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Art & Culture: Holiday Bonding

December 21, 2015 Tony Buchsbaum 0

It’s inevitable, really. Every 007 movie brings forth new books about the Bond phenomenon. Some are updated versions of older books, some are new. But they appear as part of the vast Bond marketing machine that hasn’t stopped since the early 1960s. This fall’s release of Spectre, the 24th film in the series, saw its share. Here’s a look at three. The best by far is The James Bond Archives (Taschen). Created with the full cooperation […]

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Art & Culture: Evolution: The Whole Story
edited by Steve Parker

October 16, 2015 admin 0

Whatever picture you are building in your mind about Evolution: The Whole Story (Firefly), rebuild it. This book is bigger, more complete, denser of thought and material and more brilliantly illustrated than anything you are imagining. As the title promises, this <i>is</i> the whole story. Full stop. Editor Steve Parker is a senior scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London and the author of hundreds of books including The Encyclopedia of Sharks and Planet-Ape. […]

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New Today: Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs  by Erik Didriksen

October 6, 2015 admin 0

We’re not feeling a review of this one. We will give you facts. You must make up your own mind. Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs by Erik Didriksen will either grab you. Or it will not. From the flap material: The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in Pop Sonnets, a collection of 100 classic pop songs remained as Shakespearean sonnets. And so on. And it looks like this: VII. From observation of […]