Category Archives: Books

Cover for "Raising Cyberethical Kids"

Free Download!! “Raising Cyberethical Kids”

For a limited time (now until February 20, 2019), you can download a free copy of a short book I wrote a few years ago entitled Raising Cyberethical Kids. The book is “a practical guide to help parents teach their children how to use the Internet safely and ethically” and can be downloaded from the…

Holiday Price Special!! Buy “Cybertraps for Expecting Moms & Dads” for Just 99¢

Holiday Price Special!! Between December 11 and December 18, Cybertraps for Expecting Moms & Dads Is Available for Just 99¢ Click on the book cover to the right to go straight to the Amazon.com page for the Kindle version of the book. The New York Post recent published a story this morning that is basically…

Free Book Giveaway! “Cybertraps for Expecting Moms & Dads”

This Book Giveaway Has Ended. Thanks to All Who Participated. A Christmas Promotion Will Run from December 11-18, 2018 Between now and midnight on November 14, 2018, you can enter (for FREE!) for the chance to win one of ten Kindle editions of my most recent book, Cybertraps for Expecting Moms. Click on the book…

If an Employee Tweets in the Woods, Can She Be Fired?

Item: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones threatens to bench any members of the team who kneel during the national anthem. Item: Sportscaster Jemele Hill is suspended for two weeks by ESPN for suggesting that any fans upset with Jones’s announcement should think about the fact that they are watching the game and buying products from…

What Do Pokémon Balls, Pumpkins, and Death Stars Have in Common? Just Google “Baby Bump Costumes”!

Halloween 2016 is just two weeks away and people are starting to get excited about designing and showing off their costumes. I personally am not a big costume fan, but it is fun to watch the increasingly sugar-jagged kids come up to the door each year. We had some pretty enthusiastic trick-or-treaters in Burlington, Vermont…

Press Release — Announcing the Publication of “Cybertraps for Expecting Moms & Dads”

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of my ninth book, Cybertraps for Expecting Moms & Dads. The book is available now as a Kindle download; it will be available in paperback in about two weeks. Set out below is the press release for the book. Contact: Frederick Lane Brooklyn, New York…

Great Article about Beacon Press in the Boston Globe

The Boston Globe published a glowing article about Beacon Press, which is celebrating its 161st anniversary this year. The press, under the leadership of director Helene Atwan, recently moved from its historic offices behind the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill to a former factory at 24 Farnsworth Street near the city’s Fan Pier. I…

Romney: “Ich bin ein Kennedy” [x-post]

[Note: This post was originally published on the Beacon Broadside on December 10, 2007.] Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney traveled to College Station, Texas, to deliver a major address on faith to an audience at the George H.W. Bush presidential library. Given the fact that the speech was so clearly an attempt to…