[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 #23
www.ralphmag.org/indexS.html
Mid-Spring, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
warty bliggins the toad |
Don Marquis |
[Poem] |
Thoughts of a Toad |
---|
Phèdre[B] |
Jean Racine
|
Farrar Straus Giroux |
Traditional French Drama |
---|
The Great Dismal[B] |
Bland Simpson |
University of North Carolina Press |
The Great Dismal Swamp |
---|
The Hunger Winter[B] |
Henri A van der Zee |
Bison |
Holland at the End of WWII |
---|
Amsterdam[B] |
Ian McEwan |
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday |
Contemporary Fiction |
---|
The Upset that Wasn't[B] |
Harold I Gullan |
Ivan R. Dee |
Truman's 1948 Campaign |
---|
Diary: Volume One |
Witold Gombrowicz |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Lettre de l'Ile de Frqnce |
Jean Le Phage |
[Article] |
The Village of Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
---|
When I Was a German:
An English Woman Living in Nazi Germany* |
Christabel Bielenberg |
Bison --- University of Nebraska |
Foreigners in WWII Germany |
---|
A Man of Few Words |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Study of Mexican Character |
---|
The Irreverent But Indispensable Guide to Hair Loss Solutions[N] |
L.H. Carson
|
Eads Publishing |
Cosmetology |
---|
In Sam We Trust:[N] The Untold Story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is Devouring America* |
Bob Ortega |
Times Business |
Study of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart |
---|
Dark Side of Fortune:[N]
Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny |
Margaret Leslie Davis |
University of California |
Biography of Edward L. Doheny |
---|
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer:[N] Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections |
Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd, Editors |
Notre Dame |
Ethics and Christianity |
---|
Astral Projection for Beginners[N] |
Edain McCoy |
Llewellyn |
Techniques of Astral Projection |
---|
Pacifica Radio:
The Rise of an Alternative Network |
Matthew Lasar |
Temple University Press |
History of Pacifica Radio |
---|
A Little Present in the Cab |
Marcel Proust |
[Reading] |
The "Grand Hotel's" Elevator |
---|
Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond |
Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson |
Longstreet |
Political Biography |
---|
A Member of the Waffen SS: A Journey with One Who Did the Killings |
Christabel Bielenberg |
[Reading] |
WWII in Germany |
[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 #24
www.ralphmag.org/indexT.html
Late Spring, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know |
Christine K. Cassel, Editor |
New York University |
Aging |
---|
Art as Politics in the Third Reich |
Jonathan Petropoulos |
University of North Carolina |
Art in Germany, 1933 - 1945 |
---|
Beer Cans in the Rio de la Plata |
Jorge Stamadiano |
Latin American Literary Review Press |
Modern Latin American Fiction |
---|
Faking It:[B] U. S. Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era |
Cynthia Weber |
Minnesota |
Freudian Symbolism and U. S. Foreign Policy in the Caribbean |
---|
Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew[B] |
Ruth L. A. Stiff |
University Press of New England |
Reproductions from Kew Magazine |
---|
The Arcanum:[B] The Extraordinary True Story |
Janet Gleeson |
Warner |
The Evolution of Alchemy |
---|
Loves That Bind[B] |
Julián Ríos |
Knopf |
An Alphabetical Love Story |
---|
A Visit to the Burning Ghâts |
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
[Reading] |
Travel in India, 19th Century |
---|
My Sweet Old Lady of the Mountains |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Curanderas of Mexico |
---|
Getting out of a Warm Bed on a Cold Morning |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
[Reading] |
WWII France |
---|
I Finally Figured Out About Dying --- And I Wanted To Tell You Before It Was Too Late |
Robert J. Fretwell |
[Poem] |
Modern American Poetry |
---|
A Bumpy Trip on an Elephant |
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
[Reading] |
Travel in India, 19th Century |
---|
Flanders |
Patricia Anthony |
Ace |
Fiction |
---|
Warriors of the Prophet:[N] The Struggle for Islam |
Mark Huband |
Westview/Perseus |
Islam and the Jihad |
---|
False Witness[N] |
Melvin Rader |
University of Washington |
Witch-Hunting in the 1950s |
---|
A Nearly Normal Life:[N] A Memoir |
Charles L. Mee |
Little, Brown |
Disability |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #25
www.ralphmag.org/indexU.html
Early Summer, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Man Who Gives Lunch to the Bugs of India |
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
[Reading] |
Travel in India, 19th Century |
---|
Bound and Gagged:
Pornography and the
Politics of Fantasy
in America* |
Laura Kipnis |
Duke University Press |
Varieties of Sexual Experience |
---|
The Collector's Guide to Early Photographs[B] |
O. Henry Mace |
Krause |
Photographic Collectibles |
---|
E W Scripps and the Business of Newspapers[B] |
Gerald J. Baldasty |
Illinois |
Biography |
---|
Confucius in 90 Minutes[B] |
Paul Strathern |
Ivan R. Dee |
Confucius |
---|
The Worst Journey in the World |
Apsley Cherry-Garrard |
[Reading] |
Travel in the Antarctic |
---|
Why I Don't Want to Write Another Stupid Book Review for RALPH |
Elizabeth Gips |
[Opinion] |
Anti-Review |
---|
Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East: Journeys in India* |
Edward Cameron Dimock |
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
Travels in Contemporary India |
---|
Carl Sandburg:[N] Poems for the People |
George and Willene Hendrick, Editors |
Ivan R. Dee |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Civil War Railroads:[N] A Pictorial Story of the War Between the States, 1861 - 1865 |
George B. Abdill |
Illinois |
Railroads and the Civil War |
---|
Prayer Warriors:[N] The True Story of a Gay Son, His Fundamentalist Christian Family, and the Battle for His Soul |
Stuart Howell Miller |
Alyson |
Gay Biography |
---|
Making the Hillsides Blossom with Light |
L. W. Milam |
[Reading] |
Nathan B. Stubblefield and Early Radio |
---|
Our Ancestors' Short Lives |
Wislawa Szymborska |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Polish Poetry |
---|
The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today |
Peter Prichard |
Andrews, McMeel and Parker |
Contemporary Journalistic History |
---|
Beaten by an Old Heart |
Leslie L. Seamans |
[Poem] |
Poetry of Aging |
[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 #26
www.ralphmag.org/indexV.html
Mid-Summer, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Beethoven |
Zbigniew Herbert |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
The Life and Works of Frank Lloyd Wright[B] |
Maria Constantino |
Courage |
Biography |
---|
Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age[B] |
Anonymous |
Prometheus |
Victorian Erotology |
---|
Shadows, Fire, Snow:[B] The Life of Tina Modotti |
Patricia Albers |
Clarkson Potter |
Biography |
---|
Three Meditations |
Bo Lozoff |
[Reading] |
Autobiography |
---|
The Mexican Dalai Lama |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Culture |
---|
Insight Guide Cuba[N] |
Danny Aeberhard, Editor |
Insight |
Travel, Cuba |
---|
Benjamin's Gift[N] |
Michael Golding |
Warner |
Fiction |
---|
Heart of Spain:[N] Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War* |
Leslie A. Martin, Editor |
Aperture |
Photographic History |
---|
Right of Inspection |
Jacques Derrida |
The Monacelli Press |
Photography and Derrida |
---|
The Seduction of Don Juan |
Lord Byron |
[Reading] |
19th Century Romantic Poetry |
---|
Making Tortillas |
Luis Alberto Urrea |
[Reading] |
Life on the US - Mexican Border |
---|
Nobody's Son:
Notes from an American Life |
Luis Alberto Urrea |
University of Arizona Press |
Life on the US - Mexican Border |
---|
The X-Rated Videotape Guide --- VII |
Patrick Riley |
Prometheus |
Guide to Pornographic Videos |
---|
Pier-Luigi Zucchini |
J. Gallant |
[Reading] |
Biography of the Baroque Composer |
---|
[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 #27
www.ralphmag.org/indexW.html
Late Summer, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The
Arcimboldo Effect:
Transformations of the Face from the 16th to the 20th Century |
Pontus Hulten |
Abbeville Press |
Art History |
---|
Airborne:[B] The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield |
Designed by William A. Ewing |
Chronicle Books |
Photographic Art --- Dance |
---|
Daring to Write[B] |
Mariana L. Ruybalid |
University Editions |
Disability Poetry --- Cerebral Palsy |
---|
What is Meditation?:[B] Buddhism for Everyone |
Rob Nairn |
Shambhala |
Buddhism |
---|
A Curandera from Oaxaca --- III |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Traditional Mexican Cures |
---|
The Eating of Your Fellow Passengers |
Lord Byron |
[Reading] |
Dietary Practices |
---|
The Man with the Moveless Hair |
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
[Article] |
Travel in India, 19th Century |
---|
Mars |
Fritz Zorn |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of a Fatal Illness |
---|
Of Giants:
Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages |
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen |
University of Minnesota Press |
Traditional vs. Contemporary Giants |
---|
The Eads Bridge:[N] Photographic Essay by Quinta Scott |
Howard S. Miller |
Missouri Historical Society |
Study of 19th Century Eads Bridge |
---|
Assuming the Position:[N] A Memoir of Hustling |
Rick Whitaker |
Four Walls/Eight Windows |
Gay Autobiography |
---|
Lotus in the Fire:[N] The Healing Power of Zen |
Jim Bedard |
Shambhala |
Religion and Sickness |
---|
How to Deal with the Priests of Apocalypse |
Paul Nickel |
[Article] |
The False Signs of Apocalypse |
---|
The Architecture of Howard Van Doren Shaw |
Virginia A. Greene |
Chicago Review Press |
Turn-of-the-Century American Architecture |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #28
www.ralphmag.org/indexX.html
Quite Late Summer, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
KPFA and the Pacifica Foundation:
Some Thoughts on the Present Imbroglio |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Commentary |
Educating Esmé:[B] Diary of a Teacher's First Year |
Esmé Raji Codell |
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
Contemporary Problems in Public School Teaching |
---|
Slowly Down the Ganges[B] |
Eric Newby |
Lonely Planet |
Traveling by Boat down the Ganges |
---|
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer[B] |
Kenneth Patchen |
New Directions |
Contemporary Memoirs |
---|
The Devil's Cup:[B]
Coffee, the Driving Force in History* |
Stewart Lee Allen |
Soho Press |
A Worldwide Search for the Perfect Cup of Coffee |
---|
The Death of Haidée |
Lord Byron |
[Reading] |
19th Century Romantic Poetry |
---|
From Here to Fraternity |
Robert Egan |
Bantam Books |
American College Fraternity Life |
---|
Guanajuato, Mexico, 1925 |
Everett Gee Jackson |
[Reading] |
Travels in Mexico |
---|
Lettre d'Ile de France |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Contemporary French Politics |
---|
The Wandering Womb:[N] A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs about Women |
Lana Thompson |
Prometheus |
History of Women, Medicine, and Women's Rights |
---|
Self Publishing Made Easy[N] |
William Carroll |
Coda |
How-to-do-it --- Publishing |
---|
The Floating Opera[N]* |
John Barth |
Avon |
Contemporary American Fiction |
---|
Lifestyles of the Blind and Paralyzed:
Mark O'Brien |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Obituary |
British Wood-Engraved Book Illustrations, 1904 - 1940:
A Break with Tradition* |
Joanna Selborne |
Clarendon Press --- Oxford |
Illustrated History of Wood Engraving |
---|
[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 #29
www.ralphmag.org/indexY.html
Early Fall, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Beethoven:
The Philosophy of Music |
Theodor W. Adorno |
Stanford University Press |
Theory of Beethoven's Compositions |
---|
A World Full of Heroes |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Disability and Bravery |
---|
Deep Blues:[B] Bill Traylor 1854 - 1949 |
Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer, Editors |
Yale University Press |
Primitive Art |
---|
Warm Smiles from Cold Mountain:[B] Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation |
Reb Anderson |
Rodmell Press |
Dharma Talks |
---|
Philip: Who Had a Mind Like a Damp Box of Matches |
William Golding |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of English Public School |
---|
Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Hope and Healing |
Judy Collins |
Pocket Books |
Autobiography |
---|
The Ballad of Hans and Jenny |
Aquiles Nazoa |
[Poem] |
Contemporary South American Poetry |
---|
Get a Life![N] |
William Shatner |
Pocket Books |
Star Trek Conventions |
---|
Medieval Furniture:[N]
Plans and Instructions for Historical Reproductions |
Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly |
Stackpole Books |
Building Medieval Furniture |
---|
Pack of Two:[N]
The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs |
Caroline Knapp |
Delta |
Loving Dogs |
---|
Joseph Stalin |
Eric Hobsbawm |
[Reading] |
Stalinism |
---|
A Field Guide to American Windmills |
T. Lindsay Baker |
University of Oklahoma Press |
Illustrated Study of Windmills |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
Issue #30
www.ralphmag.org/indexZA.html
Mid-Fall, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
We're All Doing Time* |
Bo Lozoff |
Human Kindness Foundation |
Surviving in Prison, Meditational Practices |
---|
Investigation of an Angel |
Zbigniew Herbert |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Eastern European Poetry |
---|
Vampires:[B] The Occult Truth |
Kostantinos |
Llewellyn |
Contemporary Vampires |
---|
The Way of the World:[B] From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the 21st Century |
David Fromkin |
Knopf |
History of the World |
---|
Mama Dip's Kitchen:[B] With More Than 250 Traditional Southern Recipes |
Mildred Council |
University of North Carolina |
Southern Cooking |
---|
Paris Boat Trips in 1900 |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
[Reading] |
Paris 100 Years Ago |
---|
Mexican-American Relations & Jude the Obscure |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Thomas Hardy and Crossing the Border |
---|
Conversations with Milovan Djilas |
Robert Kaplan |
[Reading] |
Contemporary History of Europe and Russia |
---|
Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography |
Vickie L. Bane |
St Martins |
Biography |
---|
A Woman of Rome* |
Alberto Moravia |
Steerforth Italia |
Fiction, WWII Italy |
---|
America & the Daguerreotype[N] |
John Wood, Editor |
University of Iowa |
Daguerreotypes |
---|
The Autobiography of Howard Hughes[N] |
Clifford Irving |
terrificbooks |
Psychoautobiography |
---|
Salinger:[N] A Biography |
Paul Alexander |
Renaissance Media |
Psychobiography |
---|
Farm Appliances and How to Make Them [N] |
George A. Martin |
The Lyons Press |
Farm Machinery from the 1880s |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #31
www.ralphmag.org/indexZB.html
Late Fall, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Rapist in Our Living-Room |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
American Television |
---|
The Three Principal Aspects of The Path[B] |
Geshe Sonam Rinchen |
Snow Lion |
Tibetan Buddhism |
---|
Tornado Alley:[B] Monster Storms of the Great Plains* |
Howard B. Bluestein |
Oxford |
Studies of Tornadoes |
---|
The Best of Myles[B] |
Flann O'Brien |
Dalkey Archive |
Articles from Irish Newspapers |
---|
How Now Shall We Live? |
Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcy |
Tyndale House |
Tenets of Fundamentalism |
---|
The Disabled:
Such Interesting People |
Hugh Gallagher |
[Reading] |
Disability |
---|
Happy Bird Day |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico Life |
---|
Normal Complement |
Hugo Williams |
[Reading] |
Travel by Boat in the Far East |
---|
Family Kaleidoscope: Images of Violence and Healing* |
Salvador Minuchin |
Harvard University Press |
Family Therapy |
---|
Treasury of Victorian Murder:[N] The Fatal Bullet |
Rick Geary |
Nantier Beall Minoustchine |
The Death of James A. Garfield |
---|
Just Talk:[N] Narratives of Psychotherapy |
Lillian R. Furst |
The University Press of Kentucky |
Modern Novels and Psychotherapy |
---|
German Post- Expressionism:[N] The Art of the Great Disorder, 1918 - 1924 |
Dennis Crockett |
Penn State Press |
Post-WWI German Art |
---|
Maryland Beaten Biscuits |
John Barth |
[Reading] |
Memories of Maryland |
---|
They Can't Hide Us Anymore |
Richie Havens |
Spike |
Autobiography |
---|
Spermatorrhea |
R.N. Barr |
[Reading] |
The Evils of Masturbation |
---|
Sleeping Late |
Jacques Prévert |
[Poem] |
Modern French Poetry |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #32
www.ralphmag.org/indexZC.html
Early Winter, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Clock of the Long Now:
The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer |
Stewart Brand |
Basic |
Building a Very Large Clock |
---|
Hoover Dam:[B] The Photographs of Ben Glaha |
Barbara Vilander |
University of Arizona |
Building Hoover Dam |
---|
Mystery Bruise[B] |
Terry Wolverton |
Red Hen Press |
Contemporary Women's Poetry |
---|
Been There, Done That[B] |
Eddie Fisher |
Thomas Dunne Books |
Autobiography |
---|
All the Time in the World* |
Hugo Williams |
Akadine --- Common Reader |
50s Travel Book |
---|
Maps and the Bibles of the Poor |
Marshall McLuhan |
[Reading] |
Maps |
---|
Bosch, Alice in Wonderland, and MAD Magazine |
Marshall McLuhan |
[Reading] |
The Coming of Technology |
---|
Italian Style:[N] Forms of Creativity |
Omar Calabrese, Editor |
Skira |
Ten Aspects of Italian Fashion |
---|
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow[N] |
Christopher D Morris, Editor |
University Press of Mississippi |
Twenty-two Interviews |
---|
The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel:[N] A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and its Forbidden Practices |
Barbara and Michael Foster |
Overlook Press |
Tibetan Exploration |
---|
The Frog Prince:[N] A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults |
Stephen Mitchell |
Harmony/Random House |
Searching for the Prince |
---|
Bangkok, Fireworks, and God |
Carlos Amantea |
[Reading] |
Adventures in the Far East |
---|
Time |
Paul Valéry |
[Poem] |
French Poetry |
---|
The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation |
Dick J. Reavis |
Simon and Schuster |
Waco --- Five Years After |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #33
www.ralphmag.org/indexZD.html
Mid-Winter, 1999
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Our Balloonman Which Art In Heaven |
Carlos Amantea |
[Reading] |
Mexico and Disability |
---|
Insight Guide: Mexico[B] |
John Wilcock, Kal Müller, Editors |
Langenscheidt |
Mexican Travel Guide |
---|
Memoirs of a
Minotaur:[B] From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry |
Robin Magowan |
Story Line Press |
Memoirs of Growing Up in the 50s and 60s |
---|
Desserts:[B] Recipes from the Vineyards of Northern California |
Leslie Mansfield |
Celestial Arts |
Cookery |
---|
Diego Rivera |
Pete Hamill |
Abrams |
Art --- Diego Rivera |
---|
The Million Dollar Mermaid |
Esther Williams |
Simon & Schuster
|
Autobiography |
---|
Marijuana Rx: The Patient's Fight for Medicinal Pot |
Robert C. Randall and Alice M. O'Leary |
Avalon Publishing Group/Thunder's Mouth Press |
The Case for Medical Marijuana |
---|
How Grammar School Is Changing |
Maurice Kilwein Guevara |
[Reading] |
Prose Poem on School |
---|
The Chicago 7 Trial (on LSD) |
Paul Krassner |
[Reading] |
Chicago '68 |
---|
Meeting a Bear |
David Wagoner |
[Poem] |
Contemporary American Poetry |
---|
Learning by Heart:[N] Contemporary American Poetry about School* |
Maggie Anderson, David Hassler, Editors |
University of Iowa Press |
200 Poems |
---|
Wooden Churches:[N] A Celebration |
Rick Bragg |
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
Traditional Church Architecture |
---|
Civilization and the Limpet[N] |
Martin Wells |
Perseus Books |
Zoology for the Layman |
---|
Despicable Species:[N] On Cowbirds, Kudzu, Hornworms, and Other Scourges |
Janet Lembke |
Lyons Press |
Nature's Scourges |
---|
Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds[N] |
Alexander F. Skutch |
Texas A & M |
Birds of Costa Rica |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit