In early 2012, American publishers began scrambling to acquire U.S. rights to the English translation from Mr. Koch's British publisher, Atlantic Books.

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Mr. Menon is professor of West European politics at the University of Birmingham and author of "Europe: The State of the Union" (Atlantic Books, 2008).

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He is also pretty much of a tech geek and has written about Japan and China, in books and for The Atlantic. he is a master of thoughtful analysis grounded in deep reporting.

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Robert Kaplan, a writer from the Atlantic Monthly who has written highly regarded books about war.

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Board a flight to the Faroe Islands on Atlantic Airways and the captain is trialling iPads alongside written log books.

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Dr. Pham is the author of over two hundred essays and reviews on a wide variety of subjects in scholarly and opinion journals on both sides of the Atlantic and the author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books.

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Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, helped found an influential organization for female pilots and wrote three best-selling books about her flying experiences.

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By 1776, the Atlantic Ocean had become what one historian has called "an information highway" across which poured books, magazines, newspapers and copies of the debates in Parliament.

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His written legacy includes innumerable articles and seven important books including: Spain: The Struggle for Democracy (1979), The Future of Germany and the Atlantic Alliance (1991), Transitions from Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe (1994), Partnerships for Peace, Democracy and Prosperity (1997), The Marshall Plan From Those Who Made It Succeed (1999).

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