On June 4, Sophie Erskine of 3:AM Magazine interviewed Amiri Baraka about music, politics, the origins of his name, and controversial comments he has made in the past. Baraka is known as …
Read More >Google Wave may take over Facebook, Twitter, and email by integrating and reinventing the functionality of all three. This video is targeted at developers, but gives a good overview of this new …
Read More >Although the UC campuses tend to get a bit quieter during the summer months, the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden has a number of events coming up that should be of interest—and not …
Read More >A hike in Del Valle Regional Park in Livermore sent one of my colleagues to Raptors of California by Hans Peeters and Pam Peeters to learn more about the Osprey. With their …
Read More >Think we’re going to all make money on sales of one and two books of thousands of titles? The PersonaNonData blog recently pointed to research debunking the “Long-Tail” hypothesis. They refer to …
Read More >Cécile Whiting’s book Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (2006) is the winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 2009 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American …
Read More >In last week’s New Yorker Adam Gopnik wrote and incredibly wide-ranging and ultimately soothing article that, crudely, goes something like this: Don’t worry if these hard times haven’t stimulated your imagination. Necessity …
Read More >The California Coastal Commission was created by the voters of California, who adopted an initiative measure in 1972 that formed the Commission and gave it broad powers to plan and protect the …
Read More >Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist. He has written seven books, including Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, Grassland: The Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American …
Read More >Robin Blaser, prize-winning poet and author died last Thursday, just shy of his 84th birthday. The Globe and Mail and The Vancouver Sun published obituaries last week. Among the many books Blaser …
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