Books

From the U.S. to Baghdad: university presses donate books (Brown Daily Herald)

8 Oct 2008

Harvard University Press, Yale University Press and MIT Press shipped a collective donation of over 5,000 books to libraries in Iraq on Sept. 22. The donation was coordinated by the Sabre Foundation, an organization that facilitates charitable projects to libraries abroad.

Bells for Books is looking for volunteers (The Idaho Statesman)

8 Oct 2008

Bells for Books, a program at the Garden City Library, is looking for volunteers to help from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Saturdays this fall. Call Nancy at 322-1490 for more information.

Superhero science: Prof. uses comic books to teach physics (Mankato Free Press)

8 Oct 2008

University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios will give a talk entitled, “Everything I Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books" at MSU on Thursday.