Look for Conrad Anker as he tours the country in support of The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest — including screenings of the new documentary distributed by National Geographic Films.  REI is now a major promotional partner in the movie release and you can catch Conrad at REI stores all over the country (see appearance schedule below).

See the trailer for the film, movies clips and photo galleries at: http://thewildestdreammovie.com

BiblioLife is proud to be releasing the Essential History of Exploration & Mountaineering - Everest Series with Conrad featuring the two historical Everest books he had at base camp during filming. These are the original texts digitized in their original form and including Conrad’s trip journal and a foreword on the significance the two books play in the story of George Mallory.  Conrad will have preview copies available on his promotional tour and the book will be available in Print and eBook in early August.

jimihatt is hitting the road this summer — signing copies of the first release in his “Old School” cooking series - Old Cookery Books & Ancient Cuisine and bringing a little joy into your lives. You seriously need to hit one of these events.

We did a great event with Guerrilla Cuisine back at the Charleston Library Conference in November where we cooked up some delicacies from this medieval cookbook and compendium of food history. Including the sweetbreads (yes, those sweetbreads).

With a great foreword by Matt Bolus, one of Charleston’s finest, it is a must read. And believe me the signings are more than a boring guy at a card table.

Buy the book here: http://www.bibliolife.com/cookbooks

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Here is the signing schedule:

June 15 = Spice and Tea
http://www.spiceandtea.com/
170 Church Street
Charleston, SC 29401-3141
(843) 965-8300
6pm-8pm

Great write up on jimihatt and Matt Bolus’s first Old School cooking series release. Read the whole article.
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“The underground supper club that is Guerrilla Cuisine capitalizes on several things. One is an interest in all things food. Two is a desire to discover new experiences. And three is trust in Jimihatt, the host who coordinates and curates the event itself, providing his guests with great food, cool art, and a night to remember.

The Old School Cooking Series, says Jimihatt, is all about staying close to home. “Food preparation and farming are the most ancient traditions we have. And everything started out local,” he writes in his introduction to Hazlitt’s Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine. The book provides a fascinating look into the ancient kitchens of Britain, when royal tables featured extravagant meals with whole porpoises, beer made from hops, and omelets with bacon, while the poor subsisted mainly on bread, butter, and cheese.”

Get the book @ www.bibliolife.com/cookbooks/

We have been working on some pretty nice projects with the folks at College of Charleston. In September we finalized details and chose a recipient for the BiblioLife Scholarship. This four year full scholarship was constructed with Chris Starr, head of the Computer Science department. As part of our cooperation with CofC we are also developing a research lab for pattern recognition and semantic meta-data creation which will kick off sometime this year.

On the publishing side, we will release a very cool 1883 tourist guide to Charleston with the CofC library in the next couple of weeks (cover below) and an early 19th century hand-written travel journal before the end of the year.

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BiblioLife has been invited to present at one of the SouthEast’s top innovation and venture capital summits on March 24, 2009. Below is the description from the Innoventure Website.
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InnoVenture Southeast 2009 is a unique opportunity to hear global thought leaders and to meet several hundred talented, connected people creating what’s next. There is an explosion of opportunity at the intersection of diverse organizations and disciplines across industry, academia, entrepreneurs, investors and service providers. Prior presenters have raised over $100 million in venture and angel capital, demonstrating that the conference has attracted a pipeline of emerging companies with excellent market opportunities and strong management teams.

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We are pretty jazzed to be working with the great folks at the  Bibliographical Center for Research in Denver, Colorado and Ingram Digital on this project. Here is the official press release. Stay tuned for more information as this program develops in 2009.

A $700 Billion Dollar bail out was just too much for the American people, so it did not pass the House in in it’s original 126 page form. An unprecedented moment of main street telling Wall Street where to stick it! Oh the drama!So instead, they passed a $850 billion dollar bill a few days later at 454 pages!  Sweet!

Browse and buy the “full version” on Amazon.com and read it all in it’s original glory.

or if you pine for the good older days of the shorter (and cheaper) version, here is the one that just was too much for the American people to stomach.

From a review on Amazon.com (this is really great, please go to Amazon and read the whole thing):

“All I can say is - WOW! It just leaps off the page. The author has an amazing ability to put you right at the heart of the story. You can almost close your eyes and just see it all happening.

The books starts off ominously - with the first section called “TROUBLED ASSETS RELIEF PROGRAM” which sets up the story perfectly. Part 2, “BUDGET-RELATED PROVISIONS” I found a bit slow. I think further editing on this section could really have helped. But then HR brings it back with the third section “TAX PROVISIONS” - incredible. Amazing literary control that combines characteristics of Dickens, Vonnegut, and Dostoevsky.

I think it would also be very interesting for kids given the approachable nature of the book - they even provide line numbers on the left-hand side of every page to help you remember what line you were reading. Handy!

All in all, I found it to be a breathtaking example of fiction writing at its very best.”

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Ahoy you scurvy dogs!- International Talk Like A Pirate Day is Friday September 19th and in honor of this most important of days, we have partnered with the founders to release a series of Classics of Pirate Literature. These 20 titles represent the best of 17th-19th century pirate books from the guys who have been making Sept. 19th more fun since 1995. Now running for 13 years - the holiday has gained international acclaim and is celebrated by “fun loving pirates” all over the world. ITLAPD founders Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers and John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur will spend this Sept. 19th with National Geographic in Philadelphia. But before shoving off on their media tour they took the time to hand pick these Pirate favorites and added a forward to help you lucky lads and lassies to soon be talking with a bit o’ slang in your gobs.

Other fun ITLAPD Stuff:

> International Talk Like a Pirate Day Photo Stream on Flickr

> Talk Like a Pirate Day - 2007 on Flickr

..And enjoy some video from Capn’ Slappy and Ol’ Chumbucket

Talk Like a Pirate Day: The Five A’s

Talk Like a Pirate Day: “I’m a Pirate” song (it’s for the children)

Click here to find out more about International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

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Bookhound has found a new favorite game- the silent library game. In the event that any of you thought that the library was merely a place to check out books, or that these structures housed only paper and silverfish- you don’t know how wrong you are. Given that we’re big fans of libraries, I feel that it’s important to show you all the many possibilities of what can go on there. Please be mindful- you may wish to obtain clearance from your kind librarian prior to engaging in the silent library game.

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Couldn’t resist putting up a post to give props to MMJ and Librarians everywhere. Here is the music video for the song “Librarian” from MMJ. Very nice.