Eric Maynard: booksThoughts and commentary on books I have read, am currently reading, or would like to read.onfocus.com : free to the public- August 28, 2002 "I added support for Barnes & Noble and Powells links to the Weblog Bookwatch. So if you link to individual books at these stores (the ISBN must be in the URL) and notify weblogs.com when you update, they'll be included in the mix. It's books only, so the MediaWatch won't be affected by this." BookWatch expands services. What is BookWatch: The top books in the blogshphere. Also, check out Paul's photo gallery, I can only aspire to be so good a photographer...http://www.onfocus.com/index.asp?xml=2002_08_01_past.xml#2893 Historical Fiction - My favorite genre- August 26, 2002 Our recent bus trip allowed me time to complete a couple of interesting reads: The Difference Engine and Eaters of the Deadhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100364/categories/books/2002/08/26.html#a396 Emergence- August 26, 2002 "So if you are interested in learning about tomorrows way of organize and build structures read this book. Are you already in to this area I don't think it will give you so much more." on kerusan.org kerusan.org sums up the book "Emergence" pretty well.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100364/categories/books/2002/08/26.html#a394 The Old-Folks Home for Books- August 20, 2002 "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 "...For publishers and booksellers, it's all pretty slick and efficient. Unfortunately, the system leaves authors out in the cold. A typical book contract gives the author a royalty on each book sold in the first round. But in most cases, if the book is remaindered, the author gets nothing except the right to buy his or her own.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100364/categories/books/2002/08/20.html#a391 John Robb's Radio Weblog- August 20, 2002 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. "...We are walking toward the edge of a cliff&151;blindfolded. Our ability to understand the potential for future abrupt changes in climate is limited by our lack of understanding of the processes that control them." Children of the Ice Age: How a Global...http://jrobb.userland.com/2002/08/20.html#a2327 |