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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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<description><![CDATA[George Orwell’s copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Rodenbeck-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>War and Peace</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Rodenbeck-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kenneth M. Pollack advocates a generation-long commitment to promote reform in the Middle East, on a scale with America’s postwar involvement in Europe.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Weiland-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>English Lessons</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Weiland-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[An American journalist reports on her adventures navigating that exotic island nation: Britain.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Seymour-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Emily&#x2019;s Tryst</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Seymour-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Brenda Wineapple explores the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Wagner-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>My Dirty Laundrette</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Wagner-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hanif Kureishi’s pallid new novel considers middle-age alienation and lust in immigrant London.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Paul-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Art of Momoir</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Paul-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A year in the life of a mom -- the performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Macfarlane-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Return Ticket</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Macfarlane-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Paul Theroux retraces the journey that established his career.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Friedman-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Guiding Forces</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Friedman-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[How to steer people toward healthier, more prosperous lives, with a little help from the powers that be.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Taylor-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Piece This One Together</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Taylor-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A novel from 1969 comes as a box of unbound sheaves, giving the reader a sense of the fragile experiences it contains.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Goldfarb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Friends in Unfriendly Places</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Goldfarb-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A foreign correspondent recounts the history of the Kurds.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Johnson-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Theory That Ate the World</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Johnson-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking said when something falls into a black hole, all its information is lost. To one academic, that sounded like curtains for quantum mechanics.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Berman-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Essay: Mailer&#x2019;s Great American Meltdown</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Berman-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Norman Mailer’s account of the 1968 conventions is a portrait of America, and Mailer, at a bad moment.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Crime-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Crime: French Detective</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Crime-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[New crime novels reviewed: “The Black Tower,” by Louis Bayard; “The Grift,” by Debra Ginsberg; “Fresh Kills,” by Bill Loehfelm; “The Fifth Floor,” by Michael Harvey; and “Good People,” by Marcus Sakey.    
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<item rdf:about="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/garment-district/index.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Necessary Steps: Garment District</title>
<link>http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/garment-district/index.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Climb a French mountain if you like, but there is no escaping certain aesthetic offenses.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24filkins-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>My Long War</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24filkins-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[What it’s been like reporting a conflict that never seems to end.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/books/21newly-sub.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Newly Released</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/books/21newly-sub.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[August is supposed to be the time for breezy beach reads. But a crop of books released this month suggests otherwise.    
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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: Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson; Paul Berman on Norman Mailer and the 1968 party conventions; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is the Internet the enemy of reading, or has it created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount?    
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<title>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>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>Gorse Is Not People</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/09/01/080901fi_fiction_frame</link>
<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>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>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>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>Trouble</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/11/080811po_poem_dickman</link>
<description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe took all her sleeping pills 
        to bed when she was thirty-six, and Marlon Brando&#8217;s daughter 
        hung in the Tahitian bedroom 
        of her mother&#8217;s house, 
        while Stanley Adams shot himself in the head. Sometimes 
        you can look at the clouds or the trees 
        and they look nothing like&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>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>Attabled with the Spinning Years</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/11/080811po_poem_ashbery</link>
<description><![CDATA[Does it mean one thing with work, 
        one with age, and so on? 
        Or are the two opposing doors 
        irrevocably closed? The song that started 
        in the middle, did that close down too? 
        Just because it says here I like tomatoes, 
        is that a reason to call off victory? Yet&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Before the Storm</title>
<link>http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/04/080804po_poem_gluck</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rain tomorrow, but tonight the sky is clear, the stars shine.  
        Still, the rain&#8217;s coming,  
        maybe enough to drown the seeds.  
        There&#8217;s a wind from the sea pushing the clouds;  
        before you see them, you feel the wind.  
        Better look at the fields now,  
        see how they look before they&#8217;re&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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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>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/hard01_.html</link>
<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>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/klar01_.html</link>
<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>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/clar05_.html</link>
<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>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/soar01_.html</link>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Michael Wood on &#x27;The Dark Knight&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/wood01a.html</link>
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<title>When the Floods Came &#xB7; James Meek on England&#x27;s Water</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/meek01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Looking through the photographs I took in Tewkesbury in May, I found two pictures of Chuck Pavey and his floodwater hand. There's Pavey, a 66-year-old retired electrician in a Manchester United hooded top, a wispy white pageboy haircut and dark glasses, standing by a wall on the bank of the River Avon. He's holding his right hand horizontally in the air, about thirty centimetres above the top of the wall, which comes up to his waist. The olive-coloured Avon ripples away, three or four metres further below. In the background is an arched pedestrian bridge, a willow tree with its lower fronds stroking the water, and the massive red brick wall of a derelict flour mill. In the next picture, Pavey is standing next to the freshly whitewashed wall of the White Bear pub, looking more agitated, as if he's afraid I still haven't got the point. It's the same stance, except that this time the hand has risen above his head. It hovers about two metres above the level of the road; it comes three-quarters of the way up the casement of the pub window. I got the point. If you'd tried to stand where Pavey was standing on Monday, 23 July 2007 - the day water levels peaked in Tewkesbury - you'd have been treading water.]]></description>
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<title>Upwards and Onwards &#xB7; Stefan Collini: On Raymond Williams</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/coll01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Raymond Williams died suddenly, aged 66, in January 1988, estimations of him were sharply divided. There were those who regarded him as a deservedly influential literary and cultural critic, a major socialist theorist and an exemplary instance of the union of intellectual seriousness and political purpose. There were others who thought he had for too long enjoyed an inflated reputation, that he was a muddy thinker and verbose writer who had been swept to a form of cultural celebrity by the vogue for working-class sentimentalism in the 1960s and lefter-than-thou self-righteousness in the 1970s.]]></description>
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<title>The Iron Rule &#xB7; Jacqueline Rose: Bernhard Schlink&#x27;s Guilt</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/rose01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of Bernhard Schlink's best-known novel, The Reader, the narrator is pondering his future after taking his state exam in law. He has just seen his former lover, Hanna Schmitz, convicted of war crimes: she had been a concentration camp guard, something he hadn't known when she seduced him as a 15-year-old boy. None of the roles he saw played out in court appeals to him: 'Prosecution seemed to me as grotesque a simplification as defence, and judging was the most grotesque oversimplification of all.' He has lost his belief in post-Enlightenment law as enacting a gradual but steady progress towards 'greater beauty and truth, rationality and humanity, despite terrible setbacks and retreats'. Now the law seems to him more like Odysseus' journey - a process that endlessly circles back to its original starting point only to set off again. In this reading, the Odyssey is a story of motion, at once successful and futile, driven and without aim: 'What else is the history of law?']]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Jenny Diski tries to stay awake</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/disk01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you set aside the incomparable cruelty and stupidity of human beings, surely our most persistent and irrational activity is to sleep. Why would we ever allow ourselves to drop off if sleeping was entirely optional? Sleep is such a dangerous place to go to from consciousness: who in their right mind would give up awareness, deprive themselves of control of their senses, volunteer for paralysis, and risk all the terrible things (and worse) that could happen to a person when they're not looking? As chief scientist in charge of making the world a better place, once I'd found a way of making men give birth, or at least lactate, I'd devote myself to abolishing the need for sleep. Apart from the dangers of letting your guard down, there's the matter of time.]]></description>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Jeremy Harding tries to listen to the World Service</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/hard01_.html</link>
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<title>In the Park &#xB7; Peter Campbell: Frank Gehry&#x27;s Pavilion</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/camp01_.html</link>
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<title>Letters</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/letters.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 16]]></description>
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<title>Table of contents</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/contents.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 16]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: The Outcast by Sadie Jones</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A young man is released from prison and starts his journey home in this extract from Sadie Jones' The Outcast]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an extract from his book, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif describes how, in the Pakistani army, noise not only annoys, it rules]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: Say You&#x27;re One of Them by Uwem Akpan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this extract from Say You're One of Them, a collection of short stories by Ukem Akpan, two parents shield their daughter from a terrible secret]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: Stalin&#x27;s Children by Owen Matthews</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this extract from his book, Stalin's Children, Owen Matthews describes how his family's history has been shaped by Russia, 'a place which made us and freed us and inspired us and very nearly broke us']]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prison life isn't easy for the anti-hero of Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole, despite his ambition - to be a criminal mastermind]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: God&#x27;s Own Country by Ross Raisin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of ramblers fall afoul of a country boy with a sharp aim in this extract from Ross Raisin's God's Own Country]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: Sunday at the Skin Laundrette by Kathryn Simmonds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A selection of poems from Kathryn Simmonds' first collection, Sunday at the Skin Laundrette]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by Cheeta</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Me Cheeta by Cheeta describes Hollywood's golden age through the eyes of one of the most famous surviving stars - Cheeta the Chimp. Here Cheeta tells of his emigration from Africa]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pakistan's Indus river was fundamental to India before partition and retains its importance to this day, says Alice Albinia in this extract from her book, Empires of the Indus]]></description>
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<title>The guardian first book award longlist: The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Allied forces taking possession of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen resort the day after Hitler's suicide enter the home of composer Richard Strauss in this extract from Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise]]></description>
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<title>The difficulties and rewards of being on a literary judging panel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Literary editor Claire Armitstead on the inside story of the Guardian first book award longlist]]></description>
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<title>Ageing chimp&#x27;s own story on list for Guardian first book award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chimp's 'autobiography' to compete with fiction and non-fiction for £10,000 prize]]></description>
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<title>This week&#x27;s top 10 bestsellers in hardback fiction</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week's top 10 bestsellers in hardback fiction]]></description>
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<title>The Digested Classic: Of Mice and Men</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Crace cuts Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, down to size]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Book group of lifestyle&#x27; wins Orange/Penguin prize</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh club's imaginative programme secures Readers' Group award]]></description>
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<title>Supersleuth Mixes Crime, Comedy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A comic thriller composed with literary refinement and an ear for wordplay, Adam Davies' Mine All Mine bounces through a world of objets d'art and tranquilizer darts.]]></description>
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<title>Tracing The Roots Of &#x27;Irish Madness&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For five generations, Patrick Tracey's family has been plagued by what he calls "a perfect storm of schizophrenia."  In his new book, Stalking Irish Madness, he traces his family lineage &mdash; and the roots of the disease &mdash; all the way back to Ireland.]]></description>
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<title>Sifting Through Summer, Page By Page</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The last summer holiday, Labor Day, is fast approaching and Karen Grigsby Bates is planning to use the weekend to kick back and catch up on some summer reading.]]></description>
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<title>Writer Ethan Canin Tackles The American Dream</title>
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<description><![CDATA[America America is an ambitious, old-fashioned novel about politics, power and class in a small, upstate New York town. The Nixon-era tale is Canin's sixth book.]]></description>
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<title>How Not To Sell A Mercedes In Africa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Journalist Jeroen van Bergeijk wanted an adventure, so he bought  a 1988 clunker in his native Amsterdam and drove it across the Sahara with the intention of selling it. Within a week of arriving in Africa, he had dozens of offers. By then, however, he was attached to his vehicle and the possibilities it held.]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Beijing: China&#x27;s Past, Present And Future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China's scale is so vast, its variety so great and its rising power so apparent, it acts as an enormous magnet fixing our attention. One result is a torrent of books &mdash; but how on earth to choose?]]></description>
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<title>Billie Jean King Remembers &#x27;Battle Of The Sexes&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the 35th anniversary of Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs "Battle of the Sexes" match approaches, co-host Renee Montagne talks to tennis legend Billie Jean King about that famous match. King highlights the lessons that helped her win that match in a new book, Pressure is a Privilege.]]></description>
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<title>Secrets, Lies And Murder In &#x27;The Likeness&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To solve the murder of her own doppelganger, Detective Cassie Maddox assumes the dead woman's identity and enters into the complex, collective psychology of a charismatic group. Barrie Hardymon has a review.]]></description>
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<title>Library Of America Honors Overshadowed Writer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During 40 years as fiction editor of the New Yorker magazine, William Maxwell worked with luminaries like Vladimir Nabokov and John Cheever. His own writings were often overshadowed by his job &mdash; but now they've been reissued by the Library of America to mark the centennial of his birth. NPR's Jacki Lyden finds out more about the man and his words.]]></description>
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<title>Coming Up: Discussing &#x27;Glazed America&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been caught in a sticky situation with a doughnut? Weekend Edition invites listeners to ask questions and share their stories about doughnuts. Paul Mullins, author of the book Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut, will be answering these questions next week, live, on the Weekend Edition Sunday blog. ]]></description>
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<title>Immigration Study: &#x27;Second Generation&#x27; Has Edge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In much of the debate over immigration, there is an underlying question of whether immigrants today are assimilating as easily as past generations. In New York City, the answer is an unqualified "yes," according to a 10-year study involving more than 3,000 young men and women.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Three Cups of Tea&#x27; With Pakistan&#x27;s Musharraf</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Greg Mortenson, executive director of the Central Asia Institute, met with Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf during a recent trip to the region. Musharraf had read a book Mortenson co-wrote titled Three Cups of Tea, about his experiences building more than 60 schools in remote parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Clarice&#x27; Author Spills The Beans About Her Success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Author Lauren Child talks about her latest book in the Clarice Bean series, Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now, and about her successful "Charlie and Lola" books and their television spinoff.]]></description>
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<title>In Praise Of Drive-Ins And Doris Day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Movie Love In The Fifties offers a view of America as it was 50 years ago, a postwar nation whose struggle to understand race and sex and fashion was reflected in films that weren't all pitched to the appetites of teenage boys.]]></description>
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<title>A Nation Divided In &#x27;Nixonland&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein's book, Nixonland, combines an evocative trip through the 1960s and early 1970s with an assessment of the impact of Richard Nixon's political career. Perstein argues that many of the deep political divisions in modern American politics were defined by that period, and exploited effectively by Nixon.]]></description>
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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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<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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<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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<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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<description><![CDATA[cgjherr writes "There are management insights to be learned from Steve Jobs? You're nuts. The only things you can learn from Jobs is how to drive people nuts. Or at least, that's what I thought up until I read 'Inside Steve's Brain.' Turns out, there are things to learn from Steve's obsessive perfectionism. Certainly I wouldn't copy every aspect of Jobs' management style. Doing that will likely get you fired, or at least reprimanded, in most companies. But there is some stuff to be learned from how Jobs designs products and analyses the market, and that's the view that Leander Kahney gives us access to." Keep reading for the rest of Jack's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<description><![CDATA[lamaditx writes "There is a good chance that you have heard about "Web 2.0" &mdash; the buzz-word coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2005. You will find several reviews of books about this topic on Slashdot. These cover mainly technical aspects of implementation whereas this book introduces the strategical thinking behind the whole Web 2.0 movement... Web 2.0 is so much more than the technology.' The table of contents is available from O'Reilly, together with a chapter preview. The book does not come with any extras but includes the usual free 45 days access to the book on Safari. When reading a book I usually flip through it quickly to get an impression for it, in this case there are three things which I noted right away." Keep reading for the rest of Adrian's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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