From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:02:02 GMT

A tasty holiday list:

Quicksand : HIV/AIDS in our lives, by Anonymous.

Rainbow solidarity in defense of Cuba, by Leslie Feinberg.

An empire unacquainted with defeat, by Glen Cook.

World cheese book, editor-in-chief, Juliet Harbutt.

Waste : uncovering the global food scandal, by Tristram Stuart.

That first season : how Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the path to glory, by John Eisenberg.

The letter and the scroll : what archaeology tells us about the Bible, by Robin Currie and Stephen G. Hyslop.

Blood and guts : a history of surgery, by Richard Hollingham.

THe lost cellos of Lev Aronson, by Frances Brent.

The lexicographer's dilemma : the evolution of "proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park, by Jack Lynch.

Medieval jewellery in Europe, 1100-1500, by Marian Campbell.

The unheard truth : poverty and human rights, by Irene Khan and David Petrasek.

Of hockey and hijab : reflections on a Canadian Muslim woman, by Sheema Khan.

Noro : meet the man behind the legendary yarn, by Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton.

If I were another, by Mahmoud Darwish.

The German mujahid, by Boualem Sansal.

Idiot America : how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the free, by Charles P. Pierce.

Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

Swine flu H1N1 : the facts, by Terence Stephenson.

Monstrous affections, by David Nickle.

Her mother's ashes and other stories by South Asian women in Canada and the United States, Her mother's ashes 2 : more stories by South Asian women in Canada and the United States, and Her mother's ashes 3 : stories by South Asian women in Canada and the United States, all edited by Nurjehan Aziz.

The blue notebook, by Michel Tremblay.

The Marchesa Casati : portraits of a muse, by Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino.

Beyond heaving bosoms : the smart bitches' guide to romance novels, by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan.

British fashion designers, by Hywel Davies.

Persona : masks of Africa : identities hidden and revealed, by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux.

The true deceiver, by Tove Jansson.

Bar none, by Tim Lebbon.

Divine music, by Suruchi Mohan.

What boys like, and other stories, by Amy Jones.

Objects of worship, by Claude Lalumière.

Ôoku: the inner chambers, volume one, by Fumi Yoshinaga.

Masterpieces of Islamic art : the decorated page from the 8th to the 17th century, by Oleg Grabar.

Queers in history : the comprehensive encyclopedia of historical gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders, by Keith Stern.

Journey to the end of Islam, by Michael Muhammad Knight.

Jane bites back, by Michael Thomas Ford.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:16:42 GMT

The real world of a forensic scientist : renowned experts reveal what it takes to solve crimes, by Henry C. Lee, Elaine M. Pagliaro, Katherine Ramsland.

There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby : scary fairy tales, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

An elegy for Easterly : stories, by Petina Gappah.

Letters of a Peruvian woman, by Françoise de Graffigny.

Difford's encyclopedia of cocktails : 2,600 recipes, by Simon Difford.

Knights in history and legend, chief consultant, Constance Brittain Bouchard.

Viruses, plagues, and history : past, present, and future, updated edition, by Michael B.A. Oldstone.

Good without God : what a billion nonreligious people do believe, by Greg M. Epstein.

Liver : a fictional organ with a surface anatomy of four lobes, by Will Self.

Crystal nights and other stories, by Greg Egan.

The diabetes DTOUR diet : the revolutionary new food cure, by Barbara Quinn.

The best life guide to managing diabetes and pre-diabetes, by Bob Greene, John Merendino, and Janis Jibrin.

1492 : the year the world began, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

50 ways to soothe yourself without food, by Susan Albers.

Last chance to see : in the footsteps of Douglas Adams, by Mark Carwardine.

Chic sweats : 22 ways to transform and restyle your sweatshirts, by the Sistahs of Harlem (Carmen Webber and Carmia Marshall).

The tall book : a celebration of life on high, by Arianne Cohen.

After the prophet : the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split in Islam, by Lesley Hazleton.

To wake the dead : a Renaissance merchant and the birth of archaeology, by Marina Belozerskaya.

Eating pomegranates : a memoir of mothers, daughters, and the breast cancer gene, by Sarah Gabriel.

Greed, lust & gender : a history of economic ideas, by Nancy Folbre.

The infinity of lists, by Umberto Eco.

Ruined : a play, by Lynn Nottage.

God's philosophers : how the Medieval world laid the foundations of modern science, by James Hannam.

Perfect plus : sew a mix-and-match wardrobe for plus and petite-plus sizesDistant early warnings : Canada's best science fiction, edited by Robert J. Sawyer.

The kiss murder and The gigolo murder, both by Mehmet Murat Somer.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:57:23 GMT

Chocolate : a love story, by Max Brenner.

Genda's blade : Japan's squadron of aces, by Henry Sakaida and Koji Takaki.

Extreme Halloween, by Tom Nardone.

Making connections : a handbook of cold joins for jewelers and mixed-media artists, by Susan Lenart Kazmer and Nina Graci.

Dissection : photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine, 1880-1930, by John Harley Warner and James E. Edmonson.

Darwin's camaera : art and photography in the theory of evolution, by Phillip Prodger.

Mating intelligence : sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system, edited by Glenn Geher and Geoffrey Miller.

Inseminating the elephant, by Lucia Perillo.

Dancing to the precipice : the life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era, by Caroline Moorehead.

The other side of paradise : a memoir, by Staceyann Chin.

The fence : a police cover-up along Boston's racial divide, by Dick Lehr.

A brave vessel : the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, by Hobson Woodward.

Stephen Jay Gould and the politics of evolution, by David F. Prindle.

The laughing gorilla : a true story of police corruption and murder, by Robert Graysmith.

Essential song : three decades of northern Cree music, by Lynn Whidden (includes music CD)

Muscle medicine : the revolutionary approach to maintaining, strengthening, and repairing your muscles and joints, by Rob DeStefano, Bryan Kelly, and Joseph Hooper.

Strange fatality : the battle of Stoney Creek, 1813, by James Elliott.

Because it feels good : a woman's guide to sexual pleasure and satisfaction, by Debby Herbenick.

How to slice an onion : cooking basics and beyond, by Bunny Crumpacker.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:57:32 GMT

Ghoulish goodies, by Sharon Bowers.

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff : the expanded story of a haunting collaboration with a complete filmography of their films together, revised edition, by Gregory William Monk.

Sense and sensibility and sea monsters, by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters.

Poseidon's steed : the story of seahorses from myth to reality, by Helen Scales.

101 things to do before you diet : because looking great isn't just about losing weight, by Mimi Spencer.

Your call is (not that) important to us : customer service and what it reveals about our world and our lives, by Emily Yellin.

Friendly fire : ten tales of today's Egypt, by Alaa Al Aswany.

The summer of the Ubume, by Natsuhiko Kyogoku.

Lyrics for the blues, by Gar Anthony Haywood.

Gideon Redoak, by Anne Fraser.

The secret wife of Louis XIV : François d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon, by Veronica Buckley.

Living canvas : your total guide to tattoos, piercings, and body modification, by Karen L. Hudson.

Backstage, compiled by Nikki Turner.

Seal intestine raincoat, by Rosie Chard.

Push of the sky, by Camille Alexa.

Finding Carrie George, by Frank LaRue.

Stalking the vampire and Stalking the dragon, by Mike Resnick. Shiny new sequels to his 1987 novel, Stalking the unicorn.

The man who loved books too much, by Bartlett Hoover.

Perfect phrases in American Sign Language for beginners, by Lou Fan and Barbara Bernstein Fant.

Thanks, but this isn't for us : a (sort of) compassionate guide to why your writing is being rejected, by Jessica Page Morrell.

Peter & Max : a Fables novel, by Bill Willingham.

The Dylan Dog case files, by Tiziano Sclavi.

Stitches : a memoir, by David Small.

Canuck rock : a history of Canadian popular music, by Ryan Edwardson.

The ends of life : roads to fulfilment in early modern England, by Keith Thomas.

The price of a bargain : the quest for cheap and the death of globalization, by Gordon Laird.

Tiepolo pink, by Robert Calasso.

The state of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer.

Children of dust : a memoir of Pakistan, by Ali Eteraz.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:50:50 GMT

Woman from Shanghai : tales of survival from a Chinese labor camp, by Xianhu Yang.

The Good Humor Man, by Andrew Fox.

Face it and fix it : a three-step plan to break free from denial and discover the life you deserve, by Ken Seeley and Myatt Murphy.

Matthew Mead's monster book of Halloween : hundreds of spooky treats and clever crafts for the best holiday ever!, compiled by Matthew Mead.

Life in the Medieval cloister, by Julie Kerr.

Super suckers : the giant Pacific octopus and other cephalopods of the Pacific coast, by James A. Cosgrove and Neil McDaniel.

The fallen sky : an intimate history of shooting stars, by Christopher Cokinos.

The ethical slut : a practical guide to polyamory, open relationships & other adventures , second edition, by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy.

Making trousers for men & women : a multimedia sewing workshop, by David Page Coffin.

The real sexy, smart and strong : 30 tips to boost confidence, get fit and feel great, inside and out, by David Patchell-Evans.

The power of no : take back your life with a two-letter word, by Beth Wareham.

Jewish slow cooker recipes, by Laura Frankel. Reminder to those with lactose intolerance and other milk-related allergies: kosher rules about separate preparation and consumption of dairy products mean you're going to find a larger percentage of yummies here that won't cause you pain.

The lost chalice : the epic hunt for a priceless masterpiece, by Vernon Silver.

Angela Carter's book of fairy tales, by Angela Carter.

Guardians of being, by Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell.

Can I catch it like a cold? : coping with a parent's depression, by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

The Grand Mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust, by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix.

Rock : a Canadian perspective, by Larry Starr, Christopher Waterman, and Jay Hodgson.

At least in the city someone would hear me scream : misadventures in search of the simple life, by Wade Rouse.

Ignore everybody : and 39 other keys to creativity, by Hugh MacLeod.

The meteorites of Alberta, by Anthony J. Whyte.

Street without a name : childhood and other misadventures in Bulgaria, by Kapka Kassabova.

The day we lost the H-bomb : Cold War, hot nukes, and the worst nuclear disaster in history, by Barbara Moran.

The sartorialist, by Scott Schuman. Collects the best of the blog.

The literature of Australia, edited by Nicholas Jose.

I am not Sidney Poitier, by Percival Everett.

The proof of the honey, by Salwi Al Neimi.

Secret identities : the Asian American superhero anthology, by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma.

Vampire a go-go, by Victor Gischler.

And an entire series for you: the Akashic Books noir series ... each volume collecting noir short stories set in a particular geographic location.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:31:57 GMT

The woman who decided to die : challenges and choices at the edges of medicine, by Ronald Munson.

How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music, by Elijah Ward.

The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

Theo Gray's mad science : experiments you can do at home -- but probably shouldn't, by Theo Gray.

You don't have to be diabetic to love this cookbook : 250 amazing dishes for people with diabetes and their families and friends, by Tom Valenti and Andrew Friedman.

Women do this every day : selected poems of Lillian Allen, by Lillian Allen.

The book of the Moon, by Rick Stroud.

How to spot a dangerous man before you get involved, by Sandra L. Brown.

The cost of bad behavior : how incivility is damaging your business and what to do about it, by Christine Pearson and Christine Porath.

Proof, book 1 : Goatsucker, Proof, book 2 : The company of men, and Proof, book 3 : Thunderbirds are go!, by Alexander Grecian and Riley Rossmo.

House of mystery, volume 1 : Room and boredom and House of mystery, volume 2 : Love stories for dead people, by Matthew Sturges.

Britten and Brülightly, by Hannah Berry.

The book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill.

The Unit, by Ninni Holmqvist.

Wife of the gods, by Kwei J. Quartey.

Ulysses and us : the art of everyday living, by Declan Kiberd.

Bozo sapiens : why to err is human, by Michael and Ellen Kaplan.

Lost alphabet, by Lisa Olstein.

Understand your diabetes and live a healthy life, 2008 edition, by the Diabetes Day Care Unit.

Tudor queens of England, by David Loades.

Elegant enigmas : the art of Edward Gorey, by Karen Wilkin.

The black doll : a silent screenplay, by Edward Gorey.

The talent code, by Daniel Coyle.

Guts : combat, hell-raising, cancer, business start-ups and undying love : one American guy's reckless, lucky life, by Robert Nylen.

Crochet adorned, by Linda Permann.

Imperial, William T. Vollman.

Unlikely paradise : the life of Frances Gage, by Alan D. Butcher.

Unsettled remains : Canadian literature and the postcolonial gothic, edited by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte.

The uncomplicated guide to diabetes complications, third edition, edited by Marvin E. Levin and Michael A. Pfeifer.

Just a quick announcement

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:18:03 GMT

catdesk has opted out of LJ's new "My Guest" feature ... the cataloguer has far better things to do than worry about who happens across this place.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:20:13 GMT

Crazy love : a memoir, by Leslie Morgan Steiner.

Dust from our eyes : an unblinkered look at Africa, by Joan Baxter.

The secret lives of boys : inside the raw emotional world of male teens, by Malina Saval.

Harry Truman's excellent adventure : the true story of a great American road trip, by Matthew Algeo.

Floods, famines, and emperors : El Niño and the fate of civilizations, revised edition, by Brian Fagan.

Spent : sex, evolution, and consumer behavior, by Geoffrey Miller.

Ani's raw food desserts, by Ani Phyo.

The bolter : the story of the wild, beautiful, fearless Idina Sackville, descendant of one of England's oldest families, who went off to Kenya in search of adventure and became known as the high priestess of the scandalous "Happy Valley Set", by Frances Osborne.

The incident report : a novel, by Martha Baille.

Mysteries of ancient Ukraine : the remarkable Trypilian culture, edited by Krzysztof Ciuk.

Just ask Mom : everything she told you when you weren't listening is in this book, by Nancy Malone.

Curiosities of literature, by John Sutherland.

Climate confusion : how global warming hysteria leads to bad science, pandering politicians and misguided policies that hurt the poor, by Roy W. Spencer.

Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture, by Madelaine Hron.

College success for students with learning disabilities, by Cynthia G. Simpson and Vicky G. Spencer.

Skinny bastard : a kick-in-the-ass for real men who want to stop being fat and start getting buff, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.

Slang : the people's poetry, by Michael Adams.

Cruelty : human evil and the human brain, by Kathleen Taylor.

Daughters of shame, by Jasvinder Sanghera.

Shadi Ghadirian, Iranian photographer, edited by Rose Issa.

No greater ally : the untold story of Poland's forces in World War II, by Kenneth K. Koskodan.

Morality without God?, by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

Chop suey : a cultural history of Chinese food in the United States, by Andrew Coe.

The dangerous world of butterflies : the startling subculture of criminals, collectors, and conservationists, by Peter Laufer.

David Levy's guide to observing meteor showers, by David H. Levy.

More than just race : being Black and poor in the inner city, by William Julius Wilson.

Beauty, by Roger Scruton.

Slanted and enchanted : the evolution of Indie culture, by Kaya Oakes.

A mess of everything, by Miss Lasko-Gross.

Art and politics : the history of the National Arts Centre, by Sarah Jennings.

Muslim women reformers : inspiring voices against oppression, by Ida Lichter.

You majored in what? : mapping your path from chaos to career, by Katharine Brooks.

The lady in red : an eighteenth century tale of sex, scandal, and divorce, by Hallie Rubenhold.

Objectively speaking : Ayn Rand interviewed, edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz.

Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, edited by N.J. Higham.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:43:55 GMT

The ultimate guide to weight training for fencing, second edition, by Robert G. Price.

First person queer : who we are (so far) and Second person queer : who you are (so far), both edited by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel.

Remembering our childhood : how memory betrays us, by Karl Sabbagh.

Fabricate : 17 innovative sewing projects that make fabric the star, by Susan Weisinger.

Requiem for a paper bag : celebrities & civilians tell stories of the best lost, tossed & found items around the world, edited by Davy Rothbart.

Darwin's lost world : the hidden history of animal life, by Martin Brasier.

Out at the movies : a history of gay cinema, by Steven Paul Davies.

Antimatter, by Frank Close.

Cycle savvy : the smart teen's guide to the mysteries of her body, by Toni Weschler.

Blokes : the bad boys of British literature, by David Castronovo.

Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream, by Tanya Lee Stone.

Let's do nothing!, by Tony Fucile.

I'm down : a memoir, by Mishna Wolff.

Policing the fringe : the curious life of a small-town Mountie, by Charles Scheiderman.

The tempest tales, by Walter Mosley.

X-rated! : the power of mythic symbolism in popular culture, by Marcel Danesi.

Thank God for evolution : how the marriage of science and religion will transform your life and our world, by Michael Dowd.

The East, the West, and sex : a history of erotic encounters, by Richard Bernstein.

Tan to tamarind : poems about the color brown, by Malathi Michelle Iyengar.

The myth of a Christian religion : losing your religion for the beauty of a revolution, by Gregory A. Boyd.

The pleasures and sorrows of work, by Alain de Botton.

Dinner with a cannibal : the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo, by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff.

Defenders of the faith : Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the battle for Europe, by James Reston.

The sacredness of questioning everything, by David Dark.

Fabulous frocks, by Jane Eastoe and Sarah Gristwood.

In the sanctuary of outcasts : a memoir, by Neil White.

Shadow war : the untold story of jihad in Kashmir, by Arif Jamal.

99 drams of whiskey : the accidental hedonist's quest for the perfect shot and the history of the drink, by Kate Hopkins.

Letting go of perfect : overcoming perfectionism in kids, by Jill L. Adelson.

Life ascending : the ten great inventions of evolution, by Nick Lane.

The ride of a lifetime : doing business the Orange County Choppers way, by Paul Teutul Sr. with Mark Yost.

Lecturing birds on flying : can mathematical theories destroy the financial markets?, by Pablo Triana.

Goners : the final hours of the notable and notorious, by Gordon Kerr.

Mona Lisa's pajamas : diverting dispatches from a roving reporter, by Craig Copetas.

This child will be great : memoir of a remarkable life by Africa's first woman president, by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Beauty and the beast : ending the love/hate relationship between girls and their bodies, by Megan Ryland.

The kids book of Black Canadian history, by Rosemary Sadlier.

Adventures from the technology underground : catapults, pulsejets, rail guns, flamethrowers, Tesla coils, air cannons, and the garage warriors who love them, by William Gurstelle.

Pedro & me : friendship, loss & what I learned, by Judd Winick.

Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackman.

Flotsametrics and the floating world : how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science, by Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano.

The game of school : why we all play it, how it hurts kids, and what it will take to change it, by Robert L. Fried.

The collected Doug Wright, volume one : Canada's master cartoonist, by Doug Wright.

Red-color news soldier, by Li Zhensheng.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Tue, 19 May 2009 02:48:41 GMT

Mop men : inside the world of Crime Scene Cleaners, by Alan Emmins.

The underground gators, by Tina Casey.

Tear down this myth : how the Reagan legacy has distorted our politics and haunts our future, by William Bunch.

Vintage Paris couture : the French woman's guide to shopping, by Jessica Clayton.

One big happy family : 18 writers talk about polyamory, open adoption, mixed marriage, househusbandry, single motherhood, and other realities of truly modern love, edited by Rebecca Walker.

The means of reproduction : sex, power and the future of the world, by Michelle Goldberg.

The Rocket : a cultural history of Maurice Richard, by Benoît Melançon.

Hella nation : looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, rocking the side pipe, Wingnut's war against The GAP, and other adventures with the totally lost tribes of America, by Evan Wright.

How sex works : why we look, smell, taste, feel, and act the way we do, by Sharon Moalem.

The painted circus, by Wallace Edwards.

A book, by Mordecai Gerstein.

The crimes of Paris : a true story of murder, theft, and detection, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler.

Rare Earth : why complex life is uncommon in the universe, by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee.

Presentation zen : simple ideas on presentation design and delivery, by Garr Reynolds.

I have my mother's eyes : a Holocaust story across generations, by Barbara R. Bluman.

Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back, by Reynolds Price.

Blood and rage : a cultural history of terrorism, by Michael Burleigh.

High voltage tattoo, by Kat Von D.

Marrying Anita : a quest for love in the new India, by Anita Jain.

The pocket guide to the afterlife : 91 places death might take you, by Augusta Moore and Elizabeth Ripley.

Diabetes for Canadians for dummies, second edition, by Ian Blumer and Alan L. Rubin.

A pint of plain, by Bill Barich.

Kneadlessly simple : fabulous, fuss-free, no-knead breads, by Nancy Baggett.

Creating your high school resume, third edition, by Kathryn Kraemer Troutman.

Freak show, by James St. James.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sun, 03 May 2009 20:42:06 GMT

Revolution in a bottle, by Tom Szaky.

Special-needs kids eat right, by Judy Converse.

The secret lives of litterbugs, and other (true) stories, by M.A.C. Farrant.

Comfort food : a delicious trip down memory lane, by Southern Living.

Make it plain : standing up and speaking out, by Vernon E. Jordan and Lee A. Daniels.

Sketchbooks : the hidden art of designers, illustrators & creatives, by Richard Brereton.

Inuit dolls of the Kivalliq, by Darren Martens.

Cooking know-how, by Bruce Weinstein.

The wild party, by Joseph Moncure March.

The unfinished poems< by C.P. Cavafy.

The well-dressed ape : a natural history of myself, by Hannah Holmes.

Catholic does not equal the Vatican : a vision for progressive Catholicism, by Rosemary Radford Ruether.

Telling ain't training and Training ain't performance, by Harold D. Stolovich and Erica J. Keeps.

The taste of sweet : our complicated love affair with our favorite treats, by Joanne Chen.

Sellout : the politics of racial betrayal, by Randall Kennedy.

Real sex for real women : intimacy, pleasure & sexual wellbeing, by Laura Berman.

Church of lies, by Flora Jessop and Paul T. Brown.

A terrible splendor : three extraordinary men, a world poised for war, and the greatest tennis match ever played, by Marshall Fisher.

Sonata mulattica, by Rita Dove.

Echoes of life : what fossil molecules reveal about earth history, by Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglington, Jürgen Rullkötter.

I'm perfect, you're doomed : tales from the Jehovah's Witness upbringing, by Kyria Abrahams.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:00:57 GMT

Clean, well-lighted sentences : a guide to avoiding the most common errors in grammar and punctuation, by Janis Bell.

Undress me in the Temple of Heaven : a memoir, by Susan Jane Gilman.

Tiny, tiny houses, by Lester Walker.

Not so big remodeling : tailoring your house for the way you really live, by Sarah Susanka and Marc Vassallo.

Pet projects : the animal knits bible, by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne. Ideal for the person who's always wanted to knit a ferret. ;-)

What have you changed your mind about? : today's leading minds rethink everything, edited by John Brockman.

What invertebrates? : a buyer's guide for marine aquariums, by Tristan Lougher.

Shape up with the slow fat triathlete : 50 ways to kick butt on the field, in the pool, or at the gym -- no matter what your size and shape, by Jayne Williams.

Mastering the samurai sword, by Cary Nemeroff.

The mountains of Saint Francis : discovering the geologic elements that shaped our earth, by Walter Alvarez.

Bubishi : the classic manual of combat, by Patrick McCarthy.

It looked good on paper : bizarre inventions, design disasters & engineering follies, edited by Bill Fawcett.

The e-policy handbook : rules and best practices to safely manage your company's e-mail, blogs, social networking, and other Internet communication tools, second edition, by Nancy Flynn.

Go down together : the true, untold story of Bonnie and Clyde, by Jeff Guinn.

Éric Kayser's new French recipes, by Éric Kayser with Yaïr Yosefi.

From image to stitch, by Maggie Grey.

The art instinct, by Denis Dutton.

Haywired : pointless (yet awesome) projects for the electronically inclined, by Mike Rigsby.

Box into shape : get fighting fit in just 12 weeks, by Chrissie Gallagher.

Confessions of a mullah warrior, by Masood Farivar.

A hell of mercy : a meditation on depression and the dark night of the soul, by Tim Farrington.

The crowded universe : the search for living planets, by Alan Boss.

The foie gras wars : how a 5,000-year-old delicacy inspired the world's fiercest food fight, by Mark Caro.

The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution, by Gregory Cochran.

Wedlock : the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, by Wendy Moore.

Cartoon marriage : adventures in love and matrimony by The New Yorker's cartooning couple, by Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin.

Easy guide to sewing tops and t-shirts, skirts and pants, by Lynn MacIntyre and Marcy Tilton.

Construction, by Anette Fischer. Volume 3 in the Basics Fashion Design series.

Zen wrapped in karma dipped in chocolate : a trip through death, sex, divorce, and spiritual celebrity in search of the true dharma, by Brad Warner.

Obscene, indecent, immoral, and offensive : 100+ years of censored, banned, and controversial films, by Stephen Tropiano.

Decoding love : why it takes twelve frogs to find a prince, and other revelations from the science of attraction, by Andrew S. Trees.

Lost crafts : rediscovering traditional skills, by Una McGovern.

Buckles, by Alan and Gillian Meredith.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson : Arctic adventurer, by Tom Henighan.

Why sh*t happens : the science of a really bad day, by Peter J. Bentley.

God's demon, by Wayne Barlowe.

Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line, by Martha A. Sandweiss.

Leaving India : my family's journey from five villages to five continents, by Minal Hajratwala.

North Korea kidnapped my daughter : a memoir, by Sakie Yokota.

Vintage tattoos : the book of old-school skin art, by Carol Clerk.

The gift of Southern cooking, by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock.

On space and time, edited by Shahn Majid.

Style, naturally : the savvy shopping guide to sustainable fashion and beauty, by Summer Rayne Oakes.

Labor of love : the story of one man's extraordinary pregnancy, by Thomas Beatie.

Career renegade : how to make a great living doing what you love, by Jonathan Fields.

Pride and prejudice and zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.

Slob proof! : real-life design solutions, by Debbie Wiener.

And, rather than fiddle with typing in a ton of individual titles: Open Court Publishing Company's Popular culture and philosophy series

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:29:32 GMT

Chocolate : pathway to the gods, by Meredith L. Dreiss and Sharon Edgar Greenhill.

I'd rather we got casinos, and other Black thoughts, by Larry Wilmore.

The better world shopping guide, by Ellis Jones.

Kimono as art : the landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, edited by Dale Carolyn Gluckman.

The basics of corset building : a handbook for beginners, by Linda Sparks.

Paint it black : a guide to gothic homemaking, by Voltaire.

The everything green wedding book : plan an elegant, earth-friendly wedding, by Wenona Napolitano.

The noble lie : when scientists give the right answers for the wrong reasons, by Gary Greenberg.

The lost art of walking, by Geoff Nicholson.

Girl boy girl : how I became JT Leroy, by Savannah Knoop.

Noah's last canoe : the lost art of Cree birch bark canoe building, by Doug Evans.

Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science, and fake history, by Damian Thompson.

Printing by hand : a modern guide to printing with handmade stamps, stencils, and silk screens, by Lena Corwin.

Elegance : the Seeberger brothers and the birth of fashion photography, by Sylvie Aubenas and Xavier Demange.

In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

L is for lollygag : quirky words for a clever tongue, by Chronicle Books.

Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine, by GAry Paul Nabhan.

Eclectic gypsy : an unauthorised biography of Dr. Who, by Dave Thompson.

The oil hunters : exploration and espionage in the Middle East, by Roger Howard.

Against us : the new face of America's enemies in the Muslim world, by Jim Sciutto.

Why we make mistakes : how we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average, by Joseph T. Hallinan.

The gold-mines of Midian, by Richard F. Burton.

Meg Hickling's grown-up sex : sexual wholeness for the better part of your life, by Meg Hickling.

Gadfly in Russia, by Alan Sillitoe.

Circumference : Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe, by Nicholas Nicastro.

Written on the knee : a diary from the Greek-Italian Front of WWII, by Theodore Electris.

Orange, by Benjamin.

Knitting and tea : 25 classic knits and the teas that inspired them, by Jane Gottelier.

A jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, by Elaine Showalter.

The cancer survivor's guide : foods that help you fight back, by Neal D. Barnard and Jennifer K. Reilly.

She walks for days inside a thousand eyes : a two-spirit story, by Sharron Proulx-Turner.

Beyond the bead : making jewelry with unexpected finds, by Margot Potter.

Rejected : tale of the failed, dumped, and canceled, edited by Jon Friedman.

Plus a special publisher link for the historic costume fiends in the audience: Uniformology specializes in publishing books of contemporary illustrations of military uniforms specific to particular regiments, wars, and governments. Inexpensive and well-printed.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:44:25 GMT

The samurai sword : a handbook, by John M. Yumoto.

50 green projects for the evil genius, by Jamil Sharriff.

The complete idiot's guide to changing old habits for good, by G. Alan Marlatt.

The gift of adult ADD : how to transform your challenges & build on your strengths, by Lara Honos-Webb.

People are idiots and I can prove it! : the 10 ways you are sabotaging yourself and how you can overcome them, by Larry Winget.

Origami art : 15 exquisite folded paper designs from the Origamido Studio, by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander.

Strands : creating unexpected fabrics and fashionable projects, by Jacqueline Myers-Cho.

Script and scribble : the rise and fall of handwriting, by Kitty Burns Florey.

Born-again vintage : 25 ways to deconstruct, reinvent + recycle your wardrobe, by Bridgett Artise and Jen Karetnick.

Dawn French : the unauthorized biography, updated edition by Alison Bowyer, and Dear Fatty, by Dawn French herself. An unauthorized bio and and an autobiography released at the same time ... should make for interesting comparison reading. ;-)

Tribal childhood : growing up in traditional Native America, by Adolf Hungrywolf.

The road to rescue : the untold story of Schindler's list, by Mietek Pemper.

Superstition : belief in the age of science, by Robert L. Park.

The atom and the apple : twelve tales from contemporary physics, by Sébastien Balibar.

Black ice : the lost history of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, by George & Darril Fosty.

OverSuccess : healing the American obsession with wealth, fame, power, and perfection, by Jim Rubens.

Schneier on security, by Bruce Schneier.

Alan's war : the memories of G.I. Alan Cope, by Emmanuel Guibert.

Bourbon Island 1730, by Appollo and Lewis Trondheim.

A year in my shoes : a cancer survivor's story, by Louise Lampard.

The naturally clean home : 150 super-easy herbal formulas for green cleaning, second edition, by Karyn Siegel-Maier.

When life throws you a curve : one girl's triumph over scoliosis, by Elizabeth Golden.

Made from scratch : discovering the pleasures of a handmade life, by Jenna Woginrich.

Jealousy : true stories of love's favorite decoy, by Marcianne Blévis.

Weapons of mass instruction : a schoolteacher's journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling, by John Taylor-Gatto.

The half : photographs of actors preparing for the stage, by Simon Annand.

Breakfast at Sally's : one homeless man's inspirational journey, by Richard LeMieux.

Murder.com, by Christopher Berry-Dee and Steven Morris.

African costumes and textiles : from the Berbers to the Zulus, by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux.

Crème brûlé : 50 decadent recipes, by Dominique and Cindy Duby.

Paradise lost at sea : rethinking cruise vacations, by Ross A. Klein.

The color of life : polychromy in sculpture from antiquity to the present, edited by Roberta Panzanelli.

Mortal syntax : 101 language choices that will get you clobbered by the grammar snobs -- even if you're right, by June Casagrande.

Claire Shaeffer's fabric sewing guide, second edition, by Claire Shaeffer.

Heights of fashion : a history of the elevated shoe, by Elizabeth Semmelhack.

Hardwear : jewelry from a toolbox, by Hannah Rogge.

Last Canadian beer : the Moosehead story, by Harvey Sawler.

Home to roost : a backyard farmer chases chickens through the ages, by Bob Sheasley.

The end of my addiction, by Olivier Ameisen.

Totality : eclipses of the sun, third edition, by Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, and Ken Willcox.

Fake work : why people are working harder than ever but accomplishing less, and how to fix the problem, by Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson.

Weight training for cyclists : a total body program for power and endurance, second edition, by Ken Doyle and Eric Schmitz.

Resurrecting Dr. Moss, by Paul Appleton.

Basic forms of industrial buildings, by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Any other woman : an uncommon biography, by Monica Kidd.

Spitfire women of World War II, by Giles Whittell.

Art and sex, by Gray Watson.

Art and death, by Chris Townsend.

From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans : a mixed blood highway, by Joseph Boyden.

Snark : it's mean, it's personal, and it's ruining our conversation, by David Denby.

A history of food, new expanded edition, by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat.

Terry Pratchett's The colour of magic : illustrated screenplay, by Vadim Jean and Terry Pratchett.

Reading dance : a gathering of memoirs, reportage, criticism, profiles, interviews, and some uncategorizable extras, edited by Robert Gottlieb.

Sex, death & oysters : a half-shell lover's worldtour, by Robb Walsh.

What helped get me through : cancer survivors share wisdom and hope, edited by Julie K. Silver.

The healthy divorce : keys to ending your marriage while preserving your emotional well being, by Lois Gold.

A shadow on the household : one enslaved family's incredible struggle for freedom, by Bryan Prince.

Voluntary madness : my year lost and found in the loony bin, Norah Vincent.

Embracing the wide sky : a tour across the horizons of the mind, by Daniel Tammet.

Introvert power : why your inner life is your hidden strength, by Laurie Helgo.

Digging through the Bible : understanding biblical people, places, and controversies through archaeology, by Richard A. Freund.

Stuck : why we can't (or won't) move on, by Anneli Rufus.

Little pink house : a true story of defiance and courage, by Jeff Benedict.

Madame Prosecutor : confrontations with humanity's worst criminals and the culture of impunity, by Carla Del Ponte.

Scalawags : rogues, roustabouts, wags & scamps -- brazen ne'er-do-wells through the ages, by Jim Christy.

Fallen officers : Canadian police in the line of fire, by Peter Boer.

No time to think : the menace of media speed and the 24-hour news cycle, by Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:38:31 GMT

Long overdue, I know, but compensates by being the biggest one yet!

The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in ninteenth-century New York, by Matthew Goodman.

America : a history in art : the American journey told by painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects, by W.G. Scheller.

Indian textiles, by John Gillow and Nicholas Barnard.

The hungry scientist handbook, by Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns.

The artifice of beauty : a history and practical guide to perfume and cosmetics, by Sally Pointer.

Backstabbing for beginners : my crash course in international diplomacy, by Michael Soussan.

The last undercover : the true story of an FBI agent's dangerous dance with evil, by Bob Hamer.

Ziegfeld : the man who invented show business, by Ethan Mordden.

Working girls in the west : representations of wage-earning women, by Lindsey McMaster.

Listening to stone : hardy structures, perilous follies, and other tangles with nature, by Dan Snow.

Factory girls : from village to city in a changing China, by Leslie T. Chang.

We look like the enemy : the hidden story of Israel's Jews from Arab lands, by Rachel Shabi.

Diabetes diet cookbook, by Prevention and Ann Fittante.

Red hot lies, by Christopher C. Horner.

Less than crazy : living fully with bipolar II, by Karla Dougherty.

Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars, edited by Paul Couillard.

Queer popular culture, edited by Thomas Peele.

Imagining science : art, science, and social change, edited by Sean Caulfield and TImothy Caulfield.

Me and the devil blues : the unreal life of Robert Johnson, vol. 1, by Akira Hiramoto.

Casanova, by Ian Kelly.

Fakers : hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders, by Paul Maliszewski.

Ailey ascending : a portrait in motion, by Andrew Eccles.

The encyclopedia of punk, by Brian Cogan.

The vertical garden, by Patrick Blanc.

Masterpieces of ancient jewelry : exquisite objects from the cradle of civilization, by Judith Price.

Stephen Jay Gould : reflections on his view of life, edited by Warren D. Allman, Patricia H. Kelley, and Robert M. Ross.

Things cooks love, by Sur La Table and Marie Simmons.

The survivors : tribes around the world, edited by Hendrik Neubauer.

Stone the crows : Oxford dictionary of modern slang, second edition, by John Ayto and John Simpson.

10 books that screwed up the world : and 5 others that didn't help, by Benjamin Wiker.

Viral spiral : how the commoners built a digital republic of their own, by David Bollinger.

Whatever it takes : Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America, by Paul Tough.

Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr., and Glen M. Leonard.

Delusion : the true story of Victorian superspy Henri Le Caron, by Peter Edwards.

The long life, by Helen Small.

Dali & I : the surreal story, by Stan Lauryssens.

Notable moments of women in music, by Jay Warner.

The road of lost innocence, by Somaly Mam.

Let's get real or let's not play, by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig.

Canada's 150 best diabetes desserts, edited by Barbara Selley.

Canada's diabetes meals for good health, by Karen Graham.

Our magnificent bastard tongue, by John McWhorter.

Lopsided : how having breast cancer can be really distracting, by Meredith Norton.

The humble little condom : a history, by Aine Collier.

Dawn, dusk or night : a year with Nicolas Sarkozy, by Yasmina Reza.

Programming reality : perspectives on English-Canadian television, edited by Zoë Druick and Aspa Kotsopoulos.

The men's fashion reader, edited by Andrew Reilly and Sarah Cosbey.

Ornament and the grotesque, by Alessandra Zamperini.

Your first year with diabetes , by Theresa Garnero.

What works for bipolar kids : help and hope for parents, by Mani N. Pavuluri.

Palestinian cinema : landscape, trauma, and memory, by Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi.

The alcoholic, by Jonathan Ames and illustrated by Dean Haspiel.

Come on shore and we will kill and eat you all : a New Zealand story, by Christina Thompson.

They call me chief : warriors on ice, by Don Marks.

Descartes' bones : a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason, by Russell Shorto.

46 science fair projects for the evil genius, by Bob Bonnet and Dan Keen.

Take this dish and twist it, by George Duran.

Imagining Head-Smashed-In, by Jack W. Brick.

Ceremonial violence, by Jonathan Fast.

Ice, mud and blood : lessons from climates past, by Chris Turney.

A mended and broken heart : the life of St. Francis of Assisi, by Wendy Murray.

Governess : the lives and times of the real Jane Eyres, by Ruth Brandon.

Doc Fizzix mousetrap racers : complete builder's manual, by Alden J. Balmer.

Yuck!, by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom.

Designed for kids, by Phyllis Richardson.

Distracted : the erosion of attention and the coming dark age, by Maggie Jackson.

The man who ate the world : in search of the perfect dinner, by Jay Rayner.

Color of rage, by Kazuo Koike and Seisaku Kano.

Rapunzel's revenge, by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale.

Tamara Drewe, by Posy Simmonds.

Shag : A to Z, by Shag.

Worlds of sound : the story of Smithsonian Folkways, by Richard Carlin.

Henry Moore textiles, edited by Anita Feldman.

Father hunger : the impact of fathers on their daughters' lives, second edition, by Margo Maine.

What the nose knows : the science of scent in everyday life, by Avery Gilbert.

An edge in the kitchen : the ultimate guide to kitchen knives, by Chad Ward.

Dark water : flood and redemption in the city of masterpieces, by Robert Clark.

In the land of long fingernails : a memoir, by Charles Wilkins.

The Muslim next door : the Qur'an, the media, and that veil thing, by Sumbal Ali-Karamali.

Unholy business : a true tale of faith, greed, and forgery in the Holy Land, by Nina Burleigh.

Versailles : a biography of a palace, by Tony Spawforth.

Snakebit : confessions of a herpetologist, by Leslie Anthony.

American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" Girl and the crime of the century, by Paula Uruburu.

Barbarians to angels : the Dark Ages reconsidered, by Peter S. Wells.

100 new fashion designers, by Hywel Davies.

Saving face : the art and history of the goalie mask, by Jim Hynes.

Propitious esculent : the potato in world history, by John Reader.

Glass bead workshop, by Jeri Warhaftig.

Molasses inspirations, by Susan Squire.

I don't : a contrarian history of marriage, by Susan Squire.

Frankenstein takes the cake, by Adam Rex.

Milk : the surprising story of milk through the ages, by Anne Mendelson.

Beef : the untold story of how milk, meat, and muscle shaped the world, by Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser.

Hero of the underground, by Jason Peter and Tony O'Neill.

In season : cooking with vegetables and fruits, by Sarah Raven.

Bike, scooter, and chopper projects for the evil genius, by Brad Graham and Kathy McGowan.

McGraw-Hill's careers for bookworms and other literary types, fourth edition, by Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler.

McGraw-Hill's careers for history buffs and others who learn from the past, third edition, by Blythe Cameron.

Opportunities in library and information science careers, revised edition, by Kathleen de la Peña McCook.

Dark banquet : blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures, by Bill Schutt.

The secret life of words, by Henry Hitchings.

The gentle art of domesticity, by Jane Brocket.

Welcome to your brain, by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang.

The $12 million stuffed shark, by Don Thompson.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:56:20 GMT

The biggest booklist posted here so far! And we'll start off with a little something for Hallowe'en ...

Extreme pumpkins and Extreme pumpkins II, both by Tom Nardone.

Lifting depression : a neuroscientist's hands-on approach to activating your brain's healing power, by Kelly Lambert.

The time of their lives : the golden age of great American publishers, their editors, and authors, by Al Silverman. (thanks to Brad for this one!)

The Montefeltro conspiracy : a Renaissance mystery decoded, by Marcello Simonetta.

Limekiller, by Avram Davidson.

dotCrime manifesto : how to stop Internet crime, by Phillip Hallam-Baker.

The Black list, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell.

The new black : mourning, melancholia and depression, by Darian Leader.

American nerd : the story of my people, by Benjamin Nugent.

Schuyler's monster : a father's journey with his wordless daughter, by Robert Rummel-Hudson.

The white guy : a field guide, by Stephen Hunt.

Bar flower : my decadently destructive days and nights as a Tokyo nightclub hostess, by Lea Jacobson.

Muhajababes : meet the new Middle East ... young, sexy, and devout, by Allegra Stratton.

Love you to pieces : creative writers on raising a child with special needs, edited by Suzanne Kamata.

Forensics : a guide for writers, by D.P. Lyle.

Creative kinetics : making mechanical marvels in wood, by Rodney Frost.

Mezze modern : over 90 delicious appetizers from Greece, Lebanon, and Turkey, by Maria Khalifé.

Parkin : Canada's most famous forgotten man, by William Christian.

The Ayatollah begs to differ : the paradox of modern Iran, by Hooman Majd.

Hot textiles : inspiration and techniques with heat tools, by Kim Thittichai.

Uncle Bobby's wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen.

Job search bloopers : every mistake you can make on the road to career suicide... and how to avoid them, by Laura DeCarlo and Susan Guarneri.

Managing creative people : lessons in leadership for the ideas economy, by Gordon Torr.

Skinny bitch : bun in the oven : a gutsy guide to becoming one hot and healthy mother!, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.

Profiles in folly : history's worst decisions and why they went wrong, by Alan Axelrod.

Drink : a cultural history of alcohol, by Iain Gately.

Late 18th & 19th century textiles, by Sue Kerry.

The facts in the case of the departure of Miss Finch, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli.

The Discworld graphic novels, by Terry Pratchett, Steven Ross, and Scott Rockwell.

Where underpants come from, by Joe Bennett.

101 things you wish you'd invented... and some you wish no one had, by Richard Horne and Tracey Turner.

A supremely bad idea : three mad birders and their quest to see it all, by Luke Dempsey.

Do travel writers go to hell? : a swashbuckling tale of high adventures, questionable ethics & professional hedonism, by Thomas Kohnstamm.

The compassionate carnivore : or, how to keep animals happy, save old Macdonald's farm, reduce your hoofprint, and still eat meat, by Catherine Friend.

Two dudes, one pan : maximum flavor from a minimalist kitchen, by John Shook and Vinny Dotolo.

The Vwl fml : tl f lst lttrs, by Sally M. Walker.

Hiding in plain sight : the secret life of Raymond Burr, by Michael Seth Starr.

Burma chronicles, by Guy Delisle.

The voice : a memoir, by Thomas Quasthoff.

Embroidered textiles : a world guide to traditional patterns, updated and expanded edition, by Sheila Paine.

Aya of Yop City, by Marguerite Abouet.

The edible mushroom book : a gourmet's guide to foraging and cooking, by Anna Del Conte and Thomas Læssøe.

Creative careers in museums, by Jan E. Burdick.

Anything goes : the autobiography, by John Barrowman.

The Qur'an : a new translation, by Tarif Khaladi.

The PITA principle : how to work with and avoid becoming a pain in the ass, by Robert Orndorff and Dulin Clark.

The other Islam : Sufism and the road to global harmony, by Stephen Schwartz.

The surface of meaning : books and book design in Canada, by Robert Bringhurst.

Disassembling the archive : Fiona Tan, by Philip Monk.

Fashion v sport, edited by Ligaya Salazar.

A cultural history of fashion in the twentieth century : from the catwalk to the sidewalk, by Bonnie English.

The great derangement : a terrifying true story of war, politics, & religion at the twilight of the American empire, by Matt Taibbi.

While America aged : how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis, by Roger Lowenstein.

Dublin : a view from the ground, by Neil Hegarty.

Can any mother help me? : fifty years of friendship through a secret magazine, by Jenna Bailey.

Going Dutch : how England plundered Holland's glory, by Lisa Jardine.

The grand inquisitor's manual : a history of terror in the name of God, by Jonathan Kirsch.

The comfort of things, by Daniel Miller.

Why popcorn costs so much at the movies, and other pricing puzzles, by Richard B. McKenzie.

Otherworld uprising, by Shary Boyle.

Paradise lost : Smyrna, 1922 : the destruction of Islam's city of tolerance, by Giles Milton.

Bastard tongues : a trailblazing linguist finds clues to our common heritage in the world's lowlist languages, by Derek Bickerton.

Grand theft Jesus : the hijacking of religion in America, by Robert S. McElvaine.

From Alien to The Matrix : reading science fiction film, by Roz Kaveney.

The billionaire's vinegar : the mystery of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, by Benjamin Wallace.

Grand theft childhood : the surprising truth about violent video games and what parents can do, by Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl K. Olson.

Pig candy : taking my father south, taking my father home, by Lise Funderburg.

Parenting, Inc. : how we are sold on $800 strollers, fetal education, baby sign language, sleeping coaches, toddler couture, and diaper wipe warmers -- and what it means for our children, by Pamela Paul.

Hubble : imaging space and time, by DAvid Devorkin and Robert W. Smith.

Telephone projects for the evil genius, by Tom Petruzzelis.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:24:29 GMT

It's been ages, but I'm making it up with quantity!

Making the grade with ADD : a student's guide to succeeding in college with Attention Deficit Disorder, by Stephanie Sarkis.

Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy, 3rd edition, by Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, and Wilkie Wilson.

Lickety-split diabetic meals, by Zonya Foco.

When good people have affairs : inside the hearts and minds of people in two relationships, by Mira Kirshenbaum.

The everything health guide to migraines, by Paula Ford-Martin.

Open : love, sex, and life in an open marriage, by Jenny Block.

Number freaking, by Gary Rimmer.

The theatre of the face, by Max Kozloff.

Sex in crisis : the new sexual revolution and the future of American politics, by Dagmar Herzog.

The three of us : a family story, by Julia Blackburn.

The ultimate HTML reference, by Ian Lloyd.

The Quirks & Quarks guide to space, by Jim Lebans.

The Lolita effect, by M. Gigi Durham.

Medication madness : a psychiatrist exposes the dangers of mood-altering medications, by Peter R. Breggin.

The disorganized mind : coaching your ADHD brin to take control of your tasks, time, and talents, by Nancy A. Ratey.

In praise of prejudice : the necessity of preconceived ideas, by Theodore Dalrymple.

30 second seduction : how advertisers lure women through flattery, flirtation, and manipulation, by Andrea Gardner.

The transgender child : a handbook for families and professionals, by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper.

Going Dutch in Beijing : how to behave properly when far away from home, by Mark McCrum.

Mama Rock's rules : ten lessons for raising a houseful of successful children, by Rose Rock and Valeria Graham.

The essential Batman encyclopedia, by Robert Greenberger.

Blackwork embroidery, by Elisabeth Geddes and Moyra McNeill.

Teen dads : rights, responsibilities & joys, third edition, Jeanne Warren Lindsay.

The snake charmer : a life and death in pursuit of knowledge, by Jamie James.

Quirkology : the curious science of everyday lives, by Richard Wiseman.

Dyslexia : how to survive and succeed at work, by Sylvia Moody.

The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history, by Katherine Ashenburg.

A journey round my skull, by Frigyes Karinthy.

Prehistory : the making of the human mind, by Colin Renfrew.

Blubberland : the dangers of happiness, by Elizabeth Farrelly.

1000 songs to change your life, by Time Out. Refreshingly not the usual tunes one sees in this type of book.

Making theatre : a life of Sharon Pollock, by Sherrill Grace.

Only love can break your heart, by David Samuels.

What to expect when you have diabetes, by American Diabetes Association.

Mr. Food's quick and easy diabetic cooking, by Art Ginsburg.

Crocheted pursenalities : 20 great felted bags, by Eva Wiechmann.

The diabetic chef's year-round cookbook, by Chris Smith.

Beware of the frog, by William Bee.

The big-ass book of crafts, by Mark Montano.

Asperger's from the inside out, by Michael John Carley.

Beyond the Zonules of Zinn : a fantastic journey through your brain, by David Bainbridge.

Debunked! conspiracy theories, urban legends, and evil plots of the 21st century, by Richard Roeper.

Death by leisure, by Chris Ayres.

My Guantánamo diary : the detainees and the stories they told me, by Mahvish Rukhsana Khan.

Monkey portraits, by Jill Greenberg.

Human : the science behind what makes us unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Black skin, white masks, by Frantz Fanon, new translation by Richard Philcox.

I never metaphor I didn't like : a comprehensive compilation of history's greatest analogies, metaphors, and similes, by Mardy Grothe.

Made in America : from Levi's to Barbie to Google, by Nick Freeth.

The gaol : the story of Newgate, London's most notorious prison, by Kelly Grovier.

Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott.

Sex and sensibility : ten women examine the lunacy of modern love ... in 200 cartoons, edited by Liza Donnelly.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:56:50 GMT

Techniques of medieval armour reproduction : the 14th century, by Brian R. Price.

Good-bye, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

Reference librarianship : notes from the trenches, by Charles R. Anderson and Peter Sprenkle.

The black death : a personal history, by John Hatcher.

Green up your cleanup, by Jill Potvin Schoff.

Asian cinema : a field guide, by Tom Vick.

Critical companion to Toni Morrison : a literary reference to her life and work, by Carmen Gillespie.

The hard truth about soft skills : workplace lessons smart people wish they'd learned sooner, by Peggy Klaus.

Don't be that girl : a guide to finding the confident, rational girl within, by Travis L. Stork and Leah Furman.

Glamour, interrupted : how I became the best-dressed patient in Hollywood, by Steven Cojocaru.

Major : a black athlete, a white era, and the fight to be the world's fastest human being, by Todd Balf.

Children of Jihad, by Jared Cohen.

Lost battles : reconstructing the great clashes of the ancient world, by Philip Sabin.

Stomp rockets, catapults, and kaleidoscopes : 30+ amazing science project you can build for less than $1, by Curt Gabrielson.

Zombies calling, by Faith Erin Hicks.

The Goon : Chinatown and the mystery of Mr. Wicker, by Eric Powell.

The young, the restless and the dead : interviews with Canadian filmmakers, vol. 1, edited by George Melnyk.

Japanese cinema : texts and contexts, edited by Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer.

Australia (Art textiles of the world series), edited by Matthew Koumis.

Ikonica : a field guide to Canada's brandscape, by Jeannette Hanna, Alan Middleton.

Chasing the high : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with substance abuse, by Kyle Keegan.

Born in the big rains : a memoir of Somalia and survival, by Fadumo Korn.

There is no me without you : one woman's odyssey to rescue her country's children, by Melissa Fay Greene.

Culturing live foods : a step-by-step guide to producing food for your home aquarium, by Mike Hellweg.

The meaning of sunglasses : and a guide to almost all things fashionable, by Hadley Freeman.

Singled out : how two million women survived without men after the First World War, by Virginia Nicholson.

Running uphill : the fast, short life of Canadian champion Harry Jerome, by Fil Fraser.

Evil genes : why Rome fell, Hitler rose, Enron failed, and my sister stole my mother's boyfriend, by Barbara Oakley.

Nets, puzzles, and postmen : an exploration of mathematical connections, by Peter M. Higgins.

Women in power : the personalities and leadership styles of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.

The last days of old Beijing : life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed, by Michael Meyer.

It's happy bunny : life, get one, by Jim Benton.

What people wore when : a complete illustrated history of costume from ancient times ot the nineteenth century for every level of society, consultant editor, Melissa Leventon.

Twinkie, deconstructed : my journey to discover how the ingredients found in processed foods are grown, mined (yes, mined), and manipulated into what America eats, by Steve Ettlinger.

The best book of useless information ever, by Neil Botham.

Working IX to V : orgy planners, funeral clowns, and other prized professions of the ancient world, by Vicki León.

I am not my breast cancer : women talk openly about love & sex, hair loss & weight gain, mothers & daughters, and being a woman with breast cancer, by Ruth A. Peltason.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:08:48 GMT

Life sucks, by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece.

In the small, by Michael Devon Hague.

Secrets of rusty things : transforming found objects into art, Michael de Meng.

Literally, the best language book ever : annoying words and abused phrases you should never use again, by Paul Yeager.

Jane Boleyn : the true story of the infamous Lady Rochford, by Julia Fox.

Grave secrets of dinosaurs : soft tissues and hard science, by Phillip Manning.

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions, by Dan Ariely.

Modern menswear, by Hywel Davies.

8 weeks to maximizing diabetes control, by Laura Hieronymus and Chris Tobin.

Box turtles : a complete guide to Terrapene and Cuora, by Tess Cook.

Sustainable fashion & textiles : design journeys, by Kate Fletcher.

Fashion now 2, by Taschen.

Cities and cinema, by Barbara Mennel.

Cuba : art and history from 1868 to today, by Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

Invasion of the plush monsters! : wickedly weird creatures you just gotta sew, by Veronika Alice Gunter.

Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain, by Maryanne Wolf.

A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom, including their own narratives of emancipation, by David W. Blight.

The day I ate whatever I wanted : and other small acts of liberation, by Elizabeth Berg.

Shakespeare's consuls, cardinals, and kings : the real history behind the plays, by Dick Riley.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:20:10 GMT

Women of valor : the Rochambelles on the WWII front, by Ellen Hampton.

Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution, by Caroline Weber.

Robert Service : under the spell of the Yukon, by Enid Mallory.

Curves and angles : poems, by Brad Leithauser.

Last rights : rescuing the end of life from the medical establishment, by Stephen Kiernan.

What's out there : images from here to the edge of the universe, by Mary K. Baumann and others.

Lillian Hellman : a life with foxes and scoundrels, by Deborah Martinson.

Voyages of imagination : the Star Trek fiction companion, by Jeff Ayers.

In search of Ireland's heroes : the story of the Irish from the English invasion to the present day, by Carmel McCaffrey.

Vermeer's light : poems, 1996-2006, by George Bowering.

Italy in the central Middle Ages, 1000-1300, edited by David Abulafia.

France in the central Middle Ages, 900-1200, edited by Marcus Bull.

Renegade women of Canada : the wild, outrageous, daring and bold, by Marine Michaelides.

Meetings with Maritime poets : interviews, by Anne Compton.

Taming bipolar disorder, by Lori Oliwenstein.

Carol Guber's type 2 diabetes life plan : take charge, take care and feel better than ever, by Carol Guber and Betsy Thorpe.

I love Led Zeppelin : panty-dropping comics, by Ellen Forney.

24seven, edited by Ivan Brandon.

Halo graphic novel, edited by Robert McLees and Frank O'Connor.

Jokes and the unconscious, by Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa.

Marked, by Steve Ross.

The 9/11 report : a graphic adaptation, by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón.

The diabetes holiday cookbook : year-round cooking for people with diabetes, by Carolyn Leontos, Debra Mitchell, and Kenneth Weicker.

What Islam did for us : understanding Islam's contribution to Western civilization, by Tim Wallace Murphy.

A short history of the Wellington boot, by Adam Edwards.

Just dummies : cruise missile testing in Canada, by John Clearwater.

The Stray Dog Cabaret : a book of Russian poems, translated by Paul Schmidt, edited by Catherine Ciepiela and Honor Moore.

The ultimate book of mind maps, by Tony Buzan.

The other side of war : women's stories of survival and hope, by Zainab Salbi.

101 ways to use your first sewing machine, by Elizabeth Dubicki.

Turtles and tortoises and Monitors and tegus, both by Richard D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett.

Unspeakable love : gay and lesbian life in the Middle East, by Brian Whitaker.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:08:12 GMT

How to read a novel : a user's guide, by John Sutherland.

Understanding the mind of your bipolar child : the complete guide to the development, treatment, and parenting of children with bipolar disorder, by Gregory T. Lombardo.

Nudes 4, produced by B. Martin Pedersen.

The "I hate to exercise" book for people with diabetes : turn everyday home activities into a low-impact fitness plan you'll love, 2nd edition, by Charlotte Hayes.

Censored 2006 : the top 25 censored stories, edited by Peter Phillips.

The decline of the Hollywood empire, by Hervé Fischer ; translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins.

Ganong : a sweet history of chocolate, by David Folster.

Accomodating brocolli in the cemetary, or, Why can't anyone spell?, by Vivian Cook.

Opera lover's cookbook : menus for elegant entertaining and The philosopher's kitchen : recipes from ancient Greece and Rome for the modern cook, both by Francine Segan.

Knocked up : confessions of a modern mother-to-be, by Rebecca Eckler.

The complete world of human evolution, by Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews.

The man-eaters of Eden : life and death in Kruger National Park, by Robert R. Frump.

Wicked : the grimmerie : a behind-the-scenes look at the hit Broadway musical, by David Coté.

A field guide to Type 2 diabetes, by the American Diabetes Association.

Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers, edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil.

Fashioning fabrics : contemporary textiles in fashion, edited by Sandy Black.

The R/C car bible : how to build, tune and drive electric and nitro-powered radio control cars on and off-road, by Robert Schleicher.

So, we sold our house and ran away to the South Pacific, by Gordon Cope.

A shameful act : the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility, by Taner Akçam.

Nina Hartley's guide to total sex, by Nina Hartley and I.S. Levine.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:37:34 GMT

A photographer's life, 1990-2005, by Annie Leibovitz.

Brownies to die for : the complete guide for brownie lovers, by Bev Shaffer.

Wyland : 25 years at sea, by John Yow.

The Matrix and philosophy : welcome to the desert of the real, edited by William Irwin.

In search of cinema : writings on international film art, by Bert Cardullo.

Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy, by Tom Wicker.

Television's strangest moments : extraordinary but true tales from the history of television, by Quentin Falk & Ben Falk.

How to make a life as a poet, by Gary Mex Glazner.

Perfect light desserts : fabulous cakes, cookies, pies, and more made with real butter, sugar, flour, and eggs, all under 300 calories per generous serving, by Nick Malgieri and David Joachim.

Transcontinental pedestrians : the first walk across Canada from sea to sea, by George Edward Hart.

What manner of man : Darnell Bass and the Canadian Airborne Regiment, by James Ogle and Darnell Bass.

The defiant imagination : why culture matters, by Max Wyman.

Gee whiz : it's all about pee, by Susan Goodman. Where were books like this when I was a kid?

The green eggs and ham cookbook : yots in pots and Schlottz's knots, Who-roast-beast, "Fritz-fed Fred" food feast, moose juice and goose juice-- recipes inspired by Dr. Seuss!, by Georgeanne Brennan.

The stuff of life : profiles of the molecules that make us tick, by Eric P. Widmaier.

Mirror mirror : a history of the human love affair with refliection, by Mark Pendergrast.

The math gene : how mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip, by Keith Devlin.

The road map to nowhere : Israel/Palestine since 2002, by Tanya Reinhart.

A Tribble's guide to space : how to get to space and what to do when you're there, by Alan C. Tribble.

If your adolescent has schizophrenia : an essential resource for parents, by Raquel E. Gur and Ann Braden Johnson.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:36:47 GMT

The secrets of happily married men : eight ways to win your wife's heart forever, by Scott Haltzman and Theresa Foy Digeronimo. I know none of my regular male readers need this (and if they do, they and their spouses are doing one hell of a coverup job), but we all know someone ...

In our opinion : more than 100 years of great Canadian newspaper editorials, edited by Don Sellar.

A life in secrets : the story of Vera Atkins and SOE's lost agents, by Sarah Helm.

Edens lost & found : how ordinary citizens are restoring our great American cities, by Harry Wiland, Dave Bell, and Joseph D'Agnese.

Dangerous liaisons : fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century, by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton.

The concise book of the moving body, by Chris Jarmey.

Faces of osteoporosis : and the stories behind them, by Amelia Davis.

A year in the life of the universe : a seasonal guide to viewing the cosmos, by Robert Gendler.

Andean inspired knits : designs in luxurious alpaca, by Helen Hamann.

The diva & the rancher : the story of Norma Piper and George Pocaterra, by Jennifer Hamblin and David Finch.

Mia's secret, by Peter Ledwon and Marilyn Mets.

Are you quite polite? : silly dilly manners songs, by Alan Katz and David Catrow.

Don't forget your etiquette! : the essential guide to misbehavior, by David Greenberg and Nadine Bernard Westcott.

Seeds : time capsules of life, by Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy.

A book of books, photographed by Abelardo Morell.

The human body : a basic guide to the way you fit together, by Moff Betts.

From the Cataloguer's Desktop

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:59:55 GMT

The everything health guide to fibromyalgia, by Winnie Yu and Michael M. McNett.

Duel : a true story of death and honour, by James Landale.

Axial stones : an art of precarious balance, by George Quasha.

Annie Freeman's fabulous traveling funeral, by Kris Radish.

The caged virgin : an emancipation proclamation for women and Islam, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Middle passages : African American journeys to Africa, 1878-2005, by James T. Campbell.

The man who wrote Mozart : the extraordinary life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, by Anthony Holden.

Lost voices of the Edwardians, by Max Arthur.

The ravaging tide : strange weather, future Katrinas, and the coming death of America's coastal cities, by Mike Tidwell.

Careers for bookworms & other literary types, third edition, by Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler.

Careers for night owls & other insomniacs, second edition, by Louise Miller.

Generation debt : why now is a terrible time to be young, by Anya Kamenetz.

Atheists : a groundbreaking study of America's nonbelievers, by Bruce Hunsberger and Bob Altemeyer.

Insects : their natural history and diversity, by Stephen A. Marshall.

Reading women, by Stefan Bollmann.

"Injuns!" : Native Americans in the movies, by Edward Buscombe.

Why did the chicken cross the road?, by Marla Frazee and others.

The hollow tree : fighting addiction with traditional native healing, by Herb Nabigon.

Dyspraxia, second edition, by Geoff Brookes.

Why Botswana prospered, by J. Clark Leith.

Why most things fail : evolution, extinction and economics, by Paul Ormerod.

Adventures in psychiatry : the scientific memoirs of Dr. Abram Hoffer, by Abram Hoffer.

Valuing literacy : rhetoric or reality?, by Nayda Veeman, Angela Ward, and Keith Walker.

Background noise : a history of sound art, by Brandon LaBelle.

Sing a new song : portraits of Canada's crusading bishops, by Julie H. Ferguson.

Working on screen : representations of the working class in Canadian cinema, edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga.

Innovation : the five disciplines for creating what customers want, by Curtis R. Carlson and William W. Wilmot.

The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter, by Colin Tudge.

Diaries, 1969-1979 : the Python years, by Michael Palin.

Unbowed : a memoir, by Wangari Maathai (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize).

Chicken with plums, by Marjane Satrapi.

The digital canvas : discovering the art studio in your computer, by Jonathan Raimes.

Free gift with purchase : my improbable career in magazines and makeup, by Jean Godfrey-June.

The Golem : a new translation of the classic play and selected short stories, by Joachim Neugroschel.

The writer's little helper : everything you need to know to write better and get published, by James V. Smith, Jr.

The triumph of numbers : how counting shaped modern life, by I.B. Cohen.

Bodywork : what type of massage to get ... and how to make the most of it, revised and updated edition, by Thomas Claire.