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According to Edward Espe Brown in the March 2010 issue of the Shambhala Sun, mindful cooking is not about being detached while you’re de-boning or or being subdued while you’re sauteing. Rather, mindful cooking is about letting your passion cook. Here’s an assortment of books to help us get another taste of mindfulness.
The Complete Tassajara Cookbook
Recipes, Techniques, and Reflection...
National Geographic photographer and biographer Paul Nicklen has been making bold expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic for many years, documenting the lives and habitats of leopard seals, whales, walruses, polar bears, bearded seals and narwhals and how they are threatened by climate change. Now the world press award winner’s photos can be seen in a stunning new book, Polar Obsession
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Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons By J.P. Quayle
With the release of the iPad and the scuffle over MacMillan pulling its books, e-publishing is an absolute mess. Fortunately, this isn't one of those problems you can sweep under the rug. But what options are out there? There seems to be only three logical options that publishers can consider. Let me take you through each one.
The first option...
Twilight sucks. Anyone with at least a quarter-brain knows this to be fact. But we're not here to argue the literary merits -- or lack their of -- of a book series completely devoid of anything even remotely close to resembling a well-put-together story or character depth. No, instead we look at Twilight 's greatest detriment to pop culture: the complete and utter butchery of the vampire mythos....
An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardi
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In what is predicted to be a pivotal year for ebooks, with next month's iPad launch, the number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games The electronic book passed another milestone this month, with the number of books available on the iTunes App Store passing the number of games for the first time. According to data released earlier this month by the mobile phone advert...
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One of my objectives for the Mind Mapping Software Blog is to help to grow this fascinating software niche, because I believe it has so much potential as a business tool that is still waiting to be tapped.
Accordingly, I have just produced another helpful mind map that gathers over 80 of the best mind mapping resources into a single visual map that you can use as a jumping-off point for explor...
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I hope time will prove me wrong, but I think that future mankind – at least in my part of the world – might become physically shorter than their predecessors. I came to this conclusion after carefully observing my first daughter every day.
She’s barely seven and still in her first year of elementary school, but her school bag – which she has to carry on her back everyday – is bigger and heavier ...
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Social media is here to stay. No matter what you do, it’s probably impacting your industry — especially if you do most of your work online. But even though we can all agree on the importance of social media, figuring out how to use it is not so obvious. If you’re in marketing, your questions might revolve around how to create a social media marketing plan that will work no matter what platform i...
by Subodh Gupta
Last night, I started reading Autobiography of Red , a novel in verse, by Anne Carson. I’m only 40 pages in and I can tell you that Carson’s masterpiece is already burning through me. From the beauty of her sentences to the brilliance of her ideas to the myth she retells to the little red heart that breaks and the arrow that kills it. Here’s an excerpt from the book’s opening, ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Google has scanned 12 million books so far, 2 million scanned through its Partner Program, 2 million public domain works, and foreign works that are outside the amended settlement.
Authors Guild claims a membership of over 8,500 Association of American Publishers claims to represent over 300 publishers, 30,000 authors and publishers have already struck dea...
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How Much Do You Hate Performance Reviews? by Bob Sutton
Deming emphasized that forced rankings and other merit ratings that breed internal competition are bad management because they undermine motivation and breed contempt for management among people who, at least at first, were doing good work.
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If you want to read the most compelling and complete case against the traditional performance ev...
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World news and comment from the Guardian | guardia
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Story of his experience of the fatwa 'needs to be told' says author, as his archive goes on display in America Salman Rushdie is planning to write a book about the decade he spent in hiding after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him. "It's my story, and at some point, it does need to be told. That point is getting closer, I think," he told reporters at Emory University...
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A project of mine required a comparison of the world’s most well-known sports brand logos. They’re shown together below in case the quick reference might be useful for you.
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