A recent rights dispute has brought to light a very surprising fact about the Kindle: amazon.com has the right to remove books from users' devices without warning. Buyers who had purchased electronic versions of 1984 and Animal Farm awoke last week to find that amazon.com had removed the files from their readers without their knowledge. … Continue reading Yours to Keep
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You're invited to hear lawyer Kristine Huskey discusses her book Justice at Guantanamo: One Woman’s Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights, Sunday, July 26, 5:00pm, at Magers And Quinn Booksellers. Kristine Huskey was one of the first attorneys to represent Guantanamo detainees starting in 2002, just 6 months after 9/11. She was accused of … Continue reading Don’t Miss This Event
K Blows Top
Peter Carlson will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers on Friday, July 24, at 7:30pm to discuss his new book K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist.Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted--"a surreal extravaganza," as historian John … Continue reading K Blows Top
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