VENICE, Italy AFP — A black comedy starring Hollywood icons George Clooney and Brad Pitt, the latest quirky offering by the 2008 Oscar-winning Coen brothers, headlined the Venice film festival on Wednesday. The world premiere of "Burn After Reading," shown out of competition and also starring John Malkovich and...
PARIS AFP — Nine manuscripts including the "Surrealist Manifesto" that defined one of the great art movements of the 20th century fetched 3.2 million euros (5 million dollars) at a Paris auction on Wednesday. French collector Gerard Lheritier, founder of the Paris museum of letters and manuscripts made the...
A recent enhancement to BioMed Central's journal publishing system allows authors to submit additional collections of files alongside their manuscripts in the form of "miniwebsites." Readers of the published articles can view or download any of the associated mini-websites in their browsers (www.biomedcentral.org).
Essays on the Lancelot of Yale 229. Ed. by Elizabeth M. Willingham. Brepols Publishers 2007 135 pages $81.00 Paperback ND3399 The 11 essays of this volume describe different aspects of the 13th- century illuminated manuscript in the Beineke Library at Yale U.,...
The Community College Review depends on the volunteer efforts of knowledgeable reviewers who carefully assess manuscripts and provide the authors and me with valuable feedback. This feedback helps determine which manuscripts will be published. Reviewer comments also help authors revise and strengthen their manuscripts. This is an important service to...
The Quito manuscript; an Inca history preserved by Fernando de Montesinos. Hyland, Sabine. Yale University Press 2007 171 pages $28.00 Paperback Yale University publications in anthropology; no.88 F3429 A veteran scholar of indigenous peoples of the Andes, Hyland presents a new...
NEW YORK, AFP — One of only 17 existing copies of the Magna Carta, the iconic 800-year-old English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, sold at auction at Sotheby's Tuesday for 21.3 million dollars. Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned, the vellum manuscript was...
NEW YORK AFP — Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned goes on sale Tuesday when a copy of the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English royal manuscript, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York. The royal charter, dated 1297 and bearing the wax seal of...
NEW YORK AFP — Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned goes on sale Tuesday when the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English royal manuscript, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York. The royal charter, dated 1297 and bearing the wax seal of King Edward I,...
LONDON AFP — Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has sold his letters, manuscripts and emails to Britain's national library for 1.1 million pounds (1.5 million euros, 2.2 million dollars), it said Wednesday. His 150-box archive includes letters he exchanged with fellow writers Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Arthur Miller and...
The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media has, for many years, been one of the top-tier journals in which media scholars publish. In September 2007, I become the editor-select of this journal, an appointment I'm deeply honored to assume. For the past 50 years JOBEM has been edited by many...
PROGRAM YOUR PDA: A display in Jerusalem of manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton indicates that the great scientist saw no conflict between science and religion. Among the three-centuries-old papers is one in which Newton, using the book of Daniel, concludes that the world will end in 2060. "It may end...
LONDON AFP — A collection of Islamic art featuring precious objects from the ninth to the 19th centuries is set to be opened in London on Thursday by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, named after the spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims. The collection of 165 objects, shown to...
Byline: Tara Malone and Kiran Sood tmalone@@dailyherald.com ksood@@dailyherald.com Angling to reach students where they increasingly are - online - a dozen universities Wednesday unveiled plans to digitize up to 10 million library books. Billed as one of the most...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Music producer Phil Spector was dealt a blow in his murder trial here Monday when the judge refused to admit as evidence writings from his alleged victim in which she discusses suicide. "I don't consider anything in this particular document significant," Judge Larry Fidler told...
SANAA AFP — Yemen is the heir to ancient civilisations including the Biblical land of Sheba, and hardly a month goes by without the authorities foiling yet another attempt to smuggle antiquities out of the country. The scourge is attributed to factors ranging from the lack of safeguards to...
ROME AFP — British novelist Jeffrey Archer and Vatican theologist Francis Maloney on Tuesday launched a book defending Judas' betrayal of Jesus at a papal institution in Rome. "The Gospel According to Judas" claims the disciple acted over concern that Jesus' failure to chase the Romans out of Jerusalem...
Travels in the Scriptorium By Paul Auster Henry Holt, 160 pp., $22 Paul Auster's slim novel is set in a limited terrain: one day in the life of a mysterious man known only as Mr. Blank, who's either...
As part of cooperation between the American Congress Library and the National Archive of Egypt, Mohamed Saber Arab, the head of the NAE, and Michael Albin, the head of the Congress Library Office in Cairo,open today the Digital Scanning Centre that the Congress Library has lent to the NAE on...
As part of cooperation between the American Congress Library and the National Archive of Egypt, Mohamed Saber Arab, the head of the NAE, and Michael Albin, the head of the Congress Library Office in Cairo,open today the Digital Scanning Centre that the Congress Library has lent to...
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