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15 best books of 2012 – nonfiction
Here are the Monitor's picks for the 15 best nonfiction books of 2012.
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10 best books of 2012, according to Amazon's editors
The staff of book giant Amazon selected their picks for the 10 best titles of 2012. Here's the full list.
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Man Booker Prize: 6 nominees on the shortlist
These six novels made the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize. Which will win?
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5 countries where the death penalty is legal but rare
India’s Supreme Court sentenced the last surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, to death. Here is a list of 5 countries where the death penalty is a legal possibility, though rare.
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Osama bin Laden papers: top 5 revelations
A new trove of letters seized during the Osama bin Laden raid paint an intimate picture of the inner workings and struggles of Al Qaeda, from its dabbling in the stock market to practices that would make any Mafia don proud.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 02/17
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 02/16
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5 Asian authors you should know: the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist
Five writers from China, Japan, and India made the cut this week when the Man Asian Literary Prize announced the shortlist for its 2010 award for the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English last year. The winner will be announced at a dinner in Hong Kong on March 17.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 02/10
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'Teach for India' takes a page from US
The 'Teach for India' program is one of 18 global offshoots of a Teach for America affiliate called Teach for All. It aims to reach more students in a country where about 1 in 3 fifth-graders can't read or write.
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Worried about investment, Indians now rank corruption as No.1 concern
This week's arrest and detention of former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja on corruption charges comes amid a wave of high prices and high-profile scandals rattling investor confidence.
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Helping prevent nuclear attack
A Christian Science perspective.
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India makes space for art among its 1.4 billion people
India is making room – both physically and mentally – for art like that from Anish Kapoor, which is large and untraditional.
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Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries): movie review
'Dhobi Ghat' ('Mumbai Diaries') is an amalgam of soap opera and street-level realism.
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3 good books for January reading
Travel the world through these three new books just released this month. In them, the Dalai Lama flees Tibet to save his followers, three men grapple with the past in post-war Sierra Leone, and an Indian-American returns to the country his parents left.
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The rise of India's pulp fiction
As literacy grows, so do the ranks of inexpensive and sometimes racy paperbacks that appeal to youths.
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In Pictures: Global phones
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In Pictures: Colossal cakes
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British official: 'necessary to take action' now against 12 men suspected in terror plot
British authorities rounded up 12 men Monday morning suspected in a terror plot. Police said the arrests are not connected to the Dec. 11 suicide bombing in Sweden.
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10 Asian authors you need to know: the Man Asian Literary Prize longlist
The best thing about annual literary prizes is the way they alert us to authors and books we otherwise might have missed. The Man Asian Literary Prize ($30,000 awarded to the author of the best novel by an Asian author written in or translated into English) is no exception. The 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize will be awarded in March. The longlist for the award – announced this week – features the writers below.
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India and China: The NEW 'New World'?
Optimism in India and China faces off against a weak economy in the West. Has the economic torch been passed?
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Urban economics: Superstar cities vs. 'mellow' cities
Do smaller urban centers promise a better life than a congested megalopolis?
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Explosion rocks one of India's holiest cities
Islamist militants are blamed for an explosion that killed a child and wounded more than 20 others in Varanasi, India – one of Hinduism’s holiest sites Tuesday evening.
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In Pictures: Get on the bus
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Gold buyer: Don't worry, be happy
Gold prices rise and rise. Some buy gold to protect against inflation, but many fear that something will go wrong, in China or Greece or Ireland or the U.S. housing market, or...
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 12/02
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In Pictures: Best of Monitor Photography 2010 International
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 11/29
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Belgium charges nine terror suspects after raids across Europe
The terror suspects are accused of recruiting jihadists and plotting a possible attack on Belgium. The arrests are not believed connected to ongoing terrorism worries in Germany.
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Putin on the prowl to save world's endangered tigers
Representatives of 13 countries are meeting in Russia to outline plans to double the wild tiger population, currently as low as 3,200.
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