JaynePublishing NewsLegos / NASA / science / space flight / women3 Comments

Women of NASA Lego set – I saw this news story the other day and got all excited. The $25 kit will go on sale November 1st and features four figurines of “pioneering women of the space agency: the astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, ... more >

July 18, 2017

REVIEW: Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistory / non-fiction / science2 Comments

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar’s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around ... more >

March 9, 2017

REVIEW: Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, ... more >

March 3, 2017

Friday News: NYT changes book coverage, Amazon Web Services outage, strong girls, and astronomer Maria Cunitz

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon Web Services / astronomy / History / New York Times Book Review / photography / science4 Comments

Changes In ‘New York Times’ Books Coverage, Explained – Although I’m trying not to see this as the beginning of the end of book reviews, it’s a hard sell. Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review, is trying to sell the “deprioritization” of book reviews as a democratizing ... more >

October 20, 2016

Thursday News: Amazon’s review rules, IPA supports Turkish publishing, use of English in science, and clever emoji book

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / coffee table books / emojis / Frankfurt Book Fair / language / review rules / science / Turkey2 Comments

Amazon’s New Review Rules: Should Authors Be Worried? – Author Anne R. Allen has written a post explaining why she thinks Amazon has been cracking down more on reviews, even going so far as to wipe out a reviewer’s whole review history on the site. One of the most important (and ... more >

October 14, 2016

Friday News: Bob Dylan: Nobel Laureate, unread classics, uses of comics

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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature makes all kinds of sense – So the first USian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in more than 20 years (Toni Morrison in 1993 was the last) is Bob Dylan rather than Philip Roth, as many had expected. How this will fuel the ... more >