Issue #83
www.ralphmag.org/BM/indexBM.html
Late Mid-Summer, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life	Philip Simmons	Bantam	ALS, Autobiography
Sacred India [B]	William Dalrymple	Lonely Planet	The Religions of India
Famous First Bubbles:[B] The Fundamentals of Early Manias	Peter M. Garber	MIT	Rethinking Three Famous Financial Bubbles
Ceramic Water Closets [B]	Munroe Blair	Shire	Four Centuries of Toilets
Letter from Uppland #3	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Food in Contemporary Sweden
A Black Swimmer	Paul Laraque	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry from Guinea
Speedbumps, S. J. Perelman, The Crane Report, Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition	Michael Sheber, Phil Ehrens, Mike McNamara, Prudence Crowther	[Letters]	Comments on Reviews and Articles in RALPH
Bureau:[N] The Secret History of the FBI	Ronald Kessler	St. Martin's	History of the FBI
The Death of Sweet Mister*[N]	Daniel Woodrell	Putnam	Contemporary American Fiction
The Compact Peters World Atlas:[N] The Earth in True Proportion	Kummerly & Bern, Oxford Cartographers	Hammond	New Atlas of the Earth
Pain	Arthur W. Frank	[Reading]	Effects of Pain on the Psyche
Ticks, Blackflies, and God's Other Punishments	Philip Simmons	[Reading]	Summer in New England
Untamed Seas: One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival	Deborah Scaling Kiley	Mariner	Shipwreck in the Atlantic
Poem for Our Dog Afraid of Thunder on a Rainy Day	Leroy V. Quintana	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity*	Soke Morinaga Roshi	Wisdom	Zen Buddhism --- History of a Master

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #84
www.ralphmag.org/BN/indexBN.html
Late Summer, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Inuksuit:[N] Silent Messengers Of the Arctic	Norman Hallendy	University of Washington	Stone Monuments of the Arctic
The Transformations of Mr. Hadlíz[N]	Ladislav Novák	Twisted Spoon Press	Contemporary Surrealist Literature
Atonement[N]	Gaétan Soucy	Anansi	Contemporary French-Canadian Fiction
My Fine Feathered Friend	William Grimes	North Point	Chickens and New York City
World War II: A Photographic History	David Boyle	MetroBooks	Photographs from the European and Pacific Theatres of War
A Woman of Rome*	Alberto Moravia	Steerforth Italia	Post WWII Italian Fiction
The Quest for Immortality:[B] Science at the Frontiers of Aging	S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes	Norton	Current Scientific Beliefs about Aging
The Gospel of the Toltecs[B]	Frank Diaz	Bear & Co.	Shamatic Studies
Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf:[B] The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation	Peter Lovenheim	Harmony	Following Meat from Birth to Grinder
The Rejection Slip Blues	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	How Not to Publish a Book
Souls As Big As Fingernails	Mordecai Richler	[Reading]	Interior Politics in Israel
And Why Did I Fail, And Do Not Fail	Rebecca S. Wrangle	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
The Childless Mother Poems	Becky Birtha	[Poems]	Contemporary Feminist Poems
Learning to Fall, The Peters World Atlas, RALPH's Poetry Reviews, and Questions of Fellatio/Cunnilingus	John G. Simmons, Franz Wright, Joan Houlihan, Barry Corbet	[Letters]	"The difference between reviewing a book and using it to trumpet one's own melancholic spiritual conclusions."

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #85
www.ralphmag.org/BO/indexBO.html
Early Fall, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
RALPH's Top Pops	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	The Twenty Reviews that Receive the Most Hits
52 McGs.:[N] The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Writer Robert McG. Thomas Jr.	Chris Calhoun, Editor	Scribner	Classic Obituaries from the New York Times
Minority Report[N]	Philip K. Dick	Pantheon	Classic Science Fiction Story
Love Never Sleeps:[N] Living at Home With Alzheimer's	Mary Summer Rain	Hampton Roads	Caring for an Alzheimer's Patient at Home
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body For the Sake of the Soul	Ariel Glucklich	Oxford	Seeking Pain in the Search for the Divine
At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions	Kieran Mulvaney	Island/Shearwater	History of Exploration and Exploitation of the Arctic and Antarctic
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell*	Lyall Watson	Norton	A History of the Nose
Photographs at St. Lawrence University[B]	Catherine Tedford, Gary D. Sampson, Editors	St. Lawrence University	Photographs in the Collection of St. Lawrence University
Mountain Biking New Mexico[B]	Sarah Bennett Alley	Globe Pequot Press	78 Biking Trails in New Mexico
Ethnic Notions:[B] Black Images in the White Mind	Robbin Henderson, David Miller	Berkeley Art Center	50 "Comic" Artifacts from the Last 150 Years
Pepe the Pensive, Raúl the Rambunctious	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Friends and Workers from Oaxaca
Portrait of The Cyclops	John Banville	[Reading]	Tales of a Prisoner
A Visit to the Old Peoples' Home	John Banville	[Reading]	An Old People's Home
Alicante	Jacques Prévert	[Poem]	Turn of the Century Poetry
The Black Beast: A German Love Song	Franz Werfel	[Poem]	Mid-Century German Poetry
World War II Revisited	R. F. Lacey	[Letter]	Suffering in WWII

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #86
www.ralphmag.org/BP/indexBP.html
Mid-Fall, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
The Trolley[N]	Claude Simon	New Press	Contemporary French Fiction
A Thread Across the Ocean[N]: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable	John Steele Gordon	Walker	19th Century History
The Last Barrier[N]: A Journey into the Essence of Sufi Teaching	Reshad Feild	Lindisfarne Books	Sufi Practice
My Bipolar Trip in 4-D	Lizzie Simon	Atria Books	Personal History, Bipolar Disorder
The World of the Hummingbird[B]	Robert Burton	Firefly	Natural History
Trail of Feathers[B]: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru	Tahir Shah	Arcade	Travels in Peru
The Englishman's Daughter	Ben Macintyre	Farrar, Strauss and Giroux	History, WWI
Spies, Black Ties, & Mango Pies: Stories and Recipes from CIA Families All Over the World	The Family Advisory Board of the CIA	Community Communications	Recipes from the CIA
Confessing	Jamie O'Neill	[Reading]	Confessing the Love of a Soldier
Daughter, The Whistler	Dorothy Hewett	Poems	Contemporary Australian Poetry
The Use of Force	William C. Williams	[Reading]	1930s Medical Practice
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Cecil Woodham-Smith	[Reading]	19th Century History
Campus Crusade for Christ	Kara Fiess	[Letter]	Appeal for the Campus Crusade
Why We Age	Dr. Phage	[Article]	The Hamilton-Medewar Treatment of Mortality
At Swim, Two Boys*	Jamie O'Neill	Scribner	Love and the Irish Easter Uprising
Treasury of Favorite Poems	Louis Untermeyer	MetroBooks	Anthology of English 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 #87
www.ralphmag.org/BQ/indexBQ.html
Late Fall, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Shy Bladder Syndrome:[B] Your Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Paruresis	Steven Soifer, et al	New Harbinger	Medical Guide
Storm Chasers[B]: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet	David Toomey	Norton	History of Hurricanes and Hurricane Predictions
Down to a Soundless Sea[B]	Thomas Steinbeck	Ballentine	Contemporary American Short Stories
Consider the Poet, The Ladder	George Hitchcock	[Poems]	Contemporary American Poetry
After the Quake*	Haruki Murakami	Knopf	Contemporary Japanese Short Stories
Fire of the Five Hearts*	Holly A. Smith	Brunner-Routledge	Caring for Incest Victims
Waiting for Lefty (To Shut Up)	Jon Gallant	[Article]	Contemporary Left-Wing American Politics
Nanaprobe tracers and Mind-transducers	ncolt@aol.com	[Letter]	Aliens
The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant[N]	Elisabeth Jay, Editor	Broadview Press	Autobiography of a 19th Century English Writer
One Hundred Demons[N]	Lynda Barry	Sasquatch Books	Growing Up Comics
Dhammapada Annotated & Explained[N]	Max Müller, Jack Maguire	Skylight Paths	Original Buddhist Teachings
John Sparrow	Paul West	[Reading]	Memoirs of an Oxford Don
Saint Peter Got Smashed	A. T. Kendall	[Poem]	Contemporary American Religious Poetry
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying	Ram Dass	Riverhead	Disability Autobiograpy
Yoga Mala: The Seminal Guide to Ashtanga Yoga by the Living Master	Sri K. Pattabhi Jois	North Point Press	Illustrated Yoga Instruction Book

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #88
www.ralphmag.org/BR/indexBR.html
Late Fall, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Studio Case Furniture[N]: The Inside Story	Russell Panczenko	Elvehjem Museum of Art	Furniture as Art
The One Who Swears You Can't Start Over[N]	Ethna McKiernan	Salmon Poetry/Dufour Editions	Contemporary American Poetry
The Boxer[N]	Jurek Becker	Arcade Publishing	Contemporary German Fiction
Making Life Meaningful[B]	Lama Zopa Rinpoche	Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archives	Tibetan Buddhism Commentary
The Ship and the Storm[B]:Hurricane Mitch andthe Loss of the Fantome	Jim Carrier	Harcourt/Harvest	Hurricane/Naval Disasters
Water Follies[B]: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters	Robert Glennon	Island Press	The Misues of Groundwater in America
Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's "Monsters" and the World They Live In	Erich Hoyt	Firefly	Deep Sea Creatures
Disability Rights and Russia	Hugh Gregory Gallagher	[Article]	Disability History in the United States and in Russia
Voices in the Dark: Esoteric, Occult & Secular Voices In Nazi-Occupied Paris 1940 - 44*	William Patrick Patterson	Arete	Gurdjieff Classes in Paris during WWII
Icepick Lover	William Patrick Patterson	[Reading]	Gays and Germans in Paris during WWII
Cold Collation	Prasenjit Maiti	[Poem]	Contemporary Indian Poetry
Holly Smith, Disability and Russia, The Whaleship Essex	Holly Smith, L. Lark, Edmond W. Crane	[Letters]	Letters on Previous Reviews
Love and the Flowers	Jeremy D. Colon	[Poem]	Contemporary American/Spanish Poetry
Pied Piper: The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg	James Gollin	Pendragon Press	The Biography of Noah Greenberg
Literary Agents and the TLS	NB	[Reading]	Article about "The Rejection Slip Blues"
Martinis, Chocolate, and Tangerines	M. F. K. Fisher	[Reading]	Secret Foods

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #89
www.ralphmag.org/BS/indexBS.html
Late Late Fall, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Ripe[N]	Roy Jacobstein	Wisconsin	Contemporary American Poetry
California Plain:[N] Remembering Barns	Morley Baer	Stanford	Photographs of Old California Barns
Speer:[N] The Final Verdict	Joachim Fest	Harcourt	Biography of Nazi Architect Albert Speer
The Chrysler Building: Creating a New Icon Day by Day	David Stravitz	Princeton Architectural	Photographic History of Construction of the Chrysler Building
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity	Mark Vonnegut	Seven Stories	Memories of Madness and Hippiedom
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World*	Margaret MacMillan	Random House	Day-By-Day Account of the Forging of the Versailles Treaty
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper	Harriet Scott Chessman	Plume	Historical Novel of the Expressionist Painter
Double Down	Frederick and Steven Barthelme	Harcourt	Autobiography of Two Gambling Addicts
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems of Gabriela Mistral[B]	Stephen Tapscott	University of Texas	Biography of the Turn-of-the-Century Chilean Poet
Music of A Life[B]	Andreď Makine,	Arcade	Novel of Russian Musician and Exile
The Holy Longing:[B] The Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning	Connie Zweig	Tarcher/Putnam	Spiritual Practice and Counselling
Lab Rat: A Medical Memoir	Jon Gallant	[Article]	The Horrors of Sciatica
Georges Clemenceau at Versailles	Margaret MacMillan	[Reading]	France and the Versailles Peace Treaty
About the Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman	Curtis Robbins	[Poem]	The Poetry of Lipreading
When Billy Collins Met Anne Sexton	Jack Conway	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Moon Dog Song	Angel Peréz	[Poem]	Contemporary Hispanic Poetry
Hortense Powdermaker, Anti-Matter, Diplomatic Cargo Boxes, and More on the Poetry of Louise Glück	John Newlove, E. Terrell, Rick Hunter, Hon. Dr. John Cabora	Letters	Letters to RALPH

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #90
www.ralphmag.org/BT/indexBT.html
Early Winter, 2002

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Editors' Picks	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Ten Important New Books
Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence	Jonathan L. Freedman	University of Toronto	Studies on Television Violence
The Best American Mystery Stories: 2002	James Ellroy, Editor	Houghton Mifflin	Twenty Mystery Short Stories
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy	Diana Preston	Walker	The Sinking of the Lusitania
Where the Roots Reach for Water	Jeffrey Smith	North Point	Personal History of Depression
Antarctica:[B] Exploring the Extreme, 400 Years of Adventure	Marilyn J. Landis	Chicago Review Press	Antarctic Explorations over Four Centuries
King Solomon's Mines[B]	H. Rider Haggard	Broadview Literary Texts	Classic African Adventure Tale
The Territory of Men[B]	Joelle Fraser	Villard	Memoir of Growing Up as a Hippie
A Geezer in Paradise	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Travels Through Mexico
Mary White	William Allen White	[Reading]	Essay on the Death of a Daughter
A Simple Method for Creating An Infinity Supply of Energy; The Chrysler Building	Eugene Terrell, David Stravitz	[Letters]	Letters to RALPH

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"