My agent, the dogged Susan Lee Cohen, was still negotiating the terms of the book deal after Joe and I had delivered the incredibly detailed TOC and first sample chapter to Wiley.
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One of the events was on the life of the Prophet Mohammed, and the other course was on the first chapter of the Koran.
The first story has been told in pedantic detail by the Financial Services Authority in its 450-page report on the failure of RBS. Today, the FSA released the first chapter of the second tale and painted an even more damning picture.
Strip out all the flawed heuristics, just give me the first chapter and nothing else.
When I bought it, I decided the read the first chapter before bed, and ended up staying up most of the night to finish it.
The Unfinished Swan has four chapters, and the white-room-black-paint chapter is only the first.
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That said, after reading the first chapter I was hooked and ordered the book.
Facebook has told an engrossing first chapter of the story, and like many stories it starts in a strange place, which is intruiging as well as logical, and leaves many people wanting to know what happens next.
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"Under Shai's leadership, we've successfully achieved our goals in the first chapter of Better Place, and we owe Shai our gratitude for turning his powerful vision into a reality, " said Idan Ofer, Chairman of the Better Place Board of Directors.
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"This is the first time that we've had a complete chapter in the human instruction book, and that's pretty amazing, " said Dr Francis Collins, from the US National Institutes of Health and who chairs the HGP.
And come back here in one week to read my take on the first chapter of the book.
How you read that first chapter dictates how you view man and his place in the natural environment.
The first chapter alone is stuffed with references to more than 40 companies and one or more of their marketing campaigns.
And in the course of spending the evening at that bookstore he ends up quite dead in the first chapter.
"The first couple of years I was relieved to have finished that chapter of my life and I was really enjoying doing other things, " he reflects.
The only real way we can choose between books is to begin to read them, and if publishers want us to fall in love with their books, they have to make at least the first chapter available for free online.
"Today's verdict is the first chapter in this process, " the statement from Pearl's parents, wife, and sisters said.
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