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The idea of the Gothic cathedral : interdisciplinary perspectives on the meanings of the medieval edifice in the modern period / edited by Stephanie A. Glaser.

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]




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On property and contract / Jeffrey Gilbert ; edited for the Selden Society by Michael Lobban.

London : Selden Society, 2019.




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Saama : innocents in Asia / Jonathan Falla.

Scotland : Stupor Mundi, 2018.




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Son, sacrifice, and great shepherd : studies on the Epistle to the Hebrews / edited by David M. Moffitt and Eric F. Mason.

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2020].




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Ancient divination and experience / edited by Lindsay G Driediger-Murphy and Esther Eidinow.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019




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Compendium of the study of philosophy / Roger Bacon ; edited and translated by Thomas S. Maloney.

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018.




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: TONIGHT: NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Tuesday, September 24, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS: EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Author Edwidge Danticat will discuss her new short story collection, Everything Inside. This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets required; signed copies are also available for pre-purchase. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS: NOVEMBER TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Tickets are still available for these upcoming events in the National Book Festival Presents series:

Nov. 6 – Karen Armstrong discusses her new book, “The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts.” Armstrong is the author of numerous groundbreaking works on world religions and speaks often on how faith shapes civic conversation. Click here for ticket information.

 

Nov. 8 – Brad Meltzer & Chris Eliopoulos present their new PBS KIDS series, “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum,” based on their books for children, “Ordinary People Change the World,” featuring the newest titles, “I Am Walt Disney” and “I Am Marie Curie.” The PBS KIDS series, premiering Nov. 11, will introduce kids to inspiring historical figures and the character virtues that helped them succeed. Click here for ticket information.

 

Nov. 13 – André Aciman discusses his new book, “Find Me,” the sequel to his bestselling “Call Me By Your Name,” which was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Click here for ticket information.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: NATIONAL AMBASSADOR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE INAUGURATION: JASON REYNOLDS on 1/16

Thursday, January 16, 10:30 AM
NATIONAL AMBASSADOR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE INAUGURATION: JASON REYNOLDS

Award-winning author Jason Reynolds will be inaugurated as the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, the seventh writer to hold this position. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will lead a conversation with Reynolds during the ceremony, which will also include a special appearance by 2018-2019 National Ambassador Jacqueline Woodson.

Tickets are not required for this event, which is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed from both the Library's Facebook page and the Library's YouTube site (with captions).

Co-sponsored by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council, with additional support from Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: (202) 707-5394

To learn more about Jason Reynolds and his activities as National Ambassador, visit his Library of Congress resource guide




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: National Ambassador Tour Proposal Process Now Open

The Library of Congress' partner, Every Child a Reader, is currently accepting proposal submissions from libraries, schools, community centers, and organizations interested in hosting an event with Jason Reynolds, the 7th National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Reynolds will travel to rural/small underserved communities across the country during his two-year term to have meaningful discussions with young people. Through his platform, “GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story, he will connect with, listen to, and empower students to share their stories and start their journey as storytellers.

Organizations are encouraged to put together proposals that support and align with Jason's platform and the mission of the program. 

To learn more about the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature program click here. To learn more about Reynolds’ tenure as Ambassador click here.

Submit your proposal here: https://everychildareader.net/ambassador/




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: SPRING EVENT POSTPONEMENTS/CANCELLATIONS

On Thursday, March 12, the Library of Congress closed all Library buildings to the public until April 1. On Tuesday, March 17, the Library announced that all public events are canceled until May 11 to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19 coronavirus. Whenever possible, the Library will reschedule the public programs that have been canceled. Please read the Library's public statement, and see the Poetry and Literature Center's event updates below.

 

Thursday, March 19, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS JEFFREY ROSEN AND DAHLIA LITHWICK

This event has been CANCELED.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Author Jeffrey Rosen will discuss his new book, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty and Law, with Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Law Library of Congress and presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: LJ-119, first floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, April 2, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS RICHARD FORD

This event has been POSTPONED to a later date.
Note: Once a date has been confirmed, the Library of Congress will alert all those who registered for the original event date via their email addresses. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends very soon.

In an event titled “A Good Story Knows No Borders,” Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner Richard Ford will give a talk about the universality of fiction as well as participate in a discussion with his German translator, Frank Heibert. The discussion will be moderated by Library of Congress Literary Director Marie Arana. This event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Tuesday, April 21, 7:00 PM
LIFE OF A POET: KIMIKO HAHN

This event has been POSTPONED to a later date.
Note: Once a date has been confirmed, Hill Center will alert all those who registered for the original event date via their email addresses. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends very soon.

Poet Kimiko Hahn will discuss her work with Ron Charles, book critic at The Washington Post. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Hill Center and The Washington Post.

Location: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital (921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE)
Contact: poetry@loc.gov 

 

Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS JOY HARJO

This event has been CANCELED.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Joy Harjo will participate in her closing event as the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, which will include a moderated discussion and special musical performance. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Library’s American Folklife Center and Music Division, and presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, May 7, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS JOHN HESSLER

This event has been POSTPONED to a later date.
Note: Once a date has been confirmed, the Library of Congress will alert all those who registered for the original event date via their email addresses. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends very soon.

John Hessler, specialist in the Library of Congress’ Geography and Map division and author of the best-seller MAP: Exploring the World, will discuss his new book on pre-Columbian cultures, Collecting for the New World. This event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: LJ-119, first floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

For more information about upcoming events, please visit the Poetry and Literature Center's website. 




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: UPCOMING VIRTUAL EVENTS

Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM
SPILLOVER: ANIMAL INFECTIONS AND THE NEXT HUMAN PANDEMIC

Prize-winning science writer David Quammen will discuss “Spillover,” in which he tracks the animal origins of human diseases through the centuries, with David Rubenstein. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, May 7, 7:00 PM
HOW ONE 21ST CENTURY PANDEMIC, SARS, PREDICTED ANOTHER, COVID-19

Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld will discuss his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with the Library of Congress’s Roswell Encina, chief of communications. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Friday, May 8, 5:00 PM
BEYOND SUNRISE, THERE IS A SONG WE FOLLOW: U.S. POET LAUREATE JOY HARJO IN CONVERSATION

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo will discuss her poetry and her work in the laureate position with Rob Casper, head of the Poetry and Literature Center. Co-sponsored by The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP).

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from AWP’s website, where it will also be archived.
Contact: juanita@awpwriter.org

 

Thursday, May 14, 7:00 PM
ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS: SPACE, EXPLORATION AND LIFE ON EARTH

NASA astronaut and scientist Kate Greene lived in a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i, where she spent several months in isolation, doing research. She will discuss the stress, loneliness and other challenges of sequestration with Library of Congress Literary Director Marie Arana. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, May 21, 7:00 PM
WHY IT’S HARD TO KNOW THINGS, LATELY. AND HOW COVID-19 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY

Bestselling historian and Harvard professor Jill Lepore will discuss how the current pandemic, its effects and our reaction to them say something very real about America in this moment and in the historical record that will emerge from it with John Haskell, director of the John M. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

For more information about upcoming events, please visit the Poetry and Literature Center's website.




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Issue #397

Learn how to create a micro-interaction for a ripple effect, how to use light and dark themed SVG favicon, what are the pros and cons of CSS vs. Styled Components, and more.




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Issue #398

Learn how would we benefit from officially defining CSS4, everything you wanted to know about links & buttons, how CSS influences screenreader announcements, and more.




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Issue #399

Learn how to load CSS asynchronously, how to implement diagonal layouts using CSS transforms, how to build semantic and accessible form inputs, and more.




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Issue #400

Learn how things coming into browsers are changing the way we see web design, why so many folks see CSS as a frustrating language, how to make a line go either over or under the headline letters, and more.




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Issue #401

Learn why a discussion about CSS4 is happening, the basics of box alignment in Flexbox & Grid, different ways to animate the link color, and more.




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Issue #402

Learn how to use CSS viewport units, why you should set width and height attributes on your images, why well-documented code guidelines are critical for creating code together, and more.




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Issue #403

Learn how to use Houdini using progressive enhancement, how to position text along a path using CSS Motion Path, how to create spacing that works regardless of the direction of your content, and more.




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Issue #404

Learn everything about the auto value in CSS, how to build creative text flows using CSS Shapes, how to indicate the scroll position on a page using only CSS, and more.




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Issue #405

Learn what is LCH color space, how to easily create responsive images, what updates are coming to form controls in Chromium browsers, and more.




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Issue #406

Learn how to build a dark mode, how to create effective motion guidelines for your design system, how to develop accessible SVGs, and more.




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Issue #407

Learn how to use structural CSS selectors to create the appearance of randomness, how to create responsive CSS motion paths, how to create flexible layouts without Media Queries, and more.




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Issue #408

Learn about CSS-related aspects of multilingual support, about performance implications of CSS animations, how to declare a custom CSS property using @property, and more.




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Issue #409

Learn how to smoothly animate DOM changes, what is Atomic CSS-in-JS, everything about the text selection, and more.




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‘Arrival’ — Full Trailer

Louise Banks (Amy Adams) must learn to communicate with aliens to save humanity in the new film from ‘Sicario’ director Denis Villeneuve.




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Rock Band Trailer

Rock Band Trailer




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Original WarGames Trailer

Original WarGames Trailer




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Clover Coffee Machine

Wired.com takes a look at the 'Clover', an $11,000 coffee machine hand-built by Stanford engineers.




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How To Make Wired Origami

Robert Lang explains how to fold the Wired issue 16.07 origami splash page.




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Chef Ferran Adria of El Bulli

Ferran Adria on why the knife is the most essential tool in your kitchen.




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The Toxic Cloud-Emitting Portable Dry Ice Maker

The Toxic Cloud-Emitting Portable Dry Ice Maker in action.




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Trash Foils Diamond Heist

Trash Foils Diamond Heist




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Trip-Hop Pioneer Tricky: Sweet and Naive

Tricky, of Massive Attack fame, shows Wired.com the ropes on becoming a musician and producer.




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Wired magazine teams up with J.J. Abrams for the May issue. Look in on the creative process with J.J. and the edit and design teams.




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DJ Deadmau5 Is a Gear Head

DJ and producer, Deadmau5 (pronounced Dead Mouse), talks shop with Wired.com. His secret weapon? The Monome.




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Photographer Clay Enos goes from shooting super heroes on the set of Watchmen to taking random street portraits. He shows us how to do a street-studio portrait session with a sheet of white paper, some tape, and a camera.




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How to Build a Kegerator

With the right tools and a little time, you too can have cold beer always available in the comfort of your home (or office).  Wired.com demonstrates how to build your very own kegerator.