NHRC chief releases book on rights of persons with disabilities Newstrack India | New Delhi, Sep.3 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, on Friday, released a book that focuses on the rights of persons with disabilities. | The book titled "Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities - A guide by Commonwealth Secretariat"...
Novel anti-malarial drug candidate discovered Newstrack India | Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Researchers discovered a novel compound that shows promise as a next generation treatment for drug resistant malaria. | Scientists at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), achieved the above feat in collaboration with researchers from the Genomics Inst...
Harry Potter books...banned The Examiner | Started in 1997, the Harry Potter series has become a world renowned work of art and an inspiration for many. Fans have become infatuated with the fantastical literary depth with witch author J.K. Rowling created a place that is in the world as we ...
Hawking says God didn't create the universe in latest book The Examiner | British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking has put forth a rather bold statement in his latest book, The Grand Design--that the universe was not created by divine intervention, in the form of God, and that the "Big Bang" was more a matter of pa...
Preorder Max Lucado's new book Outlive Your Life The Examiner | If you have never read any of Max Lucado's work, stop what you are doing and do not pass go until you have had the chance to lounge in the cool pool of Max Lucado's writing. To say his books are an "easy read" sounds like I'm diminishing his skil...
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Sensex ends 32 pts up as profit-booking pares initial gains The Times Of India MUMBAI: The BSE benchmark Sensex closed with a minor gain of over 32 points on Thursday as investors refrained from buying riskier assets ahead of the release of key economic data ...
Blair's book reveals background to war The Australian | AN unrepentant Tony Blair has refused to back away from his decision to invade Iraq. | Although the former British leader concedes in his new autobiography that it was the issue ...
Book Review: 350 Best Salads and Dressings by George Geary Seattle Post-Intelligence There is a certain stigma that goes along with eating salad for a meal, as though it is indicative of our nation's bipolar attitude toward food. Salad-eating seems to connote choos...
Mostly Books top ten sellers for week ending August 27, 2010 The Examiner | Below are the top ten bestsellers for the week ending August 27, 2010, at Mostly Books, an independent Tucson bookstore. | 1. The Power by Rhonda Byrne - This is the sequel to The Secret. It is about the power to do anything being inside. | 2. Qu...
Book Review: "Linger" by New York Times best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater The Examiner | Linger | Author: Maggie Stiefvater | Publisher: Scholastic Press | Published: July 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-545-12328-0 | Ages: 13 and up | Rating: 4/5 Stars | New York Times Best Seller List (Debuted at No. 1) | In Shiver, the problem—well, one of th...
Back-to-school deals get shoppers in stores Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Consumers went back-to-school shopping in August -- the kids did need a few things, after all -- but they insisted on getting the best deals for the money, according to monthly sales reports from many of the nation's biggest retailers. | U.S. chain store sales rose 3.2 percent in established stores over the same month last year, according to the ...
Teachers concerned about books The Examiner |       It is becoming somewhat of a dilemma for middle school and high school teachers today, local and nationwide, whether or not to teach the classics or to teach the modern popular novels that are selling in the millions of copies. |       Teachers themselves may not have the time nor savvy to be updated on the modern popular “l...
Amazon e-book opens new chapter in publishing war London Evening Standard Amazon's £100 electronic book goes on sale this week amid claims it could change the way we read books and cause a major price war in the British publishing industry. | The size of a paperback, the Kindle e-reader stores 3,500 books and can wirelessly download new titles online from a catalogue of more than 400,000. It costs £109 for a wi-fi versio...
