Google's free 411 service puts phone book at your fingertips PhysOrg | Google just might take over the world. The Internet giant keeps coming up with ideas and services that continue to help improve the way we do things. | Most of us know about Gmail, for example, which offers free e-mail addresses that come with lots of storage. Then there's Google Earth and Google ...
ANA books $60m net loss in first quarter Business Report | Submit your comment | Japan's All Nippon Airways on Friday said its quarterly net loss narrowed to $60 million on last year and retained its full-year net profit forecast of $57 million. | The ¥5.25 billion first-quarter loss for Japan's second biggest carrier was below a ¥29.2 billion loss...
Sex disappears from the British novel as authors run scared of ridicule The Observer | Andrew Motion, the former poet laureate, had the unenviable task of reading through 138 novels to help determine the longlist for this year's Booker prize, announced last week. Among his conclusions about the state of the British (and Commonwealth)...
On the Front Foot: Bateman's book a tour de force The Independent | Why anybody would want to cycle round England, stopping at the headquarters of each of the 18 first-class counties, may never be satisfactorily explained. It is simply the sort of thing that a certain kind of Englishman does, just because they are ...
Medical books exhibition begins The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Revised and enlarged editions of long-standing titles available | Exhibition being held at New Students Book Centre | Students urged to widen their range of reading | NRI Medical College principal N.V.S. Chowdary (extreme left) at ...
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The scoop on unauthorized celeb books: fewer sales The Miami Herald | NEW YORK -- Put Angelina Jolie's face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth millions. But write a book about her, withou...
The scoop on unauthorized celeb books: fewer sales Wtop By HILLEL ITALIE | AP National Writer | NEW YORK (AP) - Put Angelina Jolie's face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth mi...
Bestselling books the week of 7/29/10 according to IndieBound* The Christian Science Monitor | HARDCOVER FICTION | 1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson, Knopf | 2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam | 3. The Thousand Autumns of Ja...
Like a kid running a candy store of literature The Boston Globe | Since 1977, the Children's Book Shop in Brookline has been a beacon for young readers (and their teachers and parents). Bright, cheerful, and packed to the gills with new releases and classics, the store is owned and operated by Terri Schmitz, who ...
Angelina Jolie's book bombshell The Daily Telegraph Australia | IN a book set to rock Hollywood, celebrity biographer Andrew Morton has lifted the lid on Angelina Jolie's shocking past. | Morton's revelations include: | Drugs: Jolie's cocaine and heroin abuse at the age of 21 | Sex: A string of celebrity l...
Fix major education problems first—Nebres Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—Ateneo de Manila University president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres has criticized the Aquino administration's plan to add two more years to basic education, saying the government should focus first on cutting the number of 'illiterates' the country produces annually. | Nebres, who headed the Presidential Task Force on Education (PTFE...
Pope Benedict XVI publishes children's book Entertainment Weekly | Celebrities writing children’s books? That’s nothing new — the list is a mile long. Madonna and Tim McGraw have done it. So have Brooke Shields, Julianne Moore, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Jimmy Buffett, and Whoopi Goldberg, to name a few. So why not the leader of the Catholic Church? | The Vatican press announced the children...
DepEd blames 'cost-cutting' publishers for book errors Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines — Blaming cost-cutting by publishing houses for error-filled textbooks, the Department of Education (DepEd) wants to go back into the production of textbooks for the country's public schools. | Assistant Secretary Jonathan Malaya said that DepEd had asked Congress to revisit or amend Republic Act 8047, or the Book Publishing I...
