Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 05/05/2008
This week: trendspotting and bullsh*tting, novel- and biography-writing, napping and dieting, a personal tour of the Congo and a vision for democracy in Iran. Plus: an overweight narcissist sheds the pounds, a Kyoto girl trains to be a geisha, and three historians look at the sex-obsessed weekly newspapers of mid-19th century New York.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 05/05/2008
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children Phillip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff . Random , $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6430-4 The authors of this unsettling indictment of American industrial mendacity detail the impact of the “trillions of tons” of largely unregulated toxic pollutants that have been poured into the environment after WWII when synthetic chemical compound...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 05/05/2008
Picture Books Sergio Makes a Splash! Edel Rodriguez . Little, Brown , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-06616-7 Sergio the penguin isn't afraid of all water—just “the very deep kind.” But with the help of floaties, a snorkel, a life preserver, he discovers that taking the plunge isn't so bad after all.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/28/2008 04/28/2008
This week: a look back with Goldwater, midcentury ball players and Sitting Bull; a look inside Steve Jobs, the international food racket and poker's checkered past; economics for the rest of us, another memoir of the modern Midwest, an Olympian oarsman and a lesson in Assholery. Plus more!
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The Case Against Intelligent Design by Sarah F. Gold - 04/28/2008
Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller is a leading opponent of intelligent design. In Only a Theory (Reviews, Apr. 14), he explains why. How would you quickly sum up the central flaw in intelligent design? No evidence. Was that quick enough? When you look at the arguments that are raised for ID, no one says: here’s the fingerprint of the designer or here we can see design taking place.
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Barefoot in Manhattan By Judith Rosen - 04/21/2008
In a move that could push Barefoot Books further up Inc. magazine’s list of the top 5,000 fastest-growing private businesses (which it made for the first time last year), the Cambridge, Mass./Bath, England, children’s book publisher has reached an agreement with FAO Schwarz to create a dedicated Barefoot Books boutique in FAO’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/21/2008 04/21/2008
This week: a war correspondent's love story; the cost of misunderstanding Muqtada; Swiss banking behind the scenes; the madness of Zelda and Marilyn; and the new graduation gift-book to beat. Plus: leadership for ladies, marketing's magic bullets and a fittingly over-the-top Top Chef cookbook.
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Notes From the Bookroom Elizabeth Devereaux, , September 25, 2007 Jenna's Story
I’d like to thank HarperCollins for making me a tool of the Bush administrati... More
