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Coming: Books A 5 Year Lineup

October 10, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Out of the 200+ books that have appeared in Green News Update over the past 5 years,  several dozen are incredible winners – beautifully written, well researched, capturing our hearts […]

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Books, Cities, Discovery, Endangered species, Heroes, History, Natural history, Oceans, People, Photography
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Books Summer ’16: Ten More You’ll Like

August 15, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are  among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10  looks […]

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Birds, Books, Health, History, Natural history, Research, Technology
A file picture taken on March 14, 2014 shows a partial view of the theatre at the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometres northeast of Damascus. Islamic State group fighters advanced to the gates of ancient Palmyra on May 14, 2015, raising fears the Syrian world heritage site could face destruction of the kind the jihadists have already wreaked in Iraq. AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EIDJOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images NYTCREDIT: Joseph Eid/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

The Destruction of Ancient Palmyra

April 5, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Palmyra, Syria: It’s a front-page story in the New York Times (April 5) and an online photo essay of how the ancient city’s archeological treasures, the remnants of a 2000 […]

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archeology, Cities, Conservation, International, Museums, Photo Gallery, Photography
Siddhartha Mukherjee wins Guardian first book award

Gift Books 2014: Best of the Best!

December 10, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects  — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2014. Their métier is nonfiction,  whether deep science or […]

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Biodiversity, Books, Discovery, Extinction, History

Berlin: The Wall and The City

November 5, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Berlin as a city has a storied identity – as a canvas for art, entertainment, hedonism, evil, political rhetoric, a place that created world events and has reinvented itself after […]

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Cities, Europe, History, International
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D Day at 70: June 6 2014

June 6, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Most of us have lost our living links to D Day 70 years ago– our (grand) dads, uncles, cousins and family friends. Today I am time traveling to Normandy, still […]

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Anniversaries, Europe, History

Civil War Gettysburg 150th Anniversary

July 1, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

July 1-3 1863: The Largest Battle in American History in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: 6,000 dead, 50,000+ injured and wounded, lives changed forever. Today in History (July 1) The Battle of Gettysburg Begins […]

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History, Photography
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CURRENT & COMING: Events & Exhibitions

February 14, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

February 15-18: Great Backyard Bird Count: Don’t miss out on the fun. Everyone everywhere can participate providing you have 15 minutes and an internet connection. GBBC web site See the […]

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Art & Design, Documentary films, Exhibitions, History, Museums
Abraham Lincoln as he looked 11 days before he gave the Gettysburg Address on Nov 19, 1843. Courtesy of the USAHMI.

Books Galore: Heroes & Heroines

December 21, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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 […]

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Books, History, Toxics

Books Galore: Language & the Written Word

December 17, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

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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Books, Higher education

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