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Book Signing Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 in Belfast, Maine

Jim Fleming will be discussing his books Fixing the Sky (Columbia University Press, 2010) and Inventing Atmospheric Science (MIT Press 2016) at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 at the Old Professors Bookshop, 99 Main Street, Belfast, Maine.

Fixing the Sky won the 2011 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and the Louis J. Battan Author’s Award from the American Meteorological Society.

Inventing Atmospheric Science is one of the monthly recommended books in the March 2016 issue of Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/recommended-march-book-reviews-roundup1/

Author event at Colby Bookstore, Feb. 18, 2016

From: “Barbara C. Shutt” <[email protected]>
Subject: Save the Date: Thu Feb 18 Book Launch Party with Jim Fleming

You are invited to an author’s event on Thursday, Feb. 18 at the Colby Bookstore, starting with snacks and mingling at 4:30 p.m., and where, at about 5:00, Professor Jim Fleming (STS) will give very short remarks about shooting chickens out of a cannon, building an artificial volcano, nuking the north pole, and his new book, Inventing Atmospheric Science, just published by the M.I.T. Press.

Please join us. Copies will be available for sale, and you will be able to get your first edition copy (always collectible) autographed, as well as enjoy snacks and commentary.

The Colby Bookstore is located in Cotter Union on the campus of Colby College. Year round hours: Mon – Sat 8am – 5pm. Swing on by,

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