Magazines By Steve Black - 10/01/2008
September–December 2008. Library Journal's reviews of new magazines and journals, covering launches and redesigns, updated monthly with the latest on serial publications for libraries.
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For Future Reference By Traci Avet, Ask a Librarian Virtual Reference Coordinator, Tampa Bay Lib. Consortium, FL - 10/01/2008
Exciting relationships are popping up all over the place! EBSCO and NewsBank have teamed up to allow EBSCO users an easy link to NewsBank results through integrated searching, and Greenwood has announced that Blackwell's Library Services Division will be the nonexclusive agent for the sale of Greenwood's online databases, including Daily Life Online and American Mosaic.
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Sound Bites Raya Kuzyk - 10/01/2008
The Road, the Pulitzer® Prize-winning postapocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, is coming to theaters November 26. Directed by John Hillcoat and adapted by Joe Penhall, the film will star Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Reviewer John Hiett called the audio recording (6 CDs. library ed. unabridged.
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Video 10/01/2008
Raw Organic Cuisine in Ten Minutes . color. 45 min. Starlight Home Entertainment , 323-932-7000; www.starlightfilmgroup.com. 2008. DVD UPC 793573-460882. $19.99. COOKERY Bryan Au of San Francisco is the featured chef on what is, unfortunately, an amateurish program. The dishes he prepares look attractive as well as healthful, but the audio, video, camerawork, editing, and direction are subpar.
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Spiritual Living By Graham Christian - 10/01/2008
Spiritual Upheaval This autumn finds spiritual authors seemingly in a reactive mode, coming to terms with breaking news and worrisome trends. Some give witness, from widely varying perspectives, to ongoing national and global upheavals, economic, physical, and spiritual alike. Others respond to assaults on organized religion and concepts of a conventional or personal God, and yet another offer...
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Short Takes: Presidents and Veeps Margaret Heilbrun, Library Journal - 10/01/2008
These books are timed to appear with the culmination of the 2008 presidential election season. Like the McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden teams, they are sometimes perplexing hybrids, mixing serious content with partisan opinion and putting considerable thought into packaging.
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Social Sciences 10/01/2008
Biography Berg, Pierre with Brian Brock . Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora . AMACOM: American Management Assn. 2008. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-8144-1299-2 . $24.95. AUTOBIOG Soon after the end of Word War II, French-born Berg first drafted a memoir of his years in Nazi concentration camps, but this finished work awaited collaboration with freelance author Brock alm...
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