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| Events from 29 November 2009 till 05 December 2009 (week number : 48)
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| Wednesday 02 December 2009 |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm Cliff Mass at Elliott Bay Books Category : General Join Cliff Mass, author of THE WEATHER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, at Elliott Bay Book Company on December 2 at noon. The Pacific Northwest experiences the most varied and fascinating weather in the United States, including world-record winter snows, the strongest non-tropical storms in the nation, and shifts from desert to rain forest in a matter of miles. Local weather features dominate the meteorological landscape, from the Puget Sound convergence zone and wind surges along the Washington Coast, to gap winds through the Columbia Gorge and the "Banana Belt" of southern Oregon. This book is the first comprehensive and authoritat ... 4:00pm - 5:30pm Monika Zagar at University of Minnesota Bookstore Category : General Join Monika Zagar, author of KNUT HAMSUN, on December 2 at 4 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during the Second World War. In 1943, Hamsun sent his Nobel medal to Third-Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a token of his admiration and authored a reverential obituary for Hitler in May 1945. For decades, scholars have wrestled with the dichotomy between Hamsun's merits as a writer and his infamous ties to Nazism.Read more |
| Thursday 03 December 2009 |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm Canyon Sam at Books Inc in Berkeley, CA Category : General Join Canyon Sam, author of SKY TRAIN, at Books Inc in Berkeley, CA, on December 3 at 7 p.m. Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the chan ... 7:00pm - 8:30pm David Biespiel at Rilassi Coffee House and Tea, Portland Category : General Join David Biespiel, author of THE BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN, at Rilassi Coffee House and Tea, Portland, OR, on December 3 at 7 p.m. David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise, is quite unmatched by that of other contemporary poets. The Book of Men and Women is his second collection in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, and as always he is the master of the long line, his words strung across its reach as tightly as beads. But new poems in this book explore the intimacies of the shorter line as well and display Biespiel's formal inventiveness and emotional range. The Book of Men and Women ... |
| Friday 04 December 2009 |
| Saturday 05 December 2009 |
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm Tony Angell at Foster/White Gallery Category : General Join Tony Angell, author of PUGET SOUND THROUGH AN ARTIST'S EYE, at Foster/White Gallery in Pioneer Square on December 5 at 2 p.m. Puget Sound's rich abundance of life - from mammals to avian - can be attributed to the fact that the region is far more than just a body of water. Edged by an extraordinary range of habitats, this region is visited and occupied year-round by species that are finely tuned to exploit the resources here that are necessary for their survival. Birds are among the most obvious occupants of these communities, and witnessing their dynamic lives has been a source of inspiration for artist and naturalist Ton ... 3:00pm - 4:00pm Canyon Sam at Tibet Day, San Francisco Category : General Join Canyon Sam, author of SKY TRAIN, at Tibet Day in San Francisco, on December 5 at 3 p.m. Located at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Tibet Day charges $10 admission. Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face ... |
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