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Today's Featured Article

Storey: Health and Beauty

The mission of Storey Publishing is to serve the customers by publishing practical information that encourages personal independence in harmony with the environment. Storey is at the center of a vast revival of do-it-yourself lifestyles, a movement that has been fueled by an awareness of environmental responsibility, a passion for nature, for the homegrown, an appreciation for one-of-a-kind items. Whether picking up a needle and thread for the first time, or nurturing a passion for horses, readers know they can turn to Storey for no-nonsense advice and new ideas every time.
Facelift at Your Fingertips: An Aromatherapy Massage Program for Healthy Skin and a Younger Face by Pierre Jean Cousin (Foreword by Shirley Price) published by Storey in 2000.
For thousands of years, the healing practices of acupressure and aromatherapy have helped promote...

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United Kingdom: Shire Books

In 1962 Shire Publications began with its 1st book, Discovering East Suffolk. 45 years and over 1000 titles later Shire has become the home for affordable, non-fiction paperbacks on a wide range of subjects. Specialising in historical and heritage subjects, Shire has something for everyone whether you are the country house visitor, amateur historian or collector and enthusiast of every conceivable interest.

The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times by John Hannavy published by Shire in 2008. When ingenious methods of coloring photographs became available...

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In The News

SitePoint: SitePoint.com is Currently the 3,134th
Most Visited Web Site in the World

Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew & Kevin Yank published by SitePoint in 2008.
In this book, the authors take a look at what is around the corner with the impending launch of Internet Explorer 8. The layout methods demonstrated in this book aren't new. They have been included in browsers of FireFox, Safari, Opera... Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! is an opinionated book, written to inspire...

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Lark Books: Art and Photography

Are you an artist who would like to submit some of your work for consideration? The Lark Books is always looking to feature new and established artists. The project: 500 Found-Object Works. Juror: Suzie Millions. Editor: Suzanne Tourtillott. Entry deadline: March 15, 2009. The Lark Books seeks one-of-a-kind images of found-object art to publish ...

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NeoPopRealism Journal & Wonderpedia Awards: WonderBook of the Month

The NeoPopRealism Journal & Wonderpedia Celebrating the Wonderbook of January, 2009

The Complete History of SURFING: From Water to Snow

Author: Nat Young
with Craig McGregor & Rod Holmes

Published: 2008
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423602668

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Don't Miss These Events

March is Small Press Month!
March 1, 2009 — March 31, 2009

Small Press Month is a nationwide promotion highlighting the valuable work produced by independent publishers.
The Fifth Annual New York Round Table® Writers' Conference
April 24, 2009 — April 25, 2009

Attracting writers of all levels from beginner to seasoned professional, the two-day New York Round Table® Writers' Conference provides access to the nation's leading literary figures.

Celebrity Book Signing (USA)

Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, signing copies of We Can Have Peace In the Holy Land

1/26/09 7:30 PM at Barnes & Noble – Fifth Avenue. New York, NY.

1/27/09 6:00 PM at Costco – North Clybourn Avenue. Chicago, IL.

1/28/09 6:30 PM at Borders Books – Crossroads Center Way. Bailey’s Crossroads, VA.

1/30/09 6:00 PM at WalMart – Galleria Blvd. Charlotte, NC.

2/10/09 5:00 PM at Left Bank Books - North Euclid Avenue. St. Louis, MO.

2/11/09 6:30 PM at the University Bookstore – Kane Hall, University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

2/12/09 7:00 PM at Book Passage - Tamal Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA.

2/13/09 6:00 PM at Changing Hands Books - South McClintock Drive. Tempe, AZ.

Artie Lange, formerly of “MadTV” and “The Howard Stern Show”, signing copies of Too Fat To Fish

1/15/09 8:00 PM at Books & Books - Aragon Avenue. Coral Gables, FL.

Laird Hamilton, world famous surfer, signing copies of Force of Nature

1/7/09 7:00 PM at Bookends - East Ridgewood Ave. Ridgewood, NJ.

Steve Harvey, stand up comedian & TV star, signing copies of Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man

1/26/09 6:30 PM at Borders Books Penn Plaza. New York, NY.

1/27/09 7:00 PM at Hue-Man Bookstore - Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York, NY.

1/28/09 6:00 PM at Barnes & Noble Court Street. Brooklyn, NY.

1/29/09 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble Park Avenue. Willow Grove, PA.

1/30/09 7:00 PM at Borders Books Capital Centre Blvd. Largo, MD.

2/2/09 6:00 PM at WalMart Cobb parkway South. Marietta, GA.

2/6/09 7:00 PM at Davis-Kidd Booksellers - Green Hills Village Drive. Nashville, TN.

2/9/09 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble Mall Parkway. Lithonia, GA.

3/6/09 7:00 PM at Books-A-Million Albany Mall, Albany, GA.

erez Hilton, online gossip guy, signing copies of Red Carpet Suicide

1/6/09 7:00 PM at Borders Books Columbus Circle. New York, NY.

1/10/09 3:00 PM at Barnes & Noble Mall of America. Bloomington, MN.

1/11/09 4:00 PM at Borders Books 16th Street. Oak Brook, IL.

1/14/09 7:30 PM at Barnes & Noble Grove Drive. Los Angeles, CA.

Bob Lilly, NFL Hall of Famer for the Dallas Cowboys, signing copies of A Cowboy's Lif

1/11/09 1:00 PM at Sam's Club Market Place Blvd. Irving, TX.

Chris The Masterpiece Masters, former WWE Superstar, will be signing autographs.

1/03/09 11:00 AM at Frank and Son Collectible Show - E. San Jose Ave. City of Industry, CA. For Prices and info call (951) 780-9611.

Robin McGraw, wife of Dr. Phil, signing copies of What's Age Got To Do With It?

1/5/09 7:00 PM at Bookends - East Ridgewood Ave. Ridgewood, NJ.

Joan Rivers, comedian and red carpet regular, signing copies of Men Are Stupid & They Like Big Boobs

1/29/09 7:30 PM at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle. New York, NY.

Joe Torre, former manager of the Yankees, signing copies of The Yankee Years

2/3/09 12:30 PM at Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue. New York, NY.

Robert Wagner, star of film and TV, signing copies of Pieces of My Heart

1/31/09 6:00 PM at the Mission Viejo Public Library Civic Center. Mission Viejo, CA.

2/4/09 7:00 PM at the Thousand Oaks Public Library East Janss Road. Thousand Oaks, CA.

Herschel Walker, college football & NFL star, signing copies of Breaking Free

1/7/09 11:00 AM at LifeWay Christian Store Dallas Parkway. Dallas, TX.

Larry Wilmore, Daily Show correspondent, signing copies of Id Rather We Got Casinos

2/12/09 7:00 PM at Borders Books Columbus Circle. New York, NY

This Month Featured Titles

Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Watchcraft, Youtube, and More

Authors: Dan Fernandez & Brian Peek
Published: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly

This book is aimed at a variety of computer users and software developers. If you are familiar with .NET you will be able to increase your knowledge and abilities having fun in the process. You will learn how to interface your computer to external hardware and unique input devices, and to build a video game that runs on your computer, and many more.

Learning JavaScript: Add Life to Your Web Pages

Author: Shelley Powers
Published: 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly

Readers of this book should be familiar with web page technology, including CSS and HTML/XHTML. This book will help anyone who wants to integrate JavaScript into his own personal website(s), who uses a content-management tool, such as webblogging; who seek to integrate JavaScript and some of the DHTML/Ajax features into web sites, and many more.

Active Directory Cookbook: Solutions for Administrators & Developers

Authors: Laura E. Hunter & Robbie Allen
Published: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly

This book consists of 21 chapters, and will help you get your job done. You may use the code in this book in your programs and documentation. This invaluable book will serve as a great reference for those who have to work with Active Directory on day-to-day basis; for those without without much programming background... Active Directory Cookbook provides quick solutions to more than 300 common and not common problems you might encounter when deploying, administrating, and automating Microsoft network directory service.

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This Month Featured Publisher

Cengage Learning: Gale

Gale is a part of Cengage Learning. Gale is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for schools, businesses and libraries. Gale is best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content and its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles. The company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.The Gale family of publishing imprints includes the following noted reference brands: Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner's Sons®and Primary Source Microfilm™. Gale serves the K-12 market with its U·X·L®, Greenhaven Press®, Lucent Books®and Sleeping Bear Press™ imprints. Thorndike Press®, Walker Large Print™, Wheeler Publishing™, Five Star™and Large Print Press™ serve libraries' large print collections.Gale operating companies include the U.K.-based Graham & Whiteside™. Major brands includeInfoTrac,Gale Virtual Reference Library— the company's eBook platform — and the unparalleled Gale Digital Collections such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online.In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organizations — including Looksmart, Borders, Dow Jones and Thomson Financial — presently enjoy strategic business distribution partnerships with Gale. Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with additional offices elsewhere in the U.S. and in the U.K., Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Malaysia.

Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture (6 Volumes) published by Charles Scribner's Sons, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning in 2008.
This new edition adds nearly 600 new topics, replaces 150 obsolete entries, and provides revisions to hundreds more.
This work is dedicated to the memory of Jay Kinsbruner, Editor in Chief, who died in 2007, as the encyclopedia was entering its final phase of production.
This second edition of Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture is a monumental work that presents the best of scholarship on Latin America. This edition incorporates new material in substantial ways. The series of 6 books includes 568 new entries, expanding the total number of articles to 5824. This edition has been to include Spanish and Portuguese-language sources. The Encyclopedia has retained the best characteristics of the first edition. This edition strives to set a new, higher standard. New research areas have opened up. A partial list of these new areas includes the following:
New finds have revolutionized the field of Latin American archaeology, especially for the Andes and Amazon. The field of 19 century political history has been revitalized by focusing on the construction of the nation-states and the role of subalterns in this process. This edition incorporates even more cultural content than in the path breaking fist one. There are nearly 600 photographs, charts, tables, maps, other images, including 6 full-color photo essays on the regions and cultures and arts of Latin America.

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Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, signing copies of We Can Have Peace In the Holy Land

Artie Lange, formerly of “MadTV” and “The Howard Stern Show”, signing copies of Too Fat To Fish

Laird Hamilton, world famous surfer, signing copies of Force of Nature

Steve Harvey, stand up comedian & TV star, signing copies of Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man

erez Hilton, online gossip guy, signing copies of Red Carpet Suicide

Bob Lilly, NFL Hall of Famer for the Dallas Cowboys, signing copies of A Cowboy's Lif

Chris The Masterpiece Masters, former WWE Superstar, will be signing autographs.

Robin McGraw, wife of Dr. Phil, signing copies of What's Age Got To Do With It?

Joan Rivers, comedian and red carpet regular, signing copies of Men Are Stupid & They Like Big Boobs

Joe Torre, former manager of the Yankees, signing copies of The Yankee Years

Robert Wagner, star of film and TV, signing copies of Pieces of My Heart

Herschel Walker, college football & NFL star, signing copies of Breaking Free

Larry Wilmore, Daily Show correspondent, signing copies of Id Rather We Got Casinos

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