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Jan 21
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Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the acquisition of the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. (“William Andrew”). Over the last 18 months, Elsevier and William Andrew have built a valuable strategic alliance including print distribution of William Andrew books globally outside of North America [...]
Nov 11
Book Reviews Heidi Broadhead, Reed Elsevier Inc, Stephenie Meyer, Wuthering Heights
Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories–Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights–with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews America, Arkansas, Clark, Dunbar-Hunter Expedition, Florida, Lewis, massages, Ouachita River, Reed Elsevier Inc, travel book, William Least Heat-Moon
Starred Review. It was almost a decade ago that Least Heat-Moon (Blue Highways) followed the trail of Lewis and Clark in River Horse; in the first section of his latest peripatetic writings, he and his wife, Q, trace the lesser-known Dunbar-Hunter Expedition of 1804 through the southern half of the Louisiana Purchase, searching out the [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews Reed Elsevier Inc
Starred Review. Owls permeate literature and mythology, an ancient animal (“some 97 million years” old) that has fascinated for centuries; still, few people have had as intimate an encounter with the mysterious night birds as biologist O’Brien. As a student researcher at Caltech, she fell in love with an injured four-day-old barn owl and seized [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews America, Anne Hutchinson, John Cotton, John Winthrop, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, New York Times, Plymouth, Reed Elsevier Inc, Rhode Island, Roger Williams, Sarah Vowell, United Kingdom
Starred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (Assassination Vacation) revisits America’s Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in which our country’s present predicaments are inextricably tied to its past. In a style less colloquial than her previous books, Vowell traces the 1630 journey of several key English colonists and members of [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews Abraham Lincoln, America, James McPherson, Reed Elsevier Inc, White House
Starred Review. Given the importance of Lincoln’s role as commander-in-chief to the nation’s very survival, says McPherson, this role has been underexamined. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom), the doyen of Civil War historians, offers firm evidence of Lincoln’s military effectiveness in this typically well-reasoned, well-presented analysis. Lincoln exercised the right to take any necessary measures [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews Alzheimer's, brain disorders, Dave Callanan, Oliver Sacks, Prebble, Publishers Weekly, Ray Charles, Ray may, Reed Elsevier Inc
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was “born with music inside me,” and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews Felicia Bond, Laura Numeroff, Reed Elsevier Inc
If you give an adorable gray kitten a supporting role in a popular series, he’ll cry out for a lead—and thus, this latest entry from Numeroff and Bond, which features a cat that first appeared in If You Give a Pig a Party. Like its predecessors, the story bubbles with cascading if… then silliness: a [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews California, Carole Barber, Danielle Steel, London, Mississippi, Oscar, Paris, Reed Elsevier Inc, steel, Steel flirts, the Louvre
Supreme spinner of romantic yarns, Steel (Amazing Grace, etc.), in her lamentable latest fable of female courage, fortune, fame and fashion, features Oscar-winning actress Carole Barber, who, at age 50 and trying to write a novel, travels to Paris, scene of a tragic love affair 15 years before. On her first night in the City [...]
Nov 02
Book Reviews Blake Williams, Charles West, London, Maxine, Morocco, New York, Peter Pan, Publishers Weekly, Reed Elsevier Inc
Romance titan Steel doctors up a familiar formula with fresh results. Having had just about enough of the gadabout ways of dot-com millionaire and perpetual Peter Pan, Blake Williams, Maxine, 42, divorced him five years ago and is raising their three children (ages 13, 12 and six) while running a thriving psychiatric practice specializing in [...]
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