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I have just finished reading William Carey, which by the way I recommend to anyone to read it. This is the 7th Heroes of Faith series book I have read (I still have another 27 biographies to read). I’ve given away a few copies of this book because of the impact it caused in me. However, If you would like to purchase a copy for yourself, please let me know and i will post it to you. Alternatively you can buy it online at www.wordinspired.co.uk or ywamstore.com  Retail price is £5.50 I have a …

06 DEC 2008 from Newsweek | Read the full story»

Barney Rosset, the man who brought Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ and Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’ to America, loves great literature. More than that, he loves a good fight.

Technology is changing how we think–literally. According to a new book, iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind, spending just a short time on the web alters our neural pathways.

“This past weekend, LibriVox reached an extraordinary milestone: our catalog now contains 365 days worth of free, public domain audiobooks.”

Recently I read in an article by David Mehegan in The Boston Globe about the release of the book “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.” by Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at MIT.
This book seemed very appealing to me because the author proves, by a series of behavioral experiments, that humans tend to act much more irrationally than rationally.
Indeed, as the journalist puts it:
“Ariely’s book explores the varieties of nonsensical economic thinking, such as:
We value things more when we pay a higher price for them. The Bayer …

HarperCollins Publishers recently announced a variety of online promotions to allow consumers  exclusive sampling of its books. The “Full Access” program will feature a select number of titles that can be seen in their entirety for a month: current freebies include Paulo Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello*, Mark Halperin’s The Undecided Voter’s Guide to the Next President, and Erin Hunter’s Warriors: Into the Wild.
The “Sneak Peek” Program will enable readers to view 20% of many new titles two weeks before they’re on sale. The remaining titles in the digital warehouse …

I’m tucked into a cozy and ancient little pub, which as the waiter says is about 800 years old, reading my book by J.R. Benetiz Jerusalem and chapter 9 takes me to remember the words of the priest I saw in Exeter. Anyway, today it seems that the world have stopped for some reason, I don’t see many people out and about, no children playing or crying, no many people going on their business as usual and all that. I feel happy in this peaceful world of mine with my …

Went to church yesterday (Sunday) and someone read a message for easter: Early on the first day of the week…Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. As she wept…she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying….They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ When she had said this, she turned round and …