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26 Jun 2011 12:03 |
| US President Barack Obama's half-brother - who has adopted China as his country - has written a book which he hopes will help China and the US "understand each other better". |
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25 Jun 2011 12:00 |
| A Message to Future Generations is the title of a book about President Ilham Aliyev's wife, Mehriban Aliyeva. |
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25 Jun 2011 10:29 |
| Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger’s recently released book On China has all ingredients of a brewing controversy. |
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22 Jun 2011 14:14 |
| The United States is likely headed toward its worst financial calamity in history. |
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21 Jun 2011 15:20 |
| American-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki likely played an important support role in the Sept. 11 attacks nearly 10 years ago, according to a new book that examines the threat of home-grown terrorism. |
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21 Jun 2011 12:29 |
| A Dutch group that purports to represent victims of slavery plans to burn The Book of Negroes, an acclaimed novel by Canadian Lawrence Hill, because it finds the title offensive |
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21 Jun 2011 11:00 |
| Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)-- On Wednesday, June 15th The Center for Political and Development Studies (CPDS) in Gaza invited Helena Cobban, a well-known veteran journalist and author, who owns and publishes Just World Books, to talk about her experience in writing, and to raise Gaza’s academics and journalists’ awareness of the best way to get published in the West. |
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18 Jun 2011 16:44 |
| Juan Cole is a professor of Middle Eastern History, University of Michigan, and author of blog, Informed Comment. This week, The New York Times reported that Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer–who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush–said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Cole, who writes an influential blog that at one time criticized ... |
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18 Jun 2011 10:44 |
| Senator Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who won the late Edward M. Kennedy’s seat in a special election last year, reported receiving a $700,000 book advance for his autobiography published earlier this year. |
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17 Jun 2011 11:45 |
| Author of Religion and Government in the Modern Era said the book is ready for publication and includes topics like democracy, freedom, and political partnership. |
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15 Jun 2011 16:34 |
| “Mao’s Great Famine,” a chilling chronicle of how Mao Zedong starved at least 45 million people, driving some to cannibalism, made the final round in the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, an annual U.K. nonfiction award worth 20,000 pounds ($32,770) to the winner. |
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14 Jun 2011 14:33 |
| Queen Mother Elizabeth's cousin and childhood playmate, Margaret Rhodes, has penned down some enchanting chapters from the Majesty's life in her book 'The Final Curtsey'. |
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14 Jun 2011 12:19 |
| From his tour of duty in Vietnam, Jim Oyster brought back a head injury, a leg injury and a right hand with one less finger. |
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13 Jun 2011 13:52 |
| Author Isabel Allende is praising Chile's effort to clear up mysteries surrounding the death of President Salvador Allende. |
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12 Jun 2011 14:32 |
| Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said he had “undoubtedly” anticipated the unrest in the Arab world in his book 10 years ago. |
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12 Jun 2011 11:35 |
| A bilateral agreement for the return of ancient Korean books from Japan came into force on Friday, about seven months after it was signed between the two countries. |
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11 Jun 2011 13:28 |
| Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has criticised his country's pursuit of nuclear power in an acceptance speech for Spain's 2011 International Catalunya Prize, a news report said Friday. |
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8 Jun 2011 15:48 |
| Tashi Rabten, respected Tibetan writer and author of the banned literary work, "Written in Blood" (penname - Theurang) has been sentenced to a 4-year prison term by a Chinese court. |
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8 Jun 2011 12:30 |
| Turkish group behind Gaza flotilla releases new book detailing 'one of 21st century's deadliest raids' |
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7 Jun 2011 11:50 |
| His interviews made us laugh, cry and think. But these days, Larry King is more about the laughs. |