Topic: Ww Norton

UNC students to read book on how the Internet shapes the way we think

The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr will be the 2012 summer reading book for incoming students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the...
Organizers of the Lionel Gelber Prize, apparently one of the last literary awards that doesn't release a longlist, changed their policy and issued...
Astronomy teacher, Irene Worthington Baron, used NASA astronomy computer programs when searching for proof of the Christmas star. In her recently...

Poetry

0 . The Conference of the Birds, by Peter Sis (The Penguin Press; 160 pages; $27.95). The 12th century Sufi poem is adapted here with wondrous...

Travel

0 . Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings, by John King (Heyday; 111 pages; $14.95 paperback).. . Driving Home: An American Journey, by...

Comics

0 View Larger Image . Habibi, by Craig Thompson (Pantheon; 672 pages; $35). Thompson's lushly drawn graphic novel is a magnificent epic, a love...

Holiday book guide

0 NONFICTION . Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown; 368 pages; $29.99). Forget all about the snake, the evil-temptress reputation and...

Holiday books guide is here!

0 View Larger Image . Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts (The Library of America; 1,584 pages; $70). A magnificent and very sharp two-volume, boxed...