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Definitive Hip. Herbert Ypma is the creator of a series of well illustrated travel books on boutique hotels called Hip Hotels. There’s a Hip Hotels book for every region on the planet. With Atlas, every region on the planet is now in a single Hip Hotels book. Six sections/regions to be exact; Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and South America, each with its own introduction and atmospheric historical map. It’s a biggie, 528 pages, more than 1000 photos, hardcover and $31.50 at Amazon. Due in November of 2005.

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The new book “Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation,” by J. D. Lasica, covers ground that’s been pounded before: the often-draconian or clueless ways big entertainment companies try to control content or subvert emerging technologies, and how people work around those efforts by sharing content online often in walled-off, anonymous places like private Internet Relay Chat rooms and the Free Network Project (freenet.sourceforge.net).

Mr. Lasica, a journalist, brings a storyteller’s flair to the subject, but what really makes Darknet unique is that it was born online and lives there still at www.darknet.com. The book, just one part of the overall project, was written in collaboration with its audience via a wiki - a Web application that allows any user to add or edit content. At the site, Mr. Lasica and his readers continue to share news and expand on the ideas presented in the book. His site also offers many excerpts.

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GTD: A new Cult for the Info Age

A Guide to Getting Things Done

Definitely for the pop culture enthusiast. Available on the 30th “4 inches” will feature gorgeous women clad in nothing except Jimmy Choo stilettos and a piece of Cartier jewelry. Proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit women and children impacted by AIDS in Africa.

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4 Inches may be one of the summer’s hottest cocktail table books. Clad in nothing except Jimmy Choo stilettos and a piece of a Cartier jewelry, an impressive VIP list of gorgeous women bare it all for the Elton John Aids Foundation. The proceeds benefit women and children impacted by AIDS in Africa. The music legend himself writes the foreword.

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GOSH! Posh!

Posh poses in nude to raise cash for Elton charity book
By Harry Page

STARK but beautiful - this naked image of Posh is one we’ve never seen before…or are ever likely to see again.

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