November 22, 2009
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Chris Drury: Found Moments in Time and Space

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with an introduction by Kay Syrad (Abrams, $49.50). Soul-stirring photos of primitive shelters, cairns, and objects built by sculptor Chris Drury evoke mysterious memories of an ancient human past.
--Andrea Martin

Invisible Leadership: Igniting the Soul at Work by Robert Rabbin (Acropolis, $14.95). If mysticism is indeed the art of the real, then it belongs in the leader's quiver; this book posits spirituality as a business tool that can't be ignored.
--Cathy Madison 

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America by Kevin Phillips (Basic Books, $30). Phillips shows how Anglo-American hegemony in the 19th and 20th centuries arose less from a commitment to democracy, liberty, and human rights than from alliances forged during the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.
--Craig Cox 

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16). Anne Fadiman, editor of The American Scholar, writes a book lover's mash note to the writers who have brought her joy.
--Andy Steiner 

Touched by Fire: Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis by Elliott Leyton; photos by Greg Locke (McClelland and Stewart, $29.99). An expert on serial murder visits a different killing field-Rwanda-as he studies Western medical aid teams seeking "the ecstasy of moral clarity" amid ethnic massacre and plague.
--Jeremiah Creedon 

This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie; paintings by Kathy Jakobsen (Little, Brown, $15.95). The immortal song is illustrated with delightful folk-art-style paintings that depict Guthrie's ramblings and give kids a feel for the vast richness of America's people and places.
--Jay Walljasper

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