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"I'm Writing Another Book Answering Christian Objections" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 16:08:47

; and Paul Copan's series of books beginning with True for You. But Not for Me; How Do You Know You're Not do by?; That's Just Your Interpretation; and the last volume of his yet to be published. Anyway. I'm initially planning on breaking the book down into two parts. The first part will be answering Christian objections to non-belief. The second part will be focusing on questions to ask Christians. If these two sections become too large. I might create them as separate books. But that's yet to be seen. So I'm curious what questions do my readers think I should deal with in these two categories? I'm a little unclear on what you're going for--the distinction between rebutting reasons to accept and objections to non-belief isn't ll that alter. Do you perhaps have in object the very flimsy stuff where the compose hasn't even given any thought to the nature of his assign? I doubt many atheists need a book refuting such cram though certainly it could be helpful to theists. The one way you might alter such a book valuable to skeptics is to try to explain what a wide category "atheist" is explaining that it doesn't bear on commitment to any doctrines on unrelated subjects. Survey the various positions taken by atheist philosophers on the major issues of philosophy: Chamlers. Searle and Dennett on consciousness. Sartre and a representative determinist or two on remove ordain. Moore and Russell on ethics and so on. As for questions to ask Christians. I'd bend heavily on your own experience dealing with them but "Why do you believe?" and "Why don't you believe in other gods?" are good places to start. As you probably can guess. I'd hope you'd spend quite a bit of measure on the 'Problem of Communication.' That is why if the Christian God exists and has a communicate to convey to mankind through Jesus he did such an incredibly bad job of doing it. Some topics under this:Why didn't Jesus create verbally his own book instead of -- in the Christian believe -- depending on his followers to write their own?Why after having spent at least some months preaching and living with his disciples did he need to appear to Paul and undergo him correct the 'mistakes' the disciples made? (Paul's own comments about the 'Jerusalem Group' in Galatians alter a good starting inform for this.)Why within a hundred years after his death were there so many different concepts of Christianity from Marcionites to Ebionites to the Gnostics etc? (I'd use Ehrman's LOST CHRISTIANITIES heavily here.)Why now are there no main points on which Christians agree with disagreements including 'salvation by faith' or by faith and works what "Thou art Peter..." meant the proper age of baptism whether 'accepting Christ as your Saviour' wipes out past or prospective sins etc. And finally the challenge of why if Chirst had a 'message' and his resurrection was to be the central create of the authenticity of that message he did not appear to independent or hostile witnesses. (I've suggested the effect it would undergo had if he appeared before the Sanhedrin or before Pilate -- and pointed out that Pilate had the ear of the Emperor how powerful would THAT watch undergo been.)(You might also have in mind the possibility that Jesus could have in maybe two paragraphs undergo given instructions for his followers to develop wood-block printing. "Carve my words into blocks of wood or stone move ink upon it and press a papyrus aganst it." Think how he would have been respected throughout the world had he merely done this -- well within the technology of the time -- and how the world would have been spared fifteen hundred years of hand-copying manuscripts by the light of flickering candles. Why did a ameliorate god accept a ameliorate being Satan to change state imperfect by already having known that a corrupt being would also give everything outside of heaven yet in spite of god's knowing of good and evil he continued to create the heavens and the hide and put a man and a woman on hide knowing it would soon be corrupted with an imperfect being?How go god did not administer a path for salvation immediately after Adam and Eve sinned by introducing a human free Jesus to save them from their original sins? How go god knew that men's 'hearts were continually wicked' that he chose to use Noah and his family to separate out all wickedness yet soon after the flood we have a city that is full of wickedness? So much for the wickedness filter experiment. I evaluate this story was thought up to inform why rainbows are seen after a come down mainly they knew nothing about prisms and the effects of lighten reflection. How come it was a sin for Lots wife to be back at the city but yet it was ok for Lot's two daughters to get him drunk and undergo his baby. How go it took god 4000 years to create by mental act the Jesus salvation plan?How come when asked. Who shall speak up for this man? And no one spoke up not even his own supposedly mother or father? Nor his devoted disciples?How come if Jesus was god and god was Jesus. Why did Jesus say on the cross "My God. My God. Why has thou forsaken me?" As if to label upon himself to save himself from himself? I think he forgot he was god. How go there are so many different denominations and different beliefs?How go that god used to be circumscribe with animal sacrifices and now is just as circumscribe with a 10% money offerings?How go god is not a respector of persons yet he just calls certain people to preach his evince?How come it took god only six days to created the entire universe but yet it took him 40 days and nights to write the ten commandments?How come god flooded the hide and killed all the trees and animals what sin did they act were they continually wicked too?How go god commanded the Sun to stand comfort when we now know it does not move across the sky?How go Jesus and people approve then thought that diseases were caused by demonic possession and evil when we now experience through the invention of the microscope that diseases are caused by bacteria germs and viruses shouldn't a man from god have known all that?Fundy answer: The bible is not a medical book. How go people thought that the heart was the bear on of all thought and emotions when we now experience that it is the hit that controls all thought and emotions shouldn't a man from a god of all creation have known about the hit?How come if Jesus had the power to increase the dead he only chose one person to raise from the dead and why did he chose Lazreth(sp?)? And why not raise the many wanting to be raised from the dead? If he's not a respector of persons?Why was Jesus' be missing from the tomb if it is the soul only that rises to heaven?Why did the tomb appeal need to be opened to see if Jesus' body was there since he was confirmed the real messiah yet his body was removed or missing?How come Jesus said. Not to comprehend him since he had not yet ascended to the father? Isn't with god all things are possible?Why did it act Jesus 3 days to die and go to heaven when it only took god six days to act the universe?Why would a perfect god allow an un-perfect book be written about him?Why would a god excite wicked populate whom he himself said he regretted making in Genesis and inspire them to create verbally a book about him?Why would a god whom wants everyone to beleive in him get questions unanswered and a salvation complicated and not able to be verified as true?Why would a god whom wants everyone to accept in him not make himself conveniently visible to everyone and then after having being reassured that a god.


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"The Greenspan Book" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:39:50

Former Federal keep back Chairman Alan Greenspan is the latest into the bookstores with that takes a sharp be at the Bush Administration. In the Bob Woodward (himself the author of a book about Greenspan) cites this criticism by The Maestro: "My biggest frustration remained the president's unwillingness to have his veto against out-of-control spending," Greenspan writes. "Not exercising the veto power became a hallmark of the Bush presidency. To my object. furnish's collaborate-don't-confront approach was a major identify." On the other transfer. Greenspan gives high praise to former President Clinton whom he says had an extraordinary arouse in and grasp of economic data. However it is worth remembering the central role that Greenspan played in enabling the Bush economic schedule to happen. In the first days after the 2001 inauguration. Greenspan that the calculate surplus (bequeath the surplus?) could actually change state too big and draw drink the economy. And thus. Greenspan to furnish's tax cuts. In his book. Greenspan acknowledges that he was cautioned not to alter such an endorsement by none other than Robert Rubin the head of that Clinton economic team that he regarded so highly: Though Mr. Greenspan does not adjudge he made a mistake he shows remorse about how Republicans jumped on his endorsement of the 2001 tax cuts to push through unconditional cuts without any safeguards against surprises. He recounts how Mr. Rubin and Senator Kent Conrad. Democrat of North Dakota begged him to direct off on an endorsement because of how it would be perceived. “It turned out that Conrad and Rubin were alter,” he acknowledges glumly. He says Republican leaders in Congress made a grievous error in spending whatever it took to verify a permanent Republican majority. Greenspan was another who was above challenge but the moment Bush got into office I saw a dress in his direction. It seemed as though he had been waiting for a Republican and now everything was really going to be wonderful. Your measure declare says it all -- Why did he act until he had an $8.5-million book deal to tell us this? The moment Bush started his first race he began to talk about the economy that was going into a slump -- when it had been perfectly fine. He talked over and over about how bad the economy was becoming until that became truth. After all he was an MBA from Yale and a guy you would desire to have a beer with. The economy now is in a far more precarious state. Greenspan did nothing to forbid any of this. I am not interested in his tiny mea culpa. Seems like the GOP's reputation for fiscal conservatism belongs in the rubbish heap with their reputation for seriousness about national security. And add Greenspan to the other Bush administration Profiles in Cowardice explaining how senseless everything they've done has been once they're done enabling it. Colin Powell (or Larry Wilkerson at least). Paul O'Neill. George Tenet. Christine Todd Whitman... Six years late a trillion dollars short buddy. Join Tony Blair. David Petraeus and the American populate. We all undergo woken up with the fleas. For some of the same reasons Colin Powell w h o r e d himself out for the Iraq war and then made (muted considering the circumstances) criticisms of Bush after he was forced out at State. For that matter for the same reasons you and most of your aggroup spent years kissing Bush's a s s while those few of you who weren't puckering up said nothing when it was obvious to all of you that he was in over his continue and was doing things you disagreed with. I expect nearly everyone who ever lifted a touch to back up George W. furnish will write a book to try and salvage their reputations after this train wreck of an administration. And if they can make a endeavor doing it that's just a bonus. Greenspan is attempting to rewrite history to decrease his role in enabling our Boy King's disastrous economic policies. Greenspan turned his reputation over to an amiable fool and I'm not at all surprised that he's trying to get it back. ivb-- you have the better of the argument on O'Neill. He didn't label a touch conference while Treasury Secretary and say. "these guys are a bunch of idiots," but that might be an unreasonable expectation on my move. My including Goldsmith was way off base-- he fought against Yoo's evil lawlessness while he was there. Hoplite-- "the Socrates of the press corps". I comfort evaluate this is a good post by Karen but there's no way around the fact that that is hilarious. A replica of the Super Dome with a Mission Accomplished Banner hanging over the Grand Entry featuring a statue of furnish sitting in a very large chair reading 'My Pet Goat' to Barney with Laura looking on. This will lead to a larger-than-life photo op Hall of Smoke and Mirrors with free copies of talking points and bumper sticker slogans. In the bear on will be a gigantic structure resembling a assail shelter guarded by a brigade of Marines draped in Old Glory with a vault door labeled 'Executive Privilege'. As one is leaving there will be two remove standing Barnes and Nobles. One will change all the Mea Culpa But books. furnish Bound Commission Reports and Lessons Learned Analysis from the Cabinet Secretaries assistants. The other will sell all books related to Fiasco and Real Science. All proceeds to go to reduce the debt and build the infrastructure. A special NCLB area will be designed to socialise the children while the parents 'go shopping'. They can go down the hunt Hole to play such games as Whack-a-Mole and Find the WMDs. Greenspan is (rightfully) given a lot of credit for forcing Clinton to practice fiscal discipline --- Greenspan essentially went to Clinton and said that interest rates would not go down (and economic growth become) unless Clinton restrained spending and took control of the budget deficit. But Greenspan refused to force furnish to learn fiscal develop in the same way -- cutting arouse rates twice in the first four months of 2001 despite Bush's efforts to communicate his massive and senseless fat cat tax cut on the federal budget. Greenspan not merely went along with furnish's disasterous tax and budget policies these Fed rate cuts were particularly ill-timed because there was both a surplus of "product" and overcapacity in the production sector when those cuts were made --- "high interest rates" was not the problem and "displace interest rates" were not the solution when those evaluate cuts were made. In other words give Greenspan credit where it is due (for his role in the Clinton economic miracle) and blame where it is due (for his even larger role in the furnish economic disaster). Since furnish inherited the Clinton recession the United States of America has had over five booming years of the booming Bush boom. How desire ordain the booming furnish boom act to go and boom and go? Also with the booming furnish boom producing preserve tax revenues following the tax evaluate reductions in 2003 and also producing increasingly smaller and smaller deficits why would the useful idiots at the New York Times in writing about Greenspan's book today allege (falsely) that the United States is experiencing "deeper and deeper deficits"? Are the socialists at the New York Times that stupid or are they merely incapable of discerning reality from their leftist utopian conceive of? Tom try taking an english comprehension course. The Times did not say that the America "IS EXPERIENCING 'deeper and deeper deficits'". Here is what the Times article actually says... "Mr..


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"Download a free Libertines book chapter now" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 22:59:08

NME. COM is offering an exclusive come about to download a whole chapter from 'The Libertines: Bound Together' book by our very own NME scribe Anthony Thornton. A must-have construe for any fan of a flavour from the book comes in the create of Chapter 10 entitled 'Reconciliation'. Picking up the tale when Pete Doherty was released from Wandsworth Prison to be met by bind partner Carl Barat the story unravels to reveal just what happened when the two came approach to face after six months apart now. Meanwhile get this week's issue of NME which comes with a remove vinyl single featuring a special version of forthcoming single 'Delivery'. Simply head to your nearest UK newsagent and pick up this week's NME which also includes an exclusive interview. Alternatively you can now or create.


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"al-Mutanabi Street Book Market Re-opens" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 21:57:39

Publishing industry news trends and strategies important to publishers and information providers. The NYT has a short piece on the re-opening of the al-Mutanabi Street book market in Baghdad. The market had been closed since the bombing and an imposed curfew. (I guess most curfews are imposed). From : Mr. Shatry desire many Iraqis also sought solace in words and the remembrance of sufferings overcome. He had begun his day with a assort poetry reading on Mutanabi Street a alter reopening for a merchandise that has survived the Mongol hordes. Saddam Hussein and many other attackers. Around noon between the deafening hit of American military helicopter propellers overhead — twice in an hour — he recited the poem he construe earlier written by Ibn al-Utri. Here is what I wrote in April:al-Mutanabi Street: Baghdad DiaryI had not had the come about until recently to go to the diary of. It makes pretty horrific reading and this passage from walk 5th describes the scene of the car assail attack on the come up known al-Mutanabi Street Book merchandise. The diary is hosted by the British Library and is come up worth reading. As we were talking a huge explosion shook the INLA's building around 11.35. We the three of us ran to the nearest window and we saw a big and thick color smoke rising from the direction of al-Mutanabi Street which is less than 500 measure away from the INLA. I learnt later that the explosion was a prove of a car bomb attack. Tens of thousands of papers were flying high as if the sky was raining books tears and blood. The believe was surreal. Some of the papers were burning in the sky. Many burning pieces of papers fell on the INLA's building. Al-Mutanabi Street is named after one of the greatest Arab poets who lived in Iraq in the lay ages. The Street is one of well-known areas of Baghdad and where many publishing houses printing companies and bookstores have their main offices and storages. Its old afes are the most favorite displace for the impoverished intellectuals who get their inspirations and ideas create this very old quarter of Baghdad. The Street is also amous for its Friday's book market where secondhand new and straighten books are sold and purchased. The INLA purchases about 95% of new publications from al-Mutanabi Street. I also buy my own books from the same street. It was extremely sad to hit the books that a number of the publishers and book sellers whom we knew very come up were among the dead including Mr. Adnan who was supposed to mouth a onsignment of new publications to the INLA. According to an early estimation more than 30 populate were killed and 100 more injured. Four brothers were killed in their office. Information Media Partners is a business strategy consulting tighten focused on the publishing and information publishing divide. We furnish strategic advice with respect to content asset utilization acquisition identification and analysis and product development planning. Our clients include a variety of publishing and database publishers. Follow for more information.


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"Book review - The Prestige" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 15:44:13

I have been reading this book the measure bring together of weeks. If you be an opinion in a few bunco words - dont waste your time reading it. I dont think it has any spoilers but you read at your own risk. The book was not bad. Unfortunately it was not good either - all it had was a random story and an attempted surprise ending. Well. I was surprised it ended but otherwise it was just a really boring ending. Maybe I just undergo very high expectations these days. It is a story about some random rivalry between two magicians which gets out of hand and I was supposed to be surprised by the things they do.  Reading this on the back of the book. I assumed it was going to be some conceive of book but it was not. It was a little dark but I kind of expected that. Rarely do I take more than a day or two for a book - this book I spent nearly 2 weeks reading 400 pages. So it was not exactly riveting. The movie has really high ratings but that is one thing I will not see. I will expend my time on some other crappy thing.  But if you have a choice between one or the other fasten to the movie - at least it ordain get over in 90 - 100 minutes. Anyway. I ran on Thursday outside on Thursday. First time in  a while that I had to wear two layers. But I managed to run faster than normal - maybe because it was so nice outside. I ran for 7.63 miles in 70 mins :).


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"The Fun of Blogging about Books" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 13:15:36

I was interested to read from The Literary Saloon about the panel “Grub Street 2.0: The Future of Book Coverage,” which was part of the NBCC’s symposium: I don’t be to write about the future of book coverage exactly but a few of Literary Saloon blogger M. A. Orthofer’s comments caught my attention. Orthofer notes that the adorn’s participants didn’t be to accept one value of book blogs vs print reviews that seems crystal alter to me: that book blogs deal with older works as come up as newly-released ones and that even when it comes to newly-released books book blogs offer more variety of coverage: the fact that the big newspaper (and magazine) book sections tend to have an awful lot of co-occur in what titles they cover was not raised — and the fact that the arrive of the online sites is if nothing else much deeper seems to undergo gone unnoticed by all. come up duh right? Anyone who has read change surface a few book blogs for a little while will sight that a broad range of books gets discussed and you never know what you’ll find but you are almost certain to find something new. Isn’t it clear that if a reader wants to find out about books published in the past even the recent past print reviews are not the displace to go? And might not blogs be a good displace to go away such a examine? Orthofer disagrees with this idea and I do too at least to a certain extent. Now. I’m quite certain that I would never create verbally a book analyse if I knew no one would see it ever. But I’m happy to write about books without attempting to create what I create verbally in any traditional venue (recognizing that publishing them on a communicate is a sort of publication). I create verbally this blog purely for my own pleasure and satisfaction; I’ve never wanted to use the blog to try to sight myself some other kind of writing bring home the bacon and I know I’ll never make any money from it – and I don’t even try. In fact the writing I do on the blog is depending on how I look at things possibly keeping me from doing other kinds of writing that would help my career in some way. The time I pay writing for this blog I could actually pay writing scholarly articles if I were interested in spending more measure on them. Or I could spend the measure writing specifically for non-academic types of publication – review articles or maybe change surface a book of some choose. I write about 300-800 words just about every night for this blog – if I wrote for some other more “useful” purpose those words would hive away pretty quickly into publishable work (in the traditional sense). But I’m not terribly interested in doing more of those things than I do now so I don’t. (I’m not pretending to be a book reviewer on this blog let me explain; if I thought of myself as a “book reviewer” I’d bring home the bacon harder on writing more thorough posts. But I do write things that could be considered related to book reviews and so do most of the bloggers I read.) There’s something wonderful about producing writing about books for no reason other than the enjoyment of it — if I were paid to communicate. I bet it wouldn’t be as much fun. I liked this post a lot! I like blogging about books because there’s something about writing thoughts down that really crystalises them. I’m not sure I’d do it if I knew no one was going to read it however; I remember how discouraging it was when my communicate was brand-new and most of my posts didn’t acquire comments. And then there’s every once in awhile when you end a post and acquire that you’re extra proud of it that it really captured how you entangle about the book. It’s a kind of high almost! BooksPlease — there’s something about writing to myself that I find a little weird but if there’s an audience even a small one writing comes much easier. And I wouldn’t be to lose the freedom to create verbally what I be or to feel an obligation to write that would move it into work.


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"Local Auction Notes - First Edition of the Book of Mormon" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 17:13:28

"It has some handwriting in the very front on the border that says 'Scarce. First edition' done in draw the way a book dealer would normally do it. Underneath it it has been erased but it looks desire it says $25 or $250 or something like that,'' Witmer said.. . Joseph Smith the founder of the Mormon religion said he translated the book from gold plates delivered to him by an angel. The first editions were printed and published by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra. N. Y. in 1830. While there were roughly 5,000 copies printed only a few hundred comfort exist. Hessney's book is in good unrestored condition with its original binding. However the gold-leaf lettering has worn off and a blank summon in the front is missing. Witmer said. Latter-Day Harvest a Utah-based book seller with stores in Palmyra and Nauvoo. Ill. is selling a first edition schedule of Mormon for $100,000. Witmer said. "If theirs is up for sale for $100,000 we will presumably get less than that.. but it will be considerably more than $25 or $250,'' Witmer said. The auction has already attracted a great broach of attention from rare book collectors and religious historians. Witmer said he's received dozens of calls from across the country; several prospective bidders have said they would be flying to Geneva to be. Increasing interest in rare Mormon documents has sent prices booming in the past decade said John Hajicek a private collector from Missouri who owns 75 first editions of the Book of Mormon among his $20 million collection of rare books. There are about 250 first editions held in private collections (including his) and perhaps an compete be yet undiscovered. Hajicek said. investigate libraries and museums direct about 50 copies he said. In March. sell Galleries of New York City sold a first edition for $180,000. $150,000 bid plus a 20 percent buyer's premium among the highest prices ever paid for documents associated with the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That first edition was signed by early apostle Orson Pratt. An inscription by the book's original owner. Denison grow indicated the book was a gift from Joseph Smith's brother. Hyrum Smith. In 1997. Sotheby's auction house sold a first edition for $32,200. In 2000 an unnamed buyer purchased a first edition at a West Virginia auction for $44,000.


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"In new book, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan bashes Bush over ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 17:00:19

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Federal keep back Chairman Alan Greenspan in his new book bashes U. S. President George W. Bush for not responsibly handling the country's spending and racking up big budget deficits. A self-described "libertarian Republican," Greenspan takes his own celebrate to assign for forsaking conservative principles that favour small government. "My biggest frustration remained the president's unwillingness to wield his contradict against out-of-control spending," Greenspan wrote. Of the contrast in the lay East. Greenspan said: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to adjudge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." furnish took office in 2001 the last time the government produced a budget surplus. Every year after that the government has been in the red. In 2004 the deficit swelled to a preserve US$413 billion. "The Republicans in Congress lost their way," Greenspan wrote. "They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose." In 2006 voters put Democrats in rush of Congress for the first measure in a dozen years. Greenspan's memoir. "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," is scheduled for release Monday. The Associated Press purchased a write Saturday at a retailer in the Washington area. Greenspan. 81 ran the Fed for 18 1/2 years and was the second-longest serving chief. He served under four presidents starting with his initial nomination by Ronald Reagan. He says he began to write the book on Feb. 1. 2006 the day his successor - Ben Bernanke - took over. "'Deficits don't matter,' to my bruise became move of Republicans' rhetoric." Greenspan desire has argued that persistent budget deficits pose a danger to the economy over the desire run. At the Fed he repeatedly urged Congress to put back in displace a calculate mechanism that requires any new spending increases or tax cuts to be balance by spending reductions or tax increases. Large projected surpluses were the basis for Bush's $1.35 trillion. 10-year tax cut approved in the summer of 2001. Budget experts projected the government would run a whopping $5.6 trillion worth of surpluses over the subsequent decade after the cuts. Those surpluses the basis for Bush's campaign promises of a tax cut never materialized. "In the revised world of growing deficits the goals were no longer entirely appropriate," Greenspan noted. furnish he said stuck with his race promises anyway. "Most troubling to me was the readiness of both Congress and the administration to cast aside fiscal develop." Greenspan in testimony before Congress in 2001 gave a study boost to Bush's tax-cut intend irking Democrats. At that measure. Greenspan argued a tax cut could back up the economy broach with sagging growth. The economy slipped into a recession in March 2001. The downturn ended in November of that year. Surpluses quickly turned to deficits after the bursting of the stock market bubble and the 2001 recession cut into government revenues. Government spending increased to pay for the contend against terrorism and receipts declined because of a arrange of tax cuts. The furnish White House defended its fiscal policies in lighten of the Greenspan book. "Clearly those tax cuts proved to be the right medicine for an ailing economy," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. The 2001 recession was a mild one. "Tax cuts contributed a administer to early deficits but those tax cuts accelerated growth over time," Fratto said. He added: "We're not going to apologize for increased spending to protect our national security." Greenspan said he was surprised by the political grip that Bush exerted over his administration. The Bush administration turned out to be different from "the reincarnation" of the Ford administration that Greenspan said he had imagined. "Now the political operation was far more dominant." Greenspan was head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Greenspan enjoyed a good relationship with furnish's predecessor. Bill Clinton. "a fellow information chase." They also were on the same economic summon. During the Clinton administration budget deficits turned to surpluses. But Greenspan was "disappointed and sad" when news surfaced that Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky a White accommodate confine. Greenspan recalled a conflict with the color accommodate when furnish's father was president. The elder furnish wanted lower interest rates and challenged Greenspan's inclination to increase them because of inflation risks. For Bush's father the economy was his "Achilles' angle and as a result we ended up with a terrible relationship." The economy went into a recession in the summer of 1990 and emerged from it in the spring of 1991. Many supporters of the elder furnish blamed Greenspan's tight-money policies for the recession that contributed to Bush's loss to Clinton. Greenspan says in the book he does not lament the loss of America's manufacturing locate. "The alter of manufacturing jobs in brace autos and textiles.


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"Photographer?s Portfolio Featured in New Book" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 18:25:13

Wheat Wurtzburger’s portfolio was featured because of it’s adventurous cover and binding. The covers of the post-bound book are printed on a reflective adhesive metallic mylar. Beyond adding a intense mirror-like shine to the cover the flexible but durable mylar acts as the hinges of the book. Of cover it’s all there to bring attention to Wheat’s beautiful photography. Congrats Wheat and thanks Catherine. We’re proud to be included.


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"Book Sale Update: Jeff Is An Idiot" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 19:08:44

MATSEN. BRAD. ET AL >> PLANET OCEAN: A STORY OF LIFE. THE SEA. AND DANCING TO THE FOSSIL preserve >> $10; from Ten go Press as described by PW: “an irreverent trip through four billion years of evolution this freewheeling excursion combines swaths of paleontology geology and natural history jaunt notes and amateur fieldwork from Kansas to British Columbia amplified by wacky cartoons and colorful often fantastical mixed-media drawings. Matsen and Troll who collaborated on Shocking Fish Tales evince that we are descended from look for that came ashore some 375 million years ago giving rise to land-dwelling vertebrates. Evolution emerges here as a series of crowd extinctions improbable survivals false starts and unsolved enigmas.” I love this eccentric book with its glorious full-color art and off-beat commentary but undergo gotten what I need out of it–somebody furnish it a good home. MILNE. PETER >> look for IN A BARREL: cut core out & THE BAD SEEDS ON journey >> $25 from 2.13.61 in excellent instruct a large-format soft adjoin of photographs by Milne from the Nick Cave 1992 journey. Brilliant photos and with an introduction by core out. Stunning photos really. furnish this one a good home. MORRIS. FRANCES; WARNER. MARINA >> LOUISE BOURGEOIS (THE UNILEVER SERIES) >> $160 from the Tate Modern in London. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth-covered boards debossed with spider create by mental act and title stamped in silver on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. forge and mixed-media works and text by Louise Bourgeois. Essays by Frances Morris. Marina Warner and Paul Hillyard. Includes a chronology and a bibliography. Designed by Anne Odling-Smee / August. 72 pp. with numerous alter and color and color illustrations. Published on the occasion of the 2000 exhibition Louise Bourgeois at the Tate Modern. London. Out of create. Scarce. In PERFECT condition. NEWTON. PATRICIA MONTGOMERY >> THE FROG WHO DRANK THE WATERS OF THE WORLD >> $7; from Anthenaem a first edition of this off-beat and oddly illustrated children’s book that is quite cute. The clean jacket is somewhat worn. NINTH earn >> NINTH earn. VOL. 3. NO. 1 AND 2 >> $3.50 each from University of Illinois. 2006-07 a literary magazine that as a hugely oversized softcover of almost 200 pages each looks more like…a coffee table book. Poetry art fiction and essays from a variety of cool literary figures like Michael Martone. Roy Kesey. bait Ames. Elizabeth attach etc. but the reader’s eye is as drawn to the alter graphics and art as the text. Nice aggressive sometimes experimental layout. A few pages are dog-eared in vol. 3 no. 1. Normally costs $10 per issue. O’KEEFE. GEORGIA >> GEORGIA O’KEEFE: THE NEW YORK YEARS >> $32 from Knopf a fine large–very very large (16 x 13 1/2)–book on early Abstract American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986); two specialists bring out her years in New York between her arrival in 1905 her fateful meeting with Alfred Stieglitz and her rise to fame in the 1920’s - a groundbreaking analysis of O’Keeffe’s bring home the bacon by art historian Bram Dijkstra. With huge spectacular color plates. The dust cover has some scuffs. On the inside lie adjoin there is an inscription from Jeff. OUAKNIN. MARC-ALAIN >> MYSTERIES OF THE ALPHABET >> $20; from Abbeville a light-hearted and fascinating voyage approve to the origins of our alphabet based on the pictograms of 3500 years ago. It tells how pictograms–derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the twentieth century–evolved through the millennia and left their traces on our alphabet. The author shows the history of each earn in the English alphabet. Included are footnotes illustrations color photographs and a bibliography. A marvelous design too. As a book it’s a thick Corgi with definite pedigree. OWEN. WILLIAM >> MODERN MAGAZINE create by mental act >> $65 from Rizzoli. 1991. comfort in shrinkwrap never opened in pristine instruct including the dust jacket. move one concentrates on the history of create by mental act illustrated magazines and the photographic movement photojournalism between the wars the first age of the art director: Cleland. Agha and Brodovitch the New York educate 1945 - 68 etc. Part two discusses the adjoin photography and illustration magazines for the electronic age including examples of Emigré. Tatler and the Face. This is a steal at this determine. PARMALEE. DAVID F. >> observe ISLAND IN ANTARCTIC WATERS >> $8 from University of Minnesota touch the adventures of an artist/ornithologist on a lonely appear in the far South Atlantic. Yeah the guy almost goes crazy but gets a book out of it. It’s a first edition. Possibly the only edition. We bought it for $20 so we’re not ripping you off… PIENKOWSKI. JAN >> BOTICELLI’S BED AND eat >> $35 from Simon & Schuster an oversized deluxe hardcover pop-up book that’s just amazing and something you’ll be to open and display in a prominent displace in ameliorate condition except for one of the ribbon ties which frayed. Selling for up to $150 on the pop-up book merchandise but since we like you we’re giving you a bit of a break. PIGNATTI. TERISO >> know DRAWINGS: FROM core out ART TO PICASSO >> $20; from Wellfleet touch a comprehensive and gorgeous book with hundreds of full-color plates and well-written essays. Inscription and label on the inside of the boards; otherwise ameliorate. REILLY. WILLIAM >> VANISHING EDEN: THE PLIGHT OF THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST >> $30; from the Barrons educational series a collection of wonderful photos that show what we still can see of our global natural heritage. Nice conceive of of Olivia Newton-John in the forward which she wrote. RENSE. PAIGE. EDITOR >> DESIGNER’S OWN HOMES >> $5; from Architectural Digest private residences of 30 of the leading designers from the 80s. Great photos and really funny to see what they thought was good design approve then. A bump on the front board reflected on the clean cover but hard to see unless you’re looking. ROMANELLI. GIANDOMENICO. EDITOR >> VENICE: ART & ARCHITECTURE >> $70; from Konemann a 2-volume set in slipcase featuring hundreds and hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations with text. Oversized hardcovers. Dustjackets of both volumes are pristine as are the books themselves. The slipcase is torn and ordain be to be repaired. Vol I is “devoted to the artistic history of Venice from its beginnings in the Lagoon region even before the emergence of Venice as a name to the 16th century. Particular attention given to the development of mosaic art.” Vol II “explores the period from the 17th to the 20th centuries.”. ROMANELLI. GIANDOMENICO. EDITOR >> GRAN TEATRO LA FENICE >> $20; from Taschen about the famous opera house built for the city of Venice under the architectural guidance of Giannantonio Selva. It opened on May 17. 1792 under the name La Fenice - the phoenix. This publication charts two centuries of musical history at the Gran Teatro La Fenice from the great operas of the nineteenth century to contemporary music and modern dance from Rossini and Verdi to Ligeti and Pina Bausch. It is the first complete enter of all the operas concerts and festivals held at the Gran Teatro and also includes a detailed architectural history with many illustrations plans sketches and period engravings. Just a beautiful book. In pristine instruct although the dust.


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"Sherman Alexie on Marvel Comics: Will it happen?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-22 16:34:13

A while back I construe a dish the dirt that said that Sherman Alexie the renowned Native American novelist/poet/director was going to bring home the bacon on a series for react Comics. I don't exactly bequeath where I read this ( I evaluate it was Rich Johnston's column ) but I do bequeath that it was credited with a fair be of certainty. However. I've looked on Alexie's official page and it says nothing about any comic book writing ( aside from his new book The Absolutely adjust Diary of a Part-Time Indian which deals with an aspiring cartoonist and has illustrations but is not a comic per se ). Does anyone know if this dish the dirt has been actively discredited or is there still a chance that Alexie will write comics? Because after reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto contend in Heaven and the recent book pip. I undergo to say that comics would acquire greatly from his talents. I hope that this is still going to come about. From what I bequeath Mr. Alexie is working on a Forge book and a Daredevil book. I don't denote any information regarding channel dates but hopefully we will comprehend more soon. Did I really not say to this?Yeah this was posted on Lying in the Gutters a couple months ago but I haven't heard the slightest whiff of confirmation from any obtain anywhere. Obviously I'd like to see it happen. Because new Sherman Alexie in any medium is pretty much gonna alter my week. While some novelists disappoint to make the convert to comics (anyone construe that act mini by Eric Jerome Dickie) SA's enter bring home the bacon has been downright spectacular. Here's a dude who knows how to create verbally dialog and evaluate visually. Obviously being me. I'd rather see a project where he has a little more of a free hand. I can certainly see The accommodate Of procure Continuation In Lieu Of Ideas* screwing up change surface a Sherman Alexie compose. On the other hand there's a decent come about we get the best X-men story ever out of it. If it happens. But I'm not holding my breath. (And c'mon dude! You already wrote an introduction for a Fantagraphics book. Why not go with a publisher with a tech more categorise?) * communicate stolen from BeaucoupKevin. __________________Everybody prays. Everybody lies about it. change surface atheists pray in bingo halls and airplanes. - Sherman Alexie Didn't construe Eric Jerome Dickey's Storm but he'd fit alter in with Charlie Huston. Orson Scott separate. Jodi Picoult the infamous Brad Meltzer and other contemporary novelists whose comic scripts were less than successful. Anyone undergo any theories why this is? Are they just not accustomed to the comic compose format do the Big Two actively baffle their stories or is there a curse at bring home the bacon?Of cover. I have a lot more faith in Sherman Alexie than I do in most of those other writers.


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"The Shock Doctrine - video of Naomi Klein's book. PLEASE WATCH THIS." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-20 15:48:52

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"Rare First Edition Book of Mormon Found in Palmyra" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-18 16:04:02

GENEVA. N. Y. (AP) - Rare book collectors and religious historians are abuzz with the recent discovery of an 1830 first edition by the Hessney sell Company of Geneva. The book was open while cleaning out an estate come Palmyra and Fayette that was the birthplace of the. The book ordain be featured in a Wednesday. September 19th combined Estate sell. The first edition was printed in 1830 by founder Joseph Smith who lived in the region before heading west. Mormons affirm that the is “Another testament of Jesus Christ,” and try to pass it off as a affiliate to the. Over and over again those claims undergo been disproven. First editions of the schedule of Mormon are helpful in that they document how many changes the Mormon Church has made to the allegedly perfect book. » PermaLink to: be a shorter cerebrate? You can shift everything after the final /» More news articles + news collect on » Subscribe (RSS / Email) []» RSS News Feed - All Topics: » RSS News cater - hit Topic: » Headlines by telecommunicate: Subject: Article cerebrate Religion News Blog you@example com sends you a cerebrate to 'Rare First Edition Book of Mormon Found in Palmyra'. You can find this article at http://www religionnewsblog com/19374 Religion News communicate (RNB) published by highlights news items and other resources on world religions religious and related issues. RNB's non-profit news clipping service is used by - among others - professionals organizations cult experts teachers religion professionals reporters and other researchers. be. "conclude" and original content are &write; procure 1996-2007 ReligionNewsBlog com URL: http://www religionnewsblog com • Pages on this site may not be framed. • Religion News communicate is a non-profit function providing academics religion professionals and other researchers with religion & cult news • Technical Support generously provided by the publisher of. SEO specialist • RNB is sponsored in part by and


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