Vehicle damage reports like CarFax are widely available on the Internet and make it easy to spot cars that have been suffered heavy flood damage, said Ricky Beggs, vice president and managing editor of Black Book, a guide to the wholesale market for used car dealers.
They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
You Need A Little Black Book of Potential Business: Before you begin a career transition, you need to have a list of people that you will call first.
She happened to have been at a book signing at the largest black bookstore in L.A. when the now-dead person - who wasn't then - James Simpson Lee Hastings Jr.
And the Black Swan is a famous book about extremely rare events that most financial models cannot predict.
The report gives a list of eight "Black Swan" scenarios -- a reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Black Swan, " which posits that history is built on unforeseeable, surprise events.
Compared to being Fooled By Randomness, the title of his first book, The Black Swan, a rare but powerful event, presents much greater a challenge.
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And in the center is LinkedIn's richest and fastest-growing opportunity: turning the company's 161 million member profiles into the 21st-century version of a "little black book" that no corporate recruiter can live without.
But the people at Samsung were ready and the little black boxes, no bigger than a book, were already on display.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan fame has written a new book titled Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder in which he provides a reasoned basis for believing that the current Fed policy will bring us way more inflation and much sooner than expected.
This week, the company released a Web application called Little Black Book for Facebook members.
It included a copy of the book, of course, but also a few superuseless promotional items, including a black highlighter pen, and this version of the Superuseless Superpowers e-book.
Named a New York Times bestselling business book, Basic Black is now in its eighth printing.
More importantly perhaps, it counts Nassim Taleb, who popularized this notion with his best-selling book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable as a member of its research team.
About five or six months before the book launched, we did a class on how to be black.
One project is The book that disappears, a volume printed on reactive paper that turns black after 20 minutes.
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
In 2007 Nassim Nicholas Taleb created a widely-spread meme and best-selling book on Black Swans, highly unexpected events that carry major scale and impact.
The book's title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, a black American poet, that Mr Mbeki often cites.
Inspired by the Portuguese colonists' white bean stew, they created a concoction with the earthier (and in my book, tastier) black beans.
His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.
But she is such a talented artist and her black-and-white drawings are so captivating, it seems wrong to call her memoir a comic book.
Mr Curtis said he had worked with Mr Dutschke several years ago, and that they had discussed publishing a book called Missing Pieces, about an alleged conspiracy to sell body parts on the black market.
New York Times sports columnist William Rhoden has a new book, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete.
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