Racing ain't cheap, and teams are seldom in a position to turn down money. This leads to some off-the-wall sponsorship deals. Crypto-currencies. Taylor Swift. Jesus. And, for a few glorious years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, "Dianetics," in a campaign bankrolled by the Church of Scientology.Incredibly, it wasn't the only sci-fi-ish religion to dabble in racing (more on that shortly). But it was by far the most prominent.In case you're not familiar, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" was a self-help book by Scientology founder/science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard in 1950; it formed the basis of a sort of proto-Scientology metaphysical movement that swept the nation in the postwar years. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#late 1980s
#early 1990s
#mental health
Transworld has snapped up world rights for "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Lawrence Chaney’s memoir, which will "delight and inspire readers." Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-20 10:23:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#transworld snaps
#drag race
#inspire readers
#world rights
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has booked a slot at the top of the UK Official Top 50 chart through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, selling 44,096 copies in its first three days on sale in paperback. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-18 10:35:07 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#richard osman
#nielsen bookscan
#nielsen
The list, compiled by the American Library Association, is meant to inform the public about censorship. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-06 06:46:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#books include
As we approach the one year anniversary of the first U.S. Covid-19 lockdowns, PW spoke with Columbia University epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaman, who offered a frank assessment of where we stand in our battle against Covid-19. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#covid-19 crisis
#covid-19 lockdowns
#pw spoke
#frank assessment
A Yale-educated engineer goes in search of the child she gave up for adoption in Nancy Johnson’s debut. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#nancy johnson
#kindest lie
“The Rib King’’ upends the racial calculus that amplifies the stories of the privileged few, offering rich, lovingly rendered portraits of working-class Black people. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-21 09:10:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Archive of American Folk Song dispatched its field workers in 10 different regions across the United States to solicit average Americans’ opinions about the bombing and FDR’s ensuing proposal for a declaration of war. A second round... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-08 18:00:08 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#pearl harbor
#memoir
In the “gamblers will bet on absolutely anything” category, here’s a new one: A major sports book is taking bets on aerial drone races Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2021-01-08 16:43:45 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#sports book
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has notched up a second consecutive week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with 72,913 copies sold. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-29 16:01:10 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#richard osman
#consecutive week
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) and Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Penguin) have topped the Amazon Charts for the last full week before Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 23:53:25 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#amazon charts
#richard osman
#barack obama
#full week
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) is the Christmas number one with 134,514 copies sold, becoming the first debut fiction title to hit the festive top spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 06:17:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#richard osman
#christmas number
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. Coke’s giant review Coca-Cola is undertaking a massive agency review that... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-12-10 10:59:27 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#i-hsien sherwood
#adrianne pasquarelli
#buddhist monk
#staying safe
#@adage
#cmo strategy
#newsletters galore
#subscribers make
#corporate subscriptions
#find options
#—including access
Courtney Milan explains how a group of romance novelists rallied behind one of their own: Stacey Abrams. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2020-12-07 19:30:17 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fundraising effort
#stacey abrams
#novelists
“The Office of Historical Corrections,” an extraordinary new collection of fiction, examines alienation and the phantasmagoria of racial performance. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2020-11-21 16:01:38 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#danielle evans
#historical corrections
#short stories
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has bounced back into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 28,756 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 19:38:08 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#richard osman
#bounced back
#nielsen bookscan
#nielsen
The ratings for Thursday's controversial presidential town hall faceoff between NBC and ABC are in, and ABC's Joe Biden broadcast was the ratings winner--even though NBC News simulcast its President Trump town hall across multiple networks--according to early Nielsen data released this... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-10-16 19:34:41 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#nielsen
Transworld is publishing Black is the Body, a collection of non-fiction essays covering a number of US author Emily Bernard's experiences. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 19:56:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#essay collection
Mrs Hinch's This is Me (Michael Joseph) has swept straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 91,389 copies in its first week on sale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-06 10:03:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#mrs hinch
#michael joseph
#swept straight
Bookshops are gearing up for another bumper Super Thursday with around 355 new trade hardback books hitting the shelves today (1st October), with some warning of a "creaking" supply chain. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 00:12:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookshops gear
#super thursday
#supply chain
#hardback