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How to capitalize on human resources - Los Angeles Times
We should never judge a book by its cover, of course. But here is an important new tome that risks being overlooked because of its title. "Talent" is the latest word to get exploited half to death by consultants and gurus, and I blame consulting firm ...

New in Paperback (Washington Post)
Michael Erard calls his book Um "a work of applied blunderology," but, more simply, it is a primer on the science and history of bungled speech. "Why do verbal blunders happen?" Erard asks, and "What do they mean?" In seeking answers, Erard, a journalist with a master's degree in linguistics, sifts...

Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life - Metapsychology

Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
Metapsychology, NY - 8 hours ago
(I hasten to add that in this brief review I cannot possibly do justice to the careful work of all the philosophers who contributed to this book. .

Rare Books Review: Hot Items for Collectors
When you run your fingers over the cover and of an old book and flip through its antique pages, something extraordinary happens. You find that you are transported to a different place and time, you are holding a piece of history, ...

Rare Books Review: Hot Items for Collectors
. holding a piece of history, a piece of another era in you hands. You are unquestionably a bibliophile, a book lover if this setting stirs your passion. In this rare books review, you will learn more about the hobby of collecting [. ...

Ethics & Medicine - Total Truth - Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
July 1, 2008 -- Total Truth - Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity Nancy Pearcey. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005. ISBN 978-1581347463; 512 PAGES,...

We live in a hotel - Guardian Unlimited
The Chelsea hotel, in New York. A hot day in summer. On the pavement outside, a grizzled blonde swills gin from a paper bag. In the lobby, a self-consciously hip young couple are having a domestic. At the front desk, a man with silvery hair stands ...

'NYT' on Sunday Reveals 'Most Trusted Man in News' -- And America? - Editor & Publisher

'NYT' on Sunday Reveals 'Most Trusted Man in News' -- And America?
Editor & Publisher - Aug 16, 2008
The reporter -- a longtime Times book reviewer -- offers a tour of the offices and reviews the work routine. Stewart concludes, in analyzing his own show, .

Teach your children well -- outside - Canada.com

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Teach your children well -- outside
Canada.com, Canada - Aug 12, 2008
"I like to play inside, 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," says a fourth-grader in the book Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv .

An olympic undertaking - Chicago Tribune
I'm just going to come right out and say it: I'm totally over China. I have been struggling with this truth for some time now, trying to think of the best way to get it off my chest without causing major offense and/or an international incident. In ...

Manga Review: Batman: Child Of Dreams by Kia Asamiya and Max Allan Collins
EUR¦ rare beast that successfully merges manga with American comics. It stays true to a comic book icon while at the same time retaining the unique qualities of manga. It's a EUR¦..

Archives (The Daily Tar Heel)
The man who terrorized campus when he drove a Jeep through its heart will likely spend more than twenty years in prison. Mohammed Taheri-Azar said only "yes sir" when asked Tuesday if he intended to kill the nine people who were injured in the March 2006 attack...

Splitsville: Dissecting Favre and the Packers - ESPN.com
Actual quotation: "I don't want to be a distraction to the Packers." Brett Favre, July 26. Brutus also said he did not want to be a distraction to Julius Caesar. Et tu, Brette? Now that Favrarama is finally over -- please, say it's over -- it's time ...

'CSI's' 'Professor' Fishburne Has A Lot to Learn (Washington Post)
Laurence Fishburne is thrilled to be joining the cast of CBS's "CSI," a TV series he'd never been interested in enough to watch, to play a character he doesn't seem to know much of anything about, including the name. The Oscar-nominated actor is supposed to start shooting early next month...

Why driving is trickier, riskier than most believe (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Tom Vanderbilts EURœTrafficEUR EUR engagingly written, meticulously researched, endlessly interesting and informative EUR is one of those rare books that comes out of the depths of nowhere...

Spectator, The - Deeply exposed
July 5, 2008 -- Sir: In his review (Books, 14 June) of my book, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World...