...Bedlam after all.Maybe the word I'm looking for is "omnishambles," which this month was chosen by the Oxford University Press as its British word of the year. I had not heard it until it won, and I would think a word of the year would be...
...and the Making of America (2008, Louisiana State University Press), Meredith Mason Brown writes that there was more...specific in Daniel Boone: An American Life (2003, University Press of Kentucky): "Heading south, the party rode...
...remarkable American. Reach Bill Kirby at (706) 823-3344 or bill.kirby@augustachronicle.com. BY THE BOOK TITLE: The Sicilian Judge: Anthony Alaimo, an American Hero AUTHOR: Vincent Coppola PUBLISHER: Mercer University Press, $30
...there, as was guest speaker Vincent Coppola , author of a new book about his honor, The Sicilian Judge (Mercer University Press). It is the story of this remarkable man who has done so much to improve the standards of justice in our part of...
...or are they an entirely different animal? A quick check of The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson (Oxford University Press, 1999) was all it took to set the record straight. It turns out that muffins, from French moufflet or "soft...
...traveling exhibition titled Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way: The Art of John Baeder. Published by the University Press of Mississippi and the Morris Museum of Art, the book includes essays by Dr. Donald Kuspit, one of the leading...
...Philip Jenkins. He first examined such trends in The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press plans an update of that 2002 title and a book by Dr. Jenkins pondering Christianity's plight in Europe. Meanwhile...
...starter. AROUND $60 - The Oxford Companion to Food, Second Edition, edited by Alan Davidson and Tom Jaine (Oxford University Press, $65) No serious foodie should be without a serious food reference book. How else to know your Kecap (pronounced...
...Gospels, not one or a dozen? The process gets detailed attention in "The Canon of the New Testament" (Oxford University Press) by Bruce Metzger of Princeton Theological Seminary. Like Vermes, Metzger says the obvious: Earlier is better...
...Jesus dead. In a new treatment, "Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church and the Roman Superpower" (Oxford University Press), Christopher Bryan of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., sees politics at work but maintains that...
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