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December 4, 2020
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 | World Wildlife Conservation Day World wildlife conservation is a global environmental movement that aims to preserve and protect the natural world and its inhabitants. The world's best loved species are being slaughtered by widespread and dangerous criminal networks. Driven by a voracious demand for illegal animal parts and products, the black market in wildlife rivals illegal arms and drugs. Increasingly, wildlife traffickers are the same kingpins involved in trafficking people and arms and narcotics. Wildlife Conservation Day seeks to raise awareness about the detrimental security, economic, and environmental effects of wildlife poaching and trafficking; discourage consumer demand for products made from endangered species; and demonstrate efforts by citizens, activists, private corporations, and governments to bring an end to the illicit wildlife trade. A call to action was put out by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012 to raise awareness and engage conservationists on Wildlife Conservation Day, December 4. Learn more and check out these titles |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | In Memoriam-Ben Bova Scientist, Hugo Award winner, and prolific science fiction author and editor Ben Bova passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the age of 88. The author of more than one hundred books, Bova also edited some of the genre's best-known publications and served as the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Bova passed due to complications from COVID-19 and a stroke. Born in 1932, Bova brought experience to the science fiction genre that few authors could match: he worked as a technical editor for the U.S.'s Project Vanguard, the first effort on the part of the country to launch a satellite into space in 1958. Bova's best-known works involved plausible sciences about humanity's expansion into the universe, looking at how we might adapt to live in space with novels such as 1992's Mars, about the first human expedition to the red planet. Check out some of his books here. |
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 | The Ten Best History Books of 2020 Smithsonian Magazine's favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how the country got to where it is today. Check them out here |
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| Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven't been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.-Ben Bova, Nebula Awards Showcase 2008
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