BOOK REVIEWS
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:00 GMT
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Theory linking music, human evolution is lacking: book review
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:00 GMT
'The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature' (Dutton) By Daniel J. Levitin Why do humans act the way we do? Evolutionary biologists often give the simplified answer: Because we're driven by the instincts that helped our ancestors
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Book Review - 'Ghost Train to the Eastern Star,' by Paul Theroux
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:31:00 GMT
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BOOKS: Book Review: 'The Way We'll Be'
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:37:00 GMT
The Way We'll Be The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream By John Zogby 235 pages. $26. Random House. John Zogby did not achieve a reputation for polling prescience by asking Americans whether the woolly mammoth ought to be brought
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Book Review A Doctor in Galilee - Kanaaneh
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:38:00 GMT
A Doctor in Galilee is a wonderfully descriptive narrative of life and times in Palestine/Israel. Clearly written, with a mix of personal anecdotes, historical tales, and much in the way of a reality based philosophy of a people living under an occupying
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Book review: 'Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives'
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:39:00 GMT
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
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'The Wrecking Crew'
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:56:00 GMT
In his incisive 2004 best seller, Whats the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank argued that red-state America is made up of two groups - business and blue-collar interests, which should be at each others throats - but that conservative leaders, dedicated
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Book Review: A Doctor in Galilee
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:31:00 GMT
A Doctor in Galilee ? The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel. Hatim Kanaaneh. Pluto Press, London/Ann Arbor, 2008. ?A Doctor in Galilee? is a wonderfully descriptive narrative of life and times in Palestine/Israel. Clearly written, with a
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Book Review: Rethinking Venezuelan Politics
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:28:00 GMT
Class, Conflict, and the Chavez Phenomenon Reviewed by Kim Scipes Since the arrival of Hugo Chavez on the Venezuelan scene?and later, for the left and the right, on the world scene?he?s been the source of considerable interest. Is he a new
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Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews — The Lost Blogs
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:25:00 GMT
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
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Children's Book Reviews
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:49:00 GMT
Gliori's (No Matter What) heedless, self-centered dragons think they can treat the earth like a doormat: they overconsume and overpopulate, and they chop down the forests/ which melts both the Poles/ and punctures the atmosphere/ full of big holes. And
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Book review: 'Your Money and Your Brain,' a study of our neurological makeup: And how the mind affects investing
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:06:00 GMT
At least that's the position finance journalist Jason Zweig takes in his latest book, Your Money and Your Brain: How The New Science Of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich. Reading the book alone won't make you wealthy, of course, but it could help you
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Six Suspects, By Vikas Swarup
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:39:00 GMT
Exposé fails to open a passage into the real India Reviewed by Salil Tripathi Related Articles Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share If a Martian sent a postcard from urban India after watching the country's highly competitive
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Book review: Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P Pan
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:28:00 GMT
MANY in the West have assumed that capitalism will inevitably lead to democracy, that free markets will spawn genuine freedom, but as China celebrates its own emergence as a world power, its government has continued to crack down on dissent. More than
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Books: Book Review: 'How Fiction Works'
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:28:00 GMT
How Fiction Works By James Wood 265 pages. $24. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In the second of two short prefaces to 'How Fiction Works,' an old-fashioned primer on literature that also functions as a timely primer on the art of modest self-marketing, the
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BOOK REVIEW: Tonic essays for received unwisdom by Khaled Ahmed
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:52:00 GMT
The Hon'ble Society of Fritterers (Archives 2003-2008);Available from munirattaullah.com Pp238; Price Rs 700If the landscape is over-run by the poison cacti of unreason, Munir shows no sign of a positivist over-correction while being an inhabitant of
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Book review: Ararat
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT
IT IS beneficial, occasionally, to take a fresh look at the genres in which we pigeonhole literature. In Frank Westerman's case, this would be 'creative non-fiction'. This is to take an autobiographical experience and re-enact it with the stylistic
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Book review: WAITER RANT: BEHIND THE SCENES OF EATING OUT
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT
by 'A Waiter' John Murray, £12.99 WHERE do you start with a book that you dislike so profoundly that reading it is only marginally less enjoyable than having your root canal drilled? What to say about a tome which, from its whingeing opening to its
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Book review: Man in the Dark
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT
by Paul Auster Faber and Faber, £14.99 WHEN confronted with events as inconceivable and world-changing as the attacks on the Twin Towers, it is unsurprising that many novelists retreat to familiar tropes and recognisable themes â?? into their
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Book review: The Fame Formula by Mark Borkowski Sidgwick and Jackson, £16.99
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT
by Mark Borkowski Sidgwick and Jackson, £16.99 I ASKED a couple of publicists recently what they thought of Mark Borkowski. 'Genius,' said one. 'Mark's trouble is he thinks he's the story, not the client,' said another. Both have a point. Borkowski's
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Book review: Ararat
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:49:00 GMT
IT IS beneficial, occasionally, to take a fresh look at the genres in which we pigeonhole literature. In Frank Westerman's case, this would be 'creative non-fiction'. This is to take an autobiographical experience and re-enact it with the stylistic
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Book review: Man in the Dark
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:49:00 GMT
by Paul Auster Faber and Faber, £14.99 WHEN confronted with events as inconceivable and world-changing as the attacks on the Twin Towers, it is unsurprising that many novelists retreat to familiar tropes and recognisable themes â?? into their
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Book review: The Fame Formula
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:49:00 GMT
by Mark Borkowski Sidgwick and Jackson, £16.99 I ASKED a couple of publicists recently what they thought of Mark Borkowski. 'Genius,' said one. 'Mark's trouble is he thinks he's the story, not the client,' said another. Both have a point. Borkowski's
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Back to the Future
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:14:00 GMT
THE LITTLE BOOK By Selden Edwards Dutton. 405 pp. $25.95 What if you could travel back in time, strangle 8-year-old Hitler and avert the Holocaust? What if you could travel back in time and bring your grandmother to her first orgasm? Kind of makes you
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In It To Win
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:14:00 GMT
THE STRONGEST TRIBE War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq By Bing West Random House. 417 pp. $28 We interpret reality through the clouded prism of our own experience, so it is unsurprising that Bing West sees Iraq through the lens of Vietnam. He served
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Tomorrow is a Brighter Day
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:14:00 GMT
THE WAY WE'LL BE The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream By John Zogby Random House Dismissing a crystal-ball book by a professional pollster would be easy. After all, generalizing about a diverse nation of 300 million people based
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Risky Business
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:14:00 GMT
HIGH WIRE The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families By Peter Gosselin | Basic. 374 pp. $26.95 THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND Reports from a Divided Nation By Barbara Ehrenreich | Metropolitan. 235 pp. $24 The recent economic downturn, with the
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Book Review: Nollywood star as a novelist
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:26:00 GMT
Nollywood star as a novelist Echoes of a Heartbeat by Lilian Amah, Athena Press, Lagos, 2006, 116pp Lilian Amah is a popular Nollywood actress, perhaps in the same class as Genevieve Nnaji, Stephanie Okereke, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and other A-list
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Book reviews: Russians regard China as threat or potential partner
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:31:00 GMT
- IOL Entertainment - IOL HIV Aids - IOL Jobs - IOL Motoring - IOL News - IOL Parenting - IOL Sport - IOL Travel - IOL Technology - Personal Finance
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Books reviews: Where are the good vibrations?
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:06:00 GMT
Everything Is Connected: The Power of Music Daniel Barenboim Weidenfeld & Nicolson £16.99, pp224 Music at the Limits Edward W Said Bloomsbury £20, pp352 Music, according to classical myth, was Heaven overheard on Earth, sifting down from the
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Where Memories Lie - by Deborah Crombie
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:27:00 GMT
by Deborah Crombie Impressive in its scope and spirit. England, Diaspora, murders old and new, jewels and mystery. An old friend calls Detective Inspector Gemma James to help her find out how a brooch lost before World War II turned up in an auction
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