Women In Politics

Publishers seek to shorten library shelf life of their digital books
Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost.

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Beach Reads Finished, It’s Time for the Big Books
Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.

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Plymouth hits the books
PLYMOUTH — Everyone is excited to start school in Plymouth, according to Superintendent Anthony Distasio.

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Cassidy: Former Sun chief Scott McNealy s better idea for school text books
Former Sun chief executive Scott McNealy thinks he has a Silicon Valley solution to a challenge that’s costing schools billions. His Curriki initiative would move textbooks and much more onto the Web, where it would be free for the taking. Now he just needs to convince the rest of the world to go along.

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Joseph A. Palermo: Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good, (Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 2010), pp …
R. Jeffrey Lustig has compiled (and contributed) to an amazing set of useful essays that examine the many maladies plaguing California’s politics and public institutions…

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10 Of The Best Books To Read On The Beach
Remember when you were a kid and summer meant you could stop reading books for a few months? Isn’t it funny that as we move into adulthood we find ourselves looking forward to those summer months as our excuse to sink into a good book? Well, we’re about to hit the calendar’s primo beach reading real estate.

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Bestselling books the week of 5/6/10, according to IndieBound*
What’s selling best in independent bookstores across America.

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