Happy International Worker's Day! Here are two recent bookseller offerings to wet your radical appetite. First an e-list from Lorne Bair (pdf) featuring 19 choice items on the struggle: and a catalog from Eureka Books featuring 50+ items including a lot of photographs of Cesar Chavez.
Reading in the Mobile Era
A student in Kenya with her library of e-books. photo by @NdilaiG Another highlight from this years World Book & Copyright Day was the release of Reading in the Mobile Era by UNESCO. Based on interviews and 4,000 completed surveys in seven developing countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda and Zimbabwe) this landmark report "paints the most detailed picture to date of who reads books and stories on mobile devices and why." We learn that celluar networks reach over 95% of the worlds population and more people have access to cell phones than toilets. Then there is this tragic fact that most people in Sub-Shararan...
Chris Jordan : “Edge-walking the lines between art and activism”
[caption id="attachment_4195" align="aligncenter" width="555"] E Pluribus Unum, 2010, image via Yes![/caption] It's hard not to appreciate the work of Chris Jordan. His work Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003 - 2005) and his ongoing series, Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009 - Current) give us some of the most haunting visuals of the new century and are a stark reminder of our distance to the precipice. Here's a look at some other of his works that lean our way: E Pluribus Unum (pictured above): a 24 feet square, composed of aluminum panels laser etched with the names of "one million organizations around the world...
Still Looks Pretty Good: A map of bookstores and libraries in the U.S.
Here's a gem from Google Maps - a look at all the public libraries and bookstores across the country as of Summer 2013. h\t Chicago Public Library
What to Read Where: A Classic Literature Travel Guide
Classic Literature Travel Guide [Infographic] by the team at Cheapflights