As tech books go O'Reilly's leads the pack with a series of books that have reached cult status for programmers and webmasters.
Two books have come out recently that are excellent complements to delving into the great series of books written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, beloved the world over as the creator of Middle-earth.
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Publishing rights to Bob the Builder are owned by BBC Worldwide and a series of books and a magazine have just been launched.
The movie was based on a successful series of books, the first of which came out in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom.
As if on cue, a drama for kids about unemployment and foreclosure though one set during the Depression, based on the popular series of books and dolls.
Like an author writing a series of books on the side of what they are best known for, the pseudonym offers an alternate, but persistant identity.
Time Warner can take a brand say, Batman from a comic and turn it into a movie, a television series, books, clothes, toys, with each of those outlets both generating revenue and promoting the brand.
The editorial content in the 112-page issue was made up of the kind of short, uplifting contributions from real people that made the series of books based on Chicken Soup for the Soul a success.
The phrase was first used by Mee - a celebrated writer and journalist best known for his 1908 Children's Encyclopaedia - in The King's England, a 1930s series of books offering a guide to each of England's counties.
Race Against the Machine seems to be another in the near interminable series of books that tell us that machines are soon going to be able to do everything therefore no one at all will have a job.
On returning to Egypt, Qutb wrote a series of books, many from prison, denouncing jahiliyya (ignorance), a state of affairs he categorised as the domination of man over man, or rather subservience to man rather than to Allah.
Gaiman, whose "Doctor Who" episode explored the doctor's most longstanding relationship in an unprecedented way, is known for the groundbreaking "The Sandman" graphic novel series and books like "Neverwhere, " "American Gods" and "Coraline, " which was turned into an Academy Award-nominated animated film in 2009.
The "Nutshell series" of books is head and shoulders above any other series of programming reference series, covering Perl, CGI, Java, JavaScript.
Travelers' Tales remains unprofitable, but O'Reilly, undaunted, has recently launched a series of medical books.
It is based on a series of five books, with more under way, and will probably run for years.
If you recognize Weinstein and Scarbrough from their series of Ultimate books (Ultimate Ice Cream, Ultimate Potato etc.), you know that it's not their way to just dip a toe in.
Master storyteller, Jim Stovall, has sold over 4 million copies of this book that was turned into a movie and spawned a series of associated books and movies (one of which was co-authored by yours truly).
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If there was one dimension of disappointment that one could detect in Chinua Achebe, it was the fact that he was famous for one great book when in fact he had written a whole series of great books.
Lofficier, who is co-author of the Pocket Essential guide to Tintin, spoke to CNN about his favorite historical escapades and archaeological "MacGuffins" from the classic series of comic books, beloved around the world by adults and children alike.
With the overwhelming presence of the Windows platforms taking off, O'Reilly has added new titles such as The Whole Internet for Windows 95, Inside The Windows Registry and just recently a series of "Windows Annoyances" (ie Windows Annoyances, Office Annoyances, Word Annoyances) plus a complement to its UNIX series of NT books focusing on security and administration.
For example, Nook users who buy the first book in a popular series like "Fifty Shades of Grey" or "Divergent, " a young-adult series by Veronica Roth, tend to tear through all the books in the series, almost as if they were reading a single novel.
Publishers might be able to determine when interest in a fiction series is flagging if readers who bought and finished the first two books quickly suddenly slow down or quit reading later books in the series.
He is not the first footballer to write fiction - Arsenal star Theo Walcott has written a series of children's books and former England manager Terry Venables co-wrote a series of crime novels.
The series boasts exquisitely presented books affordable trade paperbacks with a beautiful cover image and wrapped in a dual-tone spine and back cover that form a literary rainbow when shelved together.
He had previously endowed professorships in Shakespearean Studies and Jewish Studies at the college, and is also currently funding through the Yale University Press a series of approximately 100 books on famous Jews throughout history.
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.
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England and Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard is to write a series of children's books, publisher Little Brown has announced.
"Dead Man's Grip" is the seventh Roy Grace novel, and most of the previous books in the series aren't available here.
Tracy Hickman, of course, is the author of the Dragonlance books, a series of fantasy fiction I devoured when I was younger.
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