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MANGOES & CURRY LEAVES/ JEFFREY ALFORD, NAOMI DUGUID Almost as much travelogue as cookbook, this hefty photo-laden tome takes readers on a culinary tour of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The authors are regular travelers to the region, and the text often reads like a letter from a more than usually adventurous friend--a friend who knows a lot about food. The recipes can be ingredient heavy and complicated but reward the effort with authentically spicy Goan pork vindaloo, Bengali fish in broth, salsas and sambols, as well as diverse breads and rice dishes that make eating almost...
...permission,” said AAP President and CEO Patricia S. Schroeder.For its Print Library Project and related Print Publisher Program, Google is scanning entire works to create an index from which users can find relevant books based on their search terms. Users will have access to snippets of texts from books still under copyright and the entire text of those in the public domain.Last month, Google suspended the scanning of books under copyright until Nov. 1 to allow publishers time to opt out of the program if they choose. Google has continued to scan books in the public domain.And...
...believe, Porter also, was to know how could as much information as possible be released publicly as soon as possible." What's more, Schiff says he first heard of the letter when an aide to a member of the Republican House leadership read him Goss's handwritten text over the phone and asked if he would join in signing it. Paxon insisted that Schiff and Goss had acted "on their own initiative" but when asked whether he had urged them to release information to House Republicans, declined to elaborate on what he said were "my private conversations with members." Goss...
Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...wondering why the keyboard, it's for Verizon's Mobile IM program. Users of AIM, MSN or Yahoo! Messenger can log in and chat with buddies. Your IMs are in the form of text messages, though, so you had better check your plan before Mobile IM-in', or you might be in for a nasty monthly statement. At least Verizon offers a warning as you're loading up the program...