Rare Books Review News for 09/02/2010

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Rare Books Review reports that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired an extensive collection of the personal papers of Katharine Hepburn, which are being catalogued and will be available for public research . ...

Genzyme rejects Sanofi offer as long battle looms
Biotech company Genzyme Inc rejected an $18.5 billion buyout offer from French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA on Monday, setting the stage for a protracted and potentially hostile takeover battle...

Buy, Cheap, Low Price, Discount, Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to .
Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books Review. First, I really enjoyed this book. I sell books and the author has likely forgotten more about bookselling and collecting than I'll ever know. ...

Book review: 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' by David Mitchell - Dallas Morning News

Book review: 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' by David Mitchell
Dallas Morning News
If you have not yet read the fine and ingenious British novelist David Mitchell, author of Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, let his newest book, .

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Sanofi proposal heaps pressure on Genzyme
Pressure mounted on Genzyme as its shares rose 6 percent in Europe a day after French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis made public its month-old proposal to buy the U.S. biotech for $18.5 billion...

A world without records
Does your records retention policy start from a position of saving everything forever, then decide what to throw away? Would it be easier to start at the other extreme: save nothing, ever?..

Feminist 'Franzenfreude' Over Raves For 'Freedom' - NPR

Feminist 'Franzenfreude' Over Raves For 'Freedom'
NPR
Times book review editor Sam Tanenhaus acknowledges that the critical establishment takes certain kinds of books more seriously than others, but he insists .

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"Three Stations": Investigating the dark underbelly of modern Russia - Salon

Salon

"Three Stations": Investigating the dark underbelly of modern Russia
Salon
Her characters struggle with questions about what's really valuable in an often baffling world in which rare books are more highly prized than giant .

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Genzyme rejects Sanofi offer, long battle looms
U.S. biotech company Genzyme Inc rejected an $18.5 billion buyout offer from French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA on Monday, setting the stage for a protracted and potentially hostile takeover battle...

Book Review: Here Comes Another Lesson - Chronogram

Chronogram

Book Review: Here Comes Another Lesson
Chronogram
To give imagery an arc displays a rare ability, a poet's gift. The woman becomes obsessed with ill-perceived threats. She wonders if it is a rural stalker .

Book review: 'The Twilight of the Bombs' by Richard Rhodes - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

Book review: 'The Twilight of the Bombs' by Richard Rhodes
Los Angeles Times
That series began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," one of the rare accounts of atomic origins praised by physicists, .

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Book review: Atlas of Rare Birds by Dominic Couzens - The Guardian

Book review: Atlas of Rare Birds by Dominic Couzens
The Guardian
In this book published by New Holland Publishers, Dominic Couzens tells the stories of 50 of the rarest birds in the world. Some of the featured birds are .

Early Buzz: Mark Romaneks Never Let Me Go
One of my highly anticipated films of 2010 is Mark Romanek's big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. The book was named one of TIMEs 100 Best Novels (from 1923 to the Present), featured on many top ten books of 2005 lists, and a finalist in the National Book Critic Circle Award. For those interested, you can buy the softcover for only $11.20 on Amazon. Beach author and ...

Genzyme breaks silence to rebuff Sanofi
U.S. biotech Genzyme broke its five-week silence to reject an $18.5 billion takeover proposal by French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis on Monday, dismissing it as opportunistic and too low...

Tom Brokaw Endorses '. Riveting Tale of Heroism, Sacrifice and Public Service by a Charter Member of the Greatest .
HUNTINGTON, Ind., Sept. 1 / Christian Newswire / -- Testimonials continue to roll in for 97-year-old New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan's epic memoir, The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots (Our Sunday Visitor), which recounts his involvement in practically every major event of the 20th century...

Feminist 'Franzenfreude' Over Raves For 'Freedom'
Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom, doesn't come out until Tuesday but The New York Times has already declared it a "masterpiece" and Time magazine has dubbed Franzen a "Great American Novelist." The book has gotten so much attention in the media that it's led to accusations of both gender and genre bias among the literary elite...

Which new hockey game feels like a classic in the making?
Wow. NHL Slapshot is a serious sleeper this year. It is the best hockey game I've played on the Wii. It's the type of game I will pull out when friends come over for a game party. I think it could become a classic if enough Wii gamers buy it...

ELIZABETH AVEDON: ERIC MILES: Photography Book Collecting
. a small collection, but I've got some pretty severe space restrictions! PHOTO-EYE AUCTIONS. Rare and Collectible Photography Books. Posted by elizabeth avedon. Labels: Collecting, NYC, Photography Books, Rare Books, Review Santa Fe ...

Book review of Jere Van Dyk's "Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban." - Washington Post

Book review of Jere Van Dyk's "Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban."
Washington Post
On the whole, however, this first-hand account offers a rare and complicated portrait of the Taliban mentality seen through discerning Western eyes. .

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PhiloBiblos: Links & Reviews
Rare Books Review notes the results of an Oxfam charity auction at Bonham's last week. A copy of the first Sherlock Holmes story (A Study in Scarlet) made 18600 at the sale. Reviews. - A review of Scott Douglas' Quiet Please appeared ...

Book Review: "British West Indies Style" features homes of the Caribbean - South Florida Caribbean News

Book Review: "British West Indies Style" features homes of the Caribbean
South Florida Caribbean News
Offering a rare glimpse inside a refined world, hidden to most visitors, British West Indies Style takes you on a journey through the history of the islands .

The right-wing congressman made for the Obama age
Paul Broun is the perfect embodiment of the right-wing backlash that has greeted Barack Obama's presidency..

'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance . - Seattle Times

'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance .
Seattle Times
Book review: John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" tells the mesmerizing true-life story of the hunt for a man-killing .

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Book Review: Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost - The Trades

The Trades

Book Review: Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost
The Trades
Moreover, Edginton's story has a closure to it, something rare in graphic novels, while still making the promise of future adventures to come. .

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A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books Review A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books Overview This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS...

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