Egypt is an
amazing tour packed with black-and-white drawings many of which are reproductions of
inscriptions, images on papyri, and other articles in museum collections. Cooper also compares
Egyptian serpent symbolism with that of other cultures and religions, including early Christianity.
Notes from Dr. S. Birch, M. Renouf, M. Lenormant, S. M. Drach, and more Egyptologists round
out this absorbing pioneer study.
Llewellyn
PO Box 64383, St. Paul, MN 55164
www.llewellyn.com
Spellcaster: Seven Ways To Effective Magic by Elen Hawke & Martin White, Eds. (0738706345
$14.95) is no singular advice guide by one person, but a compilation of seven ways to magic,
contributed by seven practitioners in the field, from Leah Whitehorse to Morgana SidheRaven.
Their essays explore how magical energies operate, how to control them, and ethical and social
issues which are part of using them. The editors of Spellcaster come with their own impressive
credentials: Elen Hawke is a Craft Elder and member of the Pagan federation, and Martin White is
a professional tarot and rune reader, making for a diverse set of magic skills involved in the
process of culling articles for Spellcaster. Teresa C. Michelsen's The Complete Tarot Reader:
Everything You Need To Know From Start To Finish (0738704342, $15.95) offers a holstic
guide to tarot consideration which encourages readers to develop intuitive reading skills as well as
understanding how the card readings work. There are different methods and choices to reading
reversed cards, to understanding and interpreting card connections, and to overcoming blocks in
reading tarot results: The Complete Tarot Reader addresses all these concerns and more.
Magickal Mermaids And Water Creatures
D.J. Conway
New Page Books
PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
www.newpagebooks.com
1564147843 $15.99 1-800-227-3371
D.J. Conway has worked in the fields of magick and Paganism for over forty years: her
background lends to Magickal Mermaids And Water Creatures: Invoke The Magick Of The
Waters: a collection of stories about the Mer-Folk which exist in nearly every water culture the
world over. Ocean mermaids have influences on the weather and water alike: their secret powers
and how to find and use them are revealed in a unique coverage not to be found elsewhere.
The Psychology Shelf
An Introduction To Theories Of Human Development
Neil J. Salkind
Sage Publications
2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks CA 91320
www.sagepub.com
0761926399 $44.95 1-800-818-7243
An Introduction To Theories Of Human Development by educator and psychologist Neil J.
Salkind is a comprehensive overview of the changes that occur in behavior during the long
transition from infancy to adulthood. A wide variety of approaches seeking to clarify and better
understand different scientific perspectives are discussed, including the maturational/biological
approach, the psychodynamic approach, the behavioral perspective, and the
cognitive-developmental view. A comparative analysis places the insights of each branch of
psychology in perspective, in this intelligently written yet highly accessible educational text, as
fascinating for lay readers as it is useful to beginning psychology students.
The Dependent Patient
Robert F. Bornstein
American Psychological Association
750 First St, NE, Washington, DC 20002
www.apa.org/books
1591472032 $59.95 1-800-368-5777
The Dependent Patient: A Practitioner's Guide by Robert F. Bornstein (Professor of Psychology,
Gettsburgy College) offers mental health professionals practical tools for dealing with overly
dependent patients - individuals who have trouble asserting themselves within and outside
therapy, alienate others with their pattern of clinging insecurity, and undermine their own
relationships with overly frequent requests for help and reassurance. In today's managed-care
health environment with stricter time limits on therapy, helping overly dependent patients is even
more daunting a task. A technical discussion intended especially for practitioners in the field, The
Dependent Patient covers how to quantify dependency, distinguishing between healthy and
unhealthy dependency, various approaches to treatment including psychodynamic, behavioral,
cognitive, and humanistic-experiential perspectives, and much more. A welcome and
recommended contribution to mental health reference shelves.
The Future Of The Brain
Steven Rose
Oxford University Press
198 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10016-4314
www.oup-usa.org
0195154207 $28.00 1-800-451-7556
The brain has traditionally been studied by chemists and behavior by psychologists; but modern
scientific advancement is interlacing these disciplines into a unified field of neuroscience, which
also includes researchers in biology, genetics, physiology and other disciplines. The Future Of The
Brain: The Promise And Perils Of Tomorrow's Neuroscience considers the pros and cons of this
marriage between genetics and information science, surveying temptations to treat and control
different aspects of behavior, surveying some already-dangerous trends of diagnosis of ADD and
other diseases, and discussing how new technologies affect consumers on both a physical and
philosophical level. Steven P.R. Rose is a professor of biology at the Open University: his title
outlines many concerns.
When Living Hurts
Sol Gordon, Ph.D.
URJ Press
633 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10017-6778
0807408646 $13.95 www.urjpress.com
The revised edition of When Living Hurts: For Teenagers, Young Adults, Their Parents, Leaders
And Counselors is out, and it's a fine update to a much-lauded 1985 original print, written for
young people in trouble or those who wish to help them. Teens are more susceptible to
depression, loneliness, anger and suicidal tendencies, and When Living Hurts addresses these
feelings, offering insights about worries and hopelessness in an imperfect world. Help can be
found to address such worries: When Living Hurts tells where and how to find it.
The Human Sexuality Shelf
The Single Guy's Survival Guide
Dean Mignola
JD Press
Box 3106, Shell Beach, CA 93448-3196
www.singleguysurvival.com
0974201103 $19.95 www.amazon.com
Today over half of men in their late 20s and a third of those in their early 30s have never married,
so that mean's there's potentially a ready-made market for Dean Mignola's The Single Guy's
Survival Guide: 7 Secrets Of The Modern Alpha Male. Humor blends with tips and tricks for
unmarried men on such varied topics as packing a suitcase, caring for skin and hair, and achieving
status.
Sex & Pleasure In Western Culture
Gail Hawkes
Polity Press
350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148
0745616712 $24.95 www.polity.co.uk
Sex & Pleasure In Western Culture is a scholarly and comprehensive survey of sexuality, desire,
and pleasure in Western culture, from classical antiquity to the modern day. Sociology lecturer
Gail Hawkes discusses such topics as how early Christianity handled the problem of desire,
medieval practices, how pleasure and desire are perceived in the modern age, and more. In-depth
and detailed without being lurid or sensational, Sex & Pleasure In Western Culture gives a
balanced, objective scrutiny of one of the more controversial forces shaping human interaction
and civilization since ancient times.
The Natashas
Victor Malarek
Arcade Publishing
141 Fifth Ave., 8th Fl, NY, NY 10010
www.arcadepub.com
1559707356 $25.00 1-800-759-0190
The sex trade is a multi-billion-dollar, global industry, so it's strange to think there's been no
comprehensive expose book until now. Victor Malarek's The Natashas: Inside The New Global
Sex Trade is the first to expose this major human rights issue, and comes backed by the authority
and expertise of one of Canada's leading investigative journalists. After drugs and weapons,
women and girls sold for sex is the third most profitable commodity in the world. The problem
isn't limited to a specific region: Malarek gathers the stories of women from all walks of life as he
reveals the experiences of women kidnapped into the sex slave trade in an eye-opening
shocker.
The Fantasy/SciFi Shelf
The Mammoth Book Of Sorcerers' Tales
Mike Ashley, editor
Carroll & Graf
c/o Avalon Publishing Group
245 West 17th Street, 11th floor, New York, NY 10011-5300
0786714085 $12.95 1-800-788-3123
Knowledgeably compiled and edited by Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book Of Sorcerers' Tales is
a 512-page compendium of some of the best stories of wizardry from some of the finest writers in
the fantasy genre. "Master of Chaos" by Michael Moorcock, "The Walker Behind" by Marion
Zimmer Bradley, "The Bones of the Earth" by Ursula K. LeGuin and many more fill this exciting
and volume brimming with magic, action, fantastic settings and mystical heroic deeds. The
Mammoth Book Of Sorcerers' Tales is a treat for fans of the fantasy genre interested in
experiencing nothing but the best of the best.
The Apastron Reports
John Senneff
Quality Publishers
PO Box 691546, San Antonio, TX 78269
www.qualitypublishers.com
0967110777 $22.95 1-888-633-9898
In The Apastron Reports: Quest For Life, author John Senneff presents the adventures of two
teen-age brothers looking for life beyond earth. Their journey will take them beyond the edges of
space and time. They see a wide variety of bizarre worlds, and evidence of God everywhere they
go - as well as corruption and evil intentions. From a deadly close call with the sea monster
Leviathan to a city ruled by a fallen angel to a sun-god worshipping planet on the brink of
survival, the fantastic settings delight and amaze while the spiritual theme of the adventure is
reminiscent of C. S. Lewis' classic Narnia series. The Apastron Reports is a sci-fi fantasy feast for
the imagination.
Anatomy Of Wonder, 5th Edition
Neil Barron
Libraries Unlimited
88 Post Road, Westport, CT 06881
www.greenwood.com
1591581710 $80.00 www.lu.com
Neil Barron's authoritative reference Anatomy Of Wonder: A Critical Guide To Science Fiction
has seen five incarnations now: each one weightier, more all-encompassing, and more packed with
genre history and reviews than the last. Here are critical discussions of over 1,400 science fiction
novels, short story anthologies and collections, with surveys of accompanying film and illustration
supporting categories to print, and chapters on teaching science fiction and building a science
fiction library collection. Annotated bibliographies are the heart of Anatomy Of Wonder, but the
added sections covering history, criticism, film and radio productions, the author studies, and the
section on science fiction illustration should not be missed and add a lot to the original concept of
a set of critical, authoritative synopses of the genre's best. A top pick any serious science fiction
collection should include.
Ace Books
375 Hudson St., New York NY 120014
www.penguin.com
If you like your science fiction on the funny side with more than a hint of detective work, don't
miss Eric Garcia's 'Rex' series: his latest, Hot & Sweaty Rex (0441012736, $13.95) has the
dinosaur PI Vincent manipulated into working for organized crime. Add competing dino mafias
and strange theories about dinosaur and human interactions and you have a light, fun piece as
entertaining for newcomers as for old Eric Garcia 'Rex' fans. Julian May's Ironcrown Moon
(0441012442, $24.95) presents Book Two in 'The Boreal Moon Tale': familiar with Book One,
Conqureror's Moon, is recommended for a smooth transition to this ongoing story of sorcery,
magic and intrigue. King Conrig has succeeded in uniting the warring island, but the problems
aren't over: his illicit magic abilities are too well known, threatening his children's heritage to his
throne, and when a thief steals an ancient, destructive text, Conrig's fate seems certain. Can magic
save his world, despite its stigma? Fast fantasy action and intrigue abound.
ROC Books
375 Hudson St., New York NY 10014
www.penguin.com
Guy Gavriel Kay's The Last Light Of The Sun (0451459857, $16.00) is a compelling fantasy saga
which blends a haunting history with powerful characterization. Steeped in Celtic culture and set
in the past, The Last Light Of The Sun tells of a son punished for his father's sins, who commits
an act of revenge which will force him to confront a deadly past even as a dangerous king
conspires to place his sons and daughters in power. Dennis L. McKiernan's Once Upon A
Summer Day (045146012X, $23.95) is also a powerful fantasy pick: when a prince falls asleep
and dreams of a desperate maiden in search of help, he becomes convinced she's real, and embarks
on a mission to save her. Fighting witches, trolls and evil spirits, Borel journeys to perilous lands
to save what may be a fantasy dream. Members of the SFFWA annually present the Nebula
Awards to honor the year's finest science fiction works, and the best winners of the year are
gathered in this showcase, from a man's unusual sensory affliction to a secret held by the sole
survivor of an African expedition. Jack Dann edits this year's Nebula Awards Showcase 2005
(0451460154, $15.95): works by some of the top names of the industry, from Elizabeth Moon to
Harlan Ellison and Barry Malzberg, in a winner's showcase of top-notch unforgettable stories.
From surreal dark fantasies to slight twists on everyday life, walk through a door in the house to
enter another dimension with Nebula Awards Showcase 2005..
Chaosium Inc.
895 'B' St. #423, Hayward, CA 94541
www.chaosium.com
Chaosium specializes in Lovecraft's brand of horror; so if you don't have a prior familiarity and
affection for Cthulhu and Lovecraft, run out and grab up some of his stories - then turn to
Chaosium for the specialized, supportive horror materials based on Lovecraft's classics. Nameless
Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction Of Robert E. Howard edited by Robert M. Price
(1568821301, $15.95) is a good place to begin: Howard is an authority who corresponded with
Lovecraft and authored many Mythos tales. Nameless Cults gathers all his Mythos works under
one cover plus more, which use Arthur Machen's folklore to round out the tales. Even fragments
are included in a well-rounded collection designed to expand the range of Cthulhu horror fiction
beyond Lovecraft's initial boundaries. Michael Dziesinski's Secret Of Japan: Survivng The Mythos
In Present-day Japan (156-8821565, $34.95) is hot off the press and a recommended pick for
enthusiasts of Lovecraft. Here the Mythos arises anew in Japan in a quasi-graphic novel which
traces elements of magic, sacred items and secrets, and the rise of primordial entities who use
Japan as a new base for taking over mankind. A unique modern approach provides a role-playing
model for action and drama. The sixth edition of Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis et.al.'s Call Of
Cthulhu (1568821816, $34.95) is also designed for role-player gamers working with the Myths as
a foundation: all that's needed to accompany this book is a pair of dice and some friends and the
game is on. References, game outlines, and plots and subplots abound in the complex Call Of
Cthulhu roleplaying guide.
DAW Books
375 Hudson St., New York NY 10014
www.dawbooks.com
Two fine fantasy picks will delight readers seeking strong characterization, unusual plots and swift
action. Irene Radford's Guardian Of The Greedom (0756401-78X, $24.95) is Book 5 of her
'Merlin's Descendants' set: the American colonies are in rebellion, King George III is on the
throne, and a break with the current Pendragon, Drake, is threatened. A distant cousin may
provide the only key to keeping the Pendragon line alive in the British Empire in this historical
fantasy. Curt Benjamin's Lords Of Grass And Thunder (0756401976, $24.95) provides a new
magic fantasy story, adding to the prior Seven Brothers story. A Prince Tayy began as an untried
warrior but here returns home a war hero - but his home is anything but peaceful, with his parents
slain by a dangerous demon, his uncle new a ruler, and Tayy himself a new heir slated for
leadership - if opposing forces don't kill him first. Danger abounds in this fast-paced
adventure.
Baen Books
PO Box 1403, Riverdale, NY 14701
www.baen.com
Three exciting new titles from Baen Books excel in satisfyingly complex political and social plots
spiced with action and high drama. Christopher Anvil's Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation Of
Humanity (0743498922, $26.00) presents two slick villains trapped on a crime-ridden planet until
their hoax brings them to the clutches of the Interstellar Patrol, which seeks good con men for
their latest ploy. Humor underlies and permeates a series of con plots which involve Vaughan and
his two companions in alien hijinks. Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis' Ill Met By Moonlight
(0743498909, $25.00) is high fantasy set in Elfland, where the great elf queen Titania and her
king are at peace for the moment. Trouble, as usual, is coming from England, where an aging
king's son is bringing misery to the people. His determination to throw England into a new dark
age will involve both kingdoms in struggle in this moving epic fantasy. Steve White's The
Prometheus Project (07434098917, $24.00) presents a giant hoax which has succeeded in keeping
Earth from the aliens - but the secret hoax is about to be revealed, and one special forces agent
Bob Devaney is the key to keeping the project hoax intact - unless romance gets in the way of
saving the planet. Fast action and unexpected twists and turns mark an engrossing story.
The Money/Finance Shelf
The Budget Kit
Judy Lawrence
Dearborn Publishing
30 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2500, Chicago, IL 60606-7481
www.dearborntrade.com
0793141281 $16.95 1-800-245-2665
Any who would learn and apply the basics of budgeting to either home or business pursuits would
do well to grab the newly updated and expanded third edition of Judy Lawrence's The Budget Kit:
The Common Cents Money Management Workbook. Here are all the basics, complete and ready
to go in a workbook fill-in format. Even users of financial software will find the basics herein to
prove essential: applicable to all levels of money management and finances.
All Your Worth
Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi
The Free Press
1230 Ave. of Americas, NY, NY 10020
www.simonandschuster.com
074326987X $24.95 www.amazon.com
Middle-class Americans are increasingly making minimum payments on credit cards because they
can't pay more - and debt loads for all are increasing as paychecks cover less and less. All Your
Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan by Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi offers
the basics on how to regain control of money, from balancing money with needs to handling a
money emergency, loosening the grip on credit cards and their debt, and understanding common
pitfalls of financial planning. All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan comes from the
authors of The Two-Income Trap: Elizabeth Warren is a chaired professor at Harvard Law
School, Amelia Warren Tyagi is a writer. Their combined expertise is invaluable.
Retiring Abroad
Ben West
Cadogan/The Globe Pequot Press
PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437
1860111254 $19.95 1-800-243-0495
Retiring Abroad is practical guidebook to planning to spend one's golden years in another nation.
An introductory section discusses why retiring abroad can be a preferable option, and covers
such basic concerns as taxes, working abroad, language barriers, cost of living issues, red tape and
more. Detailed profiles of over 45 countries, including the 10 most popular for retiring abroad,
allow one to effectively survey options, and further chapters walk one through selecting a
property, financing the purchase, and the nuts and bolts of how to smoothly transition and settle
in to one's new home. A plain-terms primer, covering a broad range of common problems and
solutions, packed with just about everything to decide whether retiring abroad is best suited for
the reader.
The Antiques/Collectibles Shelf
Collector Books
PO Box 3009, Paducah, KY 42002-3009
www.collectorbooks.com
These new collector guides are recommended picks for specialty collectors. Russell E. Lewis' Art
Of American Game Calls: Duck, Goose, Turkey And More: Identification And Values
(1574324306, $24.95) profiles a hot area in collecting: the duck, goose, turkey and other whistles
which imitate their calls to draw in birds during the hunt. Organized by collection and maker, Art
Of American Game Calls provides large color photos of calls with price guides and maker history.
The thirteenth edition of Garage Sale & Flea Market Annual (157432439X, $19.95) is out, with
over 500 pages packing black and white photos and resources on the latest collectible markets
and prices. From candy containers and Cracker Jack toys to motorcycle collectibles, these are the
items you might readily find in a flea market or for a bargain at a garage sale: keep Garage Sale &
Flea Market Annual in the car for those treasure hunts! Linda Crowsey's Madame Alexander Price
Guide #30 (1574324438, $14.95) is the latest guide to 2005 collector's dolls - and a 'must' for any
avid collector of the Madame Alexander line. Dolls organized by type include small color photos
and plenty of value detail: perfect for the collector or shop owner. Also a fine specialty item is
Ron Stewart and Roy Ritchie's Remington Knives Past & Present: Identification & Value Guide
(1574324276, $16.95): black and white photos on every page accompany descriptions of knives,
including patterns, shields, handles and blades. An excellent, basic reference. Ronna Lee Aikins'
100 Years Of Purses 1880s To 1980s: Identification And Values (1574-324535, $24.95) covers
everything from evening bags to mesh purses and beaded and pearled accessories. Two large-size
color photos to each page accompany descriptions and values, along with maker details. The third
edition of Star Wars Super Ocllector's Wish Book Identification & Values by Geoffrey T. Carlton
is out (1574324551, $29.95), and it's a 'must' recommendation for any avid Star War collector
and fan. It's bigger than the second edition listing almost 40,00 items and packed with over
13,000 color photos. There are hundreds of categories holding items from over a thousand
manufacturers, with updated prices providing the latest details. Dana Johnson's The Other
Matchbox Toys Identification And Value Guide 1947-2004 (1574324462, $19.95) covers all
kinds of models, from twin packs to trucks, racing cars and more. Bright color photos abound on
pages packed with values and descriptions, making identification and reference easy.
Antiquing New York
John L. Michel and Barbara N. Michel
Columbia University Press
61 W. 62nd St., New York NY 10023
www.columbia.edu/cu/cup
0231132190 $24.95 1-800-944-8648
Travelers to or residents of New York who want a fine updated guide to the dealers of the City
plus Westchester, Long Island and Upstate receive a fine pocket-sized take-along tote to the best
shops, written by two long-time writers in the antique industry. Over a thousand dealers are listed
by section, an invaluable street guide for Manhattan has been reorganized for better efficiency,
and appendices list them by specialty areas and special services as well. Antiquing New York is a
'must' for any New York bound antiquing enthusiasts seeking the best places to explore for
antiques of all kinds and categories.
Collecting Victorian Jewelry
C. Jeanenne Bell, G.G.
KP Books/F&W Publications
700 East State St., Iola, WI 54990-0001
0873496736 $24.99 1-888-457-2873
Gemologist C. Jeanenne Bell presents Collecting Victorian Jewelry: Identification And Price
Guide, a full-color showcase of the distinctive jewelry of the Victorian era. Vintage photographs
and artwork as well as close-up detailed of pieces, extensive price information, tips on discerning
real pieces from imitation and general background information on gemstones and fashion of the
time fill this lavish volume. A "must-have" for antique jewelry collectors, and recommended for
anyone interested in seeing these wondrous works of art and adornment up close.
Charming: The Magic Of Charm Jewelry
Deborah Alun-Jones & John Ayton
Thames & Hudson
500 - 5th Ave., New York NY 10110
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com
0500512132 $19.95 1-800-233-4830
Fashion history and collector insights alike apply in Charming: The Magic Of Charm Jewelry, a
coverage of the charm bracelet's jewelry and appeal over the ages. The journey starts in ancient
times, with a review of Egyptian scarabs and Chinese works, to modern times, where a range of
shapes and materials mean a wide diversity of charm choices. Color photos accompany an art
expose which will prove just as valuable to collectors who want background history to better
appreciate the modern charm.
Masonic Memorabilia For Collectors
Bill Jackman
Gemini Publications Ltd
c/o Parkwest Publications
PO Box 20261, NY, NY 10025-1512
www.masoniccollectors.com
0953063720 $48.00 parkwestpubs.com
The price tag is expensive for a 120-page paperback and so will limit this reference to only the
most avid collector - but that collector will find Masonic Memorabilia to be most invaluable and
unique, justifying its price with the author's 40 year background in antiques and specialty insider's
knowledge of Freemason collectibles. Most items of china, glass, jewelry, books and more are
from Jackman's collection: George Perrott edits the survey and Masonic Memorabilia also
includes an invaluable price guide for would-be collectors, plus plenty of color photos.
Invaluable.
The Judaic Studies Shelf
Consolation
Maurice Lamm
Jewish Publication Society
2100 Arch Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia PA 19103-1399
www.jewishpub.org
0827608152 $30.00 1-800-234-3151
Consolation: The Spiritual Journey Beyond By Grief by Maurice Lamm (Founder and President of
the National Institute for Jewish Hospice and Professor at Yeshiva University's Rabbinical
Seminary, New York) teaches the reader how to bring consolation to those struggling with grief
and loss. Though intended especially for those of the Jewish faith, the spiritual and healing
principles transcend individual religious affiliations. From restoring a fragmented soul to learning
how to make one's own future rather than settle for one, Consolation is a powerful compendium
of advice for dealing with difficult transitions, and as useful for friends helping friends in need as it
is for professional counselors and religious leaders.
Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
Philo Bregstein & Salvador Bloemgarten
Holmes & Meier
PO Box 943, Teaneck, NJ 07666
0841914257 $39.95 1-800-698-7781
The collaboration of novelist and playwright Philo Bregstein and author Salvador Bloemgarten,
Remembering Jewish Amsterdam presents an informed and informative overview of Jewish
culture and personalities that impacted the economic and social life of Amsterdam from the
seventeenth century, until the obliterating holocaust of German occupation in 1940. Presented
almost entirely in the form of brief testimonies from individuals, Remembering Jewish Amsterdam
covers common occupations to religious practices, living and housing in the old Jewish quarter,
entertainment and recreation, immigration, zionism, Jewish-Christian relations of the era and
much more. The words of the people who once lived in Jewish Amsterdam recapture as vivid a
picture as possible of what life was once like before the shadow of the Holocaust. A handful of
black-and-white and some color photographs illustrate this welcome addition to Judaic history
and studies reference shelves.
Jewish With Feeling
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Riverhead Books
375 Hudson St.reet, NY, NY 10014-3657
www.penguin.com
1573222801 $23.95 1-800-847-5515
Jewish With Feeling: A Guide To Meaningful Jewish Practice isn't just a guide to Jewish
mysticism by Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi (in collaboration with Joe Segel): it translates
scholarship and Jewish mystical experience to the realm of designing a personal spiritual path for
those who would practice Judaism as a living religion. From questions of the special mechanics of
faith in Jewish interactions, which differ from other religions, to Sabbath's real meaning, individual
chapters translate the feelings and intentions of Jewish spirituality for all.
The Gardening Shelf
Dogwoods
Paul Cappiello & Don Shadow
Timber Press
133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland, OR 97204-3527
0881926795 $39.95 1-800-327-5680
Written by the former horticulture director of the Bernheim Arboretum and award-winning
gardener and horticulture expert Don Shadow, Dogwoods is an in-depth guide to dogwood trees
and shrubs, which have been immensely popular as ornamental plants especially since the 18th and
19th centuries. Offering an overview of all dogwoods of horticultural note, including species of
trees, shrubs and groundcovers, and illustrated with more than two hundred gorgeous, full-color
photographs, Dogwoods is the perfect guidebook for determining the type of dogwood best
suited for one's garden and highly recommended for anyone interested in cultivating these
beautiful plants. A highly informative species-by-species detail, intended especially for gardeners
but accessible to lay readers as well. All gardeners would be well advised to send for the free
Timber Press catalog for a complete listing of their titles.
The Journalism/Media Shelf
News Incorporated
Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D., Editor
Prometheus Books
59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228
www.prometheusbooks.com
1591022320 $26.00 1-800-421-0351
Essays by more than a dozen of the country's top media scholars, critics and journalists discuss
how the corporate ownership of the media holds dangers to the American democratic process
itself, from issues of standardization in program content and party lines to the demise of local
interests and the nationalization of the news media itself. Recommended as critical reading for any
college-level student of journalism, News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its
Threat To Democracy considers the underlying dangers in how the current news delivery system
is structured and regulated, and how it could be fixed.
Final Edition
Joe Rush
Apogee Publishing
89 Elmwood Ave., Chatham, NJ 07928
pjr89@optonline.net
0974771007 $16.95 www.amazon.com
Plenty of books cover newspapers and journalism, from critical content surveys to insights on
politics and the job itself: few provide the insider's perspective of newsman Joe Rush's memoir
Final Edition: My Fifty Years In The World's Second Oldest Profession. Here you'll find Joe
Rush's different experiences with the major dailies, weeklies, and other types of newspapers; from
press experiences to how a newspaper is run. Anecdotes and memories of newspaper experiences
is based upon reporting of major news stories in the last few decades, providing a panoramic view
of the industry as a whole. It's Rush's different levels of newspaper experience and insights which
gives Final Edition its finely honed edge over others.
The Military Shelf
Bootprints
Hobert Winebrenner & Michael McCoy
Camp Comamajo Press
PO Box 212, Albion, IN 46701
0975915509 $27.95 1-260-636-6035
Bootprints: An Infantryman's Walk Through World War II tells Hobert Winebrenner's personal
story of life and death as an American infantryman who fought against the best that Germany had
to offer on Northern Europe's front lines during. Winebrenner served as a young sergeant with the
358th Regiment, 90th Infantry Division; his wartime citations included a bronze arrowhead medal,
a silver star, a POW medal, and a purple heart with bronze cluster, yet his achievements came at
no small cost. From vivid passages describing character and temperament of those who bravely
served alongside him, to when he had importance of the strict rules of war driven in to him when a
German sergeant rescued him from being slain by German troops, to day he learned that the war
was over and didn't know how to react, Bootprints reveals an up-close and personal view of the
war that transformed a century, and the ordinary people who risked and sometimes gave up their
lives.
The Book Of War Letters
Audrey Grescoe & Paul Grescoe
McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
481 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2E9
0771035578 $16.95 mcclelland.com
Freelance journalist Audrey Grescoe teamed up with her husband and novelist Paul Grescoe to
compile and edit The Book Of War Letters: 100 Years Of Private Canadian Correspondence. This
is an impressive collection of letters from Canadian soldiers beginning with the Boer War of 1899,
through the First World War, Second World War, the Korean War, and the various "peace
keeping missions" of the last half of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty first
century, including action in Afghanistan overthrowing the Taliban and searching out the Al Queda
networks. Showcased are excerpts recounting the bitter realities of combat, the often appalling
conditions of the war zones, reassurances for love ones back home, and the letters of condolence
written by officers and chaplains when a loved one was wounded or died. Although this is a
century long collection of Canadian wartime correspondences, these letters offer a universal
understanding of what soldiers in combat from any nation in any conflict were struggling to relate
to their people back home. The Book Of War Letters is a seminal work and strongly
recommended for inclusion into any personal or academic Military Studies reference collection
and supplemental reading list.
Walk Around MiG-21 Fishbed, Part 2
Hans-Heiri Stapfer, author; Darren Glenn, illustrator
Squadron/Signal Publications
1115 Crowley Drive, Carrollton, TX 75011-5010
0897474864 $TBA www.squadron.com
Number 39 in the Squadron/Signal Publications "Walk Around" series, Walk Around MiG-21
Fishbed, Part 2 is the latest in this top-notch series of close-up photographic examination of
military aircraft models. Both black-and-white and color photographs of the MiG-21 Fishbed, a
model particularly associated with the Soviet Air Force, showcase the depth, splendor, strengths
and weaknesses of this magnificent aircraft. Captions to each photograph delve into high technical
detail as well as interesting trivia, such as how alcohol sprayed using pressurized air was used to
de-ice the windshield. Walk Around MiG-21 Fishbed, Part 2 is an amazing virtual tour, and by far
the next best thing to actually getting up close and personal to a vintage plane, complete with
extensive and expert commentary.
The Library Science Shelf
Library Public Relations, Promotions, And Communications
Lisa A. Wolfe
Neal-Schuman Publishers
100 William Street, Suite 2004, New York, NY 10038-4512
www.neal-schuman.com
1555704719 $65.00 1-866-672-6657
This updated and expanded second edition of Library Public Relations, Promotions, And
Communications: A How-To-Do-It Manual by Lisa A. Wolfe (a public relations professional with
more than 20 years of experience in the field with a special emphasis in the areas of libraries and
education) is a no-nonsense guide to adapting the public relations of one's library to the 21st
century. Chapters address how to define the message and audience of one's library, building a
brand, using technology as a PR tool, bringing users in, offering a pleasant and inviting
environment, how to cope with crises, and much more. Meticulous advice for preparing speeches,
anticipating questions, hosting successful promotional events and much more pack this valuable
resource, filled with everything from plain-terms recommendations to a library publicist's tricks,
tips & techniques.
Collection Management For Youth
Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Jacqueline C. Mancall
ALA Editions/American Library Assoc.
50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611
www.alastore.ala.org
0838908942 $35.00 1-866-746-7252
The collaboration of Sandra Hughes-Hassell (Associate Professor, College of Information Science
and Technology, Drexel University) and Jacqueline C. Mancall (Professor, College of Information
Science and Technology, Drexel University), Collection Management For Youth: Responding To
The Needs Of Learners is specifically designed and intended to assist youth librarians in
developing and managing a collection tailored to the holistic needs of inquisitive young students.
Part one describes the theoretical foundation for learner-centered collection management; part
two delineates effective strategies for collection management including selecting resources for
learning and budgeting for maximum impact on learning, and part three offers tools for
learner-centered collection management from stakeholder contact/SWOT analysis to a
decision-making model for selecting resources that support learning to budget-justification plans
and more. Charts, tables, and sample worksheets round out this excellent resource especially for
public and school librarians.
The Economics Shelf
Coming Up Short
Alica H. Munnell & Annika Sunden
Brookings Institution Press
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-2188
www.brookings.edu
0815758979 $22.95 1-800-275-1447
In Coming Up Short: The Challenge Of 401(k) Plans, co-authors Alica H. Munnell and Annika
Sunden collaborate in exploring the emergence and impact of 401(k) plans, the fastest-growing
type of employer-sponsored pensions, with respect to the American public and national
economics. Written with an especial eye toward the risks and challenges of a post-Enron scandal
nation, Coming Up Short covers the special case of company stock, leakages from 401(k) plans,
withdrawing from 401(k) funds at retirement, how to make pension plans do their job, and much
more. Researched in-depth and filled with charts and graphs revealing its findings, Coming Up
Short is a highly practical resource for not only financial service professionals, students and
policymakers, but also lay individuals planning their own retirement. Highly recommended.
Under The Table And Into Your Pocket
Bill Wilson
Loompanics Unlimited
PO Box 1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368
www.loompanics.com
1559502436 $12.95 1-360-385-2230
Under The Table And Into Your Pocket: The How And Why Of The Underground Economy by
Bill Wilson will provide the non-specialist general reader with a complete education on a facet of
the American economy rarely (if ever) covered in school. Beginning with an introduction to just
some of the ways governmental regulations strangle business, overtax the little guy, and enable
Washington to be the drunken big spender that it is today (if you overpay your taxes by $7,000
and
don't reclaim it within three years you're out of luck - but underpay it by $7,000 and the IRS can
and will come after you no matter how much time has passed!), Under The Table proceeds to
demonstrate how the little guy can circumvent taxes by doing business away from Big Brother's
prying eyes. From boarding houses and flea markets to roadside merchants and dominatrix work,
Under The Table covers the benefits, disadvantages, tips, tricks, techniques and much more of
common underground ways to earn a living. Under The Table is emphatically not a legal guide;
neither the author nor the publisher assume any responsibility for the use or misuse of information
contained within - but the eye-opening ins and outs of a truly free economy make for quite
fascinating and advantageous reading.
The Judicial Studies Shelf
Legal Research
Stephen Elias & Susan Levinkind
Nolo Press
950 Parker Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
www.nolo.com
1413300588 $39.99 1-800-955-4775
Attorney Stephen Elias has collaborated with Susan Levinkind (law librarian at the Santa Clara
County Superior Court of California) to fully update this twelfth edition of Legal Research: How
To Find & Understand The Law. A no-nonsense guide for lay readers and legal professionals
alike, Legal Research covers how to find accurate answers on the Internet (not necessarily an easy
task given how much legal misinformation floods cyberspace, not to mention everywhere else),
how to write a legal memorandum, how to develop one's research skills, step-by-step examples of
a sound legal research method, and much more. Especially recommended for law students,
paralegals and legal assistants, but also an extremely useful tool for the lay reader seeking to
understand as much as he or she can about a complex legal problem before visiting an attorney
who charges by the hour.
The Buddhist Studies Shelf
The Different Paths Of Buddhism
Carl Olson
Rutgers University Press
100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8099
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu
081353562X $24.95 1-800-446-9323
Distinguished professor of religious studies Carl Olson presents The Different Paths of Buddhism:
A Narrative-Historical Introduction, a comprehensive introduction to the various branches of
Buddhist tradition in both the Mahayana and Theravada schools, including the the Madhyamika
school, the Yogacara school Pure Land devotionalism, Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, Zen Buddhism,
and village folk Buddhist traditions. Chapters explore recurring themes in Buddhist narratives,
philosophy and ethics in context, detailed technical examinations, scrutiny of the history of various
schools, and much more. A smattering of black-and-white photographs illustrate this scholarly
evaluation, ideal for those interested in acquainting themselves with the history of Buddhism's
various branches.
Echoes From An Empty Sky
John B. Buescher
Snow Lion Publications
PO Box 6483, Ithaca, NY 14851
1559392207 $16.95 1-800-950-0313
Written by the head of the Voice of America's Tibetan Broadcast Service to Tibet and South Asia,
Echoes From An Empty Sky: The Origins Of The Buddhist Doctrine Of The Two Truths is a
technical and spiritual evaluation of the fundamental Buddhist doctrine of two truths -
conventional truth and ultimate truth - portrayed not as strict constructs of language, but rather as
realities which language strives to accurately portray. The first truth referred to the true
statements that the Buddha made; the second referred to the sorts of objects in the world.
Sections discuss "Ancient Indian Speculation on Language and Reality", "Early Buddhist Views
on Language, Truth, and Interpretation", "The Buddha's Word", and the two truths themselves
especially in context of the Vaibhasika School and the Sravaka Schools. A scholarly study of
Buddhist scripture, tenets, philosophy, and contextual reference, Echoes From An Empty Sky is
especially recommended for intermediate to advanced Buddhist Studies reference shelves and
supplemental reading lists.
The Poetry Shelf
The Quick Of It
Eamon Grennan
Graywolf Press
2402 University Avenue, Suite 203, Saint Paul, MN 55114
www.graywolfpress.org
155597418X $14.00 1-651-641-0077
The Quick Of It is an anthology of poems by poet, essayist, translator, and Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize winner Eamon Grennan. Each poem is without a title and stretches precisely ten
lines; explores its subject with acute, alert attention to detail. Creatures of nature are a recurring
theme in this reflective, sometimes dark, sometimes wistful, always moving verse. So I keep
saving the bees taken unawares by glass, / Shrouding their music in a bundled dishclothtill I shake
/ It outside and they float off over the fuchsia hedge. // So the moths that flutter up from curtain
folds and out / Of the sleeves of old sweaters are fingersnapped at / To become Ash Wednesday
stains on my handskin. // So the snail is lifted from the sand, laid on wet grass, / And so the yellow
car in my dream is stalked till it turns / To a lean woman in suede leaning in to me. So who /
Handles all this? Lays all of it out? Keeps the reckoning?
Poets Of The Civil War
J.D. McClatchy, editor
The Library of America
14 East 60th St., New York, NY 10022
1931082766 $20.00 www.loa.org
Compiled, organized, edited, and featuring an introduction by J.D. McClatchy, Yale teacher and
editor of the inaugural volume of the American Poets Project, Poets Of The Civil War: Selected
Poems traces the advent, progress, and literary legacy of the American civil war as revealed in the
enduring works of America's finest poets. Featuring classic works by Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Margaret Junkin Preston and much more, the
verses reveal poetry's unique ability to evoke emotions and capture fractured states of mind and
being in America's most perilous time. Notes clarify some uses of archaic language, metaphors,
specific historical references and the like in some poems. Highly recommended for poetry and civil
war enthusiasts alike. From "Boston Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The word of the Lord by
night / To the watching Pilgrims came, / As they sat by the seaside, / And filled their hearts with
flame. // God said, I am tired of kings, / I suffer them no more; / Up to my ear the morning brings
/ The outrage of the poor.
Elegy On Toy Piano
Dean Young
University of Pittsburgh Press
3400 Forbes Avenue, 5th floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
0822958724 $12.95 1-800-666-2211
Elegy On Toy Piano is the sixth collection of poetry from Lenore Marshall Prize finalist Dean
Young. The brief, free-verse wordplay mourns the tragedies of life, from the loss of a beloved
family pet to the end of a lovers' relationship, but also stretches beyond grief to portray a wide
range of mixed of emotions, acknowledging the bad with the good. A serious-minded reflection
on the mysteries of life, death, and everything in between. Elegy on Toy Piano: You don't need a
pony / to connect you to the unseeable / or an airplane to connect you to the sky. // Necessary it is
to die / if you are a living thing / which you have no choice about. // Necessary it is to love to live
/ and there are many manuals / but in all important ways / one is on one's own. // You need not
cut off your hand. / No need to eat a bouquet. / Your head becomes a peach pit / Your tongue a
honeycomb. // Necessary it is to live to love, / to charge into the burning tower / then charge back
out / and necessary it is to die. / Even for the grass, even for the pony / connecting you to what
can't be grasped. // The injured gazelle falls behind the / herd. One last wild enjambment. //
Because of the sores in his mouth, / the great poet struggles with a dumpling. / His work has
enlarged the world / but the world is about to stop including him. / He is the tower the world runs
out of. // When something becomes ash, / there's nothing you can do to turn it back. / About this,
even diamonds do not lie.
Bastardi Puri
Walid Bitar
The Porcupine's Quill
68 Main Street, Erin, Ontario N0B 1T0
c/o University of Toronto Press (dist.)
10 St. Mary Street, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y 2W8
0889842671 $14.95 www.sentex.net/~pql
Beruit-born Canadian immigrant Walid Bitar presents Bastardi Puri, a collection of free-verse
poetry that feels like a hybrid cross between raw emotion, vibrant energy, caustic wit, and painful
revelation. From the mundane to life-changing events, Bastardi Puri offers a captivating portrait
of the rough edges of life. Developing Countries: Though eyewitnesses insist history's sleep is
light, / it's rather heavy, and hardly stirred / if a bottle breaks in an alley, used as the chronicler is /
to winking with a hotelier's Brummagem composure. // The next think you know lobster and
iguana / are mistaken for viola and violin / in kitchens whose acoustics have in them a Spartacus /
to lead the others in revolt, muffling any fugue. // I'd drown it out by landing helicopters, / metal
teabags to the boiling gods, / as any make-up man knows, and my conscience, / which is a lagging
indicator, and unemployment rate.
The Comix/Graphic Novel Shelf
Ex Machina
Brian K. Vaughan, et al.
DC Comics
1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
www.dccomics.com
1401206123 $9.95 1-800-759-0190
The combined effort of Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Tony Harris (pencils), J.D. Mettler (colors),
Jared K. Fletcher (letters), and Larry Berry (design), Ex Machina: Book 1 - The First Hundred
Days is a graphic novel that offers a very different take on being a superhero. When a strange
accident gives ordinary civil engineer Mitchell Hundred incredible powers, he becomes America's
first known superhero; yet as the days go by he tires of endlessly struggling for the status quo, and
runs for Mayor of New York City in hope of bringing about lasting changes for the better. Yet his
landslide election is only the start of an intricate and sometimes lethal adventure, one which will
make it painfully clear that absolute power corrupts absolutely. A gritty texture to the art and
narration bring the all-too-close-to-home story come alive, and a bonus section at the end allows
the reader to compare reference photographs to finished comic pages, as well as offering a
handful of original sketches. Ex Machina is recommended for mature readers due to its themes
and some cursing (not excessive, but simply reflecting how some people talk foul). A highly
recommended and thought provoking look at the city and an accidental hero. Fans will be looking
forward to Book 2 of this original concept series.
Graphic Classics: O. Henry
O. Henry
Eureka Productions
8778 Oak Grove Road, Mount Horeb, WI 53572
www.graphicclassics.com
0974664820 $11.95
Graphic Classics: O. Henry is a graphic novel anthology of classic short stories by O. Henry, each
of which is presented in comic book form. Each individual story is fully and distinctively
illustrated in comic-style in black-and-white by a different artist, and faithfully renders the gist of
O. Henry's complex characterizations. The O. Henry stories featured include The Ransom of Red
Chief, The Gift of the Magi, The Caballero's Way, Roads of Destiny, The Marionettes, The
Friendly Call, and The Furnished Room. Brief biographies of the many different artists round out
this introduction to works of great literature, highly recommended for all ages.
Wobblies!
Paul Buhle & Nicole Schulman, editors
Verso
180 Varick St., 10th fl, NY, NY 10014
www.versobooks.com
1844675254 $25.00 1-800-233-4830
Wobblies! A Graphic History Of The Industrial Workers Of The World is an amazing history of
the Industrial Workers of the World, an organization known for its eclectic and controversial
affiliations as well as its strong stand against government and corporate exploitation. Wobblies! is
particularly remarkable in that it presents its vivid anecdotes about everything from wartime witch
hunts, government prosecutions, mob lynching, Mexican peasant revolts, the bombing of IWW
figures and much more in comic book format. Black-and-white comic-style stories by a wide
variety of artists, from vintage political cartoons to unfolding true tales of modern history, fill this
superbly edited and presented overview of the Wobblies. Presented in an absorbing manner that
invites the lay reader to peruse from cover to cover, Wobblies! is highly recommended especially
for school and public library history shelves.
Nancy Drew Girl Detective #1: The Demon of River Heights
Stefan Petrucha & Sho Murase
Papercutz
555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1202, New York, NY 10018
1597070009 $7.95 www.papercutz.com
Nancy Drew Girl Detective #1: The Demon of River Heights is an all-new, full-color, graphic
novel story featuring the brave and ingenious teenage sleuthing heroine whose books have been
classics of children's literature for more than 75 years. The bright, colorful artwork flows very
much like a cartoon in comic book form, and the story is packed from cover to cover with
storytelling excitement. Together Nancy Drew, along with Bess and George, search for missing
student filmmakers and the deadly secret behind the urban myth of "The Demon of River Heights"
in this excellent graphic novel format addition to an established legacy of beloved adventure
stories. First in a "Nancy Drew Girl Detective" series of graphic novels featuring Nancy Drew,
The Demon Of River Heights is highly recommended for personal and library collections, as well
as a gift books for young people.
The Art Of George Tuska
Dewey Cassell, et al.
TwoMorrows Publishing
10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614
www.twomorrows.com
1893905403 $14.95 1-919-449-0344
The collaborative effort of Dewey Cassell, Aaron Sulton and Mike Gartland, The Art Of George
Tuska examines the artistic and creative legacy of comic book artist George Tuska, best known
for his work on the Marvel Comic series "Iron Man" but who has worked for every major comic
book publisher and illustrated hundreds of stories. A tribute to a fifty-year seasoned veteran of a
demanding and competitive industry, The Art Of George Tuska traces Tuska's earliest work, his
service during World War II, his work for the hotly controversial crime comics of the 1950s, and
his tenure with both Marvel and DC comics. Filled cover-to-cover with black-and-white
photographs and samples of Tuska's art, The Art Of George Tuska a fine survey of Ruska's
dedication and talent, and includes interviews and anecdotes from Will Eisner, Jim Mooney, Nick
Cardy, Marie Severin, John Romita, Gene Colan, Joe Simon, Mike Esposito, Bob Layton, Paul
Levitz, and Roy Thomas, and Featuring a foreword by Marvel Comics paragon Stan Lee. Highly
recommended especially for classic superhero comic book fans.
The Agricultural Studies Shelf
Corn: Chemistry And Technology
Pamela J. White
Lawrence A. Johnson, editors
APS Press
3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097
www.shopapspress.org
1891127330 $229.00 1-800-328-7560
Now in a completely updated and significantly expanded second edition, Corn: Chemistry And
Technology is the collaborative editoral work of Pamela J. White (Food Science and Human
Nutrition Department, Iowa State University) and Lawrence A. Johnson (Center for Crops
Utilization Research, Iowa State University). Corn: Chemistry And Technology is an in-depth
scientific text and resource covering just about everything there is to know about corn, from
breeding, genetics and seed production to harvesting and post-harvest management, economics of
production, marketing, and utilization, nutritional properties and feeding value of corn and its
by-products, genetic modifications of corn, and much more. Numerous charts and graphs
illustrate this scholarly text, which goes into extensive technical and scientific detail, and is
especially recommended for college and graduate studies in agriculture, life science, organic
chemistry and related fields. An extensive index and a wealth of references for every section
rounds out this superb educational and informative compendium. Also very highly recommended
for Agricultural Studies reference collections from APS Press is Rice: Chemistry And
Technology: 3rd Edition (1891127349, $229.00). Academics and agriculturalists should send for
the free APS catalog for a listing all of their invaluable reference titles.
The Railroading Shelf
Trains To Yosemite
Jack A. Burgess
Signature Press
11508 Green Road, Wilton, CA 95693
www.signaturepress.com
1930013140 $65.00 1-800-356-5687
Yosemite's natural history and wonders had become well known by the mid 1850s, but few
tourists wanted to travel to the remote historic valley via horse: enter the train in 1907, which
allowed visitors to reach the park in less than a day, fostering an increase in park appreciation
which continues to this day. Yosemite Valley Railroad expert Jack Burgess began his study of the
railroad in the mid-1960s as he searched for an appropriate prototype for his model railroad
layout: his interest in modeling led to much more than a casual probe of the Yosemite Valley
Railroad system, as the 400 black and white vintage photos, maps and illustrations packing detail
into Trains To Yosemite proves. Rail buffs will find well over 300 pages of detail pack in not just
history, but very specific train details, from switching routines and classification lamps to
relocated lines and bridges. It is this depth of information which is the mark of the model hobbyist
- and which lends so perfectly to a complete, comprehensive coverage of the real thing. Yes,
Trains To Yosemite is a specialty item for rail transportation or California-specific collections: but
such holdings will find it essential.
Morning Sun Books Inc.
9 Pheasant Lane, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
www.morningsunbooks.com
Train buffs and libraries strong in transportation holdings won't want to miss these two excellent
train guides. James Sandrin's Trackside Around St. Louis 1952-1959 With Jim Ozment
(1582480-397, $54.95): St. Louis was one of the train gateways to the West but was an
under-photographed hub until native Jim Ozment captured the last of the steam era and the
introduction of diesels in the 1950s. His outstanding photos pack the pages of James Sandrin's
Trackside Around St. Louis, packing in action shots of trains in motion, train yards, close-ups of
PCC cars, and much more. Just about every type of train running in Saint Louis during this period
was captured by Ozment's camera, creating an outstanding collection of in-depth images. Lou
Schmitz and Robert J. Yanosey's Union Pacific Official Color Photography Book II (1582480052,
$54.95) is a recommended pick not just for specialty train collections, but for the general library
holding. The Union Pacific was prolific in its advertising and color calendars, and extensive in its
services: here's a history and photo-packed showcase of the Union Pacific's routes, trains and
heritage. Train views from annual reports, calendars, and action shots display the best of the
Union Pacific's units, providing comparison photos, posed and live shots, and many more. Add
report covers and other illustrations from Union Pacific archives and you have a valuable
keepsake history.
The Education Shelf
Creating An Inclusive School
Richard A. Villa & Jacqueline Thousand
ASCD
1703 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria VA 22311-1714
www.ascd.org
1416600493 $26.95 1-800-933-2723
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Creating An Inclusive School is the
collaborative editorial effort of education specialist Richard A. Villa and special education
credential and masters programs coordinator Jacqueline S. Thousand (College of Education,
California State University, San Marcos). Inclusive education, loosely defined as a process by
which schools strive to give an education to all students with disabilities in such a manner that the
differently abled students are not excluded from the general student body or separately schooled
as little as possible, is described and presented as more than a series of strategies; it is a belief
system that promotes and optimum educational environment for all. Individual essays by a diverse
assortment of experts discuss such issues as the rationales for creating and maintaining inclusive
schools, promising practices that foster inclusive education, practical advice concerning inclusive
education, "voices of inclusion" individual and community testimonies. An excellent overview and
resource guide especially recommended for teachers, principals, and other educational
professionals.
Cultivating High-Quality Teaching Through Induction And Mentoring
Carol A. Bartell
Corwin Press, Inc.
2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks CA 91320
www.corwinpress.com
0761938591 $32.95 1-800-818-7243
Cultivating High-Quality Teaching Through Induction And Mentoring by education administrator,
expert, and advocate Carol A. Bartell is a guide written especially for those charged with
preparing and assisting new teachers. The first few years of teaching are the most challenging, and
the most likely time for beginning teachers to become disillusioned; yet it is also the prime time to
establish habits and practices for a successful career. Cultivating High-Quality Teaching Through
Induction And Mentoring covers the obstacles new teachers face, the key elements of an effective
induction plan, the role and benefits of mentoring in an induction program, structured models for
assessment during the induction period, a close look at one of the most challenging settings for
teaching - the urban school, and much more. A practical, no-nonsense and principled guide
condencing decades of expertise into plain terms advice.
Educational Interpreting
Elizabeth A. Winston, editor
Gallaudet University Press
800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002-3695
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu
1563683091 $75.00 1-800-621-2736
Meticulously compiled and expertly edited by Elizabeth A. Winston, Educational Interpreting:
How It Can Succeed is a scholarly anthology of essays by learned authors concerning the
strengths and weaknesses of the practice of educational interpreting for deaf students. The
contributors are all experts in the field and include former educational interpreters, teachers of
deaf students, interpreter trainers, and deaf recipients of interpreted education. Divided into three
sections - once focusing on deaf students themselves and the language myths that surround them,
one raising questions about the support and training that interpreters have in and from the school
systems, and one considering suggestions for improving the problems facing interpreted
education, and how to improve situations for educational interpreters. A welcome contribution to
deaf studies and a critical assessment of the skill of educational interpretation itself.
Genre Across The Curriculum
Anne Herrington & Charles Moran, eds.
Utah State University Press
78 Old Marin Hill, Logan UT 84322-7800
0874216001 $24.95 1-800-239-9974
Collaboratively compiled and expertly edited by Anne Herrington (Professor and Chair of English,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Charles Moran (Professor of English, emeritust,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Genre Across The Curriculum is an anthology of essays
addressing issues of academic writing as taught in college courses nationwide. Intended especially
for teachers, Genre Across The Curriculum includes models of genre theory and practice,
descriptions of teachers who have incorporated genre teaching into their pedagogy, a keen-eyed
look at courses involving writing among a wide range of disciplines, and much more. Individual
essays discuss topics ranging from using genre to teach academic writing to ESL students in the
humanities ("I Was Just Never Exposed to This Argument Thing"), what genre theory can tell us
of writing history, writing in emergent genres, and much more. A thoughtful, detailed, and at
times technical anthology and a welcome contribution to academic theory and instruction shelves
concerning writing.
The International Studies Shelf
Mexico's Democracy At Work
Russell Crandall, et al.
Lynne Rienner Publishers
1800 30th St., #314, Boulder, CO 80301
1588263258 $19.95 www.rienner.com
Collaboratively compiled and edited by the team of Russell Crandall (Assistant Professor of
Political Science, Davidson College and Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University), Guadalupe Paz (Assistant Director of the School of the Johns
Hopkins University Advanced International Studies Latin American Studies Program), and
Riordan Roett (Sarita and Don Johnson Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin
American Studies Program and Western Hemisphere Studies for the John Hopkins University
Advanced International Studies), Mexico's Democracy At Work: Political And Economic
Dynamics is an anthology of scholarly essays by a variety of learned authors. Topics covered
include Mexico's domestic economy, economic ties with Europe, transformations under NAFTA,
and much more. A conclusion draws together threads from the contributors to postulate how
Mexico's democracy can be made to work more effectively. Thoroughly researched and
documented with statistical figures, Mexico's Democracy At Work is a highly recommended
overview to better understand the complex workings of a diverse, proud and historic nation.
Why Did They Kill?
Alexander Laban Hinton
University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
0520241797 $21.95 www.ucpress.edu
Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia In The Shadow Of Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton
(Associate professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Newark) explores the cultural and
political underpinnings of one the most heinous holocausts of the twentieth century, perpetrated
by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979. Approximately twenty
percent of Cambodia's population died due to starvation, malnutrition, disease, and outright
execution due to the drastic policies the Khmer Rouge implemented trying to transform the nation
into a purely agrarian state. The Khmer Rouge regime was unusual among genocidal states in
that, though it did target muslim, Chinese, and Vietnamese citizens, much of the killing was ethnic
Khmer exterminating ethnic Khmer, a perplexing feature that sets it apart from many ethnicity or
religion-based genocide situations. Indeed, the Khmer purged so many of its own cadres that its
destructive ways weakened itself and contributed to its downfall when Vietnam invaded. Why Did
They Kill? strives to answer its title question drawing upon the author's extensive anthropological
study and expertise, and includes numerous interviews and testimonies, as well as insights into
human psychology and sociology. Why Did They Kill? postulates that societies can be "primed"
for genocide when
saturated by certain features such as severe class distinctions, the absence of an international
response, moral restructuring, socioeconomic uphevals and more, and then "activated" into mass
killing by various triggers, especially idealogues who spread a climate of fear to induce violence.
Chilling yet meticulous in its search for answers, "Why Did They Kill?" is an absolute must-read
for scholars and lay people alike striving to understand genocide in Cambodia as well as the
horrific underpinnings and workings of so-called "idealogical genocide" in general.
The Sports Shelf
Bleeding Pinstripes
Filip Bondy
Sports Publishing Inc.
804 North Neil Street, Suite 100, Champaign, IL 61820
www.SportsPublishingLLC.com
1582617694 $24.95 1-877-424-2665
Bleeding Pinstripes: A Season With The Bleacher Creatures At Yankee Stadium by Filip Bondy
(an award-winning sports columnist for the New York Daily News) is a virtually anthropological
look at the men and women who come to Yankee Stadium to watch baseball games in New York.
Their dedication to the Bronx ball club and each other fills the pages of Bleeding Pinstripes, which
are marked with such vignettes as the 9/11 survivor who is the bleachers' only known millionaire;
the high-spirited cancer survivor who proclaims herself "queen of the bleachers"; and the fan
whose passion for the game runs so deep she claims "they'll never get rid of me. I bleed
pinstripes". An entertaining, good-natured, and eye-level look at true-hearted fans.
The Hunting/Fishing Shelf
Deer-Hair Fly-Tying Guidebook
Jack Pangburn
Frank Amato Publications
PO Box 82112, Portland, OR 97282
1571883290 $14.95 amatobooks.com
World-renowned fly tier Jack Pangburn presents Deer-Hair Fly-Tying Guidebook, a full-color
guide to using the earth-tone colors of deer hair to one's advantage when creating flies that
resemble what trout feed upon. Step-by-step instructions and diagrams walk the reader through
84 fly patterns, as well as tips, tricks, and techniques for handling fly-tying materials, stacking,
wrapping, dubbing, wings, and much more. Written out of love for the art of fly tying and the
sport of fishing as much as the desire to share seasoned professional knowledge, Deer-Hair
Fly-Tying Guidebook is highly recommended for fly-fishing enthusiasts; the tying walkthroughs,
while especially intended for deer-hair flies, are also applicable to flies made of other
materials.
The Fiction Shelf
Karen From The Mill
Anne Ipsen
Beaver's Pond Press
7104 Ohms Lane, #216, Edina, MN 55439
www.BeaversPondPress.com
1592981070 $17.00 1-952-829-8818
Set in 1874, Karen From The Mill: A Novel From The Golden Age Of Sail by author Anne Ipsen
is the story of a sixteen-year-old young woman who yearns for a more exciting life, the hand in
marriage of a handsome sailor, and possibly even adventure on the high seas. Her mother strives
to dissuade her from following her dream, while her possible suitor has his own trials and
distractions to contend with. A romantic and moving story of making difficult choices, imbued
with especial love for life on the sea.
Fall Of The Sun God
Henye Meyer
Pitspopany Press
40 East 78th Street, Suite 16D, New York, NY 10021
www.devorapublishing.com
193268705X $18.95 1-800-232-2931
Also available in paperback (1932687068, $14.95), Fall Of The Sun God by author Henye Meyer
is both a tale of adventure and the introspective story of one man coming to terms with his
heritage and faith. Born of Jewish parents who were killed by bandits, Martin decides to give up
his Jewish faith rather than endure persecution for it. He sharpens his fighting skills and searches
for a place among the Armed Peasants of the First Crusades marching on Jerusalem. Yet even as
he finds his way amid the Christian city of Constantinople, the sharp-eyed and demanding Jewish
community's religious leader Theios Ionas sees the religious heritage and untapped potential
smoldering within Martin. This is a saga about coming to terms with one's identity and purpose in
life, and the transition from hiding or repressing one's faith to embracing it, set against the
backdrop of the ancient world.
The Watcher In The Pine
Rebecca Pawel
Soho Press
853 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
156947379X $24.00 sohopress.com
Edgar Award-winning author Rebecca Pawel presents The Watcher In The Pine, the third book of
a critically lauded post-civil war Spanish saga. Set in 1940 in a remote Spanish mountain village, a
commander and his pregnant wife discover that the inhabitants of his new post are sympathetic to
the Republicans, engaging in smuggling and guerilla activities; the officer he was sent to replace
was recently murdered, with the killer at large; and they must confront the realities of either living
in the jail or becoming boarders with a woman whose son was executed by the Nationalist
government. A gripping and powerfully told novel of hard choices, divided loyalties, and the
deadly toll of civil war.
The Biology Shelf
Biology: The Science Of Life
Stephen Nowicki
The Teaching Company
4151 Lafayette Center Drive, Suite 100, Chantilly, VA 20151-1232
PD1500 $699.95 www.teach12.com
In the six volume DVD set comprising The Teaching Company's university lecture series Biology:
The Science Of Life, Stephen Nowicki (Bass Fellow and Professor of Biology, Duke University)
provides the viewer with a complete and definitive course of studies on the subject of Biology. An
outstanding teacher and lecturer, it should also be noted that Professor Nowicki holds
appointments in Duke University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and in the
Neurobiology Department as well. This outstanding presentation is offered in 72 very ably
presented, thirty-minute, expertly delivered lectures. From Lecture 1: The Scope of "Life", to
Lecture 17: Charles Darwin and "The Origin of Species"; to Lecture 29: Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology, to Lecture 48: Behavior as an Adaptive Trait; to Lecture 56: Capturing Energy
from Sunlight; to Lectures 71: Human Population Growth and 72: The Human Asteroid?,
Professor Nowicki provides an informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking,
detailed and illuminating overview of biology from ranging from basic concepts to sophisticated
insights. With each individual lecture in this outstanding series being illustrated with excellent
visuals (and the entire series itself being accompanied by six printed paperback books recounting
the word-for-word text of Professor Nowicki's 72 oral lectures), Biology: The Science Of Life is
especially recommended for high school honors programs, college level independent studies,
homeschooling curriculums, university Biology Department resource and reference materials, and
would make a welcome and popular Memorial Fund acquisition selection for community library
science and video/DVD collections.
The Martial Arts Shelf
Mastering the Balisong Knife
Michael D. Janich
Paladin Press
7077 Winchester Circle, Boulder, CO 80301
$49.95 1-800-392-2400 paladin-press.com
Now in a revised and updated edition taking maximum advantage of state-of-the-art digital
equipment, multiple camera angles, and slow-motion cinema, Mastering The Balisong Knife is an
instructional DVD introducing the martial arts student to balisong knife handling and fighting
techniques. Balisong master Michael Janich demonstrates techniques that range from the simplest
openings, reverse grip, and hand changes, to flashy moves such as the helicopter spin, the finger
roll, and tossing a knife in the air and catching it in the open ready position, to advanced combat
deployment. Offering a wealth of expert insight for amateurs, hobbyists, and experienced knife
fighters alike, it should be noted that Mastering The Balison Knife is intended for informational
purposes only. 115 minutes, color.
The Native American Shelf
Frederic Baraga's Short History Of The North American Indians
Frederic Baraga
Michigan State University Press
Suite 25, Manly Miles Building
1405 South Harrison Road, East Lansing, MI 48823-5202
www.msupress.msu.edu
0870137352 $34.95 1-517-355-9543
Translated into English for the first time and edited for an American readership by Graham
MacDonald, Frederic Baraga's Short History Of The North American Indians was originally
published for German, French and Slovenian readers in 1837 Europe. An account of the author's
first years in Michigan territory, originally composed for his supporters in Europe, especially the
membership of his sponsoring agency, Frederic Baraga's Short History Of The North American
Indians offers a unique perspective of mid-ninteenth century Catholic missions in the New World,
and offers detailed observations of Native communities on the Lake Superior frontier, including
hunting techniques, tools, and cultural features of various tribes. A smattering of color
photographs and artworks illustrates this very down-to-earth and articulate accounting, offering
depictions of Native American life as vivid today as they were over a century ago.
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