It’s no surprise that the Left Book Club is being relaunched now, with the imprimatur of the Labour leader and Ken Livingstone. It began in the anxious 1930s, a decade that has all too many parallels with the current oneAiming to “set the agenda for a new age of political debate”, the Left Book Club was re-launched this week at a meeting at the Conway Hall in London. The Left Book Club last published a book in 1948. Jeremy Corbyn had yet to be born. Nevertheless the Labour leader has generously endorsed the revival as “a terrific and timely idea” that will give “intellectual ballast to the wave of political change sweeping Britain and beyond, encouraging informed and compassionate debate”. He added that he had a large collection of Left Book Club titles, some bought new by his parents and others that he acquired second hand. I speculate that the memory of these books in their plain red or orange covers – their flash upon his inward eye – must have provided Corbyn with a rare pleasurable moment in the past few weeks: the thought of them on his shelves having same kind of heart-filling effect that the daffodils had on Wordsworth.My own collection isn’t so large. In fact, it runs to just one book, Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, and I didn’t inherit it. I bought it 20 or 30 years ago because I liked the idea of having such a fine book in its cheap and original form – seeing the words and photographs as its first readers must have seen them. Published in 1937, the year after... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jump Start Adobe XD provides everything a designer needs, right out of the box. Adobe’s new app, Experience Design CC (better known as XD) is the only design tool on the market today that allows you to design user interfaces, prototype interactions, and then export assets for development right... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Its chief critic took a buy-out. It's consolidating like crazy. But the Gray Lady's books team is neither flailing nor failing. Here's what it is doing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray imprint Two Roads has acquired two more books from Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good morning. Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing and digital-related news. What people are talking about today: Social media video advertising. It's been in the news a lot in the last 24 hours, with a few different developments of note to anyone keeping... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dr Gordon Ostlere, who wrote novels under the penname Richard Gordon, has died aged 95. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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N K Jemisin has won the Hugo award for best novel for the second time after being the first black person to claim the science fiction prize last year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Roads has acquired Two Steps Forward, a novel from husband-and-wife team Graeme Simsion, debut author of The Rosie Project (Penguin) and Anne Buist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Learn how to attack and defend the world’s most popular web server platform. Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend presents a detailed guide for experienced admins, aspiring hackers and other IT professionals seeking a more advanced understanding of Linux security. Written by a 20-year veteran... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good morning. Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, and digital-related news. What people are talking about today: The romance between Netflix and Disney is unraveling, or as Quartz puts it, "Disney is just beginning its conscious uncoupling from... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Leadership Journey will help you master the essential skill set of the truly effective leader. This eBook from Wiley brings world-renown people and talent development expertise to bear in a discussion about 'good' versus 'great' leadership, sharing the 'secret sauce' of successful... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How can modern readers relate to the Bible’s descriptions of direct human interactions with God? Harvard professor and biblical scholar James Kugel provides some possibilities in ‘The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HBG charters a private bus for a 280-mile day trip, taking 26 editors and publishers (plus one reporter) on a sojourn from New York to bookstores in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The decade-old litigation over digitized course readings made another appearance before the 11th Circuit last week, but the case could still be far from a conclusion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Federico Andornino, currently editor at John Murray imprint Two Roads, is joining Weidenfeld & Nicolson's fiction team this September as commisisoning editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virtualization Essentials, Second Edition takes a learning-by-doing approach to give you hands-on training and a core understanding of virtualization. As more and more companies are leveraging virtualization, it's imperative that IT professionals have the skills and knowledge to interface with... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Preface has acquired a new book from Hawksmoor restaurateurs Huw Gott and Will Beckett, to publish this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former culture secretary John Whittingdale has become the new chair of the All Party Writers Group for a second time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paper under fire over column that suggested the BBC Radio London presenter and Claudia Winkleman were well paid because they are Jewish Vanessa Feltz has said she felt “extremely upset” by a Sunday Times column written by a Holocaust denier which suggested that she and Claudia Winkleman earned... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A 68-year-old man who was rejected by the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, claiming he was discriminated against because of his age. Dan Thomson, a former lawyer and self-published author, was among the 97% of applicants to the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Michiko Kakutani book review is an institution unto itself, one that has now come to an end as The New York Times chief book critic steps down from her role after 38 years at the Times, 34 of which have been spent writing about the work of basically every author in the contemporary Western... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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