Book Mania: Gardens, Parks, Trees
Whether you are a backyard gardener or a botanist, there’s a king’s ransom of beautifully written books and facsimile editions for year-round reading and looking. Here’s 20 books for your wish […]
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Science & Enviro Updates: Earth Week 2013
Earth Week lasts for just 7 days. We have selected 10 enduring stories of people – young, old and no longer with us – whose love of the planet is […]
Digital Public Library of America: Update April 25
The Digital Public Library of America is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online […]
Exhibitions & Events: Apr/May etc
Spring brings out our best intentions – to go to events, travel, explore exhibitions and learn new things. Here in a nutshell, more-or-less, are highlights of what’s going on in […]
Coming: April-May 2013
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS: Art and design, creative landscapes, orchids, birds of paradise, Civil War photography, outsider art, history of food and more! On view in April and May ROLLOUT: […]
Preserving Places & Biodiversity: 3 Photo Projects
Three remarkable photographic projects speak to us of the importance of protecting wild places and the incredible biodiversity of our planet. Each is now transformed into a book or exhibition […]
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, […]
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 […]
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