[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #6
www.ralphmag.org/indexB.html
Spring, 1996
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Beautiful Summer at Camp Alton |
Michael Ingall |
[Article] |
Memoir |
|---|
| Bitterness |
Virgil Suárez |
[Reading] |
Memoir |
|---|
| Deep in the Land of Ultimate Projection |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
History of Baja California |
|---|
| Arizona Traveller's Handbook[B] |
Bill Weir |
Moon |
Travel |
|---|
| The Stranger[B]* |
Albert Camus |
Knopf |
Modern French Fiction |
|---|
| Full of Life[B]* |
John Fante |
Black Sparrow |
Modern American Fiction |
|---|
| De-Architecture[B]* |
James Wines |
Rizzoli |
Criticism of Architecture, Culture |
|---|
| Conversations with Anorexics[B] |
Hilde Bruch |
Basic |
Psychology |
|---|
| Eulogy on the
Death of
Dickie Dickinson |
G. J. Fogerty |
[Poem] |
Poetry of Obesity |
|---|
| In Flanders Fields* |
Leon Wolff |
Time-Life |
History of WWI |
|---|
| The Hindoo Fly |
J. R. Ackerley |
[Reading] |
Culture Study of India |
|---|
| Hurricanes, Slaves, and Gold |
David E. Fisher |
[Reading] |
History of Colonialism, Slavery |
|---|
| The Battle At Little Bull Run |
T. F. Bierly |
[Poem] |
Psychological Poetry |
|---|
| Middle East on a Shoestring |
Anon |
Lonely Planet |
Travel in the Middle East |
|---|
| The Concerts of Hofmann
and Kubelik |
Osip Mandelstam |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of Pre-Revolutionary Russia |
|---|
| Rhinos:[B] Endangered Species |
Malcolm Penny
|
Facts on File |
Natural History |
|---|
| Spiegel:[B] The Man Behind the Pictures* |
Andrew Sinclair |
Little, Brown |
Popular Culture and Biography |
|---|
| The Rituals of Anorexia Nervosa |
Mara Selvini Palazzoli |
[Reading] |
Psychology of Anorexia |
|---|
| Don't Tread on Me:
The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman |
Prudence Crowther, Editor |
Viking |
Arts and Letters |
|---|
| I Never Told Anybody:[N] Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People |
Kenneth Koch |
Teachers & Writers |
Education of Geezers |
|---|
| Two Guys Four Corners[N] |
Don Imus & Fred Imus |
Villard |
Commentary, Juvenalia |
|---|
| All-New Hints from Heloise:[N] A Household Guide for the '90s |
Anon |
Perigee |
Household Hints |
|---|
| Food Festivals of Northern California:[N] Traveller's Guide and Cookbook |
Bob Carter |
Falcon |
Travel & Food Guide |
|---|
| Glenn Gould:[N] The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius |
Peter F. Ostwald |
Norton |
Musical Biography |
|---|
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness* |
Daniel Paul Schreber |
Harvard |
Psychological Autobiography, Lunacy |
|---|
| The Stars®Us |
Peter Dodge |
[Poem] |
Love Poetry |
|---|
|
Spared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood* |
Virgil Suárez |
Arte Público |
Memoirs |
|---|
| The Odor of Death |
Abraham Verghese |
[Reading] |
Medical |
|---|
| The Vivisection Mambo |
P. J. Weise |
[Poem] |
Poetry of Love |
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews" or "More Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #7
www.ralphmag.org/indexC.html
Summer, 1996
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Mexico in 22 Days[B] |
Steve Rogers, Tina Rosa |
John Muir |
Travel |
|---|
| A New History of Early English Drama[B] |
John D. Cox and David Kasten, Editors |
Columbia |
Dramatic History |
|---|
| Vim & Vinegar[B] |
Melodie Moore |
Harper |
Strange Uses for Vinegar |
|---|
| Touched by Fire: A Photographic Picture of the Civil War |
William C. Davis, Editor |
Little, Brown |
Civil War History in Photographs |
|---|
| The Key to Understanding Business Cycles |
Michael Zahorchak |
Tide Press |
Finance and Climate |
|---|
| Credo |
Aquiles Nazoa |
[Poem] |
Modern Latin American Poetry |
|---|
| Song of the Forget-Me-Not |
Cynthia Weiss |
[Poem] |
Disability Poetry |
|---|
| Dear Senator Helms: |
Carlos Amantea |
[Letter] |
Poverty and the Rich |
|---|
| Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way* |
Bill Bryson |
[Reading] |
Linguistics |
|---|
| To Orgasm or Not To Orgasm |
R. R. Doister |
[Letter] |
Disability and Sex |
|---|
| San Diego: A Pictorial History |
Raymond G. Starr |
Donning |
History of San Diego |
|---|
[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 #8
www.ralphmag.org/indexD.html
Fall, 1996
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| The Bath |
Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein |
[Reading] |
Medical Properties of Mineral Baths |
|---|
| Kicking Doors |
Richard Wright |
[Reading] |
Anger in the Black Community 1920s |
|---|
| Paris Painters |
Everett Gee Jackson |
[Reading] |
Artists in Mexico |
|---|
| Sometimes I Feel Like
Stephen Hawking Must Feel
After A Bad Night |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Disability and CPB |
|---|
Giggling on Granny Wallon's Herb Wines |
Laurie Lee |
[Reading] |
Growing up in Rural England, 1900 |
|---|
| Die Liedersinger |
Michael Ingall |
[Article] |
Psychological Case History |
|---|
| Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels* |
Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein |
Houghton Mifflin |
Ancient Medical Cures |
|---|
| A Love Poem for Wally Miller Who, in a Fit of Despair, Drove His Electric Wheelchair into the Family Swimming-pool |
L. Lark |
[Poem] |
Poetry of Disability |
|---|
| Pulling at Broken Strings |
Laurie Lee |
[Reading] |
Memories of 1900s England Countryside |
|---|
| Nixon: A Psychobiography |
Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, and Andrew W. Dod |
Columbia |
Pschylogy of Richard Nixon |
|---|
| Memoirs of the Eenie-Weenies |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Memories of the 60s |
|---|
| The Reader[N] |
Bernhard Schlink |
Pantheon |
Fiction |
|---|
| Before the Beginning:[N] Our Universe and Others |
Martin Rees |
Addison-Wesley |
History of the Universe |
|---|
| Spies, Black Ties, & Mango Pies:[N] Stories and Recipes from CIA Families All Over the World |
The Family Advisory Board of the CIA |
Community Communications |
Eating Habits Within the CIA Community |
|---|
| Birds of San Diego[N] |
Chris Fisher and Herbert Clarke |
Lone Pine |
Bird-Spotting |
|---|
| Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print[N] |
Ronald Weber |
Ohio |
History of Journalism --- 19th Century |
|---|
| Extraordinary People with Disabilities[N] |
Deborah Kent and Kathryn A. Quinlan |
Children's Press |
Disability Heroes |
|---|
| Song to Supp-Hose |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Poem] |
Love Poem |
|---|
| Traveling Alone
|
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Memories of Being Alone on the Road |
|---|
| The Undertaking |
Thomas Lynch |
Norton |
Stories from the funeral biz |
|---|
| Thursday's Universe: A Report from the Frontier on the Origin, Nature, and Destiny of the Universe |
Marcia Bartusiak |
Times |
Some thoughts on the universe |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit