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Religion
Source: www.npr.org Date: Nov 21, 2009 Europe's Jews began to fight their way out of the ghettos during the tumult of the French Revolution. It's the focus of Michael Goldfarb's new book, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance. Guy Raz talks with Goldfarb about how that liberation More Source: januarymagazine.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 There’s almost spirit and humor enough in The Jewish Princess Feast & Festivals (Sterling Books) to match anything written by Amy Sedaris (you’ll note I said “almost”: Sedaris is really funny!). The bonus, of course, is that The Jewish Princess Feast & Festivals is also a very real cookbook and, More Source: www.newsouthbooks.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 Anna Olswanger, author of Shlemiel Crooks, is involved in the Jewish book world as both an author and literary agent. Her twin lives intersect in a website she developed, called <a More Source: www.mediabistro.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising More Source: news.thomasnelson.com Date: Nov 19, 2009 Thomas Nelson provides the latest press releases and press release archives updating the general public on corporate and author announcements. Thomas Nelson publishes and produces Christian books, bibles, videos, software, audio, Children books and toys, Women of Faith conferences, events, and More Source: www.thebookseller.com Date: Nov 18, 2009 Christian bookshop chain Wesley Owen has been put on the market along with its sister companies STL Distribution and publisher Authentic Media, after parent company the Christian book and bible charity IBS-STL UK said it was experiencing "severe financial and operational strains". More Source: www.columbiatribune.com Date: Nov 14, 2009 To establish global peace with Islam, the United States should build better relations with Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, U.S. Sen. Kit Bond said. More Source: www.denverpost.com Date: Nov 13, 2009 "He had never acquired the habits necessary for working within a political organization," Patenaude writes of his subject, who was murdered in 1940 by the proto-KGB, "let alone for maneuvering in the corridors of power." More Source: www.prweb.com Date: Nov 13, 2009 PR: Advent activities are few and far between once you get beyond Advent wreaths, Advent calendars, and Jesse Trees. In an upcoming Webinar, best-selling author Joe Paprocki will provide catechists, religion teachers, and RCIA leaders with suggestions for new, engaging Advent activities that tie More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: Nov 13, 2009 • "When the night's nailed up its colours to its mast/Like some swab loaded to the gun'les 'n' lashed to the plank": the love song of J Alfred Pirate. (Via Bookslut.) • The glamour of newly discovered words (apparently including "damson"). More Source: www.booklistonline.com Date: Nov 13, 2009 Booklist Online, featuring over 120,000 book reviews, as well as audiobook, video, and database reviews, is the counterpart to Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association. More Source: www.umanitoba.ca Date: Nov 13, 2009 Bobby Kalman. St. Catharines, ON: Crabtree, 2009. 32 pp., pbk. & hc., $9.95 (pbk.), $20.76 (hc.). ISBN 978-0-7787-4648-5 (pbk.), ISBN 978-0-7787-4633-1 (hc.). Subject Headings: Toleration-Juvenile literature. Differences (Psychology)-Juvenile literature. Grades 2-3 / Ages 7-8. More Source: www.beaconbroadside.com Date: Nov 12, 2009 The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died last week, a few weeks shy of his 101st birthday. Levi-Strauss was considered "the father of modern anthropology." Beacon Press published English-language translations of two of his books: The Elementary Structures of Kinship (from... More Source: mymindonbooks.com Date: Nov 11, 2009 The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade is a preorder as Im writing but due out from Penguin tomorrow (Nov 12) so it may be available by the time youre reading this. (link for UK)Product description from the authors website:The Faith More Source: comicsworthreading.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 Graphic novel, manga, and comic book news, recommendations, and reviews with attitude by Johanna Draper Carlson. More Source: www.shakopeenews.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 A free Share the Harvest concert is 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Living Hope Lutheran Church, 8600 Horizon Dr., Shakopee. Contemporary Christian recording artists Mela Kamin of the Twin Cities, Carl More Source: www.routledge.com Date: Oct 31, 2009 Common Sense and Philosophy in Islam By Avital Wohlman This book examines the contrasting interpretations of Islam and the Quran by Averroes and Al-Ghazali, as a way of helping us untangle current impasses affecting each Abrahamic faith. More Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Date: Oct 30, 2009 Harry Potter may seem like an unlikely read for a Benedictine monk, but Father Luke Bell has turned his attention to the young wizard to write a book of his own. More Source: www.austinchronicle.com Date: Oct 30, 2009 Two thousand years ago, when the Romans destroyed the Jews' Second Temple and then expelled them from Judea, they probably didn't realize they were helping to create a new culture, but they were. More Source: www.bostonherald.com Date: Oct 28, 2009 The wildly popular vampire craze that has sunk its teeth into books, TV shows and movies started with Anne Rice. Long before Stephenie Miller’s More Previous | Next
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