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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Goldstein

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Dinner party hostesses used to be warned to steer the conversation away from politics and religion. I used to wonder why, but I don’t anymore. There are some differences that reveal rifts so deep that dialogue breaks down. Among these are the current debates that have been raging between God-believers and the so-called new atheists. It often seems that people on one side can’t begin to grasp what the world is like, what it feels like, for those on the other side. When the person with whom one is conversing appears utterly opaque, then mistrust and contempt are easily aroused: How can he be saying that when the opposite seems so obvious to me? Is he stupid, dishonest, maybe just a touch evil? These are not the sort of suspicions that the gracious hostess wants intruding at her candle-lit dinner table.

The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Author of the famed and scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods—including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle—have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

Rolling Stone contributing editor Taibbi delivers a blistering examination of the upheaval that has roiled the American economic system over the past several years. At the heart of the upheaval, he says, is a vein of greed running up and down the real-estate industry, from mortgage brokers who falsified customer loan applications to banks that parceled out mortgages to second and third parties to rating agencies that signed off on highly suspect loans.

Galileo: Watcher of the Skies – A Biography by David Wootton

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Galileo (1564–1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a brilliant analyst of the elegantly mathematical workings of nature yet bungling and insensitive with his own family.

Galileo – An Insightful Biography by John Heilbron

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Have faith, Galileo, and go forth.” So Kepler urged on his gifted Italian contemporary. But in this insightful biography, Heilbron shows readers that as Galileo heeded Kepler’s urging, he went forth with faith not only in an ingeniously devised telescope but also in poetically inspired words. Readers see the often-forgotten literary side of the great astronomer, the side aflame with a passion for Dante and Ariosto just as ardent as his better-known enthusiasm for Euclid and Archimedes.

Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways by Olivier Roy

On December 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

“Olivier Roy, the outstanding scholar of contemporary religions, has written a book of startling clarity and wisdom. Illuminating trends, issues and movements that had before appeared bizarre or simply antipathetic, he provides us with tools for the comprehension of matters as diverse as coverage of the war on terror to the common individual confusion over one’s own beliefs and scepticisms” — Financial Times

New 'Teen Mom' Audio — Gary's Cover-Up Call

On December 30, 2010, in Entertainment, by RSS Feed

12/30/2010 12:50 AM PST by TMZ Staff Amber Portwood‘s baby daddy, Gary Shirley, desperately tried to get his other chick to cover up another alleged Amber beating that occurred just two weeks ago … according to a recording obtained by TMZ. The audio — recorded Dec. 15 — captures “Teen Mom” co-star Gary on the phone [...]

Reese Witherspoon`s 4-carat engagement ring

On December 30, 2010, in Entertainment, by RSS Feed

By Vicky Allison Dec 30, 2010, 8:57 GMT Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon’s husband-to-be proposed with a stunning 4-carat ring. ‘An Unforgettable Evening’ by EIF’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. – Russ Einhorn / Splash News The How Do You Know star’s representative told People.com that [...]

'No Anorexia' model dies aged 28

On December 30, 2010, in Entertainment, by RSS Feed

29 December 2010 Last updated at 17:53 ET Posters featuring Isabelle Caro were eventually banned in Italy A French model who posed nude for an anti-anorexia campaign while suffering from the illness herself has died at the age of 28, her colleagues confirm. Isabelle Caro died on 17 November after being treated for an acute [...]