Zimbabwe's public historian Pathisa Nyathi has died - he restored the erased history of the Ndebele people
A public figure who appeared often on TV and radio Pathisa Nyathi celebrated the history and culture of Zimbabwe marginalised ...
‘The future is indie’: What’s sparking a bookstore resurgence around Charlotte?
Independent bookstores like Troubadour Booksellers in east Charlotte offer community and in-person experiences.
Do You Know These Space Books That Were Adapted Into Hit Movies?
This short trivia quiz tests your knowledge of fiction and nonfiction works that were made into popular films about space ...
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'The Book of Awesome Queer Heroes' - Pride across the ages and pages
How the LGBTQ+ Community Changed the World for the Better" will make a wonderful addition to any bookshelf, especially one ...
Irawati Karve: Between the personal and the scientific
Her husband Dinkar was a scientist who had earned his PhD in Germany—a country ... but also dedicated one of her books to her ...
‘Iru’: A biography in motion about anthropologist Irawati Karve, who lived life on her own terms
Karve drew the scientific conclusion that race or caste is not a biological identity – it is only a social construct that ...
The dark family history of a British scientific genius
Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught ...
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YSU’s Izmirlian Library Acquires 300 Books from Late Author’s Personal Collection
The family of veteran Armenian-American writer/editor Charles Garabed Der Kasbarian has donated a diverse collection of ...
Ninety years on, she's still the only female scientist you can name... GLENDA COOPER reviews The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a …
There is plenty of interesting biography in here, explaining how a Polish governess named Marya Sklodowska transformed ...
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Obituary: Tom Garvin, UCD politics professor who made significant contribution to academia thorough his numerous books on Irish history
Political scientist and historian Tom Garvin, who has died at the age of 81, was a leading academic and author of numerous ...
Books in brief: The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg; Poor Artists; and The War Against the Past
Reporting History at Nuremberg By Uwe Neumhar Pushkin Press. The Nuremburg trials witnessed 23 of the biggest criminals of ...
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‘We would never have got a start without David Marcus’: Irish writers celebrate a literary legend
I wonder was David Marcus fully aware of his vast influence? It is only when the recipients of his literary attentions are ...