Posts Tagged ‘books’
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
It’s rare that we are given an opportunity to look inside the life of someone whose job it is to study our lives, but that’s exactly what happens in “Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist” by Elliot Aronson (Basic Books: $27.50).

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A Story of a Deeply Compassionate Man
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
A guide to the latest thrillers and mysteries. This week: Martin Cruz Smith, Laura Lippman and more

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New in crime books
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
From total believers to complete sceptics, the author of Mirage Men selects books that are 'informative, entertaining, puzzling or all three at once' Mark Pilkington is a writer with a fascination for the further shores of culture, science and belief. He also publishes books as Strange Attractor Press .

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Other world literature
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things? Book - Shopping - Literature - Arts - Children

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Cover story
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
For the children of Cohasset the time has come to return to books, buses and backpacks. On Tuesday morning, Cohasset Schools are back in session. “This is the time of year where I say ready or not it’s back to school,” said Superintendent Denise Walsh. “Come Tuesday the buses will roll, the students will arrive and I think we’re in very good shape.”

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Back to the books on Tuesday
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Mark Schatzker, a lifelong steak lover, was disappointed in the steaks he was eating -- they simply didn't taste as good as he remembered.

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Where's The Beef? One Man's Search For 'Steak'
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
After juggling his business of selling rare books for more than 25 years, John W. Wronoski will be closing the doors to his bookstore in Harvard Square on Sept. 25.

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Lame Duck Books To Close Shop
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Seattle author Jayne Ann Krentz's latest "Arcane Society" novel leads off this week's list of titles of local interest.

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Local books: A Seattle environmental-activism history, a study of 'design thinking' and a paranormal romance or two
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Book review: John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" tells the mesmerizing true-life story of the hunt for a man-killing Siberian tiger. Vaillant, the Canadian author who wrote the acclaimed 2005 book "The Golden Spruce," discusses his book this week at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co.

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'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Grampian Police investigate the theft of rare books and paintings from a farmhouse in Moray on Wednesday.

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Rare books stolen from farmhouse
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