Find impartial library book reviews on new & prepublication books, best-sellers, fiction, non-fiction, literature, reference & more from Library Journal. en-us http://www.libraryjournal.com/community/Book+Reviews/47112.html?nid=3288 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/260304.html Terms of Use. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:28:29 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704058.html?nid=3288 Arjomand, Said Amir . After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors . Oxford Univ. Dec. 2009. c.272p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-19-539179-4 . $24.95. INT AFFAIRS The Iranian revolution that overthrew the country's pro-Western monarchy and established an Islamic republic is now 30 years old. Yet the future direction of the political system that Ayatollah Khomeini established is still undetermined. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704057.html?nid=3288 Clarke, Peter . Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the Twenieth Century's Most Influential Economist . Bloomsbury , dist. by Macmillan. 2009. c.224p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-60819-023-2 . $20. Lewis, Hunter . Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts . Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704056.html?nid=3288 Biography Jones, Allen & Mark Naison . The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir . Fordham Univ. 2009. c.224p. illus. ISBN 978-0-8232-3102-7 . $29.95. AUTOBIOG Jones pursued two successful careers in Europe: professional basketball player and banker. If you met him, you might not guess he spent his teen years as a heroin dealer in New York. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704055.html?nid=3288 Agriculture Bonine, Paul . Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden . Timber . 2009. 160p. illus. ISBN 978-0-88192-981-2 . pap. $14.95. GARDENINGA A nice palette of colors may be a top priority in garden planning, but there is also a place for plants with black flowers or foliage—they add a touch of mystery, drama, and the exotic and almost always capture attention. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704054.html?nid=3288 General Reference Ash, Russell . Top 10 of Everything 2010: Discover More Than Just the No.1! Sterling . 2009. 256p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-600-62048-8 . $24.95. REF This popular annual—Ash's 20th Top 10 of Everything book—is an entertaining, full-color collection of top ten lists covering an array of topics and disciplines, including, among many others, the universe, music and... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704050.html?nid=3288 Adams, Lorraine . The Room and the Chair . Knopf . Feb. 2010. c.336p. ISBN 978-0-307-27241-6 . $25.95. F In her second novel (after Harbor), Adams, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Washington Post, jumps back and forth between a newsroom in Washington, DC, and the secretive world of covert military operations in Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704048.html?nid=3288 Arts Campbell, Sara & others. Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art . Vol. 2. Yale Univ. 2009. 607p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-300-14884-8 . $95. FINE ARTS American philanthropist Norton Simon (1907–93) spent more than 30 years acquiring the best available paintings and sculptures. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704005.html?nid=3288 Arts Farebrother, Rachel. The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance. Ashgate. Dec. 2009. 226p. ISBN 978-0-7546-6198-6. $99.95. King-Hammond, Leslie. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Vol. 8: Hughie Lee-Smith. Pomegranate. Feb. 2010. 124p. ISBN 978-0-7649-5351-4. $35. Biography Hawkins, Martha. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704003.html?nid=3288 Serendipity is to procrastination as Doug Flutie's final-second game-winning touchdown pass securing Boston College's 1984 victory over the University of Miami is to imminent defeat—a Hail Mary that saves the proverbial day in the darkest minute of the 11th hour. Not unlike an electronically grid-locked reviewer of free reference web sites whose late Sunday night heave ends up not in the ... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701234.html?nid=3288 World War I Herwig, Holger H. The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World . Random . Dec. 2009. c.416p. photogs. maps. index. ISBN 978-1-4000-6671-1 . $28. This is the story of the opening gambit in World War I told from the perspective of those who started it: the Central Powers. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701233.html?nid=3288 Bowen, William G. & others. Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities . Princeton Univ. Oct. 2009. c.392p. index. ISBN 978-0-691-13748-3 . $27.95. Three expert authors—two are past college/university presidents—have produced an important and insightful analysis of a major issue for contemporary America. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701232.html?nid=3288 Anderson, Ray C. with Robin White. Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose—Doing Business by Respecting the Earth . St. Martin's . 2009. c.320p. index. ISBN 978-0-312-54349-5 . $25.99. Anderson, called by Time magazine "a hero of the environment," transformed his carpet-manufacturing company, Interface, to 100 percent sustainability. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701231.html?nid=3288 Biography Allen, Peggy Vonsherie . The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper's Daughter . Univ. of Alabama . Oct. 2009. c.368p. ISBN 978-0-8173-1672-3 . $29.95. AUTOBIOG Allen grew up the daughter of a sharecropper in Greenville, AL, in the 1960s and 1970s. Her story, however, begins with her maternal grandfather and his strong, persevering mother, Moa. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701230.html?nid=3288 Adjusting to the fall and winter seasons is always hard, but comfort food such as borscht (Tom Birchard and Natalie Danford's The Veselka Cookbook) and sugared pecans (Pecans from Soup to Nuts by Keith Courrégé and Marcelle Bienvenu) can help the transition. And you can add a little warmth to your kitchen with winter dishes gathered from the coldest corners of the world (Diana Henry's... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701229.html?nid=3288 Agriculture Gossler, Roger & others. The Gossler Guide to the Best Hardy Shrubs: More than 350 Expert Choices for Your Garden . Timber . 2009. 204p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-88192-908-9 . $34.95. GARDENING The Gossler family has been growing and selling flowering shrubs in Oregon's Willamette Valley for over 40 years. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701227.html?nid=3288 Acquired by SAGE in 2008, CQ Press originally made its reputation as a formidable political reference publisher in 2000, when its health-care series won the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award of Excellence. Two years later, it claimed the Silver Gavel Award for its liberty and justice series. Still, it is perhaps best known for its 15 annually printed political directories and the CQ Electronic ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701226.html?nid=3288 History & Social Sciences Dobson, John . Belligerents, Brinkmanship, and the Big Stick: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic Concepts . ABC-CLIO . 2009. 350p. illus. index. ISBN 978-1-59884-131-2 . $95; Online: ABC-CLIO Ebook Collection & via partnership with Blackwell & YBP Library Services REF Following the same format as Dobson's previous Bulls, Bears, Boom, and Bus... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701222.html?nid=3288 Boyd, Noah . The Bricklayer . Morrow . Feb. 2010. c.400p. ISBN 978-0-06-182701-3 . $24.99.F A highly skilled operative leaves his government organization, having become fed up with its bureaucracy and incompetence, but is lured back for a specific project with promises of autonomy and resources and because his country needs him. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701220.html?nid=3288 Greenwood, T. The Hungry Season . Kensington . Feb. 2010. c.300p. ISBN 978-0-7582-2878-9 . pap. $15. F This compelling study of a family in need of rescue is very effective, owing to Greenwood's (Two Rivers) eloquent, exquisite word artistry and her knack for developing subtle, suspenseful scenes. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701219.html?nid=3288 Balogh, Mary . A Matter of Class . Vanguard: Perseus . Jan. 2010. c.190p. ISBN 978-1-59315-554-4 . $15.95. F Her scandalous near elopement with a coachman and his habitually drunken and spendthrift ways have brought Lady Annabelle Ashton and Mr. Reginald Mason to a pretty pass. Their families have had nothing to do with each other for 30 years, ever since the coal merchant Masons moved next d... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST