Few books say so much about Russia then and now, and its effect on those it touches.
Both books say it would be folly to eliminate the benefits of a more open, globalised world including vastly improved standards of living for millions in the emerging world because of disgust with the depredations of the financial sector.
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If a feature doesn't work, O'Reilly's books simply say it doesn't work, something official documentation never does.
National patrimony laws are notoriously hard to find in the statute books (to say nothing of the possibility that the words will be Greek to you).
It can be easy for us to forget that, when they were uprooted from their daily lives in the 1940s, no one knew what the history books would eventually say.
Because of who he is, there will always be buyers for his books, publishers for his books, and cash-strapped academics to say flattering things about his books.
It is no insult to young Paolini to say that his books are effectively co-written with Tolkien, any more than it is an insult to Chatterton-Rowley to say that his had a co-author in Macpherson-Ossian or, for that matter, that virtually all medieval-minded historical novels in the nineteenth century, including some very good ones, were produced jointly with Sir Walter Scott.
It's impossible to say which new comic books will become hits, but as a general rule, first issues or issues that introduce characters often generate interest.
And she just was - she joked about her book club and said, you know, I know the pundit say that I sell books, so I can sell votes.
Of course, a skeptic (which I am not) could say that Jefferson kept his books clean so he could sell them later.
He will say they have full order books and an established market.
Given that many philosophers saw critical theory as a way for English professors to do philosophy really badly, it should not come as a surprise to find that some with a keen understanding of neuroscience are deeply skeptical of this attempt to say something new about old books.
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My sources in China say that bad loans on the books of banks have tripled in the first half of this year.
This leads into the question of exactly how the tax structure will change, and for that I must say that you can write entire books on such a matter.
Burn my books in the public square because I dare to say something different?
While Forrester says that slightly more than half of iPad owners say they use the device to read books, many do so on third-party iPad apps like the Kindle app.
As well as distributing the new films, Tesco will have a say in picking actors and in which books are turned into movies, based on what it thinks is "appropriate" for its customers.
Before I learned English, everything I learnt from Chinese books, and I thought oh this is what they say.
Mayersohn declined to discuss specific sales figures, but he did say that the margins on self-published books are very good (do I detect shades of Amazon here?), even better than those of the print-on-demand traditional books.
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Ms. PROSE: Well, yeah, and I also think - I mean this sounds like a sort of slightly nutty thing to say - but I also think that certain books just kind of pop into your hands at the moment you need to write - to read them.
And I will say exactly why this is so: electronic books offer two major advantages: one, a lot of people would like to read books that they don't want to be seen reading, and don't want to have to move from apartment to apartment every time they get a new job in another city or graduate from college, or what have you.
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Both men say the scale of cuts needed to balance the books is in fact somewhat less than what the Treasury and its watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), believe it to be.
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The e-book's creators say that they were turning over electronic treatments for books such as "Dawn Treader" well before technology for devices such the iPad, or Samsung's Galaxy, which was released this week, even existed.
Studies show parents rarely say no to children's requests for magazines, books or pens.
This is not to say I have not been profoundly moved by countless of books over the years.
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As for e-book sales, Amazon did say earlier this summer that it sells 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books (Of course, e-books are much cheaper than hardcover).
Some readers will be willing to make that trade-off, especially if Irex is able to add specialized stores in the future that offer, say, a large selection of non-English-language books.
And whole books have been written about the cheaters in international swimming and weightlifting, to say nothing of the Tour de France.
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Google definitely strained the rules of the game, to say the least, by just going ahead and digitizing so many books without permission.
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