entertainment - "book"

British author Salman Rushdie says writing a new novel saved him from the 'wreckage' of his divorce last year from fourth wife Padma Lakshmi.

John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, and former congressman Barry Goldwater Jr., son of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, discuss their new book about the five-term Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee.

Lincoln Chafee, a former U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, has been the called the most liberal Republican in the Senate. He voted against several controversial issues, such as war in Iraq and same sex marriage. He is currently registered as an Independent. Chafee joins Fresh Air to talk about his new book, Against the Tide. It is an insider's memoir about George w. Bush's fist six years in the White House.

Richie Sambora faces child endangerment charge. Wesley Snipes may face max jail sentence. Debbie Gibson fears Spanish stalker. Music Festival defends booking Jay-Z.

BBC Worldwide has won a courtroom battle of the Daleks over who owns book rights to the alien creatures.

An hour before Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood take the stage at MadisonSquare Garden in February, Mike Barnard (not his real name) is examiningthe security guards outside the arena. Many look carefully insidepeople's bags and pat the fans down, but an older female guard seemsdistracted. Engaged in a conversation with a co-worker, she's hardlylooking at the throngs pouring past her. Barnard quickly makes his move.She barely glances inside his book bag as he calmly passes through the...

This anthology of original stories is an attempt to re-invent science fiction for the young readers of today. Its goal is to re-capture that sense of wonder and amazement that characterized the Golden Age and the books that so many of today's SF writers grew up on. In order to do so, the editor has assembled a cast of many of the biggest names in science fiction today. The stories they've written are not copies of the old space-faring adventures of the 30s and 40s, instead they reflect the concerns and dreams of young people today.

In the 1960s and 70s, CBS News was widely considered to be the best in the business. Former CBS anchormen Roger Mudd and Bob Schieffer talk about today's quickly changing news climate, and Mudd discusses his new book, The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of television News.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Knowledge Publications, a leading publisher of energy books, has put significant portions of the chemistry content of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org, in full published, printed book form and has done so in full compliance with Wikipedia's GNU Free Documentation License. The book is titled, 'The Chemical Educator: for The Chemistry and Manufacture of Hydrogen' (ISBN: 978-1-60322-067-5).

Comic book legend Stan Lee, one of the forces behind Spider-Man and the X-Men, is helping to develop a new superhero property, 'Legion of 5.'