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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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        &#x27;Marco Polo&#x27; by Laurence Bergreen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An account of the adventures of the celebrated 13th century world traveler.
                        
                    
                    
                        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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<description><![CDATA[There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[for here or to go--  
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        only a few years  
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<description><![CDATA[He is watching the music with his eyes closed.   
        Hearing the piano like a man moving  
        through the woods thinking by feeling.   
        The orchestra up in the trees, the heart below,   
        step by step. The music hurrying sometimes,   
        but always returning to quiet, like the man   
        remembering and hoping. It&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mares go down for their evening feed  
                                                                                    into the meadow grass.  
        Two pine trees sway the invisible wind--  
                                                                                    some sway, some don&#8217;t sway.  
        The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight  
        For just a minute or so.  
        The mares have their heads on the ground&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Return of the Prodigal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Now comes summer, water clear, clouds heavy with weeping.  
        Tall grasses are silver-veined.  
        Little puddles of sunlight collect  
                                                                  in low places deep in the woods.  
           
        Lupine and paintbrush stoic in ditch weed,  
                                                           larch rust a smear on the mountainside.  
        No light on ridge line.  
        Zodiac pinwheels across the heavens&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Propofol</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Moly, mandragora, milk of oblivion:  
                    I said to Doctor Day, &#8220;You bring on night.&#8221;  
        &#8220;But then,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I bring day back again,&#8221;  
                     and smiled; except his smile was thin and slight.  
           
        I said to him, &#8220;Sleep and Death were brothers,  
                    you know. They carry off great Troy&#8217;s Sarpedon  
        in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Deep-Holes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sally packed devilled eggs--something she usually hated to take on a picnic, because they were so messy. Ham sandwiches, crab salad, lemon tarts--also a packing problem. Kool-Aid for the boys, a half bottle of Mumm&#8217;s for herself and Alex. She would have just a sip, because she&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Headstrong Historian</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many years after her husband had died, Nwamgba still closed her eyes from time to time to relive his nightly visits to her hut, and the mornings after, when she would walk to the stream humming a song, thinking of the smoky scent of him and the firmness of his&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Slow Drag Blues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t believe in sex  
            
        after marriage.  
               My wife does, just  
            
        not with me.  
               I plead the Fifth  
            
        of whiskey. I am close  
            
        to perfecting a theory   
               of forgettability.  
            
        Grief a dog  
               that keeps dogging me--  
            
        Good Grief,  
               I say. It&#8217;s me  
            
        he&#8217;s teaching to beg--  
            
        my next anniversary  
               is&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>A Frame</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fussily ornate and merely decorative,  
        Wreaths of fruited branchlets and fluttering ribbons  
                  Echoing the scrolled plasterwork  
                  On moldings around the mirrored  
                            Parlors where a patron  
                            Could straighten his collar,  
                  Reliefs embellished with glass beads  
                  To mimic his beloved&#8217;s brooch,  
        Rosettes cast in pairs and affixed with foil and wax,  
        Then&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Gazillions &#xB7; Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Karabas was gunned down in 1997. He and his mob had taken over the port city of Odessa as law and order disintegrated in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. One might call his reign a comprehensive protection racket. But, looked at in another way, Karabas became the only reliable source of authority and social discipline. He arbitrated the city's commercial disputes (10 per cent of net profits was his price); he kept the drug peddlers to one area of Odessa, and prevented the horrific people-smuggling in the harbour district from infecting the rest of the town. Using a bare minimum of thuggery, he kept the peace. Karabas seldom carried a gun. Everyone looked up to him, and levels of violence stayed lower in Odessa than in other Russian and Ukrainian cities. His murderers were probably Chechens hired to break Odessa's grip on the local oil industry, a grip coveted by Ukraine's then president, Leonid Kuchma, who 'during his ten years in power . . . presided over the total criminalisation of the Ukrainian government and civil service'.]]></description>
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<title>An Element of Unfairness &#xB7; Ross McKibbin on the Great Education Disaster</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The modern history of English secondary education begins with the 1944 Education Act, usually known as the Butler Act. It was, for better and worse, the most important piece of education legislation of the 20th century, but was expected to reform an educational system already deeply divisive and inequitable. In some ways it promoted the hopes of wartime democracy; in others it betrayed them. It raised the school-leaving age to 15 and made secondary education universal and free. It equalised the payment of teachers in all state secondary schools and devised procedures by which nearly all the religious elementary schools were incorporated into the state system. It didn't specify what kind of secondary education local authorities should establish, and as a result they fell back on what already existed and what conventional opinion thought appropriate: grammar schools for the academically inclined, junior technical schools for those with superior technical aptitudes and secondary moderns for those of a 'practical' turn of mind.]]></description>
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<title>Kick over the Scenery &#xB7; Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When an art form or genre once dismissed as kids' stuff starts to get taken seriously by gatekeepers - by journals, for example, such as the one you are reading now - respect doesn't come smoothly, or all at once. Often one artist gets lifted above the rest, his principal works exalted for qualities that other works of the same kind seem not to possess. Later on, the quondam genius looks, if no less talented, less solitary: first among equals, or maybe just first past the post. That is what happened to rock music in the late 1960s, when sophisticated critics decided, as Richard Poirier put it, to start 'learning from the Beatles'. It is what happened to comics, too, in the early 1990s, when the Pulitzer Prize committee invented an award for Art Spiegelman's Maus. And it has happened to science fiction, where the anointed author is Philip K. Dick.]]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Jenny Diski: On Not Liking South Africa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 'you can't understand until you've lived there' argument had kept me from visiting South Africa quite effectively. If being there would make me understanding of apartheid, I preferred to stay away. But now it had to be a very different place, 18 years after Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, 14 years on from the day when South Africa had its first democratic election. I was going to be there anyway - Cape Town was the end point of another journey - and I thought I'd spend a couple of weeks and look around; be a regular tourist in a place where minds had been changed.]]></description>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Michael Wood on David Lean</title>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Daniel Soar: David Davis v. Miss Great Britain</title>
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<title>Plato Made It Up &#xB7; James Davidson: Atlantis at Last!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Of all the many disappointments of 1977, the ITV series Man from Atlantis has to be one of the greatest. The title suggested a programme that would have something to do with the lost underwater kingdom described in great detail by Plato in the Timaeus and Critias. But the reality was Patrick Duffy with webbed hands and fluorescent green contact lenses, painfully painted on. Sole survivor of Atlantis, he used his special powers, notably the ability to survive high atmospheric pressure, to foil the evil plans of an evil-looking villain with an evil-looking beard and an evil-sounding German name: Schubert.]]></description>
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<title>The Olympics Scam &#xB7; Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the mornings, there is a clinging, overripe smell that some people say drifts in from the countryside, a folk memory of what these clipped green acres used, so recently, to be. Mulch of market gardens. Animal droppings in hot mounds. The distant rumble of construction convoys. The heron dance of elegant cloud-scraping cranes. Flocks of cyclists clustering together for safety, dipping and swerving like swallows. Hard hats and yellow tabards monkeying over the scaffolding of shrouded towers, the steel ribs of emerging stadia. Early risers, in the privilege of first-use recreation, a smudge of sun burning off the fug of pollution that hangs over a pre-Olympic city, fall into quiet conversation. Ice-cream kiss of almond blossom, bridal abundance of cherry: pink and white. Yellow pom-poms of japonica, horticultural cheerleaders. In a corner, under a high wall that gives away the previous identity of this public park as a decommissioned energy-generating plant, retired workers sway, stiffly and slowly, in t'ai chi ballets.]]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Thomas Jones: The Last Days of eBay</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Around the turn of the millennium, one of the friends of friends' bands whose gigs I used occasionally to go to in the basements and back rooms of North London pubs was an indie guitar group called Keane. One Friday night in the early summer of 2001 at the Monarch on Chalk Farm Road, my girlfriend gave their manager (an ex-boyfriend of hers) a couple of quid for a homemade CD. 'That'll be worth a lot of money one day,' he said. I assumed he was joking; I privately thought it was slightly affected of the band even to have a manager - couldn't they book their own gigs at the Bull and Gate? Shows how much I know. Three years later, having traded in their guitarist for an electric piano, they released their first album. It went on to be the UK's second biggest-selling record of 2004.]]></description>
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<title>At the Door &#xB7; Peter Campbell: Open Sesame!</title>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; John Lanchester: Who&#x27;s Afraid of the Library of America?</title>
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<title>Up from the Cellar &#xB7; Nicholas Spice: The Interment of Elisabeth Fritzl</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n11/spic01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[On 1 May, only five days after news broke that a 73-year-old man, Josef Fritzl, had immured one of his seven children, his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth, in a specially fortified cellar under his house in the small town of Amstetten in Lower Austria, and kept her there for 24 years, abusing her persistently and fathering seven more children on her, Elfriede Jelinek, Austria's Nobel Prize winning novelist, posted a short essay on her website under the title 'Im Verlassenen'. It begins: 'Austria is a small world in which the big world holds its rehearsal. The performance takes place in the very much smaller cellar dungeon in Amstetten - daily, nightly. No performance is ever missed . . . Performances are all there can ever be.']]></description>
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<title>Letters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 13]]></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 13]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Jeffries talks to US writer Andrew Sean Greer about his latest novel, The Story of a Marriage</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2289668,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[Praised for his 'perfumed, dandified style', Andrew Sean Greer is one of America's finest young writers. He tells Stuart Jeffries about the family secret that inspired his latest novel, The Story of a Marriage]]></description>
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<title>John Crace&#x27;s digested read: Crime by Irvine Welsh</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/digestedread/story/0,,2289678,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[The digested read:  He starts mumbling - Weedgie nonce, Weedgie nonce]]></description>
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<title>Henrietta Rose-Innes wins &#xA3;10,000 Caine prize</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2289711,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[July 8: The South African writer won the award for the best short story in English by an African writer with Poison, a haunting vignette of the 'new' South Africa]]></description>
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<title>Obituary: William Buchan</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2289664,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[July 8: Writer faced with a mixed inheritance as John Buchan's son ]]></description>
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<title>Thorpe and Gardam head National Short Story prize shortlist</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2289366,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[July 4: Adam Thorpe and Jane Gardam head the shortlist for the National Short Story prize, the world's richest single story award, announced earlier today]]></description>
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<title>The Wasp Factory: primitivism</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookclub/story/0,,2289327,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[John Mullan on Iain Banks's debunking of the 'noble savage' in The Wasp Factory]]></description>
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<title>Kate Clanchy&#x27;s workshop</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetryworkshop/story/0,,2288235,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you've lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen]]></description>
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<title>Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown It turns out Sweden isn't brimming with neo-Nazis, paedophiles and jihadis]]></description>
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<title>2b or not 2b: David Crystal on why texting is good for language</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling]]></description>
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<title>Lives and letters: Geoffrey Moorhouse on New Zealand writer Janet Frame</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Geoffrey Moorhouse and his wife invited New Zealand writer Janet Frame to stay, they changed the course of her life. Forty-five years on, her fictional account of that weekend is finally published]]></description>
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<title>Review: Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Review: Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova Misha Glenny is impressed by a poignant memoir of growing up in communist east Europe]]></description>
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<title>Review: War Plc by Stephen Armstrong</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2289425,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: War Plc by Stephen Armstrong  The rise of the professional mercenary in the aftermath of the intervention in Iraq raises worrying questions about legitimacy and accountability]]></description>
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<title>Review: Trauma by Patrick McGrath</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,2289260,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Trauma by Patrick McGrath  Hilary Mantel enters the mind of a psychiatrist in Patrick McGrath's latest neurogothic tale]]></description>
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<title>Review: Morality Tale by Sylvia Brownrigg</title>
<link>http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2289298,00.html?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=10</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Morality Tale by Sylvia Brownrigg  Cast as confidante to a serial betrayer, Carrie O'Grady finds herself in a quandary]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Sixties Unplugged by Gerard DeGroot | Crisis? What Crisis? by Alwyn W Turner</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Review: The Sixties Unplugged by | Crisis? What Crisis?  Francis Beckett rues the lost opportunities of the 60s and 70s]]></description>
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<title>Roxy Music History &#x27;Re-Makes&#x27; The Rock Bio Form</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Bracewell's history of Roxy Music doesn't go for conventional thinking &mdash; not about the band, and certainly not about how to write a rock biography. Instead, his new book combines art history, music theory and a smashing sense of fashion.]]></description>
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<title>What Wildlife Lurks In Central Park By Night?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bats and owls and moths, oh my! A new book by journalist Marie Winn explores New York's Central Park when the sun goes down. She discovers the animals that play in the shadows and the mysteries that make the park come alive in the twilight.]]></description>
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<title>Author Learns To Leave Well Enough Alone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Traig knows a thing or two about hypochondria. The good news is she doesn't actually have heart disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis or any other condition she's diagnosed herself with.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;The Big Sort&#x27;: Red and Blue Divide Neighbors, Too</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Look around your neighborhood. Chances are the people you live near are an awful lot like you &mdash; the same politics, same values, same way of life. The consequences of all this, argues author Bill Bishop, are dire.]]></description>
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<title>Awful Flight Inspires Novel: &#x27;Dear American Airlines&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Miles wrote Dear American Airlines after surviving a bad trip from Memphis to New York. He ended up sleeping under a table in Peoria, Ill. The main character of the novel gets stuck trying to travel across country for a wedding.]]></description>
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<title>Taking Kindle To The Pool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Amazon's electronic reader, Kindle, is starting to replace paperbacks, but people question how well the device holds up to surf and sand. Can summer reading be done on the device? Lynn Neary finds out.]]></description>
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<title>Martin Atkins: Teaching Bands To Tour Smart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Drummer Martin Atkins spent the 1980s and 90s touring the world with bands that have both packed stadiums and struggled to fill the tiniest of clubs. His new book and DVD, Tour: Smart, is a guide to modern-day touring for the rock musician.]]></description>
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<title>Lowry Spins Mischievous Tale Of &#x27;The Willoughbys&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Willoughbys is a wickedly wonderful story by award-winning writer Lois Lowry. The book tells the tale of a mother and father who want to be rid of their children, but whose kids also want to be rid of their parents.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Funny Prize&#x27; Honors Roald Dahl, Humorous Books</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Much-loved children's author Roald Dahl was snubbed by critics in his day. Now, the United Kingdom's Booktrust has created a prize in his honor that awards children's authors who write funny books.]]></description>
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<title>Documenting The Paradox Of Oil, Poverty In Nigeria</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a new book, Curse of the Black Gold, photojournalist Ed Kashi examines the relationship between oil, the environment and the community in Nigeria in the 50 years since oil was discovered there.]]></description>
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<title>Head First C#</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "For computer programmers who do not have a solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP), learning the C# programming language can be rather challenging, even if they have experience with C or C++, which at least would give them a head start over non-C programmers. Any developer in this situation may well want to begin the learning process with a book that aims to teach both OOP and C# in as gentle a manner as possible, with plenty of patient explanations and illustrative diagrams &mdash; such as those found in the book Head First C# by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Dungeons and Desktops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games chronicles the rise and fall of the Computer RPG industry, from Akalabeth to Zelda and everything in between. While the bulk of the book is devoted to the genre's 'Golden Age' in the late '80s and early '90s, author Matt Barton explores the entire history of CRPGs, from their origins in the mid '70s to the very recent past. While not entirely comprehensive, the book covers not only the major players and award-winners, but also dozens of obscure 'also-ran' as well as notable games in related genres." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Google Apps Hacks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "It seems that it wasn't long ago that Google was just a search company. The number of on-line products that fly under the Google moniker, today, is impressive. Google has moved well beyond its office-suite-like applications and excelled with everything from mapping to blogging to 3-D drawing. Google Apps Hacks is a new book from O'Reilly, published in conjunction with their Make magazine. This volume presents the reader with 141 hacks in an attempt to get the most out of a wide array of Google's on-line applications. The result is a quick ride that is rather fun &mdash; and while a bit shallow at times, it provides a great overview of just how much is available out there." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Terminal Chaos</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "While Terminal Chaos should be shelved in the current events or business section of a bookstore, it could also be placed in the modern crime section. After reading it, one gets the impression that the state of air traffic today could only come due to criminal neglect or mischief. If one looks at pictures of airline flights from the 1960s, you will see well-dressed passengers enjoying their flight. In 2008, barely a day goes by without an incident of air rage, from irate passengers in the terminal, to those in the air causing flights to be diverted. Today's airline traveler considers it a near miracle if his flight arrives on time with his baggage." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Principles of Project Management</title>
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<description><![CDATA[zedguy writes "Ask someone what 'project management' is and you're liable to get a few blank stares &mdash; it's one of those fields people have heard of, but probably have problems pinning down a definition. So that is what the first section of the book does: provides a definition that can be summed up as applying tools and skills to complete a project. That then leads to what exactly is a "project": a set of tasks with a time-frame and goal of somehow adding value. So yes, the introduction does involve a fair bit of terminology that isn't going to be familiar to many readers coming from a coder's background, but there's a helpful appendix that lays out many of the terms. Just as important, the introduction explains what project management is not, some of the misconceptions and why it's good to know." Keep reading for the rest of Zoltan's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security</title>
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<description><![CDATA[jsuda writes "At least a half-dozen times in the book 'Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security' the authors state that there is a misconception that the Macintosh computer is immune from security problems. That allegation may explain why there are very few books published (and nearly none in recent years) about security for the Mac. This book is meant to change all that. The authors acknowledge that the Mac OS X software has had little of the security problem experience of Windows (and other operating systems, to a lesser extent) but they spend 455 pages detailing exactly where and how the Macintosh platform is (or may be) vulnerable." Read below for the rest of Jsuda's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing is the followup to Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, and the second book written by members of the Game Writers' Special Interest Group of the 14,000 member strong IGDA. The book covers much of the same terrain as its predecessor, but offers a tighter focus on some specific points, covering more technical (as in technique) details rather than broader narrative theory; if the first book was a Google Map, this one would be the Street View." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout is an interesting new project, a graphic novel being published by O'Reilly. What makes it interesting is not just that this is a rather new direction for O'Reilly but that this is, to my knowledge, a rather unique publication in that it seeks to educate teenage youth about an array of issues ranging from privacy, free software, security and the impact of politics on personal freedom as it relates to the use of technology. Making topics like that exciting, and understandable to a young person may sound like a tall order, and I think it is." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "Security policies are like fiber, that is, the kind you eat. Everyone agrees that fiber is good for you, but no one really wants to eat it. So too with information security policies. They are sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with them. And in many firms, they are not even trained in what they have to do. But failure to have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an organization." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Joomla! A User&#x27;s Guide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the content management systems (CMSs) from which a Web developer can choose for creating a new Web site, Joomla is generally considered to be one of the top choices -- partly because an experienced developer can create an attractive site faster with Joomla than with the majority of other CMSs. However, Joomla's online documentation leaves much to be desired, as is true for most if not all CMSs. Intermediate and especially new developers need a clear and comprehensive resource that can explain the terminology, customization, administrative panel, and other aspects of Joomla. A promising candidate is a book written by Barrie M. North, titled Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Running Xen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Martinjak writes "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization was published by Prentice Hall, and authored by Jeanna N. Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wenjin Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, and Brendan Johnson. The book, which will be referred to as simply Running Xen, was a great resource on Xen and virtualization from the administration side. A wide range of topics was covered from installing Xen all the way up to managing virtual resources, including migrating guest environments. Overall, the explanations were concise and understandable; while the information was presented in a straightforward manner. Running Xen was definitely a useful resource for administering systems with Xen." Keep reading for the rest of David's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Visual Communication in Digital Design</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "I remember the first time I saw a program I had written after the interface had been revamped by a designer. I had been pretty happy with what I had made. It worked very well and met the client's requirements. It was extremely functional and I thought it didn't look bad either. But when I saw the new interface, not functionally different, just so much better looking, I was really blown away. My application had gone from useful to cool. (That might be a slight exaggeration, it was still just a database app but it sure looked cool to me.) Since then I've learned to primarily leave the user interface work to the experts in that arena, and I stick to the getting the functionality in place. But sometimes I don't have the luxury of a design team at my disposal. Or when I do, I still need to be able to talk to them and discuss what is going on. I found Dr. Ji Young Park's new book "Visual Communication in Design" to be a friendly and accessible introductory primer in visual design." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Definitive ANTLR Reference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joe Kauzlarich writes "Finally, someone has done us all the great service of publishing a book about the second most well-known compiler compiler, Terence Parr's Antlr, and it was written, moreover, by Parr himself and published as part of the somewhat-usually-reliable Pragmatic Bookshelf series. Take note, while it requires a JVM to run, Antlr is not just for Java developers; it generates compilers in Python, Ruby, C, C++, C# and Objective-C. Also note that this book is more than just an elaborated man-page; it is also an excellent introduction to the concepts of compiler and parser design." Keep reading for the rest of Joe's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Practical Rails Projects</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sean Cribbs writes "There are many beginning and advanced Ruby on Rails books available, from the authoritative Agile Web Development with Rails to the cookbook-style Rails Recipes. However, healthy guidance for intermediate-level developers is lacking at best. Ironically, this is the most crucial stage in the process of becoming proficient with Rails because one must begin to learn why, not just how. Eldon Alameda's Practical Rails Projects effectively fills that gap. I know Alameda from our local Ruby User Group and spoke with him frequently while he wrote this book. His expertise with Rails definitely shines through in the hefty 621-page volume." Keep reading for the rest of Sean's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Linux Networking Cookbook</title>
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<description><![CDATA[dinotrac writes "Somebody special is coming over for dinner. You're not a chef, but you can cook well enough to get by, so you grab your best cookbook and get to work. That's the idea behind O'Reilly's Linux Networking Cookbook, by Carla Schroder. Carla has gathered a group of networking recipes that a reasonably Linux-savvy reader can use to address network needs like a seasoned sysadmin. If you want to find out how to hook your Linux workstation to a LAN, get another book. If you are reasonably comfortable with Linux, need to set up an LDAP server, configure single sign-on with Samba for a mixed Linux/Windows LAN, set up a VPN, or troubleshoot network problems without some uppity online geek telling you to RTFM, this book may be what you're looking for." Read below for the rest of Dean's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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