All Days Long » New Book Review http://www.alldayslong.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:33:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New Book Review http://www.alldayslong.com/news/new-book-review-372/ http://www.alldayslong.com/news/new-book-review-372/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:40:06 +0000 admin http://www.alldayslong.com/?p=135690 BOOK REVIEW: Exceptions or trends? —by Saleem H Ali
Daily Times
This article is partially excerpted from his new book “Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future” (Yale University Press, October 2009)
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Geeks of Doom (blog)
The release of a new book is upon us. Even more than just a new book, this is the beginning of the end; the final book in the series. …
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By Nancy Duarte
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By By Blake Wilson
Stray Questions for: Woody Holton. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His new book, "Abigail Adams," was released this week. …
ArtsBeat – http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/ Book denounces 'horror' Christianity – The Search
By Douglas Todd
A strong, dangerous movement within North American evangelicalism uses fear to scare people into Christianity and weaken democracy, says a new book titled Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, … A review of the book in the scholarly Evangelical Studies Bulletin, which is produced out of evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois, tends to agree with the author that this "religion of fear" is threatening democracy because it advocates that …
The Search – http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/default.aspx Cookbook Review: Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Beyond the Food …
The wonderful thing is that Symon makes good on his promise to "open up a new way" of thinking about food — though not, it is worth noting, anything that will be terribly new for the seasoned home cook. Live to Cook is a book geared for …
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New York Times
By THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Every year since 1952, the Book Review has asked a panel of judges to select 10 books from among the several thousand …
See all stories on this topic Dance Review | Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff
New York Times
“The Art of Making Dances,” named after writings by Humphrey, comes with a self-titled book (for an extra $10), edited by Mr. Granoff and the work's …
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Los Angeles Times
Gourevitch, a former New Yorker staff writer who won the LA Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1998 book "We Wish to Inform …
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New York Times
He is the author of a new book, “Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal and the Private Equity Implosion,” that explores modern-day deals and …
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MacNN
The company has worked to publish its first book, the "iPhone & iPod touch Superguide," as both a PDF version and an app available on Apple's portable …
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CNNMoney.com
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), will report fiscal third-quarter results next week. …
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Wired News
In a 2004 hilarious and mind-bending book, British journalist Jon Ronson recounts his efforts to uncover a loose network of military investigators with …
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National Journal (blog)
In his new book, "The Audacity to Win" (Viking), Obama '08 mgr. David Plouffe "recounts the amazing story of how the Obama for America campaign developed …
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Pennsylvania Catholic priest Fr Larry Richards aiming to clear upgender confusion and to challenge men to pursue holiness has released a new book titledBe A …
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Huffington Post (blog)
It's nothing new for aggrieved authors to write letters to the highly influential New York Times Book Review, protesting a negative review, or one rife with …
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Associated Content
A Christmas Carol reviews were raves when the book came out, but A Christmas Carol reviews are different for each new version. …
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By Fred Wu
First of all, you'll notice that this book is based on Zend Framework version 1.8, and as of writing this review, the latest stable release of Zend Framework is 1.9.4. This is not an issue, because 1.9, even though it brings new …
Nettuts+ – http://net.tutsplus.com/ Book Review: "The End of Suffering" – Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied …
By Dr. Norris Chumley
Using illustrations and examples of his life, the events of September 11th, and quotes and aphorisms from the Bible and such luminaries as Simon Weil, Emily Dickenson, Saint Isaac of Syria, W.H. Auden, Saint Simeon the New Theologian …
Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life – http://blog.beliefnet.com/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife/ Review: Bobby Fischer – Career and Complete Games : Chess news by …
By Arne Moll
The analogy, of course, isn't perfect, but I was reminded of my sentimental habit when I recently heard some voices complain that Karsten Müller's new Fischer book – with just so many games! – really wasn't modern and useful and was …
Chess news by ChessVibes – http://www.chessvibes.com/ Ask Michael Watkins What's Your Next Move – Improvisations – MIT …
By Jimmy Guterman
Watkins has a new book, Your Next Move, which considers how best to handle all sorts of career transitions: promotions, international moves, and more. What do you do, for example, when people who were your peers last week are now …
Improvisations – http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/ Stray Questions for: Woody Holton – Paper Cuts Blog – NYTimes.com
By By Gregory Cowles
Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His new book, "Abigail Adams," was released this week. … About Paper Cuts. Paper Cuts is a blog about books and other forms of printed matter, written by the editors of the Book Review. Look here for book news and opinion, interviews with writers, regular raids on the Book Review's archives, and other special features. …
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New York Times
The Tangled Web of 'Spider-Man': On the heels of a report by Patrick Healy of The New York Times that the producers of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man, …
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Seeking Alpha (blog)
For instance, five years ago on September 30, 2004, our book value per share stood $152.93. Today it is a new all-time high of $274.33, a compounded annual …
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TIME
"I don't open my book. I just sit there." The contradiction awakens the first of many mysteries. If Precious likes math, why not open the book? …
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Seattle Times
Fortunately, Douglas kept thorough notes and journals on his expeditions, which has allowed historian Jack Nisbet to write his new book, "The Collector: …
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By Dan Agin
The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of civilization's success, and those who accomplish that task will be among the true navigators of a brave new world." Read this book (available now)–it's a …
The Blog – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/ 'Diagnosis and Prescription to Combat Global Terrorism': New Book …
By AuthorHouse
'Diagnosis and Prescription to Combat Global Terrorism': New Book Looks at the Five Major Religions to Uncover Underlying Factors of Terrorism. RICHTON PARK, Ill., Nov. 5, 2009 — For many, world peace is a magnificent dream that will never become a … EDITORS: For review copies or interview requests, contact: Megan Leiter Tel: 1-888-728-8467 ext. 5590. Fax: 812-961-3133. Email: mleiter@authorsolutions.com (When requesting a review copy, please provide a street address.) …
eReleases Press Release Headlines – http://www.ereleases.com/pr/ Flourishing in a sea of information « Consider the Evidence
By Lane Kenworthy
Cowen's case for optimism about the contribution of new technologies to individual well-being is stimulating and fairly compelling. The writing is engaging, and the book is more coherent than a few of the reviews I've seen led me to …
Consider the Evidence – http://lanekenworthy.net/ NYT: Is Glenn Beck the New Oprah? | NewsBusters.org
By Noel Sheppard
One of the blogs I frequent is a book review site which is moderated by a huge Lib. They've trashed GB's books before. I sent a link with his beloved NYT actually saying nice things about Beck. I wish I could be there to see the …
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San Jose Mercury News
Only scant bits of air can travel through the inch-thick barrier, and even less water flows With no steady influx of new air, Chester's Mill begins to smell …
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Huffington Post (blog)
Again, in the new book, I do touch on war. It is only one sliver of the novel, which is mostly about other things, but I can't stop thinking about it. …
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
By C. ROBERT CARGILL Almost 20 years ago director Roger Spottiswoode put to the screen an adaptation of an incredible book chronicling some of the crazy, …
See all stories on this topic Sacred Activism: An Unprecedented Marriage, Book Review by Carolyn Baker
Atlantic Free Press
A new kind of human was/is trying to be born, according to Griffiths-a human that is both human and greater than human. In that birth, he believed, …
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Washington Post
From the brothers' first composition, sung by Gene Autry, through a career at Disney that had them writing songs for "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book" and …
See all stories on this topic 'Googled' Auletta ponders a biography
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Auletta, the media chronicler for the New Yorker, is the author of the terrific new book "Googled." The Wall Street Journal said in its review Thursday that …
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Wall Street Journal
I get a third of the way through a new book but dangle "Great Expectations" in front of me, and "On Beauty" or "Middlesex" get tossed on the growing stack …
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San Francisco Chronicle
Based on Jon Ronson's book about the US Army's New Age experiments in the 1980s, the movie takes a few mildly interesting facts and tries to build a zany …
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New York Times
By MELENA RYZIK The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. …
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New York Times
This new exhibition at the Children's Museum of Manhattan features Susan Roth's collage illustrations for Mr. Mortenson's picture book about his journey, …
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Washington Post
Based on journalist Jon Ronson's nonfiction book of the same name, the movie chronicles a 1970s military program in which an idealistic New Age-inspired …
See all stories on this topic Gay characters make problems for Scholastic Books
Christian Science Monitor
“Don't expect to see Lauren Myracle's new book 'Luv Ya Bunches' at Scholastic school book fairs this year,” wrote SLJ. “It's been censored – at least for …
See all stories on this topic Letters: More on 'NYT Book Review,' Danner, Packer and Assignment Policy
Editor & Publisher
This isn't the first time George Packer has reviewed an Iraq book in the New York Times that should have raised conflict of interest questions. …
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By Meryl
The book provides details about the keris. This anonymous message is the first of handful she receives regarding her keris, which leads her traveling to Rome bringing her near to someone she loved, Noel Ryan. He had left New York for …
Meryl's Notes at meryl.net by… – http://www.meryl.net/ Michael Hastings – The Hastings Report – Mark Danner versus George …
By Michael Hastings
The journalist Mark Danner decided to fire back this time, and his target is the New Yorker's George Packer. Danner, according to E&P, is getting 1400 words in this week's New York Times Book Review to respond to Packer's slam. …
The Hastings Report – http://trueslant.com/michaelhastings/ The Help: Kathryn Stockett's Controversial Hit
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bright-Sided, has been the source of a great book review debate recently. Following eye-opening accounts such as Nickel and Dimed and… Read more from Huffington Post bloggers: …
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf Going Beyond the Book Report With Literature Exhibits – The …
By By Amanda Christy Brown and Holly Epstein Ojalvo
In this lesson, students consider the ways author Orhan Pamuk uses objects as inspiration in his new novel “The Museum of Innocence” and create museum exhibits to reflect the themes, characters, and plotlines of works they are currently …
The Learning Network – http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ Marginal Revolution: How to save The New York Times?
By Tyler Cowen
Have you looked recently at Styles, Arts, the Book Review, Business, or Travel recently? Others here have also pointed out Metro. I read an article in the Sunday Travel section, about a place that I visited a few months ago, …
Marginal Revolution – http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/ No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women – ArtsBeat Blog …
By By Dave Itzkoff
ArtsBeat is a Web site devoted to culture news and reviews, and to the work and interests of the reporters and critics of the culture department of The New York Times. Come here for breaking stories about the arts, coverage of live …
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Consumer Freedom
But that's just what happened in today's Washington Times review of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. As reviewer AG Gancarski puts it, …
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Reuters
4 x 6 Publication Date: November 18, 2009 *Audio edition also available November 18 Please fax or email requests for review copies on company letterhead. …
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By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
But he's also confident benefactors will eventually step forward, willing to “put their name on this Book of Life.” Currently, however, in terms of getting this program firmly off the ground, “the rate-limiting step isn't going to be …
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By Lisa Kivirist
Do I need another food preservation book? Not really, until I read Sharon Astyk's latest book: Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation, a new release from the fine folks at New Society Publishers. …
Eat. Drink. Better. – http://eatdrinkbetter.com/ IcelandReview – Online
For limited time while supplies last, new subscribers to Iceland Review will receive the book Adventure in Iceland (normally USD 20) as a gift. You will also be entered in a draw to win a trip to Iceland next year! …
Iceland Review – http://icelandreview.com/ The Ultimate Transportation Antiplanning Book » The Antiplanner
By The Antiplanner
So I might as well announce the forthcoming publication of a new book: Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It. This book is to transportation planning what The Best-Laid Plans is to government planning in general. … Honesty compels me to admit that at least one advance review copy (sans index) is available for sale by an on-line bookseller. Everyone else will have to wait until the book is officially released by the Cato Institute in January. …
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Reuters
'Diagnosis and Prescription to Combat Global Terrorism': New Book Looks at the Five Major Religions to Uncover Underlying Factors of Terrorism RICHTON PARK, …
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Reuters
The new book includes industry author Allan Schweyer's valuable perspective on the history and development of the talent management discipline as we know it …
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infoSync World
To synchronize your address book, the BlackBerry Bold can draw from your BlackBerry Enterprise Server, or if you don't have an Enterprise Server account, …
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Blogcritics.org (blog)
The Clone Wars were first mentioned by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and fans have wanted to see The Clone Wars for decades. …
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Pioneer Press Online
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" is based on the best-selling non-fiction book by English journalist Jon Ronson, who investigated the US Army's attempts in the …
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Blogging Innovation (blog)
Many companies don't actively managing their portfolio of innovation potential across their divisions and business units, to look for new opportunities from …
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National
In one section of the new book, Levitt and Dubner set out to debunk the merits of children's car seats, whose use is required by law in the United States. …
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San Jose Mercury News
And those articles — some of which have been collected in his new book, "What the Dog Saw" — had a distinctive format. He liked to begin by framing some …
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Fox5 KVVU
LAS VEGAS — A new book covering one of the darkest chapters in Nevada political history has hit the shelves. "In Her Prime" chronicles the very public life …
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University Daily Kansan
By Amanda Sorell In his new novel, Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) captures the complicated essence of human relationships, …
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By NWSFS – Northwest Science Fiction Society
He reviews books for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, and the Barnes & Noble Review, as well as being a regular columnist for the Omnivoracious book blog. Current projects include Booklife: Strategies and …
NWSFS – http://nwsfs.livejournal.com/ New Yorker Writer's Book on Mass Extinctions Sells to Holt …
By By Motoko Rich
My colleague Dwight Garner kicked off this blog two and a half years ago with a slide show of advertisements that he'd discovered in old copies of the Book Review. After that, his posts on vintage book ads became a semi-regular feature …
ArtsBeat – http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/ The Elegant Variation: SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS
By TEV
It typically seeks fancy new words for familiar things, and it scrambles for synonyms in order to avoid at all costs repeating a word, even though repetition might be the natural, normal thing to do: The audience had a certain bovine …. With rave reviews from James Wood, Michiko Kakutani and Dwight Garner, it might not seem like we need to tell you to drop everything and go read Netherland, but we are telling you, and here's why: The way book coverage works these days, …
The Elegant Variation – http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/ Cara L. Santa Maria: Is Science Just a New Religion?
By Cara L. Santa Maria
Peter Clothier: The Novice: A Book Review. At loose ends and casting about for some kind of meaning to his life, he breaks away from family and home, and describes his discovery and embrace of Buddhism. …
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/ Head Games – Reviews – News – IFC.com
American military new age telekinetic absurdism! The brown-acid substance of reporter Jon Ronson's book by the same name is the dizzying crucible at hand — too ludicrous and all true to resist, and yet so much the sum of its …
IFC.com – Film News – http://www.ifc.com/news/ Superfreakonomics: Not That Super Or Freaky – superfreakonomics …
By Anna N.
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of Superfreakonomics, cast themselves as iconoclastic contrarians. But in many ways, their book is actually pretty conventional. … Genovese's death has become a symbol of the apathy of Americans — and New Yorkers in particular — in the face of suffering. A New York Times account of the event famously began, "for more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three …
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Liberty Papers
1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Anthem, etc. It's typically a book detailing a future utopian society, where government controls the lives of their …
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Reuters
Our operating earnings and significant growth in book value per share reflect the overall profitability of our business, the performance of our investment …
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By By Blake Wilson
My colleague Dwight Garner kicked off this blog two and a half years ago with a slide show of advertisements that he'd discovered in old copies of the Book Review. After that, his posts on vintage book ads became a semi-regular … This week: Anne C. Heller, author of "Ayn Rand and the World She Made"; The Times's William Grimes, author of "Appetite City," a culinary history of New York; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. …
Paper Cuts – http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/ Sarah From Alaska: Election Details Uncovered in New Palin book …
By Katie Connolly
A new Palin book hits shelves today, with lots of juicy details on the Alaska governor's accelerated ride to the top of the GOP. In Sarah From Alaska, Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, reporters from CBS and Fox, respectively, …
Newsweek Blogs – http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/default.aspx Palin book tour to start Nov. 18, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
By Hillel Italie
Winfrey will interview Palin about her new book 'Going Rogue: An American Life' on November 16, and Palin will soon start a tour which includes a stop at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, reports the Politico. …. of law books : a selected list, classified and annotated, of publications relating to law literature, law study and legal ethics; jeffreymarsh Book Review: "Vincent van Gogh: The Letters" An amazing self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh, in words & pictures …
Entertainment Daily – http://blog.taragana.com/e/ Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive …
By Dirk Deppey
[Review] Adrift Link: Tom Spurgeon. “In the end, I think stories like the one in Adrift work when you approach them with vastly reduced or specialized expectations: when this is one of 30 books you might buy at a convention in support of a scene, or if you just want a sense of the artist's … Anyway, someone will give an informal, fifteen-minute talk on Crumb's new book, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, at the Hammer Museum on Wilshire Boulevard, beginning at 12:30PM. …
Journalista – the news weblog… – http://www.tcj.com/journalista/ Jason Pinter: The State of the Crime Novel
By Jason Pinter
Cogdill: I want to cover the crime novel/mystery genre to showcase new books that deserve an audience. To show what is the best and brightest of our times. I don't have a problem giving a book a negative review and in fact do it all the …
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Windy City Times
On stage and in her new memoir, Mean Little deaf Queer, Galloway is truly a force of nature—full of passion, anger and mostly a resolve to live life to its …
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Windy City Times
On stage and in her new memoir, Mean Little deaf Queer, Galloway is truly a force of nature—full of passion, anger and mostly a resolve to live life to its …
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Reuters
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Explored at More than 30 Global Companies Over Six Years of Research CHICAGO–(Business Wire)– A new book by two …
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San Luis Obispo Tribune
By By KIM OSSI | McClatchy-Tribune News Service Foodies will naturally gravitate toward this book: "Tips Cooks Love" by Rick Rodgers and Sur La Table …
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By Hillel Italie
Price moves up and down for new Grisham book. … List of top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Oct. 26 through Nov. 1 · At the Movies: capsule reviews of 'Precious' and other films this week » …
Entertainment Daily – http://blog.taragana.com/e/ Scoop Review Of Books » Remembering History's King
By Jeremy
MICHAEL KING is remembered for his writing of New Zealand history as well as for his generous support of other writers. After his tragic death in 2004, a group of friends and associates set up the Michael King Writers' Centre. … Recent work includes editing and contributing to The Amazing World of James Hector (Awa Press, 2008) as well as web articles, blog pieces and book reviews. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and …
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By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
J. Peter Nixon's critique of the way the principle of “subsidiarity” has been abused in the debate over health-care reform: “When Bigger Is Better“; Patrick Jordan's review of John Allen's new book, The Future Church: “Cloudy Crystal …
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calendarlive.com
The difference is that "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is based on Jon Ronson's nonfiction book of the same title. Yes, this stuff is supposed to be real. …
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South Washington County Bulletin
In his new book Bernstein rakes up all manner of information about the unwritten code that informs the game outside the rule book. …
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