May 2005
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword ... -- ... for the 200-year search for links between embryos and evolution
review of Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Amazon.com: Books: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
New book on developmental biology "teach the glory of making animal form. The evolutionary concepts follow naturally."
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Bioprospecting Historical Texts
A vast, untapped source of biomedical information may be sitting on the shelves of old libraries.
April 2005
Guardian Unlimited Books | Robert Macfarlane on Annie Dillard
Dillard speaks unashamedly of the spirit, and how it is accommodated by, extended by, animated in, landscape.
The Practice of Everyday Life - Michel de Certeau
describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture.
Joseph Amato: On Foot - A History of Walking. NYU Press, 2004
large-scale and small-scale stories of what was man's first mode of travel—walking.
Alison Knowles: The Big Book
"The Big Book is an eight foot tall construction by Alison Knowles which has a front cover and several pages, and contains a stove, telephone, chemical toilet, art gallery, electric fan, books and other necessities of life."
Mithridates
the bookish blog of Mithridates, King of Pontus
The Independent: Deciphering the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
by 1 otherIn the past 4 days alone, classicists have discovered writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, and others, which had been lost for millennia
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Book arson 'a Taleban-style' act
Officials of a prestigious library in India's north-eastern state of Manipur say nearly 145,000 books have been destroyed in an arson attack.
if:book: amazon: inching toward semantic
Amazon concordances, statistically improbable phrases, and citations
boekplaats
photo-set of weathered books at flickr
March 2005
February 2005
Odd Books I Like
by 1 otherdedicated to that constant source of delight and wonder, the second-hand bookshop
the Best Books of 2004
as chosen by America's Public Librarians
mezzoblue: It's Here.
the book of the css zen garden....
Fantastic Metropolis: 50 Fantasy & SF Works That Socialists Should Read
by 5 othersby China Mieville
Linda Hall Library History of Science Collection
digitised full texts of some rare history of science books
EXLIBRIS MUSEUM
large collection of bookplates
January 2005
Books We Like
the people's republic of books: online shopping to effect change
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