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<title>Media Talk: &#x2018;Gossip Girl&#x2019; DVD Extra Tries to Steer Buyers to the Books</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/business/media/18gossip.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The DVD set “Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season” includes a free electronic version of the original novel on which the show is based. But — OMG! — it’s an audio book.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/weekinreview/17bader.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Ideas &#x26; Trends: Kafka Himself Gets a Metamorphosis</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/weekinreview/17bader.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A “porn” stash may show little but how each age shapes its idols.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Kirn-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>A Not So Common Reader</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Kirn-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[This old-fashioned primer on literature from the esteemed critic James Wood concentrates on the art of the novel.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Keller-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Entering the Scrum</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Keller-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[How Nelson Mandela used rugby to set South Africa on the path to reconciliation.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Lind-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>What&#x2019;s the Matter With Washington?</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Lind-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Republicans weren’t just greedy -- they were out to destroy the government, Thomas Frank argues.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/DErasmo-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Girls of Summer</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/DErasmo-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Linn Ullmann’s novel concerns the mingled fates of a powerful father and his three daughters.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Star-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Judgment Call</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Star-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The sociologist Charles Tilly examines how we assign responsibility.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Wolk-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>From Spider-Man to Ayn Rand</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Wolk-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A scholar recounts the artist Steve Ditko’s pioneering and eccentric career in comics.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>We&#x2019;ll Always Have Berlin</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anna Winger’s American heroine falls in love with Berlin and one of its inhabitants.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Morrice-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Playing Hurt</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Morrice-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Along with the increased opportunity for girls in sports, Michael Sokolove sees an alarming trend in injuries.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Gee-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Beauty and the Beast</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Gee-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The hero, horribly burned in a car crash, is nursed back to health by a woman who claims they were lovers in another life.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Fugard-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Home Movies</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Fugard-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In Bret Lott’s novel, a man’s Hollywood dreams affect three generations.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Bolick-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Chick-Lit Pioneer</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Bolick-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The genesis of a classic and the early struggles of its author, Lucy Maud Montgomery.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Jentz-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Cold-Blooded</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Jentz-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The market for rare and exotic animals attracts some slippery characters.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Montefiore-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Follow the Poison</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Montefiore-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The mysterious case of the Russian, the conspiracy and the polonium in the tea.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Donadio-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Essay: He Blurbed, She Blurbed</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Donadio-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Schwartz-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Children&#x27;s Books: Mao&#x2019;s Little Helper</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Schwartz-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Small tragedies are the prelude to great ones in this haunting memoir of the Cultural Revolution.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/PosesorskiBox-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Children&#x27;s Books: A Reed Grows in Beijing</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/PosesorskiBox-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The flutist and composer Guo Yue’s first book for children is about a musical child in Mao’s China.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Freitas-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Children&#x27;s Books: How to Be Bad</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Freitas-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[E. Lockhart’s latest novel has all the ingredients of a typical boarding school tale — but it’s also an homage to girl-power.    
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<title>Children&#x2019;s Books: Bookshelf</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Bookshelf-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[More children’s books reviewed.    
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<title>Archive: Book Review Podcast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This week: Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, on Nelson Mandela, race and rugby in South Africa; Stacey D’Erasmo on Linn Ullmann; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.    
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<title>The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: Mrs. Corbett&#x2019;s Request</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17serial-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Conclusion: Anna Hewes gave George a trove of letters written on behalf of Wilson Corbett that made it clear that George was Corbett’s son.    
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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>Isola Bella</title>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>Clara</title>
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<description><![CDATA[She had big breasts, slim legs, and blue eyes. That&#8217;s how I like to remember her. I don&#8217;t know why I fell madly in love with her, but I did, and at the start, I mean for the first days, the first hours, it all went fine; then Clara returned&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Before the Storm</title>
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<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>Ancient Anecdotage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a former  
        and future  
        child, his ancient  
        anecdotage  
        was still in  
        pretty good  
        shape. But  
        Poor Richard,  
        his almanac of  
        day to day  
        had gone away,  
        and had become  
        instead a steady  
        palaver of what  
        where when and 
        why as he tried  
        with disturbing  
        perseveration 
        and failure to  
        tell&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Summer Evening by the Window with Psalms</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Close scrutiny of the past. 
        How my soul yearns within me like those souls 
        in the nineteenth century before the great wars, 
        like curtains that want to pull free 
        of the open window and fly. 
          
        We console ourselves with short breaths, 
        as, after running, we always recover. 
        We want to&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Just Two Clicks &#xB7; Jonathan Raban: The Virtual Life of Neil Entwistle</title>
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<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>When the Floods Came &#xB7; James Meek on England&#x27;s Water</title>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<title>In the Park &#xB7; Peter Campbell: Frank Gehry&#x27;s Pavilion</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 16]]></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 16]]></description>
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<title>Test your knowledge of Chinese literature</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You’ve had almost a fortnight to brush up your on Chinese literature in honour of the Olympics. Time to see if you’re up to speed]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Offensive&#x27; word to be removed from Jacqueline Wilson book</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/21/jacqueline.wilson?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[After three complaints from parents, Random House is to amend My Sister Jodie]]></description>
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<title>John Sutherland: Let&#x27;s leave Austen alone, please</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/21/janeausten.television?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[John Sutherland: What exactly were ITV executives thinking when they commissioned Lost in Austen?]]></description>
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<title>Authors admit falsehoods in Rushdie memoir</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/21/salmanrushdie?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Book alleging Salman Rushdie alienated guards during fatwa to be revised]]></description>
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<title>Michael Rosen: Sats are failing our children. Why is the government still promoting them?</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/21/earlyyearseducation.sats?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Rosen: The government is still wedded to Sats. Why, when the tests emphasise rote learning and cramp imaginations?]]></description>
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<title>Sadie Jones talks to Alison Flood</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sadie Jones thought she was a screenwriter until, as Alison Flood discovers, a film script spilled into prose]]></description>
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<title>Japan: Marxist book turns bestseller 79 years on</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/21/japan?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tale of rebellion among a fishing boat crew has become an unlikely summer hit in Japan]]></description>
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<title>Obituary: Leopold Abse</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/21/labour.houseofcommons?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Obituary: Backbench social reformer and writer with a Freudian view of the world]]></description>
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<title>Jessica Reed: My French translations of Enid Blyton neglected some vital information</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/children.france?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jessica Reed: As a child, I loved Enid Blyton's books. But it's only now I realise that the French translations neglected some vital information…]]></description>
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<title>Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize awarded</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban]]></description>
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<title>Fred D&#x27;Aguiar&#x27;s poetry workshop</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/20/poetry?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[This month, your task is to carry on with Coleridge's unfinished masterpiece Kubla Khan]]></description>
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<title>Mahmoud Darwish&#x27;s translator wins prize</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/20/1?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[The translator of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden has won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for literary translation from Arabic.]]></description>
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<title>Lucy Mangan celebrates the literary talents of Enid Blyton</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/20/costabookaward?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucy Mangan says hurrah for the 'nanny-narrator' who introduced her and countless others to the joys of reading]]></description>
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<title>Stuart Jeffries: Novels that caught the spirit of previous eras</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/20/conservatives.labour?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stuart Jeffries picks the books that defined an era]]></description>
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<title>Linda Grant speaks to Boris Johnson&#x27;s sister about the lives of the new Tories</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/20/conservatives.politicalbooks?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Linda Grant: You will not find anywhere else a more accurate and detailed study of the coming Cameronian right]]></description>
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<title>Podesta: Progressive Politics Will Cure U.S. Ills</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In his new book, the head of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff for President Clinton says the U.S. needs to create community activists, reform immigration law and form a stronger government; that will lead to a more fair society, he says.]]></description>
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<title>Who Is John McCain?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[McCain is a decorated war veteran who survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He's been a United States senator for 22 years. We know the facts of the Republican presidential candidate's life, but who is John McCain? We look beyond the policy and punditry to the experiences that shaped the man.]]></description>
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<title>Former Athlete Battling HIV, Sharing Her Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most black women living with HIV or AIDS got infected through high-risk sex with men. Marvelyn Brown says she's HIV-positive because she did not consider the risks. She's a former athlete, who now travels the country telling her story and championing personal responsibility.]]></description>
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<title>Europe On The Cheap? Voila: A Grand Literary Tour</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A dollar won't buy you much in Europe these days. But three books set on the continent offer a full immersion in "la dolce vita" &mdash; at minimal cost.]]></description>
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<title>Lincoln&#x27;s Strategy To Turn Rivals Into Allies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After he won the presidency, Abraham Lincoln brought three of his rivals for the Republican nomination into his cabinet. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals, recounts the life and work of our 16th president &mdash; and the principal characters of his administration.]]></description>
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<title>The &#x27;Religionization&#x27; Of The Oval Office</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scholar Randall Balmer explores the interplay between religion and American politics in his book, God in the White House. Balmer is a professor of religious history at Barnard College, and the editor-at-large for Christianity Today. ]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Little Book&#x27; Tells A Wonderfully Big Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new novel three decades in the making features time travel, screwball hidden identity plots and lively background music. Reviewer Maureen Corrigan calls The Little Book by Selden Edwards an "an ideal late-summer reading getaway."]]></description>
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<title>American Discontent Or &#x27;Why We Hate Us&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In his new book Why We Hate Us, Dick Meyer argues that for the most part Americans are dissatisfied with their own society.  But he offers a solution: "a return to some traditions that predate the '60s."]]></description>
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<title>An Age Of American Self-Loathing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NPR's Dick Meyer contends that, despite living in a time of relative peace and prosperity, Americans are "morally and existentially tired." In his new book, Why We Hate Us, Meyer diagnoses the problem.]]></description>
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<title>Michael Beschloss: Tales Of The LBJ Tapes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President's daily conversations shed light on the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, the progress of the civil rights bill and the escalation of the Vietnam War.]]></description>
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<title>Walter Dean Myers, A &#x27;Bad Boy&#x27; Makes Good</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Growing up, the only authors Walter Dean Myers read in school were white and British. But when he discovered Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, he realized that he, too, could be a writer. Now, Myers works to encourage the next generation.]]></description>
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<title>Going To The Dogs: Books With Bark And Bite</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dogs have long been a source of human fascination, companionship &mdash; and, sometimes, terror. These books featuring three very different canines offer a perfect way to wind down the dog days of summer.]]></description>
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<title>An Intensely Imagined Future In &#x27;Inverted World&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recently reissued, Christopher Priest's 1974 sci-fi classic, Inverted World, tells the story of a city built on rails and in perpetual motion. Jessa Crispin adds up the pieces of Priest's "tightly structured puzzle" and discovers a novel that stands up to the test of time.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;The Great Railway Bazaar&#x27; Revisited</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After 30 years, thousands of miles, and dozens of books, Paul Theroux knows how to travel: By train. Decades after his classic, The Great Railway Bazaar, he takes that long, strange trip, again.]]></description>
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<title>The Legacy Of A Nation&#x27;s &#x27;Native Son&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A century after Richard Wright's birth, his books still resonate &mdash; both with his daughter, Julia, and with a new generation of fans, some of whom are just discovering the author.]]></description>
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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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<title>Inside Steve&#x27;s Brain</title>
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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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<title>Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide</title>
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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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<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>What book got you hooked?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you remember your first love – literary, that is?
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<title>Our First Revolution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers by Michael Barone. Most of us know about the 1688-89 “Glorious Revolution” that ousted the Stuarts and installed William and Mary, but Barone makes a highly readable, strong case for it as the intellectual precursor of the American Revolution.
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<title>The Wrecking Crew</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2003, historian-journalist Thomas Frank moved from Kansas to the national capital. In 2004, he published a book about his home state, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.”
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<title>Men read on Mars, women on Venus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s Guardian novelist Eli Gottlieb offered a &#8220;top ten battle-of-the-sexes&#8221; reading list. Its offerings range from Edward Albee&#8217;s play &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf&#8221; to August Strindberg&#8217;s &#8220;Miss Julie.&#8221; It&#8217;s a feature designed to make us all smile, albeit rather nervously.
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<title>Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. It is important to read as 51 percent of our carbon footprint is related to food, and this is a true story of a family that unplugged from making their share of that footprint for a whole year. The book is [...]]]></description>
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<title>Ghost Train to the Eastern Star</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“The decision to return to any early scene in your life is dangerous but irresistible, not as a search for lost time but for the grotesquerie of what happened since.”
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<title>The Last Wild Wolves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Rain Forest by Ian McAllister with DVD The book has beautiful pictures and video on the DVD that transports you to this pristine environment where wolves have evolved and prospered. Your imagination will soar, allowing you to be there without inflicting any possible damage. The authors have shown [...]]]></description>
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<title>What happened to Anna K.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[All happy heroines resemble one another, each unhappy one is unhappy in her own way. Although, actually, readers of Irina Reyn’s debut novel, What Happened to Anna K. might notice that her heroine’s brand of unhappiness bears certain similarities to a tragic figure of classic Russian literature.
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<title>Expensive college textbooks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every year there seems to be a bit of news buzz in the first weeks of August about how expensive college textbooks have become. To help ease the burden, Congress has enacted new legislation mandating that institutions of higher learning be more transparent about college costs.
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<title>The Underneath</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Puck and Sabine’s mother warns her kittens never to venture outside the dark space beneath the porch where they live, the Underneath. There they are protected from Gar Face, a hard-edged, bitter, drinking man who lives in the falling-down house. But kittens are naturally mischievous and curious.
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