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• in TV
  Meet American Hero Daisy Bates on Independent Lens February 2
  Daisy Bates, fearless civil rights leader, achieved fame as leader of the Little Rock Nine, but at what price?
  by missbobetier / on Jan 30, 2012
• in Film
  From Tribeca Film: Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Adventure (2011)
  When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors, they created one of the world's first 'viral' pop-culture sensations.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 22, 2012
• in TV
  Have You Heard from Johannesburg (PBS) Concludes January 26
  The conclusion of a five-part series about the global anti-apartheid movement, “Have You Heard from Johannesburg?,” airs on PBS January 26.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 21, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nonfiction”

 

• Imprint Friday: The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart

  
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  Welcome to Imprint Friday and todays featured imprint: Algonquin Books . Stop by each week to be introduced to a must-read title from one of my favorite imprints. I know youll be adding many of these books to your wish list. Have you ever ...
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• Father’s Day Fridays

  
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  So…Father’s Day is about a month away at this point. And while you’ll see MANY wonderful dad-oriented gift ideas over the next few weeks, I can tell you that there will only be two Father’s Day Friday posts – this week and June 1. Instead of dividing things up into husband vs. dad vs. father-in-law vs. ...
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• Forthcoming: Dion Chang’s New Urban Tribes of South Africa

  
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  Years on from the birth of the Rainbow Nation, South Africans can no longer simply be categorised as black, white, coloured or Indian. Old stereotypes have been replaced by a new cast of colourful characters that approach life, love and brands from very different perspectives. Influenced by both global cosmopolitan ...
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• Review: Groupthink Can Run Both Directions

  
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  Nutrition news is ripe for overstatement. You might say there are fruit flies of hyperbole swarming many popular reports on select health benefits. Take this example from a site I wont name (not naming my source would be in keeping with many health reports): "In parts of China where people eat a lot of vegetables ...
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• Winter, 1978

  
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  Snow angled itself in the corners of each window.   Frost crept across the panes.   The driveway filled with drifts three or four feet high.   The doors were nearly frozen shut. We dressed in layers and hurried to the barn.      We rushed from stall to stall, using screwdrivers to chip away the layer ...
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• University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years

  
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  The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, will close up shop , university system President Timothy M. Wolfe announced Thursday. In its 54 years in operation, it has published approximately 2,000 titles. The University of Missouri Press has published books on the topics of American and world history; ...
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• Mongolian Dinosaurs and Roy Chapman Andrews

  
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  Considering how much Mongolian dinosaurs have been in the news , it seemed appropriate to do a post highlighting biographies of one of the more interesting personalities in 20th Century paleontology, Roy Chapman Andrews  (1884-1960).  Andrews led the American Museum of Natural Historys famous Central ...
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• Annie Dillard on The Writing Life

  
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  I don’t really know how these kinship trees work, but Annie Dillard is my third or fourth cousin twice or something removed on my father’s side. Suffice it to say we’re distantly related, and we both grew up in Pittsburgh. But that’s as close as we’ve ever been. When I discovered Dillard’s The Writing Life ...
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• So,

  
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  The Moonshot launch was a success; the performers, the Housing Works staff, and JD Scott kept things...
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• What I’m Reading … ‘Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School’ by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

  
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  What I’m reading: Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School (Slightly Foxed, 199 pp., £11), by Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Introduction by A.N. Wilson. Afterword by Julian Fellowes. What it is: A history of St Philip’s school in London and its idiosyncratic founding headmaster, Richard Tibbits. Why I’m reading it: ...
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• Doctors

  
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  I think for most of us, we take our doctors for granted (ignoring what it costs these days). We expect them to patch up scrapes and solve medical mysteries. If we only understood their training and how doctors have evolved over time, we can better understand how to communicate with them. Doctors: the illustrated ...
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• Womens Health Issue Book Tours Online

  
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  Title – The Moon She Rocks You Author – Gurutej Khalsa Authors website link - http://gurutej.com/store/11-moon-centers Genre or category – Alternative Health/Women’s Health/Self Help ISBN-10: 0615621678 ISBN-13: 978-0615621678 The Moon She Rocks You by ...
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• Riot Recommendation: Food Writing

  
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  On the short list of Things I Love As Much as I Love Books, food takes one of the top spots. I love to cook. I love to eat. I love to eat with the people I love and talk about what we’re eating, then go home and talk about what we ate and what [...] You just finished reading Riot Recommendation: Food Writing ! ...
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• “This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands”

  
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  You’ve Got to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life “This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield , cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable ...
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• The Learning Network Blog: On June 7, Join the Conversation About Summer Reading

  
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• Charlotte au Chocolat

  
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  In the 1980s, Charlotte Silver was the party-dressed princess of her parents’ restaurant Upstairs at Pudding, a sometimes hot spot in Harvard Square. She was served bottomless glasses of Shirley Temples, doctored to her Maraschino cherry and citrus garnish specifications. She sometimes napped beneath the bar. She ...
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• “This book offers lists of favorites that have flown under the radar, but off of bookstore shelves”

  
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  Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America’s Indie Bookstores “There is no greater joy for a bookseller than introducing a reader to a book they will love for the rest of their lives. Those of us in this business are, after all, matchmakers at heart. So consider this little book you now hold in your hands a ...
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• The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

  
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  This summer Britain has a lot to celebrate not only will they host the Summer Olympic Games but Queen Elizabeth II will be marking sixty years spent on the throne with Diamond Jubilee celebrations. According to Buckingham Palace some of the events will be as follows: the Queen will attend the Epsom Derby, there will ...
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• Christo Gerlach vir sy dapperheid geloof by die bekendstelling van Agter die skerms

  
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    Christo Gerlach is baie dapper om sy lewe in sy outobiografie Agter die skerms: My donker reis na die lig bloot te lê. Só het Margot Luyt, aanbieder van die programme Kortom en Vers en Klank op RSG , gisteraand by die bekendstelling van die boek by die Lindy van Niekerk Kunsgalery in Welgemoed ...
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• "The Girls Ghost Hunting Guide" Review

  
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  "The Girls Ghost Hunting Guide" by Stacey Graham Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Release Date: May 1, 2012 Source: sent by publisher My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Summary from goodreads.com:    What was that noise? The cat? The wind? Little brother stealing a peek at your ...
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