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America

E-books give hard times to bookstores and libraries

Bookstores, libraries face hard times, poor patronage as students, others embrace e-books JANET OGUNDEPO, writes about the effects of e-books, internet on libraries and paper books Seated on a chair…

9 January 2022 · 17 min read

Europe

Kazakhstan: EU Declaration on the situation

Kazakhstan: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the situation We are concerned by the violence which has erupted, following peaceful protests, in Kazakhstan, which is…

8 January 2022 · 1 min read

Nature

Why we are afraid of spiders

Arachnophobia is explained by an evolutionary strategy to avoid contact with pathogens Researchers from Charles University in Prague have identified the hidden cause of arachnophobia - an obsessive and uncontrollable…

8 January 2022 · 2 min read

Books

2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards now open for submissions

Attention writers. The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) is now accepting submissions for the 2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. Established in 1994, the Alberta Book Publishing Awards recognize and…

8 January 2022 · 1 min read