Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: 50th Anniversary
Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring marks its 50th anniversary this year with the new biography On a Farther Shore : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder, (Crown, 512 […]
Author Archives: Bobbie Faul-Zeitler
More Books: Questing
You have only to lift your arms to the keyboard and you’ll be whisked away by page-turners that promise an adventure. Not all are new releases. Oliver Sacks’s decade-old tale […]
Cities: A Plethora of Books
MUMBAI (India) is the fourth most populous city in the world – some 20.5 million people live in the metro area. When Katherine Boo began writing Behind the Beautiful Forevers: […]
Cuba-U.S. Collaborate on Enviro Problems
Nature does not respect political boundaries or, for that matter, tropical storms, hurricanes, oil spills and toxic releases. Too little has been written about the state of biodiversity in Cuba, the risks […]
Spiders Galore
The island of Guam is experiencing 40 times the number of spiders in years past. The reason is linked to a catastrophic loss of birds to brown snakes, an introduced species that […]
