Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Google Alert - Books

Google Blogs Alert for: Books

Gawker - Amazon.com Says 'Embarrassing' Error, Not Hacker ...
By Owen Thomas
After gay-themed titles disappeared from Amazon.com's search results this weekend, everyone looked for someone to blame. One hacker took credit. Some faulted an Amazon engineer in France. One source thinks it was the Conficker worm.
Gawker - http://www.gawker.com/
The Big Read Blog » Blog Archive » FROM PAULETTE'S DESK
By Paulette Beete
Discuss each book, what each of you liked or didn't like about the story. My mom grew up in England and so she and I rarely read the same books when I was growing up. One birthday she gave me a copy of Enid Blyton's Famous Five ...
The Big Read Blog - http://www.nea.gov/bigreadblog/
Christian Devotion: Where to go? - Jesus Creed
By Scot McKnight
We get asked about books often, and it is not always easy to know where to begin. I once was asked about books on spiritual formation, and I just couldn't keep it to one and before long I had mentioned... By Scot McKnight @ April 14, ...
Jesus Creed - http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/
William Steig's Creationist Fable - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
By By Gregory Cowles
It is, in other words, a picture book about creationism and evolution. And here's the thing — the farther you read, the clearer it is that Steig is on the side of the creationists. As a proponent of evolution, Yellow comes off looking ...
Paper Cuts - http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/
Amazon Gay Book Screwup An Honest Mistake? | Mother Jones
By Party Ben
We weren't quite fast enough here on the Riff to get on this story when it first broke, but it was all over the Twitter. Shoppers (and authors) had started noticing that gay- and lesbian-themed books were getting stuck on the virtual ...
MoJo Blog Posts: riff - http://www.motherjones.com/rss/blogs/riff
Amazonfail: Amazon Apologizes For "Ham-Fisted" Catalog Error
By Meg Marco
It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. ...
Consumerist - http://consumerist.com/
EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 12, Bryan Caplan ...
By Bryan Caplan
He makes up for this chutzpah shortfall, though, with the single most ridiculous argument in the entire book: But suppose--just suppose--that despite all these handicaps and obstacles, despite the love for their new-found freedom, ...
EconLog: Library of Economics... - http://econlog.econlib.org/


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