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NEH Day 1: “Mapping Nature Across the Americas”
A while back, I promised to blog about the NEH “Mapping Nature Across the Americas” summer institute that I participated in at the Newberry Library during the summer. Please forgive the sporadic nature of these posts – I have just … Continue reading
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Tagged books, envhist, environment, environmental history, geography, history, mapping, nature, NEH, NEHsummer, newberry library
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Bits from “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society”
My friend NT found The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows in the bargain bin at her library and gave it to me before we moved. I rediscovered it, as yet unread, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, map, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
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I have a book problem
And the solution is: more books! Quick shout-out to the Friends of the Library at University Park Library in Irvine, California, for their very nice (and oh-so-alluring) selection of books for sale (only twenty-five cents a pop!) on the shelves … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is credited with saying: “I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. … Continue reading
Sitting in the library on a Saturday
Woe is me. I’m comfortably seated in the wonderful, window-full, sun-spackled Bellevue Library reading a book, but all I want to do while reading this book for review is browse through and read other books. Some titles that are calling … Continue reading
Chapter 2, in which we learn as much as possible at CHESS 2013
During CHESS 2013 on Vancouver Island, we enjoyed three days PACKED with awesome field excursions, fascinating lectures, delicious food, and great conversations. Accommodations We stayed in the lovely dorms of Vancouver Island University, surrounded by bunnies which seemed to have … Continue reading
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Tagged books, envhist, environmental history, niche, travel, trees
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Short Story Clubbin’ (1/3)
Because a doctoral program isn’t enough to keep me off the streets and out of the pool halls, while I was in Ottawa working on the PhD core seminar and sundry course requirements, I had the distinct pleasure of participating … Continue reading
The (First) Reading List
Comprehensive Exam #1: Culture, Literature, and the Arts Reading List In the interest of providing bibliographic references for the preceding entries, as well as a starting point for other people developing their exam lists, I give you List The First. … Continue reading
Social Networking (Fishing for friends?)
Yesterday, I joined twitter (does that make me a twit?) and academia.edu (the Facebook of scholars!). On the one hand, these pages join the ridiculous waste of time that I already enjoy from MySpace (rarely) and Facebook (‘on the daily’). … Continue reading
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Tagged books, canada, chicago, Facebook, judith butler, social networking, twitter
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Carto-Caricatures: Cartographic Caricatures 