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24 Oct 2011 12:03 |
| A book that purports to expose the radical nexus behind the Occupy Wall Street movement is set to officially launch next week at the anti-Wall Street's own downtown Manhattan park headquarters. |
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22 Oct 2011 16:19 |
| After a month of the genesis of the %99 or 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, writers and philosophical thinkers show more interest in joining the protesters. According to Jeff Sharlet, the petition list is stunningly diverse in terms of class, race, interests, and genre. |
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22 Oct 2011 12:11 |
| Former President Jimmy Carter is authoring a pair of books for a Christian publisher. |
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16 Oct 2011 10:40 |
| Disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff might hope his upcoming book sells well, but he won’t see all of the profits from it. |
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12 Oct 2011 16:18 |
| A few steps inside the stone-floored plaza at Zuccotti Park, crates filled with books lined the benches along a recessed wall. A volunteer swept leaves away from the benches in between organizing an ever-growing stack of volumes on the ground. This makeshift assembly of boxes is Occupy Wall Street's official library. |
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11 Oct 2011 11:54 |
| Six years ago, Merna Forster produced a long-overdue book containing biographies of 100 notable women in Canadian history. There is no question that it was needed; the accomplishments of women had gone unrecognized and unappreciated for far too long. |
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8 Oct 2011 13:15 |
| A new Desmond Tutu biography to mark his 80th birthday Friday celebrates the South African icon as a tireless activist and playful inspiration in tributes from world leaders to rock stars. |
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6 Oct 2011 13:02 |
| "For Iran to reach the peaks of progress, dignity and honor, intelligentsia dutiful to the nation and its future are needed," said Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei in a meeting with a group of the country's scientific intellectuals. |
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5 Oct 2011 20:18 |
| The Turkish National Education Ministry in Ankara has recently published the 3rd edition of a history textbook used in 10th grade high school classes. However, the textbook presents distorted historical information about Assyrians calling them as traitors who rebelled against Turkey. |
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5 Oct 2011 15:40 |
| After September 11, Pakistani-American historian Manan Ahmed called on U.S. officials to more vividly imagine the people of Pakistan. In particular, he asked them to develop "the capacity to imagine this Other, to give them an interiority, a mindfulness, an agency, a history." |
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1 Oct 2011 17:07 |
| A ceremony will be held on October 2, 2011 to unveiled the book of Palestine through the Leader's Perspective. The event is arranged on the second day of the 5th International Conference for Support of Palestine Intifada. |
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1 Oct 2011 12:39 |
| A Congolese-born campaigner called for a Tintin book to be banned on Friday, arguing before a Belgian court that its cartoons of Africans were racist |
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28 Sep 2011 12:47 |
| If elected president, Herman Cain is promising that you won’t find many Hollywood celebrities on the invite list for dinners at the White House. |
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27 Sep 2011 15:30 |
| The retired four-star general and former Secretary of State has a deal with HarperCollins for "It Worked for Me: Lessons in Leadership and Life." |
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25 Sep 2011 13:17 |
| Allameh Tabatabaee University's international relation's professor is authoring a book named "Islamic theory of Int'l relations". The book is a result of some 2 decades of researching the field of international relations. |
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20 Sep 2011 11:49 |
| Medvedev's Media Affairs by William Dunkerley presents a factual and insightful analysis of today's Russian media. Dunkerley provides detailed background and makes predictions for the future. |
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19 Sep 2011 11:43 |
| The White House launched an aggressive response to a forthcoming book that chronicles internal dissent and second-guessing of President Barack Obama by his own staff and presents Obama as a conflicted, sometimes wavering leader. |
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17 Sep 2011 12:57 |
| A new book to be released next week shows the White House's top economists sinking into petty fights that hindered crucial decisions during the height of the financial crisis, according to a newspaper report Friday. |
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14 Sep 2011 10:12 |
| The first volume of Iranian Premiers series by Mohsen Rajabi has been published in the country by Sayeh Ban. |
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12 Sep 2011 16:07 |
| During the critical session on 'Taliabn: Emergence to Downfall', Dr Seyyed Mohammad Reiszadeh academic member of Imam Hossein University stated that considering Taliban and Al-Qaida as people of intellectual stagnation and as primitives dwelling in valleys and tents should be avoided, because Taliban and Al-Qaida were gradually formed by a wide spectrum of thinkers and intellectuals. |