What We’re Reading reviews showcase some of the leisure books that YBP employees from departments around the company have been reading, and usually, enjoying. Many of our staff like nothing more than to share their opinions about books. We hope you enjoy their comments.


March 2008
Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries
Exposed: the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products: Who's at Risk and What's at Stake for American Power
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Sharing the Harvest: a Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

February 2008
Black Magic
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

January 2008
Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

December 2007
Russian Textiles: Printed Cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia
New Worlds: Extrasolar Planets

November 2007
28: Stories of Aids in Africa
American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland
Jean Muir: Beyond Fashion

October 2007
Philadelphia 1777: Taking the Capital
Sacred Games

September 2007
Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey through the Solar System

August 2007
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

July 2007
Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
The Tale of the Children of Hurin

June 2007
Molecular Gastronomy

May 2007
Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007
Thunderstruck
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog

April 2007
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

March 2007
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
The Seventy Great Journeys in History
Using Pop Culture to Teach Information Literacy: Methods to Engage a New Generation

February 2007
Fire in the City: Savonarola in Renaissance Florence
Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore

January 2007
Roar of the Heavens
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Terrifying Epidemic -and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

December 2006
Northern English: a Cultural and Social History
The Economics of Attentions: Style and Substance in the Age of Information

November 2006
Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects and Builders c. 1430-1500
Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature

October 2006
Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction
Double Click: Romance and Commitment Among Online Couples
Lipstick Jihad

September 2006
Kensington Gardens
History of Ghana
Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack

August 2006
A Year in the World
Unexpected Joy at Dawn

July 2006
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking
The Planets
The Worst Hard Time

June 2006
Cotton

May 2006
No End In Sight

April 2006
Italy Out of Hand
The Encyclopedia of New England: the Culture and History of an American Region

March 2006
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
October Light
The Indiana Rail Road Company: America's New Regional Railroad

February 2006
Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States
Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Wreckers

January 2006
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

December 2005
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance

November 2005
A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
Sustainability and Spirituality
The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller
Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News

October 2005
Assassination Vacation
Fossil Legends of the First Americans
Waiting For May / Just Add One Chinese Sister

September 2005
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Life of Pi: A Novel
Revolution in the Valley

August 2005
Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine
Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy
Developing Around Transit: Strategies and Solutions That Work
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

July 2005
Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

June 2005
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
Pizza: A Slice of Heaven: The Ultimate Guide and Companion
The Librarian's Career Guidebook
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

May 2005
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism

April 2005
Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States
Living to Tell the Tale
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

March 2005
Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community
Cottage for Sale: Must Be Moved
Spice: The History of a Temptation

February 2005
Dream Season: A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team
Lettered Creatures: Light Verse
Nickelodeon Nation

January 2005
Books, Banks, Buttons and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages
Dog
Wellington's Scapegoat: The Tragedy of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bevan

December 2004
Caroline, or Change: A Musical
Powers and Boundaries: Poems
Shadow Divers

November 2004
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey through North America
Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Century, From the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal

October 2004
The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure
Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland

September 2004
Figment

August 2004
As Told at The Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure
Washington's Crossing
What's the Matter with Kansas? : How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

July 2004
Middlesex
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

May 2004
Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age
The World: Travels 1950-2000

April 2004
Brick Lane
Alligator Annie: the biography of Annie Miller
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

March 2004
Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: a History of Planetary Astronomy
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, The Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

February 2004
Against Love: A Polemic
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda

January 2004
Battlegrounds: Geography and History of Warfare
Colonial America in an Atlantic World
Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism
Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19^th Century