Tell-All Book Stirs Controversy
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LOS ANGELES - Phil Jackson&#39;s new book is stirring lots of controversy. Bryant, Jerry Buss and GM Mitch Kupchak speak out about the book.
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Some books sell because Oprah Winfrey wants you to buy them. Others get help from a major prize, a controversy, a movie tie-in, a famous author or an especially clever marketing campaign.
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Tycho: There are two things I must mention.First, Gabriel liked the cover for book four (entitled "Birds Are Weird") so much that he wanted to make a poster of it, and it's not worth arguing with him when he gets like that so we let him do it. It is, even now, awailable!Also: PAX preregistration opens today, and since we've had a couple of these now you probably know if it's something you'd like to attend. You save ten dollars over the door price, which is, like, ten bucks. This is money you could put toward some other purpose!(CW)TB
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A debate over an anthropologist's book on ancient Hebrew history isn't just academic &#151; it's spilled over into an online dispute between critics trying to keep her from getting tenure and supporters who say the effort stifles scholarly freedom.
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Comment is free: Sarah Churchwell: From Marilyn to Diana, biographies are too often trashy. But readers must take a share of the blame.
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ROME, Sep 13 (IPS) - It might be taken for granted in Europe that the  imparting of  knowledge through books is available to all,  regardless of their  social status. But in reality, however, it  is a different story.
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There have been some rumors floating around lately about an RNC ad that is being sent to people living in the Bible Belt about how 'liberals' want to "ban the Bible" (what that really means, I don't know, but there you have it).  It ain't a rumor folks, this is U.S. Presidential Campaign 2004, at its finest.
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We all want to know about the hotel heiressâs time in jail. The question is whether news organizations should give her money to tell us. A media-ethics expert weighs in.
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Yes, controversy sells. Criticism of an award-winning children's book over the word "scrotum" has brought Susan Patron's "The Higher Power of Lucky" into the top 40 on Amazon.com.
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An authorâs throwback view on the culture of casual sex among young women is under fire.
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A book written by geneticist Dean H. Hamer called &quot;The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes&quot; has received mixed reactions following its publication in September.
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IT IS one of the oldest complaints in the book. While Britain plays scrupulously by the rules in Europe, everyone else is nakedly looking after their own national self-interest.
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The author of a new book talks about recent battles in court over church and state
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By Lee Drutman  BERKELEY, Calif.   THERE'S something odd about all the attention attracted by the Hewlett-Packard corporate-board scandal.
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I've heard thousands of sermons over the years, and a ton of them were about sex and money (or substitute: lust and greed). It's as if the two issues are synonymous, and in a way, they are.
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Not everyone's happy about the event's new highbrow format.  Indie publisher Gamecock, for example, has every intention of raising a ruckus.
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For disgraced Americans, memoirs   can offer a path to rehabilitation, but for the New Jersey   governor who announced he was gay when he resigned on national   television, his book has led to even more polemics.