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No Free Book Friday this week

We’re very sorry, but our office is closed tomorrow, Friday the 10th. So Free Book Friday will have to wait until next Friday. See you then! Read More ?

9 Apr 2009

Congrats to Kepler’s and Brown U!

Kepler’s bookstore and Brown University Bookstore have won spots in our company apartment for Book Expo America! Congratulations; hope it helps you bring some extra folks along. Read more about it...

9 Apr 2009

When were horses domesticated?

A New York Times Editorial notes a new development in the long-raging debate over when horses were first domesticated, and, more tough to tell, ridden. Pita Kelekna sent this to me. She’s always...

8 Apr 2009

Archbishop of Canterbury on the Environment

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams recently made use of Ellen Davis‘ arguments in the Ebor Lecture, the full text of which can be found here. An excerpt: We can’t as humans oblige the...

7 Apr 2009

Ideas are like pizza dough…

Ideas are like pizza dough: made to be tossed around. Does intelligence make you less stressed? Are wealthier kids more intelligent? What about healthier kids? How does it all relate? What is Intelligence?...

6 Apr 2009

V. Islam’s Horses of the Desert

The 5th Installment The Horse in Human History Blog Series Pita Kelekna In 331 BC, of course, Alexander daringly overthrew Achaemenid might; notwithstanding, hostilities between Greece and Persia were...

6 Apr 2009

Darwin Letter Friday

177 years ago this weekend, Darwin received a bundle of letters from a ship in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. Correspondence such as these sustained his spirit during his long Beagle voyage. By this point,...

3 Apr 2009

Paul Kinzer: 400 Years of Galileo

Wisconsin Public Radio‘s excellent Conversations with Larry Meiller interviewed Stargazing Basics author Paul Kinzer yesterday about the International Year of Astronomy. 400 years ago, Galileo first...

3 Apr 2009

Free Book Friday: So On.

You may be thinking to yourself, “Gee, I’d love to come to Free Book Friday, but it’s rainy and nasty outside!” Your heart is in the right place. At this point, I’m sure it’s...

3 Apr 2009

Free Book Friday, Tomorrow, TriBeCa Park

Meet us tomorrow in the charming triangular TriBeCa park for Free Book Friday. We’ve got extra ARCs for the taking! Remember, NOT Washington Square. The park is right off the Franklin 1 or Canal...

2 Apr 2009

Lovely review of Levinson

Biblica Hebraica had only high praise for Bernard Levinson’s Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel. “This just might be the best book I’ve read in a long time.” Read More ?

2 Apr 2009

Press on, brave librarians!

We love librarians. My next-door colleague is on the phone with them all the time. According to an article in The New York Times, during this recession, libraries and librarians are now dealing with issues...

2 Apr 2009