From Foreword to Afterword
Melvin Jules Bukiet, on books:
And there you have several miracles, first among them the wonder of a
three-dimensional volume where black squiggles on white paper create worlds.
(from Glenn Vanderburg's
Quotes Collection.)
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The following are mini-reviews of books I read in
1996, 1997,
1998, 1999,
2000, 2001,
and 2002.
- Adams, Douglas
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's
Guide
- Aldridge, Susan
The Thread of Life: The Story
of Genes and Genetic Engineering
- Alighieri, Dante
The Inferno of Dante: A New
Verse Translation
- Armstrong, Karen
The Battle for God
- Armstrong, Karen
A History of God: The
4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Armstrong, Karen
In the Beginning: A New
Interpretation of Genesis
- Armstrong, Karen
Jerusalem: One City, Three
Faiths
- Baer, Lee
Getting Control: Overcoming
Your Obsessions and Compulsions
- Baer, Lee
The Imp of the Mind: Exploring
the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts
- Beeching, Paul Q.
Awkward Reverence: Reading
the New Testament Today
- Bishop, Martin J., ed.
Guide to Human Genome
Computing (Second Edition)
- Borg, Marcus J.
Meeting Jesus Again for
the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary
Faith
- Boyer, Robert H., and Zahorski, Kenneth H., eds.
Dark Imaginings: A Collection
of Gothic Fantasy
- Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
- Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights
- Brown, William; Malveau, Raphael; McCormick III, Hays; and Mowbray, Thomas
AntiPatterns: Refactoring
Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
- Bugliosi, Vincent
The Betrayal of America:
How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our
President
- Byatt, A. S., ed.
The Oxford Book of
English Short Stories
- Casti, John L.
Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science
- Cather, Willa
Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Cavilli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
- Chadwick, Henry
The Early Church
- Chesterton, G. K.
The Penguin Complete Father Brown
- Christie, Agatha
Endless Night
- Claiborne, Robert
Saying What You Mean: A Commonsense Guide to American Usage
- Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
- Coles, Robert
The Moral Intelligence of Children
- Coote, John O., ed.
The Norton Book of the Sea
- Corballis, Michael C.
The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind
- Cox, Michael and Gilbert, R. A., eds.
Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
- Crichton, Michael
The Lost World
- Crossan, John Dominic
The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images
- Curtis, C. Michael, ed.
God: Stories
- Danby, Mary, ed.
65 Great Murder Mysteries
- Davis, Michael and Clark, Hunter R.
Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench
- Dennett, Daniel C.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- Dennett, Daniel C.
Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
- Dewdney, A. K.
200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy
- Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
- Didion, Joan
Political Fictions
- Dolnick, Edward
Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
- Donald, David Herbert
Lincoln
- Dutta, Krishna and Robinson, Andrew
Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man
- Eliot, George
Adam Bede
- Eliot, George
Daniel Deronda
- Eliot, George
Felix Holt, The Radical
- Eliot, George
The Impressions of Theophrastus Such
- Eliot, George
Middlemarch
- Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss
- Eliot, George
Scenes of Clerical Life
- Eliot, George
Silas Marner
- Ellis, John M.
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities
- Ellis, Joseph J.
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
- Eusebius
Church History
- Fagan, Brian
Time Detectives: How Archeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Past
- Gabriel, Richard P.
Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
- Gomes, Peter J.
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart
- Gould, Stephen Jay
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
- Gould, Stephen Jay
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
- Gould, Stephen Jay
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
- Greene, Hugh, ed.
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
- Gulik, Robert Van, trans.
Celebrated Cases
of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese
Detective Novel
- Hall, James Norman
The Far Land
- Hall, Stephen S.
Mapping the Next Millennium: How Computer-Driven Cartography is Revolutionizing the Face of Science
- Hardy, Thomas
Life's Little Ironies
- Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Hillerman, Tony and Herbert, Rosemary, eds.
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
- Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- Innes, Hammond
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
- Innes, Michael
The Paper Thunderbolt
- Kernighan, Brian W. and Pike, Rob
The Practice of Programming
- Kinsley, Michael
Big Babies: On Presidents, Politics, and National Crazes
- Lang, Andrew, ed.
The Crimson Fairy Book
- MacDonald, George
The Gifts of the Child Christ: Fairy Tales and Stories for the Childlike, Volume I
- MacDonald, George
The Gifts of the Child Christ: Fairy Tales and Stories for the Childlike, Volume II
- McNamara, Robert
In Retrospect
- McPhee, John
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
- Malamud, Bernard
A Malamud Reader
- Meyers, Scott
Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Second Edition)
- Mortimer, John
The Trials of Rumpole
- Nabokov, Vladimir
Pnin
- Nuland, Sherwin B.
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
- Nuland, Sherwin B.
The Wisdom of the Body
- Oberman, Heiko A.
Luther: Man Between God and the Devil
- Osborn, Ian
Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Owens, Lily, ed.
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
- Penrose, Roger
The Emperor's New Mind
- Pipher, Mary
The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families
- Postgate, John
Microbes and Man
- Powell, Colin
An American Journey
- Redinger, Ruby V.
George Eliot: The Emergent Self
- Rowen, Hobart
Self-Inflicted Wounds: From LBJ's Guns and Butter to Reagan's Voodoo Economics
- Sagan, Carl
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Sanders, E. P.
The Historical Figure of Jesus
- Schwartz, Jeffrey M.
Brain Lock
- Sheehan, Thomas
The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity
- Shryock, Richard H.
Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860
- Silver, Robert B., ed.
Hidden Histories of Science
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Sobel, Dava
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Spong, John Shelby
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes
- Taylor, Ina
A Woman of Contradictions: The Life of George Eliot
- Trott, Peter
"Programming Languages: Past, Present, and Future"
- Tuchman, Barbara W.
The First Salute
- Updike, John
The Music School
- Urban, Linwood
A Short History of Christian Thought
- Vermeij, Geerat J.
Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life
- Vermes, Geza
The Changing Faces of Jesus
- Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wills, Christopher
Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes
- Wilson, A. N.
God's Funeral
- Wodehouse, P. G.
P. G. Wodehouse: Five Complete Novels