The book industry needs to get its act together: Petition to boycott HarperCollins
Pitched battles between publishers and librarians are not going to help anyone survive the digital revolution.
Nathan Hellner-Mestelman sits down with CBC's Bob MacDonald at Bolen Books to talk about Cosmic Wonder and the universe. Watch here.
Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe
Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
May 2024
$24.95 | ISBN: 9781773901596
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Nathan Hellner-Mestelman is an avid writer and science communicator, aged 16. A contributor to Sky's Up and the former SkyNews magazine, he is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and does outreach at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. His work has been featured in the Lonely Planet Anthology, Physics World Magazine, and Math Horizons, and his recent award-winning film, Universe Versus You, has been screened at film festivals internationally. He lives in Victoria, B.C
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Pitched battles between publishers and librarians are not going to help anyone survive the digital revolution.
Novelist Jennifer Quist meets the Mormon book scene in Salt Lake City.
What interests me in these gardens is their design and imaginative daring, along with their thoughtful and often playful deconstruction of the garden into its constituent parts. As a writer, I am also intrigued by the power of the language used to describe them. Among the most provocative – perhaps especially for a writer -- is the Jardin de la connaissance, a “secret and strange library” of walls, benches and floors made up of used books exposed to wind and weather – and varieties of mushrooms cultivated within some of the books.
Here is a world première view of Louise Tanguay's new photograph of the controversial Jardin de la connaissance.
This is a fairy-tale victory for Justin Trudeau. An extraordinary triumph: a majority in Parliament, Liberals elected in every province—even Alberta—and all three territories; a clean sweep of the Maritimes; an entirely unanticipated forty-seven seats in Quebec. And, best of all, no more Harper.