Events
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Start: 3:00 pm
Mark Rudd, former chairman of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and co-founder of the Weather Underground discusses and signs his memoir Underground (Harper, $13.99), now released in paperback. Rudd and his friends sought to end war, racism, and injustice - by any means necessary. In this gripping narrative, Rudd speaks out about this tumultuous period, the role he played in its crucial events, and its aftermath, revealing the drama and tension as well as the naivete of young activists. From 1980 to 2006 Rudd was a math instructor at CNM, and a perennial organizer and nonviolent activist locally on issues of Native American land rights, nuclear, US military interventions, Palestine solidarity, unionization, environmental justice, and war and militarization. | 19
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Start: 7:00 pm
Carrie Vaughn, New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty Norville series discusses and signs her new addition to this series Kitty Goes to War (Tor, $7.99) and her new fantasyDiscord's Apple (Tor, $23.99), which melds a near-future world torn by war with the legend of the fall of Troy. Kitty Norville is a werewolf and talk radio host, and Kitty Goes to War is the eighth in the popular series. Discord's Apple takes a page from The Lion, the With and the Wardrobe or - more recently - Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and invents a tale in which a family storeroom is a gateway to another realm that contains fantastical items including Excalibur, Cinderella's glass slippers, and the Apple of Discord that began the Trojan War. Set against a backdrop of coming apocalypse, the story jumps from glimpses of the ancient Greek past to a world that is being torn apart by politics and war, and collects old heroes and notorious villains from all of mythology to fight for the fate of the world. "Enough excitement, astonishment, pathos, and victory to satisfy any reader." "Carrie Vaughn masterfully weaves together comic books, Greek gods, King Arthur, and a world on the brink of nuclear war. Discord's Apple is phenomenal!" | 21
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Start: 7:00 pm
No book has ever before specifically focused on the birds of prey of New Mexico. Both Florence Bailey (1928) and J. Stokley Ligon (1961) published volumes on the birds of New Mexico, but their coverage of raptors was somewhat limited. In the ensuing years a great deal of new information has been collected on these mighty hunters' distribution, ecology, and conservation, including in New Mexico. The book begins with a history of the word 'raptor'. The order of Raptatores, or Raptores, was first used to classify birds of prey in the early nineteenth century, derived from the Latin word raptor, one who seizes by force. The text then includes the writings of thirty-seven contributing authors who relate their observations on these regal species. For example, Joe Truett recounts the following in the chapter on the Swainson's Hawk: 'From spring to fall each year at the Jornada Caves in the Jornada del Muerto, Swainson's hawks assemble daily to catch bats. The bats exit the caves - actually lava tubes - near sundown. | 23
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07.24.10: David Dunaway & Molly Beer - Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals
Start: 3:00 pm
Great blog post from Molly on the coauthorship of this book here. |
