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                        IT would be too easy to read Martin Amis' slim book on Sept. 11 in a day and to dismiss it with a politically correct glare. The dozen essays, columns and reviews and two short stories in "The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom" are more illuminating than that, though deeply, sometimes self-indulgently flawed.]]></description>
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                        FROM its puzzling opening line ("The most common grammatical error is the lie"), there's an ominous vibe to Askold Melnyczuk's third novel, "The House of Widows," and the sense of unease lingers until the final sentence. It's a mysterious, masterfully taut story in which dread plays a prominent role.]]></description>
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                        MARCO POLO was only 17 when he departed for China in 1271 with his father, Niccolò, and his uncle, Maffeo. Those two merchants of Venice were known to the boy primarily as storytellers of their fabulous exploits, writes award-winning biographer and historian Laurence Bergreen, for they had been absent more than 16 years, Marco's entire childhood. The pair had followed trade routes east, encountered exotic countries and customs and survived many perils; they had even lived for a time at the court of Kublai Khan, the leader of  the Mongol Empire. Eventually they agreed to accompany his emissary west to the pope, vowing to return to Cambulac (Beijing) with several items the Great Khan had requested.]]></description>
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<title>NYC: City of Whitman and Mailer Inspires a Line of Pure Piffle</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/nyregion/02nyc.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a contest to fashion the most wretched opening sentence to an imaginary novel, New York provided the winning inspiration.    
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<title>Repairing a House With Superman Ties</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/02superman.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even Superman may not have been able to save the childhood home of the character’s creator, Jerry Siegel, in Cleveland, which has fallen into disrepair.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/books/01campbell.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Books of The Times: Trans-Atlantic Translations: Explaining England</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/books/01campbell.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“The Anglo Files” is Sarah Lyall’s frequently amusing account of living in England as a reporter for The New York Times.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/books/01faraz.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Ahmed Faraz, Outspoken Urdu Poet, Dies at 77</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/books/01faraz.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Popular among both the cognoscenti and the general public, Mr. Faraz was one of the few poets from the subcontinent whose verses were read as well as sung.    
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<title>Michael Baxandall, 74, Influential Art Historian, Dies</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/design/31baxandall.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Baxandall’s analysis of the social forces shaping works of art and the way they were seen helped pave the way for the influential movement known as the new art history.    
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<item rdf:about="http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/travel/31footsteps.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Footsteps | M.F.K. Fisher&#x2019;s Sonoma: A House Built to Feed Body and Soul</title>
<link>http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/travel/31footsteps.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Visitors can still sense the charismatic spirit of M. F. K. Fisher, the author and culinary seer, in her former Sonoma cottage, near Glen Ellen, Calif.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/music/31melv.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Music: Multilayered Story, Multinational Opera</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/music/31melv.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Putting Amy Tan’s novel “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” on the stage involved a bit of time travel and lots of actual travel.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Oates-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The First Lady</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Oates-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The life of this novel’s heroine -- a first lady who comes to realize that she has compromised her youthful ideals -- is conspicuously modeled on that of Laura Bush.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Holt-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Two of a Kind</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Holt-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[By all appearances, George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh had little in common. David Lebedoff argues the opposite case.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Strange New World</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In Rose Tremain’s latest novel, a jobless Russian widower travels to London, seeking a way to start again.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Anthromusicology</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Daniel J. Levitin proposes that humans have been shaped by a “soundtrack of civilization.”    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Royte-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Un-Bird</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Royte-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pigeons flutter between wildness and domestication. Courtney Humphries explains how they became part of a city’s natural environment.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hochschild-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>With the Best Intentions</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hochschild-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 19th-century military interventions, Gary J. Bass sees lessons that might be used to confront humanitarian crises today.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Queenan-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Zogby&#x2019;s Crystal Ball</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Queenan-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The pollster John Zogby shares his predictions for the future of American culture and values.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hammer-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Theory and Practice</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Hammer-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In his poetry as in his criticism, Adam Kirsch upholds the values of traditional form.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Rosin-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>In Bed With the Right</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Rosin-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to Dagmar Herzog, Christian leaders have embraced a new role as cheerleaders for sex -- at least the marital kind.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Suellentrop-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Wooing the South</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Suellentrop-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Moser says that for too long, Democrats have taken the wrong approach to Southern politics.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Arrangement</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[An Indian-American journalist returns to her parents’ land in search of a husband.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/books/03hatf.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Rocker Feels Her Way Beyond the Spotlight</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/books/03hatf.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In her new memoir, the singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield considers what happens after “your dream comes true.”    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Scammel-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Essay: Solzhenitsyn the Stylist</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Scammel-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Censorship, in its more benign manifestations, may have been good for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s prose.    
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<title>Fiction Chronicle</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/books/review/Turrentine-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[New fiction by Gerard Woodward, Irina Reyn, Richard Milward, Joey Goebel and Joe Meno.    
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<title>Archive: Book Review Podcast</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/books-podcast-archive.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[This week: Christopher Buckley, author of “Supreme Courtship”; Wesley Yang on “Guyland”; Motoko Rich on the children’s author Rick Riordan; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.    
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<title>Yusef Komunyakaa: The Clay Army</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/08/080908po_poem_komunyakaa</link>
<description><![CDATA[When the roof of the First Emperor of Qin&#8217;s tomb 
        caved in, six thousand life-size terra-cotta soldiers knelt 
          
        beneath its crumbling weight in the first pit, 
        alongside horses &#38; chariots. Centuries before, 
          
        when the clay figures stood in perfect formation, 
        the rebel general Xiang Yu looted this sanctuary 
          
        of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Mary Jo Bang: Beast Brutality</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/08/080908po_poem_bang</link>
<description><![CDATA[The caption read, 
        &#8220;He and she standing quietly next to a dog.&#8221; 
          
        The prompt queen sat with her crown on,  
        The insets between each Gothic arch providing a measure  
          
        Of what can be 
        Done with architecture.  
          
        She said, &#8220;We built it long ago. 
        And then we knocked it down.&#8221; 
          
        And&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Alice Munro: Face</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/09/08/080908fi_fiction_munro</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am convinced that my father looked at me, really saw me, only once. After that, he knew what was there. 
        In those days, they didn&#8217;t let fathers into the glare of the theatre where babies were born, or into the room where the women about to give birth were&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Dickman: We Did Not Make Ourselves</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/01/080901po_poem_dickman</link>
<description><![CDATA[We did not make ourselves is one thing 
        I keep singing into my hands 
        while falling 
        asleep 
          
        for just a second 
          
        before I have to get up and turn on all the lights in the house, one after the 
              other, like opening an Advent calendar 
          
        My brain opening 
        the chemical&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Jeffrey Skinner: Reunion</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/01/080901po_poem_skinner</link>
<description><![CDATA[Why do you keep returning, 
        alive, able to walk and gesture as you could not at the end, 
        your movements sketchy, more holographic 
        than warm? Thanksgiving dinner with all the relatives 
        and I alone with the suspicion I cannot speak: 
        You should be elsewhere. 
        Heavy drinking, as always. The newest&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Janet Frame: Gorse Is Not People</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you remember your twenty-first birthday? The party, the cake, and cutting a slice of it to put under your pillow that night, to make you dream of your future beloved; the giant key; the singing: 

 
                I&#8217;m twenty-one today!

                Twenty-one today!

                I&#8217;ve got the key of the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Tobias Wolff: Awake</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/08/25/080825fi_fiction_wolff</link>
<description><![CDATA[Odysseus turned his back on the harbour and followed a rough track leading through the woods and up to the hills toward the place where Athene had told him . . .&#8221; 
        Richard read on for a time. He was restless but tried to take an interest in Odysseus&#8217; journey to the home&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Mahmoud Darwish: Here the Birds&#x26;#8217; Journey Ends</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/25/080825po_poem_darwish</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here the birds&#8217; journey ends, our journey, the journey of words,  
        and after us there will be a horizon for the new birds. 
        We are the ones who forge the sky&#8217;s copper, the sky that will carve roads 
        after us and make amends with our names above the distant cloud&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>C. K. Stead: Isola Bella</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/25/080825po_poem_stead</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the stony garden  
        with the bronze plaque  
        that misquotes her 
          
        she called down  
        from the terrace, &#8220;Friend or  
        foe?&#8221; She carried a 
          
        parasol. Her hair  
        was a shiny cap,  
        her face a mask. 
          
        &#8220;Friend of friends,&#8221; I  
        answered--&#8220;Lawrence . . .  
        Carco . . . Bertie Russell . . .&#8221; 
          
        At each name the mask  
        half-revealed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Joshua Ferris: The Dinner Party</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/08/11/080811fi_fiction_ferris</link>
<description><![CDATA[On occasion, the two women went to lunch and she came home offended by some pettiness. And he would say, &#8220;Why do this to yourself?&#8221; He wanted to keep her from being hurt. He also wanted his wife and her friend to drift apart so that he never had to&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Kemalism &#xB7; Perry Anderson: After the Ottomans</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n17/ande01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA['The greatest single truth to declare itself in the wake of 1989,' J.G.A. Pocock wrote two years afterwards,is that the frontiers of 'Europe' towards the east are everywhere open and indeterminate. 'Europe', it can now be seen, is not a continent - as in the ancient geographers' dream - but a subcontinent: a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass, like India in being inhabited by a highly distinctive chain of interacting cultures, but unlike it in lacking a clearly marked geophysical frontier. Instead of Afghanistan and the Himalayas, there are vast level areas through which conventional 'Europe' shades into conventional 'Asia', and few would recognise the Ural mountains if they ever reached them.But, he went on, empires - of which in its fashion the European Union must be accounted one - had always needed to determine the space in which they exercised their power, fixing the borders of fear or attraction around them.]]></description>
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<title>What Works Doesn&#x27;t Work &#xB7; Ross McKibbin: Politics without Ideas</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n17/mcki01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1964, Harold Wilson described the record of the (outgoing) Conservative government as '13 wasted years'. If the present Parliament lasts its full term - as seems likely - the electorate will be asked to pass judgment on 13 years of Labour rule. Voters today seem to have the same view of Labour as Wilson had of the Tories all those years ago. Many who once wished Labour well are now wondering whether they can vote Labour at all, or whether they should stop voting tactically. This is an important decision: the Labour majorities in the last three elections have been much enlarged by people choosing to vote for the candidate thought most likely to defeat the Tory - a spontaneous alternative vote. Since the country's politicians have refused to reform the country's medieval system of voting, the electorate has reformed it for itself. But it is a reform without any statutory basis: people can choose to practise it or not. Labour thus faces a double threat. Not merely that people will no longer vote Labour, but that they will vote as they really want to - Lib Dem, for example - whatever the consequences. And they will do so because they no longer believe keeping the Tories out is the main object of politics. Labour's position, though not irrecoverable, is therefore serious, approaching desperate.]]></description>
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<title>What Condoleezza Said &#xB7; Tony Wood: Why Did Saakashvili Do It?</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n17/wood03_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The conflict in South Ossetia has produced a cloud of rhetoric that seems to have grown in inverse proportion to the intensity of fighting on the ground. Once the outcome became clear - a crushing Russian military victory - Cold War imagery flooded the Western press. Far more than the status of a tiny mountainous enclave in the South Caucasus was said to be at stake: not only was Georgia's territorial integrity imperilled by Russian tyranny, but the future of democracy was under threat. In the Washington Post of 11 August, Robert Kagan asserted that the conflict will be seen as 'a turning point no less significant' than the fall of the Berlin Wall. Given this 'much bigger drama', 'the details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important.']]></description>
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<title>Move Your Head and the Picture Changes &#xB7; Jenny Turner on Helen DeWitt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, the novelist David Foster Wallace submitted himself to a long television interview with Charlie Rose, the PBS chat-show host. It was a terrific performance, and in it Wallace talked about why, in much of his work, narrative is split into body-text and footnotes:There's a way, it seems to me, that reality's fractured right now, at least the reality that I live in. And the difficulty about . . . writing about that reality is that text is very linear and it's very unified, and . . . I, anyway, am constantly on the lookout for ways to fracture the text that aren't totally disorienting - I mean, you can take the lines and jumble them up and that's nicely fractured, but nobody's gonna read it.Last year, Helen DeWitt posted this passage on paperpools, her blog: it 'says everything I might have wanted to say about life, the universe, postmodernism and Your Name Here.' Your Name Here is a 120,000-word novel; DeWitt is one of its authors, the category of authorship itself having been split. (At this point, it might have been appropriate to spin off into a footnote about its other author, Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist of Russian origin, born in Sydney in 1979 and currently working in Papua New Guinea for the Australian Associated Press, except that the DeWitt/Gridneff partnership doesn't do much fracturing with footnotes. Epistolary structure and multiple avatars, yes, scans of original documents, including contracts, because 'without the contractual details any book is just fogbound Jamesian kitsch,' but not really footnotes: perhaps because, since it's an authorship made up of two people, the challenge is to discover how, like Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, Don Gately and Hal Incandenza, they might ever be brought together at all.)]]></description>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Michael Wood: &#x27;Man on Wire&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n17/wood01_.html</link>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; John Lanchester: Life on Mars?</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n17/lanc01_.html</link>
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<title>Just Two Clicks &#xB7; Jonathan Raban: The Virtual Life of Neil Entwistle</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/raba01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama never tires of saying, America is a country where 'ordinary people can do extraordinary things.' In January 2006, Neil Entwistle, a seemingly ordinary 27-year-old Englishman with an honours degree from the University of York, who had been living in the US for barely four months, shot dead his American wife, Rachel, and their baby daughter, Lillian, with a long-barrelled Colt .22 revolver borrowed from his father-in-law's gun collection. By the time the bodies were discovered in their house in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, huddled together beneath a rumpled duvet in the brand-new four-poster bed bought by the couple just ten days before, Entwistle was home in England, living with his parents in Worksop, as if what had happened in America was a violent dream from which he'd woken to reality in his old back bedroom at 27 Coleridge Road.]]></description>
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<title>A Man or a Girl&#x27;s Blouse? &#xB7; Jeremy Harding: Serbia after Karadzic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the time of the parliamentary elections in Serbia earlier this summer, the possibility that Radovan Karadzic, once the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might be handed over to stand trial at The Hague seemed remote. The acquittal of the former KLA leader Ramush Haradinaj in April had stunned opinion in Serbia and added to the sense that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was a Serb-grinding machine which spat out Bosnians, Kosovo Albanians and Croats intact. The idea of any more Serbs going on trial was not popular: even someone like Karadzic, born in Montenegro, long resident in Sarajevo and regarded by many as a ludicrous figure. His arrest late last month illustrates how rapidly things are changing in Serbia, and how keen the new pro-European leadership is to drive its policies forward. The process of EU accession has long been conditional on the delivery of the big three: Karadzic, Goran Hadzic, a Croatian Serb wanted for the massacre of Croats in Vukovar in 1991, and Ratko Mladic, the hands-on commander at Srebrenica. But the capture of Dr Karadzic - psychiatrist, poet, New Age healer, telegenic bigot and mass murderer - is the greater public relations coup.]]></description>
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<title>Past Its Peak &#xB7; Michael Klare on the Oil Crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unlike the oil 'shocks' of the 1970s, the current energy crisis is almost certain to be long-lasting. None of the quick fixes proposed by pundits and politicians - drilling in protected wilderness and maritime areas, curbs on commodity speculators, pressure on members of Opec to increase output - is likely to have much impact. In 1973-74 and again in 1979-80, events in the Middle East led to a sharp reduction in the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, causing a contraction in global supplies and a rise in energy prices, and thus sparking a global recession. But when equilibrium of a sort was restored to the region, the oil began to flow again and the crisis passed. Now, however, the imbalance between supply and demand is largely due to factors inherent in oil commerce itself - and so is less easily solved.]]></description>
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<title>Madame Matisse&#x27;s Hat &#xB7; T.J. Clark: On Matisse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Henri Matisse's portrait of his wife, Amélie Parayre, was first shown at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. The catalogue called it simply La Femme au chapeau. Journalists soon decided (or pretended) that Matisse's painting was scandalous, and the public turned up in droves to make fun of it. So far so predictable: the script was forty years old. But on 15 November something unusual happened. Two paragraphs of real and vehement criticism appeared in the Symbolist journal L'Hermitage, signed by the painter-critic Maurice Denis. Ever since, they have haunted our picture of 20th-century art: What one finds above all, particularly in Matisse, is artificiality; not literary artificiality, which follows from the search to give expression to ideas; nor decorative artificiality, as the makers of Turkish and Persian carpets conceived it; no, something more abstract still; painting beyond every contingency, painting in itself, the pure act of painting . . . What you are doing, Matisse, is dialectic: you begin from the multiple and individual, and by definition, as the neo-Platonists would say, that is, by abstraction and generalisation, you arrive at ideas, at pure Forms of paintings [des noumènes de tableaux]. You are only happy when all the elements of your work are intelligible to you. Nothing must remain of the conditional and accidental in your universe: you strip it of everything that does not correspond to the possibilities of expression provided by reason . . . You should resign yourself to the fact that everything cannot be intelligible. Give up the idea of rebuilding a new art by means of reason alone. Put your trust in sensibility, in instinct.]]></description>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Daniel Soar considers mobile surveillance</title>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Michael Wood on &#x27;The Dark Knight&#x27;</title>
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<title>Letters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 17]]></description>
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<title>Table of contents</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 17]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/fiction.roundupreviews?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare WigfallIt is rare to come across a short-story collection from a new writer ... so good she gives you chills]]></description>
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<title>Non-fiction review: A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Review: A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy StrongPowerfully conveys the trauma of the Reformation for ordinary parishioners]]></description>
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<title>SF &#x26; Fantasy book review: The Affinity Bridge by George Mann</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.roundupreviews1?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Affinity Bridge by George Mann An engaging melodrama that rattles along at a breakneck pace]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/douglascoupland.fiction?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Gum Thief by Douglas CouplandWorking at Staples, among the tons of Post-it notes and ballpoint pens, is not, if Coupland is to be believed, that much fun]]></description>
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<title>Review: Beijing Time by Michael Dutton, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo &#x26; Dong Dong Wu</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/travel.roundupreviews1?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Beijing Time by Michael Dutton, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo & Dong Dong WuThe authors fan outwards from Tiananmen Gate in a fascinating cultural mapping of modern Beijing]]></description>
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<title>Book review: Spain by Jan Morris</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/travel.roundupreviews?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Spain by Jan MorrisA good read for the curious holidaymaker or anyone susceptible to 'the contagion of Spain']]></description>
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<title>Book review: Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, by Richard Fortey</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/scienceandnature.roundupreviews?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, by Richard ForteyA social history of the museum's life and work]]></description>
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<title>Review: Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O&#x27;Neill</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/audiobooks.roundupreviews1?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill, read by Patricia RodriguezHarrowing portrayal of a 12-year-old growing up in Montreal 's red light district with her junky father]]></description>
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<title>SF &#x26; Fantasy book review: The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.roundupreviews3?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Ten Thousand by Paul KearneyA brilliant study of warfare and compulsively readable]]></description>
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<title>SF &#x26; Fantasy book review: The Last Colony by John Scalzi</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.roundupreviews2?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Last Colony by John ScalziA fast-paced political thriller laced with some genuinely original science]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Sabre&#x27;s Edge by Alan Mallinson</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/audiobooks.roundup?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: The Sabre's Edge by Alan Mallinson, read by Errick GrahamFifth in naval series about Captain Matthew Hervey, cavalry officer in the Light Dragoons]]></description>
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<title>Read an extract from Before I Die by Jenny Downham</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/05/guardianchildrensfictionprize.booksforchildrenandteenagers?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tessa has been living with leukemia for four years. In this extract, she prepares for one of the things she wants to do before she eventually dies]]></description>
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<title>Read and exract from Bog Child by Siobhan Down</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/05/bogchild.siobhandowd?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Fergus accompanies Uncle Tally across the border, he finds something that leads him to question his uncles loyalties]]></description>
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<title>The Night Bookmobile: August 6 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr Openshaw opens the door with a smile]]></description>
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<title>Read an extract from Frank Cottrell Boyce&#x27;s Cosmic</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/06/childrensprize.cottrellboyce.extract?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this extract from Cosmic, Liam finds himself aboard Infinite Possibility, a space rocket hurtling far beyond the earth's orbit]]></description>
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<title>Shaw&#x27;s Graphic Take On Ordinary Family Drama</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw's portrait of good people with a desperate, bourgeois dignity, is a welcome break from the comic genre's usual angst-ridden post-modernity.]]></description>
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<title>Novel On Islam&#x27;s Prophet Finds New Publisher</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Independent publisher Beaufort Books agrees to publish The Jewel of Medina after Random House backs out. Random House had feared Sherry Jones' historical novel about the Prophet Mohammed and his wife, Aisha, could be offensive to Muslims.]]></description>
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<title>Bacardi Biography Details The &#x27;Fight For Cuba&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tom Gjelten's new book, Bacardi and the Long Fight For Cuba, threads the history of the family-owned Bacardi Rum Co. together with that of the nation in which it was founded.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Scattershot&#x27; A Bipolar Family Portrait</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In his memoir, Scattershot, David Lovelace chronicles what he calls "the family sickness." Terri Cheney joins the discussion and shares details from Manic, a chronicle of her own struggle with bipolar disorder.]]></description>
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<title>Whodunits Pack Literary Punch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two new novels take on the same theme: murder. Donald Pfarrer's A Common Ordinary Murder is at once both harrowing and exultant. John Darnton's Black & White and Dead All Over is for those who like a little satire with their blood.]]></description>
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<title>Russian Literary Boom Linked To Authoritarianism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Literary critics feared that after the Soviet collapse, the easy availability of popular romance novels and thrillers would seduce Russian readers away from deeper works. Now they attribute a literary revival to the country's new authoritarianism.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Book Of Lies&#x27; Examines Superman&#x27;s Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brad Meltzer's new novel threads together the biblical story of Cain and Abel with the actual details of Superman creator Jerry Siegel's life.]]></description>
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<title>New Biography Takes &#x27;Heat&#x27; Off Dickinson Editor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brenda Wineapple's highly engaging biography White Heat examines the poet's enduring friendship with editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;One Party Country&#x27; Dissects Why Republicans Win</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In One Party Country, journalists Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten explain what they call "The Republican plan for dominance in the 21st century." The Republicans, they argue, are "firmly in the lead when it comes to the science and strategy of attaining power &mdash; and keeping it."]]></description>
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<title>An Imperfect But Epic &#x27;America&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A young man enters a world of power and privilege when he is summoned to live on the estate of the local industrial baron in Ethan Canin's epic America America.]]></description>
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<title>Poking Fun At The &#x27;Stuff White People Like&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a new book based on his popular blog, Christian Lander tracks the trends and tendencies of white people, from fair-trade organic coffee to vintage T-shirts.]]></description>
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<title>A Breezy, &#x27;Contrarian&#x27; View Of Marriage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a delightful new book, journalist Susan Squire traces the first 5,000 years of marital behavior and reveals just how much of a historical odd couple love and marriage are.]]></description>
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<title>Unraveling A Father&#x27;s Secrets And &#x27;Sorrows&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Siri Hustvedt's new novel, The Sorrows of an American, begins one winter day when two adult children uncover a mysterious letter among their late father's papers. Hustvedt tells Jacki Lyden that the book draws from her own father's unpublished memoir.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Glazed America:&#x27; For The Love Of Doughnuts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anthropologist Paul Mullins considers the history of the doughnut in his new book, Glazed America. Mullins uses the doughnut  to trace America's consumer culture.]]></description>
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<title>Novelist Found Inspiration In New Jersey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jacqueline Carey talks about her new novel, It's a Crime. The novelist found inspiration in affluent New Jersey suburbs, just outside of Manhattan, and in the white-collar crimes of corporate CEOs.]]></description>
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<title>Blown to Bits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ray Lodato writes "Few people would deny that the world has changed significantly since the explosion of the Internet. Our access to immense volumes of data has made our lives both easier and less secure. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis have written an intriguing analysis of many of the issues that have erupted due to the ubiquity of digital data, not only on the Internet but elsewhere. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, published by Addison-Wesley, digs into many of the ramifications of making so much information available to the world at large. As I read through the book, I was alternately fascinated and horrified at what information is available, and how it is being used and abused." Keep reading for the rest of Ray's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews &#x26;mdash; Special Operations Team Raptor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you like stories about maverick billionaires, cliche mercenaries, government sponsored super hero teams, leading edge technology and the ultimate evil of an alien human resources dept. then Special Operations Team Raptor The African Incident, by Daniel A. Dawson, just might be for you. Weighing in at a mere 103 pages, SOTR will only waste a few hours of your life. While it may be as fresh and creative as a crafts class at summer camp, it's not a complete waste of your time. Keep reading below to see if your mom would like it as much as your macaroni art.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Zero Day Threat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "Zero Day Threat: the Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity is an interesting and eye-opening look at how banks and credit card companies make ID theft and fraud rather elementary. But with all that, this book must be read in the larger context of how today's society deals with, and is often oblivious to, risk. When is comes to risk, American society tolerates tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, gives millions in federal tobacco subsidies, and is oblivious about near-epidemics such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. With all that, it is doubtful that the myriad horror stories Zero Day Threat details will persuade Congress or the other players to do anything to curtail the problem with identity theft and internet fraud." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Bottom of The Barrel Book Reviews-Confessions of a Recovering Preppie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Michael de Mare's, Confessions of a Recovering Preppie, has been sitting on my desk a long time, for good reason. They say you can't always judge a book by it's cover but in this case, the unintentionally embarrassing front is perfect. Confessions is a painfully ordinary collection of college stories. Michael seems to have a different definition for the word preppie than the good people at Webster or I do. Even though the author specializes in cryptography, he seems unable to decipher any social situation, himself or the code to writing a book worth reading. Click below to see how confusing it gets.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>My Job Went To India</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh Skillings writes "The author, Chad Fowler, draws upon his experiences as a software engineer, a team leader over a group of Indian developers, and as a jazz musician, to describe 52 ways or tips that will help you to become a more valuable employee. These tips are described in two or three pages each, and are usually illustrated by a practical example or story. The tips are well thought-out, well-explained and make sense. Chad draws upon the open source movement as well, highlighting ways that contributing to and learning from open source can improve your career. These tips gave me greater respect and appreciation for the open source movement in general." Read on for the rest of Josh's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews &#x26;mdash; The Lost Blogs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We get a lot of books for review here at Slashdot. Most are sent out to users on our reviewer list within a few weeks. Others become part of an impressive wall of books on my desk before they find a home. There are a choice few however that are doomed to never see the inside of a Fedex box. This is mostly due to the complete and utter stupidity or absurdness of their subject matter. I've decided to give these failed intellectual endeavors a chance and explore just how big a waste of time a book can be. We start scraping the bottom of the barrel with a little number written by Paul Davidson called, The Lost Blogs. Read below to find out just how bad it got.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Bash Cookbook</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chad_Wollenberg writes "Anyone who has used a derivative of Unix over the past 20 years has used Bash, which stands for Borne Again Shell. The geek in all of us makes us want to extend our ability to rule the command line. To truly master a Unix environment, you need to know a shell, and Bash is easily the most popular of them. Any Unix/Linux/BSD administrator knows the power at your fingertips is fully extended by what you can do within the Bash environment, and all of us need the best recipes to get the job done." Keep reading for the rest of Chad's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Stepping Through the InfoSec Program</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "For those who want to stay current in information security, Stepping Through the InfoSec Program is a great book to read after The Pragmatic CSO: 12 Steps to Being a Security Master. While The Pragmatic CSO provides a first-rate overview of the higher-level steps to being a CSO and building an information security program, Stepping Through the InfoSec Program provides the low-level details and nitty-gritty elements on just how to do that." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Subject to Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[prostoalex writes "Most companies would call themselves innovative and would claim they're delivering an above-average service to their customers. Yet, their customers opinions might differ. If you drill a company on their innovation practices, they would probably mention two approaches they employ: 1. Their research department meets with target groups, compiles presentations for the upper management, which then occasionally hands those reports over to the development department. 2. Their research or marketing department comes up with competitive matrix of the products available from competition. In a meeting then, executives see that their product is missing a feature, and hence the development department is assigned the task of adding 'an Internet-enabled installer' to the product, since everybody else offers them, thereby creating market expectations." Read on for the rest of Alex's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Ultimate CSS Reference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "Cascading Style Sheets are now the dominant method used to format web pages. Even something as simple as modifying a WordPress blog can involve digging around a bit in CSS. A quick search at Amazon on CSS returns over 7 thousand books in the computer category alone. This book claims to be the ultimate, though, and that made me approach it with a bit of skepticism. Sure, it could be a decent reference, but is it truly the ultimate reference? I admit I was curious to see." Read on for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Virtual Honeypots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[rsiles writes "Honeynet solutions were seen just as a research technology a couple of years ago. It is not the case anymore. Due to the inherent constraints and limitations of the current and widely deployed intrusion detection solutions, like IDS/IPS and antivirus, it is time to extended our detection arsenal and capabilities with new tools: virtual honeypots. Do not get confused about the book title, specially about the "virtual" term. The main reason to mention virtual honeypots, although the book covers all kind of honeynet/honeypot technologies, is because during the last few years virtualization has been a key element in the deployment of honeynets. It has offered us a significant cost reduction, more flexibility, reusability and multiple benefits. The main drawback of this solution is the detection of virtual environments by some malware specimens." Read below for the rest of Raul's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Pragmatic CSO</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "The Pragmatic CSO: 12 Steps to become a Pragmatic CSO is worth reading for one sentence on page 12 which states: It's not about technology &mdash; it's about business. The even better news is that the book is full of insightful ideas like that, on how information should work, and how to make it work in today's large enterprise organizations. One of the mistakes many security professionals make is that they think of security for its own sake, when security is simply meant to support the business. CxO's could care less about encryption key lengths and operating systems. While they don't care about the technical details, the people from information security often mistakenly communicate to them in those terms." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>JavaScript: The Good Parts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anita Kuno writes "JavaScript: The Good Parts is about the good parts of JavaScript and how to use them. This book takes a realistic look at the strengths and weaknesses of JavaScript and tells you how to use it to its best advantage. The code samples deal with the language and its merits &mdash; creating web pages is not discussed. How to understand the language, to execute the operations you want, is the focus of the book, not how to make rounded corners. The author, Douglas Crockford says, 'My microwave oven has tons of features, but the only ones I use are cook and the clock. And setting the clock is a struggle. We cope with the complexity of feature-driven design by finding and sticking with the good parts.'" Keep reading for the rest of Anita's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Practical Django Projects</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me, they're dense pages. Filled with pragmatic examples which directly address the kinds of development issues you will encounter when first starting out with Django, this book makes an important addition to the aspiring Django developer's reference shelf. In particular, the book's emphasis on demonstrating best practices while building complete projects does an excellent job of accelerating an understanding of Django's most powerful features &mdash; in a realistic, pragmatic setting &mdash; and which a developer will be able to leverage in very short order." Read below for the rest of Greg's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "Many Web developers wish to create e-commerce sites that also support collaborative editing of content, community forums, and other features that can increase traffic to the sites. But most shopping cart products do not include those capabilities, or, if such third-party add-ons exist, they may be quite limited in functionality. Similarly, most if not all content management systems (CMSs) lack native e-commerce capabilities. Yet that barrier is being overcome, because a handful of e-commerce modules have been created for the most popular CMSs. Perhaps the most promising pairing, at this time, is Drupal and the e-Commerce module &mdash; a combination covered in the book Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce by Michael Peacock." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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