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Bestselling books the week of 2/23/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 2/9/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 9/1/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 8/11/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?
Amazon's Top 10 fall books

Is there anything good about the end of summer? Yes – the arrival of fall books! For those who can't wait another moment, here are the Top 10 fall book picks from Amazon editors. It's looking like a stellar line-up of autumn reads.

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Keep Calm
Good Reads: on the politics of language, Genghis Khan, and the Beastie Boys

This week's reading list includes a book review on how we use and abuse language, leadership tips from Genghis Khan, and a tribute to the late hip hop master and peace activist, Adam Yauch. 
Editor's Blog
The tax man taketh -- and sometimes giveth

From outside, the workings of a big bureaucracy like the IRS seem mysterious and arbitrary. From the inside, it all makes perfect sense. Actually, you could say that about most workplaces.
Wendell Berry: New Collected Poems

"New Collected Poems" allows the playful, musical side of Wendell Berry's being to shine through.
Global News Blog
A Battle Royale online over origin of 'The Hunger Games'

Some claim that 'The Hunger Games' is a rip-off of the 1999 Japanese series 'Battle Royale.' But the storyline of a death match being employed by authoritarian rulers dates back to the Roman Empire.
Report: London no safer for all its CCTV cameras

Civil rights group Big Brother Watch has accused Britain of having an out-of-control surveillance culture that is doing little to improve public safety.
Bestselling books the week of 2/23/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 2/9/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Chapter & Verse
Better World Books' bestseller list: more classics than new titles

Better World Books' 2011 bestseller list: everything from 'The Shack' to 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
Christopher Hitchens was militant pundit and humanist

He was a most engaged, prolific and public intellectual who wrote numerous books, was a frequent television commentator and a contributor to Vanity Fair, Slate and other publications. He became a popular author in 2007 thanks to 'God is Not Great,' a manifesto for atheists.
Steve Jobs: Businessman, innovator, visionary

Steve Jobs passed on Wednesday. Steve Jobs was more than Apple's CEO, he helped make computers a household necessity and ushered in the iPod, iPhone and other must-have gadgets. Considered one of the greatest American CEOs of his generation, Steve Jobs' career path was a long, winding road that included several major hurdles.
Bestselling books the week of 9/1/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 8/11/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?
Amazon's Top 10 fall books

Is there anything good about the end of summer? Yes – the arrival of fall books! For those who can't wait another moment, here are the Top 10 fall book picks from Amazon editors. It's looking like a stellar line-up of autumn reads.
Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, by Carmela Ciuraru

Carmela Ciuraru takes a playful look at the history of pen names and the reasons authors use them.
Bestselling books the week of 6/30/11, according to IndieBound*

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Bestselling books the week of 6/23/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?
Bestselling books the week of 6/16/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?
There Be Dragons: movie review

Plodding and stilted, 'There Be Dragons' tells the story of a Roman Catholic priest and his childhood friend and eventual enemy during the Spanish Civil War.
Tax VOX
Tax expenditures are not loopholes

Millions of taxpayers benefit from tax breaks, like some itemized deductions. Calling such broad provisions "loopholes" or "earmarks" incorrectly characterizes what they really are.
Robert Reich
Jobs, the deficit, and Republican whoppers

Some Republicans are claiming that reducing the deficit will create more jobs. But does that logic actually work?
Before NPR scandal, a warning about 'elite' liberals: compassion turns to coercion

Long before the NPR scandal underscored liberal condescension toward conservatives, Lionel Trilling saw the hidden hope of power that lies in the heart of those who seek to improve society. President Obama has renewed this progressive impulse, limiting our freedom and prosperity.
Editor's Blog
Revolution 2011: What comes next is not the end of the story

Some revolutions lead to a flowering of democracy. Some backslide into anarchy or dictatorship. But there's always another chapter to be written.
Bestselling books the week of 1/13/11, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Robert Reich
Will Obama repeat the Republicans' Big Lie?

At his upcoming State of the Union, will President Obama continue to endorse the Big Lie that the Republicans have been telling, or unveil a Big Truth?
Tax VOX
Top 10 worst moments in fiscal policy 2010

Home-buyer tax credit extension? Obama-GOP tax deal? Here's my Top 10.