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Amazon faces class-action lawsuit over eBook pricing

ReutersJanuary 14, 2021

by ReutersJanuary 14, 202101

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen on the door of an Amazon Books retail store in New York City, U.S., February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc was slapped with a class-action lawsuit on Thursday accusing the e-commerce giant of inflating the prices of ebooks in......

A Doomed Arctic Expedition, Number-Free Math and Other New Books to Read

SmithsonianJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021

by SmithsonianJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021011

Seven days into his long-awaited journey home, 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents, who’d been stranded in the Arctic for almost a year after unsuccessfully seeking out a northeastern passage to China, succumbed to scurvy and the ill effects of eating toxic polar bear liver. A seasoned cartographer and navigator, he’d......

BookBites: 4 Books With Stories and Lessons to Guide Us Into the New Year – Entertainment

newsusaJanuary 7, 2021

by newsusaJanuary 7, 2021016

(NewsUSA) “The Black Swan of Paris”by Karen Robards In 1944 Paris, celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse’s position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de......

K.C. favored, but Bucs are books’ biggest sweat

ESPNJanuary 6, 2021January 6, 2021

by ESPNJanuary 6, 2021January 6, 202101

On New Year’s Day, bookmaker William Hill U.S. took a six-figure bet on the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, but the defending champions are not the sportsbook’s biggest concern heading into the playoffs. The worst-case scenario for several bookmakers is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning the Super......

The Way Americans Remember the Blackwell Sisters Shortchanges Their Legacy

SmithsonianJanuary 6, 2021January 6, 2021

by SmithsonianJanuary 6, 2021January 6, 2021019

The image is arresting: a young woman in three-quarter profile, creamy skin, Mona Lisa smile, calm dark eyes. She is perhaps 20. She wears her hair upswept with a cloud of curly fringe, a smart, black-ribbon choker under a lacy, white collar. It’s easy to imagine a story for her,......

TV shows, films, books and music to help you through another lockdown

BBCJanuary 5, 2021January 5, 2021

by BBCJanuary 5, 2021January 5, 202107

With most of the UK back under lockdown, we’ll be shut indoors and looking for entertainment and escapism over the coming weeks. So here’s a selection of TV shows, films, books and music that could help make lockdown life a bit more bearable. BBC – For more and to sign......

Teaching ‘white fragility’ is bad for kids of color

NYPostJanuary 2, 2021

by NYPostJanuary 2, 202101

Rav Arora Last month, my 8-year-old sister came home from school deflated and torn. She told me that a young boy in her class was making fun of her because of her skin color, comparing her brown skin to fecal matter. I remembered being mocked and tormented for the very......

9 books to add to your 2021 reading list, according to career coaches

CNBCJanuary 1, 2021January 1, 2021

by CNBCJanuary 1, 2021January 1, 2021019

CNBC – For more and to sign up click here With the way the last year played out, books served as an essential resource to help people living through the pandemic continue to learn from stories of leadership, reflect on challenges, build resiliency and even escape from the news, even......

Hearts Melt As A Video Of A Blind Girl Receiving Braille Harry Potter Books For Christmas Goes Viral

IADecember 30, 2020

by IADecember 30, 2020022

Christmas truly is the time of miracles, and one such miracle has recently fallen into the hands of a visually impaired girl from Mission, Kansas named Emrie. Emrie is a little girl who was born with a very rare gene anomaly that left her without vision. According to her aunt......

Books 2021: A pick and mix of what’s coming up

BBCDecember 27, 2020December 27, 2020

by BBCDecember 27, 2020December 27, 2020018

By Rebecca ThomasArts and entertainment reporter image copyrightGetty Images Home entertainment has been catapulted into a new dimension during the pandemic. Previously more often a byword for self-indulgence, it has become an essential activity to shut out the stresses of a global health crisis. And while many people have turned......

12/27: Cooper, Figliuzzi, Gottlieb, Dewine, Whitmer

CBS NewsDecember 27, 2020December 27, 2020

by CBS NewsDecember 27, 2020December 27, 202001

CBS News – For more and to sign up click here This week on “Face the Nation,” an early Christmas morning explosion rocks the city of Nashville, and more than a million Americans have been vaccinated as coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations climb. Source link To Return to the Main......

Warren Buffett recommended these 4 books to learn about investing

CNBCDecember 24, 2020December 24, 2020

by CNBCDecember 24, 2020December 24, 2020015

CNBC – For more and to sign up click here A few years ago at a dinner, Trey Lockerbie, founder and CEO of kombucha company Better Booch, met billionaire Warren Buffett. He took the opportunity to ask him a few questions about investing, Lockerbie said on “The Good Life” podcast......

What Books Should Biden Read? We Asked 22 Writers

New York TimesDecember 20, 2020December 20, 2020

by New York TimesDecember 20, 2020December 20, 2020013

George Will is the author of, most recently, “The Conservative Sensibility.” Laila Lalami recommends “Whatever else happens during the Biden presidency, the Supreme Court will play a huge role in affirming or striking down voting rights, reproductive rights, immigration, birthright citizenship, marriage equality or environmental protections. In this book, Adam......

Last-play MNF safety swings millions at books

ESPNDecember 15, 2020December 15, 2020

by ESPNDecember 15, 2020December 15, 202001

One bettor’s bad beat is another’s fortunate win. The last play of the Monday night thriller between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns produced both. A desperation, multi-lateral play by the Browns as time expired resulted in a safety for the Ravens that covered the spread and swung millions of......

Leading cardinal says Church needs rules on status of ex popes

ReutersDecember 8, 2020

by ReutersDecember 8, 202001

ROME (Reuters) – Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative, said the Vatican needs clear rules to govern the status of future popes who resign rather than rule for life and that such a move would help Church unity. FILE PHOTO: Australian Cardinal George Pell looks on during an......

The Best Books of 2020

SmithsonianDecember 7, 2020December 7, 2020

by SmithsonianDecember 7, 2020December 7, 2020028

The Best Books of 2020 In our efforts to increase and diffuse knowledge, we highly recommend these 70 titles released this year By Smithsonianmag.com smithsonianmag.com SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Dec. 7, 2020, 11:27 a.m. As 2020 draws to a close, with most of this year’s new books stretched out before us, Smithsonian......

Smithsonian Scholars Pick Their Favorite Books of 2020

SmithsonianDecember 3, 2020December 3, 2020

by SmithsonianDecember 3, 2020December 3, 2020040

The profound challenges of this past year have brokered an equally profound moment for the Smithsonian Institution to bring its considerable intellectual weight to the topics of the day, particularly the nation’s reckoning with racism. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III recently explained why the organization should be at the......

The Ten Best History Books of 2020

SmithsonianDecember 1, 2020December 1, 2020

by SmithsonianDecember 1, 2020December 1, 2020041

The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer When the Nazis bombed Bari, a Mediterranean port city central to the Allied war effort, on December 2, 1943, hundreds of sailors sustained horrific injuries. Within days of the attack, writes Jennet Conant in The......

Sermon for whites to wash away ‘Original Sin’ is misguided gospel of anti-racism

NYPostNovember 30, 2020

by NYPostNovember 30, 202001

Coleman Hughes In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in police custody last May, millions of Americans have been asking the question: How do we best fight racism? Books that give a compelling answer have been flying off the shelves. With the possible exception of Ibram X. Kendi, no writer......

UFC books Beneil Dariush vs. Diego Ferreira rematch for Feb. 6

mmafighting.comNovember 29, 2020November 30, 2020

by mmafighting.comNovember 29, 2020November 30, 2020016

Diego Ferreira will attempt to avenge his first MMA loss when he meets Beneil Dariush at a UFC Fight Night event on Feb. 6, multiple people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting. ESPN first reported the matchup. Dariush and Ferreira were originally scheduled to face Charles Oliveira and......

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