October 2011
9 posts
E-book bargain bin: October edition
From now until November 10, the e-book versions of the 21 titles listed below, published across many of the Bloombury imprints (Bloomsbury, Walker & Co, Bloomsbury Press, and Bloomsbury Kids) are heavily discounted from all e-tailers for your Kindle, Nook, iPhone, Android, etc. Prices range from $1.99-$3.99. Click on the jackets for more information!
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Audio: Jesmyn Ward reads a passage from Salvage...
Listen to National Book Award finalist Jesmyn Ward read the opening chapter from her novel Salvage the Bones.
Wolcott Gibbs: "the highest compliment I can pay...
Though it seems to me that Arthur Miller still has a tendency to overwrite now and then, his “Death of a Salesman,” at the Morosco, is a tremendously affecting work, head and shoulders above any other serious play we have seen this season. It is the story of Willy Loman, a man at the end of his rope, told with a mixture of compassion, imagination, and hard technical competence you don’t often...
With the #OccupyWallStreet protests, @RepMikeHonda...
Rep. Honda, senior member of the House Budget and Appropriations Committee and lead author of the People’s Budget, is hosting a panel discussion to highlight the growing income inequality in the United States, its effect on our society, and what the Federal Government can do to address it.
Briefing: Federal Budgets, Family Budgets: Income Inequality and the US Economy Brought to you by ...
Delivering Ha-Joon Chang's 23 THINGS...
We sent several of our books to the Occupy Wall Street post office box earlier this week but managed to overlook the economist Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, so we hand delivered it yesterday. (We’re disappointed but not shocked that Professor Chang is not on anyone’s short list for the Nobel Prize in Economics this year.) The library is...
WatchDogs Make Us Human (by Art Wolfe and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson) — our new dog book! Available 10/4/11.