April 2007

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

http://www.last.fm/music/Yo-Yo%2BMa%252C%2BTon%2BKoopman%253B%2BAmsterdam%2BBaroque%2BOrchestra

Plume Gets Virginia Tech Account - 4/30/2007 - Publishers Weekly

n one of the first deals related to the Virginia Tech shootings, Plume’s Cherise Davis has bought world rights to Roland Lazenby’s April 16: Heartbreak in Blacksburg from agent Matthew Carnicelli. Lazenby, a journalism professor at Virginia Tech, will use the perspective of students on campus, in particular his own journalism students who helped supply the mainstream media with information via their student-run Web site planetblacksburg.com, to provide context for the events and describe the recovery and resilience of the campus community. Three of Lazenby’s students will coauthor the book and a portion of the proceeds will be given to the victims’ fund at Virginia Tech and to support journalism education at the university. Plume will publish this summer.

Bzzzt.

Too early, prof. Smells bad.

I actually have some unique perspective to add here, as I am already familiar with Lazenby’s work: I collect books about basketball and Lazenby is the author of several rather pedestrian ones. He’s not likely to come up with a deeply insightful book about the VT shootings.

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wfzimmerman's review: "7th printing."
Bantam (2000), Hardcover, 384 pages
tags: military history

wfzimmerman's review: "Not usually a big Robinson fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this series and want to have firsts of FORTY and FIFTY. This comes at a time when I am getting interested in climate change for work. In retrospect, SIXTY DAYS does read a bit like a wish fulfillment fantasy. Climate change will come sooner rather than later, everyone will be sorry, and we'll adopt progressive scientific strategies for responding. Personally, I think it's a lot more likely that it will be gradual, and that we will bust through the 4xCO2 barrier (1120 ppm, 4x the historic level) before we really make much progress on managing it."
Bantam (2007), Hardcover, 400 pages
tags: science fiction, sf, climate change, NSF, collecting series