Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Join our F&R Book Club: Reviews by -- and for -- readers like you

Join our F&R Book Club: Reviews by -- and for -- readers like you
USA Today - USA
Are you looking for a community of folks eager to talk about books they've just read that inspire, challenge or enlarge their spiritual or ethical views? ...
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Donations sought for summer book sale
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth,NH,USA
YORK — The popular Annual Book Sale of the York Public Library will be held July 23-25. Book donations in good, saleable condition are being accepted at the ...
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Next 'Book in Common' tabbed
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
By HEATHER HACKING - Staff Writer CHICO -- People are still talking about "Three Cups of Tea," the book chosen for the community Book in Common and read ...
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Western Slope produce inspires food writer's book
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
The food on the Western Slope inspired her new book, "Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods," released May ...
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Greenspan Flunks Test, Bush Falls Into $15 Trillion Pit: Books
Bloomberg - USA
Another book on the financial crisis, you ask? Hasn't the subject been bludgeoned to death? Surprisingly, no. Ritholtz makes a valuable new contribution to ...
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Reading contest spurs students to hit the books
The Daily Dispatch - Henderson,NC,USA
The focus of the contest was to encourage students to read books that they like. Tony Jefferson of Toyota of Henderson coordinated the contest with Dr. ...
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Boston Globe
Her books are a nice fit among the couture
Boston Globe - United States
''The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund'' author Jill Kargman at last night's book party at Juicy Couture. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff) New York chick-lit writer Jill Kargman ...
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Sandy Post
Book it – register for Summer Reading Program at Sandy Library
Sandy Post - Gresham,OR,USA
So two years ago, they read books from the National Parks Mystery Books series, and last year they could read books written by two different authors. ...
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Eucalyptus for iphone
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
What sets the app apart from most of its competition is how it takes the cold, forbidding, and ugly type so typical of public-domain e-books and makes it ...
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Access Hollywood
Ricki Lake Gets Personal In New Book About Child Birth
Access Hollywood - USA
Ricki Lake has been very candid about being sexually abused as a child and in her new book, "Your Best Birth," she explains how giving birth can bring back ...
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Manga Review: Detroit Metal City Volume One by Kimihori Wakasugi ...
Viz could just as easily put a variation of this sticker warning on the back cover of the book since much of its dialog (especially that delivered by Death Records' leather-wearing president) can be gleefully obscene. ...
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chofmann's weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World ...
It's too bad that all of these things need to come together to make interesting books happen more often. Anyone that ever been involved in the publishing of a book will also tell you that fame and fortune from books are pipe dreams, ...
mozillaZine feedHouse - http://feedhouse.mozillazine.org/
Poet Derek Walcott is the real thing, says Jonathan Jones | Art ...
By Jonathan Jones
Free P&P at the Guardian bookshop. Brooklyn; £17.99 with free UK delivery. Winter Vault; £16.99 with free UK delivery. Browse more culture and arts books · Buy books from the Guardian Bookshop ...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog
Challenge for Europe » Blog Archive » Setting a fixed European ...
By Challenge for Europe
We ask for a fixed public price for books, which would regulate the price of books in the whole French territory. According to some experiences abroad, there is proof that liberalisation of this market has negative outcomes. ...
Challenge for Europe - http://challengeforeurope.blogactiv.eu/
New images featuring Denzel Washington in post-apocalyptic Book of ...
By SCI FI Wire Staff
New images featuring Denzel Washington in post-apocalyptic Book of Eli, by SCI FI Wire Staff, for SCI FI Wire, Part of the SCI FI Online Network.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Apple Relents, Adds 'Pornographic' E-Book Reader to App Store

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Apple Relents, Adds 'Pornographic' E-Book Reader to App Store
Wired News - USA
By Charlie Sorrel Apple has finally approved the gorgeous-looking e-book reader, Eucalyptus, for the iTunes App Store. The application was previously banned ...
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Amazon's next revolution
CNNMoney.com - USA
CEO Jeff Bezos used the web to shake up book retailing. Now he's using the Internet to sell electronic books on his Kindle e-reader. ...
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How Do Nannies Manage? Gingerly
New York Times - United States
Other books have thoughtfully tackled the subject of nanny-parent relationships — Lucy Kaylin's "The Perfect Stranger," for one — but Ms. Blaine complicates ...
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Open the books on tax records
Detroit Free Press - United States
BY ROCHELLE RILEY • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • May 26, 2009 The Free Press reported Sunday that the city's tax department cannot tell the difference between a ...
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Prescott-area libraries recycle books in many ways
Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott,AZ,USA
Sharon Seymour, Prescott Public Library's lead librarian in Adult Services, said when they take out-of-date, worn or damaged books off the shelves, ...
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guardian.co.uk
Davis Love III books 23rd straight Open appearance
guardian.co.uk - UK
The veteran American Davis Love III was one of eight players to secure places in this year's Open yesterday. The tournament, at Turnberry from 16-19 July, ...
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Swede Hanson books US Open ticket with hole in one
Reuters - USA
LONDON (Reuters) - Sweden's Peter Hanson qualified for next month's US Open in dramatic style with a playoff hole-in-one on Monday. ...
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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy ...
Foreign correspondent Neil MacFarquhar serves up a memoir that is part-journalistic account, part-foreign-policy primer on the Middle East.
Books - http://features.csmonitor.com/books/
Who now for the Oxford poetry job? | Books | guardian.co.uk
By Sarah Crown
Sarah Crown: Ruth Padel has stepped down - so let's play fantasy-poetry-professor and pick our own candidate.
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog
Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program
By Jason Kincaid
The Smashwords affiliate program is offering commissions of 11% of the net selling price (the sale price less any PayPal fees) for all of its online books (authors can optionally opt out if they'd like). And the store is giving authors ...
TechCrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/
Book Review: Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and ...
Crain neither dwells too heavily on the details of that tragic night, nor does this book really shed any new light on them. Still, his recounting of that event -- which some metal fans still call the "9/11 of heavy metal" -- as ...
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Dispatch Dialogues: HIV/AIDS - Beyond Denialism with The Virus ...
By Emily
In their new book, The Virus, Vitamins & Vegetables, editors Kerry Cullinan and Anso Thom say that Thabo Mbeki's legacy is a South Africa filled with AIDS orphans, child-headed households, grandparents forced to parent their dead ...
Jacana - http://jacana.book.co.za/blog/
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Report Prompts Call for Rules on Restraining Students

Report Prompts Call for Rules on Restraining Students
Washington Post - United States
By Maria Glod and Michael Birnbaum Citing "disturbing" reports of schoolchildren being harmed when teachers physically restrained them, US Education ...
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Higher education officials campaign for community college graduates
News-Journal.com - Longview,TX,USA
By JIMMY ISAAC Higher education officials are pushing to get more community college graduates into the state's four-year universities. ...
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Secretary Of Education To Monitor How Public Schools Use Restraint
KWTX - Waco,TX,USA
The GAO has referred the case to the Virginia Department of Education and the American Association of School Administrators said the school district where ...
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C&G Newspapers
Teachers, staff hold rally over budget decisions
C&G Newspapers - Detroit,MI,USA
Sidney Kardon, a school social worker and president of the 330-member Royal Oak Education Association, said they were rallying to get the district to use ...
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Phoenix families put nest egg before education savings
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Fifty-five percent of the poll's respondents said saving for their own retirement is more important than saving for their children's college education, ...
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Hamptons.com
School Budgets Pass From Montauk To Westhampton
Hamptons.com - Southampton,NY,USA
Current Board of Education member Mary Lownes, who ran unopposed, will be keeping her seat on the board next year. In the Bridgehampton School District, ...
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Duncan Warns Against Improper Restraint of Students
Washington Post - United States
By Maria Glod and Michael Birnbaum Education Secretary Arne Duncan today said that he has "grave concern" about improper use of restraints on schoolchildren ...
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Longs donate $1M to UT College of Education
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Austin philanthropists Teresa and Joe Long have given $1 million to The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education that will be used to endow a ...
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State wins $635M in education stimulus grants
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The money will go to save teaching jobs and shore up budgets in both K-12 and higher education, and is contingent on certain reforms being enacted, ...
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Education Secretary to States: I'm Watching You
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
States that use their education-stabilization dollars for noneducational purposes will get no more economic-recovery money, Arne Duncan told Congress today. ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Long's efforts crucial to US Open field

Long's efforts crucial to US Open field
ESPN - USA
The longtime caddie for PGA/Champions Tour stalwart Fred Funk estimates he has prepared yardage books for half of all PGA Tour venues this season and nearly ...
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Hampton books 'Rebecca'
Variety - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By GORDON COX Christopher Hampton has signed on to write the English-language book and lyrics for Broadway-bound tuner "Rebecca. ...
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Coen to read from, sign copies of Chicago mob book
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
Author Jeff Coen will read from his new book, "Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob," at 2 pm Saturday, May 23, at Borders Books and Music ...
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NFLPA wants look at NFL's fiscal books
ESPN - USA
How long the critical negotiations last, however, might depend on the NFL's desire to share its ledger books with the players, something it has so far has ...
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Posner Blames Capitalism for Greenspan Goofs, Bank Binge: Books
Bloomberg - USA
Posner is a heat-seeking author who lectures at the University of Chicago Law School and has courted controversy in dozens of books on topics as varied as ...
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Pa. man admits selling faux "signed" books online
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Smith earned more than $300000 since December 2006 from the sale of books purportedly signed by authors dead and alive. They include Anne Rice's "Interview ...
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Brewster Kahle - How Google Threatens Books | LISNews
By Blake
Brewster Kahle - How Google Threatens Books. May 19, 2009 - 11:37am — Blake. Brewster Kahle: If approved, the settlement would produce not one but two court-sanctioned monopolies. Google will have permission to bring under its sole ...
LISNews - Librarian And Information... - http://lisnews.org/
Embedded with Organized Labor - by Steve Early @ Labour's Online ...
By admin
Union educators should, wherever possible, incorporate books on strikes, organizing, labor history, political economy, and social policy into membership education. And we need to revive other vehicles for doing this as well, ...
Labour's Online Bookstore - http://www.labourstart.org/bookshop/
H-Net Reviews
The book is divided into two main sections: "Einblicke und Durchblicke aus historischer Perspektive" and "Durchblicke und Ausblicke aus gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive." As these titles imply, the first part is dominated by historians, ...
H-Review - Recent Reviews - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/
Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » "Captain Britain" Cancelled
By Troy Brownfield
This book was great, but I lost interest with the Blade/Dracula story line. I had planned on going back to it once that wrapped up, but with comic book prices these days I have to pick and choose what books to read on a given month. ...
Blog@Newsarama - http://blog.newsarama.com/
CBR Live! @ Comic Book Resources » "Fanboys" Took Over Golden ...
By Remy Minnick
SK: That's pretty cool! Local artists and even a black canary dress up! At my local we had some storm troopers and... Rich DeSensi: FCBD is definitely an awesome event that I look forward to every year. I buy books regularly but always. ...
CBR Live! @ Comic Book Resources - http://live.comicbookresources.com/



Arizona's Tucson Citizen won't resume publication

Arizona's Tucson Citizen won't resume publication
The Associated Press
(AP) — The Tucson Citizen won't be forced to resume publication. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Arizona attorney general's office failed to show ...
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Rosetta Genomics Announces Upcoming Scientific Presentations ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bio International Convention, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia - Panel presentation titled "RNA Rx; the Next Wave of Therapeutics beyond rnai. ...
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Wyeth's 'Goodbye' to be published for first time
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Spokeswoman Nancy McLeod Carter says "Goodbye" will be part of a folio of Wyeth works featured in the publication. Wyeth died at his Pennsylvania home on ...
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Craigslist struggles with sex ad crackdown
CNN - USA
The Web's dominate classifieds publication replaced its controversial "erotic" section with a new "adult" category. And where Craigslist once relied on ...
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Rosetta Genomics Announces Upcoming Scientific Presentations ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
REHOVOT, Israel & PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2009 - Rosetta Genomics (NASDAQ:ROSG) today announced the company's upcoming speaking events at the ...
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Tucson Citizen Won't Resume Publication - Money News Story - KPHO ...
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Tucson Citizen won't be forced to resume daily publication. Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
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'Tucson Citizen' won't resume publication
'Tucson Citizen' won't resume publication, Judge: Paper's owner did not violate antitrust laws.
azcentral.com | news - http://www.azcentral.com/news/
Issuu » You Can Now Share And Embed Directly From Issuu Widgets
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This should be a big help for bloggers and anyone else who sees a great publication embedded somewhere and wants to share it or embed it on their own site. And remember: The more embeds you get, the more exposure your publications will ...
Issuu - http://blog.issuu.com/
Electronic Copyright Registration for Photographers - A Picture's ...
By Allen Murabayashi
However, "publication" may include the public distribution of copies by means of electronic transmission (e.g. over the internet). The applicant, who knows the facts surrounding distribution of copies of a work, must determine whether ...
A Picture's Worth - http://blog.photoshelter.com/corp/
A.I.G.'s Offering May Be Tough Sell - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
By By DealBook
There's one difficulty in particular — A.I.G. already tried to sell a chunk of the business, and failed, the publication notes. In February, A.I.A. was on the block with a valuation of about $20 billion. That was approximately equal to ...
DealBook - http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/



Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Panel Concerned About Abuse of Disabled Students

Panel Concerned About Abuse of Disabled Students
New York Times - United States
... said Representative George Miller, Democrat of California, who heads the House Education and Labor Committee, after a Congressional study found hundreds ...
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All Area School Boards' 2009-10 Budgets Pass
Jamestown Post Journal - Jamestown,NY,USA
In the hotly contested race for three open Panama Central School Board of Education seats, challenger Eric Fransen received the highest number of votes, ...
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Congress hears accounts of abused special-needs students
CNN - USA
The House Committee on Education and Labor heard testimony Tuesday on a report looking at school abuse. The hearing came on the heels of a report issued by ...
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Law Firms Embrace Business School 101
Wall Street Journal - USA
At a growing number of law firms, top attorneys are being trained like business people, using executive education courses designed to strengthen management ...
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Dept. of Education offers performance award
WFIE-TV - Evansville,IN,USA
The Department of Education said it will be the first time the agency has offered "performance awards" to reward school staffs and the State Teachers ...
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The Associated Press
Report: Discipline by teachers can turn deadly
The Associated Press
By 2002, he was under the care of a foster family and attending middle school in Killeen, Texas, in a class with a special education teacher. ...
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Alltech donates $50000 for Ali Center fund
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Alltech and Louisville's Muhammad Ali Center have formed the Muhammad Ali Global Education and Charitable Fund, using $50000 in funding from the Lexington, ...
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New York Daily News
Harsh lesson: New York City Education Department announces $405 ...
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
The Education Department announced a $405 million cut Tuesday, an average of 4.9% per school. James Harrigan at PS 229 in Brooklyn said he expected his cut ...
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Education key to reducing bear-human encounters
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
But experts agreed on Tuesday that public education campaigns on living in bear country are key to avoiding problems. "An informed public is the most ...
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AFP
Jordan queen sees role for Twitter in promoting education
AFP
AMMAN (AFP) — Jordan's Queen Rania said on Wednesday that the online social network Twitter could help her campaign to promote quality education around the ...
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Will Digital Books Turn Paper Books to Kindle-ing?

Will Digital Books Turn Paper Books to Kindle-ing?
eMarketer - New York,NY,USA
But what are the ramifications for authors, publishers and book lovers? According to Piper Jaffray, worldwide Kindle revenues will reach $405 million by the ...
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HAMPTON BOOKS 'REBECCA'
Variety - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Christopher Hampton has signed on to write the English-language book and lyrics for Broadway-bound tuner "Rebecca." Musical, based on the Daphne du Maurier ...
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More and more books digitally published
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A shrinking economy and rising technology have transformed how, and how many, books are being published. With publishers cutting back new ...
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The Associated Press
'78: Book recalls busing, baseball in Boston
The Associated Press
"'78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City" (New American Library, 310 pages, $24.95), by Bill Reynolds: In the entire star-crossed ...
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Cooking salvage tips from an odd little book
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Bonnie Benwick WASHINGTON — I picked up an improbably slim book called "How to Repair Food: Revised and Updated" at a cooking store. ...
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Infamous anti-Semitic book linked to killing suspect
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Police investigating the shooting death of a Wesleyan University student say they found a copy of an influential anti-Semitic book in her suspected killer's ...
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Pa. man admits selling faux "signed" books online
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Smith earned more than $300000 since December 2006 from the sale of books purportedly signed by authors dead and alive. They include Anne Rice's "Interview ...
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"On Demand" Books Up 132 Percent
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA
According to the bibliographic company Bowker, 285394 new books were published on demand last year--a 132 percent increase compared to 2007. ...
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Wired News
DR Book Club: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
Wired News - USA
Stephanie Cooke began reporting on about the nuclear world nearly three decades ago; her new book, In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age, ...
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Bowker Reports US Book Production Declines 3% in 2008, but "On ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Despite this decline in traditional book publishing, there was another extraordinary year of growth in the reported number of "On Demand" and short-run ...
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Will Digital Books Turn Paper Books to Kindle-ing?

Will Digital Books Turn Paper Books to Kindle-ing?
eMarketer - New York,NY,USA
But what are the ramifications for authors, publishers and book lovers? According to Piper Jaffray, worldwide Kindle revenues will reach $405 million by the ...
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HAMPTON BOOKS 'REBECCA'
Variety - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Christopher Hampton has signed on to write the English-language book and lyrics for Broadway-bound tuner "Rebecca." Musical, based on the Daphne du Maurier ...
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More and more books digitally published
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A shrinking economy and rising technology have transformed how, and how many, books are being published. With publishers cutting back new ...
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The Associated Press
'78: Book recalls busing, baseball in Boston
The Associated Press
"'78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City" (New American Library, 310 pages, $24.95), by Bill Reynolds: In the entire star-crossed ...
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Cooking salvage tips from an odd little book
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Bonnie Benwick WASHINGTON — I picked up an improbably slim book called "How to Repair Food: Revised and Updated" at a cooking store. ...
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Infamous anti-Semitic book linked to killing suspect
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Police investigating the shooting death of a Wesleyan University student say they found a copy of an influential anti-Semitic book in her suspected killer's ...
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Pa. man admits selling faux "signed" books online
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Smith earned more than $300000 since December 2006 from the sale of books purportedly signed by authors dead and alive. They include Anne Rice's "Interview ...
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"On Demand" Books Up 132 Percent
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA
According to the bibliographic company Bowker, 285394 new books were published on demand last year--a 132 percent increase compared to 2007. ...
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Wired News
DR Book Club: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
Wired News - USA
Stephanie Cooke began reporting on about the nuclear world nearly three decades ago; her new book, In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age, ...
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Bowker Reports US Book Production Declines 3% in 2008, but "On ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
Despite this decline in traditional book publishing, there was another extraordinary year of growth in the reported number of "On Demand" and short-run ...
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Our Views: Lowering bar on education

Our Views: Lowering bar on education
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
That was too much even for the compliant Senate Education Committee, which raised the requirements somewhat. Nevertheless, the bill mandates that the 70 ...
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District meeting focuses on special education
Daily Northwestern - Evanston,IL,USA
Emotions ran high as parents stepped to the podium to express their views on special education in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 at Monday night's Board ...
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Parents' Council and Teachers' Union Sue Over School Zoning and ...
New York Times - United States
By JENNIFER MEDINA A parent council in Manhattan and the city's teachers' union sued the Department of Education on Monday, contending that the department ...
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Catholic News Agency
Fr. Jenkins, Notre Dame betrayed true goal of Catholic education ...
Catholic News Agency - Denver,CO,USA
... original goal of Catholic higher education, not only by conferring a degree on President Barack Obama despite his anti-life record, but for attempting a ...
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Georgetown Education Notes
Georgetown Record - Beverly,MA,USA
Gap year is a year off between high school and college during which students choose alternatives to mainstream education. For more information on NOLS visit ...
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Senate approves sex education bill
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
by Bill Graves, The Oregonian A bill clarifying requirements for sex education in Oregon's public school won final passage in the Senate today with little ...
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Education! Education! Education! and the Scholarly Soldier
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
With accomplishments too many to mention, we will focus on only one of his great legacies; the present state of Education in the United Kingdom. ...
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UNCG University News
UNCG Breaks Ground on New, 'Green' School of Education Building
UNCG University News - Greensboro,NC,USA
By Michelle Hines, University Relations GREENSBORO, NC – UNCG today broke ground for a new, energy efficient, 120000-square-foot School of Education ...
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Blackboard Inc. Purchases Education Software Developer
Education Week News (subscription) - Bethesda,MD,USA
Blackboard Inc., a dominant company in the United States for e-learning tools, announced last week that it had acquired the education software developer ...
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Finalists announced for state schools superintendent
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Kirsten Stewart Two Utahns, a Washington, DC, education official and a former district superintendent from Massachussetts are among the finalists for ...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Scribd borrows a page from iTunes

Scribd borrows a page from iTunes
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Starting today, readers can buy downloads of written material, including just portions of books. Publishers and authors set the prices. ...
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Library hosts 'Muskie Attack' book signing
Danville Commercial News - Danville,IL,USA
The author will be signing books at the Danville Public Library from 6-7:30 pm on Thursday, May 21 in the second floor conference room of the Danville ...
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Digital bookstore website debuts today
Boston Globe - United States
It claims to have amassed 35 billion words in a mix of books, PowerPoint presentations, legal briefs, and other documents. Until now, access to all the ...
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Banks should keep more of ABSs on books-Nowotny
Reuters - USA
VIENNA, May 17 (Reuters) - Banks should retain more than 5 percent of asset-backed securities they issue on their own books to create a "feeling of ...
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Comic Book Resources
The Comic Book Alphabet of Cool - K
Comic Book Resources - Ca,USA
by Brian Cronin We continue our tour through the alphabet, with a different cool comic book item each day, from A to Z! NOTE: I just remembered I featured ...
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Love books? The library will offer more than 60 free programs at ...
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
Program participants will receive prizes for completing eight books or 800 pages during the summer. Prizes include a free pass to Audubon Zoo for a child ...
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Singing duo now writers with Chicken book, CD
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - AR,USA
My Name Is Chicken Joe, a children's book that also contains a CD of 11 previously released songs, came out April 7, published by Canadian publishing house ...
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Chris Bohjalian: You can't judge an e-book by its cover
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
A book. It's an edition of the Charles Dickens novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," and Kirk reads aloud the first sentence: "It was the best of times, ...
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What's the worst that could happen? Books go out of print - The ...
By Jackson Rohrbaugh
With the advent of reading gadgets, books may become obsolete.
The Daily of the University of... - http://dailyuw.com/
Book Questionnaire « Trivial Pursuits
By shilohwalker
I've seen people get eviscerated by…ah…. groups of very avid fans for just not loving a book and since getting eviscerated is counterproductive to have a blog for promo and reader interaction…. *G* I plead the fifth. ...
Trivial Pursuits - http://shilohwalker.wordpress.com/
Books Made Millions for Obama in 2008 - Roll Call
President Barack Obama earned between $1.1 million and $6.1 million beyond his Senate salary last year, much of it in royalties from his book The Audacity of Hope, according to financial records released by the White House late Friday.
Roll Call - Breaking News - http://www.rollcall.com/news/breakingnews.html
AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - Novelist Brandon Sanderson Discusses ...
By Clayton Neuman
The Wheel of Time books are lavish in their concrete sensory descriptions. And that's had a strong influence on my own writing: I just sent a couple of pages of something else to my editor, and he wrote back and said, "Wow, ...
SciFi Scanner - http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/
Free Range Librarian › Christopher Beha, The Whole Five Feet: I ...
By KG Schneider
I was 27 the year I joined the Air Force on the heels of eviction and other financial disasters, and Beha was 27 when he broke up with his girlfriend, moved back in with his parents, and took up reading the great books. ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Arrowhead Christian Academy publication secures another award

Arrowhead Christian Academy publication secures another award
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
REDLANDS - Arrowhead Christian Academy's yearbook, "Wings," has soared to national recognition after receiving its 11th Gold Crown Award. ...
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H3 Publications Hires Alan Davis
Bicycle Retailer - Laguna Hills,CA,USA
VALENCIA, CA (BRAIN)—H3 Publications has hired Alan Davis as Decline magazine's senior photographer. "I'm super excited to finally add Alan to the Decline ...
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Obama Seeks To Block Publication Of Detainee Abuse Photographs
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
Pentagon officials said that President Obama's decision to challenge the publication of the photographs was prompted by advices from Defense Secretary ...
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Introducing AMA Racer: A new publication from the American ...
American Motorcyclist Association - Pickerington,OH,USA
AMA Racing, the amateur-racing arm of the AMA, is pleased to announce the release of a new publication designed specifically for AMA members who compete in ...
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UB Reporter to cease print publication
University at Buffalo Reporter - Buffalo,NY,USA
Printing of the publication will cease as University Communications continues to cut its expenses in line with reduced state funding to the university. ...
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Merck Paid for Medical 'Journal' Without Disclosure
New York Times - United States
But news of a Merck-sponsored publication for doctors in Australia, that has come to light in a personal injury lawsuit there over Vioxx, ...
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Criagslist changes erotic ad policy
Columbus Other Paper - Columbus,OH,USA
By Kitty McConnell Criagslist CEO Jim Buckmeister announced that every adult escort ad on the site will now be individaully approved for publication by ...
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La. panel lifts order barring publication of City Council e-mails
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
By AP NEW ORLEANS — A state appeals court panel on yesterday set aside a ruling that temporarily barred attorney Tracie Washington from making public City ...
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BBC News
Obama U-turn on abuse photographs
BBC News - UK
US President Barack Obama has changed his mind and will now attempt to block the publication of photographs showing the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. ...
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A Banner Publication
The Boston - Bay State Banner - Boston,MA,USA
If you're like most women, you're so busy taking care of the people around you — children, parents, your spouse — that you often neglect your own health. ...
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Editor Honors the Memories of Loved Ones With Annual Contests ...
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Indian Readership Survey R1 2009: Some Highlights | contentSutra.com
By Sruthijith KK
Only nine of the top 25 most read publications (including dailies and periodicals) registered a growth in readership. The combined percentage decline in readership, for the 16 publications that registered a drop, was 51.89%.
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Invoice scams gather millions | Stuff.co.nz
By By EMILY WATT
Babis Arapogiannis, of Wellington's Kosmos Greek Taverna, was sold advertising in the Health Inspectors Kids Book, which he was told was a charitable publication that would be distributed around hospitals in Wellington. ...
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Wall Street Journal rules for Twitter, Facebook are too harsh ...
By bloggingmom67
Friending sources can enrich your social media experience by giving you an easy way to find out what they think, what stories they'd like to see your publication write and to understand how they see the world. ...
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SAQs, MCQs, EMQs and OSCEs for MRCOG Part 2: A comprehensive guide
Publication title: SAQs, MCQs, EMQs and OSCEs for MRCOG Part 2: A comprehensive guide; Author: Justin C Konje; Publication type: Book (Paperback); Publication date: 27 March 2009; Number of pages: 480; ISBN number: 9780340941683 ...
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