In the News, July 2009
Posted 07.01.09: Booklist reviews Pineapple Culture by Gary Okihiro: "Okihiro traces the impact this one commodity has exerted throughout time and around the globe, aided by the vagaries of geography, ambitions of governments, heroics of explorers, and vanities of businessmen.... Okihiro also constructs a thorough time line for the pineapple's rise to influence and acceptance that ranges from the species' genesis in a remote corner of South America, to its temptation of European botanists and its unwitting role in the overthrow of Hawaii's royal government. Seamlessly fusing geography with anthropology, horticulture with international politics, Okihiro draws a comprehensive portrait of how a singular fruit can unite a world."
Posted 06.19.09: "A fascinating look at our attempts to understand the human body's inner workings…. F. Gonzalez-Crussi, a professor emeritus of pathology at Northwestern University Medical School, has a special talent for finding memorable cases to illustrate his medical histories. Carrying the Heart teems with them…. Believe me. If medical books were half as entertaining as Carrying the Heart, we might see a few of them pop up on the best-seller lists."—Richmond Times-Dispatch
Posted 06.01.09: Publishers Weekly on Why Are Jews Liberals? by Norman Podhoretz: “Eminent neoconservative Podhoretz surveys the centuries of atrocities that, he says, have pushed most Jews to the Left…. Podhoretz is an astute and joyously provocative and partisan observer of the political landscape.” Doubleday publishes in September.
Posted 04.21.09: Gandhi & Churchill by Arthur Herman was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. In the judges' announcement yesterday, it was described as "an authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other."
Posted 04.20.09: William N. Eskridge, Jr.'s Dishonorable Passions is the winner of the 2009 Stonewall Book Award–Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award from the American Library Association and is a finalist for the 21st Annual Lambda Literary Award in Nonfiction.
Posted 04.14.09: Lynn Chu's article and letter on the Google book settlement in the Wall Street Journal, has become the lead for an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Posted 03.16.09: Library Journal named David A. Price's The Pixar Touch among the "Best Business Books of 2008." It was earlier chosen as a "Best Book" of the year by the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company magazine. Price's acclaimed first book was Love and Hate in Jamestown, also published by Knopf.
Posted 03.04.09: Some recent sales: Governor George F. Allen's What Washington Could Learn from the World of Sports to Regnery; Sandra Beasley's Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life to Crown; Harold Bloom's Till I End My Song: An Anthology of Last Poems to HarperStudio; Matthew Continetti's The Persecution of Sarah Palin to Penguin Sentinel; paperback re-issues of F. Gonzalez-Crussi's The Day of the Dead, The Five Senses, Notes of an Anatomist, On the Nature of Things Erotic, and Suspended Animation to Kaplan; Gretchen Morgenson's and Josh Rosner's Untitled on the Financial Crisis to Times Books; Melanie Phillips's The War Against the Jews to Encounter; Sarah Ruden's translation of Apuleius' The Golden Ass to Yale University Press; Roy W. Spencer's The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists to Encounter.
Posted 02.11.09: Paco Underhill's Why We Buy has been named one of "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time." Ten years after its first publication by Simon & Schuster, the international bestseller has just been published in a newly revised and updated edition.