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The season's best picture books offer fresh takes on some familiar story lines. By Reviews by LAURA BILLINGS, Special to the Star Tribune In "The Christmas Magic," a lovely new picture book by Lauren Thompson, Santa Claus feels...
As the new year dawned, the global economy seemed on the brink of collapse. The publishing industry has provided a bridge across the ravine: never have so many books been produced so quickly to explain how the financial world...
By Fiach Kelly Saturday November 28 2009 A new contraption that "mates" two voices in the same way that a man and woman produce a baby has gone on display at the Science Museum on Dublin's Pearse Street. The art-science...
The year's best-reviewed biographies, memoirs and collections of letters To read the Globe's review of the books listed here, click on the title. FRED ASTAIRE By Joseph Epstein, Yale University Press, 191 pages, $26.75 This is...
Steven Poole on Why Animal Suffering Matters | Darwin's Dogs | Snail Why Animal Suffering Matters , by Andrew Linzey (Oxford, £16.99) Those sceptical folk who doubt that anything of practical importance could issue from a...
The animal kingdom has given the seal of approval to a piece of public art created to celebrate the life of the father of evolution. A cheeky mink gatecrashed a ceremony held to mark the official handover of Shrewsbury’s...
The year's best-reviewed books on science, religion and the environment To read the Globe's review of the books listed here, click on the title. THE END OF THE RIVER: Dams, Drought and Déjà Vu on the Rio São Francisco By Brian...
Feast your eyes and feed your brain with our favorite science books worthy of the coffee table. Topping our list are volumes commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 400th anniversary of the...
Ever since Charles Darwin evolution model managed to impose itself through logic and reason as the main approach to explaining our origins and history, experts have been trying to figure out what the root of life is. In other...
The descendants of Charles Darwin, his publisher – and his pigeons – met this week on the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species "That's the fireplace where Byron's memoirs were burned after his death...
