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November 20, 2008

Stories in Science:

Nerd-o-licious cookbook

Cory at BoingBoing tips us off to the just-released Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies by Patrick Buckley and Lilly Binns.
Co-author Buckley is a an MIT grad and mechanical engineer from San Francisco. His expertise helps transform your ordinary kitchen into a mad scientist’s [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, October 2nd, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Bookbloggery, Cookbooks, New Release 2008, Science

Book lotto: Human gets inside our heads

This coming week we’ll be giving away an autographed copy of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Gazzaniga is the director of UC Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. His new book is an engaging (and easy reading) exploration of the latest research into the [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, July 21st, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Giveaways, New Release 2008, Nonfiction, Science

Mmm, that new book smell

Get yours from this round-up of Spring/Summer titles by California authors.
City Lights celebrates the 50th anniversary of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind. “With one million copies in print, A Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published,” says the bookstore of its [...]

Posted by Kate Cohen, June 18th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Biography/memoir, Fiction, Food, Graphic novel, Language/grammar, Mystery/crime, New Release 2008, Poetry, Politics/government, Science, Short stories, Sports

Monkey Girl book lotto

Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes is just out in paperback this week. We have TWO autographed copies to share with CaliforniaAuthors.com readers.
Want one?
Just send us an email [to info at californiaauthors.com] with Monkey Girl in the subject line and we’ll enter you in [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, February 18th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: FoCA, Giveaways, Narrative nonfiction, Philosophy/religion, Science, Site stuff