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A group of teachers in eastern India used books meant for poor children to light a bonfire to keep them warm, a report said Tuesday.
College is expensive. You have tuition, housing and books. I found three sites that will save you more than half off your textbooks. The first is www.campusbooks.com . The site compares the prices of books at several sites. This way you don't have to spend your entire day searching.
How closely did you read the year in books? Find out if you're due a prize or a bad review with John Crace's questionnaire
LONDON (Dow Jones)--U.K. business order books have declined to levels below those seen in the 1990s recession, suggesting that the current economic downturn will be deeper and more prolonged.
They'll help you avoid the seduction of easy answers.
Vast sums spent by students on text books may be a practice of the past thanks to a new website, reports public broadcaster DR. Around 400 books currently being used at universities and trade schools are available for download free at Ventus.dk.
When it comes to books that win the Newbery Award, you won’t see many protagonists—or even secondary characters—who are people of color, says a new study.
The board of directors of The Remnant Trust in Jeffersonville is likely to vote next month to move its library of rare books and historical documents because of cooling and humidity problems in the collection's building, the trust's president said yesterday.
Crack open a book and it's like transporting yourself to another place and time with no plane, no boat, no car. Last year, 1,767 kids spent a total of 18,186 hours diving into books and authors' fantasylands with no secret code, no key, no portal more magical than pages of print.
Featuring Machiavelli, Clarence Darrow, screechy monkeys, D.W. Griffith, a "very special" Golden Girls, Emperor Akbar's court, "man you shoulda seen them kickin' Edgar Allan Poe..." Although my pick for Best Fiction is of a colorful and considerably multi-layered literary heft, fiction overall for me was put on the back burner in 2008 (bad choice of words perhaps - this isn’t Banned Books Week, ...
