Month: February 2018

John Landsteiner Wins Olympic Gold!

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John Landsteiner Wins Olympic Gold!

The stage was set—curling history was about to be made in PyeongChang, South Korea. The 2018 Olympic gold medal match between the USA and Sweden, played on Saturday, Feb. 24, would determine a new Olympic champion as neither team has ever made it to the gold medal game. USA skip
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Marketing Manager, Food and Lifestyle Publishing

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Marketing Manager, Food and Lifestyle Publishing

Chronicle Books is looking for a Marketing Manager for our Food and Lifestyle category. This hands-on role will provide overall strategic direction for Food and Lifestyle marketing and publicity and will create and implement marketing plans for all category titles and digital product launches with the goal
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Relaxing and healing with Willow Peach Bath Company

Those more intricate bath bombs include her best seller, the muscle relaxing bath bomb which has added bath salts and colors. Morgan came up with the idea for this particular bath bomb when customers at markets commented on how sore their muscles are. She adds an essential oil that gives the bath
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Too soon to end

Publishers and volunteers were also helping bookworms to the best of their abilities. “I bought books for my students as I believe it will help nurture a reading habit and culture among them,” said Ferdous Ara Begum, a vice principal of Dhaka Residential Model College. Expressing satisfaction over the
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Publishing sector urges cancellation of tax hike

AMMAN — Publishers and writers on Wednesday urged the government to rescind its decision to impose a 10 per cent sales tax on books and publications, which they said would have serious consequences on the sector amidst “modest” numbers of readers in the country. Around 90 per cent of the
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Parting Glances Ten in Seventh Heaven (Pt.2 of 3)

Decisions. Decisions. First no book publishers, now this. My cellphone says it's 12:05 a.m. It seems more like a century since I arrived. I must say, my condo room's intriguing. The walls are lined with pictures of myself over the years. (My God, the changes I've gone through.) And golden-framed pictures of
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7 real-life skills your teen needs before going away to college

In my job teaching college English and creative writing, I hold individual conferences with my freshmen every semester, and this year's were a doozy: One young woman wanted me to help her with a criminal complaint; one young man sought help finding a neurologist; and another student asked how
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Introducing Izzy, News-Record co-op student

Of course, I dreamed of becoming an author when I grew up. However, as I grew older, that passion faded, and creative writing took backseat to schoolwork and other interests. Fortunately, this past year I have begun to get back into writing. After taking a Writer's Craft course in school and participating in
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How Has Marvel's Elimination Of The Creative Committee Changed The MCU?

Studio President Kevin Feige gets a lot of the credit on the creativity and business side for the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he didn't do the job alone. In addition to the scores of executives, producers, directors, crewmembers, actors, and writers working on these movies, there was also
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing “Captain America,” and it drops on July 4

Even as Ta-Nehisi Coates plans new storylines for the “Black Panther” comic series, he is taking on a new project — writing for none other than … Coates ended his essay with a poignant reminder about the black comic book authors who came before him, many of whom faced creative barriers that
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Libraries' Short Stories website launches with University-wide fiction contest

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries launched its Penn State-exclusive creative writing platform today (Feb. 28), enabling anyone with an active psu.edu email address to join the site to submit, vote and comment on others' original works. To celebrate, the Libraries' Short Stories
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Students meet local authors during "Right to Week Week"

“When kids get to meet a real life author it sparks their creativity, it sparks their imagination, it sparks their love for children's books and children's literacy is so important because of the great messages that are involved in it, but also just because it's reading,” Author of “Cops and Kiddos” Nick Rokicki said.
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Interview | Writer Jim Zub on fame, failure and his Image Comics series 'Glitterbomb'

… through a deep pile of assignment marking and delivered on writing deadlines while keeping emails flowing and promoting projects on social media, there's a rush — the creative writing version of a runner's high — where you look in the rearview mirror and realize what you've been able to accomplish.
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'Submission' Review: Sexual Harassment Drama About As Timely As It Gets

Stanley Tucci stars as Ted Swenson, a formerly successful author who has run into writers block and now teaches creative writing at a small East Coast college. Partly out of professional envy and partly out of attraction, he takes up with one of his students, Angela (Addison Timlin), who he feels shows
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Download Best Sellers Free Audio Books of Health & Fitness, Aging Well

Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of Download Best Sellers Free Audio Books of Health & Fitness, Aging Well by Listen to full audiobook for free on *** hotaudiobook.com/free *** for free.
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We all want to leave our mark, but on what?

Of course, there's also Writing for Peace, the international organization for which I am a board member. Much of our mission is to spread empathy through creative writing, and, to that end, we sponsor young writers contests and youth summits to provide a way for young voices to speak their truths.
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Hawks raid Jacques Pauw's home in Riebeek-Kasteel

NB publishers has consistently said it stands by Pauw and the book. NB Publishers said in a statement on Tuesday that it would continue to support Pauw and that it stood by the book. “We are proud to say we will defend our author and the book vigorously [SARS'] application because there is clear and
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Letter to the Editor — Mariah Perkins

28 because of obligations to a job that I need in order to supplement my stipend as a GTA. Secondly, I will be absent from public forum next week as I will be at a national writing conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) promoting our literary journal and graduate creative writing program.
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Owner of Ring Doorbell Company Turns 'Shark Tank' Rejection Into Billion-Dollar Deal

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Owner of Ring Doorbell Company Turns 'Shark Tank' Rejection Into Billion-Dollar Deal

Ring ended up being one of QVC's best sellers in 2017, generating $23 million in sales in just one day. Inside Edition's Megan Alexander spoke to Kevin O'Leary about missing out on a stake in the company. “Your offer was ultimately rejected — do you regret not making a better offer?” Alexander asked.
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Florida state university creative writing masters

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Fade to Light: A View from the Sidelines

It seemed like Altar sent out its best sellers, which is fine for a lookbook, but for a fashion show you need variety. Knowing this brand very well, I would've liked to have seen more risk, as was demonstrated in early February's Unmentionable fashion show. However, the dresses did highlight the amazing
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Why Is Japanese Whisky So Expensive and Is It Worth the Price?

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Why Is Japanese Whisky So Expensive and Is It Worth the Price?

As auctions bring in bigger and bigger winnings, the rarer bottlings drag up the flagship, best-sellers, fans have enjoyed for years. A normal blend or 12-year-old whisky in Japan sells for almost double what it would in the Scotch industry. Take the globally loved Yamazaki 12, the Hibiki 17, and Hakushu
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Book distributing company celebrates 80 years of promoting family values

Good Will Publishers is celebrating 80 years. Through different programs, which president of the company Jay Briody defines as public relations programs to help bring families together in communities across the United States, the company distributes books for newlyweds, newborns, memorial
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Editors of The Common inspire interest in literary magazines

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Editors of The Common inspire interest in literary magazines

Senior Lecturer in English and Chair of the creative writing concentration Marilyn Sides began planning this event last summer. “I saw they [Acker and Witte] were very interested in having a classroom component to The Common,” she explained. “Since I was teaching English 203, the short story class,
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Distinguished Young Women Hopefuls Vie For Title

… and vocal lessons, helps feed the hungry with her church youth group, sings in hospitals with the OHS choir, and babysits. Other interests include photography, creative writing, and playing the ukulele. Always in the audience cheering her on are her parents Jonelle and Brian Buzzini and sister Sophie.
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Amid some well-articulated dismay, West Chester Poetry Conference gets a new director

The night of the interview, he did a reading with students of the Creative Writing Club, and he said he plans to be on campus much more often than his appointment requires. So he'll be driving that 65 miles and back quite a bit. He has already filled out the roster of poets for this June's conference, with
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Charmander Has Been Voted The Best Starter Pokémon Ever

Behind Charmander, Squirtle and Cyndaquil won second and third place at the time of writing with Totodile and Bulbasaur coming just behind. … He graduated from the University of East Anglia with degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing before completing his NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia
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Johnny Hallyday – death, money and disputes

… work of the late Mr Hallyday, but it does not seem that his song “Pardon” was one of his best-sellers or most well-known. However, fears are that it might be the most apt or most used title over the coming months and years, for relationships between the extended Hallyday family are somewhat fractious.
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An Indies Introduce Q&A With Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi: Enuma and I met at the 2014 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop at Brown University, and in one of the opening speeches, someone — I can't quite recall who — said, “You only get one first book, one first impression.” I had other stories I could've written for my first book, but they were
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Short story author Susanne Davis signs books Wednesday at Bank Square

Short story author Susanne Davis appears Wednesday at Bank Square Books in Mystic. She'll discuss and sign copies of her first collection, “The Appointed Hour,” just out from Cornerstone Press. Davis, who teaches creative writing at Trinity College and the University of Connecticut, is a graduate of the
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Just duet

Skye was honored five years ago with a signature model guitar from the Santa Cruz Guitar Company that has gone on to be one of that company's best sellers. Los Angeles-based Mark Goldenberg is the consummate A-list session player and sideman. He played lead guitar for Jackson Browne for 16
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Penny Vincenzi obituary

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Penny Vincenzi obituary

It was a sound investment: each of the following five novels she wrote on the machine turned into bestsellers. The tale sums up Vincenzi's unusual mix of glamour and practicality. A leader in a generation of bestselling women that included Shirley Conran, Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper, she wrote
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EU research chief's next act: changing the future of academic publishing

Academic institutions pay millions for subscriptions to publishers' products, and in recent years, the skyrocketing cost of journal subscriptions has severely strained library budgets around Europe. The most recent flashpoint in the open access dispute is in Germany, where more than 150 German libraries
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Will Millennials Return to Religion?

Now, publishers are responding to this culture shift with books by believers, scholars and young adults themselves on Millennials and faith – or the lack of it. Several recent and upcoming books address whether or not Millennials care about religion, how they live out their faith and how faith leaders can
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Nigerian Online Publishers To Police: Journalists Are Not Terrorists

The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has rejected claims by the Nigeria police that two of its members, Messrs. Timothy and Daniel Elombah, are terrorists and that they breached the country's cybercrime rules because they approved the publication of an opinion article, deemed
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'The Atlantic' Honors MLK Jr.'s Legacy With Memorial Issue

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recounts being approached by staff writer Vann R. Newkirk and managing editor Adrienne Green about publishing a special issue leading up to that historic date. Goldberg was interested, but writes in his editor's note, entitled “The Chasm Between Racial Optimism and
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Ekushey Book Fair comes to a close

The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair organized by Bangla Academy ended with a turnover of over Tk70.50 crore on Tuesday. According to the academy, 4,591 new books were published at this years fair. Publishers have expressed more mixed reactions than last year, with some complaining that
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Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change

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Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change

The media industry's worst fears about Facebook's huge algorithm tweak are coming true. The women-focused publisher LittleThings is shutting its doors, in large part because of Facebook's recent move, the company's CEO, Joe Speiser, told Business Insider. […] Since launching in 2014, LittleThings
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How Publishers & Advertisers are Winning with a Cost-Per-Engagement Model

Traditional ad metrics including CPC and CMP are arguably on life-support. Learn what Cost Per Engagement is and how publishers and brands are using it to deliver strong results.
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What to include in a creative writing piece

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Email for publishers: The right alternative to the ever-changing Facebook News Feed

Facebook gave us all whiplash with its series of announcements about changes to the News Feed. Publishers—whether newspapers, magazines or digital—that relied on the platform for distributing their content and/or bringing readers back to their websites were warned that Facebook would prioritize
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Short creative writing stories about belonging

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Jeff Coffey Leaves His Troubles Behind With Release of GOT TO GET AWAY

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Jeff Coffey Leaves His Troubles Behind With Release of GOT TO GET AWAY

SmokeTree Records artist Jeff Coffey announced his highly anticipated third solo album to be released in the Summer of 2018. Coffey offered fans a tongue in cheek taste of what is coming with the first single, “Got To Get Away,” on Feb. 27th available on iTunes and Amazon. Hot off the presses, the new
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Brandeis event brings best-selling authors to the Valley

Nazi infiltrators and U.S. sympathizers plot terrorist attacks and the assassinations of Jewish celebrities, while a police department overrun by Ku Klux Klan members turns a blind eye. With the FBI too preoccupied chasing Communists, it falls to a lawyer, described by his enemies as “the most dangerous
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Back Mountain Memorial Library announces upcoming events

From romances to thrillers, from biographies to true crime, from best sellers to mysteries, this is the place to be. Local service clubs such as the Lions and the American Legion help fund our large-print collection. Reader Recommended: Patrons and staff are enthusiastic about these titles. Reading James
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March 5: Author, poet Gary Fincke to read from selected works

According to Dr. Glen Retief, of Susquehanna's English and Creative Writing department, Fincke's “The Out-of-Sorts: New and Selected Stories” is definitely a special collection. “An edition of collected stories is like a retrospective exhibition for a painter. It's a milestone, and an acknowledgement of
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For social publisher LittleThings, Facebook's “prioritization of friends/family content over publishers …

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The happy-news-focused, video-dominant, Facebook-dependent publisher LittleThings has some unhappy news. After four years spent accumulating more than 12 million followers on Facebook, doing a lot of video programming (including investment in Facebook Live shows), and building a team of
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Indie Booksellers Grapple with Sherman Alexie Sexual Harassment Charges

Spring disclosed that a friend, who is a children's book publishing professional, had confided in her a few months ago about several instances in which she experienced Alexie's inappropriate behavior. It was then, she said, that she decided then to stop selling his books. “The main reason this behavior
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Unusual Purim Art

After surviving the Holocaust, Shevo graduated from Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem and, after serving in the Israeli army for two and a half years, studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts and worked as freelance artist for American book publishers. A resident of Moshav Bet Gamliel, where his
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Bradley Walsh Shares Hilarious Donald Trump Impersonation Via Instagram

The actor-turned-TV presenter has already made a habit of entertaining fans on the platform and has now delivered his best Insta moment yet – a weird yet hilarious impression of Donald Trump. CHECK OUT WALSH NAILING HIS TRUMP IMPRESSION BELOW:
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Book detailing BTK family horror — and daughter's forgiveness — gets publication date

The daughter of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader is planning to release her memoir next year that details the trauma of finding out about his crimes — and her road to forgiveness. Kerri Rawson, over the weekend on Twitter, announced a January 2019 publication date for the book. It's title has yet to be
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Why Etsy's Stock Jumped 24% Amid Some Complaints From Sellers and Buyers

Silverman, a veteran of eBay's (ebay, -0.49%) Shopping.com site, has emphasized simple improvements like adding “best seller” badges and site-wide sales for Labor Day and Cyber Monday last year, as well as deeper changes that improved customer searches using artificial intelligence and machine
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In a New Movie Totally Coming Out This Year, a Middle-Aged Professor Is Seduced by an …

… played by Kyra Sedgwick, and Angela (Addison Timlin), the creative writing student who pens erotic poetry and asks him to read her novel and then, well, oh, you just guess. Writer-director Richard Levine's adaptation of Francine Prose's somewhat reactionary 2000 novel Blue Angel exhibits satiric wit
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Are e-books "stupid" or "a revolution"? (Survey)

A big publisher says the former; an author says the latter. What do you think? Every couple of years we ask the question: Paper or e-book? This is long been an issue of interest on TreeHugger, both in terms of energy and resources, but also the question of how people absorb information. The head of
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The UAE's First Women-Only Restaurant is a Burger Joint!

“The women along with kids head to the new outlet and the men catch up with each other at the first branch,” he says. According to Khaleel, the spicy 'Xalapa fries' and Mac 'n Cheese with crushed Cheetos are the best sellers. “After we opened this [ladies only] branch we have noticed women love
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Vietnamese Embassy participates in Brunei Book Fair

Le Tuan Anh, the Counsellor at the Vietnamese Embassy in Brunei Darussalam, told the Bulletin, “At our booth, we are showcasing some books and publications published by The Gioi Publishers, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Viet Nam News Agency. We are also distributing free
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Metallica Rules the Roost on Tuesday Best-Seller Rundown

If there was any question about the continued popularity of venerable metal outfit Metallica, today's list of top sellers in the secondary market should put that to bed, as the California-based rockers took nearly every spot in the Top 20 from Tuesday's data courtesy of Ticket Club. The rematch between
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Sherman Alexie Latest Author Facing Harassment Allegations

National Book Award–winning author Sherman Alexie, whose prominence in the Native American writing community is perhaps unparalleled, is the latest author to have been accused of sexual and general misconduct. The accusations—none of which have yet been made on record—first appeared in
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EA Games – The Mr. Krabs of Publishers

Many of us have fond memories of our golden years on the PS2 and the memorable quote, “EA Sports. It's in the game.” Most of us loved EA as a company during those days. Even the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series were amazing (for the first two installments anyway.) This, of course, was before
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We Are Journalists Not Terrorists – Online Publishers Association Tells Police In Nigeria

The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN has expressed concern over claims by the Nigeria Police Force that two of it's members conspired to commit terrorism offences and cyber crime because they approved an opinion article on their website which the police sees as uncomplimentary and
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Forum Will Explore Media Challenges for Junior Faculty

In addition to Wu — who recently published an editorial in Scientific American — the panel includes Laila Lalami, a UCR creative writing professor who writes a column for The Nation and has appeared on the BBC and National Public Radio, or NPR, and Assistant Professor S. Hollis Woodard,
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Daughter's sweet tooth inspires children's story

While this experience has given her plenty of writing material, her true muses are her children Cami and Wyatt. Bauer has since taken courses in creative writing and a course online on how to write a children's book. She finds the whole adventure fun and hopes to keep writing for as long as she can.
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Learn more about this author who chronicled life in the founding era of French Louisiana

His “Histoire de la Louisiane,” published in 1758, blends travel narrative, ethnography, natural history and colonial field guide into an encyclopedic compendium of colonial life. The book's first volume is on display at “New Orleans, The Founding Era,” a new exhibition at The Historic New Orleans
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Why Video Ads Still Load Slowly

A lot of times it is because of technical issues and resource constraints from the publishers. eMarketer: Can you elaborate? Brian Rifkin: For some reason, publishers have difficulty getting header bidding live with video. It just isn't set … Most publishers are not implementing video in the most optimal way.
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Hawks raid Jacques Pauw's house

NB Publishers said in a statement on Tuesday that it would continue to support Pauw and that it stood by the book. “We are proud to say we will defend our author and the book vigorously [SARS'] application because there is clear and compelling public interest in The President's Keepers revealing that
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Rajkumar Hirani's Wife Manjeet Hirani to Launch a Book Titled 'How To Be Human – Life Lessons …

She added, “Once I was wandering in WH Smith bookstore at Delhi airport and asked Rajmal Sharma, a salesman if he knew any publishers as I have written a book on my dog. He happily gave me numbers of a few publishers. I called up Penguin and spoke to them about the idea of my book and sent
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Masters creative writing oxford university

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Masters creative writing oxford university

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Classic Fantasy Comic 'ElfQuest' Comes to an End After 40 Years

Since that issue, it has gone on to be published across multiple series from the Pini's own publishing company, WaRP Graphics, as well as Marvel, DC and current publisher Dark Horse Comics. The fantasy storyline has also broken out of the comics medium to appear in prose, role-playing games, toys
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How A Family Overcame Obstacles To Create A Publishing House Catered To The Black Community

In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting an amazing family who has worked together to create a business catered to the African American community — The Villarosa family who founded a boutique publishing company called Villarosa Media. It all started with matriarch Clara Villarosa.
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