‘Birds of Berkeley’ is a playful, illustrated guide to our avian neighbors
The new Heyday book, by Berkeley native Oliver James, is part field guide, part coffee-table topper and part political call to action.
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Photographer Elaine Miller Bond puts wildlife center stage
Elaine Miller Bond will present her new book, 'Running Wild,' Monday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at Books Inc. in North Berkeley.
Tom Dalzell: The man behind new book, ‘Quirky Berkeley’
Tom Dalzell has so many passions that he has to get up at 3:30 a.m. each day to attend to them all.
Heyday names Steve Wasserman as new publisher
Heyday has selected Yale University Press editor and Berkeley High graduate Steve Wasserman to be the company’s new publisher and executive director.
Berkeley’s Counterpoint Press marks 20th anniversary
When author Karen Bender shopped around her 2013 novel, A Town of Empty Rooms, she initially had little luck. By the time she sent it to Berkeley-based Counterpoint Press, she had received something like 25 rejections.
What are Berkeley’s values? What does the future hold?
On Monday July 20, the newly relocated Books Inc. on Shattuck Avenue was packed to the rafters for a discussion titled “Why Berkeley?”
A panel explores the question, ‘Why Berkeley?’
The Berkeley that Malcolm Margolin settled in in 1970 is different than the Berkeley that exists today. That was a time when people were going back to the land, discovering the power of nature and protesting the Vietnam War.
Richard Nagler: Here’s looking at you, looking at art
For his new collection of images, Berkeley photographer Richard Nagler spent a lot of time in museums. He also spent a lot of time waiting. Stationed in front of a work of art, he would wait for someone to come along and complete it. The serendipitous, unposed results come from both Nagler’s creative eye as well as his patience.
A Berkeley magazine celebrating native culture turns 25
By Hannah Long
Berkeley honors David Brower’s environmental legacy
Berkeley will commemorate the centennial of the birth of noted environmentalist David Brower with a year long celebration.
Author mines the riches of the Bancroft Library
Few people know the mysteries of the Bancroft Library as well as Susan Snyder.
John King to sign books and chat, a little, at William Stout
San Francisco Chronicle urban design writer and Berkeleyan John King is a fan of architectural bookstore William Stout — and he loves its Berkeley outpost which opened in September last year. (The other two stores are in San Francisco.)
