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Books – Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final "Harry Potter" book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told sh

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Diana's Final Heartbreak

Books – Princess Diana emerged from her divorce with a new style, a new crusade (banning land mines), and a new love, Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom she hid from the press for 18 months. But, as Ti

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The Constitution in Exile

Books – In his book, The Constitution in Exile, Judge Andrew Napolitano explains in very clear language just how the government has violated our liberty. The biggest special-interest group of all - the federal government…

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Boys Will Be...

Books – I wouldn't be at all surprised if The Dangerous Book for Boys were banned by zealous school groups, social workers, and other moral busybodies. I first encountered this admirable work when it was published in London…

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The Active Authoritarianism of Teddy Roosevelt

Books – In Bully Boy, historian Jim Powell explores the many ways in which the United States was made worse off by the swaggering, blustering energy of the man.

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Top Ten Skimpiest Superheroine Costumes

Books – A staple of all superhero movies is the scene of the hero suiting up pulling on his mask and gloves, stepping into his boots, affixing his cape and buckling his utility belt. But for a lot of superheroines, instead…

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Curling Up With a Bookshelf

Books – The Cave features a blob-shaped, human-size recess at its base. Sitting in this upholstered niche is supposed to make a reader feel secluded - akin to being lost among a college library's dusty stacks - but still…

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Cool Books for Tough Guys. . .

Books – Whenever I think of tough guys I have had in my teaching career, I usually think of James Meachum. James, who fancied himself a mix between heavyweight boxing champion of the world and Ozzy Osborne, showed up in…

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The 5Oth anniversary of Malcolm Lowry's death

Books – Under the Volcano is rooted in the banal and the everyday, while resonant with myth and embedded with the fragments of a shattered culture. It is also, of course, the greatest novel ever written about drinking and…

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Austerity Britain by David Kynaston

Books – A history of austerity Britain has become a surprise bestseller. Here, its author explains how he came to write it and asks why we are so fascinated by the period.

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My "Beautiful Train" Novel and an Omen?

Books – A friend of mine woke me up at 8:00 am this morning screaming in the phone for me to work on my novel Beautiful Train!.....because of the following newspaper article, that had some coincidences with my story......My…

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Summer reads | Salon Books

Books – une 25, 2007 | All month, Salon's staff has been recommending summer books that won't make you feel cheap and empty. (Or maybe they will, in the best possible way.)

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Saddam: Paid Arab Fedayeen Terrorists During 2003 Iraq War

Books – Another translated Iraqi intelligence document indicates that during the Iraq war, Saddam paid the "Arab Fedayeen" volunteers--i.e., terrorists--just as he paid members of Iraq's own military. This document is dated…

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Five Books Every Developer Should Read No Matter What Language…

Books – A list of 5 books which you should read as a programmer regardless of the language you program in. Sample chapters of the books are included in the article

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Harry Potter book 7 truth and rumours

Books – Harry Potter book 7 truth and rumours

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Elwood the dog is world's ugliest

Books – Karen Quigley believes that pets do not look like their owners, especially as her pet Elwood has just won an Ugliest Dog contest. The two-year-old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix has been crowned the world's ugliest…

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Comic Books for you

Books – There was a lot to see at this nicely sized con, including comic book writers and artists, publishers, dealers, gamers, exhibitors, costumers, and more. Some of the highlights were seeing some of my favorite creators…

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Everything I Know About Business I Learned From My Mama

Books – Some business books make success seem like a mystery that can only be unraveled by smooth-talking Harvard MBAs. The fact is, you can learn pretty much everything you need to know about business from your mama .…

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Happy Birthday to Raymond Radiguet...Raymond who?

Books – You sometimes wonder how the flame can flicker on down the years for a writer of so little, who died so young. Jean Cocteau was his mentor and it is Cocteau's biography of Radiguet which gives a hint of the promise…

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Great Opening Lines to Hook Young Readers

Books – If you're interested in getting your child or teen to keep reading during the hot, long, lazy vacation, offer them these cool summer books. They all have great first lines as well as fast-moving plots, three-dimensional…

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Israel Inside Out

Books – In the decades of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, no single iconic image has been captured by a camera's lens. No girl running naked from the dark fog of a napalm attack. No hooded man standing crucifixion-like…

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It Still Is Not About the Truth

Books – For more than a year, the infamous Duke Lacrosse Non-Rape, Non-Kidnapping, and Non-Sexual Assault Case has held front-and-center in the news. The name Michael B. Nifong has become synonymous with prosecutorial abuse…

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Writing the American way

Books – From Twain to DeLillo, when it comes to narrative prose, American novelists lead the field. The language of Shakespeare and Milton has evolved into a tougher, smarter beast on the other side of the pond.

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DRM for Books: Will Publishers Learn Anything from the Music…

Books – A report from the O'Reilly Media TOC publishing conference on the use of DRM in the book publishing business.

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Book Review: On the Presence of Filipinos in the United…

Books – The 2006 Centennial marking the arrival of Filipinos to the United States as laborers on Hawaiian sugar plantations serves as the backdrop for a series of four essays by E. San Juan Jr. investigating both the past…

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How to Make People Buy Books

Books – Despite everything we learned in school, the simple fact is that people really do judge books by their covers. Over the last 20 years, Chip Kidd's creations have drawn readers to books by David Sedaris, James Elroy,…

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New Ways to Do It Make Giving Away Books a Bit Less Painful…

Books – IT has been a long, sometimes painful process, but over the years, I've learned to separate from my books.

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