Top 10 Book Suggestions from 2011
If you haven’t completed your holiday shopping, you might consider buying a number of books that we covered in the blog this year, many of which are in stock at The Huntington’s Bookstore & More. Here are some suggestions for consideration.
Over the Moon
Burt and Carol Basney recently came to The Huntington with their daughter’s family and found out in person how their gift from 2007 took center stage in the current exhibition “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California.”
The Shade of Things
On Thursday night in New York City, Daniel Lewis will be giving the Norman Lecture on the History of Science and Medicine at the Grolier Club, arguably the most important book club in the country. Lewis will be talking about the history of color dictionaries.
Distilling Alchemy
If you’re not sure what alchemy is, don’t look it up in the dictionary. Come to Bruce Moran’s lecture in Friends’ Hall, where he’ll explain it with some concrete examples from the 16th and 17th centuries.
