[N]To be found under "New Listings" 
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #64
www.ralphmag.org/AT/indexAT.html
 Late Mid-Summer 2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Chump Change[B] | Dan Fante | Sun Dog | Modern American Fiction | 
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| My Lucky Star[B] | Zdenka Fantolvá | Herodias | Growing up in Czechoslovakia | 
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| Anarchy!:[B] An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth | Peter Glassgold, Editor | Counterpoint | Anthology of Anarchism | 
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| Climate: The Key to Understanding Business Cycles | Michael Zahorchak | Tide Press | Climate and the market | 
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| Testament of  Revolution | Béla Lipták | Texas A & M Press | The Hungarian Revolution | 
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| Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and their Fight Against Jesse Helms | Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn | Alyson | Gay Rights | 
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| Rape on the Desert | Andrei Makine | [Reading] | Modern Russian Life | 
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| Second Hand[N] | Michael Zadoorian | Norton | Fiction | 
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| The Triumph of the Moon:[N] A History of Modern Pagan  Witchcraft | Ronald Hutton | Oxford | Witchcraft | 
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| Farm Motors:[N] Practical Hints for Handy-men | J. Brownlee Davisson and Leon Wilson Chase | Lyons | Antique Engines | 
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| National Private Radio | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Commentary on NPR | 
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| To a Child Four Years Old | Lola Ridge | [Poem] | Traditional American Poetry | 
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| Spring Pastoral | Elinor Wylie | [Poem] | Traditional American Poetry | 
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| Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta | Brock Clarke | [Reading] | Contemporary Fiction | 
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| The Ordinary White Boy | Brock Clarke | Harcourt | Contemporary Fiction | 
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[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 #65
www.ralphmag.org/AU/indexAU.html
 Late Mid-Summer 2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Being Dead | Jim Crace | Picador USA | Contemporary English Fiction | 
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| Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins:[B] Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive | Jerome Charyn | Four Walls/Eight Windows | History of Ping-Pong | 
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| The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema[B] | Mark C. Glassy | McFarland | Science Fiction Films and Real Life | 
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| My Little Blue Dress[B] | Bruno Maddox | Viking | Fiction | 
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| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men* | James Agee, Walker Evans | Houghton Mifflin/Mariner | Reality of the Lives of Share-Croppers | 
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| Memory of  France | Paul Celan | [Poem] | Contemporary German Poetry | 
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| FDR and his Enemies[N] | Albert Fried | Palgrave/St. Martins | FDR's Five Greatest Enemies | 
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| The Music Room[N] | Dennis McFarland | Picador USA | Fiction | 
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| Frank Lloyd Wright Glass[N] | Doreen Ehrlich | Courage Books | Decorative Arts in the Houses of Wright | 
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| The Alphabet Begins with "S" | Ryszard Kapuscinski | [Reading] | Growing up in the Soviet Union | 
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| What I Did Not Tell Anyone | Kate Gale | [Poem] | Contemporary Women's Poetry | 
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| She Was Only an Optician's Daughter | L. W. Milam | [Article] | American Radio --- Mid-Century | 
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| A Passion to Win | Sumner  Redstone and  Peter Knobler | Simon & Schuster | Biography, Business | 
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| San Diego:  A Pictorial History | Raymond G. Starr | Donning | History of San Diego in Photographs | 
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| Ask No Questions | Ryszard Kapuscinski | [Reading] | Life in Soviet Russia | 
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| The Top Pop Hits | RALPH Editors | [List] | Twelve of the Most Popular Book Reviews | 
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[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 #66
www.ralphmag.org/AV/indexAV.html
Very Late Summer 2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Body of Knowledge:[B] One Semester of Gross Anatomy, the Gateway to Becoming a Doctor | Steve Giegerich | Scribner | Cadavers and Medical School | 
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| African Journey[B] | Pete Turner | Graphis Press | Contemporary Africa in Photographs | 
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| Untamed Seas:[B] One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival | Deborah Scaling Kiley, Meg Noonan | Mariner | Sailing Adventures | 
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| Dreams of Tanks | Andrei Makine | [Reading] | Memoirs of Soviet Russia | 
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| The Men on Wheels | Andrei Makine | [Reading] | Memoirs of Soviet Russia | 
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| Poetry In Motion | Bart Edelman | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
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| Hunting for Father | Ignacio Schwartz | [Article] | Memories of Growing up in Florida | 
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| The Hurricane | Ignacio Schwartz | [Article] | Memoirs of Growing up in Florida | 
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| Star in the East: Krishnamurti: the Invention of a Messiah | Roland Vernon | Palgrave/St. Martins | Biography | 
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| My Faraway Home[N] | Mary McKay Maynard | Lyons | The Japanese, the Philippines, and WWII | 
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| The Dying Animal[N] | Philip Roth | Houghton Mifflin | Contemporary Fiction | 
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| The Reader's Companion to Military History | Robert  Cowley, Geoffrey Parker, Editors | Houghton Mifflin | Essays on Warfare | 
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| The Burden of Time: Photographs from the  Highlands of Chiapas | Marcey Jacobson | Stanford University | Photographs of Mexico | 
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| Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace | Hirouki Itsuki | Kodansha | Pure Land Buddhism | 
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[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 #67
www.ralphmag.org/AW/indexAW.html
Very Early Fall 2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Highwire Moon[B] | Susan Straight | Houghton Mifflin | Latina Fiction | 
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| Sex Tips:[B] From Men Who Ride the Sexual Frontier | Jo-Anne Baker, Editor | Fusion | Sexual Advice | 
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| Rubbish!:[B] The Archaeology of Garbage* | William Rathje, Cullen Murphy | Arizona | Garbology | 
|---|
| Rebuilding the Church of the Novgorod Kremlin | Ryszard Kapuscinski | [Reading] | Stalin's Russia | 
|---|
| On Being Fired Again
 | Erin Belieu | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| The Philosopher | Rebecca Wee | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
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| Intervention in the Caribbean: The  Dominican Crisis of 1965 | Gen. Bruce Palmer, Jr. | University of Kentucky | American Foreign Policy | 
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| Animal Quackers | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Ducks | 
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| A Visit to the GULAG   Magadan | Ryszard Kapuscinski | [Reading] | Post-Stalinist Russia | 
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| Juancito's Wake: Lost Grove Squatters' Camp, Lima, 1985 | Orlando Ricardo Menes | [Poem] | Contemporary Latino Poetry | 
|---|
| Migraine: The Breakthrough Study that  Explains What Causes It and How It Can Be Completely Prevented through Diet | Rodolfo Low | Holt | Migraines and Diet | 
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| The Dog  Department[N] | James Thurber | Harper/Collins | Thurber's Dogs | 
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| Wildfire: A Reader[N] | Alianor True, Editor | Island Press | Smokejumpers | 
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| What I   Think I Did:[N] A Season of Survival in Two Acts | Larry Woiwode | Basic Books | Memoirs | 
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| An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War | Midge Decter | Regan/Harper/Collins | Memoirs | 
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| Memoirs of the Eenie-Weenies | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Memoirs of the 60s | 
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| Masquerade* | Tivadar Soros | Arcade Publishing | Budapest 1944 - 1945 | 
|---|
| Under the Skin* | Michael Faber | Harcourt | Science-Fiction | 
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[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 #68
www.ralphmag.org/AX/indexAX.html
Early Fall,  2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| The Evening  Crowd at Kimser's:[B] A Gay Life in the 1940s* | Ricardo J. Brown | Minnesota | Gay Life Pre-Stonewall | 
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| Neville Chamberlain and  Appeasement[B] | Robert J. Caputi | Susquehanna | Biography | 
|---|
| The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman[B]* | Abbie Hoffman | Four Walls/Eight Windows | Autobiography | 
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| California Crazy: Roadside  Vernacular Architecture | J. Heimann | Chronicle | Unusual Architecture | 
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| My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration | Charles Champlin | John Daniel & Co. | Going Blind | 
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| I Finally Figured Out About Dying --- (And I Wanted To Tell You  Before It Was Too Late) | Robert J. Fretwell | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
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| Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream | Mawi Asgedon | Megadee | Assimilation in America | 
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| On Being Psychoanalyzed (At the Hyatt  Regency Bar) | Carlos Amantea | [Reading] | Contemporary Psychotherapy | 
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| Florida  Beaches:[N] The Only Guide to the  Best Places to Eat, Stay,  and Play on Every Beach in the Sunshine State | Parke Puterbaugh and Alan Bisbort | Foghorn  Press | Travel | 
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| Worshiping the Ancestors:[N] Chinese Commemorative Portraits | Jan Stewart, Evelyn S. Rawski, Editors | Smithsonian/Stanford University Press | Chinese Scroll Painting | 
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| America's Children[N] | James Thackara | The Overlook  Press | The Manhattan Project | 
|---|
| A Gaudy Spree: Literary Hollywood When the West Was Fun | Samuel Marx | Franklin Watts | Hollywood History | 
|---|
| There Wasn't Any Tooth Fairy in Havana | Virgil Suárez | [Reading] | Dentistry and Growing up | 
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[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 #69
www.ralphmag.org/AY/indexAY.html
Mid-Fall,  2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Nineteen Wilful Men | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | 11 September 2001 | 
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| The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know | Christine K. Cassel, Editor | New York University | Aging Guide | 
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| The Same Sea* | Amos Oz | Harcourt | Israeli Fiction | 
|---|
| Eruptions | Henry J. Morro | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| The Exact Location of the Soul:[B] New and Selected Essays | Richard Selzer | Picador USA | Medical Essays | 
|---|
| The Buddha Book[B] | Abraham Rodriguez | Picador USA | Contemporary Ghetto Fiction | 
|---|
| The Cabin:[B] Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway | Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis | Taunton | How-to-do-it | 
|---|
| 2.4 Man-Meals a Day | William Rathje and Cullen Murphy | [Reading] | Garbology | 
|---|
| Shlugen Kapores | Michael A. Ingall | [Article] | Jewish Tradition | 
|---|
| Marilyn Monroe Is Dead | Henry J. Morro | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| Quitting the  Nairobi Trio:[N] A Memoir | Jim Knipfel | Berkley Books | Mental Health | 
|---|
| Gates to Buddhist Practice:[N] Essential Teachings of a Tibetan Master | Chagdud Tulku | Padma | Buddhism | 
|---|
| Mountain City[N] | Gregory Martin | North Point Press | Small Town American Life | 
|---|
| Menstrual  Modesty | Katha Pollitt | [Reading] | The Menstrual Crisis | 
|---|
| Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold | Jeanne Martinet | Watson-Guptill | Romance Comics Reworked | 
|---|
| The First World War* | Gerard J. De Groot | Palgrave | History of WWI | 
|---|
[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 #70
www.ralphmag.org/AZ/indexAZ.html
Late Fall,  2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Banning Bin Laden: A Proposal | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Censorship | 
|---|
| Nomads of the Desert City:[B] Personal Stories from Citizens of the Streets | Barbara Seyda | Arizona | Interviews with Street People | 
|---|
| Silent Extras[B] | Arnon Grunberg | St. Martin's | Fiction | 
|---|
| The Places  That Scare You:[B] A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times | Pema Chödrön | Shambhala | Buddhistic Exhortations | 
|---|
| The  Editors' Picks | RALPH Editors | [List] | 20 Recent Books of Merit | 
|---|
| Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War | Frank R. Freemon | Illinois | Medical Care and the Civil War | 
|---|
| Chacun a Son gout | Jon Gallant | [Article] | Gout | 
|---|
| Karl Marx[N]* | Francis Wheen | Norton | Biography | 
|---|
| Notes on Extinction | Janice Deaner | Dutton | Fiction | 
|---|
| Dubi Dombrov Tries to Express | Amos Oz | [Reading] | Character Sketch | 
|---|
| Spring | Danyèl Simido | [Poem | Haitian Creole Poetry |  | 
|---|
| The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism[N] | Lama Thubten Yeshe | Lywa | Buddhism | 
|---|
| The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War | Adam Nossiter | Houghton Mifflin | Memories of Vichy France | 
|---|
| If You Want | Nousnous Lenous  Surprice | [Poem] | Haitian Creole Poetry | 
|---|
[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 #71
www.ralphmag.org/BA/indexBAhtml
Early Winter,  2001
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | 
| Michael Bader | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Memorial | 
|---|
| The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories* | Nina Berberova | New Directions Classic | Russian Short Stories | 
|---|
| Six Wars at a Time | Howard and Audrey Shaff | The Center for Western Studies
 | Biography of Gutzon Borglum | 
|---|
| The Essential Galbraith[B] | John Kenneth Galbraith | Mariner | Essays | 
|---|
| Maverick in  Madagascar[B] | Mark Eveleigh | Lonely Planet | Travel | 
|---|
| The Big Lie:[B] Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez  in 1951 | Garry Boulard | Pelican | Political Biography | 
|---|
| The Cave Club | Geoffrey Brock | [Poem] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
| In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time
 | Leonard Garment | Basic | Memoirs of the Nixon Years | 
|---|
| Groupuscules, or the New Old Left | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Political Schisms | 
|---|
| God and the Evolving Universe:[N] The Next Step in Personal Evolution | James Redfield, Michael Murphy, Sylvia Timbers | Tarcher/Putnam | New Age | 
|---|
| Book Business:[N] Publishing Past, Present and Future | Jason Epstein | Norton | Memoirs | 
|---|
| Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren | John Burt, Editor | Louisiana State University Press | Anthology | 
|---|
| The Tattered Cloak | Nina Berberova | [Reading] | Russian Emigre Fiction | 
|---|
| Three from  the Teachers & Writers Collaborative | Christopher Edgar, Gary Lenhart, Editors | [Poetry] | Contemporary Poetry | 
|---|
[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