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| Total Unique Visitors: 1900 |
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| Diet books top list of New Year buys |
| 2008-01-09 19:09:00 |
After the excesses of the Christmas period, diet books, in particular, are topping the bestseller lists.Angus & Robertson spokeswoman Fiona King said the new year had brought strong sales of health and self-development books."People are generally more motivated to embark on a new diet or exercise program at this time of the year, when the weather is friendlier and when there's so many sporting events happening, like the Australian Open or the cricket," Ms King said.
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| Comic Books in the Classroom |
| 2008-01-03 03:11:00 |
Generations of children grew up reading comic books on the sly, hiding out from parents and teachers who saw them as a waste of time and a hazard to young minds. Comics are now gaining a new respectability at school. That is thanks to an increasingly popular and creative program, often aimed at struggling readers, that encourages children to plot, write and draw comic books, in many cases using themes from their own lives.
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| JK ROWLING |
| 2007-12-29 17:25:00 |
SO MUCH for that magical little brat. July put the buffers on the Potter juggernaut with the publication of the seventh and final instalment of the series. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows became the fastest-selling book of all time, a record held consecutively by the three previous Potter tomes. It sold more than two-and-a-half million copies on the first day, and has since been translated into 65 languages. Predictably, the launch saw stores opening at midnight to accommodate throngs of men, women and children dressed as wizards and witches.For Edinburgh-based author JK Rowling, the publication marked the end of a journey that started 10 years earlier with Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone. Publisher Bloomsbury has since sold nearly 400 million copies of the series worldwide a
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| Gift books for sports fans |
| 2007-12-22 14:10:00 |
John Ed Bradley lived the dream of every schoolboy football player growing up in Louisiana: He got to run out of the tunnel and take the field at Tiger Stadium as more than 80,000 insanely partisan Louisiana State University fans screamed themselves silly. The games started, the din grew louder, and Bradley was overtaken by the sense that nothing else that happened in his life would matter as much as what was about to transpire over the next few hours. College football, especially at a school like LSU, where the game is almost a religion, can steal a man's soul.
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| Gift books for the cook |
| 2007-12-13 04:25:00 |
You might say that our picks for the top cookbooks for this holiday season denote a baker's dozen - in more ways than one.Five of the 13 cookbooks are indeed baking books. That, of course, shows what a huge sweet tooth I have. But it also demonstrates the wealth of wonderful baking books that were published this year.Be it savory or sweet, a cookbook is a great gift to wrap up for a friend or give yourself. It's ultimate gift that keeps on giving.
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| New books offer theater, literary and 'secret' tours |
| 2007-12-06 12:46:00 |
Three new travel books offer interesting perspectives on destinations and their connections to theater and literature.Theater buffs coming to New York to take in a show following the resolution of the stagehands' strike may also want to check out a guidebook that takes you beyond Times Square and behind the legends of Broadway. New York Theater Walks: Seven Historical Tours from Times Square to Greenwich Village and Beyond (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, $16.95) by Howard Kissel includes a culinary tour of Times Square restaurants; a tour themed on the life of Irving Berlin; and a tour that follows the path Adolph Green used to take on his daily walk to the home of his songwriting partner Betty Comden.
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| E-book readers by Sony, Amazon have their charms |
| 2007-11-29 12:30:00 |
Ready to curl up with a good, um, e-book?It sounds like pulp fiction. But once you get used to reading James Patterson, Michael Lewis and other authors on a light paperback-size electronic reader, it's less odd than you think. You eventually forget how you're reading, and get engrossed in the writer's creation.I reached that conclusion after testing two devices: the wireless Kindle that Amazon.com (AMZN) released last week; and the non-wireless Sony (SNE) Reader Portable Reader System PRS-505, the second edition of a contraption I reviewed a year ago.
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| The young turn backs on books |
| 2007-11-21 04:29:00 |
The findings•Only 30 percent of 13-year-olds read almost every day.•The number of 17-year-olds who never read for pleasure increased from 9 percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.•Almost half of Americans between ages 18 and 24 never read books for pleasure.•The average person between ages 15 and 24 spends 2 to 2 ½ hours a day watching TV and seven minutes reading.
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| Children's books join medical teams in AIDS fight |
| 2007-11-13 11:33:00 |
After seven years spent signing cheques to an international literacy agency for children, two Torontonians have embarked on a trip into the East African countryside to see just how their dollars are being used to combat the spread of AIDS.Bill Burt and Judy Thomas are in Ethiopia at their own expense. They're seeing how their money has been transformed into children's books – invaluable tools in the growing campaign against the spread of AIDS in Africa – and placed on the shelves of libraries and schools across Ethiopia.The charitable idea is to give an African child a book, teach them to read and reduce their likelihood of contracting HIV/AIDS by increasing their lot in life and ability to read the warning signs.
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| Business Books: Workers who have "One Foot out the Door" |
| 2007-11-08 11:47:00 |
NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A Dilbert comic strip struck a nerve in the 1990s when the evil boss proclaimed that employees were no longer the company's most valuable asset, but instead ranked ninth, behind money at No. 1 and carbon paper at No. 8.In the wake of massive layoffs and job exports, such sentiments don't seem that far-fetched, but a new book by Judith Bardwick, author of the best-selling "Danger in the Comfort Zone," says corporate America must do something about the "psychological recession" that is plaguing both business and workers.Employees have picked up on management's attitude that they are liabilities to be reduced, Bardwick writes in "One Foot out the Door" (AMACOM Books, $24.95).As a result, workers are either looking for new positions or just going through the motions
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