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Book Cover Meme

Posted in Books, Memes on 23 November, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Jennifer posted a few days ago on the Book Cover Meme, and I thought I’d play along. The idea is to go to Amazon.com’s advanced search, search on your first name in a book title, and pick the most interesting book cover that’s in the search results. Since I have a common, biblical, first name, [...]

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“The Song of the Dodo” by David Quammen

Posted in Birding, Books, Nature on 29 August, 2007 | 2 Comments »

This lengthy tome (nearly 700 large-sized paperback pages), subtitled “Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction,” was recommended by Joe Morlan, who taught an Introduction to Field Ornithology class I took earlier this year, as the best science/nature book he’s ever read, and, although I am not extremely well-read in that genre, I must agree! [...]

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“Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai

Posted in Books on 30 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This aptly-titled novel is primarily a dual story, one about Jemubhai, a retired judge and his granddaughter Sai, orphaned, convent-schooled, and now living with her grandfather in a decrepit old mansion, the other about the judge’s cook (who remains nameless until the very last page) and his son Biju, an illegal immigrant working in New [...]

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“Living Your Yoga” by Judith Lasater

Posted in Books, Yoga on 26 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This book provides a gentle introduction to yogic philosophy, and the non-pose aspects of yoga (the series of poses known commonly as “yoga” are but one of the eight limbs of yoga).  Lasater, a yoga instructor in San Francisco, divides the book into three parts. Part one deals with the internal (spritual seeking, discipline, letting [...]

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“Mind of the Raven” by Bernd Heinrich

Posted in Birding, Books on 2 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

“Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds” is very high on my list of the best nature-writing I’ve read to date. Heinrich, who has written several book about ravens, here examines myriad aspects of their complex lives, from play behavior, mating, following (or leading) predators. From numerous field studies, as well as controlled [...]

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