Banned Books Week Coming Soon
Banned Books Week is scheduled for September 26th- October 3rd, 2009.
View ArticleSubversive Book Asserts Rule By Law, Not King
In 1644, Samuel Rutherford, a Presbyterian theologian, published Lex, Rex, the now excessively scarce, enormously important treatise on limited government and constitutionalism. Only four copies have...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress Celebrates the Joy of Reading
The Washington Mall is the site of the Library of Congress ninth annual National Book Festival, held this year on Saturday, September 26th, 2009 in Washington D.C.
View ArticleOsama Bin Laden’s Book Club: 3 Must Reads for America
The latest purported communique from Osama Bin Laden,"An Address to the American People," includes mention of 3 books that Bin Laden feels will help us Americans better understand his plight.
View ArticleOakland’s New Secondhand Tax: The Used Bookshop Now a Pawnshop
The city of Oakland has implemented a new tax on sellers of used goods that, in effect, now places the used bookshop in the same realm as the pawn shop.
View ArticleHas the Government of Nepal Shut Down the Kathmandu Post?
Servers for the Kathmandu Post have been been non-responsive for the last forty-eight hours in the wake of two stories within the last week involving books, freedom of the press and speech issues.
View ArticleBooks Banned, Author Imprisoned
The human rights organization, Amnesty International, marks Banned Books Week (September 26- October 3, 2009) by reminding us that in some parts of the world, the price for freedom of expression is the...
View ArticleThe Library of Congress Makes Room for Kids
On October 23 the Library of Congress will unveil the The Young Readers Center. It will be the first area devoted exclusively to children in the library's 200+ year history.
View ArticleThe Ex-Gay Cry Censorship: No One Wants Their Books
The headline of the story on FOX News is a doozy: "Gay Reversal Advocates Say School Libraries Banning Their 'Ex-Gay' Books."
View ArticleU.S. Gov’t Recall Alerts Readers: These Books May Shock You!
Beware the Water Garden of Doom. In what may be a category first, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of nine books, in concert with their publisher.
View ArticleUsed books deemed unsanitary by the Turkish government
Image via LOC Responding to complaints by parents the Turkish government has pulled all used books from their Free Class Books Project. From Education Minister Nimet Çubukçu: The course books...
View ArticleEverything Checked Out: Protesters Empty Library Shelves as Economy Continues...
All 16,000 books from a library in the UK have been checked out in protest of a plan to shut the library for good. When news broke of the plan to close the library residents who patronize the Stony...
View ArticleObama on Poetry
Here are the President's opening remarks for the celebration of poetry and prose hosted by the President, the first lady and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities that took place at the...
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Protest Library
There are a lot of positive aspects to what's been going on in Lower Manhattan courtesy of the Occupy Wall Street movement but there is one part in particular that brings me plenty of joy. It is the...
View ArticleUsed books deemed unsanitary by the Turkish government
Image via LOC Responding to complaints by parents the Turkish government has pulled all used books from their Free Class Books Project. From Education Minister Nimet Çubukçu: The course books...
View ArticleEverything Checked Out: Protesters Empty Library Shelves as Economy Continues...
All 16,000 books from a library in the UK have been checked out in protest of a plan to shut the library for good. When news broke of the plan to close the library residents who patronize the Stony...
View ArticleObama on Poetry
Here are the President's opening remarks for the celebration of poetry and prose hosted by the President, the first lady and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities that took place at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Protest Library
There are a lot of positive aspects to what's been going on in Lower Manhattan courtesy of the Occupy Wall Street movement but there is one part in particular that brings me plenty of joy. It is the...
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