by Site Owner | Aug 29, 2011 | Nature, Outdoors & Animals
By Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, $19.00, 240 pages What are monsters? Are they real or merely expressions of our hopes, fears, and curiosity? Joe Nickell, in his book Tracking the Man-Beasts, explores such questions as he attempts to discover the facts behind the...
by Site Owner | Aug 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Sarah Jio, Plume, $15.00, 296 pages Emily Wilson’s divorce left her devastated and emotionally numb. Unable to cope with the thought of resuming a normal life, she flees to Bainbridge Island and the home of her aunt Bee. There she stumbles upon a journal written...
by Site Owner | Aug 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By Massimo Listri, Rizzoli, $125, 368 pages Tuscany: Vistas, Churches, Museums, Art, Villas & Gardens with photographs by Massimo Listri is a superb tribute to one of the most beautiful cities on earth. The 11” by 17” matte-finish, thick, quality pages fill a room...
by Site Owner | Aug 17, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Philosophy
by John Armstrong Graywolf Press, $24.00, 208 pages What is civilization? When most people hear that question they think of Western Civilization, Islamic, Civilization, Chinese Civilization. Those responses do not answer the basic question of what is civilization,...
by Site Owner | Aug 17, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
by Kimberly Marcus G.P. Putnam’s Son, $16.99, 32 pages If you have ever had a pet, then you probably have had a flea! This book is about a flea in a scruffy dog’s hair. It is written in cute rhyme and will put a smile on any child’s face. “Pap-Pat went the man,...