RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities --- Table of Contents

**Issue #72**
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Mid-Winter, 2001 - 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Dean Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World	James Chace	Simon & Schuster	Biography
I'm Wearing Green Socks. Can You Dig It?	Edmund White	[Reading]	Biography of Jean Genet
Bob Marley and the 3AM Blues	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Travel --- Mexico
Lily in the Desert[B]	Annie Dawid	Carnegie Mellon/Cornell	Fiction
Dark Back of Time[B]*	Javier Marías	New Directions	Fiction
The Egg Man of the Fillmore:[B] Leslie A. Wattles	Otto W. Fedders, PhD	Omphaloskepsis Press	Biography --- Contemporary American Writers
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter	Riyuku	[Poem]	Ancient Chinese Poetry
Sounds of the River	Da Chen	Harper/Collins	Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Suicide and the Dark Diceman	William Faulkner	[Reading]	Fiction
The Governor's Dog	R. P. Warren	[Reading]	Fiction
Wake Up to Your Life:[N] Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention	Ken McLeod	Harper San Francisco	Religion --- Eastern
All the King's Men[N]*	Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk, Editor	Harcourt	Revised Version of Penn Warren's Classic
The Best American Essays of the Century	Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan, Editors	Houghton Mifflin	Essays --- American
Death and the Sailor	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Autobiography

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #73
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Late Mid-Winter, 2002
Title Author Publisher Subject

A Geezer with the St. Vitus' Dance Carlos Amantea [Article] Travel --- Mexico

The Stories of Paul Bowles Robert Stone, Editor Harper Collins Short Fiction

Restavec:[B] From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American Jean-Robert Cadet Texas Autobiography

Sorcerer's Apprentice[B] Tahir Shah Arcade Autobiographical Fiction

Winds of Change:[B] Hurricanes and the Transformation of 19th Century Cuba Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Chapel Hill 19th Century Cuban History

Song of Welcome Josef Brodsky [Poem] Contemporary Poetry

Desert Survivor: The Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert John Annerino Four Walls Eight Windows Travel, How-To-Do-It

An Ocean to Cross: Daring the Atlantic Claiming a New Life Liz Fordred McGraw Hill Travel and Disability

The Muckrakers[N] Arthur and Lila Weinberg, Editors University of Illinois History of American Journalism

Flights of Love[N] Bernhard Schlink Pantheon Modern German Short Stories

The Stranger Next Door:[N] The Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights Arlene Stein Beacon Press Sociological Study

Of Two Minds* Tanya Luhrmann Vintage Study of Psychoanalytic Training

Terrorism Works J. Glenn [Reading] News Analysis

Traveling in Terror Navrai Ghaleigh [Reading] News Analysis

The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today Peter Prichard Andrews, McMeel and Parker History of Contemporary Journalism

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #73**
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Late Mid-Winter, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
A Geezer with the St. Vitus' Dance	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Travel --- Mexico
The Stories of Paul Bowles	Robert Stone, Editor	Harper Collins	Short Fiction
Restavec:[B] From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American	Jean-Robert Cadet	Texas	Autobiography
Sorcerer's Apprentice[B]	Tahir Shah	Arcade	Autobiographical Fiction
Winds of Change:[B] Hurricanes and the Transformation of 19th Century Cuba	Louis A. Pérez, Jr.	Chapel Hill	19th Century Cuban History
Song of Welcome	Josef Brodsky	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry
Desert Survivor: The Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert	John Annerino	Four Walls Eight Windows	Travel, How-To-Do-It
An Ocean to Cross: Daring the Atlantic Claiming a New Life	Liz Fordred	McGraw Hill	Travel and Disability
The Muckrakers[N]	Arthur and Lila Weinberg, Editors	University of Illinois	History of American Journalism
Flights of Love[N]	Bernhard Schlink	Pantheon	Modern German Short Stories
The Stranger Next Door:[N] The Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights	Arlene Stein	Beacon Press	Sociological Study
Of Two Minds*	Tanya Luhrmann	Vintage	Study of Psychoanalytic Training
Terrorism Works	J. Glenn	[Reading]	News Analysis
Traveling in Terror	Navrai Ghaleigh	[Reading]	News Analysis
The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today	Peter Prichard	Andrews, McMeel and Parker	History of Contemporary Journalism

Issue #74
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Late Winter, 2002
Title Author Publisher Subject

Cradle of Valor: A Plebe at West Point Between the Two World Wars Dale O. Smith Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Memoir of West Point

Going Quackers Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexican Animal Husbandry

Loving the Earth F. J. Wertz [Poem] Modern Jewish Poetry

Round-Trip to Deadsville:[B] A Year in the Funeral Underground Tim Matson Chelsea Green Dying in the United States

Insight Meditation:[B] An In-Depth Correspondence Course Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein Sounds True Meditation Study (Tapes)

The Bostons:[B] Stories Carolyn Cooke Mariner Short Fiction

Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas Pete Earley Bantam Dell Sociological Study

Dostoyevsky and Gran Mal Leonid Tsypkin Quartet Literary History

The Fun Of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town Lillian Ross, Editor Modern Library Literary History, Short Fiction

Summer in Baden-Baden:[N] A Novel* Leonid Tsypkin New Directions Literary Fiction and History

Taking Haiti:[N] Military Occupation and the Culture of U. S. Imperialism --- 1915 - 1940 Mary A. Renda Chapel Hill History of Haiti

The War of the Worlds:[N] A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations, and Appendices* H. G. Wells --- Leon Stover, Editor McFarland 19th Century Science Fiction

Sin Nombre Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexican Travel

The End, The End Aaron G. Silverstein [Poem] Modern Jewish Poetry

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere Jan Morris Simon & Schuster Travel and History, Trieste

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #74**
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Late Winter, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Cradle of Valor: A Plebe at West Point Between the Two World Wars	Dale O. Smith	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	Memoir of West Point
Going Quackers	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexican Animal Husbandry
Loving the Earth	F. J. Wertz	[Poem]	Modern Jewish Poetry
Round-Trip to Deadsville:[B] A Year in the Funeral Underground	Tim Matson	Chelsea Green	Dying in the United States
Insight Meditation:[B] An In-Depth Correspondence Course	Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein	Sounds True	Meditation Study (Tapes)
The Bostons:[B] Stories	Carolyn Cooke	Mariner	Short Fiction
Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas	Pete Earley	Bantam Dell	Sociological Study
Dostoyevsky and Gran Mal	Leonid Tsypkin	Quartet	Literary History
The Fun Of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town	Lillian Ross, Editor	Modern Library	Literary History, Short Fiction
Summer in Baden-Baden:[N] A Novel*	Leonid Tsypkin	New Directions	Literary Fiction and History
Taking Haiti:[N] Military Occupation and the Culture of U. S. Imperialism --- 1915 - 1940	Mary A. Renda	Chapel Hill	History of Haiti
The War of the Worlds:[N] A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations, and Appendices*	H. G. Wells --- Leon Stover, Editor	McFarland	19th Century Science Fiction
Sin Nombre	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexican Travel
The End, The End	Aaron G. Silverstein	[Poem]	Modern Jewish Poetry
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere	Jan Morris	Simon & Schuster	Travel and History, Trieste

Issue #75
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Late Late Winter, 2002
Title Author Publisher Subject

Buddhist Stupas in Asia:[B] The Shape of Perfection Joe Cummings Text
Bill Wassman Photographs Lonely Planet Far Eastern Travel

Bridge:[B] The Architecture of Connection Lucy Blakstad Birkhauser Architecture, Engineering

Witnesses of Time:[B] Photographs of Flor Garduño* Introduction by Carlos Fuentes Aperture Central and South America Photography

Looking Through Letterboxes Caroline Bird Carcarnet Modern English Poetry

My Father's Cabin: A Tale of Life, Love, Loss, and Land Mark Phillips Lyons Press Biography, Memoir

My Brilliant Career Dr. Phage [Article] Education; Sleep Therapy

The Hall of Idleness Po Yüchien [Poem] Ancient Chinese Poetry

Nothing to Fear:[N] FDR in Photographs Hugh Gregory Gallagher Wendamere Press Photography, Biography

Among the Missing[N] Dan Chaon Ballentine Modern American Short Fiction

From the Ashes:[N] A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America Collected by the editors of Beliefnet Rodale/St. Martins Modern American Essays

The Short Stool Society Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexican Travel

Confessions of a PR Man Robert J. Wood NAL Careers: Public Relations

The Girl in the Chair: The Roots of Madness L. W. Milam [Reading] Criticism --- Modern American Music

Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s Neil Miller Alyson History of Gay Rights

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #75**
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Late Late Winter, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Buddhist Stupas in Asia:[B] The Shape of Perfection	Joe Cummings Text Bill Wassman Photographs	Lonely Planet	Far Eastern Travel
Bridge:[B] The Architecture of Connection	Lucy Blakstad	Birkhauser	Architecture, Engineering
Witnesses of Time:[B] Photographs of Flor Garduño*	Introduction by Carlos Fuentes	Aperture	Central and South America Photography
Looking Through Letterboxes	Caroline Bird	Carcarnet	Modern English Poetry
My Father's Cabin: A Tale of Life, Love, Loss, and Land	Mark Phillips	Lyons Press	Biography, Memoir
My Brilliant Career	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Education; Sleep Therapy
The Hall of Idleness	Po Yüchien	[Poem]	Ancient Chinese Poetry
Nothing to Fear:[N] FDR in Photographs	Hugh Gregory Gallagher	Wendamere Press	Photography, Biography
Among the Missing[N]	Dan Chaon	Ballentine	Modern American Short Fiction
From the Ashes:[N] A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America	Collected by the editors of Beliefnet	Rodale/St. Martins	Modern American Essays
The Short Stool Society	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexican Travel
Confessions of a PR Man	Robert J. Wood	NAL	Careers: Public Relations
The Girl in the Chair: The Roots of Madness	L. W. Milam	[Reading]	Criticism --- Modern American Music
Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s	Neil Miller	Alyson	History of Gay Rights

Issue #76
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Early Spring, 2002
Title Author Publisher Subject

The $12,000 Baby Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexico Travel

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education Sybille Bedford Counterpoint "Fictional Autobiography"

The First Time Sybille Bedford [Reading] Memoir

Progressive Design in the Midwest:[B] The Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts Jennifer Komar Olivarez MIA/Minnesota University Press Museum Collection

Madagascar Wildlife:[B] A Visitor's Guide Nick Garbutt, Hilary Brandt, Derek Schuurman Brandt/Globe Pequot Nature Study

The Toltec Path of Recapitulation:[B] Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul Victor Sanchez Bear & Co. Mystical "Recapitulation"

The Chocolate Soldier P. J. Mierly [Poem] Gay Poetry

Editors' Picks RALPH Editors [List] Best Books of 2001-2002

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me* Javier Marías New Directions Modern Spanish Fiction

Buddhism:[N] The Illustrated Guide Kevin Trainor, Editor Oxford Pictorial Guide

Luisa and the Silence[N] Claudio Piersanti Northwestern Contemporary Italian Fiction

A Purchase of Porcelain Jean Nordhaus [Poem] Contemporary American Poetry

Terrorist Hits Mexicana Airlines Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexico Travel

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender* Dubravka Ulgresic New Directions Memoirs --- Slovenia

In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart is Devouring America Bob Ortega Times Business Business History

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #76**
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Early Spring, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
The $12,000 Baby	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexico Travel
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education	Sybille Bedford	Counterpoint	"Fictional Autobiography"
The First Time	Sybille Bedford	[Reading]	Memoir
Progressive Design in the Midwest:[B] The Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts	Jennifer Komar Olivarez	MIA/Minnesota University Press	Museum Collection
Madagascar Wildlife:[B] A Visitor's Guide	Nick Garbutt, Hilary Brandt, Derek Schuurman	Brandt/Globe Pequot	Nature Study
The Toltec Path of Recapitulation:[B] Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul	Victor Sanchez	Bear & Co.	Mystical "Recapitulation"
The Chocolate Soldier	P. J. Mierly	[Poem]	Gay Poetry
Editors' Picks	RALPH Editors	[List]	Best Books of 2001-2002
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me*	Javier Marías	New Directions	Modern Spanish Fiction
Buddhism:[N] The Illustrated Guide	Kevin Trainor, Editor	Oxford	Pictorial Guide
Luisa and the Silence[N]	Claudio Piersanti	Northwestern	Contemporary Italian Fiction
A Purchase of Porcelain	Jean Nordhaus	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Terrorist Hits Mexicana Airlines	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexico Travel
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender*	Dubravka Ulgresic	New Directions	Memoirs --- Slovenia
In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart is Devouring America	Bob Ortega	Times Business	Business History

Issue #77
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Early Mid-Spring, 2002
Title Author Publisher Subject

Anatomy of Miracles: Practical Teachings for Developing Your Capacity to Heal Subagh Singh Khalsa Tuttle Yoga

Birds of San Diego Chris Fisher,
Herbert Clarke Lone Pine Ornithology

Masturbation:[B] The History of a Great Terror Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck St. Martins Ononological History

An Ethnic at Large:[B] A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties Jerre Mangione Syracuse Ethnic History

Circle Houses:[B] Yurts, Tipis, and Benders David Pearson Chelsea Green Ecological Construction

The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps: New Poems Charles Bukowski Black Sparrow Contemporary American Poetry

The Battle at Little Bull Run T, F. Bierly [Poem] Contemporary American Poetry

Moko: Maori Tattoo Hans Neleman, Photographer Edition Stemmle Maori Tattoos

The Mordida Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexico Customs

Mumsie L. W. Milam [Article] Memoriam

St. Agnes and the Passion of the Dunes Wilfred McCorkle [Poem] Contemporary Poetry

The Valley of No Flowers Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexican Life

Whales and other Marine Mammals of California and Baja Tamara Eder Lone Pine Oceanographic Studies

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

**Issue #77**
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Early Mid-Spring, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Anatomy of Miracles: Practical Teachings for Developing Your Capacity to Heal	Subagh Singh Khalsa	Tuttle	Yoga
Birds of San Diego	Chris Fisher, Herbert Clarke	Lone Pine	Ornithology
Masturbation:[B] The History of a Great Terror	Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck	St. Martins	Ononological History
An Ethnic at Large:[B] A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties	Jerre Mangione	Syracuse	Ethnic History
Circle Houses:[B] Yurts, Tipis, and Benders	David Pearson	Chelsea Green	Ecological Construction
The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps: New Poems	Charles Bukowski	Black Sparrow	Contemporary American Poetry
The Battle at Little Bull Run	T, F. Bierly	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Moko: Maori Tattoo	Hans Neleman, Photographer	Edition Stemmle	Maori Tattoos
The Mordida	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexico Customs
Mumsie	L. W. Milam	[Article]	Memoriam
St. Agnes and the Passion of the Dunes	Wilfred McCorkle	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry
The Valley of No Flowers	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexican Life
Whales and other Marine Mammals of California and Baja	Tamara Eder	Lone Pine	Oceanographic Studies

**Issue #78**
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Late Mid-Spring, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Ælbert Cuyp	Peter Campbell	[Reading]	Art History
The Invisible Made Visible: Angels from the Vatican	Allen Duston, Arnold Nesselrath	Art Services International/Abrams	Art History
Otherwhere:[B] A Field Guide to Nonphysical Reality for the Out-of-Body Traveler	Kurt Leland	Hampton Roads	Out-of-Body Experience
Never Fade Away[B]	William Hart	Fithian	Contemporary American Fiction --- ESL
Ambassador of the Dead[B]	Askold Melnyczuk	Counterpoint	Ukrainian-American Fiction
An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government	William C. Davis	Harcourt	19th Century History
Experiences in Translation	Umberto Eco	University of Toronto	Semiotics
Definition vs. Translation	Umberto Eco	[Reading]	Baudelaire's "Les chats"
Jesus Christ in the South Bronx	E. J. Whittier	[Poem]	Contemporary Christian Poetry
The Bleeding of the Stone[N]	Ibrahim Al-Koni	Interlink	Modern Arabic Fiction
The Secret Life of Dust:[N] From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things*	Hannah Holmes	John Wiley	Popular Science
The Rise and Fall of Synanon[N]	Rod Janzen	Johns Hopkins	Contemporary History
Descendants	Rush Rankin	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884	Mark Wahlgren Summers	University of North Carolina	19th Century History
From Here to Tierra del Fuego*	Paul Magee	University of Illinois	Semiotics and History
Smashing Head-On at Sixty Miles-per-Hour into a Fully-Loaded Mexican Gasoline Truck	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexican Travel

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #79**
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Late Late Spring, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Ants at Work: How an Insect Society Is Organized	Deborah Gordon	The Free Press	Natural History
Twenty-Five Worthy Books	RALPH Editors	[List]	Good Books Reviewed in the First Five Years of RALPH
The Inner Art of Meditation[B]	Jack Kornfield	Sounds True Cassettes	Mindfulness Meditation
Overtime[B]*	Joseph Millar	Eastern Washington University Press	Contemporary American Poetry
Currier & Ives:[B] America Imagined	Bryan F. Le Beau	Smithsonian	History of Prints --- Early America
Notes for a Tale of Perfect Disembodiment	Paul Magee	[Reading]	Anatosematophilia
Edward Curtis: The Master Prints	Dan L. Monroe, Editor	Arena Editions	Early Photographs of Native Americans
An Indian History of Early America	Richard White	[Reading]	Economic Determinism and Native American Culture
The King Crane Report	Hugh Gregory Gallagher	[Article]	1919 Report of Commission Studying Establishment of a New State of Israel
The Sea and the Bells	Pablo Neruda	Copper Canyon Press	Latin American Poetry in Translation
A Haiku Journey[B]: Basho's Narrow Road to A Far Province	Basho	Kodansha International	Poems and Journeys of the Haiku Master
Priceless Children:[B] American Photographs 1890-1925	Lewis Hine, F. Holland Day, etc.	Washington Art Museum	Early 20th Century Photography of Children
The Voice of the Poet[B]	Langston Hughes	Random House Audio	Readings by Langston Hughes
Red Poppies	Alai	Houghton Mifflin	Contemporary Chinese Fiction
G. B. Shaw Dies Dallas	S. J. Saunders, PhD	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
What Is It about the English?	Franz Wright	[Letter]	Questions about Poetry in RALPH

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #80**
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Very Early Summer, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
The Planet Neptune, Audubon, Skyscrapers	Geoff Shandler, Christopher Irmscher, Adam Goodheart	[Article]	Excerpts from The American Scholar
The Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions	Bruce M. Metzger	Baker Academic	Study of Translations of the Bible, 150 A. D. - 1995 A. D.
Plum Village Meditations[B]	Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Jina van Hengel	Sounds True	Meditation Practice Tape
The Riddle of the Compass[B]: The Invention that Changed the World	Amir D. Aczel	Harcourt	History of the Invention of the Compass
Hammerfall[B]	C. D. Cherryh	EOS	Science Fiction
The Castle	Franz Kafka	Schocken	A New Translation by Mark Harman
Hydrothermal Vents	Jeffrey Rothfeder	[Reading]	The Reputed "Origin of Life"
The King Crane Report, British Wood-Engraved Book Illustrations, Testicles	Michael Sheber, Paul Kiler, Willie One-Nut	[Letters]	The Israeli Crises, Early 20th Century Wood-Cuts, and The Buying and Selling of Testicles
Exposed[N]: The Victorian Nude	Alison Smith	Watson-Guptill	Nudes in Late 19th - Early 20th Century Paintings and Photographs
The Maimed[N]	Hermann Ungar	Twisted Spoon Press	Novel from Weimar Germany
Going Down[N]: The Instinct Guide to Oral Sex	Ben R. Rogers, Joel Perry	Alyson	Fellation
Perfect Madness: From Awakening to Enlightenment	Donna Lee Gorrell	Inner Ocean	Autobiography
Teaching the Very Angry	Miranda Field	[Reading]	Teaching in the Ghetto
The Last Days of Edward Teller	Steven Shaplin	[Reading]	Review of the Memoirs of Edward Teller
Vietnam Scrapbook	Jeffrey Harrison	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water in a World about to Run Out	Jerry Rothfeder	Tarcher/Putnam	The World's Water Crises

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

**Issue #81**
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Early Summer, 2002
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Subha Chandra Bose:[B] A Biography	Marshall J. Getz	McFarland	Biography of the Indian Revolutionary
The Desert Smells Like Rain:[B] A Naturalist in O'odham Country*	Gary Paul Nabhan	University of Arizona	Stories of the Indians of the Sonoran Desert
Love Is Stronger Than Death:[B] The Mystical Union of Two Souls	Cynthia Bourgeault	Lindisfarne	Mystical Christian Love
Interview with Chuck Close	Laura Kaminker	Reading	Disability and Blame
Interview with W. Eugene Smith	Philippe Halsman	Reading	The Pittsburgh project, 1957
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches*	Gaétan Soucy	Arcade	Contemporary Canadian Fiction
The Owl and the Bluejays	Charles Krafft	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Water & The Crane Report	Jeffrey Rothfeder, Richard Malmed	[Letters]	The Water Crises, The Crane Report
How To Think Like a Millionaire	Mark Fisher and Marc Allen	New World Library	Self-help
A Buddhist between the Israelis and the Palestinians	Neta Golan	[Interview]	Pacifism and the Middle East
The Bullet Meant for Me:[N] A Memoir	Jan Reid	(Broadway)	Memoir, Disability
Soy la Avon Lady:[N] And Other Stories	Lorraine López	Curbstone	Contemporary Latino Short Fiction
Weird Nature:[N] An Astonishing Exploration of Nature's Strangest Behavior	John Downer	Firefly	Unusual Creatures
Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art	Delores Tarzan Ament, Mary Randlett	University of Washington/MONA	History of Northwest Art
Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project	Sam Stephenson, Editor	Lyndhurst/Norton	Pittsburgh in the 1950s
Three Poems	Lâm Thi My Da	[Poems]	Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit