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Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes

2 reviews
Bill Green

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

Science, poetry and personal experience in a unique weave
As a classicist and poet, I am shy - if not wary - of "hard science". I stumbled upon this book by accident, browsing the non-fiction shelves in the public library. It is unique! I have ordered it - and I'm not even quite finished with it - I am reluctant to finish this first reading, although it is five-star enjoyment. Water Ice and Stone is a "braided river" (read it and you'll see ...

Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia (A BLP Pathography)
Charles Bardes

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

"Charles Bardes' meditations on medicine . . . are beautifully-transparently-written, deeply informed . . . and they carry surprise."-Sven Birkerts, author of Reading Life and The Gutenberg Elegies Whether mild or deadly, anemia affects an essential body fluid: blood. Probing deeply into this illness as metaphor, Charles L. Bardes explores the impact of both science and culture on its treatment across the ages. His innovative "life" of this ...

I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair

2 reviews

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

I Thought I Could Fly...An Memorable Read
This book is beautiful, wrenching, inspiring and brave. The extraordinary challenges of mental illness are tackled with depth and grace. The stories are real and compelling. They provide a window into the day to day struggles of those suffering from mental illness as well as the impacts on those who love them. For me, the photographs are the most moving part of the book. They are beautiful, ...

Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment
Gerald Weissmann

Bellevue Literary Press, 2007

"Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition."- Los Angeles Times "Weissmann introduces us to a new way of thinking about the connections between art and medicine."- The New York Times Book Review Embryonic stem cell research. Evolution versus intelligent design. The transformation of medicine into "healthcare." Climate change. Never before has science been so intertwined with politics; never ...

A Proper Knowledge

1 review
Michelle Latiolais

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

Read 'A Proper Knowledge'
If, when you purchase a novel, you are hoping that upon its completion you will feel as though you have spent hours with actual human beings, possibly even human beings who you prefer the company of to those people you know from real life, then look no further. This book, the final quarter of which reads nearly moment for moment in real-time, accomplishes something that I rarely see -- that is, ...

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb
David C. Cassidy

Bellevue Literary Press, 2009

In 1992, David C. Cassidy's groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, Uncertainty , was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Michael Frayn, in the Playbill of the Broadway production of Copenhagen , referred to it as one of his main sources and "the standard work in English." Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atom Bomb ) called it "the definitive biography of a great and tragic physicist," and the Los Angeles ...

Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution

1 review
David P. Barash

Bellevue Literary Press, 2007

A matter-of-fact accounting that does not excuse or justify immoral behavior
Professor of psychology and proponent of sociobiology David P. Barash presents Natural Selections, a matter-of-fact look at how human biology and evolution affect human behavior, and what this has to say about both practical and ethical dilemmas in today's world. Written in plain terms accessible to lay readers and an extra dollop of wit, Natural Selections discusses why human violence is an ...

The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review

2 reviews

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

Profoundly Moving
A 2008 anthology of ~90 short stories, essays, and poems drawn from the NYU School of Medicine's semi-annual literary journal. Each entry deals in some way with illness or coping, although sometimes minimally and often peripherally. There are doctors and hospitals, but most of the pieces are about people in ordinary community. Combined, they threaten toward darkness. Yet in the midst there's a ...

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

25 reviews
Darby Penney, Peter Stastny

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

Real Stories with Real Power
"The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic" is a straightforward book about an ugly part of our history. Its power, however, is that it demands that we look at the here and now. By clearly and simply reconstructing what little CAN be reconstructed of the lives of souls forgotten in a huge mental institution the authors left me with a haunting question: where are we ...

Awkward: A Detour

1 review
Mary Cappello

Bellevue Literary Press, 2007

Brilliant and Awkward
Awkward, A Detour by Mary Cappello is a brilliant, far-ranging meditation on the many aspects of awkwardness. Cappello takes the reader on journeys through Rome, Sicily, London, Moscow, and places in Canada and the United States as she explores the permutations of awkward. She delves deeply into her own past and present and that of her family and the impact of immigration on awkwardness. ...

The Cure

1 review
Varley O'Connor

Bellevue Literary Press, 2007

Illuminating, shifting points of view
An extraordinary story of a family in the early 1940s, this novel's gift is its ability to move its point of view from one character to the next, revealing each one to be vulnerable, human, complex. We see the feeling of parents devastated by their son's polio, siblings coping with loss of attention, servants working for others while dealing with their own griefs and joys--and with many others ...

The Leper Compound

3 reviews
Paula Nangle

Bellevue Literary Press, 2008

An excellent debut
Paula Nangle's debut novel, The Leper Compound, is a book I won't soon forget. I'm tempted to call it a novel-in-stories as each chapter is perfectly self-contained and yet the whole does provide one full narrative. Regardless, it is a brilliant effort. The book starts out with Colleen as a motherless child ill with Malaria and ends with the death of her father and with her mentally ill ...

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