Tony Judt’s new book is a dying man’s sense of a dying idea: the notion that the state can play a significant role in its citizens’ lives without imperiling their liberties.

Read more:
Renewing an Old Idea: Common Good (New York Times)

Apple's maverick tablet device gives Full Nelson a rare interview.

Read the rest here:
Full Nelson: The iPad Speaks (InformationWeek)

By JAIME MALLOY

The rest is here:
Weekend column: This English major hopes digital revolution bypasses beloved books (The Findlay Courier)

Rare collection of Life Works offered in a limited-edition book

Here is the original:
Celebrated Artist Allan Mardon to Pre-Release Book of Paintings at Tucson Festival of Books, March 13-14, 2010 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Visitors look around during a press viewing at the art fair Tefaf in Maastricht, Netherlands, 11 March 2010. The Tefaf opens 12 March till 21 March. EPA/MARCEL VAN HOORN.

Here is the original:
Rare Museum Quality Masterpieces at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht (Art Daily)

A good week was when there was enough food on the table for her seven children, or money to buy clothes and school books.

Read more:
After the tithes, having food for the kids was the miracle (The New Zealand Herald)

NMS will market the Espresso Book Machine(R) to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content.

Here is the original post:
NACS Media Solutions and On Demand Books Form Partnership (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

A VAST collection of rare historical Yorkshire books, maps and prints is to go under the hammer for the first time since the Victorian era. (09/03/2010 09:55:34)

Excerpt from:
Yorkshire maps set to top charts at auction (Yorkshire Post Today)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com.

Originally posted here:
New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

Read the original here:
Lender putting www.sex.com on auction block (Reuters via Yahoo! News)