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It’s something Ken Albala came across while writing his book “The Great Gelatin Revival”—a book, it’s worth noting, he only wrote on a dare.

If you wanted to buy a book, it was easy to get to one of five huge national chain stores: B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Crown Books, Waldenbooks and Borders Books & Music.

As Margaret Levi notes in an online discussion of Davies’ book, it advocates “improved communication,” which is surely important, but largely avoids questions of “politics and power.”

It’s not a photography book, it’s a photographic journal.

As Slate’s Tony Ho Tran wrote eloquently in a piece about Green’s new book: “It’s a decision to let people die.”