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Barnes and Noble Admits to Improperly Dated Stock Option Grants
April 05, 2007
The Special Committee established to review Barnes & Noble's stock option practices found instances of both misdated stock option grants and backdating, the company announced. While the gross amount of the price differences was approximately $45.5 million over a ten-year period plus an additional $10 million from BarnesandNoble.com, Barnes & Noble emphasized that the committee did not find and "intent to defraud or fraudulent misconduct by any individual or group of individuals." CONTINUED »
Big-Name Bookstores To Close - April 06, 2007
Acquisition of Film Rights for 'Mergers & Acquisitions' - April 05, 2007
'The Hoax': A Movie Based on a Book and about a Book - April 05, 2007
Shortlist Announced for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - April 04, 2007
Amazon Looking for 'Harry-est' Towns - April 04, 2007


  • Big-Name Bookstores To Close »
  • Acquisition of Film Rights for 'Mergers & Acquisitions' »
  • Barnes and Noble Admits to Improperly Dated Stock Option Grants »
  • 'The Hoax': A Movie Based on a Book and about a Book »
  • Shortlist Announced for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award »
  • Amazon Looking for 'Harry-est' Towns »
  • Angela Bole Promoted at BISG
  • Back to Court Over Simpson Book? »
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    DRY MANHATTAN: Prohibition in New York City
    April 01, 2007 - The clear, focused text provides ample evidence of this first-time author's wide research and deep familiarity with the relevant sources. Lerner recognizes Prohibition's central issue: the desire to define morality narrowly and to force that definition upon others. Teeming with immigrants and overflowing with booze, New York City seemed an unlikely battlefield, but William H. Anderson and his Anti-Saloon League came, saw and conquered. Anderson began his fierce and creative anti-alcohol campaign upon arrival in the city in 1914; by 1920, Prohibition was constitutional. The author does a good job of exploring and explaining Anderson's strategies and of identifying the cultural and historical forces that enabled his initial successes, among them the identification of beer-drinking with Germans, America's opponents in World War I....A fine history of a most troubling time. ...Full Review

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