For the first review to be published in my new “all sorts” blog, I’ve chosen Stig Dagerman’s eye-opening as well as discomfiting collection of reports from post-World War II Germany titled German Autumn.
Stig Dagerman’s German Autumn
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Field Guide to Oregon Rivers
For those seeking to explore, or simply learn more about, the many rivers to be found in the state of Oregon, the publication of Tim Palmer’s Field Guide to Oregon Rivers by Oregon State University Press should come as welcome news indeed.
Something New
Like most – if not, in fact, all – of you, I read much more widely than just books of natural history. And just as I do with those I read for review in The Well-read Naturalist, I write reviews of them as well. My problem has been that I haven’t been able to find an appropriate way to bring those reviews to a public readership.
The Lost Elements
I’ll admit that when I received my advance copy of The Lost Elements; The Periodic Table’s Shadow Side from Oxford University Press, I thought that they had quite possibly achieved publishing Nerdvana. A history of the periodic table is one thing – but its “shadow side?” What dark secrets about it could there possibly be?