Books Galore: Natural World
Audubon’s birds, polar bears, fish, sharks — a selection of natural history favorites from terrific writers such as Dr. E.O. Wilson (author of 28 books!) and Mark Kurlansky (Cod, Salt, […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Books Galore: Heroes & Heroines
The Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Dickens’s bicentennial, the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. All these are reason enough for updated biographies, groundbreaking research and new works that interpret history and […]
Books Galore: Art & Design
Art and design across centuries: from history of typefonts and the artistic glories of Rome to two new Da Vinci books and bios of Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Titian and cartoonist […]
Books Galore: Language & the Written Word
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion, Andrew Robinson.(Oxford University) 272 pp. $29.95. A fervent early 19th-century Frenchman, a competitive expeditionary personality, and Egyptologist (a field he helped […]
Books Galore: Photography
Our endless love affair with the City of Light takes form in a 648-page photographic essay Paris: Portrait of a City that captures images by Daguerre, Atget, Lartigue, Brassai, Doisneau […]
Books Galore: Prize Winners
Five outstanding recent works acknowledged with national and international journalism and literary awards. Before you buy, read the review, listen to an author interview, or scan an excerpt. Mumbai (India) […]
Christmas Bird Count: Free Event
Christmas Bird Count 2012: Form a counting circle or be part of one this holiday season. The 113th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count takes place Dec 14, 2012 to Jan […]
Greenest Campus in the Pittsburgh Region
Pittsburgh’s Chatham University may become the greenest academic institution in the US when it completes the 20-year build-out now underway at its newest campus location. Gifted to Chatham in 2008, the […]
Greenest Colleges Ranked
“Green” is a very hot word on college and university campuses – whether it’s energy efficiency, LEED®-certified dorms and buildings, food composting, or deep-green curriculum. Two annual surveys of college […]
MBA’s: Do they care about enviro issues?
How do the world’s top Master’s in Business Administration programs stack up in addressing environmental, ethical and social concerns? Over the past decade, the Aspen Institute has conducted Beyond Grey […]
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