en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Reviews/47159.html?nid=3336 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.publishersweekly.com/info/337409.html Terms of Use. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:09:06 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670528.html?nid=3336 This week's Web: Daisaku Ikeda on 1000 years in Buddhism, Timothy J. LeCain on open-pit copper mining, Dyana Z. Furmansky on conservation "hellcat" Rosalie Edge, an impressive fiction debut from Anna Katherine, and an excellent anthropology of entertainment culture from Peter G. Stromberg. Plus: an exciting roundup of American labor posters from LIncoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher, and a beautiful volume from Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle pays tribute to Harvey Kurtzman. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670424.html?nid=3336 Hornby returns to his roots—music, manic fandom, messy romance—in his funny and touching latest, dancing between three perspectives on fame. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670268.html?nid=3336 In The Predictioneer's Game (Reviews, May 25), Bueno de Mesquita illustrates, with a mathematical model that quantifies self-interest, how we can use game theory to predict—and influence—future events. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670267.html?nid=3336 In Mauro's debut, New World Monkeys (Reviews, June 15), struggling young marrieds Duncan and Lily spend a summer in upstate New York contending with a dead wild boar and the human bones in their backyard. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670067.html?nid=3336 New biographies: Donald Spoto on Grace Kelly, Marc Eliot on Clint Eastwood, Frank McLynn on Marcus Aurelius, Veronica Buckley on Louis XIV's secret wife, Alan Hirshfeld on Archimedes, Wilborn Hampton on Horton Foote, and Carol Berkin on three Civil War wives (Theodore Dwight Weld's, Jefferson Davis's and Ulysses S. Grant's). Plus: John Farmer, Rescue Ink, Augusten Burroughs, Haleh Esfandiari, David Byrne, Joan Ryan, Gesine Bullock-Prado, Morris Dickstein and more. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670066.html?nid=3336 New picture books from Dan Andreasen, David Lucas, Lane Smith, Neil Numberman and more; fiction from Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Kate Saunders, Richard Peck, Beth Kephart, Richard Lewis; and a back-to-school roundup. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6670065.html?nid=3336 New titles from Will Self, Dan Fante, Lorrie Moore, Stuart Woods, Marilyn French, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Robert Olen Butler, Deon Meyer, Sara Paretsky, Kent Meyers, David Ellis, Sharon Lathan, Elizabeth Nunez, Gyles Brandreth, Jonathan Strahan, Greg Egan, Margaret Carroll & more. Plus: comics from Hendrik Dorgathen, Tim Hamilton and Ray Bradbury, Michael Kupperman and others. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668990.html?nid=3336 Authors reviewed this week on the Web: Bob Coen and Eric Nadler, Rebecca Brown, Jeff Gillman, Kevin Dolgin, Aisling Juanjuan Shen, Greg Craven, Alan Axelrod, Danielle Svetcov, R.M. Johnson, Mary Caponegro and Richard Martin. Plus: children's books from Nan Marino, Scott Mebus, and others, and a thoughtful collection of tributes to classic albums from editor Peter Terzian. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668756.html?nid=3336 Norb Vonnegut's debut, Top Producers, details intricate Wall Street scams, but at heart it's about friendship and betrayal more than stocks and bonds. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668317.html?nid=3336 Outgoing New York Times restaurant critic Bruni admits he was even a baby bulimic in his extraordinary memoir about a lifelong battle with weight problems. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668316.html?nid=3336 This week's reviews include Donald Sull, Jason Epstein, Michael Gray, Jeffrey Marx, A.J. Jacobs, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Lauren Weber, Sam Tenenhaus, Joanna Greenfield, David L.Marcus and Mark Millhone. Also: cookbooks from Su-Mei Yu, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Anna Thomas and Terry Walters. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668315.html?nid=3336 This week: picture books from Matthew Cordell, Elizabeth Bluemle & Randy Cecil, Ross Collins, Uri Shulevitz and others; novelists including Mary Ann Hoberman, Devin Jordan and R.A. Nelson; plus nonfiction and series favorites. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html?nid=3336 Reviewed this week, new novels from Thomas Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, William Trevor, Richard Powers, Alice Randall, Joseph Kanon, Richard North Patterson and Anita Diamant. Plus, Nick Cave chronicles the adventures of a bad seed, the return of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's swashbuckling Diego Alariste, and Mattox Roesch sends an L.A. gangbanger to Alaska. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668578.html?nid=3336 No, this isn't a book about cleaning produce before you eat it. Rather, it's a friendly cookbook that makes (mostly) vegan cooking approachable with simple recipes and straightforward descriptions of more exotic ingredients. There’s some typical vegan fare, like seitan bourguignon or scrambled tofu, but many recipes play with expected ingredients in interesting ways: marinated tofu with ginger cashew dipping sauce; and quinoa and black bean salad with apricot lime dressing. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:29:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667888.html?nid=3336 This week: David Henry Sterry collects stories from sex workers, Andrew Blauner compiles the stories of brothers, and Zack Lynch recounts tales from the frontiers of neurotechnology; new memoirs from Buzz Aldrin, Jan Lancaster, Quinn Cummings and Czech ecobiologist Vojtech Novotny; a look at athletes Lance Armstrong and Michelle Wie; and fiction from Carl Reiner, Kaye Dacus, Wayne D. Overholser and Rosemary Rogers. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667263.html?nid=3336 Starred reviews for: Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World, John Franklin's The Wolf in the Parlor, Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man, and The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667262.html?nid=3336 Reviewed this week: the latest picture book from the Emberley clan, a picture-book biography of the inventors of Day-Glo paint, new novels from Richard W. Jennings and Elizabeth Scott, as well as a round-up of concept books for younger readers. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667261.html?nid=3336 This week, reviews of new novels from James Ellroy, Jeff Lindsay, Philippa Gregory, Richard Russo and Mary B. Morrison. Plus, Dick and Felix Francis deliver another horse caper, Tilly Bagshawe channels Sidney Sheldon, senator Barbara Boxer weighs in with another Beltway thriller. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667260.html?nid=3336 Fiction from Tatiana De Rosnay, Bret Easton Ellis, Emily Giffin, Lionel Shriver, Harlan Coben, Paulo Coelho, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, David Baldacci and more; nonfiction includes Giulia Melucci, Mike Robbins, Donald Trimp, Daniel Coyle, Bob Barker, Michael J. Fox, and Isabel Gilles. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667074.html?nid=3336 What constitutes a disaster? It's a question of scale. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST