Word: reading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever able to get it off your mind?GME: It seems to be that no book could ever possibly be done, that you merely respond to a deadline in the most effective way you can, and you put it out there and then getting the book reviewed and read and blogged about and whatever is really the beginning of the further rewriting...
...read there’s another book or two in the works. Any tip offs about your next book project?GME: I decided ultimately to wait for this book to create some discussion before making a decision about how the next book should be framed. Because, I really do see this book as a conversation, and I don’t want to be the only person dictating the terms of that conversation. I think that the next book will be my response to some of the questions that this book is raising...
...read that an American humanist Association’s “Good Without God” billboard was recently vandalized. How did you respond to this?GME: It’s sad to me that the billboard was vandalized. I think that it speaks to the fact that people really misunderstand what we’re about, and we’re not trying to vandalize anyone’s religion. You know, we are not trying to erase. What they did was they tried to blot out the word “without” and it?...
...seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it,” wrote Chateaubriand a century earlier, an author whose "Voyage en Italie" Lévi-Strauss had read and quoted...
...Middle East and parts of Asia, contributed about $6.8 billion to their national economy via remittances, according to the World Bank. And while statistics are difficult to come by, there are increasing reports of many who are physically abused, raped and - in some cases - killed by their employers. (Read more about the abuse of Indonesian migrant workers...