Books You Might Otherwise Not See

Don't neglect these books! Just because they aren't displayed in our front window doesn't mean they don't deserve some careful love and attention. You'll find all three of them, in fact, shelved in our "Staff Favorites" section.

Evidence of Evolution
by Susan Middleton and Mary Ellen Hannibal
As much an art book as a science book, the photographs in this book will keep you mesmerized. I want a copy for my coffee table, nightstand, backpack, bookshelf, car, bicycle basket, and breakfast table. The four major sections cover Darwin and Galapagos; Processes of Evolution; Patterns of Evolution; and The Unending Synthesis, all fantastically illustrated in photographs. Exquisite!

Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
by Frank Jacobs
The contents of this book are bizarre and wide-ranging and include inverted maps; upside-down maps; maps of jelly; the United States as 38 states; the United States as 16 New American Nations; Thomas Jefferson's conception of the 10 states that never were; and Italy on the Atlantic.

Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09
Edited by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff with Project Censored
I took this book to lunch with me and was more than a little shocked. The further I delved, the more intrigued I became.

"Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens." -Los Angeles Times

"Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us." -San Diego Review

~April