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...writing is sarcastically witty and the overall organization of the book is quite successful, despite occasional lapses into repetition. “The God Delusion” is structured as a narrative chain, as opposed to an arch. Each chapter deals with a standalone topic that is interrelated and linked to the other chapters. It is entirely possible to pick and choose the chapters that you want to read—some readers may find this a better approach to this book as Dawkins’ polemical tone is often difficult to swallow in large doses...
...Banda, as her son. She was then accused by the international community of using her celebrity status to side-step Malawi’s laws. The birth father subsequently made and retracted statements of consent to a gleeful media, and a great many international figures have spoken on the topic...
After the program, Laura S. Malisheski, assistant director at the Office of Career Services, said that “it’s a vital topic of discussion, one that really hits a nerve among students...
Those are questions brothers Chip and Dan Heath parse in their upcoming book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The exploration follows from a class Chip, 43, a professor of organizational behavior, teaches at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He comes to the topic by way of research into urban legends and conspiracy theories--ideas that are wrong but so annoyingly sticky they just won't go away. Dan, 33, draws his interest from working as an education consultant and trying to figure out what makes some teachers so effective...
...bound to have limited audience appeal. But, of course, serious documentarians never work for money or fame. Since the beginnings of the genre, their aim has usually been to call attention to injustice and, if possible, correct it. Berg got onto this story by making segments about the topic for news programs, then found she could not avoid making the O'Grady case the focus of her first full-length film...