California Bookwatch back issues from February 2007:
Gray Matter.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Gray Matter Bob Elsdale Andrews McMeel Publishing 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111 0740762095 $14.95 www.amuniversal.com Why is it good to be old? Photographer Bob Elsdale uses ...
Triple Cross.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Triple Cross Peter Lance Regan Books 10100 Santa Monica Blvd, 10th Floor, Los Angeles CA 90067-4120 0060886889 $27.95 www.reganbooks.com TRIPLE CROSS: HOW BIN LADEN'S MASTER SPY PENETRATED THE CIA, THE GREEN BERETS, AND THE FBI--AND ...
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates.(books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Hugh Lauter Levin Associates 9 Burr Road, Westport, CT 06880 Publishers Group West, dist. 1700 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 www.HLLA.com www.pgw.com 1-800-788-3123 THE UFFIZI GALLERY MUSEUM (0883635151, $75.00) by Alexandra ...
The Complete Guide to Calligraphy.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Complete Guide to Calligraphy Professor Ralph Cleminson, General Editor Firefly Books P.O. Box 1338, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY 14205 1554071798 $35.00 www.fireflybooks.com Plenty of basic guides to calligraphy have been ...
Inner Traditions/Healing Arts/Park Street Press.(books)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Inner Traditions/Healing Arts/Park Street Press One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767 www.InnerTraditions.com Martin Lings's MUHAMMAD: HIS LIFE BASED ON THE EARLIEST SOURCES (1594771537, $19.95) is one of the most readable accounts on Muhammad in print: it ...
Past Tents: The Way We Camped.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Past Tents: The Way We Camped Susan Snyder Heyday Books Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709 1597140392 $17.95 www.heydaybooks.com It's hard to neatly peg this attractive, even whimsical survey of camping: part Western history and part ...
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying James M. Olson Potomac Books 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, VA 20166 1574889499 $28.95 www.potomacbooksinc.com FAIR PLAY could've been featured in our Military Shelf section--after all, it's ...
Culture and Customs of Zambia.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Culture and Customs of Zambia Scott D. Taylor Greenwood Press 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 0313332460 $49.95 www.greenwood.com You never hear much about Africa's Zambia because it's one of the continent's most peaceful ...
Death's Door.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Death's Door Steve Lehto Momentum Books 2145 Crooks Road Suite 208, Troy MI 48084 1879094770 $19.95 www.momentumbooks.com On Christmas Eve over six dozen people were crushed as they scrambled to flee the Italian Hall in Calumet, ...
The Zebra Murders.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Zebra Murders Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen Arcade Publishing 141 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010 1559708069 $26.00 www.arcadepublishing.com 1-800-759-0190 Any long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area ...
Depression: The Mood Disease, 3rd Edition.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Depression: The Mood Disease, 3rd Edition Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D. Johns Hopkins Press 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 0801884519 $19.95 www.press.jhu.edu One in ten Americans suffer from depression, so today it's ...
The Strangest Song.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Strangest Song Teri Sforza with Howard & Sylvia Lenhoff Prometheus Books 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197 1591024781 $24.00 www.prometheusbooks.com This is the first book to cover Williams syndrome and the genius ...
Legendary Hunts.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Legendary Hunts Boone & Crockett Club 250 Station Drive, Missoula, MT 59801 9780940864542 $19.95 www.booneandcrockettclub.com LEGENDARY HUNTS: SHORT STORIES FROM THE BOONE AND CROCKETT AWARDS is a compilation of over forty short stories ...
Dangerous-Game Rifles.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Dangerous-Game Rifles Terry Wieland Countrysport Press Box 679, Camden, ME 04843 0892726911 $40.00 www.countrysportpress.com Terry Wieland is shooting editor of Gray's Sporting Journal and has contributed numerous articles to other ...
IPod: The Missing Manual.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... IPod: The Missing Manual J.D. Biersdorfer Pogue Press/O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 0596529783 $19.99 www.missingmanuls.com iPod and iTunes are some of Apple's most successful products: that said, it's ...
Live Linux CDs.(Product/service evaluation)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Live Linux CDs Christopher Negus Prentice Hall 75 Arlington Street #300, Boston, MA 02116 0132432749 $39.99 www.prenhallprofessional.com A Linux live CD is more than just a portable Linux system: it is quite versatile, offering a ...
Addison-Wesley.(books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Addison-Wesley 75 Arlington Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116 www.awprofessional.com 1-800-428-5331 Two excellent new titles from Addison-Wesley's 'Eclipse' imprint are powerful guides to BIRT, a foundation built on the Eclipse platform and presenting ...
Second Life: The Official Guide.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Second Life: The Official Guide Michael Rymaszewski, et.al. John Wiley 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030 047009608X $34.99 www.wiley.com Second Life is the 3D virtual world inhabited by nearly a million residents, and visitors to ...
Cryptography for Developers.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Cryptography for Developers Tom St. Denis Syngress 800 Hingham Street, Rockland, MA 02370 1597491047 $59.95 www.syngress.com This is the only cryptography guide written for software developers, and offers complete coverage of ...
Agile Software Development: Cooperative Game, 2nd Edn.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Agile Software Development: Cooperative Game, 2nd Edn Addison Wesley 75 Arlington Street #300, Boston, MA 02116 0321482751 $44.99 www.awprofessional.com The agile model of software development has become an industry leader, making the second ...
Skin.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Skin Lee Varis Sybex c/o John Wiley & Sons 111 River Street, 4th Floor, Hoboken, NJ 07030 047004733X $40.00 www.sybex.com SKIN: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO DIGITALLY LIGHTING, PHOTOGRAPHING, AND RETOUCHING FACES AND BODIES is ...
Practical Color Management.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Practical Color Management Eddie Tapp O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 0596527683 $29.99 www.oreilly.com Plenty of how-to books discuss color photography basics--but how many narrow the focus to assuring ...
Maya Character Modeling & Animation Principles & Practices.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Maya Character Modeling & Animation Principles & Practices Tereza Flaxman Charles River Media 25 Thomson Place, Boston, MA 02210 1584504404 $49.95 www.charlesriver.com Both beginners and intermediate designers and 3D artists who want ...
Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide Michael P. Sauers Information Today Inc. 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055 1573872687 $29.50 www.infotoday.com Author Michael Sauers is an internet trainer, blogger and how-to resource and ...
Dispatches from Blogistan.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Dispatches from Blogistan Suzanne Stefanac New Riders c/o Pearson Technology Group 801 East 96th Street, #300, Indianapolis, IN 46240-3759 0321395557 $24.99 www.newriders.com 1-800-428-5331 What is it about blogging that ...
Film, Stage and TV.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Film, Stage and TV Strange Duets Kim Marra University of Iowa Press 100 Kuhl House, Iowa City, IA 52242 0877459932 $47.95 www.uiowa.edu STRANGE DUETS: IMPRESARIOS & ACTRESSES IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE, 1865-1914 is ...
A Star is Found.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... A Star is Found Janet Hirshenson & Jane Jenkins with Rachel Kranz Harcourt Trade 15 East 26th Street, New York NY 10010 0151012342 $25.00 www.harcourt.com A Star is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies is ...
Independent Film Distribution.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Independent Film Distribution Phil Hall Michael Wiese Productions 3940 Laurel Canyon Boulevard #1111, Studio City, CA 91604 1932907165 $26.95 www.mwp.com Independent Film Distribution: How to Make a Successful End Run Around the Big ...
The Actor's Other Career Book.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Actor's Other Career Book Lisa Mulcahy Allworth Press 10 East 23rd Street, Suite 510, New York NY 10010 1581154534 $19.95 www.allworth.com Plenty of books tell how to get an acting job; but what about those aspiring actors who ...
James Bond: The Secret World of 007.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... James Bond: The Secret World of 007 Alasdair Dougall DK Publishing Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014-3658 0756623049 $24.99 www.dk.com James Bond fans, take note: this is a revised edition of a best-seller on the superspy ...
Barron's.(books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Barron's 250 Wireless Boulevard, Hauppauge, NY 11788 www.barronseduc.com Mike Chinn and Chris McLoughlin's CREATE YOUR OWN GRAPHIC NOVEL USING DIGITAL TECHNIQUES (0764134655, $23.99) teaches would-be graphic novelists how to create using digital resources ...
Popeye: "I Yam What I Yam!".(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Popeye: "I Yam What I Yam!" E.C. Segar Fantagraphics Books 7563 Lake City way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 1560977795 $29.95 www.fantagraphics.com Popeye was created by E.C. Segar for his 'Thimble Theatre' and was actually an accident, ...
Wally's World.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Wally's World Steve Starger & J. David Spurlock Vanguard Productions 390 Campus Drive, Somerset, NJ 08873 188759180X $24.95 www.vanguardproductions.net Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Death of Wally Wood, the World's 2nd-Best ...
Dark Horse Books.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Dark Horse Books 10956 S.E. Main Street, Milwaukee, OR 97222 www.darkhorse.com Steve Kiwus and Eightball Studios' BABES, BEASTS AND BRAWN: SCULPTURE OF THE FANTASTIC (1593070136, $19.95) considers the history of toy action figures in movies--and the works ...
Seduced By Bacon.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Seduced By Bacon Joanna Pruess with Bob Lape Lyons Press Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437 1592288510 $24.95 www.LyonsPress.com A whole cookbook just about bacon sounds rather odd; but when you factor in the idea that bacon can be served ...
Edible Art.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Edible Art Narahenapitage Sumith Premalal De Costa Schiffer Books 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, PA 19310 0764325132 $19.95 www.schifferbooks.com Sculpture created from fruit and vegetables sounds too challenging for most home ...
Whole Grain Baking.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Whole Grain Baking King Arthur Flour Countryman Press Box 748, Woodstock, VT 05091 0881507199 $35.00 www.countrymanpress.com "Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains" defies the common idea of whole grain ...
Climbing the Mango Trees.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Climbing the Mango Trees Madhur Jaffrey Alfred A. Knopf c/o Random House 1745 Broadway, 17th floor, New York, NY 10019 140004295X $25.00 www.aaknopf.com Any fan of Indian cooking well knows the name of Madhur Jaffrey: in ...
The Best 30-Minute Recipe.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Best 30-Minute Recipe Cook's Illustrated Editors America's Test Kitchen 17 Station Street, Brookline, MA 02445 0936184981 $35.00 www.americastestkitchen.com Plenty of cookbooks promise quick recipes, then either add time or skimp ...
Breakfast Lunch Tea.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Breakfast Lunch Tea Rose Bakery Phaidon Press Inc. 180 Varick Street, New York NY 10014 0718444659 $29.95 www.phaidon.com BREAKFAST, LUNCH, TEA: THE MANY LITTLE MEALS OF ROSE BAKERY comes from a trendy modern Parisian bakery which ...
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light Mort Rosenblum North Point Press c/o Farrar, Straus, Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York NY 10003 0856477302 $14.00 www.fsgbooks.com The uses and innovations of chocolate ...
Lobel's Meat and Wine.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Lobel's Meat and Wine Stanley, Leon, Evan, Mark & David Lobel Chronicle Books 85--2nd Street, San Francisco CA 94105 0811847322 $35.00 www.chroniclebooks.com "Lobel's Meat and Wine: Great Recipes for Cooking and Pairing" comes from ...
Spanish Kitchen.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Spanish Kitchen Jane Lawson Thunder Bay Press 5880 Oberlin Drive, San Diego, Ca 92121 1592233716 www.thunderbaybooks.com Jane Lawson takes a traditional dish and adds modern innovations, and her SPANISH KITCHEN reflects the new ...
My Egyptian Grandmother's Kitchen.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... My Egyptian Grandmother's Kitchen Magda Mehdawy American University in Cairo Press 420--5th Avenue, New York NY 10018 9774249275 $24.95 www.aucpress.com "My Egyptian Grandmother's Kitchen: Traditional Dishes Sweet & Savory" is one of ...
375 Sensational Splenda Recipes.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... 375 Sensational Splenda Recipes Marlene Koch Whitecap 351 Lynne Avenue, N. Vancouver, BC V7J 2C4, Canada 1552857522 $22.95 www.whitecap.ca Marlene Koch is a registered dietitian and cooking instruction who has cooked with Spenda for ...
Oxmoor House.(Pasta)(Soup)(Slow Cooker)(Chicken)(Dessert)(Italian)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Oxmoor House Box 2262, Birmingham, AL 35201 $17.95 Each www.oxmoorhouse.com If you're looking for a more comprehensive coverage than most one-volume cookbooks can cover on the topic of cooking light and converting old favorites to 'lighter' dishes, then ...
The Sonoma Diet Cookbook.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Sonoma Diet Cookbook Dr. Connie Guttersen, RD, PhD Meredith Books 1716 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA 50309-3023 0696231859 $24.95 www.meredithbooks.com The key to successful weight loss is diet control--and the key to successful ...
Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy, 3rd Edition.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy, 3rd Edition Hope S. Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM American Diabetes Association 1701 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 1580402518 $14.95 www.diabetes.org Meal planning can challenge even ...
A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine Jay McInerney Alfred A. Knopf c/o Random House 1745 Broadway, 17th floor, New York, NY 10019 1400044820 $24.00 www.aaknopf.com Wine columnist Jay McInerney has been billed the ...
The 150 Best American Recipes.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The 150 Best American Recipes Fran McCullough & Molly Stevens Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston MA 02116 0618718656 $30.00 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com THE BEST AMERICAN RECIPES has received much acclaim over the decades ...
The Essence of Chocolate.(The Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate )(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Essence of Chocolate John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg, et.al. Hyperion Books 77 West 66th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10023 1401303486 $35.00 www.hyperionbooks.com The Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and ...
The Turkish Dining Table.(The Turkish Dining Table: Recipes for Health and Happiness )(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Turkish Dining Table H. Guler Vural Pelican Publishing Company 1000 Burmaster, Gretna, LA 70053 97181589804197 $35.00 www.pelicanpub.com The best cookbooks are packed with color photos--but even the best usually don't pack them ...
Small Plates: Appetizers As Meals.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Small Plates: Appetizers As Meals Marguerite Marceau Henderson Gibbs Smith, Publisher Box 667, Layton, UT 84041 1586857819 $18.95 www.gibbs-smith.com If you want to lose weight, one of the best ways to do so is by ordering ...
Super Suppers Cookbook.(Super Suppers Cookbook: More Than 180 Easy Family Recipes to Enjoy Tonight or Freeze for Later)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Super Suppers Cookbook Judie Byrd Meredith Books 1716 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA 50309-3023 0696230542 $19.95 www.meredithbooks.com Too busy to serve homemade food? Not with SUPPER SUPPERS COOKBOOK: MORE THAN 180 EASY FAMILY ...
Responsibility and Judgment.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Responsibility and Judgment Hannah Arendt Schocken Books c/o Random House Trade Group Publicity 1745 Broadway, 17th floor, New York, NY 10019 0805211624 $16.00 www.schocken.com 1-800-726-0600 Academic libraries strong in ...
James Bond and Philosophy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... James Bond and Philosophy James B. South & Jacob M. Held, Editors Open Court Box 300, Peru, IL 61354-3000 0812696077 $17.95 www.opencourtbooks.com 'Questions are Forever' in James Bond and Philosophy, another addition to Open Court's ...
Intimate Universality.(Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate )(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Intimate Universality James Rodger Fleming, et.al., Editors Science History Publications c/o Watson Publishing Box 1240, Sagamore Beach, MA 02562-1240 0881353671 $39.95 www.shpusa.com Human beings interact with the climate ...
Leveraging the Private Sector.(Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance )(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Leveraging the Private Sector Cary Coglianese & Jennifer Nash Resources for the Future 1616 P Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036-1400 1891853961 $24.95 www.rffpress.org Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies ...
Science Business.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Science Business Gary P. Pisano Harvard Business School Press 60 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163 1591398401 $29.95 www.HBSPress.com SCIENCE BUSINESS: THE PROMISE, THE REALITY, AND THE FUTURE OF BIOTECH tells why the biotech industry is ...
Imperialism and Science: Social Impact and Interaction.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Imperialism and Science: Social Impact and Interaction George N. Vlahakis, et.al. ABC-CLIO Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA 93116-1911 1851096736 $75.00 www.abc-clio.com Think 'imperialism' and economic and political exploitation come to ...
Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer On the Red Planet.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer On the Red Planet Jim Bell Dutton 375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014-3658 0525949852 $55.00 www.penguin.com Author Jim Bell's been a landscape photographer since childhood--and was the ...
Junk Science.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Junk Science Dan Agin, Ph.D. Thomas Dunne Books 175--5th Avenue, New York NY 10010-7848 0312352317 $24.95 www.stmartins.com JUNK SCIENCE: HOW POLITICIANS, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER HUCKSTERS BETRAY US surveys the invasion of special ...
The Hassle-Free Walt Disney World Vacation, 2007 Edition.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Hassle-Free Walt Disney World Vacation, 2007 Edition Steven M. Barrett Intrepid Traveler P.O. Box 531, Branford, CT 06405 1887140654 $14.95 www.intrepidtraveler.com Walt Disney theme parks are often also associated with much ...
Rough Guides.(books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Rough Guides www.roughguides.com Rough Guide's travel series isn't for those seeking plush arrangements: it's for the destination-bound adventure traveler who would gain all the local insider's information to visit a country, venturing off the well-beaten tourist ...
Micronations.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Micronations John Ryan, George Dunford and Simon Sellars Lonely Planet Publications 150 Linden Street, Oakland, CA 94607 1741047307 $14.99 www.lonelyplanet.com Here's the perfect recommendation for that world traveler who has seen ...