Sentences with phrase «banning books»

In the meantime, I'm going to cash my December royalty check and hope that B&N doesn't decide to follow Amazon down their slippery slope and start banning books from their virtual shelves as well.

We imagine that you have invited us to teach your group how to do a better job banning books from libraries.

Not long ago, there was a rumor that Amazon was banning books under 2,500 words but that turned out to be untrue.

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The Middle East is notorious for banning books due to moral, political, religious, or commercial reasons.

Banning books doesn't work.

Instead of banning books people should be encouraging parents and children to read together and communicate about the hard stuff that otherwise may not be talked about.

Amazon has broadly succeeded in this by introducing its adult filter, and in many cases outright banning books that push the envelope (though the question of whether they should be the moral arbiter of fiction is a debate for another time).

What frequently challenged or banned children's or young adult book (or book about banning books) should we read in May and June?

If you start banning books because you think they are «dirty,» all that does is increase their curiosity about it, hence the actions taken by these teens.

Maybe there are some disturbing ideas in some but life can be disturbing so why block that information from impressive minds by banning books?

Name one instance of liberals banning books or newspapers.

They've been banning books forever, this group has been keeping a tally since 1982 http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/timeline

That is EXACTLY what is wrong with banning books.

What you are doing by banning books is driving a wedge between you and your children and putting your ignorance on display for all to see.

I can not remember anyone banning books from school when I was growing up in the 80s.

Banning books is nonsense, you can still get a copy of Mein Kampf, however, the section which you get religious books should be changed to «fiction».

No religion can burn the internet or put it on their list of banned books...

The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the grounds that such books were «sexist».

It's like the religious nuts who try to ban books in schools.

And despite remarks from Rachel Held Evans, it does not ban all books with the word «vagina.»

No one was up in arms to ban the book or censor the book from being published.

In 1616 the Catholic Church banned all books that suggested the earth moved at all.

This week is Banned Books Week.

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.

Intellectual freedom — the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular — provides the foundation for Banned Books Week.

Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Pragmatic Mom recently posted... Reading for Banned Book Week

Of course this did not justify threatening Rushdie with violence or even banning his book, but what I found interesting was the fact that in the course of the controversy his Muslim critics managed to forcibly insert themselves into the exclusive conversation he had set up with their religion as its subject.

But he has never had the courage of his convictions, first voicing his contempt of Rajiv Gandhi for banning the book in a context where Indian citizens were being killed in police firing, then apologizing to the Iranian regime for writing it, only to recant once again when his contrition wasn't deemed to go far enough.

When it emerged that he banned books being sent to prisoners, Lib Dems laughed at those calling for them to distance themselves from it.

That's why they are trying to persuade the public that we have banned books and brought a halt to all rehabilitation.

Mr Pearl told the radio station: «I was delighted to hear that Parliament might ban my book, if they do, I will immediately advertise it as «the book banned in the UK» and... we will end up selling another 100,000 books directly to the UK.»

As justice secretary, he saw unwelcome headlines over issues including legal aid cuts that sparked an unprecedented walkout by barristers and solicitors, mandatory court charges and an attempt to ban books being sent to prisoners, most of which were later reversed.

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It is in the middle of nowhere, there are more banned books in town than actual books to check out at the library, the high school history teacher teaches The War of Northern Aggression, and there are more churches than any other buildings.

The community is so backwards that it has banned books as seemingly innocuous as «To Kill a Mockingbird.»

-- Book Banning Heats Up J.K. Rowlings best - selling Harry Potter childrens book series topped the most frequently banned books last year.

The Harry Potter books have often appeared on the American Library Association's list of the most - banned books.

A caveat: Hands off those banned books though.

Wal - Mart banned the book from its stores because of a two page «activity» called «Dress the Supreme Court,» which portrays the current justices as stark naked, across from a page of cut - out robes.

September 21 - 27 is Banned Books Week in the United States, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and to express our own views, and share the views of others.

On their side is their union, whose governing documents clearly state: «NEA deplores prepublishing censorship, book - burning crusades, and attempts to ban books from school library media centers and school curricula,» and resolves that «Teachers and school library media specialists must have the right to select and use materials and techniques without censorship or legislative interference.»

As this year's Banned Books Week approaches — it's Sept. 17 to Oct. 3 — many NEA members are celebrating the voices, characters, and books that look at the issues that matter to students, and standing up against censorship.

Grants for excellence in teaching, using music to teach math, banned books, science teachers, physics teachers and more.

Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged / Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.

It's Banned Books Week, and Randolph County's school board has just pulled Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man from school libraries.

It's about a banned book of our choice.

To enter to win 30 banned books (in eBook form), visit Open Road Media's Banned Books Week website.

• Stockett gave two pieces of advice to all of the college students in the audience: Read everything you can get your hands on (especially banned books) and understand the process of rejection.