- —
-
Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology (August 2004)
808.81 I62 2004
In this collection, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States — a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine — each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem, showing some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers.
- Avorn, Jerry
-
Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs (August 2004)
338.47615 A961p 2004
Based on Dr. Avorn's own studies of medication use as well as his 30 years of experience as a clinician, researcher and educator, this timely investigation reports how prescription drugs are approved, priced, promoted, prescribed and often misused.
- Brkic, Courtney Angela
-
The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living (August 2004)
949.703 B862s 2004
When she was 23 years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors, she also explores her family's history in Yugoslavia.
- Carroll, James
-
Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War (August 2004)
956.70443 C319c 2004
When Bush declared war on terror, James Carroll, Boston Globe columnist, son of a general, former antiwar chaplain and activist, began a week-by-week argument with the administration over its actions. Crusade, a collection of Carroll's searing columns, offers his tough-minded critique of the war on terror.
- Ensler, Eve
-
The Good Body (August 2004)
812.5 E599g 2004
From the Obie Award–winning playwright of The Vagina Monologues comes this unflinching, unapologetic celebration of the female body — delivered in her trademark monologue form — which is a ringing condemnation of a culture that refuses to accept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Gelb, Michael J.
-
Da Vinci Decoded: Discovering the Spiritual Secrets of Leonardo's Seven Principles (September 2004)
158.1 G314d 2004
In this new guide to awakening the soul, Michael Gelb draws on Leonardo's writings, inventions and works of art to show how to practice the seven essential principles by which Leonardo lived and worked.
- Gelbspan, Ross
-
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis — And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (August 2004)
363.73874 G314b 2004
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist comes a shocking exposé of the forces that perpetuate the crisis of global warming — with a prescription for saving the planet.
- Greenblatt, Stephen
-
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (September 2004)
822.33 Bgr 2004
Greenblatt interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life, showing how this particular life history gave rise to the world's greatest writer.
- Honingsbaum, Mark
-
Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure (August 2004)
986.6 H773v 2004
Honigsbaum attempts to unravel a riddle that has inspired treasure hunts for lost Inca gold for centuries and embarks on an epic journey into the last uncharted range in the Andes.
- Huler, Scott
-
Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry (August 2004)
551.518 H912d 2004
Huler has written a readable, often humorous and always rich story that is ultimately about how we observe the forces of nature and the world around us.
- Hyman, Peter
-
The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches From an Almost Hip Life (August 2004)
305.32 H996r 2004
Equal parts urban anthropologist, amateur sexologist and cranky skeptic, Hyman pens this collection of essays on the promiscuity and perils of single life in Manhattan with wry sophistication and wit.
- Jamison, Kay R.
-
Exuberance: The Passion for Life (September 2004)
152.42 J32e 2004
Jamison, the author of An Unquiet Mind and renowned authority on mood disorders, now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.
- Johnson, Nora
-
Coast to Coast: A Family Romance (August 2004)
B-Jo6353c 2004
This funny and moving memoir of growing up in a fractured world is penned by the daughter of the famed Hollywood producer and screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson.
- Jowitt, Deborah
-
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance (August 2004)
792.82 R346j 2004
Written by a major dance critic, this is an authoritative biography of the 20th century's great American ballet choreographer and an innovative force on the Broadway stage.
- Kriegel, Mark
-
Namath: A Biography (August 2004)
796.332 N174k 2004
Kriegel details Namath's journey from steeltown pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity. Namath is not just for football fans, but for any reader interested in the role of sports in American culture.
- Kyvig, David E.
-
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived During the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression (September 2004)
973.914 K99df 2004
Discover what everyday life was like for ordinary Americans during the decades of development and depression in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Masson, J. Moussaieff
-
Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand (August 2004)
993 M419s 2004
What Frances Mayes did for Tuscany and Peter Mayle did for Provence, Masson does here for the Land of Kiwis.
- Nagel, Susan
-
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin (August 2004)
B-Fe381n 2004
Here is the captivating story of Mary Nisbet, whose life and letters give us an intimate look into the British aristocracy during the Romantic era.
- Penney, Sherry H.
-
A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights (June 2004)
B-Wr9339p 2004
In 1848, Wright and her sister Lucretia Mott were among the five women who organized the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. Wright remained a prominent figure in the women's movement until her death in 1875, when she was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. This biography, written with the general reader in mind, does justice to her remarkable life.
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.
-
War and the American Presidency (September 2004)
327.73 S342w 2004
In a book that brings a magisterial command of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Schlesinger explores the war in Iraq, the presidency and the future of democracy.
- Shorris, Earl
-
The Life and Times of Mexico (August 2004)
972 S559L 2004
Driven by 3,000 years of Mexican history and Shorris's original methods of storytelling, this narrative offers profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico. On every page there are portraits and stories: artists, shamans, teachers, a young Maya political leader — the rich few and the many poor.
- Tennant, Alan
-
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth With the Peregrine Falcon (September 2004)
598.96 T295o 2004
Alan Tennant, a passionate observer of nature, recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon — an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths.
- Tortajada, Anna
-
The Silenced Cry: One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan (August 2004)
915.81 T699s 2004
Written by a woman journalist who traveled to Afghanistan in 2000, this international bestseller is a provocative, compelling look at the best and worst in the human spirit.
- Transue, Emily R.
-
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency (August 2004)
610.92 T772o 2004
Transue arrived in Seattle to start her internship in internal medicine, wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's medical training concludes with her residency three years later.
- Turner, Jack
-
Spice: The History of a Temptation (August 2004)
641.3383 T948s 2004
Turner follows the trail of spice back through time, a route charted by the human desire to use it in cuisine, in medicine, in magic, in religion and in sex. Readers will see spice in myth and literature; in archaeological finds and religious rituals; and in avarice, fantasy and gluttony.
- White, Evelyn C.
-
Alice Walker: A Life (September 2004)
B-Wa1496wh 2004
Drawing on papers, letters, journals and extensive interviews with Walker, her family, friends and colleagues, and with leading American cultural figures including Gloria Steinem, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey, White assesses one of the most influential writers of our time.
- Williamson, Edwin
-
Borges: A Life (August 2004)
B-B7313wi 2004
Based on an unprecedented range of interviews and new research, this is the first biography to encompass the entire life of short story writer, essayist and poet Jorge Luis Borges, who revolutionized Latin American literature.
