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The 2006 Picture Book Video Awards
Top Filmmakers and animators from across the country have competed to
create a video for a new book by world-famous author/illustrator David
Wiesner. The winning video will be streamed over The Book Standard, Sprint cell phones, and here, at a newly designed event website, as well as across many other distribution channels.
The 2006 Teen Book Video Awards
Top Filmmakers and animators from across the country are competing to
create book videos for three of the hottest teen books of 2006. On
November 29th, winning videos will be streamed over Bebo.com, The Book
Standard, Sprint cell phones, and here, at a newly designed event website,
as well as across many other distribution channels.
The 2006 Book Video Awards
The Book Standard, in partnership with Bantam Dell Publishing Group, a
division of Random House, launched the first-ever Book Video Awards, an
innovative new marketing program in which film school students create
30-second videos based on three highly-anticipated Bantam title.
The 2005 Book Standard Summit and Bestseller Awards:
Click here to see winners and pictures of the event!
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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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