A moon lander was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-02-15 12:10:00 UTC ]
While not celebrating its half century in exactly the manner it had planned, literary agency Watson, Little has had a solid year despite the pandemic, according to its managing director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-05 06:27:31 UTC ]
From about 1890 to 1940, a half century of ultra-cheap editions of Jane Austen’s novels aimed explicitly at educating the working poor. Because these ill-printed and shabby versions of her stories never made it into the scholarly libraries that safeguard “important” editions, the hardscrabble... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-04 09:49:29 UTC ]
The San Diego Comic-Con’s half century of celebrating comics and the broader popular culture serves to mark how much the landscape of popular culture has changed since its inception 50 years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
M. Judson in Greenville, S.C.; the Little Bookstore in Shelbyville, Ill.; and UH Bookstore in Honolulu have already opened this month. And Webster Groves Bookshop, is celebrating its first half century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's been a good week for indie bookstores with Maple Street Book Shop in New Orleans celebrating its first half century and two stores announcing successful transitions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]