Reviews: ‘The Perfume Lover,’ ‘Scent of Triumph’ tell heady tales – Los Angeles Times

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Reviews: ‘The Perfume Lover,’ ‘Scent of Triumph’ tell heady tales – Los Angeles Times

By admin on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | Comments Off

Reviews: 'The Perfume Lover,' 'Scent of Triumph' tell heady talesLos Angeles TimesAlso reviewed: 'The Book of Lost Fragrances,' 'Coming to My Senses,' 'On Perfume-Making,''The Little Book of Perfumes.' Such books as "Coming to My Senses" take readers inside the perfume-making process, describe journeys of sensual discovery and weave … book reviews – Google News Online [...]

Weekly Wrap: Hotkeygate, iOS 6, and a slew of reviews

By admin on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | Comments Off

Once a week, we catch you up on Macworld’s biggest stories from the past week, in case you missed them. This week, we ruminated on the futures of iOS and OS X, covered Hotkeysgate, and offered a slew of reviews. Apple, Mac, iPod and iPhone News

The battle of the book reviews | Lionel Shriver

By admin on Friday, May 18th, 2012 | Comments Off

Professional critics are no more reliable than Amazon ratings, a study shows. So do we really need them? Is the professional book reviewer an anachronism? In a recent Harvard Business School study of nonfiction reviews , assessments in mainstream media outlets like this one and amateur ratings on Amazon largely converged. Assuming we can trust [...]

Book reviews: The Burmese economy – Mizzima News

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Mizzima News Book reviews: The Burmese economyMizzima NewsFor these reasons alone, the two books under review here are greatly welcome. At the time of this review, Burma – also known as Myanmar as it is labeled in both of these volumes – is embarking upon what may or, more likely, may not be a new [...]

Amazon consumer book reviews as reliable as media experts

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Study shows Amazon reviewers more likely to look favourably on debut authors, while professionals prefer prizewinners Amazon reviews are just as likely to give an accurate summary of a book's quality as those of professional newspapers, according to a study from Harvard Business School. Professor Michael Luca and his co-authors analysed the top 100 non-fiction [...]

Critical eye: book reviews roundup – The Guardian

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Critical eye: book reviews roundupThe Guardian… the murder case that book focuses on "tends to be retold at regular intervals". Bring Up the Bodies, the second part of Mantel's Tudor trilogy, was published near-simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic and so also attracted American reviews. book reviews – Google News Rrishi Raote: Long story [...]

The battle of the book reviews – The Guardian

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The Guardian The battle of the book reviewsThe GuardianIs the professional book reviewer an anachronism? In a recent Harvard Business School study of nonfiction reviews, assessments in mainstream media outlets like this one and amateur ratings on Amazon largely converged. Assuming we can trust the …Amazon Killed The Book Reviewer StarTechCrunchHow A Tennessee Wife And [...]

StuckInPanels Weekly Comic Reviews – Comic Book Movie

By admin on Friday, May 18th, 2012 | Comments Off

StuckInPanels Weekly Comic ReviewsComic Book MovieGreetings friends and fellow comic readers, we are back to regularly scheduled reviews. This week is a nice sized batch of 10 issues, 6 Marvel, 3 DC, and 1 Image. We got a lot of ground to cover so let's get this started. Story: Captain America sends a …and more » [...]

Book Reviews

By admin on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | Comments Off

Cambridge, Ma.:Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. iii, 449. Notes, index. $ 21.95 paper. ISBN: 0674064216. Book Reviews – Yahoo! News Search Results I’m so good with titling these things. Intro: youtube.com Shaytards reads HG www.youtube.com xperpetualmotion Recommended Graphic Design book recs 2 www.youtube.com “Why would you buy anything else when you could be buying books?!” [...]

Great reviews for Baldwin?s new book; brings back buzz for his first – Chapelboro.com

By admin on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | Comments Off

Great reviews for Baldwin?s new book; brings back buzz for his firstChapelboro.comAlthough his Paris book is getting good reviews, some of us cannot get our minds off of Baldwin's first book, a novel titled “You Lost Me There.” That book also got attention all over the country. The New York Times Book Review gave it [...]

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