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03.14.10: Dennis Tedlock - 2000 Years of Mayan Literature(3 days)
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02.14.10: Jon Hunner - J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West

Start: Sun, 02/14/2010 - 3:00pm

After the first atomic bomb burst over the New Mexican desert in 1945 and as the Cold war developed, the American myth of the Wild West expanded to encompass atomic sheriffs saving the world for democracy. Jon Hunner's brisk, engaging biography documents the emergence of the Atomic West and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who came to feel at home in the American West. Against the backdrop of the physicist's life twining with the region's history, Hunner explores the promise and peril of the atomic age.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West (Hardcover)

By Jon Hunner

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780806140469
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of Oklahoma Press, 10/01/2009

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4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW#Flying Star Pla
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107-3157

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The City of Dreaming Books (Paperback)

By Walter Moers, Walter Moers, John Brownjohn

$16.95

Welcome to Zamonia, Walter Moers' fantastic land full of dangerous, whimsical, impossible creatures, and cities devoted to nothing but the minutiae of book publishing. Part of a group of novels Moers sets in this world, The City of Dreaming Books is my favorite (others include The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear and The Miraculous Adventures of Rumo), this book involves a young dinosaurish creature who sets out on a journey to a book whose very foundations (notably the frightening catacombs!) are composed of books, book lovers, and book-dependant (and devouring!) creatures. Soon, the novelist becomes involved with the intrigue and adventure of Bookholm... and the results are a fast-paced, wonderful, hilarious novel. Much like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, or Neil Gaiman, Moers' novels are incredibly successful examples of well-written, enjoyable adult fantasy-fiction.

Recommended by Laura

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