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		<title>When a Billion Chinese Jump is out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Watts&#8217; incredible book When a Billion Chinese Jump is now out in the UK. The US edition from Scribner won&#8217;t publish until October, but the book is already racking up some tremendous reviews from places like The Guardian, The Times, Book of the Week status in the Times Higher Education Supplement, and Publishers Weekly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is Better with a Gorilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile I get a pitch for a project that seems so quirky, so fun, so&#8230; out there that I just have to see it. That was the case with author Andrew Gall and gorillastrator Vince Soliven&#8217;s Everything is Better with a Gorilla.
Who could pass after seeing something like this?
There are great decisions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward a Better Life</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Congratulations!</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations go out to Peter Morton Coan, whose book Toward a Better Life: America&#8217;s New Immigrants in Their Own Words was just picked up by Prometheus Books.
Long before Arizona passed its highly controversial immigration law last week, immigration has been one of the nation’s hottest and most contentious issues, with a recent CNN/Gallup poll showing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enquiring minds&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>No Room for Doubt</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angela Dove&#8217;s terrific book No Room for Doubt was called out today in a piece in the National Enquirer. Here&#8217;s a snippet:
Jacque MacDonald is a true avenging angel – who relentlessly pursued her daughter’s killer for nearly a decade.
After her beloved daughter Debi Whitlock was brutally murdered in 1988, cops quickly ran out of leads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Course You&#8217;re Still Cool, Honey</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Congratulations!</category>
	<category>Of Course You're Still Cool</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men are complex creatures. Half the time we can’t remember our wedding anniversaries or our childrens&#8217; birthdays, but we have no trouble remembering Derek Jeter’s slugging percentage with two outs and runners in scoring position or quoting obscure lines from The Big Lebowski. We can’t find the time to mow the lawn or shop (online) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day Late and a Dollar Short</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Pierre and Jon Jeter&#8217;s terrific new book A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Postracial&#8221; America is now out from John Wiley &#038; Sons and The Washington Post just published a short adaptation from the book. Here&#8217;s a clip:
What does Barack Obama mean to black America? This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We, Robot, by Mark Stephen Meadows</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Congratulations!</category>
	<category>We Robot</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations go out to Mark Stephen Meadows on the sale of his fascinating book We, Robot to Lyons Press.
When the Terminator said, “I&#8217;ll be back” he wasn&#8217;t kidding around. In fact, he&#8217;s been waddling about on the battlefields of Iraq since 2007. The problem, though (aside from the fact that he&#8217;s a robot assassin), is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Gayeton&#8217;s SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=43</link>
		<comments>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=43#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Congratulations to Douglas Gayeton, whose book SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is being released on September 29th by Welcome Books. I just received my copies of the book and the final result is absolutely stunning. The book is a photographic journey of Douglas&#8217; time spent in Pistoia, a small town in Tuscany. The images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist reviews Branding Only Works on Cattle</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week The Economist wrote a terrific review of Jonathan Baskin&#8217;s innovative branding title Branding Only Works on Cattle. Here&#8217;s a snippet:
In chatty, bumptious style, Mr Baskin calls the bluff of some traditional  branding assumptions. He disputes that people buy products on the strength of  brand alone: once distribution, product quality and salesmanship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$20 per Gallon makes the New York Times extended bestseller list</title>
		<link>http://launchbooks.com/newsandnotes/?p=41</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations(!) go out to Chris Steiner, the author of $20 per Gallon, as we just found out that the book landed on the New York Times non-fiction hardcover extended bestseller list that will be published on August 16th.
Also, the website for the book is now up. It&#8217;s at www.20dollarspergallon.com and is worth checking out, as [...]]]></description>
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