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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Review: "Chased the Moon' offers light reading

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Review: "Texas Tough' is compelling history of U.S. prisons

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Review: Historian takes fresh look at Tudor dynasty

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Review: Peter Hedges examines marriage in Brooklyn Heights

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Review: Search for fastest pitcher ever makes a good read

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Review: "Surrendered' flawed exploration of war's ravages

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. "It's Still in my Heart, This is My Country": The Single Noongar Claim History. By South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, John Host with Chris Owen The Unforgiving Rope: Murder and Hanging on Australia's Western
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:40:00 GMT

Book Review | Abraham Lincoln--Vampire Hunter: When horror meets history

When horror meets history Premise gives Abe Lincoln a secret life DISPATCH BOOK CLUB RELATED READING ITEMS Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter could be easily dismissed as a novelty. The title, after all, sounds more like a Saturday Night Live sketch than a
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:05:00 GMT

Book Review | Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter: English queen wields mean ax

English queen wields mean ax DISPATCH BOOK CLUB RELATED READING ITEMS Unbeknownst to most students of British history, young Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837 when demons sent by Satan and disguised as lords were wreaking havoc and violence in
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:05:00 GMT

Book Review: Feeding and Nutrition in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:22:00 GMT

Book Review: The Identification and Treatment of Gait Problems in Cerebral Palsy

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:22:00 GMT

Review: Skloot's bio-medical thriller roots out history of the human cells that changed science

Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in a 'colored' hospital ward in Baltimore in 1951. She would have gone forever unnoticed by the outside world if not for the dime-sized slice of her tumor sent to a lab for research eight months earlier. Lacks's
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:18:00 GMT

Review: 'Surrendered' captures the violent sweep of history and the depth of human longing

YOU COULD SAY that Chang-Rae Lee explores Asian-American identity in his novels. You could say he explores the legacies of war, or the roots of betrayal, but none of these grand statements, one suspects, accurately describes the inspiration, the grace
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:18:00 GMT

'The Future History of the Arctic': a balanced look | Book review

Often overlooked and mostly unknown for much of human history, the Arctic has recently started to emerge from its cloak of anonymity. It has become an important source of oil and natural gas not only for the United States but also for Norway, Russia and
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:44:00 GMT

Book review: Capturing the cultural mlange -by Afrah Jamal

Karachiwala: A Subcontinent Within A City By Rumana HusainJaal; Pp 326 A small fishing village from 1838 emerges as a major cosmopolitan city 100 years later and becomes the fastest growing city of the world by 2010. Karachi's rapidly changing skyline
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:37:00 GMT

Book review: Australia’s Remarkable Trees

This river red gum at Greenough, 400km north of Perth, offers a lesson in tenacity in the face of adversity. The bark of the hybrid strawberry tree changes with the seasons through yellow, orange, red, pink and brown. more photos Australia’s Remarkable
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Authors? They're all just jealous, bitchy backbiters

Ever since Ben Jonson's snide suggestion that William Shakespeare could improve his style by writing less, professional disagreements have led authors to wage tempestuous feuds, and even throw the odd punch. Yesterday, Ian Rankin, the best-selling crime
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:28:00 GMT

Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom | Book review

A new collection by Amy Bloom contains too much sweetener for James Lasdun Gratuitous nastiness is always a problem in fiction, but personally I find gratuitous niceness even harder to take. It's a matter of temperament, I suppose, rather than literary
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:43:00 GMT

Halo by Zizou Corder | Book review

Josh Lacey is taken in by centaurs Louisa Young and her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young, who write together as Zizou Corder, had huge success with their first book, Lionboy . Their fifth collaboration, Halo , is a funny and fast-moving adventure set in
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:41:00 GMT

Book review: Higher education under occupation

Gabi Baramki's Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation (Pluto Press, 2009) is a memoir of Palestine's flagship university, Birzeit, by its former acting president. The memoir is an indispensable tool for teaching
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:16:00 GMT

Book Review: Solar: A Novel Without an Ending

A scientist returns from a trip to find a colleague in his house and wearing his dressing gown. The colleague confesses his affair with the scientist's wife, and, begging for mercy, trips on a rug, hits his head, and dies. The scientist does not phone
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:50:00 GMT

Review: 'Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough' By Lori Gottlieb

I have a lot of sympathy for 40-something single women: After all, I happen to be one. Over the course of the past few decades, I’ve had my share of bad dates, blind dates, online dates, and no dates (often the cheeriest option), and at times I look
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:38:00 GMT

Book Review: A Priest Forever

Norbertine Fr. Alfred McBride has written an encouraging book for the priests of today who are overworked, getting older and fewer in numbers. In A Priest Forever:Âlong_space nine signs of renewal and hope ( St. Anthony Messenger Press,
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:59:00 GMT

Book Review Podcast: Jill Abramson and Elif Batuman

This week: The Times’s Jill Abramson talks about presidential campaign books; the essayist Elif Batuman discusses her adventures in Russian literature; Motoko Rich has notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:38:00 GMT

Monday's Reviews Today: Egan's 'Goons' & Schulz on Being Wrong

Jennifer Egan's "graceful yet wild novel," A Visit from the Goon Squad, follows a kleptomaniac and her music producer boss in present day New York, and flashes back to the hey day of the Bay Area punk scene. Per our review: "This powerful novel
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:21:00 GMT

On Stage

Not as dramatic as a production of King Lear in which the actor actually goes mad, but a nice instance of life taking over from art, or vice versa, when the Lithuanian tenor Edgaras Montvidas took over from John Tessier at the last minute in
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:07:00 GMT

High Seriousness

Geoff Dyer cracks a joke; J.M. Coetzee doesn’t laugh:
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:07:00 GMT

The First Photoshop Election

For those Tory campaign posters in full, go to www.mydavidcameron.com
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:07:00 GMT

JavaServer Faces 2.0 - The Complete Reference Book Review

I recently got the chance to read JavaServer Faces 2.0 - The Complete Reference by Ed Burns and Chris Schalk, with contributions by Neil Griffin. This is an excellent book for anyone interested in using JSF technology in their web applications. If you've
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:09:00 GMT

'Eat, Pray, Love' trailer released, movie based on novel by Elizabeth Gilbert

The 'Eat, Pray, Love' movie trailer has been released, based on the novel by Elizabeth Gilbert, and starring Julie Roberts. Do you plan to see it? What is your feeling about stories that making the leap from page to screen? Comments You can follow this
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:06:00 GMT