For example a single, anecdotal review of a book will have more weight than the results of a poll of hundreds of people, even though the latter is likely to be more accurate.
Fashion chain Matalan said it had suspended its involvement pending a review and book seller Waterstones and electrical retailer Maplin have already left.
Now, that I have published a book on this subject means that I cannot now write a review of any other book on that same sort of subject.
In a recent book review in the Wall Street Journal, The Long Way Around, Andrew Stark makes a compelling case for paradoxical thinking.
At the Washington Post's Web site, visitors can read a book review and click to get prices and log an order.
Case in point: This week some notable scientist bloggers unloaded on a book review in the Guardian of The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey.
Such was his dislike of causing pain, that it became his policy never to review an exhibition or a book that he considered fundamentally flawed.
In 1956 he landed on The Economist and, luckily for us, stayed there, until and beyond his retirement, contributing a book review days before he died.
So this is not a book review, just an observation, based on the wall-to-wall reporting on the contents of What Happened and the post-publication public statements of its author: With all due respect, I think Peggy Noonan is wrong.
One of the best gifts you can give an author is a review of her new book.
Ben Bernanke, judging from a fawning review of the book he wrote when it came out, certainly fell for it.
If each library were to review just one unique book a month, as a group they would cover 192, 000 titles in a year.
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Gemma also has written a glowing book review carried on the ACDA website for Treacherous Alliances: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, a 2007 book by NIAC President Trita Parsi.
The Mar. 7 Book Review also has a full-page ad for the Amazon Kindle.
Facebook pages have sprung up in its name and fans are invited to join the "Fifty Shades Support Group" on Good Reads, a book recommendation and review sharing site.
Inevitably bulky, given its scope, his book is so bloated by asides, digressions, polemics and hobbies that it is positively obese, and this makes it a hard book to review justly.
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This means that the best place to post a silly review is on a page devoted to a less well-known book.
At a time when the book review section looks distressingly cadaverous at 24 pages, any ad beats no ad.
What do you do when your book gets a bad review?
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Together they land some telling blows on Mr Goldhagen's book, which a review in The Economist on April 27th 1996 criticised for ignoring the gradations of support, compliance, ambivalence, antipathy and opposition which existed in German society during the Third Reich.
The New York Observer is reporting that The Wall Street Journal is planning to launch a new pull-out book review section.
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In a review of Hanna Rosin's new book, "The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, " Heather Wilhelm gets at the reason why.
David Satter, a Russia watcher much more respected and well-known than your humble author, recently made some extremely odd commends about Russian demographics in an interview with Katherine Jean Lopez of National Review Online about his new book It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past.
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Yet even if the power of Mr Saleh's state has seldom extended beyond Yemen's main towns, roads and oilfields, it is remarkable that he has maintained even a semblance of control (see book review).
So when Terrence Rafferty, in the Times Book Review last year, expressed disappointment with a novel that tried and failed to transcend the limitations of its genre, he caught some flak.
My attention was drawn to this market by a review at the Feminist Law Professors Blog on the newest book in the gamete-trade, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm.
Writing a book in public I was hoping to capture some of the peer review spirit.
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Of course, reading the book for yourself, rather than merely reading a snippet of this review, is ultimately part of his recommendation for moving forward.
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