by michaeld | Apr 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Wonderful Readings in Biology By Dale Peterson Bloomsbury Press, $18.00, 342 pages “…rules and attachments combine and intertwine to create a highly dynamic system that is expressed as potentially flexible thing we call morality.” As a reviewer, I am...
by Site Owner | Jun 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
By Alice Kessler-Harris Bloomsbury Press, $30.00, 439 pages A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman is not a traditional biography. Author and historian Alice Kessler-Harris writes about playwright Lillian Hellman. But it is not a simple...
by Site Owner | May 31, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
By M.G. Lord Bloomsbury Press, $22.00, 212 pages Elizabeth Taylor was a child star, Oscar winner and cultural icon. She was famous as much for her personal life as for her films, and she had a profound effect on the public consciousness. M.G. Lord takes a look at the...
by Site Owner | Apr 4, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By William M. Adler Bloomsbury Press, $30.00, 435 pages Joe Hill was born in Sweden, and his real name was Joe Hagglund. In 1902, at the age of twenty three, he arrived in the United States with his older brother. By 1910, he was writing a newspaper column for The...
by Site Owner | Sep 15, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels
by Michael Schumacher Bloomsbury Press, $28.00, 360 pages Will Eisner was to comics what John Ford was to westerns: he made them an art. Easily ranked alongside Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Osamu Tezuka as the most important person in sequential art, Eisner was such a...