The Harold B. Lee Library, at Brigham Young University, is a premier producer of titillating television programs for librarians. This program, called “The Many Stations of Book Preservation,” is no less than eight minutes, twenty-five seconds of variegated stimulation for persons who find hope or dread in the perils and pitfalls of book decay, destruction, or preservation. […]
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The new Improbable book, reviewed in USA Today, too
Kim Painter did a nice review of the new book, in USA Today today, with the headline “‘Improbable’ studies may make you laugh and think“. Painter also kindly mentions, at the end of her review: Abrahams’ U.S. book tour this fall will feature “dramatic readings” – by scientists, journalists and others – from some of his favorite studies. The […]
The new Improbable book, and its first American review
My new book — This Is Improbable Too (OneWorld Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-1780743615) — is now available in America (it was published in the UK this past March). The first US review has appeared, by Steven Poole, in The Wall Street Journal: The éminence grise behind the Ig Nobels is Marc Abrahams, and for those of us who […]
Economics of the undead, arise bookishly!
Dismal news: Last year we published a link to a Call for Abstracts about “Economics of the Undead”. Tomorrow the resulting book, Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, will be published. The authors, who are themselves in a technical sense undead, also birthed a web site.