Booknotes

Caribbean–South American Plate Interactions, Venezuela, by Hans Avé Lallemant, professor emeritus of earth science at Rice (Geological Society of America, 2005)

The Chef Who Died Sautéing, by Honora Moore Finkelstein ’63 and Susan Smily (Hilliard and Harris, 2006)

Death Dines In, edited by Dean James ’86 and Claudia Bishop (Penguin, 2005)

Decorated to Death: A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery, by Dean James ’86 (Kensington Publishing, 2005)

Environmental Science Demystified, by Linda Williams, technical writer at the Wiess School of Natural Sciences at Rice (McGraw Hill, 2005)

Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India, by George H. Gilpin ’67, professor of English at the University of Tulsa, and Hermione de Almeida (Ashgate, 2006)

Korean American Evangelicalism: New Models of Civic Life, by Elaine Howard Ecklund, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Rice (Oxford University Press, 2006)

The Life and Legend of Gerbert of Aurillac: the Organbuilder Who Became Pope Sylvester II, by Anna Marie Flusche ’95 (Edwin Mellen, 2006)

Marque and Reprisal, by Elizabeth Moon ’68 (Del Rey, 2004)

The McCartys of the Northern Neck: 350 Years of a Virginia Family, by Kathleen Much ’63 and W. M. McCarty (Gateway, 2005)

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Ussama Makdisi, the Arab American Educational Foundation Associate Professor of History at Rice, and Paul A. Silverstein (Indiana University Press, 2006)

The Robert B. Parker Companion, by Dean James ’86 and Elizabeth Foxwell (Berkley Trade, 2005)

Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America, edited by Michele K. Gillespie ’83, associate professor of history at Wake Forest University, and Randal L. Hall ’97, managing editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice (LSU Press, 2006)

Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages, edited by Jane Chance, professor of English at Rice, and Alfred Siewers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science, by Sherrilyn Roush, assistant professor of philosophy at Rice (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Where Men Are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implications, by Mary Ann Clark ’99 (University Press of Florida, 2005)