Dr. Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University who spearheaded new designs for the more humane slaughter of cattle in slaughterhouses. She is also a well-known autistic woman and an advocate for the better understanding and treatment of autistic people. I recently watched the HBO movie starring Claire Danes about Grandin (Temple Grandin) [...]
I watched a Werner Herzog documentary the other night titled Cave of Forgotten Dreams. This amazing documentary gives unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave, a cave in France discovered in late 1994, which contains the oldest known cave paintings in the world.
Just recently I watched my dad coach his high school soccer team to their second state championship. After giving their all through 110 minutes of regulation and overtime, the team persevered and narrowly won the gold in penalty kicks. It capped off an amazing season, filled with highs and lows, excitement and sports drama. And [...]
Play Ball! I know baseball season starts in the springtime, but for me, baseball goes best with warm summer nights.
Most of us recognize the influence music has on our mood. Why else do we listen to music at the gym, if not to harness its potency to make us exercise harder while enjoying it more?
While vacationing in Ohio recently, I hiked a wilderness trail and some family members were treated to a scarlet tanager sighting. This week at the reference desk a library user asked me where the bird books were to help identify a bird he had seen in his yard. As we walked to that section of [...]
We second floor librarians were remarking recently that there have been a lot of books published in the last few years where the word wife figures prominently in the title. We leave the analysis of this trend to you, dear reader, but here are some wife-titled nonfiction books of recent years. (There are many more [...]
February is African American History Month, and to celebrate, I thought we’d choose a selection of great books on featuring African American history for nonfiction picks this week. I also wanted to point out the amazing website that the Library of Congress (along with other national agencies) has put together for African American History Month. [...]
For the past week or two, the media has been talking about a new book, called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua. (Read the NY Times review here.) This got me thinking about other nonfiction books that have sparked debate in the past. Here are a couple of controversial nonfiction titles (and [...]
Oliver Sacks is one of our most popular nonfiction authors. (Here’s a link to his books in our catalog.) Lists of read-alikes are really popular and quite well-developed for fiction, but nonfiction is more of a challenge. After writing my last post about various online sites to help you find new books to read, I [...]
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