| First Person: Amazon Petition Demands Fair Treatment for Carter Book | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:48:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | More than 15,000 customers of Amazon.com have signed my online petition threatening to close their accounts and take their business elsewhere if the Internet shopping site continues to present a new book by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an unusually negative light. The petition, posted at www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07, accuses Amazon of treating Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid unfairly by posting a lengthy and unabashedly hostile review on the page where it lists the book, in a section normally reserved for short, even-handed descriptions of the title in question. In the book Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to bring about a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, points to Israel's 40-year-long occupation of the Palestinian territories as the key obstacle to peace in the region.... | |
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| | | JCC Book Fest: the write stuff | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:47:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | For the next two weeks, Cleveland's Jewish community will truly be people of the book(s). The Jewish Community Center's 2006 Festival of Jewish Books and Authors runs Nov. 6-Nov. 20. This year's featured authors range from political heavyweights like former US Ambassador to Israel Dennis Ross and ABC and NPR news correspondent Kati Marton, to best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer, to Jewish mysticism expert Rabbi Niles Goldstein. The CJN has reviewed several of this year's featured books in this week's paper, with even more to come next week. There will also be a special kids' day on Sun., Nov. 12, at the JCC at 2. Joel Stern, author of Jewish Holiday Origami, will lead an origami folding workshop. There is a fee for children to participate.A free Cat in the Hat character breakfast for children 5 and under takes place Sun., Nov.... | |
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| | | World Bank stands by book contract with Vibal | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:49:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE World Bank chief in the Philippines has disputed charges by three publishing companies that the award of the WB-funded textbook project to the Vibal Publishing House Inc. and its affiliates was anomalous. Joachim von Amsberg, country director, said that a number of the World Bank's specialists had scrutinized the award of the textbook contract and found it consistent with its procurement guidelines. According to all information available to the World Bank, the awards were made in accordance with the applicable guidelines for procurement under World Bank financing and with the provisions of the legal agreement for the SEMP-2 project, he said in a letter to the Inquirer. In a complaint with the WB's Department of Institutional Integrity in Washington, Rex Bookstore Inc., Daehan Printing & Publishing Co.... | |
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| | | Book Review: Network Security Tools | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:47:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Network Security Tools by Nitesh Dhanjani and Justin Clarke is a book that shows experienced administrators how to hack and extend popular network security tools. The book also teaches how to write specialized attack and penetration tools that are suited for your network environment. Authors: Nitesh Dhanjani, Justin Clarke Pages: 340 Publisher: O'reilly ISBN: 0596007949 About the authors Nitesh Dhanjani is an information security specialist. He currently holds the position of an information security Manager at a large consultancy firm in the United States. He has performed hundreds of security assessments, including Attack & Penetration reviews, source code reviews, and security architecture reviews for many of the Fortune 500 companies. Justin Clarke is an information security consultant.... | |
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| | | Book Reviews: Eragon, Eldest | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:47:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Christopher Paolini was only 15 when he began writing Eragon, the best-selling book that would change his life. The book was published when he was 19, causing book reviewers to enthusiastically call him a whiz kid and teenage sensation. Mr Paolini's young age, however, is never once betrayed in his writing. In fact, the book seems mature beyond his age. Eragon is the story of a boy who grows up in Alagaesia, a fictional world created on the lines of J.R.R Tolkien's Middle Earth. He discovers a polished blue stone out of which a dragon hatches, changing Eragon's life and causing his entire family to be wiped out with the exception of his cousin Roran. Paolini borrows from the existing stock characters and legends of the elves, the dwarves and the humans.... | |
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| | | Smell of gunpowder at Frankfurt Book Fair | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:47:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Guwahati, Oct 6 (IANS) A collection of poems by an outlawed separatist guerrilla leader from Assam that has got rave reviews is one of the highlights of the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair. On the opening day Thursday, noted Assamese writer Indira Goswami released 'Melodies and Guns', a collection of poems by Mithinga Daimary, the publicity chief of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). ''Melodies and Guns' bears the smell of gunpowder, although the poems do reflect the poet's love for humanity,' Goswami told IANS from Frankfurt. Daimary, who has been in jail since 2003 after being captured during the military operations in Bhutan, has written the poems under his pen name Megan Kachari. Although his real name is Dipak Das, he is more popularly known as Mithinga Daimary and to poetry lovers, he is Megan Kachari.... | |
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| | | Stars Captured In Court Artists New Book | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:49:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | Images of stars like OJ SIMPSON, MICHAEL JACKSON and ANNA NICOLE SMITH on trial are set to feature in a new coffee table book by celebrated court artist MONA SHAFER EDWARDS. The artist has been hired to capture the scene in courtrooms throughout California during high-profile cases, where cameras were barred. Over the years, she has drawn images of STEVEN SPIELBERG, ROBERT BLAKE, ALEC BALDWIN and FARRAH FAWCETT, among others, as they faced cross questioning and watched proceedings. Now her images of the troubled stars feature in new book CAPTURED: INSIDE THE WORLD OF CELEBRITY TRIALS. 29/09/2006 03:36 .... | |
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| | | Electra Pens Sexy Book | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:47:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | CARMEN ELECTRA is set to add author to her impressive resume after writing a new book revealing her sexy secrets. The model/actress has written CARMEN ELECTRA: HOW TO LOOK SEXY, which is set to hit bookstores in December (06), according to American publication Life + Style. A source says, "It's a guide for how to wear clothes, how to put on the right make-up and even how to do your hair up so you look sexy." 21/09/2006 19:39 .... | |
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| | | Science book reviews | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 4:50:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Born in 1847, raised in Edinburgh and London, hauled off to Canada to escape the tuberculosis that had killed his two brothers, Alexander Graham Bell made history before age 30 by inventing the telephone. Reluctant Genius is a puzzling name for Gray's biography. The man she depicts tortures himself when in love, clashes with his parents about his career and suffers over his shortcomings as a husband, but he positively revels in his role as genius. Gray may have tried too hard to make Bell a hero. She harps on Bell's lack of interest in maximizing the profits from his inventions. Bell also battled chronic physical and emotional ailments. Gray seems reluctant to accept these ordinary human traits in a person she's keen on viewing as much more than ordinary. • The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients.... | |
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| | | Signing off with Chekhov and chuckles | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 2:48:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | I bumped into a pal last week - let's call him Simon - who was wearing a chalkstripe suit, looking furious and gesticulating wildly at the book festival's camp on Charlotte Square. 'When are your arty friends all going to bugger off?' he bellowed. Apparently we have been getting between him and the Candy Bar. As a reassertion of Edinburgh's less festive spirit, it was spectacular, and I felt suddenly despondent at the end of the annual rush of the ideas, inspiration and laughter. For it is Week Four, the tumbleweed week, when flyers flutter on the chill wind that blows down an increasingly deserted George Street. Checking out Chekhov For some lunatic reason I still can't fathom, the International Festival has fallen out of sync with the rest of the festivals, and so carries on for a week beyond the others, ending tonight in an explosion of fireworks set to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet It means the last week is very highbrow.... | |
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