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Name: W. W. Norton & Company

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Lies of the Father

One night in the winter of 2008, Newsweek foreign correspondent Scott C. Johnson was interviewing a source in the dark corner of a hotel in Amman, where he was tracing the origins of the Iraqi insurgency. “Abu Ahmed,” who had helped found a religious ... [Published Daily Beast - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Mohammad Abd El-Hamid Khalil SALAH, W. W. Norton & Company, Counter-Intelligence, Amman

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

'Gulp' offers inside look at digestion

Mary Roach has noticed a weird double standard about the way we eat. The science writer and Oakland, Calif., resident is amused by the way so many of us are obsessed with the kind of food we eat, but then "once (food) leaves the plate, it goes from an ... [Published Times Union - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Digestion, Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, Sex, colonoscopy

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Hot Reads

by Matt Bell A marriage very darkly seen. ‘’ by Matt Bell. 312 pp. Soho Press. $25. (Soho Press)‘The Girl Who Loved Camellias’ by Julie Kavanagh. 304 pp. Alfred A. Knopf $27.95 (Alfred A. Knopf)‘Carnival: A Novel’ by Rawi Hage. 304 pp. W. W Norton & Company. ... [Published Daily Beast - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Matt Bell, Alfred A Knopf, W. W. Norton & Company

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 09 2013 - 2 reports

Bottom-Up Morality?

Beatrice Marovich uses Frans de Waal’s work on the moral lives of primates to question the way we typically think about religion:Public debates about religion in the contemporary U.S. are still rooted in debates about belief . Prominent public atheists ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Morality, Religion, Frans de Waal, Richard Dawkins, Atheism

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

Houghton Mifflin Company

Best Summer Books: SA‘s Picks and Yours

All year long Scientific American editors, bloggers and contributors mull over and write about recently published science books worth reading. These works cover everything from ancient quantum computing to surviving a mass extinction. The “Recommended” ... [Published Scientific American - Observations - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Basic Books, Bora Zivkovic, W. W. Norton & Company, Houghton Mifflin Company

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

The Literary Value of Psychoanalysis

I’ve always found psychoanalysts slightly awkward interview subjects. This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate. Talking about oneself invariably doesn’t come easy to someone whose job is to listen. ... [Published Daily Beast - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: W. W. Norton & Company

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Fatherhood Fun: 5 Hilarious Reads for Dad

Give your father something to smile about with these LOL-worthy reads. By Marianne SalazarWhen a couple is expecting a child, all the attention is usually focused on the mother, who would have to bear the very important task of carrying the baby in her ... [Published Female Network - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Robert Wilder, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Lewis

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists: How Religious Life Has More to Do With Animal Instinct Than You'd Think

|Like this article?Join our email list:Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.The following is a review of The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal. (W.W. Norton , 2013)For centuries, a dominant ... [Published RINF.com - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Religion, Morality, Atheism, Richard Dawkins

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History

Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History Paperback: 255 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (August 17, 1999) By Virginia Allain Format:Paperback The book is a collection of things people actually said in ... [Published Foreclosure Fraud - Fighting Foreclosure Fraud ... - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Crack Down, Florida Supreme Court, Disorder, Bank of New York Mellon Corp

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Getting a read on summer

Poetry is a literary enterprise with enormous allure to the amateur, and yet it is an art form that one can study for a lifetime. And who is a better teacher than Robert Pinsky? The former poet laureate of the United States — and perhaps the most familiar ... [Published Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - May 31 2013]

Entities: Robert Pinsky, Allan Sherman, W. W. Norton & Company, Sylvia Plath, Hank Greenberg

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Men Get Sick, Too

Harriet Freed, in the Tikkun Daily, wrote: “The original Women’s Liberation Movement was a movement of both race and class integration, a vision of justice for all. It saw female liberation as the basis for social revolution.”She claims that the movement ... [Published RINF.com - May 31 2013]

Entities: Asian-Americans, Gay, MSNBC, Seneca Falls Convention, Ishmael Reed

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

Publishing Jobs: ABRAMS, W.W. Norton & Company, Templeton Press

This week, ABRAMS is hiring a production assistant, while needs a designer. Templeton Press is seeking a , and is on the hunt for an associate editor/editor. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Medi ... [Published Media Bistro - May 30 2013]

Entities: W. W. Norton & Company, Publishing

Quotes

"I wrote the book when I was living in Morgantown and my children were in West Virginia schools. I was horrified with what they were getting from their history classes in school."

Historian Williams reflects on half-century of W.Va. history [Published Charleston Gazette - 3 hours ago]

"He is so much more famous than all of the scientists who studied him put together," Corkin says. "He revolutionized the science of memory. We look at memory now in a totally different way."

Always Present [Published Technology Review - Jun 18 2013]

...The science writer and Oakland, Calif., resident is amused by the way so many of us are obsessed with the kind of food we eat, but then "once (food) leaves the plate, it goes from an object of near worship to something not worth thinking about."

'Gulp' offers inside look at digestion [Published Times Union - Jun 12 2013]

"One of the key issues is fatigue. The pilots who operate the regional carriers tend to operate lots of flights into congested airspace and busy airports. Lots of takeoffs and landings. They work very hard and long hours, and they tend to be less experienced than the major airline pilots who now have thousands and thousands of hours. They're all regulated to the same extent. They all have to meet the same minimum hours and experience, but the fact is that regional carriers don't have quite the same level of experience and expertise as the majors."

Flying High And Low In 'Full Upright And Locked Position' [Published WUKY - Jun 10 2013]

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Historian Williams reflects on half-century of ... [Published Charleston Gazette - 3 hours ago]
Fred Rich: Breaking News: 34% of Your Fellow Ci... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 18 2013]
Disconnected on the Web [Published WNYC - Jun 18 2013]
Always Present [Published Technology Review - Jun 18 2013]
Diversifying your online world [Published MIT News feed - Jun 18 2013]
Is Cybertopianism Really Such a Bad Thing? [Published Slate Magazine - Jun 17 2013]
PMâs Literary Awards 2013 shortlists announced [Published Bookseller Publisher - Jun 17 2013]
Lies of the Father [Published Daily Beast - Jun 16 2013]
Time to Evolve [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
Macmillanâs Sargent, Appleâs Moerer Testify at ... [Published PublishersWeekly.com - Jun 12 2013]
'Gulp' offers inside look at digestion [Published Times Union - Jun 12 2013]
Scholar Chronicles History of Anti-Semitism [Published Forward - Jun 11 2013]
Hot Reads [Published Daily Beast - Jun 11 2013]
Flying High And Low In 'Full Upright And Locked... [Published WUKY - Jun 10 2013]
Bottom-Up Morality? [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 09 2013]
Bottom-Up Morality? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 09 2013]
Best Summer Books: SA‘s Picks and Yours [Published Scientific American - Observations - Jun 07 2013]
Air Travel Reality [Published WNYC - Jun 07 2013]
Weird science [Published Saipan Tribune - Jun 06 2013]
Whitefish Review [Published Whitefish Pilot - Jun 06 2013]
The Literary Value of Psychoanalysis [Published Daily Beast - Jun 05 2013]
Space, Man [Published Vegas Seven - Jun 05 2013]
Fatherhood Fun: 5 Hilarious Reads for Dad [Published Female Network - Jun 05 2013]
Whitefish Review celebrates ?Lucky 13? with aut... [Published Lively Times - Jun 05 2013]
John Irving Wins at Lambda Literary Awards [Published Media Bistro - Jun 04 2013]
If Apes Could Talk to Atheists: How Religious L... [Published RINF.com - Jun 04 2013]
A Child Among San Francisco's Gay Men In 'Fairy... [Published KNAU - Jun 03 2013]
Michael_Levin: What to Give Your Grad This June... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 03 2013]
Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments ... [Published Foreclosure Fraud - Fighting Foreclosure Fraud ... - Jun 03 2013]
Yoga calms special-needs kids [Published South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Jun 02 2013]

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Diversifying your online world [Published MIT News feed - Jun 18 2013] The Internet promises a seemingly frictionless way of connecting individuals from around the globe. But in reality, that’s not what happens online: Instead, we clump together with people similar to ourselves, and have those affinities reinforced by tools ...
Bottom-Up Morality? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 09 2013] Beatrice Marovich uses Frans de Waal’s work on the moral lives of primates to question the way we typically think about religion: Public debates about religion in the contemporary U.S. are still rooted in debates about belief. Prominent public atheists ...
Best Summer Books: SA‘s Picks and Yours [Published Scientific American - Observations - Jun 07 2013] All year long Scientific American editors, bloggers and contributors mull over and write about recently published science books worth reading. These works cover everything from ancient quantum computing to surviving a mass extinction. The “Recommended” ...
Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments ... [Published Foreclosure Fraud - Fighting Foreclosure Fraud ... - Jun 03 2013] Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History Paperback: 255 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (August 17, 1999) By Virginia Allain Format:Paperback The book is a collection of things people actually said in ...
Forthcoming books: Larry Tribe and others comme... [Published SCOTUSblog - May 30 2013] Forty-five years after the publication of his first book ( Technology: Process of Assessment and Choice ), Laurence Tribe is preparing to release another book, tentatively titled Uncertain Justice (2014). Henry Holt is the publisher, and the famed ...

Press Releases

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Emancipation a Central Goal of Civil War, Says ... [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Feb 12 2013]