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Mar 2, 2010 0

Seattle, WA – 03/02/10 – Elliott Bay Book Company – Linda Chalker-Scott

Who	Linda Chalker-Scott
When	Tuesday, March 2, 2010 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	Elliott Bay Book Company (map) 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle, WA, USA 98122 The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says, "Be assured--the new place will have its own distinct charms, many of them very similar to what people have known and enjoyed about our Pioneer Square home. Everyone that we know of who's had a sneak peek as construction has ensued has gone 'wow' in appreciation and anticipation."
Other Info	Do using drought-tolerant plants reduce water consumption? Does aerobically brewed compost tea suppress disease? Urban horticulturalist Linda Chalker-Scott discusses common gardening practices, drawing from science to separate the stereotypes from helpful practices, all encompassed in her new book, The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (University of Washington Press). “Linda Chalker-Scott is a scientist with a mission – evidence-based gardening. Happily she is also the most interesting, entertaining, knowledgeable, and useful garden writer I’ve come across. Home gardeners will learn practices that are more effective, safer, and … cheaper.” – Constance Casey.

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Dec 17, 2009 0

Lake Forest Park, WA – 12/17/09 – Third Place Books – Cliff Mass

Who	Cliff Mass
When	Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	Third Place Books (map) 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, WA, USA 98155 Sociologist Ray Oldenberg's book The Great Good Place suggests that to lead a rewarding life, each of us needs three places. First is the home. Second is the workplace or school. Beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life and all social levels interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community of booklovers, a fun, comfortable and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen and just watch the world go by. We invite you to make Third Place Books your third place.
Other Info	UW atmospheric scientist and radio personality explains the fascinating and dramatic Northwest weather and climate. History, science, and forecasting skills – give the perfect coffee-table book!

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Dec 4, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 12/04/09 – Kane Hall – Cliff Mass

Who	Cliff Mass
When	Friday, December 4, 2009 7:30pm - All Ages
Where	Kane Hall (map) University of Washington Campus Seattle, WA, USA 98195 Located on the northern edge of Red Square, Kane Hall offers a variety of rooms to accomodate almost any event. Our facility encompasses five auditoria in a range of sizes, a reception room and a conference room.
Other Info	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 authoritative guide to Northwest weather that is directed to the general reader; helpful to boaters, hikers, and skiers; and valuable to expert meteorologists. In The Weather of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington atmospheric scientist and popular radio commentator Cliff Mass unravels the intricacies of Northwest weather, from the mundane to the mystifying. By examining our legendary floods, snowstorms, and windstorms, and a wide variety of local weather features, Mass answers such interesting questions as: o Why does the Northwest have localized rain shadows? o What is the origin of the hurricane force winds that often buffet the region? o Why does the Northwest have so few thunderstorms? o What is the origin of the Pineapple Express? o Why do ferryboats sometimes seem to float above the water's surface? o Why is it so hard to predict Northwest weather? Mass brings together eyewitness accounts, historical records, and meteorological science to explain Pacific Northwest weather. He also considers possible local effects of global warming. The final chapters guide readers in interpreting the Northwest sky and in securing weather information on their own.

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Nov 9, 2009 0

Lake Forest Park, WA – 11/09/09 – Third Place Books – Jack Nisbit

Who	Jack Nisbit
When	Monday, November 9, 2009 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	Third Place Books (map) 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, WA, USA 98155 Sociologist Ray Oldenberg's book The Great Good Place suggests that to lead a rewarding life, each of us needs three places. First is the home. Second is the workplace or school. Beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life and all social levels interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community of booklovers, a fun, comfortable and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen and just watch the world go by. We invite you to make Third Place Books your third place.
Other Info	Jack Nisbit reads from The Collector : David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest. "David Douglas was one of the brave and talented breed of naturalist-gardener-explorers who in the decades before Darwin laid the foundations of modern botany - and died, tragically young, apparently from the curiosity and impetuosity that made him so outstanding. Here is a rich tale, excellently told". --Colin Tudge, author of The Tree

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Oct 28, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 10/28/09 – Town Hall – Fulvio Melia

Who	Fulvio Melia
When	Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:30pm - All Ages
Where	Town Hall (map) 1119 Eighth Avenue Seattle, WA, USA 98101 Town Hall is Seattle's community culture center located in the historic First Hill neighborhood, on the edge of downtown. Town Hall showcases the community's cultural energy with diverse music, arts and humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming. Housed in an historic Roman-revival-style building on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall opened in March 1999. Local, national and international programs and performances are scheduled year-round in the Great Hall and Downstairs at Town Hall. Please visit our calendar of events for a current listing of public events. Town Hall's name recalls town-meeting democracy and is emphasized by the intimate, curved, amphitheater-style seating of the Great Hall. Town Hall is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and relies on rentals, membership, volunteers, and fundraising to sustain its many activities. Town Hall is fully accessible. Assisted listening devices are available for events in the Great Hall upon request.
Other Info	Fulvio Melia reads from Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code—represented by six interlocking equations—was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein’s code. Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr’s great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior. By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein’s field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.

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Oct 27, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 10/27/09 – Town Hall – Theodore Gray

Who	Theodore Gray
When	Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:30pm - $5 - All Ages
Where	Town Hall (map) 1119 Eighth Avenue Seattle, WA, USA 98101 Town Hall is Seattle's community culture center located in the historic First Hill neighborhood, on the edge of downtown. Town Hall showcases the community's cultural energy with diverse music, arts and humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming. Housed in an historic Roman-revival-style building on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall opened in March 1999. Local, national and international programs and performances are scheduled year-round in the Great Hall and Downstairs at Town Hall. Please visit our calendar of events for a current listing of public events. Town Hall's name recalls town-meeting democracy and is emphasized by the intimate, curved, amphitheater-style seating of the Great Hall. Town Hall is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and relies on rentals, membership, volunteers, and fundraising to sustain its many activities. Town Hall is fully accessible. Assisted listening devices are available for events in the Great Hall upon request.
Other Info	The Elements: An eye-opening, original collection of gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in the periodic table. The elements are what we, and everything around us, are made of. But how many elements has anyone actually seen in pure, uncombined form? The Elements provides this rare opportunity. Based on five years of research and photography, the pictures in this book make up the most complete, and visually arresting, representation available to the naked eye of every atom in the universe. Organized in order of appearance on the periodic table, each element is represented by a spread that includes a stunning, full-page, full-color photograph that most closely represents it in its purest form. For example, at -183?C, oxygen turns from a colorless gas to a beautiful pale blue liquid, pictured here. Also included are fascinating facts, figures, and stories of the elements as well as data on the properties of each, including atomic weight, density, melting and boiling point, valence, electronegativity, and the year and location in which it was discovered. Several additional photographs show each element in slightly altered forms or as used in various practical ways. The element's position on the periodic table is pinpointed on a mini rendering of the table and an illustrated scale of the element's boiling and/or melting points appears on each page along with a density scale that runs along the bottom. Packed with interesting information, this combination of solid science and stunning artistic photographs is the perfect gift book for every sentient creature in the universe.

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