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Now Available (The LRC Blog)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:38:46 GMT

I'll have more to say about it as the official publication date (Sept. 8, says Amazon; Sept. 15, says Basic Books) approaches. But it's for sale at Amazon right now. Murray Polner and I are excited about it --...

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Book - Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Putting people first)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:52:56 GMT

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Basic Books, 2008 Hardcover, 288 pages This new book, which grew out of the digital natives project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center, investigates “what it means to grow up in a mediated culture and the ways in which technology inflects issues like privacy, safety, [...]

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Reinventing the Sacred - Stuart Kauffman (Smartmobs)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:10:42 GMT

Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion Stuart A. Kauffman 2008, Basic Books There are some books that do not fade after the first encounter. They do not let go of the mind, instead re-surfacing again and again, because they communicate something fundamental, something vital, with the potential to change an entire worldview. Stuart [...]

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Just Released, Palfey and Gasser's Born Digital (Law Librarian Blog)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:52:01 GMT

All hell is about to break loose -- the first generation of "digital natives" is coming of age! That's not the message in John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008)...

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Reinventing the Sacred - Stuart Kauffman (P2P Foundation)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:45 GMT

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Our Childish Debate About John McCain's Marriage to a Wealthy Woman (History News Network)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

[Mr. Shenkman, the editor of HNN, is the author of Presidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power & Got Things Done (HarperCollins). His latest book is http://hnn.us/HowStupidAreWe/book.html Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books) . ] We are supposed to be shocked that John McCain has so many houses he can't remember...

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Choosing One's Battles (Red Orbit )

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:00:06 GMT

By Castleman, Barry PUBLIC HEALTH Choosing One's Battles SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER. Devra Davis. xviii + 505 pp. Basic Books, 2007. $27.95. We are all born innocent.

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Book review: Murray sifts through myths of St. Francis (JSOnline)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:19:43 GMT

A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi. By Wendy Murray. Basic Books. $25.95. 304 pages. Mystic, nature-lover and reformer, Francis of Assisi (circa 1181-1226) is one of the most popular saints of t...

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It's the Electorate, Stupid (The New York Observer)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:02:24 GMT

Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter By Rick Shenkman Basic Books, 210 pages, $25 I remember an uproarious night almost seven years ago at Shay’s Pub and Wine Bar in Cambridge, Mass.—my local hangout. I was entertaining a friend, also an historian, who was in town doing research. He told me that earlier in the day, he’d wandered into a nearby radical bookstore,...

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Why Is the Flag so Important? (History News Network)

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:45:41 GMT

This blog is run by Rick Shenkman , the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network . In a recent Gallup Poll Americans were asked...

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The Voters Choose… but on the Basis of What? (History News Network)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

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Why the American People Were So Easily Bamboozled by the Bush Administration (History News Network)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:51:17 GMT

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The Dumbing Down of Voters (History News Network)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:02:16 GMT

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We're All Populists Now. That's Unfortunate. (History News Network)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:12:37 GMT

Mr. Shenkman, the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008), is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News Network. This is a story about the failure of The People and how their failure led inexorably to the Iraq War. But before we can get to that...

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The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers (Biomedicine on Display)

Fri, 30 May 2008 07:25:36 GMT

On Friday 13 June, Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill, will give a talk at Medical Museion about her new book ’The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers’ (Forthcoming on Basic Books). Among her earlier books are Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America and Medicating [...]...

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The Pill: Help Us Write Its History (Feministe)

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:17:49 GMT

Passing this along for a friend: Dear Friends (and friends of friends…), The Pill is often considered one of the most important innovations of the twentieth century. As I investigate this claim for a new book—set for release on the 50th anniversary of the Pill’s FDA approval (Basic Books, [...]

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My Visual Basic Collection | by ~ big b ~ (BwT)

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:35:56 GMT

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Would Robert E. Lee Welcome YOU To His Dinner Table? (Civil War Memory)

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:48:13 GMT

I am currently reading and enjoying Susan Dunn's Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia (Basic Books, 2007), which explores the period between the 1820s and the Civil War. Dunn writes well, but most importantly the book...

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Killing communism (New Statesman)

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Yeltsin: a Life Timothy J Colton Basic Books, 616pp, £20.99

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Just Two Questions: 'How To Be Useful' Author Megan Hustad Explains How To Succeed In Publishing By Actually Trying (MediaBistro.com)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:35:06 GMT

Megan Hustad worked at Knopf , Basic Books , and Counterpoint Press before leaving publishing to write a book about the unexpectedly actually-relevant lessons of what she calls "success literature," so naturally her book -- coming in May!-- is full of what-not-to-do examples that will sound familiar to anyone who's had similar jobs. Like the time Hustad "innocently typed...

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