Tag: books
group name: thoughtprovoking
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May 05, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
An American author James W. Laine’s historical book on a seventeenth century Indian warlord ‘Shivaji: a Hindu king in Islamic India’ (Oxford University Press, 2003, 144 pp) has created . . .
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September 07, 2006 06:55 AM EDT --
Since most of my writing this time of year is papers for college classes, I thought I'd post them and see what Gather has to say. This one is in response to the question: Name the "Hollywood . . .
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February 20, 2007 03:38 PM EST --
I had hoped to arrive at City Lights an hour early to get a seat and read from Tales of the Out & the Gone before Amiri Baraka's reading. With a holiday bus schedule (and at least one missed route), . . .
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November 28, 2007 03:29 PM EST --
You Might Be A Bookaholic If...
#1 Have the library's reserve phone number on speed dial.
# 2 Resorts to reading cereal boxes when there are no books around the house.
#3 Never checks . . .
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September 15, 2006 04:17 PM EDT --
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
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April 04, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
Books stuffed in cardboard boxes
Packed in mildewed neglect
Coffee stained earmarked pages
Stuck with untapped potential
From a geyser of thought
Words gushed through open pores
To . . .
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September 19, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
Eastern and Western cultures are different. There is no question about that. Over the last five years I have attempted to understand the enmity that Muslim fundamentalists feel towards us. Is it . . .
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September 28, 2006 05:18 PM EDT --
I was browsing through an old copy of To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson last night and a few lines from Louis Menand's foreword reached out at me, grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor. . . .
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March 28, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
I just read Yvette Francino's February article about the word grok: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976912787
It got me thinking about common words & phrases that English . . .
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August 16, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
Amy Cohen is best known for her work as a writer on television shows like "Caroline in the City" and "Spin City." Amy recently published a memoir, The Late Bloomer's . . .
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September 27, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
Warning, this is another one of my periodic "why people should pay more attention to history posts."
Today, after reading about recent revelations of Saudi-Israeli contacts I was reminded of . . .
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September 19, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
So, I've been hunting around for some time trying to find the source of this mysterious Byzantine Ambassador to the Empire of the Turks, one Zemarchos, that Grousset mentioned in his "Empire . . .
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October 14, 2006 03:48 PM EDT --
There will be a talk on Billy Meier by Michael Horn at Toronto's Science Centre on Oct. 21, 2006 (http://www.theyfly. com/PDF/FIGU. pdf) and I'd love to be there. I have heard quite a bit about . . .
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July 28, 2008 09:59 PM EDT --
BOOK REVIEW: Among the Cannibals by Paul Raffaele
Perhaps not for the overly squeamish, Paul Raffaele's book, Among the Cannibals , is sure to entice readers seeking an interesting travel narrative. . . .
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March 01, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
I haven't been creating much lately as far as writing. Nothing inspiring has come upon me. My Muse, Damon, seems to have left the building, or might be hibernating. Hopefully he hasn't totally . . .
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November 11, 2006 07:21 PM EST --
Two primary impulses drove me towards Yazd. First, I wanted to see the architecture of this old Silk Road city, to walk in Marco Polo's footsteps and see what he saw. My second goal was to see, interact . . .
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August 13, 2007 07:27 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Volume 3, Number 3 ~Books that Change your Way of Thinking~
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December 10, 2006 01:48 PM EST --
I am completely baffled! I love to read and got tired of library fines when I didn't get my books back on time and I got tired of paying $10.00 for a paperback book that I'd read in a couple of . . .
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October 05, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
part of my continuing review of Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial."
Regarding the July 10, 2001 meeting between Rice, Black and Tenet, there is one little nugget about that from . . .
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