Five books to take you on amazing journeys

Five books to take you on amazing journeys

The Wall Street Journal Europe
29 Sep 2006

THESE TRAVEL BOOKS will send you, says globe-trotting author Simon Winchester, author of “A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906” and “The Professor and the Madman,” about the making of the Oxford English... read more...

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Clicks and mortar: Waterstone’s and Currys start web fightback

Clicks and mortar: Waterstone’s and Currys start web fightback
Bobbie Johnson and Owen Gibson
The Guardian
28 Sep 2006

Bobbie Johnson and Owen Gibson Two of the high street’s biggest names yesterday became the latest British retailers to launch a fightback against the online US giants eating into their profit margins. Waterstone’s, the country’s largest bookseller,... read more...

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Making Globalization Work

Making Globalization Work
BY JOSEPH STIGLITZ
Seven
17 Sep 2006

JALLEN LANE/PENGUIN 20, 358 pp T 18 (1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 oseph Stiglitz, the turbulent priest of global development economics, is back in his pulpit. He is a both a uniquely authoritative figure – having been ejected from the innermost court of... read more...

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Million Little Pieces may cost publishers millions in refunds

Million Little Pieces may cost publishers millions in refunds
Dan Glaister Los Angeles
The Guardian
08 Sep 2006

James Frey, the discredited author of the fake memoir A Million Little Pieces, has another bizarre tale to add to his next volume. Readers who bought his book under the impression that it might be a true story are to be offered a full refund. Under an... read more...

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A ‘Purpose Driven’ division

A ‘Purpose Driven’ division
By Suzanne Sataline in Iuka, Mississippi
The Wall Street Journal Europe
07 Sep 2006

INAPRIL, 150MEMBERSof Iuka Baptist Church voted to kick Charles Jones off the deacons’ board. The punishment followed weeks of complaints by Mr. Jones and his friends that the pastor was following the teachings of the Rev. Rick Warren, the best-selling... read more...

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