entertainment - "book"

Berlin, Germany - The deadline for WOMEX 2008 is 18 April 2008, only 3 weeks away. Due to the online process, there will be no way to post late entries. WOMEX is the largest international world music conference, where artists play to an audience of 1000 concert and festival bookers (2007 figures). at: http://www.womex.com/realwomex/showcases or go directly to the WOMEX Sonicbids' submission pagehttp://www.sonicbids.com/WOMEX2008.Check: http://www.womex.com/realwomex/how-to-propose for tips.

Many people, with the benefit of hindsight, say they saw the credit crisis coming. But Charles Morris can prove that he knew what would happen long before others did. In his new book, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers and the Great Credit Crash, Morris lays out pretty much exactly what would and did happen.

Photojournalist Robin Bowman spent four years driving across the United States, photographing and interviewing more than 400 teens. Some of those pictures -- and the teens' words -- are included in her new book, It's Complicated: The American Teenager.

Film News: Original Films to produce film -- Tobey Maguire is attached to produce 'Afterburn,' a comicbook adaptation that Neal Moritz's Original Films is producing.

New book shows that, both years marked by innovation, heady surprise and unprecedented challenges

Books about gun culture, gangs and Canada's role in Afghanistan are among finalists for $35,000 award

Dreams and Shadows The Future of the Middle East By Robin Wright Penguin Press; 464 pages; $26.95 Anyone who has been to a bookstore in the past five years knows Robin Wright's 'Dreams and Shadows' isn't the first book written about the Middle East. Nor will...

Here are five books for people in a hurry. We promise: you can read one in the time it takes to watch a movie.

Anthony Pagden traces the seemingly endless series of misunderstandings and armed conflicts between East and West to the time of myth and the Trojan War.

Chetan Bhagat, an investment banker, has become the biggest-selling English-language novelist in India's history.