From Shelf Awareness:
The follow-up book to former Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been scheduled for a fall 2009 release. The Associated Press (via USA Today) reported that Rodale Books will publish Our Choice in November “on 100% recycled paper. The book, which proposes solutions to the global warming crisis documented in Inconvenient […]
History
Gore Follows Up
Mr. Lincoln’s Birthday
As we learned from Ben Franklin’s tercentenary celebration a few years back, big birthdays of big bigwigs are cause for celebration by the publishing industry. Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday is no exception.
To read my round-up of a few exceptional books for young readers on the subject of Honest Abe, see BookPage’s January issue. Or look here:
http://www.bookpage.com/0901bp/children/honest_abe.html
UP TOP TITLE: WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY
In 1976, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich published an essay in American Quarterly about the lives of ordinary women in colonial New England. She remarked that “well behaved women seldom make history”, and from the pages of a scholarly journal, a pop culture slogan emerged. This new book examines the lives of three decidedly extraordinary women: the fifteenth-century writer […]
Remember That Time We Went to the Moon?
If you don’t, then have we got a book for you. In the Shadow of the Moon is a remarkable tribute to an era when the race to the moon expanded the public imagination in a way that would be difficult to replicate today. For exactly this reason, it occurs to us that this book […]