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The Constitution of the U.S. and the Presidential Government By Lee Sang-don Sojin Publishing Co. America’s constitutionalism and the principle of checks and balances have offered crucial guidanc...
Updated : 2013.01.10 19:03
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It’s been a few weeks since Tom Hooper’s “Les Miserables” was released in local theaters. The star-studded musical film, whose cast includes Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, has been doing well at...
Updated : 2013.01.10 19:02
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HONG KONG (AFP) ― A debut novel and a work by a Nobel laureate were among five books shortlisted for Asia’s most prestigious literary prize on Wednesday, with entries across the region from Turkey ...
Updated : 2013.01.10 18:55
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Pam Houston has always stirred a healthy dose of reality into her fiction, and so when you read her latest novel and note that there are several near plane crashes in it, you have to ask: How many of...
Updated : 2013.01.03 20:04
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie By Ayana Mathis (Knopf) In “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” first-time author Ayana Mathis walks upon some of the richest thematic terrain America’s history can offer ...
Updated : 2013.01.03 20:04
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Seoul’s Gwanghwamun area in the early 1900s. (Seoul Selection) Among all of the U.S. Ambassadors to Korea since 1883, John M.B. Sill (1831-1901) served during one of the most turbulent periods of K...
Updated : 2013.01.03 20:03
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Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland By Paul de Barros (St. Martin’s Press) Paradise may be a great place to live, but the implicit lack of con...
Updated : 2013.01.03 20:01
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When it comes to events like school shooting in Newtown, Conn., there are knowns, unknowns and, already, mis-knowns. A photograph of Ryan Lanza circulated asserting he was the shooter, when in fact i...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:23
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Don’t judge a book by its cover, so goes an old saying, but looking at this book exhibition one is reminded of what Oscar Wilde once said: “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:21
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Desert Air By George Steinmetz (Abrams, New York) ‘Tis the time of year for coffee table books and, for the adventuresome, there is nothing better than “Desert Air.” World-class photographer G...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:18
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Hallucinations By Oliver Sacks (Knopf) Enter a nondescript building in the West Village, ride an old elevator a couple flights up and suddenly you’re in a world of wonder long in the making. You...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:18
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HUDSON, Wisconsin (AP) ― It started as a simple tribute to his mother, a teacher and bibliophile. Todd Bol put up a miniature version of a one-room schoolhouse on a post outside his home in this west...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:09
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There’s a crass old joke about how you can never buy beer, just rent it. Who would think that the same joke applies to book buying in the digital age? But that’s the case. Many people who were unwra...
Updated : 2012.12.27 19:09
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Safe House By Chris Ewan (Minotaur) Most Americans probably have little idea where the Isle of Man is on the map. For the record, this self-governing British Crown Dependency is located in the Iri...
Updated : 2012.12.20 20:02
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Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds Jim Sterba (Crown) The nature-challenged reader will discover many new and startling facts in Jim St...
Updated : 2012.12.20 20:01
