Nimble Books LLC » 2007 » September » 19 http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress Timely, colorful, thought-provoking and concise Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:49:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear, Art Spigelman http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21280075 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21280075#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:50:15 +0000 admin tag:www.librarything.com://9350b15d101c66f370e0ba53960ba804 wfzimmerman's review: "A really cool book. Dr. Seuss's drawings look the same when he is drawing Hitler as when he is drawing Horton or the Cat in the Hat. It's also gratifying that Seuss was so right so early about the Fascist threat..."
New Press (1999), Hardcover, 272 pages
tags: world War II, political cartoons, Seuss]]> wfzimmerman's review: "A really cool book. Dr. Seuss's drawings look the same when he is drawing Hitler as when he is drawing Horton or the Cat in the Hat. It's also gratifying that Seuss was so right so early about the Fascist threat..."
New Press (1999), Hardcover, 272 pages
tags: world War II, political cartoons, Seuss]]> http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21280075/feed/ Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?book=21274009 http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?book=21274009#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:52:29 +0000 admin tag:www.librarything.com://2cc427ffdd20a3d065c8195bd36cf8e4 Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Paperback, 144 pages
tags: subway, transit, maps, geography]]> Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Paperback, 144 pages
tags: subway, transit, maps, geography]]> http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?book=21274009/feed/ 2012: The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21274005 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21274005#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:52:24 +0000 admin tag:www.librarything.com://c67616a7f47e25b93b053731ee248535 wfzimmerman's review: "I received this book accidentally (I normally avoid anything by Strieber or about "alien possession" like the plague) but on flipping through was intrigued to notice that the book relies on a completely alternate history with five empires, the United States being the weakest. Oddly enough, the alternate history is mentioned nowhere on the dustjacket ... stealth marketing!"
Tor Books (2007), Hardcover, 320 pages
tags: alternate history, goofy theories, Greysw, UFOs]]> wfzimmerman's review: "I received this book accidentally (I normally avoid anything by Strieber or about "alien possession" like the plague) but on flipping through was intrigued to notice that the book relies on a completely alternate history with five empires, the United States being the weakest. Oddly enough, the alternate history is mentioned nowhere on the dustjacket ... stealth marketing!"
Tor Books (2007), Hardcover, 320 pages
tags: alternate history, goofy theories, Greysw, UFOs]]> http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21274005/feed/ VENTUS now a free CC downloadable! http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2007/09/ventus-now-a-free-cc-downloadable/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2007/09/ventus-now-a-free-cc-downloadable/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:16:16 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2007/09/19/ventus-now-a-free-cc-downloadable/ Karl Schroeder’s Ventus now a free CC download - Boing Boing

Award-winning sf writer Karl Schroeder has just released his debut novel, Ventus under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs license, meaning that you can download it, share it and copy it as much as you like.

Excellent. What this book in particular needs, I think, is some annotation around the pages … collaborative world-building.

Earlier this year, Nimble Books author Pepe Escobar released his GLOBALISTAN with a CC license.

]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2007/09/ventus-now-a-free-cc-downloadable/feed/ Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21274009 http://www.librarything.com/work/book/21274009#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:52:29 +0000 admin tag:www.librarything.com://679ee542fc63cbc6bbbef3c85c92da7e wfzimmerman's review: "A beautiful book. I love the TOC which is laid out like a subway map. Unfortunately, at first glance, one problem is that transit maps of the world tend to be a lot like one another..."
Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Paperback, 144 pages
tags: subway, transit, maps, geography]]> wfzimmerman's review: "A beautiful book. I love the TOC which is laid out like a subway map. Unfortunately, at first glance, one problem is that transit maps of the world tend to be a lot like one another..."
Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Paperback, 144 pages
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