In standards, as Mies Van Der Rohe said about modern architecture, less is more.
"She was absolutely part of the furniture if you are talking about modern Britain, " he said.
The books are interesting also for what they reveal, often unwittingly, about modern mountaineering.
Please note, this is nothing at all about the politics, about modern weapons, who argues for what.
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To outsiders it is one of the most striking, curious and not entirely attractive features about modern Britain.
Elisa Doucette writes about modern feminism, relationships and life lessons for young professionals as she travels around the world.
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But she clearly knows very little about modern princesses -- or duchesses even.
Many of these young Chinese started returning home in the 1920s and 1930s, imbued with Western ideas about modern design.
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Within this context, Mr Geneen is scathing about modern managers treating their employees as a cost rather than a resource.
Yet with a few notable exceptions, the ministry's employees, shunted from section to section, are themselves ignorant about modern finance.
Now, millions of Twitter users around the world know about Modern Family and will likely want to learn more about it.
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Mr MacCulloch copes better with the challenges of writing about modern Christianity, relegated to the margins of social, political and scientific developments.
Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.
Little-known truth about modern jets: They are silly simple to fly.
The prison personnel were quite cooperative, especially a young officer considered the local computer whiz kid, who seized the opportunity to learn more about modern software.
They are films that speak about modern life from an African perspective, driven by a narrative that is strongly rooted in the African oral storytelling tradition.
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Metcalfe was completing her dissertation about modern Native American fashion.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- You can guess how Joel Bakan feels about modern companies from the title of his book: "The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power".
Simon Fanshawe, author of The Done Thing, a book about modern manners, says the idea will only be embraced outside times of crisis if there are authority figures organising it.
But what distinguishes the current incarnation of slow TV is that it flies in the face of conventional wisdom about modern audiences demanding immediacy, their attention spans sapped by the ever-moving online era.
Folks should learn a bit about modern org leadership, including basic concepts like slack, 20% free time, systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, emergence, Lean-Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, Radical Management, etc.
Biographies of two Indian leaders whose careers spanned most of the 20th century and did much to shape it should tell readers much of what they might want to know about modern India.
"It's to provide knowledge and allow people to get access and education about modern arts and culture and also to be able to purchase related products, " Liz Addison, project manager for the new e-business, told Reuters.
But where Gurung was about modern take-charge urban warriors, Adam Lippes of Adam showed a crowd-pleasing delicately feminine collection of light airy dresses in sheer pastel fabrics or in soft silks in shades of pink or ivory.
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"The Bricklayer" premiere attracted plenty of Houston Iranians, but, like the film "A Separation, " its most enduring effect may be to show non-Iranians some of the subtleties that lie behind the stereotypes about modern Iran and its people.
And if later in the process they find themselves spread hither and thither in different states, talking to voters only on television, here they are real live politicians going about modern-day politics using old-fashioned tools: stump speeches, hokey fund raisers, dinners in diners.
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It is probably worthwhile making a few observations about the modern hedge fund and private equity fund industries before going into too much more detail about how these funds are structured and operated.
And the thing about the modern world, as you may have noticed, is that technology changes.
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