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Michéle Lamont. How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Harvard University Press. March 2009.
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Throw the Rascals In!
Joe Flaherty’s classic account of Mailer and Breslin on the hustings
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Jim Cullen
Closing the Books
Traversing the electronic textbook frontier isn't easy, but it's probably logistically—and pedagogically—necessary.
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Penguin Launches New "From the Publisher's Office" Programming
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Sharon Begley
(Un)wired For God
Religious beliefs may not be innate.
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There are three kinds of fools: Real Fools, Professional Fools, and Unsuspecting Fools. The professional, a staple of Shakespeare’s plays, is, in reality, nobody’s fool.
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Celebrating the ninetieth birthday of the Hoover Institution, a revolutionary place.
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Growing coffee is both backbreaking and unprofitable. The Economist's south-west correspondent visits some farmers in Chiapas ...
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Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
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Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died
Honestly people, when you read this article, post what you think?
Stephen wrote: "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/...Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died
Landscaping leaves something to be desired. Must've been night, and people led there blindfolded. ?
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This is for all you conservatives out there. You know who you are.
A Life in the Right
By W. James Antle III
Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died Stick with the Flying Spaghetti Monster and you'll never get into this kind of trouble.
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Sean Smith
Food History on the Web
I always find the history of food interesting.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/n...
Margo Wilson's research shed light on evolutionary psychology
She studied the roots of homicide, jealousy and domestic violence
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Wiesenthal Centre's Seventh Year Chasing Hate from the Frankfurt Book Fair
Turkish Publishers Blame Centre for Ban on Antisemitic Texts
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“Ram Was Happy With Sita...Indulging In Every Way...And Then He Threw Her Out”
Internationally acclaimed Sanskrit scholar and author on her learned and rambunctious 780-page opus
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The printed word is not dead. We are not about to see the demise of the novel or the shuttering of all the bookstores
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Live the life of a writer!
The economics of publishing are radically changing. I don't know where we're going to end up; eventually the physical book may well be a museum piece. But I think the above comments go too far.
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WHAT ARE WOMEN FIGHTING ABOUT?
Women are often the cruellest critics of other female writers. Where does this anger come from, and at what expense? Emily Gould considers her own frustrations, as reader and writer ..
I just want to say that you are doing a major service by posting this material. Kudos! All bow.
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Thank you, Trish.
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Trench Literature – Reading in World War I
by Richard Davies, Udo Goellmann & Sara Melendre
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With Yankees Win, Triumph Books Goes to Press
It's not enough they win, they have to print a book.
The New York Yankees celebrated their 7-3 win Wednesday night against the Philadelphia Phillies in game six of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, and by Thursday morning, Triumph Books, the Chicago-based imprint of Random House renowned for churning out full-color sports books on short notice, already had gone to press with two books about the team and its victory.
A. I'd like to second Trish's thanks here. I'd never find half this stuff on my own, busy, lazy lout that I am;and B.Yankees are beyond obnoxious--but I'm an old Red Sox fan and thus slightly prejudiced.
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RJ Julia Launches Gift Book Site
An interesting concept, and here is the site itself.
http://justtherightbook.com/
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National Bookstore Day: The View from Southern California
Did you patronize your bookstore today?
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A recent blog post spurs discussion of Amazon's review program
Recently librarian and School Library Journal blogger Elizabeth Bird raised questions, in a post, about Amazon’s mysteriously anointed Vine Voices reviewers, who receive free advance copies of new titles—and then often diss them on Amazon.
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On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time over 100 bloggers will take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of more than 100 such books.
Organized by Eco-Libris, this campaign is aiming to promote “green” books by reviewing more than 100 books printed on recycled paper or FSC-certified paper.
Here are links to the books and the blogs that participate in the campaign and the blogs reviewing them.
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Cengage Learning Charges Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with Breach of Contract
Cengage Learning has filed suit in New York federal court against Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
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Small Montreal Publisher Is Back in Spotlight With New Jolie-Pitt Tell All
Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based house that made headlines for selling the rights to Ian Halperin’s now-bestselling Michael Jackson biography Unmasked, is looking to get back in the headlines with another Halperin tell-all, this one about Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
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When Brevity Is a Virtue
Praise for a short-story collection often sounds a bit like disparagement. Great short stories are hailed as having "novelistic" qualities, a subtle knock that affirms the novel's place as the highest literary achievement and the final measure of a writer's talent.
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Michael Sandel Wants to Talk to You About Justice
Taking his popular Harvard course to public television may raise the scholar's profile and, just maybe, the tone of political discourse