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Released: Feb. 15, 2013
"May serve as a useful handbook for digital media strategists and marketers, but this dense tome will take a major effort for nonspecialists to fully understand."
A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2013
"Dense with information and studded with numerous graphs and charts, this book provides a deeper understanding of what principles need to change in order to create local food environments."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"A persuasive call for updating educational standards to meet the challenge of globalization."
Hobert, a Boston educator, proposes grading America's schools on how well curricula are training students in areas such as conflict-resolution skills and foreign languages, and encouraging travel abroad and service-related activities.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Stimulating accounts of what is being accomplished by an ambitious generation."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Just the thing to give your black helicopter–fearing uncle--or maybe not. An interesting exercise in geopolitical wonkiness."
A manifesto for multilateralism, one-worldism, social justice and all the other things that haunt tea party nightmares.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"To call this hokum is to malign that useful word. Suffice it to say that Carpenter's film is a hell of a lot more fun."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Gee makes a compelling case for reframing methods of teaching and learning, but the pedantic tone may put off some readers."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 11, 2013
"An absorbing personal account of a remarkable achievement."
How one man's vision of making books available to every child has changed the lives of millions.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness."
Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski in this gritty downer of a Rust Belt portrait.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"Empowering, motivating and just a tad self-indulgent."
A former mayor of San Francisco introduces methodology to improve citizens' interaction with their government through the Internet.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"A keeper in a field of undercooked, underwritten books by CEOs."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"An eye-opening account of a military in transition."
Biank (
Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives, 2006) analyzes the increasingly important role played by women in the military.
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