"I Heart Design: Remarkable Graphic Design Selected by Designers, Illustrators, and Critics," edited by Steven Heller; Rockport (216 pages, $45)
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"Eyes Wide Open" by Andrew Gross; Morrow (352 pages, $25.99)
-"Lightning" by Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale; New Press (142 pages, $19.95)
LOS ANGELES The Chinese government is looking into buying a stake in Facebook ahead of the social network's widely expected initial public stock offering in 2012.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Textbooks and history classes in California schools would be required to include the contributions of gays, lesbians and transgender Americans under a proposal given final legislative approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.
FORT WORTH, Texas The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, is showing an exhibit through Aug. 28 of photographs by Subhankar Banerjee called "Where I Live I Hope to Know," a series taken near his home in Santa Fe, N.M. They contrast dramatically with his photographs of the Arctic wilderness, which have won him numerous awards and many museum exhibitions.
For more information, visitwww.centrecountylibrary.org or call 355-1513.
For more information, visit www.centrecountylibrary.org or call 355-1513.
“Weather Whys: Facts, Myths and Oddities,” by Paul Yeager, Perigee books, 2010
STATE COLLEGE --State College native Dr. Ruth Anderson — dancer, doctor, fitness expert and mother of two — has just added another title: author.
Audrey Rodgers, of State College, a retired Penn State English professor, is the author of a new book, “Memoirs of Honi.”
On Page 446 of this tome, the author notes, “The railroad industry, as much as any other industry, was permeated by racism.” The book would have benefited if this were the first sentence of the preface, thus the first thing the author thought of each time he sat down to write.
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Swimming is a sport that attracts the interest of the general public in the U.S. only every four years, when the summer Olympics are held. American swimmers have dominated the sport since 1964, except in 1980, when the U.S. boycotted the Olympics, and in 1988, when the East German women (later found to have been aided by drugs) prevailed.
You’ve never heard of Walter Mirisch, but today’s film industry would be unimaginable without him.
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