by Site Owner | Jan 10, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
A Life Mapped By Hali Felt Picador, $18.00, 352 pages The name Marie Tharp probably does not ring familiar unless you’ve read Hali Felt’s Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor. Alfred Wegener’s 1912 theory that continents drifted...
by Site Owner | Dec 11, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Natural History for Young Readers By David Shapiro, Illustrated by Hayley Vair Craigmore Creations, 32 pages, $14.99 Flowers by Number by David Shapiro and illustrated by Hayley Vair is a new children’s book from Portland’s Craigmore Creations (Right...
by Site Owner | Nov 7, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
A Children’s Book About Dinosaurs Evolves By Dr. Robert T. Bakker, Illustrated by Luis V. Rey Golden Books, 32 pages, $16.99 Many current paleontologists had as children the 1960 book Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles. But human...
by Site Owner | Oct 11, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Text and Image Show the Beauty of the Natural World By Zoe Burke Pomegranate, $14.95, 32 pages Since the death of artist Charley Harper in 2007, there has been renewed interest in his modernist paintings of birds and other wildlife. Fans of his artwork have enjoyed...
by michaeld | Jun 25, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Religion
Interesting But Long-Winded Read About the Unreligious in America By David Niose Palgrave Macmillan, $27.00, 254 pages The percentage of Americans that identify with no faith – the unreligious – is on the rise. Despite the claims of some, the United...