Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment.  It was first celebrated in 1969.  Why not  commemmorate it  by reading books like “Sacred Earth: Places of Peace and Power,” by Martin Gray;     ”American Earth: Environmental Writings Since Thoreau,” edited by Bill McKibben;  “The World Without Us,” by [...]

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History & Humanities has several new books about the December 21, 2012 Mayan calendar phenomena. Beyond 2012 : Catastrophe or Awakening?  by Geoff Stray is a complete guide to end-of-time predictions. 2012 : Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce is a definitive guide to the doomsday phenomenon. And Mark Hitchcock’s book is 2012, the Bible, [...]

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Anyone who has read or listened to the news lately can’t help but be concerned about skyrocketing medical costs and the continuing need for health care reform.  We have many excellent titles on this topic:  “Critical Condition : How Health Care in America Became Big Business–and Bad Medicine,” by Donald L. Barlett;  “The Corrision of Medicine: [...]

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