Issue #34
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Late Winter, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Ants at Work: How an Insect Society Is Organized Deborah Gordon The Free Press Natural History
Johann Sebastian Bach and the Aliens Ignacio Schwartz [Article] History --- Music
The Cockroach Papers:[B] A Compendium of History and Lore* Richard Schweid Four Walls/Eight Windows Natural History
The Zen of Oz:[B] Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow Joey Green Renaissance Satire
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin[B]* Richard Lourie Counterpoint History --- Fictional
Will Rogers:[B] A Photo-Biography Bryan B. Sterling and Frances N. Sterling Taylor Publishing Biography
Buddhism and Psychoanalysis: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism Anthony Molino, Editor North Point Press Psychology, Eastern Religion
Dojo Thomas Centolella [Poem] Poetry --- Contemporary American
Another Day of Life* Ryszard Kapuscinski Harcourt Brace Jovanovich History --- Contemporary Russia
She Lives in a Big White House Carlos Amantea [Article] Autobiography
How to Stop Time:[N] Heroin from A to Z Anne Marlowe Basic Books Autobiography, Drugs
Opium:[N] A History Martin Booth St. Martins Press History --- Drugs
Maiden Voyage[N] Ann L. McLaughlin John Daniel & Company Fiction
The Internet For Dummies[N] John R. Levine, Arnold Reinhold and Margaret Levine Young IDG Books How-To-Do-It
Looking for Our Twin Saul Bellow[Reading] Philosophy
Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein [Poems] Poetry --- Modern American
Tijuana Baby Jesus Carlos Amantea [Reading] Fiction
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Issue #35
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Early Spring, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Edward Chancellor Farrar Straus History --- Finance
Before the Storm:[B] Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia Marion, Countess Dönhoff Knopf Memoirs
The Innocents Within[B] Robert Daley Villard Fiction
Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages[B] Manuel Puig University of Minnesota Drama
Captain Hook: The Drunk of Puerto Perdido Carlos Amantea [Article] Travel --- Mexico
Dr. Freud: A Life Paul Ferris Counterpoint Biography
Funny Book Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize: Nobel Prize May Be in the Offing as Well Anonymous [Article] Satire
My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir Betty Fussell North Point/Farrar, Strauss Memoir
Nightmare:[N] The Underside of the Nixon Years J. Anthony Lukas University of Ohio History --- Contemporary
The Bachelors[N] Muriel Spark New Directions Fiction
What If?:[N] The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Robert Cowley, Editor G. P. Putnam History, Fiction
The Night Inspector Frederick Busch Harmony Fiction --- Historical
Flight into Siberia Ryszard Kapuscinski [Reading] History --- Contemporary Russian
Tamerlane and Towers of Skulls Ryszard Kapuscinski [Reading] History --- Contemporary Russian

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Issue #36
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Mid-Spring, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Shooting the War:[B] Marine Corps Combat Photography in WWII Thayer Soule Kentucky History --- WWII
Bar Stories[B] Scott Brassart, Editor Alyson Short Stories --- Contemporary American
Grand Central Winter:[B] Stories from the Street Lee Stringer Washington Square Press Autobiography
Carousel: A Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler Investigation J Robert Janes Soho Fiction
Notes of a Desolate Man Chu T'ien-Wen Columbia Fiction --- Contemporary Chinese
The Ideology of the Horizons Mohammed A. Bamyeh [Reading] History of Islam
Yuba City School Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [Poem] Poetry --- Modern American
The Problem of Death and Suicide in Anorexia Nervosa Mara Selvini Palazzolli [Reading] Psychology --- Anorexia
The New World Order Pat Robertson Word Prophecy --- Religious
Plants with Nervous Breakdowns Blaise Cendrars [Reading] Travel --- South America
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns [Poem] Poetry --- Scotland
Twilight: Losing Sight Gaining Insight Henry Grunwald Knopf Personal History

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Issue #37
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Early Spring, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Super Casino:[B] Inside the "New" Las Vegas Pete Earley Bantam Dell History --- Contemporary
Threads of Time:[B] Recollections Peter Brook Counterpoint Memoirs
Cider with Laurie:[B] Laurie Lee
Remembered
Barbara Hooper Peter Owen/Dufour Editions Biography
Chamisal Carlos Amantea [Article] Travel --- Mexico
The Death of the Knight Geoffrey Chaucer [Poem] Literature --- Medieval English
The Double Monster Vladimir Nabokov [Reading] Literature --- Contemporary
The Ice-Cream Man Carlos Amantea [Article] Travel --- Mexico
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941 - 1945* Leo Marks Free Press History --- WWII
The Best Guide to Meditation[N] Victor N. Davich Renaissance How-To-Do-It
The Heart of Sufism:[N] The Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan H.J. Witteveen, Editor Shambhala Eastern Religion
I Could Tell You Stories:[N] Sojourns in the Land of Memory Patricia Hampl Norton Essays
Waiting Ha Jin Pantheon Contemporary Chinese Fiction

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[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
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Issue #38
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Late Late Spring, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Doing the Tarantella at the Barnes Foundation L. W. Milam [Article] Art --- Memoirs
Flu:[B] The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it Gina Kolata Farrar Straus & Giroux Case study in medical history
The Love You Promised Me[B] Silvia Molina Curbstone Contemporary Latina Fiction
Death du Jour[B] Kathy Reichs Scribner Murder
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path Geshe Sonam Rinchen Snow Lion Buddhist Practice
Where the Roots Reach for Water Jeffrey Smith North Point Psychology and Depression
The Newton Letter[N] John Banville David R. Godine Fiction
A Doll's House[N] Henrik Ibsen Ivan R. Dee Drama
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin[N]* Richard Lourie Counterpoint Fiction
Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy Ben Sonnenberg Counterpoint Autobiography
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton Robert Burns [Poem] Classical Scots Poetry
Ten Great Books for the Spring The Editors of RALPH [List] Worthy Books

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[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
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Issue #39
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Early Summer, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Peel My Love Like an Onion[B] Ana Castillo Doubleday Latina Fiction
Glorie[B] Caryn James Penguin Fiction, Old Age
Boy with Loaded Gun:[B] A Memoir* Lewis Nordan Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Fiction --- Growing Up
Nagarjunas "Seventy Stanzas:" A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness David Ross Komito Snow Lion 70 Stanzas on Phenomena
García-Lorca's Afro Elizabeth Gold [Reading] Teaching Poetry in Public School
Bob Marley and the 3AM Blues Carlos Amantea [Reading] Mexico and Aging
Death in the Mountains Carlos Amantea [Reading] Crossing the Border
The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race[N] Paul Krassner Seven Stories Essays
The Supreme Source:[N] The Fundamental Tantra of the Dzogchen Semde Kunjed Gyalpo Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Adriano Clemente Snow Lion Dzogchen
Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask[N] Jim Munroe Spike Modern Fiction
Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel Hugh Small St. Martin's Press Biography
Three Poems Teachers & Writers [Poems] Poetry by Students
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939 - 40 William R. Trotter Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill WWII history

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Issue #40
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Early Summer, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Two Moons[B] Thomas Mallon Pantheon Novel about 19th Century
Mr. Darwin's Shooter[B] Roger McDonald Penguin Novel --- Travels with Darwin
Guru Yoga[B] Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Snow Lion Tibetan Buddhism
The Chocolate Soldier P. J. Mierly [Poem] Contemporary Gay Poetry
Colors of the Mountain Da Chin Random House Contemporary Chinese Literature
A Witch's Magic Carlos Amantea [Reading] Mexican Customs
The Boy on the Green Bicycle: A Memoir Margaret Diehl Soho Autobiography
You Can't Win* Jack Black AK/Nabat Memoirs of Thievery
Find Jovial Squaw by Aquarium Anon [Reading] New York City in the 1930s
Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy Emily Fox Gordon Basic Books Autobiography
Mao Zedong[N] Jonathan Spence Viking/Penguin Biography
Geeks:[N] How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho Jon Katz Villard Computer Geeks
100 Days:[N] My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient David Biro Pantheon Illness and Doctors
Letter to a Substitute Teacher Gary Gildner [Poem] Contemporary Poetry
Terence McKenna on Death and
Dying
Erik Davis [Interview] Interview on Dying

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Issue #41
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Early Mid-Summer, 2000
Title Author Publisher Subject
Squandering Aimlessly: My Adventures in the American Marketplace David Brancaccio Simon & Schuster Contemporary American Finance
Simon's Family:[B] A Novel of Two Families Marianne Fredriksson Ballentine Swedish Coming-of-Age
Moth Smoke[B] Mohsin Hamid Farrar Straus Pakistan Coming-of-Age
The Statement, The Magician's Wife[B] Brian Moore Flamingo Moralistic Fiction
Every Man for Himself[B] Beryl Bainbridge Abacus Fiction
England, England Julian Barnes Picador Fiction
The Fisherman's Son[B] Michael Koepf Broadway Books Fiction
Archangel[B] Robert Harris Random House Fiction
Hannibal[B] Ross Leckie Abacus Fiction
Thinking In Pictures[B] Temple Grandin Vintage Books Autism
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers Simon & Schuster Growing Up
My Father's Castles Candia McWilliam [Reading] Coming-of-Age
Lovers Set in Stone Carlos Amantea [Article] Mexican Religious Studies
Matisse and the Hub of the Wheel Henry Miller [Reading] Paris in the 1920s
About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made Ben Yagoda Scribner History of The New Yorker
Across the Top of the World:[N] The Quest for the Northwest Passage James P. Delgado Checkmark History of Travel
When Mountains Walked[N] Kate Wheeler Houghton Mifflin Fiction --- South America
Scenes from the End:[N] The Last Days of World War II in Europe Frank E. Manuel Steerforth Memoirs of the end of WWII
'Tis: A Memoir* Frank McCourt Scribner Coming-of-Age, New York City
The RALPH Top Pops RALPH Editors [List] The Most Popular Reviews

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[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
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