NP? young lions, biotech, Celestial Treasury

[Doug Millison]

>PW Daily for Booksellers from Publishers Weekly
>http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com
>

>Contents for the issue sent Thursday, February 14, 2002:
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>The Kids Are Alright: NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award Nominees
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>Five fresh faces have been nominated for The New York Public Library's
>second annual Young Lions Fiction Award for writers under 35. The
>finalists are:
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>David Czuchlewski for The Muse Asylum (Putnam)
>Allegra Goodman for Paradise Park (Dial)
>Peter Orner for Esther Stories (Mariner)
>Brady Udall for The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (Norton)
>Colson Whitehead for John Henry Days (Doubleday)
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>The $10,000 prize will be presented March 20 at The New York Public
>Library, where actor Ethan Hawke will read selections from the nominated
>books. The Young Lions is a membership organization of library
>supporters in their 20s and 30s.
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>Mark Danielewski won last year's inaugural Young Lions Fiction Award for
>his novel, House of Leaves (Pantheon).
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>Next Week in Publishers Weekly: Spring and Summer Religion Titles
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>Francis Fukuyama is no stranger to controversial theses, and in Our
>Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution he
>advances two: that there are sound nonreligious reasons to put limits on
>biotechnology, and that such limits can be enforced. Fukuyama argues
>that "the most significant threat" from biotechnology is "the
>possibility that it will alter human nature and thereby move us into a
>'posthuman' stage of history." Throughout, Fukuyama avoids ideological
>straitjackets conservative or radical. The result is a well-written,
>carefully reasoned assessment of the perils and promise of biotechnology
>and of the possible safeguards against its misuse.
>
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>Reviews You Can Use: Just What the Doctors Ordered
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>The current issue of Sky & Telescope Magazine gives a big thumbs up to a
>stunning coffeetable book originally published in France. Celestial
>Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space by Marc
>Lachieze-Rey and Jean-Pierre Luminet, translated by Joe Laredo
>(Cambridge University Press, $59.95) is filled with 380 full-color
>illustrations including medieval paintings, an illuminated folding chart
>of the heavens from the 16th century, Hubble images, computer simulation
>and even a piece of music based on the rhythms of neutron stars.
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>In addition, the authors have interwoven details from medieval
>manuscripts, Victorian poetry, Greek verse and illuminated manuscripts
>to give us a better understanding of ancient and modern astronomy.
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>"The volume's beautiful pictures and quirky page sizes made it closely
>resemble a museum exhibition in a coffeetable book," writes the
>magazine. "Thanks to translator Joe Laredo, all of the mystique is
>preserved in the English edition. Now readers can get the full effect of
>this illustrated tour of the origins of the physical sciences, the views
>on the birth of the universe
celestial mapping and the changing societal
>views of humankind's place in the universe."--Judi Baxter
>
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