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Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Some books reviewed in this month's Choice which I will probably order for our library:

Eisner, Elliot W. The arts and the creation of mind. Yale, 2002. 258p index afp ISBN 0-300-09523-6, $35.00.

Gamwell, Lynn. Exploring the invisible: art, science, and the spiritual. Princeton, 2002. 344p bibl index afp ISBN 0-691-08972-8, $49.95.

Goffen, Rona. Renaissance rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. Yale, 2002. 521p bibl index ISBN 0-300-09434-5, $39.95.

King, Robert C. A dictionary of genetics. 6th ed. by Robert C. King and William D. Stansfield. Oxford, 2002. 530p afp ISBN 0-19-514325-6 pbk, $29.95.

Histology: an interactive virtual microscope. Sinauer Associates, 2003. ISBN 0-87893-888-5, $39.95 . CD-ROM 2 discs; user directions.

Business: the ultimate resource. Bloomsbury Publishing. Perseus Publishing, 2002. 2,170p bibl index ISBN 0-7382-0242-8, $59.95.

Wolfson, Richard. Simply Einstein: relativity demystified. W.W. Norton, 2003. 261p bibl index ISBN 0-393-05154-4, $24.95.

The Annotated classic fairy tales. ed. and tr. by Maria Tatar. W.W. Norton, 2002. 443p bibl ISBN 0-393-05163-3, $35.00 .

Brands, H.W. The age of gold: the California Gold Rush and the new American dream. Doubleday, 2002. 547p bibl index ISBN 0-385-50216-8, $29.95.

Garrioch, David. The making of revolutionary Paris. California, 2002. 382p bibl index afp ISBN 0-520-23253-4, $34.95.

Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin. Yale, 2002. 339p index afp ISBN 0-300-09532-5, $24.95. (Despite being lambasted by New Republic.)

Edmondson III, Henry T. Return to good and evil: Flannery O'Connor's response to nihilism. Lexington Books, 2002. 203p index afp ISBN 0-7391-0421-7, $24.95. (Choice only gave this one faint praise, but it looks particularly appropriate for our collection.)

Kataev, Vladimir. If only we could know: an interpretation of Chekhov. ed. and tr. by Harvey Pitcher. I.R. Dee, 2002. 301p indexes afp ISBN 1-56663-448-2, $27.50. (Every spring the students in Introductory English scavenge the shelves for material on The Cherry Orchard, so I figure a new highly-regarded work of Chekhov criticism will be welcome.)

McEwen, Bruce S. The end of stress as we know it. by Bruce S. McEwen with Elizabeth Norton Lasley. Joseph Henry Press, 2002. 239p index ISBN 0-309-07640-4, $27.95.

Rodenburg, Patsy. Speaking Shakespeare. Palgrave, 2002. 355p ISBN 0-312-29420-4, $26.95 .

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