Review by Kirk Martin, Director of the Chinese Cultural Exchange Program at Drake University, of Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths by Susan Blum.

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Review by Anna Dieterman, Secondary Education and History major at Drake University, of The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold.

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Berkeley book artist Julie Chen is featured on the PBS television series Craft in America produced by the organization of the same name. Chen's book 'The Veil' is part of Cowles Library's special collection of artists' books.

Cowles Library has recently acquired the following titles in the area of Music:

Sonic mosaics : conversations with composers./Steenhuisen, Paul.

Black music, white business: illuminating the history and political economy of jazz./Kofsky, Frank.

How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll: an alternative history of American popular music./Wald, Elijah.

The Disney song encyclopedia./Hischak, Thomas S.

The Brazilian sound: samba, bossa nova, and the popular music of Brazil./McGowan, Chris.

Cowles Library has recently acquired the following titles:

Really good packaging explained: top design professionals critique 250 package designs and explain what makes them work./Edwards, Bronwen.

The American Leonardo: a tale of obsession, art and money. /Brewer, John.

Preston Singletary: echoes, fire, and shadows./Post, Melissa G.

Georgia O'Keeffe: abstraction./O'Keeffe, Georgia.

Étant donnés: manual of instructions./Duchamp, Marcel.

On art and war and terror./Danchev, Alex.

James B. Thompson: the vanishing landscape./Sayre, Henry M.

Review by Professor Beth Younger, Drake University Department of English, of Quiverfull by Kathryn Joyce.

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Cowles Library's special collection of handmade and artists' books will be part of 'The Book in Time and Place: A Selection of Artist Books from The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Drake Universities Cowles Library' exhibition that runs from September 11, 2009 to October 9, 2009 in the Anderson Gallery on the Drake University campus.

The Veil, by Julie Chen. Cowles Library Special Collections.

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Review by Sean Holmes, Drake University Head Men's Soccer Coach, of Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St.John.

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Review by Mansah Asare, senior Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology major, of The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow.

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Review by Ben Cooper, Drake University Vice President of Student Life, of A Leader's Legacy by James Kouzes and Barry Posner.

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