In furtherance of their stated mission “to acquire and publish the most innovative and meaningful titles from today’s leading scholars,” Princeton University Press has launched Priceton Global Science.
This past week has been a relatively active one in regard to commentary and reviews of recently published natural history books.
“Win free natural history books!” Now there’s a sentence that surely gets my attention and I expect yours as well.
A&C Black, a division of The Bloomsbury Group and one of Europe’s premiere publishers and distributors of natural history titles, has recently updated their website and established a new blog – ACBWildlife’s Blog. The revisions to the site make it much easier to locate the firm’s many titles; it also highlights their Species Profile and [...]
Collins Birds is an exciting new website for bird watchers that combines social networking with extensive online bird reference and reporting resources.
Renowned photographer and author of the critically acclaimed book Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers Alan L. Detrick is the subject of an on-going six part podcast interview by Timber Press. Two (part 1, part 2) of the six sections of the interview have thus far been released and true to form, Mr. Detrick [...]
With the recent announcement from Apple regarding the forthcoming iPad product, particularly its applicability as an electronic text (e-book) reading device, a number of questions regarding the possible effects it may have upon the book trade should begin to be contemplated. As many people are touting the iPad as being as revolutionary to the written [...]
At long last the much anticipated second edition of the Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom, and Peter J. Grant is now available in a jacketed hardcover edition with the paperback edition still scheduled for release in March of 2010. [...]
Lee Welles, author of the award winning Gaia Girls novels, recently provided her readers with a sneak preview of the long-awaited third volume in the series. Ms. Welles read from the first chapters of the forthcoming book, titled Air Apparent, during the December 31, 2009 “Blue Moon Special” webcast of her Blog Talk Radio program. [...]
In an effort to bring the continued plight of book reviewing as well as the changes occurring in book retailing to the attention of the wider general public, I took up the subject of the announced closing of Kirkus Reviews in my most recent “From Under My Hat” editorial column.
