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December 2008 Blog Posts (6)

Books about business

The Independent a UK newspaper has released a short list of the best business books of all time!
It includes such titles as The Great Crash by J.K Galbraith, Capitalism Unleashed by Andrew Glyn and When markets collide by Mohamed El-Erian.

Added by Tim on December 18, 2008 at 15:00 — No Comments

Aurealis Awards - Discover the best Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror of 2008

Aurealis Awards 2008 finalists

Added by Jane B on December 12, 2008 at 11:34 — No Comments

Good Reading Online

If you have a Mosman Library card, you can access Good Reading Online a fantastic resource if you love books and reading.
Take a look - it is an exact digital copy of the print magazine with the benefits of access to the archive of past issues plus links to interesting websites and more. You'll also be able to browse and keyword search through all issues.

Added by Jane B on December 10, 2008 at 15:11 — 1 Comment

New York Times 100 Most Noteable Books of 2008

Here is the list of what the New York Times considers to be the 100 Most Noteable Books of 2008.

100 Most Notable Books of 2008

What do you think? Have you read any? Are there titles that you think should be added?

Added by Jane B on December 4, 2008 at 15:54 — No Comments

European Digital Library Launches and Promptly Crashes

I saw this article in Library Journal about a new digital library called Europeana. It got 10 million hits per hour and shut up shop. It's going to try and relaunch in mid December.

Added by Tim on December 3, 2008 at 13:00 — No Comments

Book reviews in 140 characters

On Twitter, @bizbookreview does business and motivational books in 140 characters. Nice work, maybe Mosman Readers could offer a Twitter channel too.

I came across @bizbookreview from this post on Ari Herzog's blog where he favourably compares a Tweeted review of The Cluetrain Manifesto with the 4,091 character version.

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Added by Bern on December 2, 2008 at 9:00 — No Comments