Books

23 Year Old Millionaire Launches 50 City Book Tour

admin_huliq — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:35:26 -0500

23-year-old self-made millionaire James White is sharing his financial wisdom and dynamic energy with fellow members of “Generation Y” this summer.

Armenian Genocide Museum Presents "My Memories"

admin_huliq — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:17:41 -0500

On July 15th of 2008, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, located in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, will host the congratulatory event dedicated to Sirak Sarhatian's “My Memoirs” book.

400-Year-Old Volume of Shakespeare Recovered

admin_huliq — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:53:59 -0500

A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued at 15 million pounds (USD 30 million) has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated.

New Book From Glasgow Museums

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:34:06 -0500

A unique photographic record of the city of Glasgow and the people living here in the 1950s has just been published by Glasgow Museums.

Marion Kaplan Discusses Her Book Dominican Haven

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:04:38 -0500

On Thursday, June 12 join author Marion Kaplan for a discussion of her new book Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 19401945 (Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008), which serves as the companion volume to the groundbreaking, bilingual installation, Sosua: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic (Sosua: Un Refugio de Judios en la Republica Dominicana).

Scott McClellan Tells It All, But Not A Hero

admin_huliq — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:14:44 -0500

Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, is out with a book, and low and behold he tells much that was not told before.

Rabbi Harold Kushner Discusses His Book

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:44:22 -0500

On Wednesday, May 28 at 6:30 P.M. join Rabbi Kushner at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust as he offers practical and inspiring advice on continuing to dream in the face of disappointment. The Jerusalem Report describes Overcoming Life's Disappointments as "an articulate, nononsense treatise… A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor."

M. Joan Lintault Quilt Artist Debuts New Book

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:48:26 -0500

From the mid-1970s through the 1990s, M. Joan Lintault was known as the "weaving and fibers/textiles" person in the southern Illinois art community. Lintault came to Carbondale in the 1970s to head up the Fibers/Textile Department at the School of Art and Design at SIUC and continued her tenure there as well as her involvement in the local art community until she retired in 2001.

'A Very Short Introduction' about cosmology gets even shorter

seher — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:12:33 -0500

A book written by a professor from the School of Physics and Astronomy has been chosen to be part of a national campaign to help people understand the world they live in.

When life nearly died

seher — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:49:29 -0500

Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact sixty-five million years ago, which killed half of all species then living.

Penn State acquires important Blockson Collection

admin_huliq — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:57:49 -0500

Penn State's University Libraries have recently acquired the Charles L. Blockson Collection of African-Americana and the African Diaspora, an important assemblage of some 10,000 volumes relating to African-American, African, Latin American and Caribbean history and culture. The collection is housed in the new Charles L. Blockson Room, on the third floor of Pattee Library, west, and will be opened at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 18.

Shakespeare Quartos Archive Among First Recipients of Digitization Collaboration Grants

Amy Arden — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:37:43 -0500

Washington, DC - The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is one of five transatlantic collaborations awarded the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants, announced at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Tuesday.