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Book Review Editor’s Notes

Kristi N. Austin

 I’d like to thank  reviewers Robert Hook and Romana Hillebrand for their contributions to this issue of the Idaho Librarian, and would like to urge the rest of you to have a look at the list of Materials available for Review.  If you request a book from this list to review, you get to keep it.  You may also choose to write a review from a book that’s not listed. Have a look at the Instructions for Reviewers if you haven’t read it already:  We still have the genealogical research software available as well.

 Following is a list of new materials we’ve received as review copies recently (see the link above for a complete listing, as they are coming in faster than I can type.)  We thank the publishers for providing these.  Please send me an email if you would like to review any of them. 

Kay, Charles E. & Simmons, Randy T.  Wilderness & Political Ecology:  Aboriginal Influences & the Original State of Nature.  Salt Lake City:  University of Utah Press, 2002.  Hardback, 0-87480-719-0. A new look at the pre-Columbian Americas; the editors are professors of Political Science at Utah State University.

Ringholz, Raye C.  Uranium Frenzy:  Saga of the Nuclear West.  Logan, UT:  Utah State University Press, 2002.  Revised and Expanded edition  of the original 1989 publication.  (Trade paperback,  0-87421-432-7.  Updated history of the uranium-mining boom in the Four Corners region, with information on the impact of atomic testing, mining, etc.

Wegars, Priscilla.  Uncovering a Chinese Legacy:  Historical Archaeology at Centerville, Idaho – Once the “Handsomest Town in the Basin.”  Boise, ID:  U. S. Department of the Interior - Idaho Bureau of Land Management / Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, 2001.  Idaho Cultural Resources Series No. 5.  Looks like a great historical resource .

Aegerter, Mary and Steve F. Russell.  Hike Lewis and Clark's Idaho.  Moscow, ID:  University of Idaho Press, 2002. (Trade pbk, 0893012572)

And four beautiful letterpress-printed books of poetry from Limberlost Press, by local or once-local authors:

Swetnam, Ford. Offer the Cup to a Friend.  Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2002. (0-931659-80-9).

Wrigley, Robert.  Clemency: Poems by Robert Wrigley.  Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2002. (0-931659-74-4).

Guilford, Chuck.  What Counts: Poems by Chuck Guilford.  Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2002. (0-931659-78-7).

Dorn, Edward.  Chemo sabo.  Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2001. (0-931659-70-1).

More will be coming soon, as I have requested review materials from several local publishers.   And thanks for your continued interest in books and in the Idaho Librarian.