A history of bombing

Author: Lindqvist, Sven

Title: A history of bombing

Published: New York: New Press, 2001

Description: ix, 207 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: Translated by Linda Haverty Rugg

Subject(s):

• Bombing, Aerial -- History -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Corson, Trevor. "The Race to Bomb." The Nation 273.13 (Oct 29, 2001): 25
• "A HISTORY OF BOMBING." Publishers Weekly 250.3 (Jan 15, 2001): 59
• Ball, Simon. "A History of Bombing." The English Historical Review 117.472 (June 2002): 757

Read: December 31, 2005

Abducted: how people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens

Author: Clancy, Susan A.

Title: Abducted: how people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens

Published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005

Description: viii, 179 p. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 157-171

Subject(s):

• Alien abduction
• Delusions
• Extraterrestrial Environment
• Imagination

Review(s):

• Hines, Terence M. "Alien abduction analysis.(Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens)." Skeptical Inquirer 30.2 (March-April 2006): 51
• Howard, Jennifer. "Harvard Researcher Probes the Minds of Alien Abductees.(Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens)." The Chronicle of Higher Education 52.11 (Nov 4, 2005): NA

Read: December 19, 2005

Exquisite pain

Author: Calle, Sophie

Title: Exquisite pain

Published: New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005

Description: 281 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Note: A visual record of the artist’s failed relationship with her lover

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic
• Rejection (Psychology) -- Pictorial works
• Artists’ books -- France
• Calle, Sophie -- Relations with men

Review(s):

• Adams, Katherine C. "Calle, Sophie. Exquisite Pain." Library Journal 130.6 (April 1, 2005): 91
• Princenthal, Nancy. "The measure of heartbreak: in her multipart project "Exquisite Pain," Sophie Calle uses snapshots, letters and memorabilia to mark her progression toward an unexpected romantic rupture. Accounts of other people's tragedies, in stitched texts and photographs, help her to place the experience in perspective.(Critical Essay)." Art in America 93.8 (Sept 2005): 138

Read: December 15, 2005

New mysteries of Paris: stories

Author: Gifford, Barry

Title: New mysteries of Paris: stories

Published: Livingston: Clark City Press, 1991

Description: 82 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Review(s):

• "New Mysteries of Paris." Publishers Weekly 238.n25 (June 7, 1991): 61

Read: December 5, 2005

Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography

Author: Brown, Chester

Title: Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography

Published: Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2003

Description: 272 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Riel Rebellion, 1885 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Riel, Louis, 1844-1885 -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Caturani, Khadijah. "Brown, Chester. Louis Riel: a Comic-Strip Biography." Library Journal 129.1 (Jan 2004): 80
• "Louis Riel: a Comic-Strip Biography." Publishers Weekly 251.11 (March 15, 2004): 68

Read: December 2, 2005

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Author: Meatyard, Ralph Eugene

Title: Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Published: New York: International Center of Photography, 2004

Description: 299 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 286-291

Note(s): "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Ralph Eugene Meatyard, organized by the International Center of Photography. Exhibition dates: December 10, 2004 through February 27, 2005"--Colophon. With an essay by Guy Davenport

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions
• Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972 -- Exhibitions

Review(s):

• Shields, M. Kathryn. "Stories these masks could tell: literary references in the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard.(Critical Essay)." Mosaic (Winnipeg) 37.4 (Dec 2004): 87
• Frailey, Stephen. "Ralph Eugene Meatyard: International Center of Photography, New York.(Critical Essay)." Artforum International 43.6 (Feb 2005): 169
• Dykstra, Jean. "Ralph Eugene Meatyard at the International Center of Photography.(NEW YORK)." Art in America 93.9 (Oct 2005): 172

Read: December 1, 2005

D'Aulaires' Book of Norse myths

Author(s): D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

Title: D'Aulaires' book of Norse myths

Published: New York: New York Review of Books, 2005

Description: xiii, 154 p. :ill. ; 31 cm.

Note: Originally published: Norse gods and giants. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967

Subject(s):

• Gods, Norse
• Mythology, Norse
• Giants -- Mythology

Review(s):

• Chabon, Michael. "After strange gods.(D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths)(Critical Essay)." The New York Review of Books 52.14 (Sept 22, 2005): 57

Read: November 27, 2005

The Push Man, and other stories

Author: Tatsumi, Yoshihiro

Title: The Push man, and other stories

Published: Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005, 1969

Description: 202 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note(s): Translated by Yuji Oniki. Edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine

Subject(s):

• Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935- -- Translations into English

Review(s):

• Raiteri, Steve. "Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. The Push Man and Other Stories." Library Journal 130.15 (Sept 15, 2005): 54
• Flagg, Gordon. "Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. The Push Man and Other Stories." Booklist 102.4 (Oct 15, 2005): 39

Read: November 27, 2005

Black hole

Author: Burns, Charles

Title: Black hole

Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2005

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Sexually transmitted diseases -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• "Burns, Charles: Black Hole." Kirkus Reviews 73.14 (July 15, 2005): 765
• Olson, Ray. "Burns, Charles. Black Hole." Booklist 102.3 (Oct 1, 2005): 44

Read: November 26, 2005

Mexifornia: a state of becoming

Author: Hanson, Victor Davis

Title: Mexifornia: a state of becoming

Published: San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003

Description: xvi, 150 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Mexican Americans -- California -- Social conditions
• Mexican Americans -- Government policy -- California
• Immigrants -- Government policy -- California
• California -- Emigration and immigration
• Mexico -- Emigration and immigration
• California -- Ethnic relations
• California -- Social conditions
• Popular culture -- California
• Selma (Calif.) -- Biography
• Hanson, Victor Davis

Review(s):

• Meilander, Peter C. "Immigration and the common culture.(Mexifornia: A State Of Becoming)." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life 139 (Jan 2004): 61
• Wilson, James Q. "Assimilation blues.(Mexifornia: A State of Becoming)." Commentary 116.2 (Sept 2003): 64

Read: November 24, 2005

The brown sisters

Author: Nixon, Nicholas

Title: The Brown sisters

Published: New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.

Subject(s):

• Photography of women
• Sisters -- Portraits
• Brown family -- Portraits
• Nixon, Nicholas

Review(s):

• Miller, Rebecca. "The Brown Sisters." Library Journal 125.4 (March 1, 2000): 86
• "Head Shots." Publishers Weekly 247.9 (Feb 28, 2000): 78

Read: November 22, 2005

Historians in trouble: plagiarism, fraud, and politics in the ivory tower

Author: Wiener, Jon

Title: Historians in trouble: plagiarism, fraud, and politics in the ivory tower

Published: New York: New Press, 2005

Description: ix, 260 p. ; 20 cm.

Bibliography: p. 217-249

Subject(s):

• Historians -- United States -- Biography
• Historians -- Press coverage -- United States -- Case studies
• Professional ethics -- United States -- Case studies
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- Case studies
• Historiography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Plagiarism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Fraud -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States -- Historiography

Review(s):

• Silverman, Scott H. "Wiener, Jon. Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower." Library Journal 130.2 (Feb 1, 2005): 100
• Sandbrook, Dominic. "Abuse of power." New Statesman (1996) 134.4736 (April 18, 2005): 56

Read: November 11, 2005

Sniper

Author: Hak, Pavel

Title: Sniper

Published: London: Serpent's Tail, 2005

Description: 120 p. ; 18 cm.

Note: Translated by Gerry Feehily

Subject(s):

• War -- Fiction

Read: November 10, 2005

Good-bye, Chunky Rice

Author: Thompson, Craig

Title: Good-bye, Chunky Rice

Published: Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2005

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject(s):

• Voyages and travels -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Separation (Psychology) -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Turtles -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• "Good-Bye, Chunky Rice." Library Journal 127.2 (Feb 1, 2002): 58
• "Thompson, Craig: Good-bye, Chunky Rice." Kirkus Reviews 74.8 (April 15, 2006): 379

Read: November 6, 2005

Loverboys: stories

Author: Castillo, Ana

Title: Loverboys: stories

Published: New York: Plume, 1997

Description: 224 p. ; 21 cm.

Note: Previously published in hardcover: New York: W.W. Norton, 1996

Subject(s):

• Love stories, American

Review(s):

• Evenson, Brian. "Loverboys." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.n1 (Spring 1997): 201
• De la Pena, Terri. "Loverboys." Lambda Book Report 5.n4 (Oct 1996): 14

Read: November 5, 2005

Pyongyang: a journey in North Korea

Author: Delisle, Guy

Title: Pyongyang: a journey in North Korea

Published: Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Note: Translated by Helge Dascher

Subject(s):

• Korea (North) -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Ramzy, Austin. "The Not-So-Funny Pages: A new book offers an unforgettable look at life in North Korea through an unlikely medium: cartoons.(Books)(Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea)." Time International (Asia Edition) 166.21 (Nov 21, 2005): 48
• "Delisle, Guy: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea." Kirkus Reviews 73.13 (July 1, 2005): 710

Read: November 2, 2005

Justice waits: the UC Davis sweetheart murders

Author: Davis, Joel

Title: Justice waits: the UC Davis sweetheart murders

Published: Sacramento: Callister Press, 2005

Description: xvii, 218 p. :il. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Murder -- California -- Davis
• University of California, Davis -- Students
• Riggins, John
• Gonsalves, Sabrina

Read: October 31, 2005

Adios muchachos

Author: Chavarría, Daniel

Title: Adios Muchachos

Published: New York: Akashic Books, 2001

Description: 245 p. ; 18 cm.

Note: Translated by Carlos Lopez

Subject(s):

• Prostitutes -- Cuba -- Havana -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Kempf, Andrea Caron. "Adios Mnchachos." Library Journal 126.6 (April 1, 2001): 131

Read: October 15, 2005

Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players

Author: Fatsis, Stefan

Title: Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2002, 2001

Description: x, 372 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: P. 368-370

Note: "Originally published in the United States of America by Houghton Mifflin 2001"

Subject(s):

• Scrabble (Game) -- Tournaments

Review(s):

• Levinson, Martin H. "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 59.4 (Winter 2002): 458
• "Word freak: heartbreak, triumph, genius and obsession in the world of competitive Scrabble." The Atlantic Monthly 288.3 (Oct 2001): 129-30
• "WORD FREAK: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble." Publishers Weekly 248.23 (June 4, 2001): 70

Read: October 12, 2005

Ways of seeing

Author: Berger, John

Title: Ways of seeing

Published: London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1986, 1972

Description: 166 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Note: Based on the BBC television series with John Berger

Subject(s):

• Visual perception
• Art -- Technique

Read: October 9, 2005

Slouching toward Nirvana: new poems

Author: Bukowski, Charles

Title: Slouching toward Nirvana: new poems

Published: New York: Ecco, 2005

Description: 270 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: Edited by John Martin

Review(s):

• Alokriji, Sadiq. "Bukowski, Charles. Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems." Library Journal 130.3 (Feb 15, 2005): 134
• Olson, Ray. "Bukowski, Charles. Slouching toward Nirvana." Booklist 101.9-10 (Jan 1, 2005): 803

Read: October 5, 2005

All of us: the collected poems

Author: Carver, Raymond

Title: All of us: the collected poems

Published: New York: Knopf, 1999.

Description: xxx, 386 p. ; 22 cm.

Review(s):

• ORR, DAVID. "All of Us: The Collected Poems." Poetry 174.4 (July 1999): 231
• Christian, Graham. "All of Us: The Collected Poems." Library Journal 123.n15 (Sept 15, 1998): 83

Read: September 23, 2005

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot suits, race, and riot in wartime L.A.

Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón

Title: Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot suits, race, and riot in wartime L.A.

Published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Description: xii, 313 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 283-304

Note: "A portion of this work appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, as "Los Angeles GeoPolitics and the Zoot-Suit Riot, 1943", Journal of social science history 24:1 (Spring 2000): 223-56, and is reprinted here with permission."--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, 1942-1943
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Violence -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Los Angeles
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
• Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Samponaro, Phil. "Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A." Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA) 28.4 (Dec 2005): 447
• Lopez. Ian F. Haney. "Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race and Riot in Wartime L.A." Journal of American History 91.3 (Dec 2004): 1076
• Chavez, Ernesto. "Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A." The Western Historical Quarterly 36.2 (Summer 2005): 213-213

Read: September 21, 2005

Miyamoto Musashi: his life and writings

Author: Tokitsu, Kenji

Title: Miyamoto Musashi: his life and writings

Published: Boston: Shambhala, 2004

Description: xxxix, 488 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 460-467

Note(s): Translation of: Miyamoto Musashi. Méolans-Revel [France]: Editions désiris, 2000; translated by Sherab Chödzin Kohn

Subject(s):

• Swordsmen -- Japan -- Biography
• Miyamoto, Musashi

Review(s):

• Jaeger, John, and Charles W. Hayford. "The top Samurai.(Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings)(The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Muses Kodansha)." Library Journal 129.14 (Sept 1, 2004): 167

Read: September 19, 2005

A child's life and other stories

Author: Gloeckner, Phoebe

Title: A child's life and other stories

Published: Berkeley: Frog, 2000

Description: 151 p. :ill. ; 28 cm.

Note: Introduction by R. Crumb

Subject(s):

• Girls -- Fiction
• Teenagers -- Fiction
• Graphic novels

Review(s):

• Farmanfarmaian, Roxane. "Graphic Novel, 'A Child's Life,' Disturbed Its Printers.(Phoebe Gloeckner's novel 'A Child's Life and Other Stories' was rejected by one printer for its graphic depiction of child abuse, but another took the job when the serious nature of the book was realized)." Publishers Weekly 245.n35 (August 31, 1998): 11

Read: August 30, 2005

The last true story I'll ever tell: an accidental soldier's account of the War in Iraq

Author: Crawford, John

Title: The last true story I’ll ever tell: an accidental soldier’s account of the War in Iraq

Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2005

Description: xiv, 219p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American
• Crawford, John

Review(s):

• Zeybel, Henry. "The Gift of Valor: A War Story." Air Power History 53.2 (Summer 2006): 52

Read: August 24, 2005

Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West

Author: McCarthy, Cormac

Title: Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West

Published: New York: Random House, 1985

Description: 337 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Indians of North America -- Fiction
• Teenage boys -- Fiction
• Massacres -- Fiction
• Outlaws -- Fiction
• Glanton Gang -- Fiction
• Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Kollin, Susan. "Genre and the geographies of violence: Cormac McCarthy and the contemporary western.(writer)(Critical Essay)." Contemporary Literature 42.3 (Fall 2001): 557
• Parrish, Timothy L., and Elizabeth A. Spiller. "A flute made of human bone: 'Blood Meridian' and the survivors of American history.(a critique of Cormac McCarthy's revisionist rendering of American history, 'Blood Meridian')." Prospects 23 (Annual 1998): 461
• Fielder, Adrian V. "Historical representation and the scriptural economy of imperialism: Assia Djebar's 'L'amour, la fantasia' and Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian'.(Critical Essay)." Comparative Literature Studies 37.1 (Wntr 2000): 18

Read: August 17, 2005

Los Angeles: a novel

Author: Smith, Peter Moore

Title: Los Angeles: a novel

Published: New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 2005

Description: 338 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Wright, David. "Smith, Peter Moore. Los Angeles." Booklist 101.5 (Nov 1, 2004): 469

Read: July 29, 2005

War is a force that gives us meaning

Author: Hedges, Chris

Title: War is a force that gives us meaning

Published: New York: Public Affairs, 2002

Description: 211 p. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 192-195

Subject(s):

• Military history, Modern -- 20th century
• War (Philosophy)
• Hedges, Chris

Review(s):

• Bernhard, Nancy. "A war correspondent tries to make sense of what he's seen: `why, he wanted to know, do human beings fight wars?' (Words & Reflections).(Meaning, War Is a Force That Gives Us)." Nieman Reports 56.4 (Winter 2002): 95
• Lang, Anthony F., Jr. "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Ethics & International Affairs 17.2 (Oct 2003): 127

Read: July 27, 2005

Paco’s story

Author: Heinemann, Larry

Title: Paco's story

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 1989, 1987

Description: 209 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject(s):

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Scott, Grant F. "'Paco's Story' and the ethics of violence. (The Vietnam War)." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.n1 (Fall 1994): 69
• GREIFF, LOUIS K. "In the Name of the Brother: Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story and Male America.(Critical Essay)." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41.4 (Summer 2000): 381

Read: July 24, 2005

A short history of myth

Author:Armstrong, Karen

Title: A short history of myth

Published: Toronto: Knopf, 2005

Description: 159 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Myth -- History
• Mythology -- History

Review(s):

• Leith, Sam. "It's the same old story.(A Short History of Myth)(The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus)(Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles)." Spectator 299.9246 (Oct 22, 2005): 43
• Taylor, Gilbert. "Armstrong, Karen. A Short History of Myth." Booklist 102.4 (Oct 15, 2005): 8

Read: July 14, 2005

The unknown Battle of Midway: the destruction of the American torpedo squadrons

Author: Kernan, Alvin B.

Title: The unknown Battle of Midway: the destruction of the American torpedo squadrons

Published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005

Description: xvii, 181 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 169-175

Subject(s):

• Midway, Battle of, 1942
• Torpedo bombers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Review(s):

• "Midway's terrible toll: despite America's triumph, mistakes doomed nearly an entire navy unit.(HISTORY NOW)(The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons )." American Heritage 57.1 (Feb-March 2006): 19
• Taylor, Gilbert. "Kernan, Alvin. The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)." Booklist 102.6 (Nov 15, 2005): 17

Read: June 27, 2005

Past imperfect: facts, fictions, fraud-- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin

Author: Hoffer, Peter Charles

Title: Past imperfec: facts, fictions, fraud-- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to

Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin

Published: New York: PublicAffairs, 2004

Description: xiv, 287 p. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 241-272

Subject(s):

• Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Historiography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Historians -- United States -- Biography
• Professional ethics -- United States -- Case studies
• United States -- Historiography
• United States -- History -- Philosophy
• Bellesiles, Michael A.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns
• Ambrose, Stephen E.
• Ellis, Joseph J.

Review(s):

• Garrow, David J. "Crimes of history." The Wilson Quarterly 29.1 (Wntr 2005): 112
• Fitzpatrick, Ellen. "Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud-American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin." Journal of American History 92.3 (Dec 2005): 1076
• Loewen, James W. "Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History." Public Historian 27.3 (Summer 2005): 69

Read: June 14, 2005

In my brother's shadow: a life and death in the SS

Author: Timm, Uwe

Title: In my brother's shadow: a life and death in the SS

Published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005

Description: 150 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: Translated from the German by Anthea Bell

Subject(s):

• Timm, Uwe, 1940- -- Family

Review(s):

• Gibbons, James. "Lie, memory: James Gibbons on Uwe Timm.(In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS)." Artforum International 43.8 (April 2005): S7
• Doyle, Jim. "Timm, Uwe. In My Brother's Shadow." Library Journal 130.4 (March 1, 2005): 98

Read: June 4, 2005

The men who stare at goats

Author: Ronson, Jon

Title: The men who stare at goats

Published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004

Description: 259 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Bibliography: p. 257-259

Subject(s):

• Psychological warfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Psychological warfare -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Parapsychology -- Military aspects
• Animals -- War use
• Occultism -- United States

Review(s):

• Hoffert, Barbara. "Ronson, Jon. The Men Who Stare at Goats." Library Journal 129.20 (Dec 1, 2004): 92
• "Ronson, Jon: the Men Who Stare at Goats." Kirkus Reviews 73.4 (Feb 15, 2005): 219

Read: May 29, 2005

On bullshit

Author: Frankfurt, Harry G.

Title: On bullshit

Published: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005

Description: 67 p. ; 16 cm.

Subject(s):

• Truthfulness and falsehood

Review(s):

• McCallum, John S. "On Bullshit is not bullshit." Ivey Business Journal Online (Sept-Oct 2005): 1
• Martin, Clancy W. "Frankfurt, Harry. On Bullshit." Ethics 116.2 (Jan 2006): 416
• Levinson, Martin H. "On Bullshit." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 63.4 (Oct 2006): 459

Read: May 28, 2005

Them: adventures with extremists

Author: Ronson, Jon

Title: Them : adventures with extremists

Published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Description: 330 p. ; 23 cm.

Note: Originally published: London: Picador, 2001

Subject(s):

• Radicals
• Radicalism

Review(s):

• Whitehouse, Christine. "Us vs. Them: A British journalist finds truth stranger than fiction." Time International 157.19 (May 14, 2001): 72
• Heard, Alex. "Them: Adventures with Extremists. (Extremist Sports)." Washington Monthly (Jan-Feb 2002): 51

Read: May 21, 2005

Generation kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war

Author: Wright, Evan

Title: Generation kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war

Published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004

Description: 354 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American

Review(s):

• Bonadonna, Reed. "Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War." Naval War College Review 58.1 (Wntr 2005): 166
• Zeybel, Henry. "In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat." Air Power History 51.4 (Winter 2004): 55
• Bearn, Mark. "On the rampage." New Statesman (1996) 133.4699 (August 2, 2004): 38

Read: May 20, 2005

Kill your darlings

Author: Blacker, Terence

Title: Kill your darlings

Published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001

Description: 292 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000

Subject(s):

• Novelists -- Fiction
• Plagiarism -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Riley, Sheila. "Kill Your Darlings." Library Journal 126.18 (Nov 1, 2001): 131
• Melton, Emily. "Kill Your Darlings." Booklist 98.5 (Nov 1, 2001): 461

Read: May 15, 2005

Mother, come home

Author: Hornschemeier, Paul

Title: Mother, come home

Published: Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books, 2003

Description: 1 v. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note(s): "This volume collects new material along with issues 2-4 of the comic book series Forlorn Funnies, originally published by Absence of Ink"--T.p. verso; with an introduction by Thomas Tennant

Subject(s):

• Death -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Caturani, Khadijah. "Hornschemeier, Paul. Mother, Come Home." Library Journal 129.4 (March 1, 2004): 62

Read: May 6, 2005

Same difference and other stories

Author: Kim, Derek Kirk

Title: Same difference and other stories

Published: Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2004

Description: 139 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Note: "Most of the stories in this collection were first serialized at www.lowbright.com over the course of 2000-2003"--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Graphic novels
• Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Galuschak, George. "Kim, Derek Kirk. Same difference and other stories." Kliatt 39.3 (May 2005): 37

Read: May 6, 2005

The summer of love

Author: Drechsler, Debbie

Title: The summer of love

Published: Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2003

Description: 135 p. :ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject(s):

• Teenage girls -- Fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc

Review(s):

• Flagg, Gordon. "Drechsler, Debbie. Summer of Love." Booklist 98.22 (August 2002): 1907

Read: April 26, 2005

Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers

Author: Roach, Mary

Title: Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers

Published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004, 2003

Description: 303 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography: p. 295-303

Subject(s):

• Human experimentation in medicine
• Dead
• Human dissection
• Autopsy
• Cadaver
• Dissection

Review(s):

• Marschall, Laurence A. "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers." Natural History 112.5 (June 2003): 63
• Leith, William. "Grave concerns.(what happens to bodies after people die is answered by Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers)." New Statesman (1996) 132.4649 (August 4, 2003): 36

Read: April 23, 2005

Secret empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America's space espionage

Author: Taubman, Philip

Title: Secret empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America’s space espionage

Published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003

Description: xx, 441 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 403-419

Subject(s):

• Cold War
• U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)
• Space surveillance -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Aerial reconnaissance, American -- History -- 20th century
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Mahncke, Frank C. "Taubman, Philip. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage." Naval War College Review 57.1 (Wntr 2004): 152
• Taylor, Gilbert. "Taubman, Philip. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage." Booklist 99.12 (Feb 15, 2003): 1023

Read: April 3, 2005

The best military science fiction of the 20th century

Title: The best military science fiction of the 20th century

Published: New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 2001

Description: xii, 544 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: Edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin Harry Greenberg

Contents:

• Among thieves--Poul Anderson
• Second variety--Philip K. Dick
• Hero--Joe W. Haldeman
• Superiority--Arthur C. Clarke
• Ender's game--Orson Scott Card
• Hangman--David Drake
• The last article--Harry Turtledove
• The game of rat and dragon--Cordwainer Smith
• Night of the vampyres--George R.R. Martin
• To the storming gulf--Gregory Benford
• Wolf time--Walter Jon Williams
• The scapegoat--C.J. Cherryh
• Dragonrider--Anne McCaffrey

Subject(s):

• Science fiction, American
• Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
• Military art and science -- Fiction
• Space warfare -- Fiction
• Science fiction, English
• War stories, American
• War stories, English

Review(s):

• Cassada, Jackie. "The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century." Library Journal 126.9 (May 15, 2001): 167
• Green, Roland. "The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century." Booklist 97.14 (March 15, 2001): 1360

Read: March 26, 2005

King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa

Author: Hochschild, Adam

Title: King Leopold’s ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa

Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Description: 366 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 338-350

Subject(s):

• Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
• Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century
• Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
• Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century
• Human rights movements -- History -- 19th century
• Human rights movements -- History -- 20th century
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1885-1908
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Leusmann, Harald. "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa." Conradiana 33.2 (Summer 2001): 164
• BENDER, TODD K. "King Leopold's Ghost." CLIO 29.4 (Summer 2000): 441
• Hamilton, Richard F. "A Neglected Holocaust." Human Rights Review 1.3 (April-June 2000): 119

Read: March 13, 2005

The plot against America

Author: Roth, Philip

Title: The plot against America

Published: Waterville: Thorndike Press, 2005, 2004

Description: 723 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject(s):

• Presidents -- United States -- Fiction
• Presidents -- Election -- Fiction
• Jews -- United States -- Fiction
• Jewish families -- Fiction
• Antisemitism -- Fiction
• Newark (N.J.) -- Fiction
• Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Halio, Jay L. "The Plot Against America." Shofar 24.2 (Wntr 2006): 204
• Newman, Herta. "Philip Roth's return in The Plot Against America.(Jaws of America)." Midstream 51.3 (May-June 2005): 20
• Raphael, Frederic. "Pastoral of an urban kind." Spectator 296.9195 (Oct 30, 2004): 57

Read: March 5, 2005

Weegee

Author: Purcell, Kerry William

Title: Weegee

Published: London: Phaidon, 2004

Description: 128 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• News photographers -- United States -- Biography
• Photojournalism -- United States -- Pictorial works
• Photography, Artistic
• Weegee

Read: February 16, 2005

Rorke's Drift

Author: Greaves, Adrian

Title: Rorke's Drift

Published: London: Cassell, 2003, 2002

Description: 446 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Note: Originally published: London: Cassell, 2002

Subject(s):

• Rorke's Drift, Battle of, South Africa, 1879

Review(s):

• "Rorke's Drift." History Today 53.11 (Nov 2003): 87

Read: February 13, 2005

Seconds of pleasure: stories

Author: LaBute, Neil

Title: Seconds of pleasure: stories

Published: New York: Grove Press, 2004

Description: viii, 223 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject(s):

• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction, American

Review(s):

• Cohen, Joshua. "LaBute, Neil. Seconds of Pleasure." Library Journal 129.14 (Sept 1, 2004): 145
• "LaBute, Neil: Seconds of Pleasure." Kirkus Reviews 72.15 (August 1, 2004): 707

Read: January 18, 2005