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George M. Eberhart N e w  P u b l i c a t i o n s  

Roman coin of the Emperor 
Co m m o d u s  ( c a .  A . D.  1 9 1 )  
f o u n d  n e a r  Fa y e t t e v i l l e ,  
Tennessee, about 1819. 

Archaeological Anomalies: Graphic Arti­
facts I, compiled by William R. Corliss (182 
pages, December 2005), is the fourth vol­

ume in a series 
devoted to arche­
ological myster­
ies and Corliss’s 
23rd catalog of 
scientifi c anoma­
lies. This book fo­
cuses on unusual 
coins, calendars, 
geoforms, maps, 
and quipus. Each 
anomaly is rated 

in terms of the quality of the reported data 
and the degree from which it deviates from 
accepted historical or scientific norms. The 
vast majority of examples are taken from 
archaeological, historical, and anthropo­
logical journals and books. Corliss exam­
ines such objects as coins of Precolumbian 
mintage found in the New World, ancient 
Egyptian coins found in Australia, effi gy 
mounds and Nazca lines, remarkable zodi­
acs, bone and stone calendars, ancient me­
chanical calendars, the Vinland Map con­
troversy, ancient Chinese world maps, and 
literary quipus. $19.95. Sourcebook Project, 
P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057. ISBN 
0­915554­48­8. 

The Artemisia Files, edited by Mieke Bal 
(245 pages, September 2005), reexamines 
the art of baroque Italian painter Artemisia 
Gentileschi (1593–1653) following an exhi­
bition of her work in 2001–2002 in Rome, 
New York, and St. Louis that allowed critics 
a fresh look. Although her rape by her tutor 
Agostino Tassi and his subsequent trial (in 
which Artemisia was physically tortured to 
test her credibility as a witness) has colored 
interpretations of her art, these six essays 

George M. Eberhart is senior editor of American 
Libraries, e-mail: geberhart@ala.org 

offer differing feminist perspectives that 
reinforce the intrinsic value of her distinc­
tive style. The book contains 22 black­and­
white reproductions of Artemisia’s paint­
ings, as well as some by her father Orazio 
Gentileschi and mentor Caravaggio. $27.50. 
University of Chicago. ISBN 0­226­03581­6. 

Civil War on the Missouri­Kansas Border, 
by Donald L. Gilmore (384 pages, No­
vember 2005), treats the border confl ict 
between free­soil Kansans and proslavery 
Missourians from 1856 to 1865 as distinct 
enough from the Civil War in origins and 
execution to deserve separate study. Gilm­
ore, who served as technical adviser on 
Ang Lee’s 1999 fi lm Ride with the Devil, 
claims that the motivations and actions of 
both sides have not been examined objec­
tively by historians who have tended to 
ignore Northern atrocities and demonize 
Missouri guerrilla actions. Whether or not 
this is completely accurate, Gilmore’s study 
is a detailed analysis of relatively little­un­
derstood hostilities that have been mar­
ginalized compared to the scholarship on 
Antietam and Gettysburg. $29.95. Pelican. 
ISBN­13: 978­158980­329­9. 

Food in Colonial and Federal America, by 
Sandra L. Oliver (230 pages, October 2005), 
examines American foodways through 
1825 and shows how imported English, 
Dutch, Spanish, French, and African tastes 
blended with Native American foods and 
agricultural practices to form regional cui­
sines. Oliver looks at specific foods, food 
preparation (basically variations on “fi re­
place technology”), regional eating habits, 
and colonial concepts of diet and nutrition. 
A good primer for historical reenactors as 
well as students of food technology. $49.95. 
Greenwood. ISBN 0­313­32988­5. 

History of the Art of Antiquity, by Johann 
Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) and 

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translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave (431 
pages, November 2005), is the fi rst English 
translation of the 1764 edition of German 
archaeologist Winckelmann’s Geschichte 
der Kunst des Altertums. A classic of Eu­
ropean art scholarship, the book was a 
stunning synthesis of antique art in Greece, 
Egypt, Persia, and Italy. Winckelmann’s 
mixture of technical analysis and aesthetic 
appreciation represented the “beginnings 
of a distinctively modern art historical for­
mation that only recently has begun to lose 
its imaginative hold,” as University of Mich­
igan Art Professor Alex Potts writes in the 
introduction. $67.50. Getty Publications. 
ISBN 0­89236­668­0. 

International Dictionary of Public Man­
agement and Governance, by Gambhir 
Bhatta (687 pages, September 2005), trans­
lates the administrative jargon of govern­
ment into simpler language. Defi nitions for 
such terms as activity theory, competitive 
federalism, cultural capital, horizontal ac­
countability, network closeness, policy 
autonomy, reprioritize within baselines, 
third way, and Zipf’s law are provided, 
along with references for further reading. 
Since the focus is international governance, 
the work refers to terms in the context of 
both developed and developing countries. 
$145.95. M. E. Sharpe. ISBN 0­7656­1261­5. 

The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insu­
lar Manuscript Art, by Meyer Schapiro (199 
pages, July 2005), presents six seminal lec­

tures given by art 
historian Schapiro at 
the Pierpont Morgan 
Library in 1968 on 
the paintings, draw­
ings, and ornament 
in manuscripts pro­
duced during the 
7th and 8th centu­
ries in Ireland, Eng­
land, and Scotland. 

Accompanied by 177 black­and­white and 
color illustrations of Celtic and other Eu­

ropean medieval artworks, including the 
Books of Kells and Durrow. $30.00. Pier­
pont Morgan Library. ISBN 0­87598­140­2. 

The Oxford Guide to Library Research, 
by Thomas Mann (293 pages, 3rd ed., 
November 2005), is an excellent guide 
to subject searching using the print and 
online resources available in a research 
library. Mann, a longtime reference li­
brarian at the Library of Congress, dem­
onstrates the usefulness of keyword da­
tabases, subject headings, and Boolean 
combinations, as well as good, old­fash­
ioned browsing in well­organized library 
stacks. His most important advice to any 
researcher is a point that we all need to 
remind our users periodically: Because of 
copyright and access limitations, the open 
internet will never contain all the informa­
tion that you can find in a physical library. 
$16.95. Oxford University. ISBN 0­19­
518998­1. 

April 2006  263 C&RL News