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A book is a collection of sheets of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge within covers. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.
In library and information science, a book is called a monograph to distinguish it from serial publications such as magazines, journals or newspapers.
Publishers may produce low-cost, pre-proof editions known as galleys or 'bound proofs' for promotional purposes, such as generating reviews in advance of publication. Galleys are usually made as cheaply as possible, since they are not intended for sale.
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Patricia Highsmith, Hiding in Plain Sight
By JEANETTE WINTERSON Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:06:34 -0000
A witty biography of the manipulative, secretive and obsessive novelist Patricia Highsmith, creator of Tom Ripley, a character who was a version of herself.
Art Among the Ruins
By LISA SCOTTOLINE Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:08:33 -0000
At once an art appreciation course, a true-crime story and an American history lesson.
The Cute One: Paul McCartney
By SUZANNE VEGA Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:16:17 -0000
This biography aims to present Paul McCartney as more artistically and intellectually complex than the sweet and bubbly caricature we have known.
The Smart One: John Lennon
By NELLIE McKAY Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:13:55 -0000
A haunting, mammoth, terrific biography of John Lennon.
The Wonder Years
By STEPHEN BURT Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:06:05 -0000
Marie Ponsot’s sixth poetry collection is propelled by playful lines and mature perspective.
Spin the Bottles
By JAMES OLIVER CURY Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:17:15 -0000
In this whodunit, Peter Mayle ships a sleuth off to France, but wine is clearly the main character.
The Book Bench
Books: "Tinsel"
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
In 2006, Stuever set out to characterize the experience of Christmas—its aesthetics, economics, and metaphysics—in an average Texas town. The resulting dissection of the holiday is cultural anthropology at its most exuberant. According to Stuever, fakery, not excess, is the signature of the modern American Christmas . . .
Books: "The Glass Room"
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
In this stirring historical novel, shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, Viktor and Liesel Landauer commission a house in Czechoslovakia that is to embody the rational spirit of nineteen-twenties Europe: the Landauer House, with the transparent Glass Room as its center. In the room, “there is nothing . . .
Books: "Liver"
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
In this collection of glancingly connected stories, the body’s largest internal organ comes under repeated assault: from alcohol, at a derelict private drinking club in London; from cancer and hepatitis C, the latter doing a star turn as a first-person narrator, gleefully chronicling its multiplication in a . . .
BloomsburyMagazine Research Centre - Offers literature reference searches powered by bloomsbury reference books.
Book Sale Finder - Guide to used book fairs and sales across the USA.
Meta Description: [ Book Sale Finder, your guide to used book bargains at book sales held by libraries and other non-profit organizations ]
Centre for the History of the Book - History, projects, and events.
Creative Nonfiction Magazine - Journal includes online essays and book reviews as well as links for the Goucher College MFA in Creative Nonfiction.
Meta Description: [ Creative Nonfiction: The journal devoted exclusively to the creative nonfiction genre. ]
Instruction Manuals UK - Instruction manuals for products sold in the United Kingdom.
Meta Description: [ Instruction manuals,user guides, operating instructions owners handbooks available and wanted for every category of product. Computers, printers microwave oven washing machine software book rare collectable hifi answerphone fax machine camcorder cooker fridge modem photocopier radio television vi... ]
International ISBN Agency - Includes a user's manual, prefix ranges, details of group agencies, publications, reports, and news.
Meta Description: [ International ISBN Agency, Berlin - Germany: General information about the ISBN (International Standard Book Numbering) system ]
ISBN Tools - Information and tools for using International Standard Book Numbers. Scan them with a CueCat, look them up, or search them.
ISBN.org - Enables applications to be made for ISBNs, SANs, and ISMNs in the United States and Puerto Rico, and provides information about the standards.
Meta Description: [ No other source can assign legitimate ISBNs to US publishers.
Bowker provides technical advice on uses of the ISBN standard to the publishing industry.
Also includes SAN and EAN Bookland Bar Code information. ]
Library of Economics and Liberty - Economics classics online, featured essays, letters to the editor, and data links by topic.
Meta Description: [ Economics Forum. Authoritative classic and modern economics books online, economics articles, suggested readings, blog, podcasts, data, and more. Includes EconLog, with Bryan Caplan and Arnold Kling, and EconTalk, with Russ Roberts. Fully searchable. ]
Nonfiction Religion Book Reviews - Collection of reviews by Skylar Hamilton Burris.
Meta Description: [ nonfiction book reviews: religion, history, true crime, professor and madman ]
Resource Central - Books Online - Resource links in finding books on the net.
Meta Description: [ Resource links in finding books on the net. Resources include publishers, sell, trade, club, buy, writers, authors, abe books, amazon.com ]
Waddleton Chronology - Attempt to collect and record all books having colour-printed illustrations or decorations from 15th century up to 1893.
Amazon Mobile - Search for books and more on mobile site.
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