Nonfiction reviews (updated 11/1/11):
Click on a link to read a prior review, in alphabetical order, and its posting date:
Adventures Among Ants by Mark Moffett http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/adventures-among-ants-mark-w-moffett.html
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Princeton University Press
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/afghanistan-cultural-and-political.html
Booklust to Go by Nancy Pearl
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/book-lust-to-go-by-nancy-pearl.html
Blood Knots by Luke Jennings (memoir, Britain, fishing, IRA)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/shortlisted-for-samuel-johnson-prize.html
Bosnia: In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip by Tony Fabiancic
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/bosnia-in-footsteps-of-gavrilo-prinicp.html
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi by Chloe Rhodes (grammar, word origins)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/04/certain-je-ne-sais-quoi-by-chloe-rhodes.html
An Apple a Day by Caroline Taggart (axioms)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/04/apple-day-by-caroline-taggart.html
Beauty and the Inferno by Robert Saviano (essays, Italy)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/10/beauty-and-inferno-by-robert-saviano.html
CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Farming by Daniel Imhoff
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/02/bye-bye-birdie-hello-cafo.html
Changing Planet, Changing Health by Dr. Paul Epstein
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/06/changing-planet-changing-health-by-dr.html
Chtenia: Readings from Russia (periodical) from Russian Life
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/01/chtenia-readings-periodical-featuring.html
Citizen Machine by Anna McCarthy
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/01/citizen-machine-by-anna-mccarthy.html
Cold: Adventures in the World's Coldest Places by Bill Streever (nonfiction science)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/03/cold-adventures-in-worlds-frozen-places.html
Deep Country by Neil Ansell (memoirs, Wales)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/07/deep-country-by-neil-ansell-memoir.html
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean (nonfiction science, periodic table)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/03/nonfiction-disappearing-spoon-by-sam.html
E=MC Simple Physics by Jeff Stewart
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/emc-squared-simply-physics-by-jeff.html
Easy as Pi by Jamie Buchan (nonfiction, math)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/04/easy-as-pi-jamie-buchan-nonfiction.html
Earth by Jon Stewart
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/earth-book-jon-stewart.html
Ernest Hemingway and The Geography of Memory by Cirino and Ott, editors
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/09/ernest-hemingway-and-geography-of.html
Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk (collection of essays, Eastern Europe, travel, translated works)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/fado-by-andrzej-stasiuk.html
The Fiction of Narrative by Hayden White
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/08/fiction-of-narrative-hayden-white.html
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (nonfiction, global studies)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2009/06/geography-of-bliss-by-eric-weiner.html
The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (WWII, Japan, netsuke)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/hare-with-amber-eyes-by-edmund-de-waal.html
How to Eat a Small Country by Amy Finley
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/05/how-to-eat-small-country-amy-finley.html
How Did I Get Here by Tony Hawk
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/02/how-did-i-get-here-by-tony-hawk.html
The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld (Siberia, WWII, memoir)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/12/ice-road-stefan-waydenfeld-memoir.html
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/09/i-just-lately-started-buying-wings-kim.html
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (Australian travel, humor)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2009/09/bill-bryson-in-sunburned-country.html
In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik (noise pollution, science)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/in-pursuit-of-silence-by-george.html
The Kitchen Shrink by Dora Calott Wang (psychiatry, health insurance)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/11/kitchen-shrink-by-dora-calott-wang-md.html
The Last Gasp by Scott Christianson
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/08/last-gasp-scott-christianson-nonfiction.html
Life As We Show It (nonfiction, memoirs, film studies) by Brian Pera and Masha Tupitsyn
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/life-as-we-show-it-writing-on-film.html
Lit by Mary Karr (memoir, alcoholism)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2009/11/lit-memoir-by-mary-karr.html
Making Writing Matter by Ann M. Feldman (SUNY, writing theory)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/04/making-writing-matter-by-ann-m-feldman.html
Maman's Homesick Pie by Donia Bijan (memoir)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/10/mamans-homesick-pie-by-donia-bijan.html
Memoirs of a Gulag Actress by Tamara Petkevich
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/07/memoirs-of-gulag-actress-by-tamara.html
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulka Langer (Poland WWII)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/09/mermaid-and-messerschmitt-rulka-langer.html
Modern Ruins by Shaun O'Boyle (photography)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/01/modern-ruins-portraits-of-place-in-mid.html
Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky (Russian History)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/06/molotovs-magic-lantern-by-rachel.html
New World of Indigenous Resistance by Noam Chomsky
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/new-world-of-indigenous-resistance-noam.html
Nothing Left to Burn by Jay Varner (memoir)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/09/beside-sea-veronique-olmi.html
No Way Down by Graham Bowley
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/no-way-down-graham-bowley-nonfiction.html
Poetry and Cultural Studies: Maria Damon and Ira Livingston, editors
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/poetry-and-cultural-studies-maria-damon.html
Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini (translated works, biography)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/08/prousts-overcoat-lorenza-foschini.html
Reporting at Wit's End, Tales from New Yorker magazine (nonfiction, news)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/05/reporting-at-wits-end-tales-from-new.html
Seaworthy by Linda Greenlaw
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/seaworthy-linda-greenlaw-nonfiction_22.html
Scent of the Missing by Susannah Charleson (crime, search and rescue)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/07/scent-of-missing-susannah-charleson.html
Shop Class as Soulcraft (nonfiction)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2009/07/skilled-workers-and-artisans-needed.html
Skip by David Newsom (art photography)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/02/skip-by-david-newsom-art-photography.html
The Sound of the Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/08/sound-of-wild-snail-eating-elisabeth.html
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pajamas by Judy Parkinson
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/spilling-beans-on-cats-pajamas-judy.html
Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City by Paul Stronski
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/02/tashkent-forging-soviet-city-by-paul.html
Tales of Priut Almus by Robert Belenky (Russia, orphan shelters)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/01/tales-of-priut-almus-by-robert-belenky.html
Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City by Paul Stronski
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/02/tashkent-forging-soviet-city-by-paul.html
This Way to the Gas Chambers, Tadeusz Borowski, Cover Art Contest and Collection,
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/07/this-way-covering-and-uncovering.html
The Tree by John Fowles (nature writing)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/10/tree-by-john-fowles-nature-writing.html
Saving Sea Turtles by James Spotila
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/07/saving-sea-turtles-by-james-r-spotila.html
Unbound, Dean King (nonfiction history)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/08/unbound-by-dean-king-nonfiction-history.html
Unless it Moves the Human Heart by Roger Rosenblatt (writing theory)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/05/unless-it-moves-human-heart-by-roger.html
The War Lovers by Evan Thomas (nonfiction, US history, Hearst, Roosevelt)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/04/war-lovers-evan-thomas-nonfiction.html
Wave of Terror by Theodore Odrach
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/12/wave-of-terror-by-theodore-odrach.html
The Wave by Susan Casey (maritime, surfing, ocean)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/11/wave-by-susan-casey-nonfiction.html
Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/05/wicked-bugs-by-amy-stewart-nonfiction.html
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers (memoir)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/12/you-dont-look-like-anyone-i-know-by.html
You Have Given Me a Country by Neela Vaswani (memoir, India)
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/08/you-have-given-me-country-neela-vaswani.html
