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Biodiversity by the Half Dozen... Author:  David Liittschwager Miniscule is the rule.  It’s not necessarily obvious until you think about it, but a large majority of all the critters that run, fly, hop or slither over the Earth’s surface would fit inside a thimble.  It was this kind of scale that acclaimed nature photographer David Liittschwager had in mind when he conceived A World in One Cubic Foot, a remarkable photographic excursion into some of the most biodiverse locations on the planet. Equipped with a cube shaped metal frame – one foot on each side – and a portable photographic [...]

Perfectly Predictable Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Sometimes, I need Chick Lit.  A little romance, some fairy tale situations, perhaps a sprinkling of decent sex.  Variety, as they say, is the spice of life, and I love mixing up my genres and diving into something really girly.  Sarah Strohmeyer’s The Sleeping Beauty Proposal fit my requirements for a light summer read to a T. The Sleeping Beauty Proposal finds us in the company of one Ms. Eugenia Michaels.  Genie, as she is known, is an admissions officer at a small, prestigious, fictional college in Massachusetts.  She is one of three children, in [...]

Pants On Fire... Author:  David Swanson For the most part, Americans like to think of themselves as a peace loving people.  Unfortunately, despite all the peaceful talk, over 237 years, the United States of America has waged a lot of war.  “We’ve had our reasons”, you might say, and maybe some of them were good ones.  Maybe there really is such a thing as “a just war”.  “Utter nonsense”, says David Swanson, who systematically dismantles every excuse ever offered for war making, in War Is a Lie. A prolific blogger and essayist over the past several years, Swanson hit full [...]