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Game of Thrones author discusses HBO Show


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Shaun ShullJuly 29th, 2011


George R. R. Martin sat down with Authors@Google recently to discuss his literary works and partnership with HBO. Martin’s popular fantasy novel and New York Times best-seller, A Game of Thrones, is the first book of the ongoing seven part “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. On April 17, 2011 HBO premiered a television [...]

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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for Sale


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Ed ShullJuly 25th, 2011


Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is for sale on eBay

Got $700,000 burning a hold in your pocket on Paypal? Got a big backyard that you think would be perfect for holding plays? Then have you got a deal for you. You can now buy a complete replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

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Borders Books Collapses


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Amber LeeJuly 19th, 2011


Border's Books is filing bankruptcy, liquidating 400 stores and un-employing over 10,000 people.

Border is filing bankruptcy, liquidating 400 stores and un-employing over 10,000 people.

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Blue Bloods 5: Misguided Angels by Melissa De La Cruz


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Chelsea PerryDecember 28th, 2009


Book 5 from Blue Bloods Series

The Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz is labeled as YA vampire fiction but the story isn’t really about vampires. The fifth book in the Blue Bloods series will likely be released in the Fall of 2009.

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Plato versus Aristotle: Theory of Forms and Causes


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StaffDecember 18th, 2008


Plato and Aristotle enjoyed a healthy debate

Plato imagined that there existed an ideal or perfect world beyond our own physical earth.

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Is Whole Grain better than Whole Wheat?


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Ed ShullNovember 24th, 2008


Whole grains seem to have better disease fighting properties when compared to whole wheat.  Grains like spelts, amaranth, and quinoa are not only delicious but offer immune system boosting properties too.  Thus, health food nuts are leaning toward more grains over wheat products these days.  Whole grain products like rice, pasta, and bread goods are [...]

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Alicia Silverstone Writes The Kind Diet Vegan Cookbook


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Ed ShullNovember 24th, 2008


The famed actress Alicia Silverstone certainly isn’t clueless about vegetarian dieting and she is now authoring a book that clearly suggests her animal activist background.  The Kind Diet is a vegan cookbook that is set for release in 2009 in the fall and will present readers with a three step dieting program which concentrates on [...]

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Machiavelli and Augustus Ruling Philosophy


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EdJune 1st, 2008


How similar were Machiavelli and Augustus ?

Following up to the post about Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, here is another post about Roman history.  This time from Elizabeth Rathgeber, who also wrote the post What to do about Sudan?. I believe that Augustus and Niccoló Machiavelli would certainly agree much more so than disagree on how to be an effective ruler. The young [...]

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I’m an Online Marketing Hero


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EdMarch 30th, 2008


I'm an Online Marketing Hero

I learned a few weeks back that I was featured in the new book, Online Marketing Heroes.  I actually didn’t see a copy of the book until I was speaking at SXSW.  I have been trying to control my ego a bit after reading Eckhart Tolle, but I have to confess to liking the sight [...]

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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner – Review


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EdFebruary 22nd, 2008


The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner - Review

After spending over a decade as a foreign corespondent for National Public Radio, Eric Weiner took on the task of finding out where people are happiest, and more importantly, why.  So Eric spent months studying the people in 10 different countries of varying degrees of happiness.  The end results is an incredibly interesting book not [...]

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