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Reviews of New books fiction and Non Fiction

By the book DSM-5

The American Psychiatric Association’s latest diagnostic manual remains a flawed attempt to categorise mental illness A BOOK with the title “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition” does not sound destined to be a bestseller, particularly at $199 … Continue reading

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Feel the force

The economist Three new books look at power in the digital age To save everything click here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. By Evgeny Morozov. PublicAffairs; 415 pages; $28.99. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk Who Owns the Future? … Continue reading

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New Adult fiction is the hot new category in books.

Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY New Adult novels explore the terrifying and wonderful chasm between adolescence and adulthood. Mix the high-octane emotions of youth with the freedom of leaving home and you’ve brewed up a potent new book category called “New … Continue reading

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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen el Feki

Most Arab women share the sexist presumptions of their culture, even as they suffer its effects.’ Photograph: Alamy Will the Arab spring precipitate a sexual as well as a political revolution? It is an intriguing question, which the award-winning Cairo-based … Continue reading

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Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER An Author Attracts Unlikely Allies In 1974 Thomas Nagel published “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” a short essay arguing that the subjective experience of consciousness — what philosophers call the “qualia” — could not … Continue reading

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Le Grand Meaulnes The girl at the Grand Palais Alain Fournier

Photo taken by Alain Fournier in 1902 and used as his book cover in 1913 Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier (October 3, 1886 – September 22, 1914) The adolescent obsession that inspired an influential yet neglected French classic … Continue reading

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Bucking previous trends, survey finds growth of the religiously unaffiliated slowing

By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – After years of marked growth, the size of Americans who identify with no religion slowed in 2012, according to a study released Thursday. Since 2008, the percentage of Americans who identify as religious … Continue reading

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Made for Each Other ‘What’s a Dog For?’ by John Homans

By WALTER VATTER “We wanted another family member, someone to fill out the cast, a supporting actress,” John Homans, the executive editor at New York magazine, writes in his engaging and informative book that is both a survey of the … Continue reading

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The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun?

By GREG BENSINGER The e-reader era just arrived, but now it may be ending. Dedicated devices for reading e-books have been a hot category for the past half-dozen years, but the shrinking sizes and falling prices of full-featured tablet computers … Continue reading

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