J. M. Adovasio, Author, Olga Soffer, Author, Jake Page, Author . Collins/Smithsonian $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-117091-1
This jauntily written, highly convincing analysis by influential anthropologists Adovasio and Soffer and former editor of Natural History
and Smithsonian
Page argues that women of prehistory were pivotal in a wide range of culture-building...
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Jake Page, Author . Free Press $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-85576-9
This superlative popular history of American Indian peoples distills two generations of scholarship into a rare combination of readability and reliability. For former Smithsonian
and Natural History
editor Page, who is also a prolific mystery...
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Jake Page, Author Ballantine Books $20 (228p) ISBN 978-0-345-37930-6
Fans of Page's series hero, big, blind Santa Fe sculptor Mo Bowdre, will surely relish this sequel to The Stolen Gods . Readers unacquainted with Mo's charms may be somewhat mystified. The sculptor's character seems mostly defined by his laugh--a...
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Jake Page, Author Ballantine Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38784-4
Set in the Southwest, Page's series features blind sculptor Mo Bowdre and his Hopi girlfriend, Connie Barnes. Their fourth adventure (after The Knotted Strings) unfolds in Sante Fe, ``the world of Art and Myth,'' where the lore and legend of ancient
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Jake Page, Author Ballantine Books $19 (246p) ISBN 978-0-345-37928-3
In Page's accomplished debut mystery, the Hopi kachinas referred to in the title--wooden representations thought by the tribe to embody the gods themselves--have been pilfered from their sacred cave and are making their way around the art-world...
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Jake Page, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37929-0
Page's fast-paced debut about the theft of sacred Hopi statues and the art-world black market captures with ease and authenticity the atmosphere of its New Mexico and Arizona settings. (Mar.)
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Jake Page, Author Ballantine Books $20 (247p) ISBN 978-0-345-38782-0
Native American tradition, New Mexico's terra-cotta landscape and a missing ``Lincoln cane'' that might have bludgeoned someone to death bring to mind Tony Hillerman's Sacred Clowns. While sharing these ingredients with that 1993 novel, Page's third
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Jake Page, Author, Franz Maier, Photographer, Franz Maier, Author Facts on File $35 (2p) ISBN 978-0-8160-2345-5
Page ( Lords of the Air ) here examines the modern zoo and its role in saving animals from extinction, breeding and returning them to the wild. Among the successes are Pere David's deer, the Przewalski horse, Arabian oryx, golden lion tamarin. Page...
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Jake Page, Author, Charles Officer, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (239p) ISBN 978-0-618-34150-4
The three largest earthquakes ever to strike the continental United States occurred in December 1811 and January 1812 near New Madrid, Mo.; the third quake is estimated to have reached magnitude 8.3. (The 1906 San Francisco quake, by comparison, was
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Jake Page, Author, Wesley Bates, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-87923-957-2
Former editor of Smithsonian magazine and author of Zoo: The Modern Ark, Page demonstrates a light touch in these essays on various birds and animals. He examines mutual dependence among birds and the voices of nature--``the growl and whine school...
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Charles Officer, Author, Jake Page, Author Oxford University Press, USA $16.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-19-537701-9
An updated version of 1993's Tales of the Earth by geophysics researcher Officer, this new release incorporates information on Hurricane Katrina, the Great Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, and other severe floods from across the world, to inform...
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Charles B. Officer, Author, Jake Page, Author, Jake Page, Joint Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-19-512382-1
The forbidding Arctic has long been a subject of fascination to explorers, both actual and armchair, and to writers documenting its exploration. Unfortunately, Officer, an engineering professor at Dartmouth, and Page, a science writer (co-authors of
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Michael Westmore, with Jake Page. Rowman & Littlefield, $29.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63076-190-5
Readers will want to take a giant step back in time with Academy Award–winner Westmore’s amiable and intimate look at his family, a Hollywood makeup dynasty for four generations, and the stars they’ve been making look good since 1917. His own career
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