The Old-Folks Home for Books "The Old-Folks Home for Books:". How do bestselling novels end up on the bargain table at bookstores? The acrane, bizarre economies of the publishing business.... [ReRead]
ReRead points the way to this Boston Globe article. I feel bad for the authors, but at the same time this is a great way for people like myself to stock up on expensive technology manuals you'd normally spend a good portion of your weekly wages on. 8:45:27 AM |
John Robb's Radio Weblog John llinks to Woods Hole article discussing the prospect of a mini ice-age triggered by... global warming. It's a lengthy, but extremely well written piece, with lot's of diagrams to explain the processes at work. Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve by Steven Stanley covered pretty much this same ground suggesting a slightly different result some million years ago or so - us. 8:35:27 AM |