Quadrille snaps up essays on women's relationship with the internet

Quadrille will publish an exploration of the female relationship with the internet, Mixed Feelings, by Refinery29 editor Sarah Raphael and campaigner Naomi Shimada. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Bestselling books 2013: The case of the disappearing women

The shock of the new has given way to the comfort of the old in this year's bestseller list, with plenty of football and blokey chefsSee the chart in fullTwo female newcomers dominated the all‑year bestsellers list at this point last year. EL James (Fifty Shades of Grey) and Suzanne Collins (The... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Treat online abuse of women and girls as robustly as offline, authorities urged

Call on police and prosecutors by women's group EVAW comes as report reveals extent of sexual harassment on social mediaWomen's groups are calling on the police and prosecutors to treat abuse of women and girls online as "robustly" as they do offline, as a report published on Thursday reveals... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Dangerous Women' boasts equal-opportunity destroyers

'Dangerous Women,' an anthology edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, features an impressive assembly of work, and a new novella by Martin.The fury of a woman scorned is just one of the perils encountered in "Dangerous Women," a splendid cross-genre anthology featuring original... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Internet age should not undermine our jury system, says Dominic Grieve

Attorney general backs Law Commission recommendation that jurors who search web for case details should be jailedJuries are deeply "ingrained in our national DNA" and the internet should not be allowed to undermine a system of justice dating back to Magna Carta, according to the the attorney... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cool Tools: A Whole Earth Catalog For The Post-Internet Era

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[ Fast Company | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Elan Gale internet hoax sums up all that is rotten about our online lives | Hadley Freeman

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[ The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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All-women shortlist for Costa Novel Award

Writer Kate Atkinson joins an all-female shortlist for the Costa Novel Award, one of five... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bauer unveils digital brand The Debrief aimed at 20-something wealthy women

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[ The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Superintelligent Swede snapped up by OUP

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bertrams sees internet and international boost

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When The Internet Isn't Awful: What You Can Learn From The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Messages From CaringBridge

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[ Fast Company | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fortune's Most Powerful Women List Has Lots of Tech Stars, With She-Can-Do-Anything Spotlight on Facebook's Sandberg

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[ AllThingsD | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quadrille signs new Nathan Outlaw

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[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York City Has An Internet Inequality Problem

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[ Fast Company | 2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meet XKeyscore: The NSA's Secret Real-Time Internet Snooping System That May Have Already Met You

New documents published in The Guardian reveal that the NSA can snoop on you in real time--and that the agency is building a giant keyword-based database of everything connected to the Internet, including Word and Excel docs on users' hard drives. Sometimes life seems a lot like dystopian... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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