Wide World of Words

New York Times Wide World of Words New York Times - United States For reasons known only to printbound publishers, books about words are suddenly the talk of the town. In bookstores (you remember them), ... See all stories on this topic An Academic's Provocative Work on the Christian Right New York Times - United States It could be argued that "The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right" actually comprises three books. One is about the Christian right. ... See all stories on this topic The Enemy: A Book About Peace Wall Street Journal - USA As a consequence, new books for this age group tend to feature kittens and hippos and maybe the occasional scary witch or schoolyard bully. ... See all stories on this topic Author and book events for the week of April 26, 2009 Los Angeles Times - CA,USA Mark Arax The author of "West of the West" will read and sign copies of his new book about California. Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. ... See all stories on this topic Geek love: Wil Wheaton comes to the Festival of Books Los Angeles Times - CA,USA As he tried to say in his first book, he's just a geek, which is why all the webheads love him. He'll be at the LA Times Festival of Books on Saturday at ... See all stories on this topic Jackie Chan books 100th movie Hollywood Reporter - United States HONG KONG -- Jackie Chan has his 100th film project. The Hong Kong-based action hero will star in and co-direct "Chinese Zodiac," an action caper with a ... See all stories on this topic BC-US--Best Sellers-Books-WSJ Washington Post - United States By AP AP 2. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" by Steve Harvey (Amistad) 3. ... See all stories on this topic Keeping up with the Festival of Books Los Angeles Times - CA,USA Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and this year's Festival of Books logo, tells Sonja Bolle, "my books are made for ... See all stories on this topic Book events for the week of April 26 Houston Chronicle - United States Melissa Marr appears at Blue Willow Bookshop, 14532 Memorial Dr. at Dairy Ashford, at 1 pm Saturday to discuss and sign her newest book, Fragile Eternity. ... See all stories on this topic NFL Players to Owners: Open Up Your Books Wall Street Journal - USA What the players want, said demaurice Smith, is for the owners to open their books. "At the top of our list is having the information with which we need to ... See all stories on this topic Econbrowser: Two Books By Menzie Chinn I don't read very many books. At least not during the academic year. But I have read two books recently that are quite germane to thinking about the buildup to the financial crisis, and thinking about how to respond to the current ... Econbrowser - http://www.econbrowser.com/ Peter Suber, Open Access News By Peter Suber Moreover, as this income has been derived from renewed access to printed books, the public good in this case can well be thought of as those institutions that are themselves dedicated to access to knowledge. ... Open Access News - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html News - See Michelle Obama's Comic Book Cover | Usmagazine.com By Lindsay Powers It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Michelle Obama! The first lady will appear in a biographical comic book called Female Force: Michelle Obama "as she secures her place in American history," Bluewaters Productions tells USA Today. ... Usmagazine.com celebrity_news - http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity_news t r u t h o u t | Reinventing Reagan? It is, of course, entirely reasonable to assess Reagan's role in American politics, as does historian Sean Wilentz in his new book "The Age of Reagan." [4] Wilentz is far more grounded in reality than Diggins et al., and his book seems ... Truthout - All Articles - http://www.truthout.org/articles/feed Which Are The Trailblazing Conservative Books of Our Time? | The ... By Pete The 70s and 80s produce multiple books that changed how we talked about key issues and pointed government policy in new directions. Jude Wanniski's THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS and George Gilder's WEALTH AND POVERTY transformed the consensus ... The Next Right blogs - http://www.thenextright.com/blog