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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>Never Mind</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Never mind the pins 
        And needles I am on. 
        Let all the other instruments 
        Of torture have their way. 
        While air-conditioners 
        Froze my coffee 
        I caught the toaster 
        Eating my toast. 
        Did I press the right 
        Buttons on all these 
        Buttonless surfaces, 
        Daring me to press them? 
        Did you&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Mary at the Tattoo Shop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[She counted her money  
        before we went in,  
        avenue beside us anxious  
        with Friday-evening traffic.  
        Both fourteen, we shared a Newport,  
        its manila butt salty to our lips.  
        Inside, from a huge book  
        of designs and letter styles,  
        she chose to get &#8220;MARY&#8221;  
        in a black, Old English script&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Thirteen Hundred Rats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Songs of a Season</title>
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<description><![CDATA[for here or to go--  
        a glass mug, a paper cup--  
        life is fast, art slow  
                                    
           
        only a few years  
        before all that I am blows  
        free, subatomic  
                                    
           
        not for me that life  
        the careless joy of the dog  
        not for me that leap  
                                    
           
        how to say  
         beautiful weekend   
        in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>After Love</title>
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<description><![CDATA[He is watching the music with his eyes closed.   
        Hearing the piano like a man moving  
        through the woods thinking by feeling.   
        The orchestra up in the trees, the heart below,   
        step by step. The music hurrying sometimes,   
        but always returning to quiet, like the man   
        remembering and hoping. It&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mares go down for their evening feed  
                                                                                    into the meadow grass.  
        Two pine trees sway the invisible wind--  
                                                                                    some sway, some don&#8217;t sway.  
        The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight  
        For just a minute or so.  
        The mares have their heads on the ground&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Propofol</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Moly, mandragora, milk of oblivion:  
                    I said to Doctor Day, &#8220;You bring on night.&#8221;  
        &#8220;But then,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I bring day back again,&#8221;  
                     and smiled; except his smile was thin and slight.  
           
        I said to him, &#8220;Sleep and Death were brothers,  
                    you know. They carry off great Troy&#8217;s Sarpedon  
        in&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>Deep-Holes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sally packed devilled eggs--something she usually hated to take on a picnic, because they were so messy. Ham sandwiches, crab salad, lemon tarts--also a packing problem. Kool-Aid for the boys, a half bottle of Mumm&#8217;s for herself and Alex. She would have just a sip, because she&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>When the Floods Came &#xB7; James Meek on England&#x27;s Water</title>
<link>http://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>The Iron Rule &#xB7; Jacqueline Rose: Bernhard Schlink&#x27;s Guilt</title>
<link>http://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://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>
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<title>In the Park &#xB7; Peter Campbell: Frank Gehry&#x27;s Pavilion</title>
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<title>Not My Fault &#xB7; John Lanchester: New Labour&#x27;s Terrible Memoirs</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n14/lanc01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister's wife, his deputy and his bagman. The granddaddy of them all, Blair's own memoirs, are still to come. It is an unprecedented cascade of memoirs by prominent figures in a government which is, let's not forget, still in power. The phenomenon seemed odd when it began - Lance Price was called in front of a Parliamentary committee in December 2005 to account for his temerity in publishing his insider's account. By now we're used to it, and it's getting to the point where it would be more surprising for a New Labour insider not to publish a book explaining how he/she was both a. more at the centre of things than anybody had hitherto suspected while also b. not to blame for any of the stuff that went wrong.]]></description>
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<title>Diary &#xB7; Sean Wilsey Goes Slow</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n14/wils07_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 2002, in the company of a dog named Charlie Chaplin and an architect named Michael Meredith, I set out to drive a 1960 Chevy Apache 10 pick-up truck, at 45 mph, from far west Texas to New York City: 2364 miles through desert, suburbs, forests, lake-spattered plains, mountains, farmland, more suburbs and the Holland Tunnel. I got to know both of my travelling companions during a brief period living in the town of Marfa, Texas, which is also where I found the truck, parked in front of the post office: boxy, banged up, covered in sky-blue house paint, the half-smashed windshield a lattice of stars and linear cracks, like a flag. A Mexican man in his sixties walked outside with his mail and drove it away. Then I found it parked out by the cemetery. Jesse Santesteban, the owner, showed me where he'd signed the engine compartment like an artist, and said I could take a closer look. The doors had handmade wooden armrests, and the seatbelts were fashioned of canvas and chain link. An orange shag carpet covered the floorboards. I offered him $1200 cash. He handed over a green plastic keychain that read 'Laugh, live, love and be happy!' and warned: 'Don't take it over 45 or it'll throw a rod.' A friend later explained: 'That's a polite way of saying the engine will explode.']]></description>
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<title>Men in White &#xB7; Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian McEwan!</title>
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<description><![CDATA['Netherland' is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred years ago on Manhattan Island as New Amsterdam, in what was then the territory of New Netherland. But 'netherland' could also mean any faraway place, as in those 'nether regions' of the city where Hans's teammates from the Staten Island Cricket Club spend their nights. (Hans spends his nights in Chelsea, a Manhattan neighbourhood hardly described in this book, notable for a high concentration of well-built gay men, new condominiums, art galleries, bank branches and large home-furnishing outlets.) 'Netherland' also has sinister overtones of Never Never Land, and sounds like a euphemism for Hades.]]></description>
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<title>Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke &#xB7; Jeremy Harding on the Dangers of Intervention</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n14/hard01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA['Humanitarian intervention' has little to show for its brief appearance on the international stage. It arrived too late for Rwanda, gestured helplessly at Bosnia and, at last, in 2003, it was discovered in the arms of Shock and Awe, where it died of shame. Only Kosovo Albanians, about 1.8 million people, still applaud the violent expulsion of Slobodan Milosevic from their province in 1999. However they are less sure about the legacy of intervention and the advantages of being a United Nations protectorate.]]></description>
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<title>At the Movies &#xB7; Andrew O&#x27;Hagan on M. Night Shyamalan</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n14/ohag01_.html</link>
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<title>Short Cuts &#xB7; Thomas Jones: Spies Wanted</title>
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<title>Gazillions &#xB7; Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime</title>
<link>http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/asch01_.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Karabas was gunned down in 1997. He and his mob had taken over the port city of Odessa as law and order disintegrated in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. One might call his reign a comprehensive protection racket. But, looked at in another way, Karabas became the only reliable source of authority and social discipline. He arbitrated the city's commercial disputes (10 per cent of net profits was his price); he kept the drug peddlers to one area of Odessa, and prevented the horrific people-smuggling in the harbour district from infecting the rest of the town. Using a bare minimum of thuggery, he kept the peace. Karabas seldom carried a gun. Everyone looked up to him, and levels of violence stayed lower in Odessa than in other Russian and Ukrainian cities. His murderers were probably Chechens hired to break Odessa's grip on the local oil industry, a grip coveted by Ukraine's then president, Leonid Kuchma, who 'during his ten years in power . . . presided over the total criminalisation of the Ukrainian government and civil service'.]]></description>
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<title>Letters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 15]]></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 15]]></description>
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<title>Review: Infected by Scott Sigler</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror3?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Infected by Scott SiglerSigler's cliché-ridden story about a mysterious alien plague should be avoided like ... well, the plague, advises Eric Brown]]></description>
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<title>Review: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror2?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Vernor VingeA disappointing collection of short fiction proves that for Vinge, bigger is better, writes Eric Brown]]></description>
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<title>Review: Sideways in Crime edited by Lou Anders</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/culturaltrips.sciencefictionfantasyandhorror?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sideways in Crime edited by Lou AndersA wonderfully varied collection of crime stories set in alternative histories proves to be great fun, writes Eric Brown]]></description>
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<title>Review: Principles of Angels by Jaine Fenn</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror1?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Principles of Angels by Jaine FennA first novel about a world where people are, literally, labelled good or bad is flawed but entertaining. By Eric Brown]]></description>
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<title>Man Asian longlist strong on Filipino writers</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/manasianliteraryprize.awardsandprizes?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize features a strong showing from Filipino writers]]></description>
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<title>Review: Flood by Stephen Baxter</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Review: Flood by Stephen BaxterEric Brown enjoys an enthralling story about rising sea levels and people's dogged determination to survive]]></description>
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<title>Digested Classic Read podcast: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garc&#xED;a M&#xE1;rquez</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2008/jul/22/loveinthetimeofcholera?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Now in podcast form, John Crace presents his cult G2 column in which he summarises and satirises classic novels]]></description>
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<title>Digested Read podcast: Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2008/jul/23/madonna?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Now in podcast form, John Crace presents his cult G2 column in which he summarises and satirises recently published novels]]></description>
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<title>Pieces of me: Meg Rosoff, author</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jul/23/piecesofme?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Meg Rosoff, author, on the possessions with meaning in her life]]></description>
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<title>Pieces of me: Meg Rosoff, Author</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/2?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Author Meg Ross picks the items that mean the most to her]]></description>
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<title>Obituary: Lyall Watson</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/23/pressandpublishing?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Obituary: Scientist, zoologist, reporter and author of new age books]]></description>
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<title>Obituary: Richard Kidd</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/booksforchildrenandteenagers.art?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Obituary: Artist and children's author inspired by remote places]]></description>
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<title>Obituary letter: Allan Rodway</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/1?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Giles Oakley writes: Brian Lee's suitably affectionate memories of academic and writer Allan Rodway caught his personality beautifully]]></description>
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<title>Video: Halima Bashir - Tears of the Desert</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/22/halima.bashir?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[Halima Bashir tells Mark Tran about her traumatic experiences in Darfur, which she has recorded in a new book co-written by Damien Lewis]]></description>
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<title>Authors explain their key words</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/22/keywords.novelists.lethem.thirlwell.farah.meek?gusrc=rss&#x26;feed=books</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Villa Gillet has been asking writers who attend the International Forum on the Novel to select a word which underpins their work. Jonathan Lethem, Adam Thirlwell, Nuruddin Farah and James Meek explain how the words they've chosen are key to their writing]]></description>
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<title>Two New Books Probe China&#x27;s Changing Character</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What happens when an entrenched culture suddenly opts for rapid change and the upheaval of centuries of cherished tradition? Maureen Corrigan finds some answers in two new works of nonfiction.]]></description>
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<title>Identifying Who Survives Disasters &#x26;mdash; And Why</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time magazine reporter Amanda Ripley takes readers inside fires, floods and airplane crashes in The Unthinkable, a disquieting study of disaster psychology.]]></description>
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<title>Smart, Sassy Heroines Pack A Literary Punch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You may not like her, but you do what she wants. She's a tough chick, a woman with sass and an instinct for survival. Brace yourself for these three books featuring heroines with attitude.]]></description>
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<title>Soldier-Poet Brian Turner, Framing War In Verse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For soldier Brian Turner, words have the impact of bullets. His poems provide a first- person account of war; The New York Times praised their "attention to both the terrors and the beauty he found among Iraq's ruins."]]></description>
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<title>Book Chronicles Nigeria&#x27;s Oil &#x27;Curse&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nigeria is one of the top producers of oil in the world and a major supplier of oil to the United States. The book, Curse of the Black Gold, traces Nigeria's 50-year history of oil interests, featuring pictures by photojournalist Ed Kashi.]]></description>
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<title>On The Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Though much was made of the conflagration between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Midnight, says the two leaders were actually of like minds when it came to the threat of nuclear war.]]></description>
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<title>New Story Collections Nourish And Astonish</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evan S. Connell, an old American master, and Claire Keegan, a young Irish prodigy, both have new books of short fiction this summer &mdash; and both are worth picking up.]]></description>
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<title>Cool Heads Prevail In &#x27;One Minute To Midnight&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In his thrilling postmortem of the Cuban missile crisis, Michael Dobbs reveals the role of tactical diplomacy &mdash; and luck &mdash; in ensuring a peaceful resolution to the Cold War standoff.]]></description>
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<title>Interpreter Details Detention In &#x27;My Guantanamo&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Mahvish Rukhansa Khan &mdash; whose parents are Afghan immigrants &mdash; wanted to do something that would help both America and Afghanistan. She became an interpreter for lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay.]]></description>
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<title>Dr. Dre&#x27;s Mom Tells Of &#x27;Long Road Outta Compton&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You may not know who Verna Griffin is. But you probably know her son &mdash; rapper and music producer, Andre "Dr. Dre" Young. She talks with Farai Chideya about her new memoir, Long Road Outta Compton, which details her turbulent childhood, failed marriages and her son's fame.]]></description>
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<title>For Former MI5 Head, Real Life Inspires Spy Novels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For Stella Rimington, the author of Illegal Action, secret intelligence is second nature; for nearly 30 years, she worked for MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, rising through the ranks to become the first woman appointed director general.]]></description>
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<title>Dorothea Lange: &#x27;Daring To Look&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA["No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually," the legendary photographer once said. A new book documents hundreds of the Depression-era images she took and the descriptions she wrote of them.]]></description>
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<title>Henry Fleming, Reluctantly Wearing &#x27;The Red Badge&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Henry Fleming joins the Union Army, he's got big ideas of what glorious battles await him. He's eager to impress his friends and a brown-haired girl he likes. But soon he questions himself &mdash; and his courage.]]></description>
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<title>A Mystery Of Science And Nature: &#x27;Madapple&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Host Liane Hansen speaks with first-time novelist Christina Meldrum, a litigator and Harvard graduate. In Madapple, readers enter the lives of a mother and daughter, in which questions about faith, science and religion abound.]]></description>
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<title>A Nuclear Family Vacation: 10 States, 4 Nations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Journalist Nathan Hodge is the co-author of the book A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry with his wife, Sharon Weinberger. They traveled to 10 U.S. states and 4 foreign countries to visit nuclear sites, including ones in Nevada, Russia and Iran. ]]></description>
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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>Google Apps Hacks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "It seems that it wasn't long ago that Google was just a search company. The number of on-line products that fly under the Google moniker, today, is impressive. Google has moved well beyond its office-suite-like applications and excelled with everything from mapping to blogging to 3-D drawing. Google Apps Hacks is a new book from O'Reilly, published in conjunction with their Make magazine. This volume presents the reader with 141 hacks in an attempt to get the most out of a wide array of Google's on-line applications. The result is a quick ride that is rather fun &mdash; and while a bit shallow at times, it provides a great overview of just how much is available out there." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Terminal Chaos</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "While Terminal Chaos should be shelved in the current events or business section of a bookstore, it could also be placed in the modern crime section. After reading it, one gets the impression that the state of air traffic today could only come due to criminal neglect or mischief. If one looks at pictures of airline flights from the 1960s, you will see well-dressed passengers enjoying their flight. In 2008, barely a day goes by without an incident of air rage, from irate passengers in the terminal, to those in the air causing flights to be diverted. Today's airline traveler considers it a near miracle if his flight arrives on time with his baggage." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>The Principles of Project Management</title>
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<description><![CDATA[zedguy writes "Ask someone what 'project management' is and you're liable to get a few blank stares &mdash; it's one of those fields people have heard of, but probably have problems pinning down a definition. So that is what the first section of the book does: provides a definition that can be summed up as applying tools and skills to complete a project. That then leads to what exactly is a "project": a set of tasks with a time-frame and goal of somehow adding value. So yes, the introduction does involve a fair bit of terminology that isn't going to be familiar to many readers coming from a coder's background, but there's a helpful appendix that lays out many of the terms. Just as important, the introduction explains what project management is not, some of the misconceptions and why it's good to know." Keep reading for the rest of Zoltan's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security</title>
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<description><![CDATA[jsuda writes "At least a half-dozen times in the book 'Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security' the authors state that there is a misconception that the Macintosh computer is immune from security problems. That allegation may explain why there are very few books published (and nearly none in recent years) about security for the Mac. This book is meant to change all that. The authors acknowledge that the Mac OS X software has had little of the security problem experience of Windows (and other operating systems, to a lesser extent) but they spend 455 pages detailing exactly where and how the Macintosh platform is (or may be) vulnerable." Read below for the rest of Jsuda's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aeonite writes "Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing is the followup to Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, and the second book written by members of the Game Writers' Special Interest Group of the 14,000 member strong IGDA. The book covers much of the same terrain as its predecessor, but offers a tighter focus on some specific points, covering more technical (as in technique) details rather than broader narrative theory; if the first book was a Google Map, this one would be the Street View." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout is an interesting new project, a graphic novel being published by O'Reilly. What makes it interesting is not just that this is a rather new direction for O'Reilly but that this is, to my knowledge, a rather unique publication in that it seeks to educate teenage youth about an array of issues ranging from privacy, free software, security and the impact of politics on personal freedom as it relates to the use of technology. Making topics like that exciting, and understandable to a young person may sound like a tall order, and I think it is." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ben Rothke writes "Security policies are like fiber, that is, the kind you eat. Everyone agrees that fiber is good for you, but no one really wants to eat it. So too with information security policies. They are sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with them. And in many firms, they are not even trained in what they have to do. But failure to have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an organization." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Joomla! A User&#x27;s Guide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the content management systems (CMSs) from which a Web developer can choose for creating a new Web site, Joomla is generally considered to be one of the top choices -- partly because an experienced developer can create an attractive site faster with Joomla than with the majority of other CMSs. However, Joomla's online documentation leaves much to be desired, as is true for most if not all CMSs. Intermediate and especially new developers need a clear and comprehensive resource that can explain the terminology, customization, administrative panel, and other aspects of Joomla. A promising candidate is a book written by Barrie M. North, titled Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Running Xen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Martinjak writes "Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization was published by Prentice Hall, and authored by Jeanna N. Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wenjin Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, and Brendan Johnson. The book, which will be referred to as simply Running Xen, was a great resource on Xen and virtualization from the administration side. A wide range of topics was covered from installing Xen all the way up to managing virtual resources, including migrating guest environments. Overall, the explanations were concise and understandable; while the information was presented in a straightforward manner. Running Xen was definitely a useful resource for administering systems with Xen." Keep reading for the rest of David's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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<title>Visual Communication in Digital Design</title>
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<description><![CDATA[stoolpigeon writes "I remember the first time I saw a program I had written after the interface had been revamped by a designer. I had been pretty happy with what I had made. It worked very well and met the client's requirements. It was extremely functional and I thought it didn't look bad either. But when I saw the new interface, not functionally different, just so much better looking, I was really blown away. My application had gone from useful to cool. (That might be a slight exaggeration, it was still just a database app but it sure looked cool to me.) Since then I've learned to primarily leave the user interface work to the experts in that arena, and I stick to the getting the functionality in place. But sometimes I don't have the luxury of a design team at my disposal. Or when I do, I still need to be able to talk to them and discuss what is going on. I found Dr. Ji Young Park's new book "Visual Communication in Design" to be a friendly and accessible introductory primer in visual design." Read below for the rest of JR's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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