Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Join Diesel Bookstore for a green event with Van Jones, author of Green Collar Economy! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All, based in Oakland. The mission is to help build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. Van ... (more)is a tireless advocate, championing "green-collar jobs and opportunities" for disadvantaged people. He is committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. He's worked to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Under the slogan "green-collar jobs, not jails," he is calling for green economic development in urban America. As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes, he has won many honors, which include the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship. He's also served on the boards of numerous national environmental organizations. Presently, he is a board member of the National Apollo Alliance, which advocates for clean energy jobs. He is also a founding board member of 1Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. In 2007, Van helped the City of Oakland pass a "Green Jobs Corps" proposal; the City allocated funds to train Oakland residents in eco-friendly "green-collar jobs." At the national level, Van worked successfully in 2007 with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-MASS) to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007. That path-breaking, historic legislation authorized $125 million in funding to train 35,000 people a year in "green-collar jobs." Van is also a co-founder of a new national coalition that promotes the idea of a national "Clean Energy Jobs Corps." This multi-billion-dollar federal initiative would put hundreds of thousands of people to work rewiring and retrofitting the energy infrastructure of the United States. In 2005, Van produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration. UNWED 2005 drew dozens of mayors from around the world to San Francisco, where they developed policies promoting the concept of "Green Cities." In 1996, Van co-founded (with Diana Frappier) the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, now located in Oakland, California. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the award-winning Center promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration. The Center, for which Van serves as board president, incubated Green For All in 2007 and spun it off in 2008. His many media appearances includes the popular Peabody award-winning show, The Colbert Report.

Join Clare Langley-Hawthorne at Diesel Bookstore as she presents the second book in her fantastic new historical mystery series! Featuring the strong, outspoken, intelligent and sassy Ursula Marlow, THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION is a thrilling story of scandal and betrayal that's richly detailed and ... (more)action-packed. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in England and Australia. She practiced law in Melbourne until 1995 when she emigrated moved to the United States and began work as a health economist. Clare has since put her pursuit of a PhD on hold to focus on her career as a writer. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and twin sons. This is her second novel. For more information, visit her web site at www.clarelangleyhawthorne.com

In his first work since The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Most surprisingly, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture ... (more)and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its strikingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars).

Marda Dunsky will speak on her book, Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at ... (more)how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years.Marda Dunsky is a former Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post and editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune. She has developed and taught a unique media literacy course on American mainstream reporting of the Arab and Muslim worlds at Northwestern University and DePaul University.

Poet Laureate of the United States since 2007, Charles Simic is an award-winning poet, essayist, editor and translator. The author of 18 books of poetry, he will read from and discuss his newest collection, That Little Something. A book sale and signing will follow. Co-sponsored with the Poetry Foundation.

Gilbert King's The Execution of Willie Francis is an incisive look at the events that led to the botched first attempt at the execution of African-American teenager Willie Francis. Convicted of killing a white man, his employer, in 1946 Louisiana, the mobile electric chair meant to kill him failed to ... (more)do so, only torturing the young man as electricity surged through his body. The execution was rescheduled to take place six days later, but public outcry and the actions of a local lawyer delayed this second execution as the case was argued all the way to the Supreme Court, highlighting the issues of race, justice, and capital punishment.

Laura K. Donohue obtained her A.B. with Honors in Philosophy from Dartmouth College, where she focused on political theory and government. She was awarded an M.A. with Distinction in War and Peace Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Donohue holds a PhD in History, from Cambridge ... (more)University, England, and her J.D. with Distinction from Stanford Law School. Currently, Donohue is a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). She also is a By-Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England.

I loved this book and think it is the beginning of a fantastic series. Plus I learned a lot about the time period - always the mark of good historical fiction! Join us whether you've read the book or not!

Trucks! Storytime means big wheel fun for everyone. Join us for a honking good time on Saturday, June 21st at 2:00pm as we share our favorite truck books. In addition to stories, snacks, and games, special guest author Sallie Wolf will read and sign her new picture book, TRUCK STUCK! Always Free. Always ... (more)Fun.

Michel Marriott has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New York Times, where he was a staff reporter for nineteen years. He is now a journalism professor at Baruch College, The City University of New York. For much of the last ... (more)decade, he has written exclusively about digital technologies and their influence on the quickening evolution of human culture.

In Outlaw Journalist, William McKeen provides a riveting account of Hunter S. Thompson's life and work. McKeen skilfully looks beyond the larger than life public persona and cuts to the core of a man who embodied the irreverence in the American spirit and changed American journalism forever.William McKeen ... (more)is the author of six books and editor of four more. He has been copy editor and reporter at several newspapers, and was staff editor at The Saturday Evening Post and production editor for The American Spectator. He earned his B.A. in history and his M.A. in journalism from Indiana University and his Ph.D. in education from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently Chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida.

Please join us as Domnica Radulescu reads from and discusses her debut novel, Train to Trieste.Domnica Radulescu was born in Romania and came to the United States in 1983. She is a professor of Romance languages and literature and of women’s studies at Washington and Lee University. She has written ... (more)and edited books and scholarly articles on European literature and theater, and is the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her two sons.

Now you see him, now your don't! This month we will be reading H.G. Well's classic science fiction novel, the Invisible Man and watching James Whale's B&W film version starring Claude Rains. After which will be discussing both the novel and the film!

"Spychips" takes readers into the frightening world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), where tiny computer chips allow strangers to study your shopping habits, medical history, even pinpoint your physical location. Katherine will be here to inform us of this developing technology and the bigger ... (more)implications of privacy and civil liberties.