Archive for June, 2004

Tibet: Through the Red Box

Sunday, June 27th, 2004

by Peter Sís ISBN: 0374375526

Caldecott-honored Sís tells a fantastic yet true story in this book. When Sís was a small child, his father, a documentary filmmaker, was sent away to film

The Golden Compass

Saturday, June 19th, 2004

His Dark Materials Book I by Philip Pullman ISBN: 037582345X

This is one of those books I was both interested in and leery of reading because of all the buzz surrounding it. Interest

Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism

Saturday, June 5th, 2004

by Daniel Harris ISBN: 0306810476

This book isn't science: Harris is an essayist, one whose words have bite and humor, so he doesn't follow up his pronouncements with statistics. His theories appeal

A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico

Saturday, June 5th, 2004

by Elizabeth Ferrer ISBN: 0917418964

This book is a catalogue for an exhibition of the same name that toured mostly in the American west and midwest in the early and mid-nineties. The