http://irregularbooks.com the word unbound Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:21:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In January of 2009, religious author Clemens Sedmak will have a new book released for sale. It's called "Religious Intelligence: Developing Religious Literacy in a Secular World". Introducing the concept of the book, publicity materials state, "This book offers an exploration of religious intelligence in an era where ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/08/11/religious-intelligent/ In the waning days of summer, as the weight of September comes near, my mind turns to the weird of the world. Here's a summertime wish list of weird books: - Exploring the Supernatural: the weird in Canadian Folklore - Weird Tales from Northern Seas - The Book of Weird - Wyllard's Weird - ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/08/09/weird-summer-reading/ The Conservatives Have No Clothes, by Greg Anrig, offers a positive view of politics in America. In this vision, right wing ideology has failed, and will inevitably continue to fail. The main purpose of the book is to explain "Why conservatives can’ t govern – and why conservative ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/08/08/anrig-no-clothes/ It's a sad economy for almost everyone - including writers. Sales are down, of books, magazines and newspapers. Reading is now regarded as something to do with discretionary income. Doing some old-fashioned web surfing this evening, I came across a site called Get A Freelancer, where writers can bid ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/08/07/low-bids-for-freelancers/ The focus on geography starts with the subtitle of the book A World Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Folktales: Stories from Six Continents. So, I may be seeming picky, but my criticism is from the standard set by the publishers. Toward the end of the book, there is a story ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/05/31/wrong-mandrill-illustration/ Scott McClellan has made it to the number one selling spot on Amazon.com in less than one day with his tell-some book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. In this book, McClellan admits that he misled the American people as Press Secretary for George ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/05/28/wha-happened/ Back in 2004, Irregular Times created a new kind of reference book: 2004 Reasons to Boot Bush. The book listed 2,004 separate reasons to remove George W. Bush from the White House in the 2004 presidential election. These "reasons" were not mere bullet points, of the sort you ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/05/19/2004-reasons-to-boot-bush/ On the terms of some children, If The Dinosaurs Came Back, by Bernard Most, is a fine book with some interesting visualizations imagining what would happen if the Earth of tens of millions of years ago was combined with the Earth today. For my son, however, the book doesn't ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/05/17/dinosaurs-came-back/ I looked at a certain section of my library this afternoon and was struck by a difference between two sorts of progressive political books I saw on the shelf. Some had been very timely when they were published, but were not at all enduring in value, whereas others had ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/05/16/franken-satanic-panic/ Eric Alterman has written what he describes as a handbook for post-Bush America. It's called Why We're Liberals. Do we liberals really need a handbook for these new times? Some of us do seem to need a hand out of the box of defining ourselves as anti-Bush, ... http://irregularbooks.com/2008/05/15/alterman-liberal-good/