LONDON - A BRITISH auction house is selling a work of natural history billed as the world's most expensive book, alongside a rare first edition of Shakespeare's plays. One of only 100 or so remaining copies of John James Audubon's early 19th-century 'Birds of America' is valued at between 4 million pounds (S$8.3 million) and 6 million pounds, while a Shakespeare First Folio from 1623 is expected ...

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Sotheby's to sell rare Audubon

(WOMENSENEWS)--Kudos to indie distributor First Run Features for having five superb films directed by women in U.S.

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'First Run Features' Gives Female Directors the Go

Women won in the Democratic and Republican primaries Tuesday, setting up a rare match in November.

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Oklahoma Set To Elect Its First Female Governor

BETHEL -- Imagine a bookstore in downtown Bethel that sells a $1,200 book about Pablo Picasso and has an extensive inventory on books about the history of the X-ray.

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Mom and pop bookstores find success online

High school students with a love of the printed page got a chance this week to meet with the authors of books the students were reading or about to read. The students, teachers, authors and co-ordinators said they were thrilled to be part of this year's White Pine reading group meeting.

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Young readers get rare chance

While at a museum recently, I stopped to admire a rare Parian pitcher. Manufactured in the 19th century by Vermont's United States Pottery Company (a forerunner of Bennington Potters), the piece was the only known version of their popular Niagara Falls pitcher done in color.

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Collector's Corner: Pottery Types (AuctionBytes)

A lot of news happens in a decade, and as we prepare to close this one, there will be plenty of lists about the top stories from the last 10 years. This is not one of those lists

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A Decade of Search (The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News)

A rare white £5 note issued in 1913 by Barnards Bank of Bedford has sold for £1700 at auction.

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Rare £5 note sells for £1700 at auction (Daily Telegraph)

A proposed settlement allowing Google to digitize millions of books will have huge benefits for minority populations and their access to valuable information, a group of civil rights leaders and educators said Wednesday.

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Civil rights activists champion Google book deal (IT World)

There are those who consider rereading a form of intellectual laziness, something to feel guilty about. But who doesn't return to at least a few books again and again over the years?

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Do it again: Lazy, hazy summer perfect time for guilt-free rereading (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)