Published by the Pasadena Audubon Society, the new second edition of the “Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area” provides a spiral bound, single volume presentation of thirty noteworthy sites in or easily reachable from Pasadena.
After the U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Papers, Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” is perhaps the most important and enlightening document from the revolutionary period of the United States that should be read and pondered by those seeking to understand the foundational history of the nation.
As I’ve been spending a fair amount of time recently reading the recently published “A Tidal Odyssey; Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides” for an upcoming review, as well as devoting still more to refreshing my memories of “Between Pacific Tides” itself, I was delighted to receive a new book from University of Chicago Press that takes up a very much related theme but in in a remarkably different way.
Philip K. Dick famously asked the question “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” With his new book examining the mental activity during temporary reversible states of unconsciousness in non-human animals, Prof. David M. Peña-Guzmán could be said to ask “What do sheep dream of?”