may09c.indd George M. Eberhart N e w P u b l i c a t i o n s Anatomy of a Trial: Public Loss, Lessons Learned from The People vs. O. J. Simpson, by Jerrianne Hayslett (252 pages, November 2008), focuses primarily on Judge Lance Ito and his dealings with the press, jurors, and lawyers during the 1995 trial. As the court’s information officer and media liaison, Hays- lett played a central role as Ito’s intermediary and was privy to many of his behind-the- scenes thoughts and conversations. In addi- tion to providing an insider’s account of the media circus surrounding the case, she makes a strong case for the presence of cameras in the courtroom to ensure a fair trial. $29.95. University of Missouri. 978-0-8262-1822-3. Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, by Kirk Ormand (292 pag- es, November 2008), demonstrates through numerous classical sources that the Greeks did not have the same concept of gay and straight that we have today. An adult Greek man could love women or prepubescent boys with equal legal, moral, and social ap- proval; however, they frowned on males retaining a passive role once a boy attained manhood. The Romans shared some of the Greek philosophy, but they added strictures on adultery that were intended to maintain the purity of Roman bloodlines. They also placed a high value on self-control. Ormand’s wide-ranging analysis, from Homer, Plato, Sappho, and Aristophanes to Plautus, Cicero, Ovid, and Petronius adds an additional level of insight into traditional classical studies. $49.95. Praeger. 978-0-275-98880-7. Deciphering the Cosmic Number, by Arthur I. Miller (336 pages, April 2009), examines the unique relationship and collaboration between two scientists—Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who thought that answers to some problems in quantum me- George M. Eberhart is senior editor of American Libraries, e-mail: geberhart@ala.org chanics might be solved through the mystical properties of numbers, and Swiss psychia- trist Carl Jung, who felt that the physical sciences could help explain his theories of archetypes and synchronicity. In 1931, the two met in Zürich and shortly afterward Pauli, who was having diffi cul- ties with depression, signed up for psy- choanalysis with one of Jung’s pupils. His dreams were full of numbers and archetypal symbols, which fascinated Jung and contrib- uted to his concept of synchronicity, while Jung’s numerological ideas inspired Pauli’s quest to understand the connection between the fine structure constant (1/137, a measure of the strength of the electromagnetic force) and other quantum principles. In 1952, they collaborated on a book, Naturerklärung und Psyche. Miller narrates this dual biography compellingly, comparing the two to Johannes Kepler and Robert Fludd at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. $27.95. W. W. Norton. 978-0-393-06532-9. Documentation, by Robert Hauptman (229 pages, April 2008), weaves together several threads of discourse on footnotes, marginalia, illustrations, and commentary into an engag- ing essay on the use of sources to validate or enhance scholarly texts. Hauptman, edi- tor of the Journal of Information Ethics, of- fers many examples from Copernicus and the Talmud to Susan Sontag and Wikipedia to underscore the value of well-crafted docu- mentation in evaluating an author’s work. He also critiques the major style guides (Chica- go, Blue Book, APA, and MLA), laments the ubiquity of citation errors and documentation distortion, and reviews the value of citation indexing. Hauptman’s critical remarks are of- 312C&RL News May 2009 mailto:geberhart@ala.org ten amusing, as when he lambastes the typo- graphical aberrations of Jacques Derrida and the imponderable footnotes in Finnegan’s Wake. $35.00. McFarland. 978-0-7864-3333-9. Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England, by Jennifer Summit (343 pages, August 2008), looks at English librar- ies in the Renaissance, from 1431 to 1631, as institutions that both preserved and rein- terpreted the literature of the Middle Ages. Summit argues that these Early Modern li- braries were not intended to collect the past comprehensively; rather their holdings were selective and devel- oped to support the causes of religious reform and the king’s secular authority— unlike medieval mo- nastic materials that assumed the suprem- acy of the church. In the process of creat- ing these new librar- ies, collections were demystified and transformed from monolithic assemblages of doctrine and dogma into “sources for a history of belief.” Summit ex- amines several collections in detail, including the libraries of Duke Humfrey of Glouces- ter, Thomas More, Thomas Elyot, Matthew Parker, Edmund Spenser, Robert Cotton, and Thomas Bodley—all preserved at Cambridge, Oxford, or the British Museum. Throughout this book is the message that libraries work, like memory, “through selection and fi ltering, the active production of knowledge rather than the passive storage of information.” $35.00. University of Chicago. 978-0-226- 78171-6. The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collec­ tors and the Culture of Print, 1880–1914, by Willa Z. Silverman (312 pages, August 2008), describes the Golden Age of book collecting and book arts in fin de siècle Paris, especially the eccentric author and journalist Octave Uzanne (1851–1931), the doyen of French bibliophilia, whose 1897 manifesto La Nou- velle Bibliopolis praised the amateur collector of fine books. Printing technologies were en- abling the use of artistic illustrations, photo- graphs, designer fonts, and decorative bind- ings that appealed to young French admirers of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Silverman examines the bibliophiles’ excitement about the aesthetics of the luxury book, their fi rm belief that women could never become true book collectors, and Uzanne’s vision of low- cost audiobooks completely supplanting the printed page. $75.00. University of Toronto. 978-0-8020-9211-3. Paper to Digital: Documents in the Informa­ tion Age, by Ziming Liu (157 pages, October 2008), tracks the effects of the transition to digital documents on reading behavior and the dissemination of scholarly communica- tion. Liu’s chapters are expansions of articles he has written for information science jour- nals, but he manages to tie them together well. Topics include the lack of trust in digital media, gender differences in online reading, credibility issues in web-based research, and cultural differences in credibility assessment. $50.00. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1-59158-620- 3. Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodete­ rioration and Conservation, edited by Giulia Caneva, Maria Pia Nugari, and Ornella Sal- vadori (408 pages, January 2009), provides a comprehensive overview of botany from a conservator’s viewpoint and suggests practi- cal applications for controlling and preventing damage from bacteria, fungi, algae, lichens, and plants. First published in Italy in 2005, this edition has been translated for the Getty Conservation Institute by Helen Glanville. It in- cludes hundreds of black-and-white and color illustrations of biological attacks on wood, pa- per, textiles, parchment, stone, frescoes and stuccos, canvas paintings, photographs, and archaeological sites. The authors take a close look at the effects of environment and geog- raphy on specific botanical processes. $70.00. Getty Publications. 978-0-89236-939-3. May 2009 313 C&RL News