Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by 91±¬ÁÏ talents in the last year or so — and a reminder of some perennial favorites.


Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by 91±¬ÁÏ talents in the last year or so — and a reminder of some perennial favorites.

Estella Leopold, a 91±¬ÁÏ professor emeritus of biology, has written a new memoir of her formative years, “Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited.” She describes life on the land where her father, Aldo Leopold, practiced the revolutionary conservation philosophy described in his famous book of essays “A Sand County Almanac.”

Book Q and A: To allow buildings on 34 million year-old fossils would be like using the Dead Sea Scrolls to wrap fish in, proclaimed the lawyer defending land that would eventually become Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.