Washington Post (blog)
(Photo courtesy of TASCHEN) And there's a new tome from art books publisher Taschen that explores the work of the country's real-life mad men — the kings and queens of advertising — who brought America some of its most well-known catchphrases and ...
Investment banking: Ex-Goldman critic to write book?
Christian Science Monitor
Greg Smith, who tendered a scathing resignation letter to investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, is reportedly looking for a book deal. By Reuters / March 25, 2012 A trader works in the Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange ...
Christian Science Monitor
Developer Preferences for Reading eBooks
iProgrammer
A survey from O'Reilly about ebook reading habits reveals facts that might come as a surprise if you thought that the future of ebooks is completely determined by the rise of the dedicated eReader. Technical book publisher (and specifically publisher ...
'The Great American Cereal Book' tells the history of the food invented in ...
Battle Creek Enquirer
“The Great American Cereal Book” authors have their own favorite brands. Marty Gitlin, a fan of sugary cereals since he was a kid, picked Froot Loops. Topher Ellis said his current choice is Kashi Autum Wheat, and he tends to favor the wheatier cereals ...
How to Write a Dummies Book, Part I
Forbes
Now that my new book, Success as a Mediator for Dummies is about to launch, mail, email, carrier pigeons and messages in bottles arrive at my door regularly, seeking “how to” advice for writing a Dummies book. I tell them there are two ways to go.
Who is Suzanne Collins, author of 'The Hunger Games'?
Fox News
By now, many Americans are familiar “Hunger Games” stars Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, but little is known about the film's writer, producer and authorof the books on which it is based. Suzanne Collins penned the first book of ...
New book accuses Vatican of hiding cases of sexual abuse of minors
CNN International
Leon, Mexico (CNN) -- On the same day Pope Benedict addressed and blessed a group of 1800 children in Guanajuato, Mexico, three Mexican authors released a book accusing the Vatican of hiding or ignoring cases of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic ...
Digital Marketing Labs Article Says Writers Can Publish with Amazon and Change ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Digital Marketing Labs are giving the knowledge to publish with Amazon and change reading history. Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 25, 2012 To learn how to publish with Amazon, Digital Marketing Labs has released a Special Report meant to help authors, ...
Book expert Kenneth Gloss will talk in Shrewsbury March 28 about collecting ...
Boston.com
Kenneth Gloss of Newton, owner of the Brattle Book Shop, will lecture Wednesday at the Shrewsbury Public Library. By Cindy Cantrell HISTORY IN BOOKS: In the 63 years in which his family and owned and operated the Brattle Book Shop in Boston,...
Boston.com
Sherryl Connelly's Book Briefs for March 25
New York Daily News
By Kyung-Sook Shin With this novel the author became the first woman to win the Man Asian award earlier this month. An elderly woman is separated from her family on the Seoul subway and the story of her family's indifference to her is revealed.
New York Daily News
Book Review: 'Hanging Hill' by Mo Hayder
New York Daily News
By Sherryl Connelly / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS While grim Scandinavian crime novels are the in thing right now, readers would be making a mistake if they overlooked the masterful British crime writer Mo Hayder's new novel “Hanging Hill.
New York Times best-sellers
San Jose Mercury News
1. Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James. A college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes. First in a trilogy. 2. Fifty Shades Darker by EL James. Daunted by Christian's dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship, ...
MacAdam/Cage, publisher for Mobile-area authors, makes return
al.com
Brewer enthused over each of these books — of “A Silence of Mockingbirds” he declared, “This book is gonna be explosive” — and he's already begun cultivating other writers looking for a new publisher. Historically, MacAdam/Cage's mainstay was ...
al.com
Tulsa Author, Speaker & Business Leader Michael D Butler Launches Website to ...
Houston Chronicle
As more and more Companies and Entrepreneurs turn to Social Media to get their message to the masses Tulsa-based Author Speaker & Founder of http://M3NewMedia.net Michael D. Butler launches Initiative to get the word out about Youth Entrepreneurship in ...
Book Review: One Rough Man: A Pike Logan Thriller by Brad Taylor
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG Overall, One Rough Man is one terrific book. While there's very little situationally new leading up to our protagonist's epiphanous moment, that's where the entire book changes. So a word of warning; Once you've reached page 175 or so, ...
Book review: Kershaw demonstrates to be a top expert on Nazi Germany
Bowling Green Daily News
While there are many books analyzing why Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II, very little has been written about the reasons it continued to fight to the very end. Even the most dedicated Nazis realized the war was lost after the Allies broke out ...
Five questions with author Judith Viorst
Detroit Free Press
My first book was actually a book on outer space. I wrote four or five science books and one thing leads to another. Because I was a published writer -- even though it was science books -- somebody recommended me for a job covering society, ...
Greg Smith Book Deal? Former Goldman Sachs Executive Who Wrote Scathing New ...
Huffington Post
CHICAGO, March 24 (Reuters) - Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive who resigned this month and condemned the investment bank in a scathing New York Times opinion column, is seeking a deal to write a book about his experience there, ...
Electronic book demand keeps rising at libraries
Las Vegas Review-Journal
By Richard Lake By the end of this year, more than a quarter million e-books will have been checked out of the local libraries if current trends continue. And there is every reason to believe those trends will continue, too. "There's a huge demand," ...
Books will satisfy green thumbs itching to begin planting
Columbus Dispatch
Here are a couple of new books for guidance along the way. • Gardeners looking for a guide to growing edible herbs and flowers in small spaces and on a shoestring budget will find Easy Growing: Organic Herbs and Edible Flowers From Small Spaces ...
'Enchantments:' A book review
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Thus begins the author's unburdening of the research she undertook for this novel. We learn the history of Alyosha's parents' love affair, the source of Rasputin's power, popular Russian folk tales and even a takeoff on the devil's deeds as inspired by ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
'Juicy Joy' author Lisa McCourt tells you how to get your mojo going
MiamiHerald.com
The children's book author ( I Love You Stinky Face) has moved into grown-up territory with Juicy Joy: Seven Simple Steps to Your Glorious Gutsy Self (Hay House, $15.95), an instruction manual on how to roll with the punches.
MiamiHerald.com
Does Tiger Woods' ex-coach go too far in book?
Charlotte Observer
(AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) In Hank Haney's new book – “The Big Miss” – about his six years as Tiger Woods' swing coach, Haney tells a two-part story. There's the golf story, about what it was like to be responsible for re-sculpting Woods' swing and ...
Italian author Antonio Tabucchi dies at 68
Monsters and Critics.com
Rome - Italian author and Portuguese language scholar Antonio Tabucchi, who was tipped several times as a possible Nobel literature prize winner, died Sunday in Lisbon, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported. He was 68. Tabucchi was ill with cancer, ...
Full look at Hank Haney book 'The Big Miss' needed for assessment
The Desert Sun
For Hank Haney, whose time as a golf coach for Tiger Woods is examined in his new book “The Big Miss,” the defense is clear. The memories of his time working with Woods do not belong to Woods alone. They also belong to Haney, so he is sharing his ...
Fast-selling Book tells Muslim men how to beat and control their ...
By Pamela Geller
“I wouldn't say it's hate, but it is inciting men to hit women,” said Fatah, who identified the book's author as a prominent Islamic scholar. “This is new to you, but the Muslim community knows that this is widespread, that a woman can be beaten.
Atlas Shrugs
Facebook claims trademark over 'book' in latest user agreement ...
By Chris Meadows
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME ...Posted in: books, Chris Meadows Tags: Book ... This springs from a series of trademark lawsuits or complaints that Facebook has been launching against various other sites that name themselves “(something)book”, such as Teachbook, Lamebook, and Placebook. ... Howard on "PDF is most popular format, PC is most popular reader for O'Reilly e-book customers - Posted on March 24, 2012 ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
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This may be the best book dealing with brain-function correlated to behavior that I've read. Many others ... This entry was posted on Sunday, March 25th, 2012 at 4:22 am and is filed underauthors, book, reading. You can follow ... About Me. The Author. Zenpundit is a blog dedicated to exploring the intersections of foreign policy, history, military theory, national security,strategic thinking, futurism, cognition and a number of other esoteric pursuits. Customized Web Site & Blog Design ...
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Burning All My Books | Terence Eden has a Blog
By Terence Eden
I have burned my books. A bonfire of ideas and ideals. My bookshelves used to burst at the seams. Every individual shelf bowed violently from the over-stuffed mass of paperbacks squeezed onto it. Shakespeare rubbed up with Straczinsky. A complete set of ... Every time I find an ebook copy of a book I have on my shelf, the ebook version is downloaded – redundantly backed up – and placed in my Calibre library. The physical ... Ebooks are better than physicalbooks. They contain the ...
Terence Eden has a Blog
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Canada: Book Tells Muslim Men ...
By ZIP
The 160-page book, published by Idara Impex in New Delhi, India, is written by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who's described in the book's foreword as a “prolific writer on almost every topic of Islamic learning.” The store's manager, who didn't give his name, said the book had ...Later, its author advises that “the husband should treat the wife with kindness and love, even if she tends to be stupid and slow sometimes.” Page 45 contains the rights of the husband, which include his ...
Weasel Zippers
The Book Club by Shai Akram, London » Retail Design Blog
By retail design blog
Housed in a slightly retouched Victorian warehouse ((100-106 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4RH), The Book Club offers unique interior design spread across two floors – the ground floor and the underground level. The interior ...
Retail Design Blog
Vegan is Love Children's Book | Care2 Healthy Living
By Brandi, selected from Diets in Review
Author Ruby Roth returns with her colorful children's books about sustainable living. Vegan is Love teaches children the value of foregoing eating animal products, or even visiting the zoo.
Care2 Healthy Living
Book Review: Creating the Market University: How Academic ...
By Blog Admin
Arnaud Vaganay finds the book to be extremely topical: UK universities are now catching up with their American rivals to spur on the growth the country so badly needs. Creating the Market University: How Academic Science became an ...
Impact of Social Sciences
Book Review: The Brooklyn Nine
By dogtrax
Book Review: The Brooklyn Nine. I spent the last week feeling like a cranky book reviewer. Maybe I just dove into books that didn't quite fit my mood. I don't know. But I was quite happy to come across The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz just as ...
Kevin's Meandering Mind
ONE | Roger Thurow previews his new book at faith and advocacy ...
By Brian Sweeney
On Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to attend “What the Bible Says about the Hungry and the Poor: A Mandate for Pulpit and Pew,” at Messiah College in Grantham, Penn. The objective was to unite Christians throughout Central ...
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Cynsations: SCBWI Bologna 2012 Author-Illustrator Interview ...
By Cynthia Leitich Smith
Barbara McClintock is an author and illustrator of numerous picture books, which delight with humour and fine details. Her books have won four New York Times Best Books awards, a New York Times Notable Book citation, a Boston ...
Cynsations
Marchetta Madness at Chachic's Book Nook « A Chair, A Fireplace ...
By Liz B
Readers of this blog know how much I love Melina Marchetta's books. You know what I love almost as much as I love her books? Reading how other people love her books. Chachic'sBook Nook just wrapped up Marchetta Madness, so you ...
A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
App Smart Extra: Book Apps for Young Adults - NYTimes.com: "The app market may tilt more heavily in the direction of young teenagers and preteens than any other demographic, but most of those apps seem to treat them only as game players or social networkers. The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore is the most well-known exception to that, but I recently found another excellent book app, The Artifacts ($2 on Apple), that’s aimed squarely at a younger person’s imagination, and it’s well worth the download."
Creatures of Habit | Think Tank | Big Think: "In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg takes an unflinching look at the science of habit, and offers concrete strategies for transforming harmful habits into beneficial ones. Using case studies from the unlikely success of Febreze to Alcoholics Anonymous’ unparalleled ability to cure alcoholism, the book offers incontrovertible evidence that understanding how our habits work is essential to changing them."
From the Mouths of Agents: Platform, Platform, Platform | The Writing ...
The Writing Range – Tools & Resources for Writers. advert. About · Writing ... Our agency helpsauthors who don't sell well in Barnes & Noble to self publish.
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Carl Hiaasen to appear at Princeton Barnes & Noble with CHOMP ...
Carl Hiaasen to appear at Princeton Barnes & Noble with CHOMP March 31 at 6pm. Bestselling and beloved adult and children's author Carl Hiaasen discusses ... CARL HIAASEN has beenwriting about Florida since his father gave him a ...
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Antitrust Lawsuit, Fifty Shades of Grey, and More ... - Poets & Writers
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Book tells Muslim men how to beat and control their wives
Toronto Sun
The 160-page book, published by Idara Impex in New Delhi, India, is written by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who's described in the book's foreword as a “prolific writer on almost every topic of Islamic learning.” The store's manager, who didn't ...
Weekend book picks: 'Watergate,' 'James Brown'
USA TODAY
USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include a surprisingly compassionate novel about the Watergate scandal, a portrait of the Godfather of Soul, plus two new spine-tingling thrillers. By Thomas Mallon; Pantheon, 448 pp., $26.95; fiction The women of ...
USA TODAY
Book Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Even though the main audience targeted, the book has struck chords with parents as well and has been a best seller since it came out. North America has been destroyed and is now run by the powerful Capital and is divided into 12 districts (district 13 ...
Books: New and noteworthy
USA TODAY
The buzz: A "Debbie Downer" of a book? Nah, Dratch is just the latest funny lady aiming for the best-seller list a la Tina Fey (Bossypants) and Mindy Kaling (IsEveryone Hanging Out Without Me?). What it's about: A dream vacation for Abbie Elliot and ...
USA TODAY
Facebook Asserts Trademark on Word "Book" in New User Agreement
Wired News
By Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word “book” by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” the agreement all users implicitly consent to by using...
Wired News
Facebook Tightens Hold On 'Book' Trademark With Slight User Agreement Tweak
Huffington Post
You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written ...
Ex-Goldman Worker Said to Seek Book Deal
New York Times
Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive who resigned in spectacular fashion last week by blasting the firm in an Op-Ed page article in The New York Times, is now shopping a bookproposal to major publishers in New York, several people with ...
Greg Smith, Goldman basher, to write a book
New York Daily News (blog)
Now, says the New York Times, Smith wants to expand his story into a book. He has already found an agent and met with publishers, the paper reports "According to several people who were present, Mr. Smith described his book as a coming-of-age story, ...
Book review: 'The New Republic' by Lionel Shriver
Los Angeles Times
It's not meant to be; the book, written in 1998, is set at the turn of the millennium, before Sept. 11, before the 2008 economic crisis. Originally, publishers weren't interested in an amusing bookabout journalists and terrorism; after 9/11, ...
Los Angeles Times
It's not meant to be; the book, written in 1998, is set at the turn of the millennium, before Sept. 11, before the 2008 economic crisis. Originally, publishers weren't interested in an amusing bookabout journalists and terrorism; after 9/11, ...
Book review: 'The Stranger Within Sarah Stein'
Los Angeles Times
What might be most odd about this combination of subjects is that the book isn't glum at all. Told through the eyes of the perky, bike-riding 12-year-old Sarah Stein, the daughter of a candy-making mother and an artist-painter father, it works as more ...
Authors on their works
San Jose Mercury News
Phan appears Monday in San Francisco: 7 pm Books, Inc., Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Ave.;415-776-1111, www.booksinc.net. The fourth novel from the author and screenwriter/producer ("Bones" on Fox) focuses on Dr. Paul Allen, whose 20-year-old son Daniel ...
AFP publishes first ebook
Luray Page Free Press
Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham's fourth book, Ridin' the Pine, a collection of literary short stories, is also the first ebook from Augusta Free Press LLC. Ridin' the Pine features three short stories from Graham, the author of Judge Not, ...
Luray Page Free Press
Book-club picks for Election 2012
Washington Post
If candidates could honestly debate the issues raised in these books, maybe we could get beyond the slogan-filled evocations of the past — the idealized “shining city on the hill” — and frame policies that fit the real world. My book-club selections ...
3 books on the War of 1812
Washington Post
Here are three books to help us see through the murk left by the cannonfire. 1In 1812: The Navy's War (Basic, $32.50), George C. Daughan observes that “there was a certain inevitability about the War of 1812.” Its origins lay in a lingering Yankee ...
New book rekindles memories of 1992 Duke-Kentucky classic
Philadelphia Inquirer
Now, 20 years later, Gene Wojciechowski has written a terrific book called "The Last Great Game" about that dramatic finish and all the clickety-clack, gear-meshing moments that led up to those final 2.1 seconds. What if Kentucky coach Rick Pitino had ...
Young Chattanooga reviewers prefer 'The Hunger Games' book over movie
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Seventh-graders in the book club at Brown Middle School saw “The Hunger Games” Friday. Here are a few of their comments: • “We all say we would never do these things, but look back to the gladiators when we watched humans kill each other.
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Gwyneth Paltrow and Rachael Ray will have final word on ghostwriting question
Washington Post (blog)
According to the author's note in Paltrow's cookbook, Turshen “quantified, tested, and retested every recipe, oversaw the production of the photos, helped brainstorm in a crisis, and, above all, was my intellectual and emotional support through the ...
Los Angeles Times
What might be most odd about this combination of subjects is that the book isn't glum at all. Told through the eyes of the perky, bike-riding 12-year-old Sarah Stein, the daughter of a candy-making mother and an artist-painter father, it works as more ...
Authors on their works
San Jose Mercury News
Phan appears Monday in San Francisco: 7 pm Books, Inc., Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Ave.;415-776-1111, www.booksinc.net. The fourth novel from the author and screenwriter/producer ("Bones" on Fox) focuses on Dr. Paul Allen, whose 20-year-old son Daniel ...
AFP publishes first ebook
Luray Page Free Press
Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham's fourth book, Ridin' the Pine, a collection of literary short stories, is also the first ebook from Augusta Free Press LLC. Ridin' the Pine features three short stories from Graham, the author of Judge Not, ...
Luray Page Free Press
Book-club picks for Election 2012
Washington Post
If candidates could honestly debate the issues raised in these books, maybe we could get beyond the slogan-filled evocations of the past — the idealized “shining city on the hill” — and frame policies that fit the real world. My book-club selections ...
3 books on the War of 1812
Washington Post
Here are three books to help us see through the murk left by the cannonfire. 1In 1812: The Navy's War (Basic, $32.50), George C. Daughan observes that “there was a certain inevitability about the War of 1812.” Its origins lay in a lingering Yankee ...
New book rekindles memories of 1992 Duke-Kentucky classic
Philadelphia Inquirer
Now, 20 years later, Gene Wojciechowski has written a terrific book called "The Last Great Game" about that dramatic finish and all the clickety-clack, gear-meshing moments that led up to those final 2.1 seconds. What if Kentucky coach Rick Pitino had ...
Young Chattanooga reviewers prefer 'The Hunger Games' book over movie
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Seventh-graders in the book club at Brown Middle School saw “The Hunger Games” Friday. Here are a few of their comments: • “We all say we would never do these things, but look back to the gladiators when we watched humans kill each other.
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Gwyneth Paltrow and Rachael Ray will have final word on ghostwriting question
Washington Post (blog)
According to the author's note in Paltrow's cookbook, Turshen “quantified, tested, and retested every recipe, oversaw the production of the photos, helped brainstorm in a crisis, and, above all, was my intellectual and emotional support through the ...
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