search tools

The Cultural Revolution and China’s Future review: A red dragon’s rise – and fall?

Edit The Irish Times 30 Jul 2016
“The current (post-2009) situation of tightened controls and increased repression only accentuates and makes more acute the already severe tensions within society and between the party-state and society,” he writes ... If it does not, then secular stagnation will continue, the reforms will continue to stall, and the CCP will gradually lose its grip on power,” Shambaugh writes ... The level of research in Dikötter’s book is astonishing....

Harry Potter still casting a spell on opening night of The Cursed Child drama

Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Jul 2016
"Pottermania" will reach fever pitch as the Cursed Child opening in London is immediately followed by the midnight release of the play's script book, allowing fans across the globe to find out what happens next to the boy wizard and his friends ... Set 19 years after the events of the seventh and final book, The Cursed Child brings back Harry Potter, now grown up and an employee at the Ministry of Magic....

Martin Pollack: I could not be silent

Edit Topix 30 Jul 2016
Accepting the fact that your father is a Nazi criminal is nearly impossible. Austrian writer Martin Pollack solved it by breaking up with his family, about which he often writes in his books ... ....

Is The Student Loan Crisis Fact Or Fiction? (CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
There's a new book out about the student loan crisis, or what author Sandy Baum suggests is a 'bogus crisis.' Baum, a financial aid expert and senior fellow at the Urban Institute, claims it has been manufactured by the media in search of a spicy story and fueled by politicians pushing 'debt free college' proposals. We had a few questions for Baum about the book, Student Debt ... You also cite two big trends in your book....

Former Fox News Booker Says Roger Ailes Caused 20 Years of ‘Psychological Torture’

Edit The Wrap 30 Jul 2016
In an interview with New York Magazine, Laurie Luhn alleges that in exchange for a position in the company, protection and cash, she was required to perform sexual acts for Ailes ... Also Read. Ousted Fox News Boss Roger Ailes to Write a Memoir ... Ailes allegedly asked Luhn, who was able to hire employees as the new director of bookings, to recruit young women for him ... Also Read ... Also Read ... Ousted Fox News Boss Roger Ailes to Write a Memoir....

2-year-old boy drowns in nullah dug by WCL

Edit The Times of India 30 Jul 2016
The protests came to an end when WCL reportedly assured in writing to give financial assistance of Rs1 lakh to Pratam's parents and a daily-wage job in a private company engaged with the WCL to Pratam's father. However, this could not be confirmed as WCL general manager of Nagpur Area, MK Majumdar did not respond to TOI's calls and message....

Dismissing Trump Fans As White Trash Gets Our Class System All Wrong

Edit The Daily Beast 30 Jul 2016
Class confusion is everywhere in the news today ... Yet almost half—42.1 percent, or 19.7 million Americans—of those below the poverty line are white. In the South, more than half of the poor are white ... The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction ... Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com ... ....

Muggles Can Attend Harry Potter Release Party (City of Tucson, AZ)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
Antigone Books will host a midnight release party for the latest book from author J ... The book is the literary version of the new Harry Potter play ... on July 30 and books will be available at the stroke ......

Pupils off to Rio with donated books for library

Edit Topix 30 Jul 2016
Rebecca Atkinson from Manor School, York with some of the books provided by Waterson's Bookstore to take to Rio during a school trip with Paula McCavanagh and Clair Brown Picture A GROUP of York school students is off to Rio in time for the Olympics - and taking dozens of books along with them to help stock a new library....

Woody Paige retiring from The Denver Post

Edit Denver Post 30 Jul 2016
Woody Paige will write his final column for The Denver Post on Sunday.The Denver Post file ... Sunday, Woody writes for The Post for the last time, ......

First American Pokemon Go Master Gets Free Trip Around The World To ‘Catch ‘Em All’

Edit Inquisitr 30 Jul 2016
While it is free, his trip is far from economical especially since Marriott Rewards booked him into luxurious hotels like the Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Renaissance Hong Kong Harbor View, Pier One Sydney Harbor, and the Tokyo Marriott Hotel. In exchange for the free travel, the Pokémon Go master is expected to write on ......

COLOUR: The art and science of illuminated manuscripts (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
'Leading artists of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance did not think of art and science as opposing disciplines,' said curator, Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books ... book trade, producing both religious and secular texts ... Smalt, obtained by grinding blue glass, was found in a Venetian illumination book made c.1420....

Nina Parker’s St Tropez recipes: from barbecued sea bass to pink chard tart

Edit The Independent 30 Jul 2016
... brings delicious Provençal cuisine and Mediterranean recipes to our table in the form of her book, St Tropez....
×
×
×
×