Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Fact to fiction to fact

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Step 1: Write a first novel - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - woven around a series of found photographs. Step 2: Pub...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Book biology

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Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the University of York have just tapped a new resource for tracing the breding history of sheep ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Mark Twain moving

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The only existing footage of 19th c. American author Mark Twain has just been digitally restored by TFG Film & Tape . He is shown ci...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

B.O.

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In this instance, B.O. stands for book odor rather than body odor, but you will learn that the two can be synonymous. The strangely into...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Natural selection

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" Considering the limited disposable space in so very small a ship, we contrived to carry more instruments and books than one would r...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Bradbury abode

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American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury died in 2012 and now the home he lived in for more than 50 years is on the market. The 4-bed...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Book brigade

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In advance of the opening of their new library , the residents of Stanton, Iowa, U.S., formed a human chain to transfer 3,000 of the 8,000...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Bard's book

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Following the purchase of a book on eBay for $4,050 (€2,931) . New York antiquarian booksellers Daniel Wechsler and George Koppelman have ...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Wish You Were Here

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My friend Loren Rhoads ( IMAGE ABOVE ) has published a book entitled Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. " It's...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Timbuktu tomes

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Unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls institutionally conserved in Israel, the ancient texts from Africa's center of scholarship – Timbuktu – ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Dodgson's dodo

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As with Dürer's rhinoceros , historians know exactly which specific animal inspired the character of the dodo in Alice in Wonderland ....
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Impermanent press

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With the advent of electronic books, there was concern among publishers that the traditional book would disappear. That of course hasn...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Big-ass atlas

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As I mentioned in an earlier post , this is the book I dreamed about before I knew it existed. The Klencke atlas , as it is known, measure...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Archimedes uncovered

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Several years ago now, I invited a friend to my "museum" and as we were talking, a curious coincidence arose. I happened to ask ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Manuscript moggy*

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The government worker had this papers set in front of him, ready for his task. Along came his friendly yet intrusive feline, leaving pawp...
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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Recovered codex

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Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia, Spain, and the site of a Roman Catholic cathedral to which many have made a pilgrima...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Look!

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Pictured above are "Linford" and "Christie," 6-week-old owlets on the bookshelves of zookeeper Jimmy Robinson. He is rai...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Dissection on display

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My book has been published! Dissection on Display : Cadavers, Anatomists and Public Spectacle is a good read, if I don't say so myself....
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Book reviews in the news

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A number of stories about book reviews have cropped up in the news recently: Early this month on Salon.com, Jeanette Demain surveyed the one...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Big book, little book

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A few years ago, when I was researching anthropodermic books for a course called "Technologies of the Text," I dreamt of a book th...