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The University of Michigan Press is cutting ties to a London-based book publisher that last year published a controversial book about Israel. Pluto Press published "Overcoming ...

University of Michigan to end contract with publisher of controversial ... - Ann Arbor News Blog

A review of Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union . Harper Perennial, 2007. 411 pp. $15.95. There are no pleasant, constructive or even likeable human beings in this ...

The Ultimate PC Novel - American Thinker

Barbara Parker , Dark of Day , at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Barnes & Noble , 591 S. University Drive, Plantation , 954-723-0489. Barbara Fox , Murder Is Served , at 7 p.m. Thursday; Brad ...

Footnotes: Book events for the week of July 6 - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

William P. Young, author of The Shack, is introduced to an audience in Indianapolis. Eckhart Tolle might have Oprah Winfrey, but The Shack has people such as Caleb Nowak. Nowak, a ...

Novel a surprise best-seller - Columbus Dispatch

He may not find the description all that endearing, but Gary Cristall is a living template of the term "old folkie." At 58, Cristall has spent pretty much his entire adult life ...

In praise of the people's music - Calgary Herald

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, was nice about sharia this week. It is not "only about mandating sanctions such as stoning, flogging, the cutting off of ...

Is cosying up to Muslim extremists the best way to defeat terrorism? - Daily Telegraph

Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport . No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the ...

'Nobody, nothing was sacred' - Chicago Tribune

As a 19th-century Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel was expected to pursue his groundbreaking genetics research with the same passion he reserved for his religious studies ...

Religion today - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

"More Cat Psalms: Prayers My Cats Have Taught Me" and "More Dog Psalms: Prayers My Dogs Have Taught Me" both by Herbert Brokering (Augsburg Fortress, $8.99). These sequels to the ...

Religious book with Minnesota ties - Minneapolis Star Tribune

One cloudy day in Jerusalem, nearly 2,000 years ago, the city's sages sat listening to a woman named Bruria. It is said that on that day she instructed them on 300 points of ...

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