Library Journal RSS Feed Library Jounral en_us Mon, 28 May 2012 17:23:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls Dowell, David R. Crash Course in Genealogy. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. (Crash Course). 2011. 145p. illus. index. ISBN 9781598849394. pap. $35. PRO MEDIA   This addition to Libraries Unlimited’s “Crash Course” series provides a short, snappy introdu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/892096-284/professional_media_reviews_october_15.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 823598@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 West, Jessamyn C. Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. 2011. c.250p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781598844535. pap. $40. PRO MEDIA   Nontechnical patrons and librarians educated before computers often suffer f... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/891877-284/professional_media_review_october_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 816681@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/891343-284/professional_media_reviews_august_2011.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 796632@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/890958-284/professional_media_reviews_july_2011.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 785315@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 BIOGRAPHY Adams, Jad. Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India. Pegasus. Jul. 2011. c.288p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781605981710. $26.95. BIOG  Historian Adams (visiting research fellow, Sch. of Advanced Study, Univ. of London; Hideous Absi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/890905-284/social_sciences_reviews_july_2011.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 783342@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 How To Stay Afloat in the Academic Library Job Pool. ALA. 2011. 152p. ed. by Teresa Y. Neely. index. ISBN 9780838910801. pap. $50. PRO MEDIA  For both those new to academic library jobs and librarians who are seasoned professionals, this book provides p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/890208-284/professional_media_reviews_may_15.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 758820@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Lankes, R. David. The Atlas of New Librarianship. MIT. 2011. c.1077p. illus. ISBN 9780262015097. $55. PRO MEDIA   Lankes asserts, “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities,” initiati... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/889973-284/professional_media_reviews_may_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 749933@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Harvey, Ross. Digital Curation. Neal-Schuman. (How-To-Do-It Manuals). 2010. 225p. illus. index. ISBN 9781555706944. pap. $75. PRO MEDIA   In a world where obsolescence or loss of access to digital content is an ongoing threat, a book on digital curatio... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/889717-284/professional_media_reviews_april_15.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 742605@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. (Library Management Collection). 2010. 283p. ed. by Elaine R. Sanchez. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781598847024. pap. $50. PRO MEDIA   This is not an introductory book for LIS c... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/889525-284/professional_media_reviews_april_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 736584@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/889244-284/professional_media_reviews_march_15.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 726367@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/888640-284/professional_media_reviews_february_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 705948@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Oliver, Chris. Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics. ALA. 2010. c.128p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780838935941. pap. $45. PRO MEDIA   While Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new cataloging standard, succeeding Anglo-American Cataloguing R... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/888381-284/professional_media_reviews_january_2011.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 696990@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/887658-284/professional_media_reviews_december_15.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 679976@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/887138-284/professional_media_reviews_november_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 662363@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/891455-284/professional_media_reviews_september_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 801670@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/890473-284/professional_media_reviews_june_1.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 768408@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:17:42 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854557-284/election_journey_08.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 404971@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Traditionally, Holocaust memoirs have been either contemporary diaries from the era, memoirs drawn from diaries or notes, or oral history interviews from recollectionor personal reconstruction. Recently, new subgenres have appeared, such as memoirs in whi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854431-284/holocaust_memoirs.html.csp Frederic Krome ProfessionalMedia 404341@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 BiographyPomper, Philip. Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution. Norton. Jan. 2010. c.288p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-393-07079-8. $24.95. BIOGSerious students of the Bolshevik Revolution know that its leader, Lenin, had an older b... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/849972-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 378681@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Self-HelpDriver, Janine. You Say More Than You Think: A 7-Day Plan for Using the New Body Language To Get What You Want. Crown. Feb. 2010. c.240p. ISBN 978-0-307-45397-6. $25. SELF-HELP To Driver, who has taught interviewing and deception-detecting course... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/849973-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 378686@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Conover, Ted. The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today. Knopf. Feb. 2010. c.336p. photogs. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-4000-4244-0. $26.95. SOC SCI The title is both a sexist throwback and inaccurate. This is "The... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/849974-284/by_road_and_rail.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 378691@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Johnson, Marilyn. This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. Harper: HarperCollins. Feb. 2010. c.288p. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-06-143160-9. $24.99. SOC SCI Librarians and archivists, in all their eccentric, tech-savvy, and service-o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/849977-284/check_this_out.html.csp Donna L. Davey, NYU Lib. ProfessionalMedia 378706@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/849978-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 378711@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 October 2008 marked the first birthday of LJ's e-newsletter BookSmack! Published the first and third Thursday of every month, BookSmack! aims to alert librarians and book fiends to damn good books, whether forthcoming, in print, or backlist. We thought we... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/849984-284/booksmack_hits_you_mightve_missed.html.csp Heather McCormack, Editor ProfessionalMedia 378741@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/886660-284/professional_media_october_1_2010.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 645730@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/885926-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 620063@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/885310-284/professional_media_the_tech_set.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 603498@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook. ALA. 2009. 204p. ed. by Carol Smallwood. index. ISBN 978-0-8389-1006-1. pap. $55. PRO MEDIAThirty-seven public, school, and academic librarians here share "how we did outreach good" and produce a joy... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/884463-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 580634@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Maatta, Stephanie L. A Few Good Books: Using Contemporary Readers' Advisory Strategies To Connect Readers with Books. Neal-Schuman. 2009. c.400p. illus. index. ISBN 978-1-55570-669-2. $69.95. PRO MEDIAReaders' Advisory (RA) is more important than ever owi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/884354-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 580071@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/884284-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 579736@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862560-284/business_and_life_self-help.html.csp Margaret Heilbrun ProfessionalMedia 445005@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In LJ 9/15/08, we did our first set of Short Takes on memoirs. As promised, here's a second focusing on anticipated early winter pubs. So far, there are no copycats of David Carr's rapturously received The Night of the Gun. In that tour de force-an LJ Bes... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862558-284/social_sciences_short_takes_memoirs.html.csp Heather McCormack ProfessionalMedia 444994@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862556-284/story.csp ProfessionalMedia 444984@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862380-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 444104@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Campbell, Donovan. Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood. Random. Mar. 2009. c.313p. ISBN 978-1-4000-6773-2. $26. INT AFFAIRSCampbell does not come from a military family. Enhancing his résumé served as his sole rea... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862381-284/story.csp David Alperstein, Queens Borou ProfessionalMedia 444109@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyBuckley, William F., Jr. The Reagan I Knew. Basic Bks: Perseus. Nov. 2008. c.240p. ISBN 978-0-465-00926-8. $25. BIOGBuckley, the icon of conservative intellectuals, founder of the National Review and host of Firing Line, wrote almost 50 books and... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862379-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 444100@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership and Brotherhood, Donovan Campbell describes how, as a new Princeton graduate, he chose to join the U.S. Marines, deploying to Iraq, rather than opting for corporate America, because he wanted "... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862363-284/story.csp Margaret Heilbrun, Library Jour ProfessionalMedia 444020@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Formerly a record producer, Tony Rose (coauthor, Is Modeling for You? The Handbook and Guide for the Young Aspiring Black Model) is now publisher and CEO of Amber Communications Group. He was an architect of Boston's black music scene from 1979 to 1991 an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862249-284/qampa_tony_rose.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 443450@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862241-284/story.csp Lee Arnold, Historical Society ProfessionalMedia 443409@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862240-284/african_american_views_40_titles.html.csp Ann Burns ProfessionalMedia 443404@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862239-284/story.csp ProfessionalMedia 443399@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862133-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 442869@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Robert E. Lee opined, "It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it." Nevertheless, war remains one of the most popular of human activities. Its language infuses our cultures, we bear its costs, and we write books about it. Here are 14 ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862131-284/story.csp Edwin B. Burgess ProfessionalMedia 442859@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Say you're going to present a series of biographies of American military leaders whose commands significantly affected the course of U.S. history. Say you want it overseen by someone who has both studied and lived military leadership. For its "Great Gener... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862022-284/story.csp Margaret Heilbrun, Library Jour ProfessionalMedia 442314@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 These books are timed to appear with the culminatation of the 2008 presidential election season. Like the McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden teams, they are sometimes perplexing hybrids, mixing some serious content with some partisan opinion (the starred title ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862010-284/story.csp Margaret Heilbrun, Library Jour ProfessionalMedia 442255@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyBerg, Pierre with Brian Brock. Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora. AMACOM: American Management Assn. 2008. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-8144-1299-2. $24.95. AUTOBIOGSoon after the end of Word War II, French-born Berg first dr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/862009-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 442249@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/861891-284/story.csp ProfessionalMedia 441659@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Babits, Marty. The Power of the Middle Ground: A Couple's Guide to Renewing Your Relationship. Prometheus. Oct. 2008. c.275p. ISBN 978-1-59102-662-4. pap. $17.95. SELF-HELP According to couples therapist and educator Babits, the "middle ground" is the pla... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/861889-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 441649@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Margaret B. Jones's Love and Consequences, Misha Defonseca's Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years-these works have marred the memoir genre but certainly not endangered it. As this bundle of fall titles attests, au... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/861887-284/story.csp Heather McCormack ProfessionalMedia 441640@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyAshton, Nigel J. King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life. Yale Univ. Sept. 2008. c.464p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-300-09167-0. $35.Shlaim, Avi. Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace. Knopf. Sept. 2008. c.720p. photogs. maps... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/861888-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 441644@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Engard, Nicole C. Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways To Deliver Library Data. Information Today. 2009. 352p. illus. index. ISBN 978-1-57387-372-7. pap. $39.50. PRO MEDIACombining multiple Web 2.0 technologies into one vital interface enhances the user ex... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856299-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 413657@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856298-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 413652@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856124-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 412783@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Dow, Elizabeth H. Electronic Records in the Manuscript Respository. Scarecrow. 2009. c.208p. index. ISBN 978-0-8108-6708-6. pap. $45. PRO MEDIAAll librarians confront the issues associated with preserving digital materials. Though aimed primarily at archi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856123-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 412777@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyCaistor, Nick. Che Guevara: A Life. Interlink: Interlink Pub. Group. Dec. 2009. c.160p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-1-56656-759-6. pap. $15. BIOGForty years after his death, Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains larger in death than he ever was in life. Bor... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856122-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 412772@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 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... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856044-284/story.csp ProfessionalMedia 412382@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 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 Govern... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856043-284/story.csp Lawrence Maxted, Gannon Univ. L ProfessionalMedia 412377@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856042-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 412373@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 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. 20... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/856032-284/african_america_celebrates.html.csp Barbara Hoffert ProfessionalMedia 412323@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 World War IHerwig, 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 t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855934-284/military_history.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 411833@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855932-284/what_should_we_do_about.html.csp Elizabeth Hayford (ret.), Assoc ProfessionalMedia 411823@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyAllen, 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. AUTOBIOGAllen grew up the daughter of a sharecropper in Greenville, AL, in the 1960s and 1970s. ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855931-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 411818@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855930-284/greening_our_businesses.html.csp Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. ProfessionalMedia 411813@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyCnaimhsi, Padraig Ua. Roise Rua: An Island Memoir. Mercier: Irish American. Nov. 2009. 288p. tr. from Irish by J.J. Keaveny. photogs. index. ISBN 978-1-85635-624-4. pap. $31.95. AUTOBIOGThis is the first English edition of an oral history of Rois... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855828-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 411318@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855827-284/military_history.html.csp David Lee Poremba, Windermere, ProfessionalMedia 411313@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Battat, Stacey K. Thin Threads: Real Stories of Life Changing Moments. Kiwi Pub. Nov. 2009. c.272p. ISBN 978-0-9800564-5-7. pap. $17.95. SELF-HELP Reminiscent of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, the 50 stories collected here by Kiwi publisher Batta... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855755-284/story.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 410951@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855754-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 410946@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855753-284/past_lives.html.csp David Keymer, Modesto, CA ProfessionalMedia 410942@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855597-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 410177@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Cooper, Jr., John Milton. Woodrow Wilson. Knopf. Nov. 2009. c.704p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-307-26541-8. $35. BIOG Cooper (history, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Breaking the Heart of the World), arguably our leading Wilson authority, offers a comprehen... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855596-284/were_they_great_presidents.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 410171@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855509-284/reagan_redux.html.csp Bob Nardini, Nashville ProfessionalMedia 409726@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyBrinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Harper: HarperCollins. 2009. c.960p. photogs. maps. index. ISBN 978-0-06-113912-3. $34.99. BIOGBrinkley (history, Rice Univ.; The Great Deluge: Hurricane K... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855508-284/story.csp ProfessionalMedia 409721@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Alper, Noah with Thomas Fields-Meyer. Business Mensch: Timeless Wisdom for Today's Entrepreneur. Wolfeboro. Sept. 2009. c.168p. ISBN 978-0-9840722-4-8. pap. $14.95. BUSAlper (founder, Noah's Bagels), with journalist Fields-Meyer, offers a quick-reading bu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855507-284/story.csp Sarah Statz Cords, The Reader's ProfessionalMedia 409718@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Barash, Susan Shapiro. Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships. St. Martin's. Oct. 2009. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-312-38639-9. $24.99. Levine, Irene S. Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend. Overlook, di... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855300-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 408686@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyAyub, Awista. However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home. Hyperion. Aug. 2009. c.256p. ISBN 978-1-4013-2249-6. $23.99. AUTOBIOGHow do you tell the varied stories of eight fiery Afghan teenagers as well as the life journey... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855299-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 408681@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 AfghanistanJones, Seth G. In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan. Norton. Jul. 2009. c.432p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 978-0-393-06898-6. $27.95. Jones (RAND Corp.) examines American successes and failures in Afghanistan and argues for a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855163-284/military_history_part_3_studies.html.csp Edwin B. Burgess, Combined Arms ProfessionalMedia 407997@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Culwell, Lori. Million Dollar Website: Simple Steps To Help You Compete with the Big Boys-Even on a Small Business Budget. Berkley: Penguin Group (USA). 2009. c.240p. ISBN 978-0-7352-0441-6. pap. $19.95.This do-it-yourself guide shares the web-design best... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855161-284/business_2.0.csp Caroline Geck, Newark Public Sc ProfessionalMedia 407987@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Butler, Sana. Sugar of the Crop: My Journey To Find the Children of Slaves. Lyons: Globe Pequot. 2009. 254p. ISBN 978-1-59921-375-0. $24.95. AUTOBIOGWhat a fascinating-even tantalizing-subject for study! Who would have imagined that any offspring of freed... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855162-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 407992@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The first installment of this roundup of new military history/studies titles (LJ 5/1/09) looked at what's on the horizon in studies of World War I and World War II. This second installment considers coverage of other wars through the ages. A forthcoming i... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855049-284/military_history_part_2.html.csp Edwin B. Burgess, Combined Arms ProfessionalMedia 407427@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/855048-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 407422@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 LJ's free weekly web evaluations for the weeks of April 24 and May 1, 2009. Go to Reviews on our homepage, then click on Xpress Reviews.Fiction Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Quirk. Fox, Andrew. The Good Humor Man. T... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854909-284/xpress_reviews.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 406727@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The global economy is facing financial turbulence unknown since the 1930s. Home owners have seen their home values plummet. Investors have seen their nest eggs shrink. Retailers cannot find customers. The job cuts keep on coming. How to survive these tryi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854901-284/financial_guides_for_hard_times.html.csp Lawrence Maxted, Gannon Univ. L ProfessionalMedia 406687@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyAffonco, Denise. To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle To Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Reportage. May 2009. c.232p. illus. maps. ISBN 978-1-906702-07-6. pap. $15.95. AUTOBIOGIn 1975, Affonco, a French citizen (her father was French and her ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854900-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 406682@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Bemis, Judith. The Power of Acceptance: Finding Peace from Anxiety and Panic Attacks. Cold Tree. Jul. 2009. c.248p. ISBN 978-1-58385-277-8. pap. $12.95. SELF-HELP Recovered agoraphobic Bemis (Overcoming Anxiety) aims to help the more than 40 million adult... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854898-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 406672@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Genres come and go in popularity, but interest in military history remains high. World War II continues to inspire the greatest number of titles and is well represented in this first of two roundups of what's on the horizon for this genre. World War II's ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854782-284/military_history.html.csp Edwin Burgess, U.S. Army Combin ProfessionalMedia 406097@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyGelles, Edith B. Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage. Morrow. 2009. c.352p. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-06-135387-1. $26.99. BIOGThere have been numerous biographies, scholarly works, and even novels on the lives of both John Adams, the second Presi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854781-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 406092@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Memoirs are the new novels-and I don't mean that snarkily. True or not, artfully or artlessly enhanced autobiography now commands the kind of front-list attention usually reserved forheavyweight novelists. Glance at any best-sellers list, and you're likel... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854713-284/short_takes_50_summer_memoirs.html.csp Elizabeth Brinkley, Lynne. C. M ProfessionalMedia 405751@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Rudd, Mark. Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen. Morrow. Apr. 2009. c.336p. maps. ISBN 978-0-06-147275-6. $25.99. AUTOBIOGRudd, a leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the Columbia University student strike of 1968 and subs... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854685-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 405611@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854555-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 404961@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854430-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 404336@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Welcome to a third set of Short Takes: Memoirs (the first two appeared in LJ 9/15/08 and LJ 12/08). Last fall's deluge continues this winter and spring, with especially impressive investigations into the nature of illness, pain, and family history. Confes... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854273-284/short_takes_memoirs.html.csp Lynne Maxwell and Elizabeth Bri ProfessionalMedia 403551@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyBuckholtz, Alison. Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War. Tarcher: Penguin. Apr. 2009. c.320p. bibliog. ISBN 978-1-58542-695-9. $24.95. AUTOBIOGBuckholtz here offers a vivid and sensitive account of the sacrifice... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854272-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 403546@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyAdams, Mark. Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet. Harper: HarperCollins. Mar. 2009. c.304p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-06-059475-6. $25.99. B... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854101-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 402677@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/854100-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 402672@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853943-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 401881@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyFraser, Flora. Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire. Knopf. Feb. 2009. c.304p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-307-26544-9. $28.95. BIOGFraser (The Unruly Queen), a prolific biographer in the tradition of her mother, Antonia Fraser, tells the sto... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853829-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 401308@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853828-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 401303@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853735-284/story.csp ProfessionalMedia 400828@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Asbridge, Thomas. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land. Ecco: HarperCollins. Mar. 2010. c.784p. ISBN 978-0-06-078728-8. $34.99. HISTCovering the 200-year period of the Crusades in a single volume is a monumental task, but A... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853734-284/the_crusades.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 400823@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BiographyFried, Stephen. Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. Bantam. Mar. 2010. c.528p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-553-80437-9. $27. BIOGHave you heard of the Harvey G... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853733-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 400818@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Doyle, Robert C. The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror. Univ. Pr. of Kentucky. May 2010. c.496p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-8131-2589-3. $34.95. MILITARY HISTORY How has America h... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853732-284/epwspows.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 400813@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853639-284/self-help.html.csp Deborah Bigelow, Director, Leon ProfessionalMedia 400344@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853637-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 400339@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Freed, Rita. The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC. MFA: Museum of Fine Arts. 2009. c.208p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-87846-747-1. $60. ARCHAEOL Tomb 10A, belonging to Djehutynakht, governor (or nomarch) in Deir el-Bersha, Egypt, and his wife, wa... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853543-284/in_the_tombs.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 399865@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Bodart, Joni Richards. Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens. Scarecrow. 2010. c.464p. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-8108-6908-0. $45. PRO MEDIAVeteran author Bodart continues the work she began with Radical Reads: 101 YA Novels on the Edge... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853542-284/professional_media.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 399860@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Levit, Alexandra. New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career Light. Ballantine. 2009. c.192p. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-345-50880-5. pap. $15. ECONLevit (Success for Hire) outlines seven motivations for career changes, including fa... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853541-284/job_searching.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 399855@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853540-284/social_sciences.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 399850@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Décharné, Max. Hardboiled Hollywood: The True Crime Stories Behind the Classic Noir Films. Pegasus. 2010. c.304p. index. ISBN 978-1-60598-078-6. $25; pap. ISBN 978-1-60598-083-6. $14.95. CRIME British band member Decharne (of the Flaming Stars) here loo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/professionalmedia/853538-284/hollywood_crime.html.csp ProfessionalMedia 399840@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45