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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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From the Critical Mass blog
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Over the next month or so we're going to be offering a new series of guest posts (read the first series,"The Next Decade in Book Culture" here). Our
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Sree Sreenivasan on Social Media, at NBCC Membership Meeting
This presentation from Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, titled Advanced Social Media for Book Critics and Others in the Book Biz, was delivered at the annual
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NBCC at the Virginia Festival of the Book
The Business of Book Reviewing: Changes and Challenges, a panel of NBCC members, coming up at Virginia Festival of the Book:
Fri. March 19th,
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National Book Critics Circle Announces Its Winners for the Publishing Year 2009
National Book Critics Circle Announces Its Winners for the Publishing Year 2009
On Thursday, March11, 2010, at the New School’s Tishman auditorium
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