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Short Takes: Spy Thrillers By David Keymer, Modesto, CA - 06/01/2009
The modern spy novel started with W. Somerset Maugham's 1928 Ashenden: Or the British Agent. If, as assumed, Maugham modeled Ashenden's adventures on his own experiences as a secret agent during World War I, the first modern spy in fiction would be 135 years old today. Ashenden's sucessors are still doing well, though today—indeed, since the 1930s—they operate in a less gentlemanly ... More
Military History, Part 3: Studies of Current Hotspots By Edwin B. Burgess, Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, KS - 06/15/2009
Afghanistan Jones, Seth G. In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan . Norton . Jul. 2009. c.432p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 978-0-393-06898-6 . $27.95. Jones (RAND Corp.) examines American successes and failures in Afghanistan and argues for a radically different approach from the primarily kinetic strategy of 2002-03.
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Business 2.0 By Caroline Geck, Newark Public Schls. Lib., NJ - 06/15/2009
Culwell, Lori . Million Dollar Website: Simple Steps To Help You Compete with the Big Boys—Even on a Small Business Budget . Berkley: Penguin Group (USA) . 2009. c.240p. ISBN 978-0-7352-0441-6 . pap. $19.95. This do-it-yourself guide shares the web-design best practices of successful enterprises, especially Fortune 500 companies, and offers advice, tips, and free Internet tools for entre...
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Social Sciences 06/15/2009
Biography Butler, Sana . Sugar of the Crop: My Journey To Find the Children of Slaves . Lyons: Globe Pequot . 2009. 254p. ISBN 978-1-59921-375-0 . $24.95. AUTOBIOG What a fascinating—even tantalizing—subject for study! Who would have imagined that any offspring of freed slaves might still be alive? Butler (special correspondent, Newsweek International) did and in 1997 began a deca...
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Cookery By Judith Sutton, New York - 06/15/2009
Blumenthal, Heston . Further Adventures in Search of Perfection: Reinventing Kitchen Classics . Bloomsbury UK , dist. by Trafalgar Square. Jul. 2009. c.320p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-7475-9405-5 . $35. COOKERY Blumenthal (The Big Fat Duck Cookbook; In Search of Perfection) is the chef of the renowned Michelin-starred Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, England.
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Science & Technology 06/15/2009
Agriculture Kessler, Brad . Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese . Scribner . Jun. 2009. c.256p. ISBN 978-1-4165-6099-9 . $24. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Novelist and journalist Kessler (Birds in Fall) introduces us to a more personal side of his life—his life with goats.
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Short Takes By Savannah Schroll Guz, formerly with Smithsonian Lib., Washington, DC - 06/15/2009
Bentley, Elizabeth Petty . County Courthouse Book . 3d ed. Genealogical . Jun. 2009. 322p. ISBN 978-0-8063-1797-7 . $49.95. REF A fully revised update to the 1996 edition, this exhaustive compilation of local government offices is arranged alphabetically, first by state name. Bentley (Directory of Family Associations) then subdivides each state alphabetically by county.
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New from IGI Global By Savannah Schroll Guz, formerly with Smithsonian Lib., Washington, DC - 06/15/2009
Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery . IGI Global . 2009. 360p. ed. by Hsiao-Fan Wang . ISBN 978-1-59904-982-3 . $180. REF This highly specialized resource explores the software and algorithms capable of mathematically analyzing inconclusive or "fuzzy" data, mining for meaningful patterns, assisting in the unambiguous classification of...
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Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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