[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 | 
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| The Stories of Paul Bowles | Robert Stone, Editor | Harper Collins | Short Fiction | 
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| Restavec:[B] From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American | Jean-Robert Cadet | Texas | Autobiography | 
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| Sorcerer's Apprentice[B] | Tahir Shah | Arcade | Autobiographical Fiction | 
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| Winds of Change:[B] Hurricanes and the Transformation of 19th Century Cuba | Louis A. Pérez, Jr. | Chapel Hill | 19th Century Cuban History | 
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| Song of Welcome | Josef Brodsky | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
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| Desert Survivor: The Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert | John Annerino | Four Walls Eight Windows | Travel, How-To-Do-It | 
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| An Ocean to Cross: Daring the Atlantic Claiming a New Life | Liz Fordred | McGraw Hill | Travel and Disability | 
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| The Muckrakers[N] | Arthur and Lila Weinberg, Editors | University of Illinois | History of American Journalism | 
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| Flights of Love[N] | Bernhard Schlink | Pantheon | Modern German Short Stories | 
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| 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 | 
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| Of Two Minds* | Tanya Luhrmann | Vintage | Study of Psychoanalytic Training | 
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| Terrorism Works | J. Glenn | [Reading] | News Analysis | 
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| Traveling in Terror | Navrai Ghaleigh | [Reading] | News Analysis | 
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| The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today | Peter Prichard | Andrews, McMeel and Parker | History of Contemporary Journalism | 
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[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 | 
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| Going Quackers | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexican Animal Husbandry | 
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| Loving the Earth | F. J. Wertz | [Poem] | Modern Jewish Poetry | 
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| Round-Trip to Deadsville:[B] A Year in the Funeral Underground | Tim Matson | Chelsea Green | Dying in the United States | 
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| Insight Meditation:[B] An In-Depth Correspondence Course | Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein | Sounds True | Meditation Study (Tapes) | 
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| The Bostons:[B] Stories | Carolyn Cooke | Mariner | Short Fiction | 
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| Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas | Pete Earley | Bantam Dell | Sociological Study | 
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| Dostoyevsky and Gran Mal | Leonid Tsypkin | Quartet | Literary History | 
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| The Fun Of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town | Lillian Ross, Editor | Modern Library | Literary History, Short Fiction | 
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| Summer in Baden-Baden:[N] A Novel* | Leonid Tsypkin | New Directions | Literary Fiction and History | 
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| Taking Haiti:[N] Military Occupation and the Culture of   U. S. Imperialism --- 1915 - 1940 | Mary A. Renda | Chapel Hill | History of Haiti | 
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| 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 | 
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| Sin Nombre | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexican Travel | 
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| The End, The End | Aaron G. Silverstein | [Poem] | Modern Jewish Poetry | 
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| Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris | Simon & Schuster | Travel and History, Trieste | 
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[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 | 
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| Bridge:[B] The Architecture of Connection | Lucy Blakstad | Birkhauser | Architecture, Engineering | 
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| Witnesses of Time:[B] Photographs of Flor Garduño* | Introduction by Carlos Fuentes | Aperture | Central and South America Photography | 
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| Looking Through Letterboxes | Caroline Bird | Carcarnet | Modern English Poetry | 
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| My Father's Cabin: A Tale of Life, Love, Loss, and Land | Mark Phillips | Lyons Press | Biography, Memoir | 
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| My  Brilliant  Career | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Education; Sleep Therapy | 
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| The Hall of Idleness | Po Yüchien | [Poem] | Ancient Chinese Poetry | 
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| Nothing to Fear:[N] FDR in Photographs | Hugh Gregory Gallagher | Wendamere Press | Photography, Biography | 
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| Among the Missing[N] | Dan Chaon | Ballentine | Modern American Short Fiction | 
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| From the Ashes:[N] A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America | Collected by the editors of Beliefnet | Rodale/St. Martins | Modern American Essays | 
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| The Short Stool Society | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexican Travel | 
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| Confessions of a PR Man | Robert J. Wood | NAL | Careers: Public Relations | 
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| The Girl in the Chair: The Roots  of Madness | L. W. Milam | [Reading] | Criticism --- Modern American Music | 
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| Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s | Neil Miller | Alyson | History of Gay Rights | 
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[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 | 
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| Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education | Sybille Bedford | Counterpoint | "Fictional Autobiography" | 
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| The First Time | Sybille Bedford | [Reading] | Memoir | 
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| 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 | 
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| Madagascar  Wildlife:[B] A Visitor's Guide | Nick Garbutt, Hilary Brandt, Derek Schuurman | Brandt/Globe Pequot | Nature Study | 
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| The Toltec Path of  Recapitulation:[B] Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul | Victor Sanchez | Bear & Co. | Mystical "Recapitulation" | 
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| The Chocolate Soldier | P. J. Mierly | [Poem] | Gay Poetry | 
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| Editors' Picks | RALPH Editors | [List] | Best Books of 2001-2002 | 
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| Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me* | Javier Marías | New Directions | Modern Spanish Fiction | 
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| Buddhism:[N] The Illustrated Guide | Kevin Trainor, Editor | Oxford | Pictorial Guide | 
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| Luisa and the Silence[N] | Claudio Piersanti | Northwestern | Contemporary Italian Fiction | 
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| A Purchase of Porcelain | Jean Nordhaus | [Poem] | Contemporary American Poetry | 
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| Terrorist Hits Mexicana Airlines | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexico Travel | 
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| The Museum of Unconditional Surrender* | Dubravka Ulgresic | New Directions | Memoirs --- Slovenia | 
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| In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart is Devouring America | Bob Ortega | Times Business | Business History | 
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[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
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 | 
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| Birds of San Diego | Chris Fisher, Herbert Clarke
 | Lone Pine | Ornithology | 
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| Masturbation:[B] The History of a Great Terror | Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck | St. Martins | Ononological History | 
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| An Ethnic at Large:[B] A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties | Jerre Mangione | Syracuse | Ethnic History | 
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| Circle Houses:[B] Yurts,  Tipis,  and Benders | David Pearson | Chelsea Green | Ecological Construction | 
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| The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps: New Poems | Charles Bukowski | Black Sparrow | Contemporary American Poetry | 
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| The Battle at Little Bull Run | T, F. Bierly | [Poem] | Contemporary American Poetry | 
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| Moko: Maori Tattoo | Hans Neleman, Photographer | Edition Stemmle | Maori Tattoos | 
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| 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 | 
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[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"