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• in TV
  Meet American Hero Daisy Bates on Independent Lens February 2
  Daisy Bates, fearless civil rights leader, achieved fame as leader of the Little Rock Nine, but at what price?
  by missbobetier / on Jan 30, 2012
• in Film
  From Tribeca Film: Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Adventure (2011)
  When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors, they created one of the world's first 'viral' pop-culture sensations.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 22, 2012
• in TV
  Have You Heard from Johannesburg (PBS) Concludes January 26
  The conclusion of a five-part series about the global anti-apartheid movement, “Have You Heard from Johannesburg?,” airs on PBS January 26.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 21, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nonfiction”

 

• Review: Exploding the Phone

  
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  Im a little too young to have grown up in the phone phreak heyday, but as a toddler, I had neighbor who caught the tail end of it. Whenever there was a block party, he would round up us kids, take us to his room and show us a trick with the phone. I can remember his tricks seeming like magic. To my toddler ...
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• Best Books On Museum Life?

  
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  Looking for recommendations for the best non-fiction books on the subject of running a large museum/art archive. From any POV, from the fund-raising presidents to the ticket takers, guards, and art history interns in the basements. Im looking for more large, prestige institutions ("What is it like to work at the Met" ...
  15 hours ago

• Three Guineas

  
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  About a week or so ago, my Read More Woolf group met for the last time, to discuss Three Guineas . I had to miss a few meetings during the semester ( Orlando and Between the Acts ), but I made it to more than I missed, and having this introduction to Woolf’s work was absolutely wonderful for me. I do plan to make ...
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• Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis 1346-1365

  
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  I’ve just noticed that there is a pleasing chronological progression through the week, with Kate starting back in the mists of time with King Arthur, Moira continuing with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – and now I shall finish the week with a look at later medieval chronicles, and one in particular, the Chronicon ...
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• Riette Rust resenseer Your Small Business Nightmare And How To Wake Up deur Bertie du Plessis

  
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  Uitspraak: wortel Net 5% van die ekonomies aktiewe bevolking is entrepreneurs. Daarom is Bertie du Plessis se nuwe e-boek, Your Small Business Nightmare and How to Wake Up, ideale leesstof vir voornemende (en huidige) entrepreneurs. Volledige resensie: Rapport Your Small Business Nightmare And How ...
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• Amy Stewart – The Drunken Botanist

  
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  35. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks by Amy Stewart (2013) Length: 400 pages Genre: Non-Fiction Started: 11 April 2013 Finished: 01 May 2013 Where did it come from? LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Why do I have it? I like science, and I like cocktails, so ...
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• Anton Harber Recalls JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer’s Disagreement over Salman Rushdie

  
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    Yesterday we reported on the release of the first issue of Prufrock , a new literary magazine, which features an article by Anton Harber on JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer’s opposing reactions to Salman Rushdie’s cancelled visit to South Africa in the 1980s. Today, we bring you an article by Harber, ...
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• Share a Quirky Review for Simple Sexy Food by Linda De Villers, PhD

  
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  Stephanie Marshall Ward shares her review for Simple Sexy Food by Linda De Villers, PhD – http://eclecticbooksandmovies.blogspot.com/2013/05/simple-sexy-food.html Do aphrodisiacs work? What exactly are they? How can I use them? We answer these questions and many more during the Simple Sexy Food virtual tour ...
  5 days ago

• Review: Midnight in Peking, by Paul French

  
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  Pages: 259 Original date of publication: 2013 My copy: 2013 (Penguin) Why I decided to read: How I acquired my copy: Phoenix bookstore, May 2013 In January 1937, the body of a young British girl, PamelaWerner, was found near Peking’s Fox Tower. Although two detectives, one Britishand the other ...
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• Blog Business World Reviews Ultimate Pinterest Guide for Business by Karen Leland

  
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  Wayne Hurlbert shares his review for The Ultimate Pinterest Guide for Business by Karen Leland on his blog http://www.blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com Karen Leland is the bestselling author of 8 business books including the recently released Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Guide to Pinterest For Business, ...
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• Animal Liberation - Peter Singer

  
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  Shared by:TybieWritten by Peter Singer Edition: 2000 Format(s): PDF Language: English Peter Singer - Animal Liberation (Ecco Press, 2002; original edition 1975). 324 pages. Note: Animal Liberation was revised in 1990, 2002 and 2009; this is the 2002 edition.Reprocessed images from an older scan. Result is good but ...
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• REVIEW: My Life in France by Julia Child

  
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  My Life in France by Alex PrudHomme , Julia Child Publication: Anchor (2006), Paperback, 353pp Genres: Adult , Memoir , Non-Fiction Source: Library Buy the Book ? Goodreads Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art ...
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• Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure by Christopher S. Stewart

  
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  In readers advisory services in public libraries, we often seek read-alikes for our clients who have enjoyed books. We hope to find books with similar reading qualities that our clients will appreciate just as much as the titles that they report enjoying. With that in mind, I wonder how good a read-alike is  ...
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• Peace by Wendy Anderson Halperin

  
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  Peace , by artist Wendy Anderson Halperin is a visual and poetic meditation on the subject of peace. The book is dedicated to our senses, and that dedication sets the tone for the book – peace is real, and it can be sensed with our whole bodies and expressed with our words, actions, and thoughts. There is a very ...
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• Booktalking "Wild Horse Scientists" by Kay Frydenborg

  
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  Horse reproduction! I never thought that I would learn so much about this subject by reading a book about wild horse scientists, but I guess that it makes sense. After all, managing the numbers of wild horses on islands, especially publicly protected land in which predators are few and far between, is a challenge. ...
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• New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years

  
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  From Paid Content: In a commencement address to business students at Columbia University, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson hailed the company’s digital subscription strategy and dismissed skeptics who say media outlets can’t reinvent themselves. “[T]he launch of the pay model is the most important and  most ...
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• Christian Humanitarian Worker Tells of Her Experience, Rescue from Somali Pirates

  
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  A Christian humanitarian aid worker has told the story of her dramatic rescue from Somali land-based pirates in January 2012 after being held captive for over 90 days in a new book. Jessica Buchanan sold all her possessions to become a missionary in Somalia, but spent several harrowing months being held for ...
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• 2 Stars: The Resurrectionist by E. B. Hudspeth

  
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  I was very excited to receive The Resurrectionist by E. B. Hudspeth from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I love a good fantastical nonfiction that brings to life and reality all of the fun fantasy critters we adore ;-). However, I found my expectations were somewhat misplaced, since The Resurrectionist is ...
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• Survival Seeds For Life

  
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  by Zachary Carver You will soon see the headlines saying; Heirloom Seeds… Organic Seeds… and Non Hybrid Seeds… are ALL BANNED! The setup for this coming ban can be found in both the Monsanto Protection Act and the EU Plant Reproductive Law. The post Survival Seeds For Life appeared first on Indie House ...
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• Review: The Secret Rooms, Catherine Bailey

  
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  Catherine Bailey, intent on writing a book about villages affected World War I, visited Belvoir Castle to investigate the extensive archives kept by the ninth duke, John Manners. To her dismay, she found that John’s journal abruptly ended in June 1914, just when his unit was about to enter the fighting. When she ...
  6 days ago

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