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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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