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Why is Amazon deleting writers' reviews of other authors' books?
Los Angeles Times
On Wednesday, Steve Weddle, an author of crime fiction, blogged about how he had tried repeatedly to leave a nice review for "Karma Backlash," a pulpy e-book by his friend Chad Rohrbacher, on its sales page on Amazon. Weddle's review was received but ...

Noted motivational guru Lamar Odom to give Clippers teammates books on ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Odom said he hopes to hammer that point home Friday by giving each of his teammates a book on goal-setting before the game — a tactic he's borrowing from his former coach, Phil Jackson. "To be on the same page and the same wavelength is important," ...

Yahoo! Sports (blog)

Book buzz: 'Hunger Games' director, teen novel coming to TV
USA TODAY
But just how much do you love books? NPR interviews Joe Queenan, an author who reads more than 125 books a year - between 6,000 and 7,000 total. Big money: What's the trick to writing a memorable business book? The Financial Times tracks down the ...

Book Review: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Treatment Guide, 2nd Edition ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Because it is an eBook, the references are also posted as links, so a particular area of interest can be accessed immediately for further information. I really liked this ... I began with the first part of thebook which gives an overview of chronic ...

'Chinese Characters' gives insight into a society in flux
Los Angeles Times
A collection of essays by 15 authors (including Hessler and Chang) about a range of people — including a guitar teacher, a Taoist mystic, a hard-drinking young Tibetan and a painter who churns out cheap oil colors for Western customers — the book ...

Book Review Podcast: Nate Silver on the Art of Predictions
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Noam Scheiber reviews “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't,” by Nate Silver. Mr. Silver's blog FiveThirtyEight puts electoral politics under the statistical microscope ...

New York Times (blog)

James Wood Wishes He Was Keith Moon
Slate Magazine
A number of items are arranged in front of him on the tabletop—a paperback book, a large souvenir coffee mug, a plastic container. A child's voice, off camera, can be heard giddily shouting “Go, Daddy, Go!” The man then begins a dextrous finger-drum ...

Slate Magazine

LA as scene of the crime in 'The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets'
Los Angeles Times
Though at its root a hostage thriller — and a pretty tense one at that — the power of Wagman's booklies in the details. Winnie's kidnapping comes early, with an unsettling banality that's too easy to imagine for anyone who has been too caught up in ...

Silent Hill: Book of Memories review • Reviews • PlayStation Vita ...
Silent Hill: Book of Memories review. The unholy book. Tweet. By Simon Parkin Published Friday 2 November 2012. Who can blame Konami's long-running horror series for fleeing its beginnings? Silent Hill was a fearful town of fog and ...
Eurogamer.net

Books to Watch Out For: November Books Preview : The New Yorker
By The New Yorker
Notes from the book closet on forthcoming titles that caught our eye. November is the month to get up to date on the seedy side of Charles Dickens, with two new books dedicated to the writer's complicated personal life. In “The Great Charles ...
Page-Turner

Cotingas and Manakins: Amazing birds, amazing bird book – Greg ...
By Greg Laden
the song of the Xcreaming Piha,… the loudest bird on Earth, is used by moviemakers to epitomize jungle soudns the world over, no just in its native South America,” we are told by the authors of Cotingas and Manakins , an amazing new book ...
Greg Laden's Blog

New book publishes little-seen essays by Milton Friedman | The ...
By Jamie Weinstein
The Daily Caller Social Experience. Let your friends help you discover the best news, features and videos on TheDC. Publish what you read and maintain full control. ... Libertarian economist and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman would have turned 100 years old last July, and to celebrate his birthday, a new book is out with a series of essays he wrote that few have seen. “As I was writing my biography of Friedman, I recognized there were a number of his essays that had not been ...
The Daily Caller
The Business of Books in a Hurricane - Entertainment - The Atlantic ...
As with the rest of us, this week of post-hurricane recovery has meant putting " normal" things on hold—but for a book author, that might come at the cost of the ...
www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/11/.../58616/

Kids book it to the Westwood Library after Hurricane Sandy ...
"They are going like hotcakes," said Janet Dunn, children's librarian, referring to the books on a children's hurricane book display she organized near the ...
www.northjersey.com/.../176999661_Kids_book_it_to_the_...

Sociology (9 books)
9 books based on 1 votes: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of ...Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion ...
www.goodreads.com/list/show/26990.Sociology

Amazon.com: Customer Discussions: FREE Books and Chat - Friday ...
Last edited by the author 8 hours ago. Lover of Books says: Happy November Everyone....... TGIF! Welcome! We are happy to have you join us. Come on in, pick ...
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