Issue #1
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Winter, 1994 - 1995
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Ambivalent Zen[B]* |
Lawrence Shainberg |
[Reading] |
Buddhism in the West |
|---|
| The Warriors of Pacifism[B] |
Caroline Moorehead |
Adler & Adler |
History of Pacifism |
|---|
| Raising Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Pigeons, and Guineas[B] |
Cynthia Haynes |
Tab Books |
Agronomy |
|---|
| Harmony by Hand:[B]
Art of the Southwest Indians |
Patrick Houlihan, Jerold L. Collings, Sarah Nestor, and Jonathan Batkin |
Chronicle Books |
Native American Arts |
|---|
| Image and Word:[B] The Interaction of Twentieth-Century Photographs and Texts |
Jefferson Hunter |
Harvard |
Photographic Arts |
|---|
| How to Repair Food[B] |
Marina and John Bea |
Ten Speed Press |
Culinary Arts |
|---|
| It's a Long Road to Comondú:[B] Mexican Adventures Since 1928* |
Everett Gee Jackson |
Texas A & M Press |
Memories of Mexico --- 1930s & 40s |
|---|
| Guide to the Yucatan Peninsula[B] |
Chicki Mallan |
Moon Publications |
Mexican Travel |
|---|
| The Underground Atlas:[B] A Gazetteer of the World's Cave Regions |
John Middleton and Tony Waltham |
St Martin's Press |
Spelunking |
|---|
| Intuitive Psychotherapy:[B] The Role of Creative Therapeutic Intervention |
William N. Confer |
Human Sciences Press |
Psychotherapy |
|---|
| In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign |
Leon Wolff |
[Reading] |
WWI |
|---|
| If I Knew the Way,
I Would Take You Home |
Elizabeth Gips |
[Reading] |
Autobiography |
|---|
| Sing Ho! to the New Keyboard |
C. K. Rywalt |
[Poem] |
American Poetry |
|---|
| litany |
Carolyn Creedon |
[Poem] |
American Love Poetry |
|---|
| The Florida Keys:[B] From Key Largo to Key West |
Joy Williams |
Random House |
Travel in the Florida Keys |
|---|
Horn of the Moon Cookbook:[B] Recipes from Vermont's Renowned Vegetarian Restaurant |
Ginny Callan |
Harper & Row |
Cookery |
|---|
| The Psychology of Spiritual Growth[B] |
Mary E. Carreiro |
Bergin & Garvey |
Spirituality |
|---|
| Permanent New Yorkers:[B] A Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of New York |
Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall |
Chelsea Green |
New York Necrology |
|---|
| Posters of the WPA[B] |
Chris DeNoon |
University of Washington |
Poster Art |
|---|
| Ich Kuss Die Hand:[B] The Letters of H. L. Mencken to Gretchen Hood |
Peter W. Dowell, Editor |
University of Alabama Press |
Mencken's Letters |
|---|
| The Definitive Original Four-Act Version of The Importance of Being Earnest[B] |
Ruth Berggren, Editor |
Vanguard |
English Drama |
|---|
| The Kundalini Experience[B] |
Lee Sannella |
Integral |
Mysticism |
|---|
| The Ultimate Game:[B] The Rise and Fall of Bhagwan Shree Rashneesh |
Kate Strelley |
Harper & Row |
Eastern Religion |
|---|
| Fielding's African Safaris[B] |
Jane and Leah Taylor |
Morrow |
African Travel |
|---|
| Tales of Texas and Beyond[B] |
Charles A. Watson |
Cedar Elm Publishing |
Autobiography |
|---|
| Eating
Time |
Maha
Ghosananda |
[Reading] |
Indian Mysticism |
|---|
| The Book of the Grotesque |
Sherwood Anderson |
[Reading] |
Modern American Literature |
|---|
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews" or "More Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #2
www.ralphmag.org/archive3.html
Spring, 1995
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| One Kid, One Only Kid |
Henry Roth |
[Reading] |
American Jewish Lore |
|---|
| The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union |
Timothy Holton |
Council on Foreign Relations |
Soviet Union History |
|---|
| S. J. Perelman:
A Life |
Dorothy Hermann |
Putnam |
Biography |
|---|
| Anarchist Organization: The History of the FAI |
Juan Gomez Casas |
Black Rose | History of Anarchism |
| The Haunted House in Pioneer Square |
The Variety Club |
[Article] |
Halloween |
|---|
The Field Guide to North American Males |
Marjorie Ingall |
Henry Holt |
Sociology |
|---|
| Rats, Lice, and History |
Hans Zinsser |
[Reading] |
Insectology |
|---|
| A History of Reading |
Alberto Manguel |
Viking |
Library Science |
|---|
| Letter from Mexico |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Lore |
|---|
| The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
Riyuku |
[Poem] |
Ancient Chinese Poetry |
|---|
| Vietnam at War |
Lt. Gen. Phillip B. Davidson |
Presidio |
A Military View of Vietnam |
|---|
| Chicago '68 |
David Farber |
University of Chicago Press |
A View of the '68 Riots |
|---|
| Wind & Sand |
Lyanne Wescott |
Eastern Acorn Press |
Aviation History |
Issue #3
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Summer, 1995
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| All Talk Radio |
Carlos Amantea |
[Reading] |
Memories of Mexico |
|---|
| A Piece of Meat on a Yellow Tray |
Lawrence Shainberg |
[Reading] |
Medicine |
|---|
| Eurasian White Pelicans:[B] From the Audubon Society Book of Water Birds |
Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett, Kenn Kaufman |
Harry Abrams |
Natural History |
|---|
| The Walls Came Tumbling Down[B] |
Steve Martin, Sheldon Ekland-Olson |
Texas Monthly Press |
Penology |
|---|
| Winning and Losing in the Love Market[B] |
Charles M. Whipple, Jr |
Brunswick Publishing |
Erotology |
|---|
| The Unknown Iacocca[B] |
Peter Wyden |
Morrow |
Biography |
|---|
| The Troubled People Book[B] |
Paul G. Quinnett |
Continuum Publishing |
Psychology |
|---|
| The Care of Strangers:[B]
The Rise of America's Hospital System |
Charles E. Rosenberg |
Basic Books |
History of Hospitals |
|---|
| Capitalism & Arithmetic:[B]
The New Math of the 15th Century |
Frank J. Swetz |
Open Court |
Early History of Mathematics |
|---|
| Traffic Court:[B]
How to Win |
James Glass |
Allenby Press |
Legal Advice |
|---|
| A Latterday Confucian:[B]
Reminiscences of William Hung |
Susan Chan Egan |
Harvard University Press |
Chinese-American Biography |
|---|
| Geography Isn't Destiny |
Jon Gallant |
[Article] |
Scandinavian Geography |
|---|
| The Sweet Taste of Asophædita |
W. L. Warren |
[Article] |
Youth in Florida in the 1940s |
|---|
| Why
Anti-matter Matters |
Douglas Cruickshank |
[Article] |
Biography of Alfred Jarry |
|---|
| Terra Incognita |
D. H. Lawrence |
[Poem] |
Modern English Poetry |
|---|
| The Color of Truth |
The Mahabarata |
[Reading] |
Indian Philosophy |
|---|
| Some
Thoughts on the Science of Onanism |
Mark Twain |
[Reading] |
Onanism |
|---|
| A Whole New Life |
Reynolds Price |
Norton |
Disability |
|---|
| Song to Onan's Complaining Hand |
Manuel del Cabral |
[Poem] |
Modern Latin American Poetry |
|---|
| The Space Merchants --- II |
Frederick Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth |
[Reading] |
Science-Fiction |
|---|
| The Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain |
Alex Ayres, Editor |
Harper & Row |
American Literature |
|---|
| The Song of the Wandering Ængus |
W. B. Yeats |
[Poem] |
Modern English Poetry |
|---|
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial meritIssue #4
www.ralphmag.org/archive1.html
Fall, 1995
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Beautiful Summer in New Jersey |
B. W. McClellan |
[Article] |
Child Abuse |
|---|
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
Jean-Dominique Bauby |
Knopf |
Disability |
|---|
| You Must Remember This[B] |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Dutton |
Modern American Fiction |
|---|
|
American Talk:[B]
The Words and Ways of American Dialects* |
Robert Hendrickson |
Viking |
Linguistics |
|---|
|
Penguins[B] |
John Sparks, Tony Soper |
Facts on File |
Natural History |
|---|
| Harlem Renaissance:[B] Art of Black America |
Edited by Charles Miers |
Abrams |
20th Century Black Art |
|---|
| Titanic:[B] The Life and Death of a Legend |
Michael Davie |
Knopf |
History |
|---|
| The Gnostic Scriptures[B] |
Translated by Bently Layton |
Doubleday |
Gnostic Religion |
|---|
| The Buddha of Boystown |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Reading] |
Religion |
|---|
|
Powdering Hare-Lips |
Lawrence Durrell |
[Reading] |
Modern English Literature |
|---|
| Fatty |
Wanda Felix |
[Article] |
Hollywood History |
|---|
|
The Great Land Giveaway |
R. R. Doister |
[Reading] |
American Zoning and Land Use |
|
Gringolandia |
J. Gallant & L. Milam |
[Reading] |
Mexico |
|---|
|
The Ladies of the School |
A. W. Allworthy |
[Poem] |
Modern American Poetry |
|
Love in the Canals of Venice |
Luis Sepúlveda |
[Reading] |
Modern Spanish-American Literature |
|---|
|
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories* |
Luis Sepúlveda |
Harvest |
Modern Spanish-American Literature |
|---|
|
Saint Peter Got Smashed |
A. T. Kendall |
[Poem] |
Modern English Poetry |
|---|
|
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America |
Larry E. Tise |
University of Georgia |
Early American History |
|---|
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit