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Book News: Webcast Tackles Large Print Issues Michael Rogers - 05/06/2008 LJ’s Best Practices in Large Print webcast clearly proved that there is far more to the subject that “do you have large print or not.”
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Book News: Bantam Giving Libraries Free Copies of L’Amour Book Michael Rogers - 05/06/2008
To celebrate Louis L’Amour’s centennial, his long-time publisher Bantam Books is “offering a complimentary copy” of a new hardcover edition of his volume Education of a Wandering Man “to every one of the more than 100,000 free libraries in the U.S.
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Book News: Guillermo del Toro Directing The Hobbit Michael Rogers - 04/29/2008 New Line Cinema April 24 announced that Guillermo del Toro indeed has signed on to direct The Hobbit as well as a sequel detailing the action during the time period between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
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For Future Reference Traci Avet, West Palm Beach, FL - 05/01/2008
Spring is just blooming with new resources on multicultural studies. ABC-CLIO's The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political Social and Military History is a four-volume set boasting 750 alphabetical entries, over 500 images, and a stand-alone volume profiling 150 primary-source documents related to Arab-Israeli issues.
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Spiritual Living By Graham Christian - 05/01/2008
May…the kingdom of the hawthorn in flower, the nightingale, dances around the Maypole, and a few good books. May 2008 finds Spiritual Living in a mood of optimism, perhaps even irrational exuberance. Among the Basics, we have James Diamond's immensely sensible and useful handbook for the reading of Torah portions, Pastor Michael D.
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On Goldwater By Staff - 05/01/2008
Buckley, William F. Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater . Basic Bks: Perseus . May 2008. c.304p. ISBN 978-0-465-00836-0 . $25.95. POL SCI William F. Buckley, who died this February, was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. Through his magazine, the National Review, the substantive television talk show he hosted, Firing Line, and his voluminous writings (thi...
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