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Book Review: The New Chinese Empire :: Inside-out China (Chinalyst - China blogs in English)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:26:00 GMT

by Aaron Gardiner, guest blogger The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross TerrillBasic Books, 400 pp., $16.95 "Leninism piggybacks on a selectively salvaged autocratic tradition." – Ross Terrill Ross Terrill first visited China as part of an Australian delegation in 1972, and has been a China scholar pretty much ever since. He has fallen out of favor with the Chinese...

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Test your knowledge of Chinese literature (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:06:00 GMT

You’ve had almost a fortnight to brush up your on Chinese literature in honour of the Olympics. Time to see if you’re up to speed

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In other book signing news, (Books, Inq.)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:01:00 GMT

a mystery publisher has posted an ad on craigslist, looking for fakers to autograph books for two bestselling authors. The audacity! (Thanks again to Dave Lull.)

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Book Review: The Faith of Barack Obama (Planet Intertwingly)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:23:00 GMT

Disclaimer: I received this book as part of a promotional offer extended on Michael Hyatt's blog, From Where I Sit . He is President and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. From Thomas Nelson Publishers comes an interesting sounding book, The Faith of Barack Obama . Written by Stephen Mansfield, the book provides the reader a great view of the home into which Obama was born and raised...

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Book Review: Too Late To Die by Bill Crider (Blogger News Network)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:45:23 GMT

Having recently read “Of All Sad Words” which is the latest in the Dan Rhodes series from Bill Crider and a book that I enjoyed very much, it seemed like I should read others. I’d never read Bill Crider before that book and while the TBR pile seems to achieving sentient life status, it still [...]

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A book review. (The Merry Widow)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:58:00 GMT

Prophecies For The Era Of Muslim Terror A Torah Perspective On World Events by; Rabbi Menachem Kohen I am in the process of rereading Rabbi Kohen's book, and in doing so, am taking the time to rethink some of his conclusions. Mostly, right now, I'm revisiting his exposure of the shift in the lies being told since the late '50's, and his recounting of Arafat's changing of history to fit his purposes....

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Book Review -- ‘Heaven’s Song: Sexual Love as it was Meant to Be’ (Catholic Fire)

noreply@blogger.com (Jean M. Heimann) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:58:00 GMT

Reading Christopher West’s new book, Heaven’s Song, is a life-changing experience that will leave a lasting imprint on your heart as well as your soul. Heaven’s Song possesses the power to purify and to heal the hurts inflicted on each one of us by the culture of death, thus, drawing our hearts into a deeper, more intimate union with the Lord. It possesses the potential to heal the individual,...

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Sweetsmoke - Book Review (caribousmom)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:33:14 GMT

He believed he had already lived long enough. He thought he was over the age of thirty - Jacob Howard was thirty, and they had been born around the same time - and Cassius looked that and more. He now studied the land as if he would never see it again, and tried to [...]

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Book Review: Damage Control by J. A. Jance (Blogger News Network)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:53:09 GMT

“Damage Control” is the aptly named latest novel in the Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady series. Much of this novel finds Joanna Brady practicing damage control in one form or another at home and at work. One of the two central cases in this novel is the aftermath of an elderly couple’s death at the Montezuma Pass [...]

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Book Review: Ascendancy of the Last by Lisa Smedman (Grasping For The Wind)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:54:25 GMT

> * Genre: Shared World Fiction, Sword and Sorcery * ISBN: 0786948647 * ISBN-13: 9780786948642 * Format: Mass Market Paperback, 312p * Publisher: Wizards of the Coast * Pub. Date: June 2008 * Series: Forgotten Realms Lady Penitent Series, #3 * Author Website The sava game is still being played, and Lolth and Eilistraee continue to vie for control of all the drow of Faerun. But the drow were once dark...

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Book Review: Houston Homicide by Bill Crider and Cylde Wilson (Blogger News Network)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:52:43 GMT

... and Clyde WilsonFive Star Publishing (Gale Group)2007ISBN# 1-59414-603-9Hardback261 Pages$25.95 Review copy provided by the good folks of the Plano, Texas Public Library System Kevin R. Tipple © 2008

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Book review: Handbook of mobile communication studies (EducationPR)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:44 GMT

Handbook of mobile communication studies James E. Katz, editor MIT Press, 2008. 472 p. Mobile communication is the most rapidly expanding communication technology on the globe. This collection of studies advocates for the need to sustain ‘deliberation about its place in cultural life, to sensitize ourselves to possible futures, and to open dialogue on ways in which such [...]

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MSI Wind U100 netbook review (Madshrimps Forum Madness)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:31:51 GMT

With variants of the Eee PC dominating the burgeoning netbook market, it seems as though every manufacturer is now rushing to squeeze out its variant on the theme. MSI's Wind U100 was announced early...

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Book Review: Return To The Middle Kingdom by Yuan-Tsung Chen (Blogger News Network)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:18:14 GMT

His son Eugene Chen became the first Chinese lawyer in Trinidad, and although he became very successful the call of his mother country was too strong, and in 1912 he journeyed to Peking and into the murky waters of politics he went. Eugene Chens story is worthy of a book by itself, and indeed there is at least one. Eugene rose to the lofty position of Foreign Minister in Sun Yatsen’s Kuomintang...

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Book Review - Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison (Shiv's Brain)

noreply@blogger.com (Shiv) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:29:00 GMT

Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison rating: 5 of 5 stars Harlan Ellison , born in America 1934, was a prolific sci-fi creator. His work includes a number of short stories, essays, novellas, and writing credits on the television shows The Outer Limits and Star Trek . The short stories found in his collection Paingod and Other Delusions present a good example of the variety of his work; ranging...

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BOOK REVIEW: The True Naomi Story by A.M Goldsher (Trashionista)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:04:09 GMT

As with most authors I review, I googled A M Goldsher straight away. I am always suspicious of authors who use just their initials. Often this means they are trying to disguise their gender as they believe the truth will put their readers off. My suspicions were correct, the author of this Little Black Dress book was A Man. Like Keris yesterday, I thought, what does he know about writing chick lit?...

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German Book Prize longlist (the Literary Saloon)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:56:13 GMT

So they've announced the 20-title strong longlist for the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis), selected from 161 titles.

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Book Review: Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse (Kingdom People)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:11:10 GMT

If you read as much theology as I do, then you probably feel the need from time to time to take a break. I came across Jason Boyett’s Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual for the End of the World (Relevant books, 2005) in a bargain bin at a local Christian bookstore. I took it home that [...]

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2568) Book Review : The Wrong Republic – 51 Questions and Ataturk and Kemalism by Sevan Nisanyan (Turkish Armenians)

noreply@blogger.com (NewsRush) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:10:00 GMT

Sevan NisanyanThe author of this book is a small hotel owner in Sirince, a historical village high on the hills near Selcuk, a columnist at AGOS (a weekly newspaper published in Turkish and Armenian in Istanbul,) and also the author of several guide books on Turkey and a directory of small hotels in Turkey. He became famous recently when he threw a jar of his excrement over his wife’s...

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Book Review: War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Afarensis)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:51:35 GMT

Once upon a time it used to be thought that "primitives" lead lives that were, to quote Hobbes, "...nasty, brutish, and short...", times change and so did the lifestyle of the "Other". Changed so much, in fact, that only European expansion, circa the age of Discovery, could provoke a war. Both ideas are the subject of War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Lawrence H. Keeley ....

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