Black people in White House
12 Aug 2010 17:51:36
Desiree Rogers was a social secretary in White House, she was named as chief executive officer at Johnson Publishing Company Inc.
She is 51, and she was a consulter for Johnson Publishing for two months and took over daily operations on Tuesday, according to a company statement.
"My attraction and reasons that I thought I could have an impact is that I believe these brands are iconic brands that are true symbols of America," Rogers told The Associated Press.
Rogers finished MBA in Harvar... Read Full Story
World overrated man
12 Aug 2010 12:42:23
The writer and poet Anis Shivani's In, gets in the 15 contemporary American writers, he believes are most overrated, laying into the likes of Jonathan Safran Foer, Junot Diaz, Michael Cunningham and.
A lot of different critics say that Shivani has been brewing this piece for some time. These aren't wild, bitter stabs in the dark; his jibes have barbs to them. It's also extremely amusing – I'm still chuckling at his Sharon Oldstakedown: "Childbirth, her father's penis, her son's cock, and ... Read Full Story
Pat Conroy thoughts about new wave in electronically like e-books
12 Aug 2010 12:38:33
As for Pat Conroy e-books it is a new wave in technology, but he didn’t now a lot of about them, that is why he believes that his work could be downloaded until a fan showed him during a recent promotional tour.
Among the country's most beloved writers, the 64-year-old Conroy hasn't allowed his distance from the digital world to keep him from joining it. It is very good that more and more works of the Pat Conroy become available to download electronically and four of his older books, includi... Read Full Story
Black people in White House
12 Aug 2010 12:37:00
Desiree Rogers was a social secretary in White House, she was named as chief executive officer at Johnson Publishing Company Inc.
She is 51, and she was a consulter for Johnson Publishing for two months and took over daily operations on Tuesday, according to a company statement.
"My attraction and reasons that I thought I could have an impact is that I believe these brands are iconic brands that are true symbols of America," Rogers told The Associated Press.
Rogers finished MBA in Harv... Read Full Story
Analyze your life or Million Little Mistakes
10 Aug 2010 19:41:56
Have you ever have seen all your life at once? Have you ever analyze all mistakes that you did? New novel Million Little Mistakes from Heather McElhatton will help you to think about your life from childhood. But some of those mistakes in your life may be so pretty and funny that is why be ready!
In this book McElhatton rose to the challenge brilliantly, posing the question that most of us have asked ourselves at one time or another: What if I won the lottery?
In "Million Little Mistakes," y... Read Full Story
The Walking Man in her life…
10 Aug 2010 19:41:22
Linda Newbery has got a signed copy of her latest book, Lob, in the glove compartment of her car. She's waiting to give it to the person to whom the book is dedicated: "the man who walks the roads". Whether he'll ever get his copy is down to serendipity – he doesn't know Newbery, and he doesn't know he was the inspiration behind her latest novel, longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize. Yet, given his habit of turning up at significant moments in the book's development, there's a ... Read Full Story
New idea in Barnes & Noble's Inc
10 Aug 2010 19:40:41
In January began a program from Barnes & Noble bookstore witch offered through campus bookstores
All users have got an opportunity to take in rent campus bookstores. Books could be offered for at least 50 percent off the purchase of a new textbook and users can return rental textbooks either in stores or by mail after they are due back up to 10 days after the last day of finals.
A lot of schools have signed up this agreement, but as Barnes & Noble said they didn't give a specific tota... Read Full Story
Red book not about songs but with sounds
10 Aug 2010 00:14:53
Red book not about songs but with sounds
He spend for about five years for his literature work. Who is he? His name is Mark Power and he is from….but who needs to know where is he from. The most interesting what does he do. It is a work about Poland: places often on the outskirts of cities, neglected and overlooked, neither here nor there. Power's Poland looks like a country entirely composed of liminal spaces: desolate housing estates, half-finished building sites, municipal buildings t... Read Full Story
Children book in pictures with stories about different places
10 Aug 2010 00:00:24
Picture books for young children there's a buzz about the place
Children book in pictures with stories about different places
This year is very hot weather, that is why we have got a lot of insects. What about the book The Fly by Petr Horá?ek?
Sometimes it is an irresistible, sometimes eye-catching book with a curving loop-the-loop signature, a fly path. The fly launches himself jubilantly, spoiling this only with a rueful postscript: "People don't like me being in the house." He i... Read Full Story
Balfour Declaration – the real story about Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer
09 Aug 2010 23:41:14
From the beginning this book is talk about sources of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
When the world war began, Palestine was a sleepy, sparsely populated area with vague borders that had been governed for centuries by Ottoman sultans. But after Turkey threw in its lot with Germany, Britain sought to dangle Palestine and other parts of the moribund Ottoman Empire as bait to win help for its war effort.
The author recounts the promises Britain made to Arabs and Jews as well as to its French all... Read Full Story
Be born from nightmare
08 Aug 2010 00:40:54
It was a nightmare which a saw at the literary festival at Dartington Hall, when the novel The Little Stranger was born. It was one dream in the course of month. I found myself musing on ghosts – and started to wonder whether a spot of the supernatural mightn't be just the thing to perk up my barely begun new novel.
The novel was to be set in the 1940s, and was to have as its background changes in the British class system. It had been inspired by the deep anxiety I'd seen at work in the ficti... Read Full Story
About Secret of Capitalism from Harry Bingham
08 Aug 2010 00:16:48
What function have got publishers? What should they do? "Why don't publishers," asks Harry Bingham in this purportedly timely eulogy to capitalism, "just tiptoe silently from their office, leaving a list of useful phone numbers taped to the front door?" for Bingham it is not a problem to answer that question. He's a reformed banker who now runs the Writers' Workshop, a consultancy for first-time authors. "The core of what any publisher does," he argues, is to add value to the package, "the part ... Read Full Story
