[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
Issue #23
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Mid-Spring, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| warty bliggins the toad | Don Marquis | [Poem] | Thoughts of a Toad | 
|---|
| Phèdre[B] | Jean Racine 
 | Farrar Straus Giroux | Traditional French Drama | 
|---|
| The Great Dismal[B] | Bland Simpson | University of North Carolina Press | The Great Dismal Swamp | 
|---|
| The Hunger Winter[B] | Henri A van der Zee | Bison | Holland at the End of WWII | 
|---|
| Amsterdam[B] | Ian McEwan | Nan A. Talese/Doubleday | Contemporary Fiction | 
|---|
| The Upset that Wasn't[B] | Harold I Gullan | Ivan R. Dee | Truman's 1948 Campaign | 
|---|
| Diary: Volume One | Witold Gombrowicz | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| Lettre de  l'Ile de Frqnce | Jean Le Phage | [Article] | The Village of Gif-sur-Yvette, France | 
|---|
| When I Was a German: 
An English Woman  Living in Nazi Germany* | Christabel Bielenberg | Bison --- University of Nebraska
 | Foreigners in WWII Germany | 
|---|
| A Man of Few Words | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Study of Mexican Character | 
|---|
| The Irreverent But  Indispensable Guide to Hair Loss Solutions[N] | L.H.  Carson | Eads  Publishing | Cosmetology | 
|---|
| In Sam We Trust:[N] The Untold Story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is Devouring America* | Bob Ortega | Times Business | Study of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart | 
|---|
| Dark Side of Fortune:[N]
 Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny | Margaret Leslie Davis | University of California | Biography of Edward L. Doheny | 
|---|
| Can a Good  Christian Be a Good Lawyer:[N] Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections | Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd, Editors
 | Notre Dame | Ethics and Christianity | 
|---|
| Astral Projection for Beginners[N] | Edain McCoy | Llewellyn | Techniques of Astral Projection | 
|---|
| Pacifica Radio: 
The Rise of an Alternative Network | Matthew Lasar | Temple University Press | History of Pacifica Radio | 
|---|
| A Little Present in the Cab | Marcel Proust | [Reading] | The "Grand Hotel's" Elevator | 
|---|
| Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond | Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson | Longstreet | Political Biography | 
|---|
| A Member of the Waffen SS: A Journey with One Who Did the Killings | Christabel Bielenberg | [Reading] | WWII in Germany | 
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[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
Issue #24
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Late Spring, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know | Christine K. Cassel, Editor | New York University | Aging | 
|---|
| Art as Politics in the Third Reich | Jonathan Petropoulos | University of North Carolina | Art in Germany, 1933 - 1945 | 
|---|
| Beer Cans in the Rio de la Plata | Jorge Stamadiano | Latin American Literary  Review Press | Modern Latin American Fiction | 
|---|
| Faking It:[B] U. S. Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era | Cynthia Weber | Minnesota | Freudian Symbolism and   U. S. Foreign Policy in the Caribbean | 
|---|
| Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew[B] | Ruth L. A. Stiff | University Press of New England | Reproductions from Kew Magazine | 
|---|
| The Arcanum:[B] The Extraordinary True Story | Janet Gleeson | Warner | The Evolution of Alchemy | 
|---|
| Loves That Bind[B] | Julián Ríos | Knopf | An Alphabetical Love Story | 
|---|
| A Visit to the Burning Ghâts | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | [Reading] | Travel in India, 19th Century | 
|---|
| My Sweet Old Lady of the Mountains | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Curanderas of Mexico | 
|---|
| Getting out of a Warm Bed on a Cold Morning | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | [Reading] | WWII France | 
|---|
| I Finally Figured Out About Dying --- And I Wanted To Tell You  Before It Was Too Late | Robert J. Fretwell | [Poem] | Modern American Poetry | 
|---|
| A Bumpy Trip on an Elephant | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | [Reading] | Travel in India, 19th Century | 
|---|
| Flanders | Patricia Anthony | Ace | Fiction | 
|---|
| Warriors of the Prophet:[N] The Struggle for Islam | Mark Huband | Westview/Perseus | Islam and the Jihad | 
|---|
| False Witness[N] | Melvin Rader | University of Washington | Witch-Hunting in the 1950s | 
|---|
| A Nearly Normal Life:[N] A Memoir | Charles L. Mee | Little, Brown | Disability | 
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[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #25
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Early Summer, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| The Man  Who Gives Lunch to the Bugs of India | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | [Reading] | Travel in India, 19th Century | 
|---|
| Bound and Gagged: 
Pornography and the 
Politics of Fantasy 
in America* | Laura Kipnis | Duke University Press | Varieties of Sexual Experience | 
|---|
| The Collector's Guide  to Early Photographs[B] | O. Henry Mace | Krause | Photographic Collectibles | 
|---|
| E W Scripps and the Business of Newspapers[B] | Gerald J. Baldasty | Illinois | Biography | 
|---|
| Confucius in 90 Minutes[B] | Paul Strathern | Ivan R. Dee | Confucius | 
|---|
| The Worst Journey in the World | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | [Reading] | Travel in the Antarctic | 
|---|
| Why I Don't Want to Write Another Stupid Book Review for RALPH | Elizabeth Gips | [Opinion] | Anti-Review | 
|---|
| Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East: Journeys in India* | Edward Cameron Dimock | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | Travels in Contemporary India | 
|---|
| Carl Sandburg:[N] Poems for the People | George and Willene Hendrick, Editors | Ivan R. Dee | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| Civil War Railroads:[N] A Pictorial Story of the War Between the States, 1861 - 1865 | George B. Abdill | Illinois | Railroads and the Civil War | 
|---|
| Prayer Warriors:[N] The True Story of a Gay Son, His Fundamentalist Christian Family, and the Battle for His Soul | Stuart Howell Miller | Alyson | Gay Biography | 
|---|
| Making the Hillsides Blossom with Light | L. W. Milam | [Reading] | Nathan B. Stubblefield and Early Radio | 
|---|
| Our Ancestors' Short Lives | Wislawa Szymborska | [Poem] | Contemporary Polish Poetry | 
|---|
| The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today | Peter Prichard | Andrews, McMeel and Parker | Contemporary Journalistic History | 
|---|
| Beaten by an Old Heart | Leslie L. Seamans | [Poem] | Poetry of Aging | 
|---|
[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
Issue #26
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Mid-Summer, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Beethoven | Zbigniew Herbert | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| The Life and Works of Frank Lloyd Wright[B] | Maria Constantino | Courage | Biography | 
|---|
| Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age[B] | Anonymous | Prometheus | Victorian Erotology | 
|---|
| Shadows, Fire, Snow:[B] The Life of Tina Modotti | Patricia Albers | Clarkson Potter | Biography | 
|---|
| Three Meditations | Bo Lozoff | [Reading] | Autobiography | 
|---|
| The Mexican Dalai Lama | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexican Culture | 
|---|
| Insight Guide Cuba[N] | Danny Aeberhard, Editor | Insight | Travel, Cuba | 
|---|
| Benjamin's Gift[N] | Michael Golding | Warner | Fiction | 
|---|
| Heart of Spain:[N] Robert Capa's Photographs of  the Spanish Civil War* | Leslie A. Martin, Editor | Aperture | Photographic History | 
|---|
| Right of Inspection | Jacques Derrida | The Monacelli Press | Photography and Derrida | 
|---|
| The Seduction of Don Juan | Lord Byron | [Reading] | 19th Century Romantic Poetry | 
|---|
| Making Tortillas | Luis Alberto Urrea | [Reading] | Life on the US - Mexican Border | 
|---|
| Nobody's Son: 
Notes from an American Life | Luis Alberto Urrea | University of Arizona Press | Life on the US - Mexican Border | 
|---|
| The X-Rated Videotape Guide ---   VII | Patrick Riley | Prometheus | Guide to Pornographic Videos | 
|---|
| Pier-Luigi Zucchini | J. Gallant | [Reading] | Biography of the Baroque Composer | 
|---|
[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
Issue #27
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Late Summer, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| The 
Arcimboldo Effect: 
Transformations of the Face from the 16th  to the 20th Century | Pontus Hulten | Abbeville Press | Art History | 
|---|
| Airborne:[B] The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield | Designed by William A. Ewing | Chronicle Books | Photographic Art --- Dance | 
|---|
| Daring to Write[B] | Mariana L. Ruybalid | University Editions | Disability Poetry --- Cerebral Palsy | 
|---|
| What is Meditation?:[B] Buddhism for Everyone | Rob Nairn | Shambhala | Buddhism | 
|---|
| A  Curandera from Oaxaca --- III | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Traditional Mexican Cures | 
|---|
| The Eating of Your Fellow Passengers | Lord Byron | [Reading] | Dietary Practices | 
|---|
| The Man with the Moveless Hair | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | [Article] | Travel in India, 19th Century | 
|---|
| Mars | Fritz Zorn | [Reading] | Memoirs of a Fatal Illness | 
|---|
| Of Giants: 
Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen | University of Minnesota Press | Traditional vs. Contemporary Giants | 
|---|
| The Eads Bridge:[N] Photographic Essay by Quinta Scott | Howard S. Miller | Missouri Historical Society | Study of 19th Century Eads Bridge | 
|---|
| Assuming the Position:[N] A Memoir of Hustling | Rick Whitaker | Four Walls/Eight Windows | Gay Autobiography | 
|---|
| Lotus in the Fire:[N] The Healing Power of Zen | Jim Bedard | Shambhala | Religion and Sickness | 
|---|
| How to Deal with the Priests of Apocalypse | Paul Nickel | [Article] | The False Signs of Apocalypse | 
|---|
| The Architecture  of Howard Van Doren Shaw | Virginia A. Greene | Chicago Review Press | Turn-of-the-Century American Architecture | 
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #28
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Quite Late Summer, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| KPFA and the Pacifica Foundation: 
Some Thoughts on the Present Imbroglio | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Commentary | 
|---|
| Educating Esmé:[B] Diary of a Teacher's  First Year
 | Esmé Raji Codell | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
 | Contemporary Problems in Public School Teaching | 
|---|
| Slowly Down the Ganges[B] | Eric Newby | Lonely Planet | Traveling by Boat down the Ganges | 
|---|
| Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer[B] | Kenneth Patchen | New Directions | Contemporary Memoirs | 
|---|
| The Devil's Cup:[B] 
Coffee, the Driving Force in History* | Stewart Lee Allen | Soho Press | A Worldwide Search for the Perfect Cup of Coffee | 
|---|
| The Death of Haidée | Lord Byron | [Reading] | 19th Century Romantic Poetry | 
|---|
| From Here to Fraternity | Robert Egan | Bantam Books | American College Fraternity Life | 
|---|
| Guanajuato, Mexico, 1925 | Everett Gee Jackson | [Reading] | Travels in Mexico | 
|---|
| Lettre d'Ile de France | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Contemporary French Politics | 
|---|
| The Wandering Womb:[N] A Cultural History of  Outrageous Beliefs about Women | Lana Thompson | Prometheus | History of Women, Medicine, and Women's Rights | 
|---|
| Self Publishing Made Easy[N] | William Carroll | Coda | How-to-do-it --- Publishing | 
|---|
| The Floating Opera[N]* | John Barth | Avon | Contemporary American Fiction | 
|---|
| Lifestyles of the Blind and Paralyzed: 
Mark O'Brien | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Obituary | 
|---|
| British Wood-Engraved Book Illustrations, 1904 - 1940: 
A Break with Tradition* | Joanna Selborne | Clarendon Press --- Oxford | Illustrated History of Wood Engraving | 
|---|
[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
Issue #29
www.ralphmag.org/indexY.html
Early Fall, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Beethoven: 
The Philosophy of Music | Theodor W. Adorno | Stanford University Press | Theory of Beethoven's Compositions | 
|---|
| A World Full of Heroes | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Disability and Bravery | 
|---|
| Deep Blues:[B] Bill Traylor 1854 - 1949 | Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer, Editors | Yale University Press | Primitive Art | 
|---|
| Warm Smiles from Cold Mountain:[B] Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation | Reb Anderson | Rodmell Press | Dharma Talks | 
|---|
| Philip: Who Had a Mind Like a Damp  Box of Matches | William Golding | [Reading] | Memoirs of English Public School | 
|---|
| Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Hope and Healing | Judy Collins | Pocket Books | Autobiography | 
|---|
| The Ballad of Hans and Jenny | Aquiles Nazoa | [Poem] | Contemporary South American Poetry | 
|---|
| Get a Life![N] | William Shatner | Pocket Books | Star Trek Conventions | 
|---|
| Medieval Furniture:[N] 
Plans and Instructions for Historical Reproductions | Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly | Stackpole Books | Building Medieval Furniture | 
|---|
| Pack of Two:[N] 
The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs | Caroline Knapp | Delta | Loving Dogs | 
|---|
| Joseph Stalin | Eric Hobsbawm | [Reading] | Stalinism | 
|---|
| A Field Guide to American Windmills | T. Lindsay Baker | University of Oklahoma Press | Illustrated Study of Windmills | 
|---|
  
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #30
www.ralphmag.org/indexZA.html
Mid-Fall, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| We're All Doing Time* | Bo Lozoff | Human Kindness Foundation | Surviving in Prison, Meditational Practices | 
|---|
| Investigation of an Angel | Zbigniew Herbert | [Poem] | Contemporary Eastern European Poetry | 
|---|
| Vampires:[B] The Occult Truth | Kostantinos | Llewellyn | Contemporary Vampires | 
|---|
| The Way of the World:[B] From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the 21st Century | David Fromkin | Knopf | History of the World | 
|---|
| Mama Dip's Kitchen:[B] With More Than 250 Traditional Southern Recipes | Mildred Council | University of North Carolina | Southern Cooking | 
|---|
| Paris Boat Trips in 1900 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | [Reading] | Paris 100 Years Ago | 
|---|
| Mexican-American Relations &  Jude the Obscure | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Thomas Hardy and Crossing the Border | 
|---|
| Conversations with Milovan Djilas | Robert Kaplan | [Reading] | Contemporary History of Europe and Russia | 
|---|
| Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography | Vickie L. Bane | St Martins | Biography | 
|---|
| A Woman of Rome* | Alberto Moravia | Steerforth Italia | Fiction, WWII Italy | 
|---|
| America & the Daguerreotype[N] | John Wood, Editor | University of Iowa | Daguerreotypes | 
|---|
| The Autobiography of Howard Hughes[N] | Clifford Irving | terrificbooks | Psychoautobiography | 
|---|
| Salinger:[N] A Biography | Paul Alexander | Renaissance Media | Psychobiography | 
|---|
| Farm Appliances and How to Make Them [N] | George A. Martin | The Lyons Press | Farm Machinery from the 1880s | 
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #31
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Late Fall, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| The Rapist in Our Living-Room | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | American  Television | 
|---|
| The Three Principal Aspects of The Path[B] | Geshe Sonam Rinchen | Snow Lion | Tibetan Buddhism | 
|---|
| Tornado Alley:[B] Monster Storms of the Great Plains* | Howard B. Bluestein | Oxford | Studies of Tornadoes | 
|---|
| The Best of Myles[B] | Flann O'Brien | Dalkey Archive | Articles from Irish Newspapers | 
|---|
| How Now Shall We Live? | Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcy | Tyndale House | Tenets of Fundamentalism | 
|---|
| The Disabled: 
 Such Interesting People | Hugh Gallagher | [Reading] | Disability | 
|---|
| Happy Bird Day | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexico Life | 
|---|
| Normal Complement | Hugo Williams | [Reading] | Travel by Boat in the Far East | 
|---|
| Family Kaleidoscope: Images of Violence and Healing* | Salvador Minuchin | Harvard University Press | Family Therapy | 
|---|
| Treasury of Victorian Murder:[N] The Fatal Bullet | Rick Geary | Nantier Beall Minoustchine | The Death of James A. Garfield | 
|---|
| Just Talk:[N] Narratives of Psychotherapy | Lillian R. Furst | The University Press of Kentucky | Modern Novels and Psychotherapy | 
|---|
| German Post- Expressionism:[N] The Art of the Great Disorder, 1918 - 1924 | Dennis Crockett | Penn State Press | Post-WWI German Art | 
|---|
| Maryland Beaten Biscuits | John Barth | [Reading] | Memories of Maryland | 
|---|
| They Can't Hide Us Anymore | Richie Havens | Spike | Autobiography | 
|---|
| Spermatorrhea | R.N. Barr | [Reading] | The Evils of Masturbation | 
|---|
| Sleeping Late | Jacques Prévert | [Poem] | Modern French Poetry | 
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #32
www.ralphmag.org/indexZC.html
Early Winter, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| The Clock of the Long Now: 
The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer | Stewart Brand | Basic | Building a Very Large Clock | 
|---|
| Hoover Dam:[B] The Photographs of Ben Glaha | Barbara Vilander | University of Arizona | Building Hoover Dam | 
|---|
| Mystery Bruise[B] | Terry Wolverton | Red Hen Press | Contemporary Women's Poetry | 
|---|
| Been There, Done That[B] | Eddie Fisher | Thomas Dunne Books | Autobiography | 
|---|
| All the Time in the World* | Hugo Williams | Akadine --- Common Reader | 50s Travel Book | 
|---|
| Maps and the Bibles of the Poor | Marshall McLuhan | [Reading] | Maps | 
|---|
| Bosch, Alice in Wonderland, and MAD   Magazine | Marshall McLuhan | [Reading] | The Coming of Technology | 
|---|
| Italian Style:[N] Forms of Creativity | Omar Calabrese, Editor | Skira | Ten Aspects of Italian Fashion | 
|---|
| Conversations with E. L. Doctorow[N] | Christopher D Morris, Editor | University Press of Mississippi | Twenty-two Interviews | 
|---|
| The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel:[N] A Biography of the  Explorer of Tibet and its Forbidden Practices | Barbara and Michael Foster | Overlook Press | Tibetan Exploration | 
|---|
| The Frog Prince:[N] A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults | Stephen Mitchell | Harmony/Random House | Searching for the Prince | 
|---|
| Bangkok, Fireworks, and God | Carlos Amantea | [Reading] | Adventures in the Far East | 
|---|
| Time | Paul Valéry | [Poem] | French Poetry | 
|---|
| The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation | Dick J. Reavis | Simon and Schuster | Waco --- Five Years After | 
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #33
www.ralphmag.org/indexZD.html
Mid-Winter, 1999
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Our Balloonman Which Art In Heaven | Carlos Amantea | [Reading] | Mexico and Disability | 
|---|
| Insight Guide: Mexico[B] | John Wilcock, Kal Müller, Editors | Langenscheidt | Mexican Travel Guide | 
|---|
| Memoirs of a 
Minotaur:[B] From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry | Robin Magowan | Story Line Press | Memoirs of Growing Up in the 50s and 60s | 
|---|
| Desserts:[B] Recipes from the Vineyards of Northern  California | Leslie Mansfield | Celestial Arts | Cookery | 
|---|
| Diego Rivera | Pete Hamill | Abrams | Art --- Diego Rivera | 
|---|
| The Million Dollar Mermaid | Esther Williams | Simon & Schuster | Autobiography | 
|---|
| Marijuana Rx: The  Patient's Fight for Medicinal Pot | Robert C. Randall and Alice M.  O'Leary | Avalon Publishing Group/Thunder's Mouth  Press | The Case for Medical Marijuana | 
|---|
| How Grammar School Is Changing | Maurice Kilwein Guevara | [Reading] | Prose Poem on School | 
|---|
| The Chicago 7 Trial (on LSD) | Paul Krassner | [Reading] | Chicago '68 | 
|---|
| Meeting a Bear | David Wagoner | [Poem] | Contemporary American Poetry | 
|---|
| Learning by Heart:[N] Contemporary American Poetry about School* | Maggie Anderson,  David Hassler, Editors | University of Iowa Press | 200 Poems | 
|---|
| Wooden Churches:[N] A Celebration | Rick Bragg | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | Traditional Church Architecture | 
|---|
| Civilization and  the Limpet[N] | Martin Wells | Perseus Books | Zoology for the Layman | 
|---|
| Despicable Species:[N] On Cowbirds, Kudzu, Hornworms, and Other Scourges | Janet Lembke | Lyons Press | Nature's Scourges | 
|---|
| Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds[N] | Alexander F. Skutch | Texas A & M | Birds of Costa Rica | 
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit