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Veteran actress Betty White is the latest Hollywood star to get the comic book treatment. The 88-year-old performer will be drawn as a cartoon for "Female Force: Betty White," to be produced by Bluewater Productions. The 3 [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - For Women and Finding The Right Man - For Wome...

“The urge to find a mate is deeply rooted into human biology. But there’s more to the selection process than simple lust or ticking biological reproduction clocks. The finding of just the right partner to go through life with [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - The Magic of Property Investment

Here are several reasons why Renesial Leong likes property investment over other forms of investments:Cash flow on a monthly basis Make sure your rental income is able to cover mortgage repayment, service charges and other expenses. Leve [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Men and Dogs

At thirty-five Hannah still has flashbacks of fishing trips with her father Buzz just before he mysteriously disappeared forever. Although officially ruled dead, Hannah cannot shake the feeling there must be more, that maybe her father w [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews - Paris and her Remarkable Women; and Br...

Review: Nova Scotia is often lumped together in guidebooks with its neighbours, Canada's other Maritime provinces: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. Orkin makes a compelling case for Canada's second [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - The men who stare at goats by Jon Ronson

If ever there was a book which personified conspiracy theory version of Poe's law, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" by Jon Ronson is it. The history of PsyOps in American security forces often stretches credulity. The author starts wi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana (Today's Superstars:...

Titles in Today's Superstars: Entertainment were selected by a survey of kids and -- of the 24 books produced as a result Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana makes the cut of popularity. For a Grade 3 reading level, this 6 1/2" x 9" [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Enemies: World War II Alien Internment by John ...

It was simply coincidence that I began reading John Christgau’s Enemies: World War II Alien Internment the week of September 11. Yet it reinforced that the book may be more relevant today than when first published 25 years ago and San [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Tormented,erotic four-liners

On the back of the book there is a small picture of the Jamaica-born author. His ears are pointed, and his piercing eyes are looking straight at you, and perhaps at the 11 years that he spent with a woman named Anna. The 320 quatrains in t [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Crime without punishment

In 2004, a young Aboriginal man called Cameron Doomadgee was arrested on a remote island off the coast of Queensland for swearing at a white policeman. Within an hour, he was dead in a police cell, his liver almost split in half, four ribs [...]

Posted On : Jan, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Professional Plone Development by Martin Aspeli

Alan Berg from Free Software Magazine publishes a review of Martin Aspeli's new book. He introduces Plone and explains what the book is made for. In 300 pages, Aspeli systematically builds from scratch a viable example application based on [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2008 | Comments : 0

Book gives women scoop on how men think in business

What Men Don’t Tell Women about Business: Opening up the Heavily Guarded Alpha Male Playbook (John Wiley & Sons) would appear to be another eye-rolling self-help business book that tries to teach women how to understand men in bus [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Book Review: 'The 7 Commandments of Stock Investing'

For those that read my book reviews, let me simply say that unless I say that I skimmed a book, I read every book that I review, and I don’t use the publisher's notes to aid me, as many other reviewers do. I just give you my opinion s [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Drupal Pro Development numbers

You might remember that a week after the Pro Drupal Development book shipped, it cracked the Amazon top-100. The book remains in the 4,000-5,000 rank at Amazon, where it has 28 reviews and an average of 5/5 stars. Well, John VanDyk, co-a [...]