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Peter
Dark Roasted Blend: The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art - http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009...
Dark Roasted Blend: The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art
Dark Roasted Blend: The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art
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Peter
It is not a Poker Face, but a Book Face! — Illusion 360 - http://illusion.scene360.com/adverti...
It is not a Poker Face, but a Book Face! — Illusion 360
'Like' robot (frɐnc)
do anybody no of a book where people willingly stop having kids (as opposed to sterility à la 'Children of men')? (via http://friendfeed.com/ocurro...)
Ksana
If you're thinking of buying of a new piano, this book is a must.... 2007-2008 Annual Supplement to The Piano Book : Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano. Larry Fine - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
If you're thinking of  buying of a new piano, this book is a must.... 2007-2008 Annual Supplement to The Piano Book : Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano. Larry Fine
Maxine
If anyone is interested in crime and mystery fiction, please join this Friend Feed room - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
Reposting this from last year - crime and mystery fiction room still going strong! Please join. - Maxine
Ksana
The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets - http://www.amazon.com/Sound-W...
The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
Ksana
Haiku - Haiku (俳句, haikai verse?) Haiku.ogg listen (help·info), plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or on), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively.[1] Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single...
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Ksana
The Art Of Perfumery - G. W. Septimus Piesse - http://www.amazon.com/Art-Per...
The Art Of Perfumery - G. W. Septimus Piesse
Septimus Piess in his book The Art of Perfumery, drew a compelling parallel between musical tone and the "gamut of colors" exhibited by essential oils. He recognized how sound (musical notes), smell (fragrance) and color (as it relates to essential oils) could all be viewed as different types of vibrational waves, or qi. We might profitably draw an analogy here between the 45-octave frequency range of color associated with essential oils and a piano keyboard; however, the keyboard of this particular instrument, this pianoforte aromatico, this "Steinway of smell," would be almost eight times the length of that found in your living room. Additionally, in order to witness the gradual transition of color from the darkest to the palest oil, their olfactory "modulation," we would open our special piano and look inside. Each oil would then be represented by a unique string somewhere along this "sounding board" of fragrant color. - Ksana from Bookmarklet
Ksana
Frances Winwar - a talented writer and biographer. The author of The Romantic Rebels (Sheyley, Keats, Byron), - http://www.novelguide.com/a...
the author of "Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties", The Life of the Heart (George Sand), The Haunted Palace( Edgar Allen Poe), Farewell the Banner (1938) is a biography of William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Exploring the close and curious relationship of the famous literary trio, Winwar analyzes their individual yet merging personalities, stopping short of Freudian interpretations; Four books, beginning with Poor Splendid Wings (1933), form a tetralogy covering some of the major figures and movements of 19th-c. English literature; etc, http://www.novelguide.com/a... - Ksana from Bookmarklet
Ksana
Wingless Victory: A Dual Biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Eleonora Duse: Frances Winwar. - http://www.amazon.com/Wingles...
Wingless Victory: A Dual Biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Eleonora Duse: Frances Winwar.
I believe it's the best biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio: a great dreamer and doer. You won't be bored! - Ksana from Bookmarklet
Ksana
"Only when one is ready to peer into the darkness will they be given the gift of the light." - Unknown (via http://friendfeed.com/ksana)
Ksana
All men dream:but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E.Lawrence (via http://friendfeed.com/ksana)
Lawrence of Arabia? Ksana, you are speaking my language. :) - T. Brent, technopeasant
;) - Ksana
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Google’s E-Books Store Will Start Off With Around 500,000 Titles - http://paidcontent.org/article...
Google Editions! Me Likey the Sound of this! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from Bookmarklet
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Kisholi
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
'Asking people to reduce their carbon emissions is a noble invitation, but as incentives go, it isn't a strong one' - In their follow-up to Freakonomics, Superfreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner put forward their solution to global warming – and some other startling facts - Kisholi from Bookmarklet
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'Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife' by Francine Prose - http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
Author was on NPR recently. This book sounds fascinating. - Stephen Mack from iPhone
sofarsoShawn
Le Nobel de littérature décerné à l'Allemande Herta Müller ~ Nobel mais pas d'Obama | Le Nobel de littérature décerné à l'Allemande Herta Müller The Nobel for literature awarded to German Herta Müller Nobel news not about Obama - http://www.lemonde.fr/livres...
Le Nobel de littérature décerné à l'Allemande Herta Müller ~ Nobel mais pas d'Obama |  Le Nobel de littérature décerné à l'Allemande Herta Müller The Nobel for literature awarded to German Herta Müller Nobel news not about Obama
"L'Allemande d'origine roumaine Herta Müller s'est vue attribuer, jeudi 8 octobre, le prix Nobel de littérature 2009. Elle succède à JMG Le Clezio. Elle est récompensée pour avoir "avec la densité de la poésie et la franchise de la prose, dépeint l'univers des déshérités", a précisé l'Académie Nobel. C'est le troisième auteur de langue allemande en dix ans à être récompensé, après l'Allemand Günter Grass, en 1999 et l'autrichienne Elfried Jelinek, en 2004. Née le 17 août 1953 à Nitchidorf, dans la province de Banat en Roumanie, au sein de la minorité allemande des Souabes, Herta Müller a étudié la littérature allemande et roumaine entre 1973 et 1976 à Timisoara. Après quoi, elle devient traductrice dans une usine de machines industrielles. Proche dans sa jeunesse d'un groupe d'écrivains germanophones perçu par le régime de Nicolae Ceaucescu comme un "ferment d'opposition", elle est licenciée parce qu'elle avait refusé de collaborer pour la Securitate (les services secrets roumains)... more... - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet
//The Romanian-born German Herta Müller was awarded, Thursday, October 8, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. Elle succède à JMG Le Clezio. She succeeds JMG Le Clezio. Elle est récompensée pour avoir "avec la densité de la poésie et la franchise de la prose, dépeint l'univers des déshérités", a précisé l' Académie Nobel . She was honored for having "with the density of poetry and... more... - sofarsoShawn
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"Cartoonist Robert Crumb to release his version of Bible," Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb is about to publish his 'Book of Genesis' worldwide. Crumb's 220-page epic hits bookshelves in late October in Europe, Brazil and the United States. - http://www.france24.com/en...
"Cartoonist Robert Crumb to release his version of Bible," Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb is about to publish his 'Book of Genesis' worldwide. Crumb's 220-page epic hits bookshelves in late October in Europe, Brazil and the United States.
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Ksana
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Aromatherapy: A Practical Approach to the Use of Essential Oils for Health and Well-being (Julia Lawless) - http://www.amazon.com/Complet...
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Aromatherapy: A Practical Approach to the Use of Essential Oils for Health and Well-being (Julia Lawless)
A wonderful book on aromatherapy I've been using for several years. - Ksana from Bookmarklet
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com
Usually I sleep dreamlessly, but tonight I had a dream! And when I awoke I thought of this article. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
waiting for the Red book. - darwin|1q84
sanju ashraf
any idea how is dan brown's new book "lost symbol"
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sofarsoShawn
"Peter Sunde, the former Pirate Bay spokesman and alleged co-founder, is working on his autobiography that will reveal some of his deepest secrets. In the book he will elaborate on some of the mistakes he made, and share details of ‘crazy’ encounters that he had with some prominent record label suits. “I’m going to talk about everything very openly. I’m writing very critically of myself at points — I’m very honest in the book. It’s kind of like having a therapist, writing this book,” Sunde told Wired.com. The book will be published somewhere in the future, after the rerun of the Pirate Bay trial has been dealt with. Sunde – who will get help from his brother Mats, a well known Swedish author – is currently talking to an interested book publisher. We do expect a ‘free-to-download- torrent release of the autobiography also, but this hasn’t been confirmed thus far." - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet
full interview with wired.com here: http://www.wired.com/epicent... - Chris Heath
Ksana
Illustrated History of Furniture: Furniture Design from The Ancient Times To The 19th Century - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Illustrated History of Furniture: Furniture Design from The Ancient Times To The 19th Century
Frederick Litchfield traces the international history of furniture design, from the ancient Assyrians and Egyptians, to China, Japan, India and Europe, through the late Victorian Era. Illustrated with more than 250 original, full sized drawings, woodcuts and photographs, this is an indespesible guide for both the antique collector, and the student of history. - Ksana from Bookmarklet
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