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Monthly Archive for August, 2009

: August, 2009

This Is Your Brain On Books

There has been a spate of recent books covering new research upon how our brains work and the human decision-making process. Madeleine Bunting, at the Guardian, nicely sums up the science and its implications. It turns out that just about all of our assumptions about free-will, autonomy, and rationality in our choices and decisions are chimerical.

Collecting Non-Existent Books

When Cynthia Gibson, a bookseller in New York, casually mentioned “non-existent books” in a recent note I presumed these tomes to be deascensions from Milton Berle’s joke library:

Fighting Crime One Book at a Time

We are very pleased to welcome Nancy Mattoon to Book Patrol with this, her first post. Nancy will be walking the library beat, covering news, issues, and human interest stories from the stacks with her thirty years of experience and perspective as a librarian.

ABC’s of Book Collecting : Antique

ANTIQUE

Before Grunge : Jini Dellaccio’s Rock & Roll Photographs

click to enlarge “Looking back now, it’s clear that Jini Dellaccio is the premier visual interpreter for Northwest rock and roll artists during the ’60s and ’70s. Jini truly gave Northwest rock and roll its ‘mystique’. Here’s proof.” ~ Barrie R. Jackson from the Introduction
Categories: Uncategorized

Subversive Book Asserts Rule By Law, Not King

In 1644, Samuel Rutherford, a Presbyterian theologian, published Lex, Rex, the now excessively scarce, enormously important treatise on limited government and constitutionalism. Only four copies have fallen under the hammer within the last thirty-five years.Lex, Rex is the first treatment of rule by law, not by men, based upon the separation of powers and covenant between king and subjects, (foreshadowing the social contract). It laid the foundation for the later thinking of political philosophers …

Miss Lonelybooks, Revisited

As one who has braved JDate, aka desperatehebrews.com, I know why the caged bird swings in hope. The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books provide opportunities for the bookish and alone to meet. But Americans and the British have completely different styles when it comes to personal ads.

Alibris Jumps in Bed with Better World Books and Takes Their Booksellers With Them

Imagine the shock many booksellers felt when they heard that unbeknownst to them they were now selling their books through Better World Books (BWB).
Categories: bookselling

Drive a Book into Another World

The following poem was recently posted to Slate with a podcast reading by the author.

Free Kindle For Tweeters

To promote the release of her new book, Perseverance: True Voices of Cancer Survivors, author Carolyn Rubenstein and publisher Forge Books, a division of Macmillan, are giving away a Kindle wireless ebook reading device on Twitter each day from August 18 through August 21 to four lucky tweeters.
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