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23 January 2008
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson first published Metaphors We Live By
30 November 2006
100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) - The NYT Book Review.
4 March 2006
Britain Librarians' list of books that every adult should read before they die. From Guardian Limited Books.
31 January 2006
100 Best First Lines from Novels. "49. It was the day my grandmother exploded. —Iain M. Banks, The Crow Road (1992)"
27 January 2006
Frey Kicked Out of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. Interesting story how this unfolded. I've been following it somewhat since The Smoking Gun first reported the untruthful embellishment in "A Million Little Pieces" which was hotly debated on kottke.org.
13 January 2006
Graph Theory. One of the "Graduate Texts in Mathematics" by Reinhard Diestel. There's a free electronic edition as well.
28 November 2005
10 November 2005
A survey recently released in Britain explores the nooks and crannies of British book snobbery, revealing that Londoners are more likely than other Britons to buy books for the purpose of showing off.