[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #73
www.ralphmag.org/BC/indexBC.html
Late Mid-Winter, 2002
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| A Geezer with the St. Vitus' Dance |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Travel --- Mexico |
|---|
| The Stories of Paul Bowles |
Robert Stone, Editor |
Harper Collins |
Short Fiction |
|---|
| Restavec:[B] From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American |
Jean-Robert Cadet |
Texas |
Autobiography |
|---|
| Sorcerer's Apprentice[B] |
Tahir Shah |
Arcade |
Autobiographical Fiction |
|---|
| Winds of Change:[B] Hurricanes and the Transformation of 19th Century Cuba |
Louis A. Pérez, Jr. |
Chapel Hill |
19th Century Cuban History |
|---|
| Song of Welcome |
Josef Brodsky |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| Desert Survivor: The Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert |
John Annerino |
Four Walls Eight Windows |
Travel, How-To-Do-It |
|---|
| An Ocean to Cross: Daring the Atlantic Claiming a New Life |
Liz Fordred |
McGraw Hill |
Travel and Disability |
|---|
| The Muckrakers[N] |
Arthur and Lila Weinberg, Editors |
University of Illinois |
History of American Journalism |
|---|
| Flights of Love[N] |
Bernhard Schlink |
Pantheon |
Modern German Short Stories |
|---|
| The Stranger Next Door:[N] The Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights |
Arlene Stein |
Beacon Press |
Sociological Study |
|---|
| Of Two Minds* |
Tanya Luhrmann |
Vintage |
Study of Psychoanalytic Training |
|---|
| Terrorism Works |
J. Glenn |
[Reading] |
News Analysis |
|---|
| Traveling in Terror |
Navrai Ghaleigh |
[Reading] |
News Analysis |
|---|
| The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today |
Peter Prichard |
Andrews, McMeel and Parker |
History of Contemporary Journalism |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #74
www.ralphmag.org/BD/indexBD.html
Late Winter, 2002
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Cradle of Valor: A Plebe at West Point Between the Two World Wars |
Dale O. Smith |
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
Memoir of West Point |
|---|
| Going Quackers |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Animal Husbandry |
|---|
| Loving the Earth |
F. J. Wertz |
[Poem] |
Modern Jewish Poetry |
|---|
| Round-Trip to Deadsville:[B] A Year in the Funeral Underground |
Tim Matson |
Chelsea Green |
Dying in the United States |
|---|
| Insight Meditation:[B] An In-Depth Correspondence Course |
Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein |
Sounds True |
Meditation Study (Tapes) |
|---|
| The Bostons:[B] Stories |
Carolyn Cooke |
Mariner |
Short Fiction |
|---|
| Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas |
Pete Earley |
Bantam Dell |
Sociological Study |
|---|
| Dostoyevsky and Gran Mal |
Leonid Tsypkin |
Quartet |
Literary History |
|---|
| The Fun Of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town |
Lillian Ross, Editor |
Modern Library |
Literary History, Short Fiction |
|---|
| Summer in Baden-Baden:[N] A Novel* |
Leonid Tsypkin |
New Directions |
Literary Fiction and History |
|---|
| Taking Haiti:[N] Military Occupation and the Culture of U. S. Imperialism --- 1915 - 1940 |
Mary A. Renda |
Chapel Hill |
History of Haiti |
|---|
| The War of the Worlds:[N] A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations, and Appendices* |
H. G. Wells --- Leon Stover, Editor |
McFarland |
19th Century Science Fiction |
|---|
| Sin Nombre |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Travel |
|---|
| The End, The End |
Aaron G. Silverstein |
[Poem] |
Modern Jewish Poetry |
|---|
| Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere |
Jan Morris |
Simon & Schuster |
Travel and History, Trieste |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #75
www.ralphmag.org/BE/indexBE.html
Late Late Winter, 2002
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Buddhist Stupas in Asia:[B] The Shape of Perfection |
Joe Cummings Text Bill Wassman Photographs |
Lonely Planet |
Far Eastern Travel |
|---|
| Bridge:[B] The Architecture of Connection |
Lucy Blakstad |
Birkhauser |
Architecture, Engineering |
|---|
| Witnesses of Time:[B] Photographs of Flor Garduño* |
Introduction by Carlos Fuentes |
Aperture |
Central and South America Photography |
|---|
| Looking Through Letterboxes |
Caroline Bird |
Carcarnet |
Modern English Poetry |
|---|
| My Father's Cabin: A Tale of Life, Love, Loss, and Land |
Mark Phillips |
Lyons Press |
Biography, Memoir |
|---|
| My Brilliant Career |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Education; Sleep Therapy |
|---|
| The Hall of Idleness |
Po Yüchien |
[Poem] |
Ancient Chinese Poetry |
|---|
| Nothing to Fear:[N] FDR in Photographs |
Hugh Gregory Gallagher |
Wendamere Press |
Photography, Biography |
|---|
| Among the Missing[N] |
Dan Chaon |
Ballentine |
Modern American Short Fiction |
|---|
| From the Ashes:[N] A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America |
Collected by the editors of Beliefnet |
Rodale/St. Martins |
Modern American Essays |
|---|
| The Short Stool Society |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Travel |
|---|
| Confessions of a PR Man |
Robert J. Wood |
NAL |
Careers: Public Relations |
|---|
| The Girl in the Chair: The Roots of Madness |
L. W. Milam |
[Reading] |
Criticism --- Modern American Music |
|---|
| Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s |
Neil Miller |
Alyson |
History of Gay Rights |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #76
www.ralphmag.org/BF/indexBF.html
Early Spring, 2002
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| The $12,000 Baby |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico Travel |
|---|
| Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education |
Sybille Bedford |
Counterpoint |
"Fictional Autobiography" |
|---|
| The First Time |
Sybille Bedford |
[Reading] |
Memoir |
|---|
| Progressive Design in the Midwest:[B] The Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts |
Jennifer Komar Olivarez |
MIA/Minnesota University Press |
Museum Collection |
|---|
| Madagascar Wildlife:[B] A Visitor's Guide |
Nick Garbutt, Hilary Brandt, Derek Schuurman |
Brandt/Globe Pequot |
Nature Study |
|---|
| The Toltec Path of Recapitulation:[B] Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul |
Victor Sanchez |
Bear & Co. |
Mystical "Recapitulation" |
|---|
| The Chocolate Soldier |
P. J. Mierly |
[Poem] |
Gay Poetry |
|---|
| Editors' Picks |
RALPH Editors |
[List] |
Best Books of 2001-2002 |
|---|
| Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me* |
Javier Marías |
New Directions |
Modern Spanish Fiction |
|---|
| Buddhism:[N] The Illustrated Guide |
Kevin Trainor, Editor |
Oxford |
Pictorial Guide |
|---|
| Luisa and the Silence[N] |
Claudio Piersanti |
Northwestern |
Contemporary Italian Fiction |
|---|
| A Purchase of Porcelain |
Jean Nordhaus |
[Poem] |
Contemporary American Poetry |
|---|
| Terrorist Hits Mexicana Airlines |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico Travel |
|---|
| The Museum of Unconditional Surrender* |
Dubravka Ulgresic |
New Directions |
Memoirs --- Slovenia |
|---|
| In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart is Devouring America |
Bob Ortega |
Times Business |
Business History |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #77
www.ralphmag.org/BG/indexBG.html
Early Mid-Spring, 2002
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Anatomy of Miracles: Practical Teachings for Developing Your Capacity to Heal |
Subagh Singh Khalsa |
Tuttle |
Yoga |
|---|
| Birds of San Diego |
Chris Fisher, Herbert Clarke |
Lone Pine |
Ornithology |
|---|
| Masturbation:[B] The History of a Great Terror |
Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck |
St. Martins |
Ononological History |
|---|
| An Ethnic at Large:[B] A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties |
Jerre Mangione |
Syracuse |
Ethnic History |
|---|
| Circle Houses:[B] Yurts, Tipis, and Benders |
David Pearson |
Chelsea Green |
Ecological Construction |
|---|
| The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps: New Poems |
Charles Bukowski |
Black Sparrow |
Contemporary American Poetry |
|---|
| The Battle at Little Bull Run |
T, F. Bierly |
[Poem] |
Contemporary American Poetry |
|---|
| Moko: Maori Tattoo |
Hans Neleman, Photographer |
Edition Stemmle |
Maori Tattoos |
|---|
| The Mordida |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico Customs |
|---|
| Mumsie |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Memoriam |
|---|
| St. Agnes and the Passion of the Dunes |
Wilfred McCorkle |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| The Valley of No Flowers |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Life |
|---|
| Whales and other Marine Mammals of California and Baja |
Tamara Eder |
Lone Pine |
Oceanographic Studies |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"