The UK's Royal Society announces its shortlist for the best science books of 2009, but it misses out on some great reads Every year the Royal Society Prize for Science Books celebrates the best in popular science writing. The six shortlisted books announced this week represent a diverse array of subjects and styles, ranging from [...]
Young Family Trust and DC Comics A page from the graphic novel “Neil Young’s Greendale,” which chronicles a family in changing times. They say you can’t go home again, but maybe someone should tell that to Neil Young. Mr. Young created the fictional Northern California town of Greendale and its residents on his 2003 album [...]
Chad Batka for The New York Times Justin Cronin at an annual book industry convention in New York last week. Justin Cronin is the author of an epic, multimillion-dollar, 766-page novel that stars bloodthirsty creatures that run in packs and savagely kill people at night. And he’s planning to turn it into a trilogy. So [...]
Books and recommendations from Scientific American Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species by Joel Sartore. National Geographic Focal Point, 2010 For more than 20 years photojournalist Joel Sartore has been making studio portraits of species from around the world. This book brings together 69 captivating images of organisms on the brink, from the leatherback sea [...]
Heat Vision is reporting that Disney and screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Alice in Wonderland) are coming together again to bring Maleficent to the big screen . This will be a live-action look at the evil queen from 1959's Sleeping Beauty. Linda Woolverton signs on as screenwriter for the live action Maleficent. This project could also reunite [...]
NEW YORK – The John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting team broke up 40 years ago but their influence lives on in music, pop culture and now in two prominent new books about music. Lennon is one of the five seminal artists who shape the backbone of "Corn Flakes With John Lennon," a memoir by Robert Hilburn, [...]
It was a free afternoon in Munich that inspired John Graham-Cumming to begin compiling the Geek Atlas, a guide to the top sites to see when technology enthusiasts turn tourist. While looking for somewhere to kill a few hours, he discovered Munich’s Deutsches Museum. It’s one of the world’s biggest science museums and the very [...]
The release of the latest version of the Kindle has many waxing poetic on the future of books in the digital age. Scott Meyers, an independent author and consultant, examines the notion of cross-platforming in “Authoring Challenges in a Multiplatform World.” To the right we present a visual of one of his slides that depicts [...]
Book information On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, cognition and fiction by Brian Boyd Published by: Belknap Press Price: $35/£25.95 LIKE all the best stories, this one has a pleasing symmetry. It is a book in two parts, each illuminating the other. On one side stands evolutionary theory and its attempts to explain human nature. [...]
Star Wars story beats out Fallout 3, Tomb Raider, and more. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was honored this weekend by the Writers Guild of America, winning the 2009 award for videogame writing. Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey from Lucasarts were credited for the accomplishment. The Force Unleashed managed to beat [...]
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