Simon Heffer, Author, Rudolf Steiner, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $29.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-297-81564-8
Few eminent Victorians were as unlikable, unreadable or miserable as Thomas Carlyle. Heffer, his newest biographer-a London newspaper editor whose first biography this is-concedes this in his bicentenary life. Carlyle (1796-1881) was selfish,...
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Paul Jargowsky, Author, Rudolf Steiner, Author Russell Sage Foundation Publications $43.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87154-405-6
High-poverty neighborhoods in the U.S., whether black ghettos, Hispanic barrios or poor white districts, doubled in population between 1970 and 1990, concludes Jargowsky in this alarming report, a rigorous study packed with charts, tables, 1990...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Nicola Thorne, Author Severn House Publishers $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4931-1
For Helen Tempest, a part-time working mother of two, the promotion won by her husband, John, comes as a mixed blessing. It means a move from suburban London to the isolated village of Tip Hollow in rural Dorset, and a new home, repossessed from its
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Gerard Pouradier, Author, Fabien Perucca, Author Prion $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-85375-223-0
The authors, French investigative journalists, here examine agriculture and its products as they come to our tables. Perucca and Pouradier begin with stomach-turning scenes from China, in particular the preparation of hot dogs (which does not mean...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Christina Odone, Author, Cristina Odone, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-297-81661-4
""San Lorenzo, Italy: a handful of farmhouses, a cemetery, a church... nestled among undulating hills of ripening vineyards"" is the setting for this beguiling debut. The village seems picture-perfect--indeed a shrine to the simple life--until we...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Dorothy Carrington, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-297-81260-9
Corsica's unique occult inheritance, descended from the Megalithic cult of the dead, is threatening to disappear. So says Carrington, whose Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica, won the Heinemann Award in 1971, and who here speculates eloquently on
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Timothy Hugh Barrett, Author, Mumuela Dun Mascetti, Author Hyperion Books $9.7 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6253-5
Mascetti has brought together three small, handsomely illustrated books designed to introduce readers to a trio of important elements of the Zen tradition: koans, sayings and haiku. Bound elegantly in a box and published as a gift set (Hyperion is...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Munuela Dun Mascetti, Author, Manuela Dunn, Editor Hyperion Books $9.7 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6252-8
Mascetti has brought together three small, handsomely illustrated books designed to introduce readers to a trio of important elements of the Zen tradition: koans, sayings and haiku. Bound elegantly in a box and published as a gift set (Hyperion is...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Elizabeth Hoarris, Author, Elizabeth Harris, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4987-8
Protesting the carnage in Vietnam, a California college student douses himself in ""petrol"" and sets himself on fire in British author Harris's novel, an attempt to assess the turbulent 1960s in the U.S. The first of a proposed trilogy, the story...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, John Clay, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-340-59049-2
The Scottish therapist R.D. Laing (1927-1989) is a biographer's dream. A multifaceted character who can legitimately be described as both creative and self-destructive, inspiring and dangerous, compassionate and vain, he was tortured and perverse, a
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Bart Schneider, Author Random House Value Publishing $32 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70546-9
In May 1994, Schneider ran a questionnaire about the effect of race on readers' lives in the magazine he edits, Hungry Mind Review. The responses evolved into an issue of the magazine, which in turn inspired this book. But the pieces here are not...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Christine Green, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3297-2
Inefficient, gullible and inept: not promising attributes in a PI who runs her own agency. But Kate Kinsella, head of Medical and Nursing Investigations, has other, admirable skills that she puts to good use in this brisk and appealing British...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Greg Mulcahy, Author Avisson Press Inc $13 (153p) ISBN 978-1-888105-13-1
Despite some good writing and intriguing cast that is, as the back blurb says, ""loosely based"" on the characters in Hamlet (emphasis on loosely), this first novel by the author of the collection Out of Work sacrifices any profundity to a kind of...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Oscar Wilde, Author, John W. Jackson, Editor Fourth Estate $13.95 (215p) ISBN 978-1-85702-334-3
""Uncollected"" is a slight misnomer. Jackson, a British publisher and essayist, has gathered these occasional pieces from The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (1908): they will be familiar to devoted readers, who have always known that the Divine...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, George E. Berkley, Author, Adolph Caso, Editor Branden Books $17.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-8283-2027-6
Berkley, who is Jewish, a member of B'nai B'rith and author of Vienna and Its Jews, has written a freewheeling, brashly opinionated, anecdote-filled, sometimes entertaining cultural history of the Jews that is certain to irk and provoke. In his...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, William J. Vizzard, Author, Wukkuan H. Vuzzard, Author Lynne Rienner Publishers $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55587-671-5
Vizzard worked for 27 years in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), both as agent and as supervisor, leaving in 1994, a year after the notorious raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. He presents a blistering critique...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, James Hamilton-Paterson, Author Random House UK $17.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-224-04195-9
In 1989, Hamilton-Paterson won wide recognition for Gerontius, his novel of Edward Elgar's journey up the Amazon. Now, in a virtuoso performance, he once again uses his love of music to unify these tales. These are entertaining and original...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Reginald Hill, Author Severn House Publishers $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4993-9
Originally published in England in 1973 as The Heartclock, by Dick Morland, this speculative novel is an early departure from the Dalziel and Pascoe crime novels for which Hill (The Wood Beyond) has become well known. In a country wracked by...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Sherman Alexie, Author Hanging Loose Press $15 (140p) ISBN 978-1-882413-34-8
For prolific poet and novelist Alexie (First Indian on the Moon), ""Indian"" culture is not a frozen set-piece, but a field of vital, co-mingling influences that includes playing basketball, watching for Sasquatch or admiring Fred Astaire. His...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Robert Silverberg, Author Underwood Books $29.65 (0p) ISBN 978-1-887424-24-0
In 1978, Silverberg, who's won nine Hugo and Nebula Awards for his science fiction, began contributing essays to the short-lived magazine Galileo. He moved to the long-lived Amazing Stories in 1981, then to Asimov's in 1994 after Amazing's demise...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Peter Watson, Author Richard Cohen Books $17.95 (437p) ISBN 978-1-86066-011-5
Watson, well-known for both nonfiction (From Manhattan to Manet) and fiction (Landscape of Lies), gives Puzo a run for his money with this stunning tale of the Sicilian Mafia's roots and burgeoning power in New Orleans. Set in the late 19th century,
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Samual Hynes, Author, Samuel Lynn Hynes, Author A. Lane $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-86585-7
Surveying the war writings of 20th-century Britons and Americans, Hynes (The First World War and English Culture) offers a convincing analysis of war narratives as combining elements of travel writing, autobiography and history in a context of...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Liston Pope, Author N.A. Gilbert & Sons $29.5 (300p) ISBN 978-0-9638900-1-6
By charting the course of one family and their barrio neighbors as they lead an insurrection against the brutal government of Anastasio Somoza, the author of Redemption paints a dramatic and intimate group portrait of the Nicaraguan people during...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Tiina Nunnally, Author, Margit Andersson, Translator Fjord Press $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-940242-77-7
In this mystery whose roots go back to golden treasures cast into Danish bogs 1500 years ago, Nunnally, translator of many Scandinavian-language books, most notably Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow, introduces unlikely sleuth Margit Andersson, a...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Jim Fobel, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-88312-9
The casserole, paraphrased M.F.K. Fisher, ""is probably one of the greatest modern inventions since aspirin."" Unfortunately, casseroles have also been used as last resort catchalls for ill-assorted, canned soup-swathed leftovers. Fobel (James Beard
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Alexander M. Grace, Author Vandamere Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-918339-38-6
The post-communist political chaos of Eastern Europe forms the setting for this tightly crafted fourth novel from the pseudonymous Grace (in reality, U.S. foreign service officer Bruce Farcau). Belgian Luc Chatelan, 45, a security officer for the EC
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Michele Kasson, Author, Susan R. Shapiro, Author Rutledge Books $15.5 (0p) ISBN 978-1-887750-37-0
Geared to women 35-55 on the lookout for a mate, this cautionary manual identifies 10 different types of men. The leitmotif is: women, watch out! For example, the ""instant family man"" longs to be part of a unit and craves the stability you...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, William Harris, Author Markus Wiener Publishers $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55876-116-2
If there's a gaping hole in your knowledge of the Middle East just north of Israel, Harris's straightforward, thorough guide to Lebanon will more than plug the gap. Harris, a visiting professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, past...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Renato Silva De Mendonca E. Vasco, Author, Mendonca E Vasconcelos Renato, Author Rivercross Publishing $18.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-944957-85-1
Nine science-fiction stories comprise the literary debut of Vasconcelos, a retired Portuguese businessman. ""The Man from Strasbourg"" presents a tour through the history of that French city, site of an endless feud between Celt and German, while ""S
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, M. L. Hester, Author Tudor Publishers $22.5 (189p) ISBN 978-0-936389-44-8
Hester's endearing, nostalgic yarn set in Alma, N.C., during the early 1950s evokes bygone times--both in the national lifestyle and in the life of its youthful narrator--with vividness and humor. E.Z. Poole, 14-year-old orphan, part-time utility...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Ulla Berkewicz, Author, Ulla Berkiwicz, Author Camden House (NY) $19.99 (300p) ISBN 978-1-57113-112-6
In a powerful first novel, German writer Berkewicz explores the paradox that has haunted the 20th century: how a nation that prided itself on its civilized culture could have been seduced into supporting Hitler. Reinhold Fischer is a poet, an ardent
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Anne Quinton, Author, Ann Quinton, Author Severn House Publishers $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4942-7
War games become fatal for a British solicitor in the sixth low-key police procedural featuring Petly village Detective Inspector James Roland and Sergeant Patrick Mansfield (A Little Grave). When Michael Benton is shot with a composite bullet...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Vernella Fuller, Author Women's Press (UK) $14.99 (330p) ISBN 978-0-7043-4431-0
Even though Jamaica in the early 1960s was a newly independent nation, the old assumptions of colonialism lingered. Here, despite a change of government, the land-owning Clearys still hold sway, their men using country women as concubines. But in...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Elizabeth Webster, Author Severn House Publishers $29.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4915-1
Retired but still zesty schoolteacher Isobel Frazier encounters the Broadbent clan when adorable 11-year-old Georgie Broadbent attempts to steal a pint of milk from Isobel's doorstep to provide breakfast for her family. A few days later, Isobel's...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Roger Morriss, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85585-274-7
A similar feat is achieved with somewhat more style in Nelson: The Life and Letters of a Hero, in which British maritime historian Roger Morriss offers a life of the great naval figure centered around his letters. The book is sumptuously illustrated
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, June Knox-Mawer, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $26 (321p) ISBN 978-0-297-81567-9
Add to the recent spate of Amelia Earhart books (I Was Amelia Earhart; Hidden Latitudes) this well-written, highly suspenseful commercial novel, which puts yet another spin on what might have happened to America's flying ace after she disappeared...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Julian More, Author, Carey More, Photographer Pavilion Books $29.95 (161p) ISBN 978-1-85793-356-7
A visitor to Marseilles or any of its surrounding villages might not think twice about the frequency with which he hears certain children's names--Marcel, Cesar, Manon, Fanny, Marius; they are common enough French names, but in this region of...
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Kilurifi Druzhnikov, Author, Rudolf Steiner, Author, Yuri Druzhnikov, Author Transaction Publishers $32.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-56000-283-3
Pavel Morozov's official Soviet title was ""Hero-Pioneer of the Soviet Union Number 001."" He earned that title in November 1931 by denouncing his father to the Soviet authorities for falsifying documents. His father was tried and exiled. Less than...
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Chi-Ts'ai Feng, Author, Rudolf Steiner, Author, Femg Jican, Author China Books & Periodicals $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8351-2584-0
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cultural Revolution and the 30th of its beginning, Feng conducted extensive interviews with 100 people who lived through that harrowing decade. In 1986, when he placed ads in Chinese newspapers...
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