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Drawing on the arguments in his bestselling book, Where Good Ideas Come From, and his new collection, The Innovator's Cookbook, Steven Johnson looks at the surprising—and encouraging—way that non-market environments create important innovations, in this talk from the Emerging Technology conference. For more information on Where Good Ideas Come From, visit: bit.ly The Innovator's Cookbook: bit.ly To learn about the MIT Emtech conferences, visit: bit.ly

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The secrets of love, health, and happiness gleaned from a life lived with dogs from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Woof and Love At First Bark. Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, unable to meet a man she could spend her life with. And then it happened: she had a dream about a Boston terrier- a dream that practically hit her over the head. The companion she needed was not necessarily the one she'd had in mind. As fate would have it, a dog is exactly the thing that she needed. The New York Times bestselling You Had Me at Woof is the often-hilarious and always charming story of one woman's discovery of all she really needed to learn about life through her relationships with her canine companions. Klam shares how her love for dogs and the lessons she's learned caring for them has shaped her heart. This is a funny, earnest, and emotionally compelling look at the surprises, pleasures, and revelations that happen when you let any mutt, beagle, terrier, or bulldog go charging through your world. www.julieklam.com www.facebook.com/julieklamauthor www.twitter.com/julieklam

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One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward. Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines. Most exhilarating is Johnson's conclusion that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants <b>...</b>

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A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today. Dunham's story moves from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial marriage was still a felony in much of the United States, and culminates in the present, with her son as our president- something she never got to see. It is a poignant look at how character is passed from parent to child, and offers insight into how Obama's destiny was created early, by his mother's extraordinary faith in his gifts, and by her unconventional mothering. Finally, it is a heartbreaking story of a woman who died at age fifty-two, before her son would go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections of what she taught him. Janny Scott was a reporter for The New York Times from <b>...</b>

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"Better By Mistake is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the deeply human phenomenon of screwing up. With Alina Tugend as your wise (and wise-cracking) guide, you'll learn why perfection is a myth, why apologies pack power, and why effort is often more important than results. And once you've finished this book, you'll never look at mistakes -- or yourself -- the same way." -Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind A New York Times columnist delivers an eye-opening big idea: Embracing mistakes can make us smarter, healthier, and happier in every facet of our lives. In this persuasive book, journalist Alina Tugend examines the delicate tension between what we're told-we must make mistakes in order to learn-and the reality-we often get punished for making mistakes, and therefore try to avoid them or cover them up. In Better by Mistake, Tugend shows that mistakes are everywhere, and suggests that when we acknowledge and identify them correctly, we can improve not only ourselves, but our families, our work, and the world around us. Through fascinating research, Tugend reveals how trying to avoid mistakes can affect us from the earliest stages in our lives and shape us into adults who steer clear of risks and challenges. She takes us behind the scenes into cutting-edge behavioral studies; invites us into the high-stakes world of health care and aviation, where mistakes can cost lives, and delves into the art and science behind learning how to craft a <b>...</b>

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A brand-new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers. A new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley. On sale March 24, 2009. www.waltermosley.com

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The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs. Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, wondering if she would ever meet the man she could spend the rest of her life with. And then it happened. She met the irresistible Otto, her first in a long line of Boston terriers, and fell instantly in love. You Had Me at Woof is the often hilarious and always sincere story of how one woman discovered life's most important lessons from her relationships with her canine companions. From Otto, Julie realized what it might feel like to find "the one." She learned to share her home, her heart, and her limited resources with another, and she found an authentic friend in the process. But that was just the beginning. Over the years her brood has grown to one husband, one daughter, and several Boston terriers. And although she had much to learn about how to care for them-walks at 2 am, vet visits, behavior problems-she was surprised and delighted to find that her dogs had more wisdom to convey to her than she had ever dreamed. And caring for them has made her a better person-and completely and utterly opened her heart. Riotously funny and unexpectedly poignant, You Had Me at Woof recounts the hidden surprises, pleasures, and revelations of letting any mutt, beagle, terrier, or bulldog go charging through your world. For more information visit www <b>...</b>

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A green-eyed girl born into slavery on a Jamaican plantation who exhibits a dark, charismatic power... A group of slave women who are conspiring to stage a revolt and overthrow their masters... A young writer who "brings to mind early Toni Morrison, Jessica Hagedorn, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez..." -Kaylie Jones The Book of Night Women www.marlonjames.com

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www.shalomauslander.com http "Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking." -- Howard Jacobson, author of The Finkler Question and winner of the Man Booker Prize Shalom Auslander's HOPE: A TRAGEDY (on sale from Riverhead Books on 1/12/12) is a darkly hilarious novel about the double-edged sword that is hope, about anger, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the burdens of family and fatherhood. HOPE: A TRAGEDY is the masterful first novel from a celebrated writer whose fiction reveals startling truths about our lives and moral experiences, and makes us laugh, even as we recognize the hopelessness of existence. Video Directed by Coll Anderson, casound.com Edit by Chad Smith, remoteaccesspost.com

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Now the New York Times bestselling author Nick Hornby returns with JULIET, NAKED (Riverhead Books 9/29/09), writing about what he does best: rock n roll, extreme fandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about love.

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The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don't even realize it. Every day and in all walks of life, we overlook the robust power of situations, of context, in our lives. And that's a mistake, says Sam Sommers in his provocative new book, Situations Matter. Just as the museum visitor pays little attention to the frames around paintings, so do people overlook the influence of ordinary situations on the way we think and act. But frames -- situations -- do matter: They catch the eye and accentuate aspects of the paintings they surround. Your experience at the museum wouldn't be the same without them. The same goes for human nature. In Situations Matter, Sommers argues that appreciating and understanding the enormous impact that context has in our lives makes us more effective at work, at school, at home, and with each other. Recognizing the power of situations to shape human nature gives us a leg up in a wide range of endeavors, both professional and interpersonal. Sommers takes us on a fascinating and engaging journey through how our assumptions about other people are flawed and shows us how to understand why we make these mistakes. He also teaches us to recognize what pitfalls to avoid so that we can make better decisions and smarter observations about other people, the world around us, and even ourselves. Find the author on Twitter: @SamSommers

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By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr. Victor Aaron, a leading Alzheimer's researcher at the Soborg Institute on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Victor spends his days alternating between long hours in the sterile lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. But one day, in the midst of organizing his already hyperorganized life, Victor discovers a series of index cards covered in Sara's handwriting. They chronicle the major "changes in direction" of their marriage, written as part of a brief fling with couples counseling. Sara's version of their great love story is markedly different from his own, which, for the eminent memory specialist, is a startling revelation. Victor is forced to reevaluate and relive each moment of their marriage, never knowing is the revisions will hurt or hearten. Visit www.rosecransbaldwin.com for more information Many thanks to: Aya Padron, Mount Desert Island Photography Nathan Tarr - Recording Coudal Partners, Inc - Video & Sound

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www.shalomauslander.com http "Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking." -- Howard Jacobson, author of The Finkler Question and winner of the Man Booker Prize Shalom Auslander's HOPE: A TRAGEDY (on sale from Riverhead Books on 1/12/12) is a darkly hilarious novel about the double-edged sword that is hope, about anger, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the burdens of family and fatherhood. HOPE: A TRAGEDY is the masterful first novel from a celebrated writer whose fiction reveals startling truths about our lives and moral experiences, and makes us laugh, even as we recognize the hopelessness of existence. Video Directed by Coll Anderson, casound.com Edit by Chad Smith, remoteaccesspost.com

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Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. www.jeankwok.com

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PICTURE A BOOK CHANGING LIVES. NOW WATCH IT HAPPEN. Now you can help change even more lives. Due to popular request, Riverhead's Picture a Book Changing Lives campaign has eliminated the limit of two photos per Penguin Community account, and with your friends' permission, you can also submit their photos reading or holding a copy of either The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns. For each eligible photo that is uploaded to the group, Riverhead Books will donate $2.00 (up to a maximum $25000 donation) to the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. View more: bit.ly

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"...sales that turn crowds into frenzied mobs" don't miss your favorite comedian Lewis Black talk about 11/26/2010 - BLACK FRIDAY I'M DREAMING OF A BLACK CHRISTMAS is on sale now.

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Last month I received a finished copy of THE LONG FALL: The First Leonid McGill Mystery by Walter Mosley, which Riverhead Books published on March 24, 2009. Mosley embarked on a national book tour which will bring him to Minneapolis yesterday, April 8th for an event at Barnes & Noble/Edina, where I interviewed him prior to his presentation and reading. Riverhead Books publicists had this to say about Mosley's new direction: Walter Mosley, whom Time has praised as a writer whose work transcends category and qualifies as serious literature, is one of Americas most celebrated, important, and best-known writers. He has been described as a cunning storyteller concerned with the more profound mysteries of American lives (Boston Globe), a fearless boundary pusher (San Diego Union Tribune), and a national treasure (Washington Post) whose unflinching admissions about race relations will startle some readers and satisfy many more (O: The Oprah Magazine). As one reviewer of a Mosley mystery put it, Nobody, but nobody, writes this stuff like Mosley (The New York Times Book Review). Published now for the first time by Riverhead Books, hes back to debut a brand-new mystery series with THE LONG FALL: The First Leonid McGill Mystery. While still addressing issues of race in America, Mosley has moved from mid-20th century in Los Angeles to contemporary New York City, imbuing his writing with a new edge and urgency. Its a new character, a new city, a new era, a new publisher. A new Walter <b>...</b>

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The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto from The New Yorker writer David Owen about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal -- living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's The Conundrum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have <b>...</b>

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www.shalomauslander.com http "Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking." -- Howard Jacobson, author of The Finkler Question and winner of the Man Booker Prize Shalom Auslander's HOPE: A TRAGEDY (on sale from Riverhead Books on 1/12/12) is a darkly hilarious novel about the double-edged sword that is hope, about anger, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the burdens of family and fatherhood. HOPE: A TRAGEDY is the masterful first novel from a celebrated writer whose fiction reveals startling truths about our lives and moral experiences, and makes us laugh, even as we recognize the hopelessness of existence. Video Directed by Coll Anderson, casound.com Edit by Chad Smith, remoteaccesspost.com

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Penguin Group (USA) Announces Third Annual David Nominees, Opens Voting to Book Lovers Everywhere Publishing Industry Lets Out Collective Gasp and Wonders Excitedly, "Who Will Win?" New York, February 13, 2012 -- Penguin Group (USA) announced the nominees for the third annual David Awards, which recognize excellence in video, radio, and digital products. At a press conference this morning, previous David winners Kate Stark and Craig Burke read the names of the deserving nominees in the following categories: Best Video With a Celebrity Cameo, Best Video Without a Celebrity Cameo, Best On Screen / On Air Performance, Best Animated Video, and Best Digital Product. This year, for the first time ever, the Davids voting has been opened to the general public. Go to www.penguin.com/thedavids to watch each nominee and vote for your favorite. Voting ends Friday, February 17, and the winners will be announced in early March. Follow along on Twitter with #TheDavids. The nominees are as follows: Best Video with a Celebrity Cameo: You Had Me at Woof by Julie Klam (Riverhead Trade) That is All by John Hodgman (Dutton) Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander (Riverhead Books) "Scary Faeries and a Cthulhu Classic" -- Penguin Classics on Air (Penguin Classics) Best Video without a Celebrity Cameo: Shelter by Harlan Coben (Putnam Juvenile) Food Rules by Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman (Penguin Press) Built for Adventure by Clive Cussler (GP Putnam's Sons) "Books are Better" (Penguin Online <b>...</b>

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The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small New England town. Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the worldliness and sophistication of this dashing couple. But the Motherwells may be more than they seem. As Ginger's keen imagination takes up the seductive mystery of their past, she also draws closer to her town's darker history-back to the days of the Salem witch trials-and every new bit of information she thinks she understands leads only to more questions. Who-or what-exactly, are the Motherwells? And what is it they want with her? Both a lyrical coming-of-age story and a spine-tingling tale of ghostly menace, The Beginners introduces Rebecca Wolff as an exciting new talent in fiction.

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Encyclopædia Britannica interviews Janny Scott, author of "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother," the biography of Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother.

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Last month I received a finished copy of THE LONG FALL: The First Leonid McGill Mystery by Walter Mosley, which Riverhead Books published on March 24, 2009. Mosley embarked on a national book tour which will bring him to Minneapolis yesterday, April 8th for an event at Barnes & Noble/Edina, where I interviewed him prior to his presentation and reading. Riverhead Books publicists had this to say about Mosley's new direction: Walter Mosley, whom Time has praised as a writer whose work transcends category and qualifies as serious literature, is one of Americas most celebrated, important, and best-known writers. He has been described as a cunning storyteller concerned with the more profound mysteries of American lives (Boston Globe), a fearless boundary pusher (San Diego Union Tribune), and a national treasure (Washington Post) whose unflinching admissions about race relations will startle some readers and satisfy many more (O: The Oprah Magazine). As one reviewer of a Mosley mystery put it, Nobody, but nobody, writes this stuff like Mosley (The New York Times Book Review). Published now for the first time by Riverhead Books, hes back to debut a brand-new mystery series with THE LONG FALL: The First Leonid McGill Mystery. While still addressing issues of race in America, Mosley has moved from mid-20th century in Los Angeles to contemporary New York City, imbuing his writing with a new edge and urgency. Its a new character, a new city, a new era, a new publisher. A new Walter <b>...</b>

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HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER - A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley. From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia-and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own.

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A Journey Through the Madness Industry In this madcap journey (on sale May 12, 2011), a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. Follow Jon Ronson on Twitter: @JonRonson www.jonronson.com/

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An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet. "If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher, walking encyclopedia, and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee, the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 The Whistling Season. A decade later, Morrie is back in Montana, as the beguiling narrator of Work Song.

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"Reading Lizz Winstead's hilarious collection of very personal essays somehow leaves you changed. You laugh, and yet there are nutrients in her words." —Sarah Silverman Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens a brilliant account of how she discovered her comedic voice. In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice, both as a comedian and as a woman, and how humor became her most powerful weapon in confronting life's challenges. Growing up in the Midwest, the youngest child of conservative Catholic parents, Winstead learned early in her life that the straightforward questions she posed to various authority figures around her-her parents, her parish priest, even an anti-abortion counselor -prompted many startled looks and uncomfortable silences, but few answers. Her questions rattled people because they exposed the inconsistencies and hypocrisies in the people and institutions she confronted. Yet she didn't let that stop her from pursuing her dreams. Funny and biting, honest and poignant, this no-holds-barred collection gives an in-depth look into the life of one of today's most influential comic voices. In writing about her childhood longing to be a priest, her role in developing The Daily Show, and of her often problematic habit of diving into everything head first, asking questions later (resulting in multiple rescue-dog <b>...</b>

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A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were killed or injured. The country was appalled by the magnitude and savagery of the incomprehensible attack, which remains unsolved to this day. The bomb that devastated Wall Street in 1920 explodes in the opening pages of The Death Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld's provocative and mesmerizing new novel. War veteran Dr. Stratham Younger and his friend Captain James Littlemore of the New York Police Department are caught on Wall Street on the fateful day of the blast. With them is the beautiful Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist whom Younger meets while fighting in the world war. A series of inexplicable attacks on Rousseau, a secret buried in her past, and a mysterious trail of evidence lead Young, Littlemore, and Rousseau on a thrilling international and psychological journey-from Paris to Prague, from the Vienna home of Dr. Sigmund Freud to the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and ultimately to the hidden depths of our most savage instincts. As the seemingly disjointed pieces of what Younger and Littlemore learn come together, the two uncover the shocking truth behind the bombing <b>...</b>

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www.aleksandarhemon.com "Incandescent. When your eyes close, the power of this novel, of Hemon's colossal talent, remains." -Junot Diaz "An extraordinary writer: one who seems not simply gifted but necessary." -The New York Times On March 2, 1908, 19-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police, for reasons lost to history. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter for him. But instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting the foreigner Averbuch as an anarchist who had intended to assassinate him, America was ready to agree. It was a time when Chicago was still recovering from the Haymarket riots; anarchism and, especially, foreign-tongued immigrants were the big scare of mainstream America. A new wave of xenophobia was already sweeping through Chicago and the rest of the country when the Averbuch shooting set off a tumult that would involve Emma Goldman, marches in the streets, and a rash of scare headlines from coast-to-coast. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story - what really happened, and why? In order to understand Lazarus, Brik and his friend Rora - who overflows with stories of his life as a Sarajevo war photographer - retrace Lazarus's path <b>...</b>

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From bestselling author and Internet pioneer Steven Johnson, The Innovator's Cookbook (on sale October 4, 2011) is an essential book for anyone interested in innovation: the key texts on the topic from a wide range of fields as well as interviews with successful, real-world innovators, prefaced with a new essay by Johnson that draws upon his own experiences as an entrepreneur and author. Innovation is today's buzzword for a reason. The need to push forward, find new paths and new ideas, in an ever-evolving world, is an essential part of business, of education, of politics, of our daily lives. Building on the success of Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From -- one of the most acclaimed business books of 2010 -- The Innovator's Cookbook makes a major new contribution to this vital conversation.

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ME OF LITTLE FAITH by Lewis Black On sale June 3 from Riverhead Books

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From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight. Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional <b>...</b>

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"Julie Klam is like Proust, if he wrote about dogs instead of madeleines, wrote English instead of French, had better hair-and wrote exceptionally hilarious books that you can't help reading all at once." -Patricia Marx The bestselling memoirist shows how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself. Julie Klam writes about dogs with a rollicking wit and a radiating warmth-as no other writer can. In her bestselling memoir You Had Me at Woof, she shared the secrets of happiness she learned as an occasionally frazzled but always devoted owner of Boston terriers. Now, with the same enchanting, pop culture-infused amalgam of humor and poignancy that reached the The New York Times and the Today show and won the hearts of readers across the country, she returns with more humorous insight into life with canine companions. Klam focuses here on dog rescue, and its healing power not only for the dogs who are cared for and able to find good homes, but also for the people who bond with these animals. Klam became involved with rescue after years as an owner of purebred dogs. She was looking for a way to help and participate in a community, but she never imagined just how much she would receive in return. The dogs she has rescued through the years have filled her life with laughter and contentment, sorrow and frustration, and they have made certain that she never has a dull moment. Along the way, she has collected stories from friends who have also found that guiding dogs to <b>...</b>

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www.3mindware.com Book trailer for "The Island of Eternal Love", by Cuban writer Daína Chaviano. Published in 25 languages, it is the most translated Cuban novel of all time. Part gothic, part romance, part historical, it is also homage to the Cuban music. The English edition was published by Riverhead Books-Penguin Group (June 2008). More information about this author at www.dainachaviano.com . Designed by http Please contact us at: 2300 South Dixie Hwy , Suite 201, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL 33133 Tel: 786-323-9767 Website: www.3mindware.com

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After another round of cutting and pasting Cloudberry sleeves I decided it was time to do some vinyl ripping. Its been a while since I used my USB turntable. The slow morning (though I should answer a couple of emails!) invited me to go through and rummage around the 7″ boxes I have in my room. Earlier Ive been putting together some artwork for the next split single. Its fantastic. Also finished all the small posters for the new Cloudberry Classics CD, The Proctors, should be out any moment (you can pre-order now if youd like and you can listen Black Tattoos streaming on the Myspace page). Also talked with some amazing bands for future interviews, so keep tuned to this humble blog. Back to lost bands. The 7″ that I chose today for this Saturday morning comes courtesy of Avalanche Records, though they forgot to write which was the catalog number. Id guess the band comes from Scotland too. Did Avalanche release any band that werent Scottish? Having a look on the threefold sleeve, Riverhead was formed by Michael Doran, Rod White, Richard Conte and Ady Powers. It includes lyrics for both songs contained in this single sided 7″. Yeah, two songs on the A side which are Was Away and Haddit. It also lists some other releases by the band (which are not listed in Twee.net): * Alpharetta - which is a 12″ record that includes four songs, Looking At The Sky, She Can, Strange and My Turn. This is AGAP 005 * Haddit - another 4 track EP. This is AVA 001. Dont know which songs were <b>...</b>

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A Brief Excerpt From "Santa Lives" by Ellis Weiner from Riverhead Books. Off-season, he's Tour Manager for Elvis A VidLit Production.

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I amtouring the south in support of the paperback version of my novel, THE KEPT MAN. Six weeks, Tucson to Richmond, with a little NYC thrown in. I will try not to blog drunk. More info: jamiattenberg.com, whatever-whenever.net, lemuriabooks.com

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A video trailer inspired by the new book I Was Told There'd Be Cake, a collection of essays written by Sloane Crosley. For more information visit: www.sloanecrosley.com Buy the book here www.amazon.com created by www.milkproductsmedia.com

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We talk about letters (additional questions were by my friend Fif, the filmer), ODB, and then "The Wu-Tang Manual", written and published by RZA in January 2005. Since the interview, I bought the book at Amoeba Records, in San Francisco. A very interesting book... I really enjoyed it ! For those who really love the Wu, this book is a must : "THE WU-TANG MANUAL" by THE RZA Riverhead Books (www.riverheadbooks.com) Wu-Tang Corp (www.wutangcorp.com) Copyright 2005 RZA Corp +++++ SUBSCRIBE to my video podcast : www.StreetSmartCoolCat.com !! (once on my website, click on the 'iTunes' button) THEN meet me here : www.myspace.com/jchoq Subscribe to my myspace blog and add me to your friends, and to help me do my mediatic coup d'etat, please tell your friends to do the same !!! Countdown before take-over !!! The last part of my interview of RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan...

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Triangle fans love Lewis Black. Come see why when he returns to DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center on April 13, 2012. Lewis' live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment for his audience. Lewis yells so they don't have to. A passionate performer who is more teed-off optimist than mean-spirited curmudgeon, Lewis is the rare comic who can cause an audience to laugh themselves into incontinence while making compelling points about the absurdity of our world. Lewis was born in Washington DC and raised in Silver Spring, MD. Colicky as a baby, it seems he was destined to be angry and easily irritated. His mother, a teacher, and his father, a mechanical engineer, instilled in both Lewis and his younger brother Ron the importance of education and the necessity to question authority, lessons which have influenced Lewis throughout his private and professional life. When Lewis was 12, his father took him to his first play and he quickly fell in love with the theatre. This ultimately led Lewis to pursue a career in drama. Degrees followed from the University of North Carolina and Yale Drama School, with a stint in Colorado owning a theatre with a group of friends in the interim. During his tenure at UNC, Lewis first ventured into stand-up, performing at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill. Stand-up continued to be a steady avocation as he pursued his career in theatre. In the midst of a rigorous touring schedule, regular TV appearances and movie roles, Lewis <b>...</b>

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