To highlight the wide range of publications reviewed in Choice, each month Choice editors feature some noteworthy reviews from the current issue.
 
Aboujaoude, Elias.  Virtually you: the dangerous powers of the
e-personality.  W.W. Norton, 2011.  349p bibl index; ISBN 9780393070644, $26.95.
49-1160  RC569  2010-43483 CIP
 
Aboujaoude (psychiatrist, Stanford Univ.) has taken on a topic both incredibly relevant to the times and very much hidden in plain sight. This topic is how the opportunity to “reinvent” oneself via the Internet, social networking, and other forms of electronic communication impacts the individual. The resulting “e-personalities” may bear little resemblance to the actual self. Though many would assume that such an opportunity to “vent” aspects of oneself normally shielded and held under control could only be
healthy–a sort of Freudian “cathartic” notion–the author demonstrates that the result is not necessarily so. Among the problems associated with the ability to invent and reinvent oneself: Internet addiction; the end of privacy as originally understood; blurring of the line between the real and the invented selves; an illusion of self-knowledge, when that might not be the case. This is a book for anyone interested in or suspecting addiction to e-personality. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Professionals and general readers.
— R. E. Osborne, Texas State University–San Marcos 
 
Barfield, Raymond.  The ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry.  Cambridge, 2011.  278p index; ISBN 9781107000322, $90.00.
49-0773  B66   2010-30607 CIP
 
Who knew that before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Königsberg, Immanuel Kant turned down a professorship in poetry in Berlin? This is one of the many fascinating details that this erudite book by Barfield (Duke Univ.) offers about the often adversarial relationship between philosophers and poets. With degrees in both medicine and philosophy, Barfield holds appointments in the schools of divinity, nursing, and medicine. Characterizing the dialogue between philosophy and poetry as a “quarrel,” he begins with Plato, who started it, and follows the quarrel through the work of many of philosophy’s central figures. Barfield characterizes things this way: “poetry and the poets show up in philosophy as a source of language, a source of ideas, or source of inspiration, or else an obstacle to ideas, a foil, a source of lunacy, a punching bag.” In the final chapter, featuring Mikhail Bakhtin, the author goes beyond traditional philosophy to show how novelistic consciousness escapes the philosophy/poetry dialogue to create something larger. This book has a good index and copious footnotes instead of a bibliography. Overall it offers a new way of looking at the history of philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. — D. Stewart, emeritus, Ohio University  
 
Carlson, Matt.  On the condition of anonymity: unnamed sources and the battle for journalism.  Illinois, 2011.  202p index afp ISBN 0-252-03599-2, $45.00; ISBN 9780252035999, $45.00.
49-0676  PN4781  2010-35388 CIP
 
Carlson (communication, Saint Louis Univ.) argues that elite journalism’s use of anonymous sources created five “critical incidents” that forced American journalists and citizens to rethink the role of journalism in a democracy. He looks at events ranging from the Watergate scandal and its famous “Deep Throat” source in the 1970s to the 2007 prosecution of Scooter Libby, in which the press’s use of anonymous sources was put on trial. He argues that journalists wrongly give sources the power to control the news. Moreover, too frequently, in Carlson’s view, anonymity is granted for the benefit of the journalist, not of the public. By granting immunity, journalists preserve access and fulfill their need to produce front-page stories. Carlson wisely suggests that journalists should be guided instead by contingency, transparency, and aggressiveness. Contingency demands granting anonymity only with strings attached. Transparency requires journalists to be open about how news stories are developed (with occasional exceptions), and aggressiveness (in carrying out the press’s watchdog role) leads to limiting anonymity to whistleblowers who expose information that benefits the public. This analysis contributes significantly to understanding not only the use of anonymous sources (the benefits and the dangers) but also journalism broadly. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. — J. L. Aucoin, University of South Alabama

The City, revisited: urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, ed. by Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson.  Minnesota, 2011.  381p index afp; ISBN 9780816665754, $75.00; ISBN 9780816665761 pbk, $25.00.
49-1139  HT123  2010-19700 CIP
 
This fascinating collection of papers deconstructs the conceit that informs its organization, namely, that urban theory can be based on the characteristics of a single city (e.g., Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago). The strongest essays (Amy Bridges and John Mollenkopf among them) demonstrate that easy generalizations about the most prominent US cities are often unsustainable. A particularly skillful essay by Robert Beauregard argues that city-based theory is cast too narrowly to unveil the mechanics of urbanism, but is also cast too broadly to reveal cities in their interesting uniqueness. Thoughtful essays consider the overlooked role of the mayor in US cities (Larry Bennett) and the importance of the differences of race, class, and relation. There is an implicit but underexamined suggestion throughout all of the essays that the next challenge of urban theory is to develop conceptual tools to account for the local dimensions of globalism. Judd and Simpson (Both, Univ. of Illinois) do a good job of orchestrating lively disagreements among the contributors on various points, which makes for good reading. They also balance theoretical essays with case study and demographic analysis. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty. — R. M. Flanagan, CUNY College of Staten Island 

Duffy, Mignon.  Making care count: a century of gender, race, and paid care work.  Rutgers, 2011.  185p index afp; ISBN 9780813549606, $72.00; ISBN 9780813549613 pbk, $24.95.
49-0966  HD8039  2010-24092 CIP
 
Caregivers, whether paid or unpaid, tend to be invisible, working in the background to improve others’ lives. Duffy (Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell) brings careworkers to the foreground through detailed analyses of census and other data from 1900 to 2007. Her extensive use of scholarship on careworkers’ functions and others’ attitudes toward them adeptly provides historical and social explanations for the numbers. Although some individuals who are paid to care for adults, children, and the infirm are professionals, such as nurses and teachers, more often caregivers work in what Duffy calls “job[s] of last resort” because they lack other options. Therefore, social patterns of inequality persist over time; gender, “race-ethnicity,” and class always determine who cleans whose house. Insights abound; e.g., the familial roots of caretaking result in “expectations of emotional connection” that complicate relationships between givers and recipients of paid care. Recently, technological changes, commercialized food preparation, and cost cutting for services in all areas have altered concepts of “menial” and “skilled” work, rarely benefiting anyone other than managers and corporate stockholders. Meanwhile, relationships and “social rewards” depreciate. Overall, a valuable, informative, historical overview of an important issue. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.
— P. W. Laird, University of Colorado Denver  
 
Flippen, J. Brooks.  Jimmy Carter, the politics of family, and the rise of the religious Right.  Georgia, 2011.  445p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780820337692, $69.95; ISBN 9780820337708 pbk, $26.95.
49-1140  E873   2010-32599 CIP
 
Flippen (history, Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ.) offers an exhaustive, highly documented, and fascinating account of how Jimmy Carter both helped inaugurate “The Year of the Evangelical” in 1976 and ultimately lost the momentum of this movement to Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party. Despite Carter’s personal religious sincerity and his commitment to family, his dealings with Evangelicals were largely inept. Carter’s emphasis on family as a political issue ultimately backfired as such leaders of the religious Right as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, James Robison, and D. James Kennedy came to see Carter’s personal commitments as less important than his support of abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights (whose advocates, in turn, often doubted the intensity of Carter’s commitment to these causes). Flippen believes the Carter administration represents a fault line that drove the religious Right into a tight embrace with the Republican Party. Flippin describes the hubris, schemes, humiliations, and triumphs of leading members of the religious Right and those who worked on family policy during the Carter administration. A final chapter updates developments through the beginning of the Obama presidency. Summing Up:
Recommended. All readership levels. — J. R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University  

Frérot, Antoine.  Water: towards a culture of responsibility.  1st English ed.  New Hampshire, 2011.  181p afp; ISBN 9781584659877, $16.95; e-book ISBN 9781584659907 e-book, $9.99.
49-0983  HD1691  2010-45819 CIP
 
Fr^D’erot is the chief executive officer of Veolia Environment, the world’s leading operator in water and wastewater services for public authorities and industrial companies. Without doubt the author is one of the world’s most knowledgeable persons about water. He is particularly concerned about how to fulfill the water-related Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations’ 2006 Human Development Report, which aspire to reduce the “proportion of people without access to water or basic sanitation” by one-half from 2002 to 2015. This timely book is clearly written and logically arranged in three parts. In the first part, “The Water Century,” the author discusses the challenges that must be overcome to meet the Millennium Development Goals and their importance to economic development. In the second part, “Water’s False Friends,” he discusses pitfalls and false notions to avoid. In the third part, “Finding New Models,” he discusses successful approaches to providing water services that he has observed in several different communities. One common theme is that solutions to clean water provision ought to be found and developed at the community or local level. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. — D. D. Miller, Baldwin-Wallace College 
 
Kaku, Michio.  Physics of the future: how science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100.  Doubleday, 2011.  389p bibl index; ISBN 9780385530804, $28.95.
49-0926  Q175   2010-26569 CIP
 
Predicting the future, not just of individuals but of cultures, nations, and humanity, is an ancient game. Once this was done through speculation, astrology, interpretation of scriptures, etc. In the 19th and 20th centuries, fiction writers began expressing their ideas of the future through reasonable extrapolations of current science and technology. Some 50 years ago, the subject of futurology emerged. This is an exemplary book showing what futurology is all about. Kaku (CUNY), a theoretical physicist known for his clarity in explaining technical ideas, presents visions of the future in fields ranging from computers and medicine to space travel and wealth. The book is based on serious study and on interviews with pioneers in science and technology. The reader will learn about driverless cars, photographing dreams, resurrecting extinct life-forms, hot fusion, robots becoming conscious, reversing aging, and much more. Kaku talks about a planetary civilization. He ends with fiction in a chapter titled “A Day in the Life in 2100,” and concludes with an insightful quote from Mahatma Gandhi. The subtitle describes the book better than the title, for it is about the science/technology of the future and their impact on human life and civilization, rather than about the physics of the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. — V. V. Raman, emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology  
 
Knauer, Nancy J.  Gay and lesbian elders: history, law, and identity politics in the United States.  Ashgate, 2011.  170p bibl index; ISBN 9781409402336, $89.95; e-book ISBN 9781409402343 e-book, contact publisher for price.
49-0944  KF4754  2010-933966 MARC
 
In this well-researched book, legal scholar Knauer (Temple Univ.) presents the estimated two million lesbian and gay elders in the US as an underserved and poorly understood group. She convincingly argues that identity formation for gay people is uniquely the product of their historical context, showing how the concerns and needs of the pre-Stonewall generation of elders differ significantly from those of current gay advocates. These elders face challenges of aging isolated from family, invisible to the lesbian and gay community, and ignored by heteronormative aging initiatives. They often experience legal fragility and financial instability. The book is divided into three sections: history, identity, and advocacy. In the first section, Knauer deftly integrates practice and theory as she discusses how pre-Stonewall views of homosexuality are at the root of fears expressed by lesbian and gay elders who remain in or reenter the closet as they attempt to sidestep antigay bias. She then addresses the invisibility of lesbian and gay elders, examines the double binds central to their identity formation, and provides a much-needed understanding of the construction of sexuality and identity. Finally, Knauer advocates reforms designed to insure dignity and equity in aging regardless of sexual orientation. An excellent book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. — B. Hyman, Salisbury University  
 
Lomax, Alan.  Alan Lomax, assistant in charge: the Library of Congress letters, 1935-1945, ed. by Ronald D. Cohen.  University Press of Mississippi, 2010.  414p index afp; ISBN 9781604738018, $50.00; ISBN 9781604738018 e-book, $50.00.
49-0761  ML423  2010-27833 CIP
 
These letters reveal the mind and methods of an American cultural icon, a man whose project, as the head of the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song, was to transform America’s understanding of its folk music. Lomax’s vision was inclusive, involving not only British ballads (the focus of prior collecting and research) but American-made ballads, songs, and instrumental music from all regions and ethnic groups. His daily work involved collecting, archiving, promoting, issuing recordings, and publicizing folk music in print and on radio. He corresponded, as these letters reveal, with a vast network of folksong collectors and music industry executives. To have all this in Lomax’s own words is to show how the canon of American folk music was shaped, collected, and represented in the last century. More thorough annotation would have made this into an even more remarkable package–Lomax was such an important cultural figure that he deserves the same depth of annotation that editors give to letters of such greats as Hemingway and Faulkner–but this is also the kind of project that suggests itself for a wiki on a Web page maintained by the publisher. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. — J. T. Titon, Brown University  
 
Macdougall, Doug.  Why geology matters: decoding the past, anticipating the future.  California, 2011.  285p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780520266421, $29.95.
49-0870  QE28   2010-43748 CIP
 
This work is geared to general readers, but students and professionals in the field should also read it. Most geologists tend to specialize in a particular branch of geology and occasionally need to step back and look at the big picture. This is what Macdougall (emer., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California, San Diego; Nature’s Clocks, CH, Nov’08, 46-1498; Frozen Earth, CH, Mar’05, 42-4038) does in this book. He gives an up-to-date overview of what scientists now know about the history of Earth and explains why Earth’s past is relevant to contemporary human society. The author’s discussion of the history of climate change over the past several billion years and the causes thereof, for instance, is directly applicable to modern debates about climate change. Macdougall covers many other past events that are relevant to present times, including major earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, sea level changes, and asteroid impacts. He also addresses ways to apply geology to questions of energy resources, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and access to fresh water and presents all in an enjoyable reading style. Includes a useful list of references and suggestions for further reading for each chapter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. — C. W. Dimmick, emeritus, Central Connecticut State University

The Offensive Internet: privacy, speech, and reputation, ed. by Saul Levmore and Martha C. Nussbaum.  Harvard, 2011 (c2010).  299p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780674050891, $27.95.
49-0947  KF390  2010-22409 CIP
 
Horror stories abound about such Internet misbehavior as cyberbullying, cyberstalking, sexting, hate speech, threats, libel, ridicule, revelations of embarrassing private information, harassment, defamation, fraud, and copyright violations. Noted University of Chicago law school professors Levmore and Nussbaum collected 13 stimulating and highly readable essays by leading legal scholars and social observers that describe the cultural roots of cyberspace misconduct and suggest possible solutions. The contributors present varied perspectives about the proper balance between free speech and protection of the vulnerable. These authors generally value vigorous social and political discussions in cyberspace. However, they worry that freeing online posters from legal penalties for deleterious statements and from the social norms that restrain individuals from injurious speech in the bricks and mortar world results in excessive amounts of harmful, low-value communication. They propose numerous creative approaches to encourage civility, ranging from new torts to compensate victims to structural changes, such as revised search algorithms to guide users away from cyber-cesspools. The most common recommendations are to amend the US Communications Decency Act, which immunizes Web site operators from liability for third-party postings, and to limit the Internet’s anonymity. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. — T. H. Koenig, Northeastern University 
  
Omansky, Beth.  Borderlands of blindness.  L. Rienner, 2011.  229p bibl index afp; ISBN 9781588267801, $55.00.
49-1183  HV1593  2010-41199 CIP
 
This is the book this reviewer has been looking for as a text for a disability studies research and methodologies course, which is focused on qualitative research methods. The author’s approach confounds the usual positivist research techniques based on the medical model of disability, particularly that of blindness. Independent scholar Omansky writes that there is “a false binary of sightness/blindness” pervading every aspect of society, including medicine, education, the workplace, the built environment, religion, attitudes, and beliefs. She complicates the experience of blindness as not just darkness, but with the ambiguous definitions of legal blindness and who is “really” blind through the use of emancipatory disability research principles and postmodern theories to analyze the experiences of people with visual impairments. She bases her methodology on the existential phenomenological case study of life stories collected through open-ended interviews. The life stories are complex, funny, frustrating, and bring a new level of understanding past what Omansky describes as “ocularcentric,” or as putting sight at the center of the human experience. Ocularcentrism has serious consequences, and one example is the fact that in the US, 81 percent of blind people are unemployed. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. — P. A. Murphy, University of Toledo
 
Ottman, Jacquelyn A.  The new rules of green marketing: strategies, tools, and inspiration for sustainable branding.  Greenleaf/Berrett-Koehler, 2011.  252p bibl index; ISBN 9781605098661 pbk, $21.95.
49-0970  HF5413   MARC
 
Green marketing/sustainability consultant Ottman has written several works on this topic, and has over 20 years of experience in the field. Here, she presents 20 rules for environmental marketing today. While some of the book’s content is not necessarily “new,” the organization is straightforward and presented in ten easy-to-follow chapters. The work includes a number of case studies of companies that have been successful in developing a green branding strategy, such as Timberland, Starbucks, and Toyota. Additionally, Ottman cites the ENERGY STAR ecolabel as an example of successful partnering between government and industry. The author looks at environmentalism in today’s society, and the role it plays in media and the marketplace. From defining green consumers to establishing credibility as a green company while avoiding greenwashing, The New Rules of Green Marketing is a primer in doing business in an environmentally conscious marketplace. An extensive list of Web sites, including social networking sites; organizations; and additional books for further information enhance the text. Overall, an ideal resource for business professionals as well as marketing and communication students interested in environmental marketing practices. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Academic, general, and professional audiences, all levels.
— N. E. Furlow, Marymount University

Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson, Digital Edition, ed. by David G. Coleman et al.  Virginia. One-time purchase price ranges from $311.00 to $3,105.00 depending on institutional type; annual maintenance fee.  Internet Resource.
49-0638 http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ 

[Visited Jul’11] The three letters–LBJ–conjure up many images: a president who ushered landmark legislation into law, failure in Vietnam, and a combative and colorful politician. This new database is the first in the Rotunda imprint’s “American Century Collection” from the University of Virginia Press. Created in partnership with UVa’s Miller Center, it features nearly 400 recordings of Johnson, divided into three components: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the War on Poverty. The recordings include telephone calls and meetings, at locations ranging from the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and the White House residence to LBJ’s Texas ranch. Participants include prominent politicians and administration officials (e.g., Robert Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert McNamara) and White House aides. The time line spans 1964-65. From the home page, users can perform a keyword search across the entire site, browse each of the three content areas individually, generate a chronological listing of the site’s contents, or view a time line. Recordings play directly through the Web site. No programs or files need to be downloaded.

Each recording includes a written synopsis to provide historical context, and transcripts accompany each recording. Immensely helpful, these transcripts provide cross-referencing to other recordings and include notations that place key figures and events in context. In addition, the site features over 100 photographs and a small collection of videos. As a print supplement, libraries may want to purchase Lyndon B. Johnson, edited by Max Holland et al. (2005-11; “The Presidential Recordings”), a multivolume set from W. W. Norton. Price-conscious libraries should be aware of the free material in the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, including a larger number of LBJ recordings than the product reviewed here (in addition to recordings of several other presidents) http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/presidentialrecordings/johnson. However, this Rotunda collection is a remarkable primary source, with additional features of interest. Additionally, users should note that all available recorded conversations from the LBJ administration, including the entire contents of the Norton print editions, ultimately will be incorporated into the Rotunda database. Telling students about history is one thing, but letting them hear it for themselves is quite another. This will be a very useful resource for academic libraries with strong history and political science collections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. — J. A. Hardenbrook, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay     
 
Project Gutenberg.  Internet Resource.
49-0598  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 

[Revisited Jul’11] Before the controversial Google Books endeavor, the 40-year-old Project Gutenberg (previously reviewed, CH, Jan’99, 36-2593) was the first effort to create an online digital library. Unlike Google Books, Project Gutenberg is scrupulous about verifying the copyright status of its works within US law before freely distributing these items. Dozens of titles are added weekly. The collection is heavily weighted toward literature in English published before 1923, and thus in the public domain, though it has expanded into dozens of languages and several formats including audio books, recorded music, sheet music, still pictures, and video. Project Gutenberg originally provided works in plain text only, but now has expanded into ePub, Kindle, and HTML formats that are compatible with smartphones and other portable reading devices, including Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s NOOK. Over 36,000 free e-books are available for downloading or online reading. Volunteers contribute their time to scanning and proofreading the texts.

The Gutenberg catalog is available as automatically generated MARC records for libraries to load directly into their online catalogs to link library users instantly to Gutenberg e-books. Several independently operated non-US affiliates with the same mission have been granted permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark. Between them, the Gutenberg group has placed over 100,000 e-books on the Web. Many Internet efforts are well under way to build digital collections, including the aforementioned Google Books, the Universal Digital Library http://www.ulib.org/ (CH, Apr’08, 45-4112), the Hathi Trust Digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/ (CH, May’10, 47-4750), the World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/en/ (CH, Sep’09, 47-0009), and the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/ (CH, Jan’05, 42-2534). With a collection of works that is perhaps less extensive than any of these, Project Gutenberg offers both a Web site and texts that are uniquely simple and usable. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. — M. Sylvia, St. Mary’s University
   
Tawil, Camille.  Brothers in arms: the story of Al-Qa’ida and the Arab jihadists, tr. by Robin Bray.  Saqi Books, 2010.  208p index ISBN 0863564801 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9780863564802 pbk, $18.95.
49-1125  HV6433   MARC
 
This concise historical analysis of al Qaeda and its Arab allies by Tawil is an excellent account of the dynamics of jihadist violence since the 1980s. An investigative reporter in London for the Lebanese al-Hayat newspaper, Tawil traces the evolution of Islamist militancy from a unique perspective, combining his years of reporting, grassroots contacts, interviews with militants, and use of original Arabic-language materials. The author’s account covers al Qaeda’s humble beginnings in Afghanistan, early conflicts among its leaders, the rise of bin Laden, the post-9/11 era, and the symbiosis between Islamist militant groups in the Arab countries and al Qaeda’s core leadership in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands. Tawil underlines the mistakes in George Bush’s War on Terror; such as lumping all jihadists together, which triggered the unification of Islamist militants under al Qaeda’s ideological banner of holy war against the West. This development globalized al Qaeda as a transnational symbol, but changed its unified structure. Instead, a decentralized system emerged consisting of autonomous country-based franchises that shared al Qaeda’s ideological and programmatic umbrella and legitimacy. This book is full of information, insights, and lessons for intelligence analysts, policy makers, diplomats, and scholars specializing in Islamist military and its causal factors. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. — R. H. Dekmejian, University of Southern California  
 
Wallace, David Rains.  Chuckwalla land: the riddle of California’s desert.  California, 2011.  255p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780520256163, $27.50.
49-0877  QH105  2010-29593 CIP
 
To those not familiar with the other works of Wallace (no relation to this reviewer), this book’s title, Chuckwalla Land, is deceptive. It is certainly not a book about the chuckwalla–a squat lizard of the desert Southwest–nor is it an ecological treatise on the lizard’s habitat. Rather, this work is an excellent mixture of several ways of knowing a place. It is naturalist Wallace’s vision of the California desert and his personal experiences in it. Through 31 short narratives, he weaves an understanding of biology and geology with a detailed history of the investigators and of their investigations in this arid land. The book is very well written and easily accessible to anyone interested in the history of science, whether they are attracted to arid land studies or not. Frankly, it is just a darn good read for anyone who enjoys natural history. As an ecologist, this reviewer was at first disappointed with the lack of maps and photos of the region and the people, but he was quickly disabused of his na^D”ivet^D’e by a subtle but powerful narrative. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All general, academic, and professional readers.
— R. L. Wallace, Ripon College      

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