Topic: Books And Literature
TOKYO (Reuters) - On Benjamin Buchholz's second day in Iraq as a U.S. army officer, a young Iraqi girl was struck and killed by a military convoy while trying to catch a bottle of water thrown to children by the roadside as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer ...
Whether it's a large chain retailer or the smallest bookstall at an airport departure gate, Indian bookshops all have one thing in common -- the predominance of business and management titles.English-language biographies of leading business figures and self-help books about how to ...
MILAN (Reuters) - Nowadays when people spend more and more time exploring the depths of cyber space or just watching TV, every effort counts to bring them back to the traditional pleasure of reading.A leading Italian book store chain Feltrinelli and wine-makers ...
Notorious British double agent Kim Philby may be regarded as a traitor in his home country but twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union he remains a hero in Russia for divulging Western secrets.A Russian publisher has unveiled a major ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The campaign trail did not end at the White House for Herman Cain, but it might yet lead him to a pot of gold.The former restaurant executive and motivational speaker could translate his sudden fame into hefty speaking fees ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Times may be tough for neighborhood bookstores, but people are reading more than ever and e-books are nurturing bookworms who hunger for everything from blockbuster biographies to literary fiction."It's really been all good news this year. Reading is ...
US student Amanda Knox has hired a top lawyer used by politicians including Barack Obama and Tony Blair to negotiate a book deal about her four years behind bars in Italy, her spokesman said.The 24-year-old, who flew home in October after being ...
European antitrust officials launched a probe on Tuesday to determine whether iPad maker Apple and five international publishers struck illegal deals to fix the price of e-books in Europe.The European Commission will look at deals between the US gadget giant and US ...
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