But Adel, the thin young student, was there, sitting alone, an open book face down on his lap.
Figures quoted by the noted China-watcher James Mann in his book About Face showed that Japanese companies increased their share of many key Chinese markets at the expense of US and European rivals in the early 1990s.
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The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace, published in May by Free Press.
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They discuss the launch of the face book, which Ceglia agrees looks great.
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According to Ed Keller, co-author of The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace, 90 percent of real-world conversations about brands, products and services happen offline.
Meanwhile, publishers and booksellers are crumpling in the face of online book sales.
The HarperCollins negotiations with Apple represent a direct challenge to Amazon, which dominates the fast-growing e-book market but which could face significant competition from an Apple tablet.
Pick up One White Face , her book about her first three years in the real world, what that means to her, Generation Y, and the global economy.
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If you have to ask, you must have spent the last five years with your face buried in a book while the rest of us got on Facebook.
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This time, Stranraer made home advantage tell thanks to a large slice of luck in the replay to book a trip to Greenock to face Third Division Morton in the next round.
Whether it is true, as Messrs Sherwin and Bird have written elsewhere (though not in their book) that America would not face the threats it does today had it refused to develop nuclear weapons, is debatable.
Jessica Wu, a Los Angeles dermatologist and author of "Feed Your Face, " a book about nutrition and food-based topical treatments for skin, says "there is very little in the way of clinical trials" showing the anti-aging benefits of grapeseed oil.
The device, which is clipped to a reader's glasses, buzzes when a book is brought too close to the face.
Both Mr Blair and Mr Bush will face new pressure from a book which claims the US president began planning for the invasion of Iraq in December 2001.
Mr Carter's denials that the book is in large part autobiographical fly in the face of the fictionalised facts.
Using his experiences running a tree farm in Georgia with his wife, artist Rose Lane, and as a musician, touring with acts like the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, Leavell has assembled a book with Craig that presents the many challenges we face, as well as solutions.
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Borders has been struggling in the face of increased competition from discounters and online book sellers.
Sony and Amazon also face competition from the many other e-book reading devices that are starting to be produced.
Every month he has what he calls "parking-lot time" -- six half-hour face-to-face slots available to the first people that book, regardless of their position in the company.
Offering the broadest library of comic book content from the top 75 publishers, and including independent creators as well, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has become a comic book fan.
Mr Simpson will face no further penalty as a result of the book or interview.
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But for all its imposing stately grandeur, this was the simple Anglican prayer book service, its late medieval language bringing the congregation uncompromisingly face to face with the reality of death.
The book is now an international sensation, hailed as the hip new face of the Chinese avant-garde.
So there it is, a great Apple trade staring me in the face, so here you go folks, a copy book trading opportunity.
As some media outlets have pointed out, perhaps just to stir the pot, the foreign press association's decision to book Fey and Poehler could be seen as a slap in the face of the Academy for choosing to announce Oscar nominations on January 10, before the Golden Globes.
Just thinking about him with a book in one hand and a huge grin on his white-bearded face made me smile.
This week, Grumpy Cat is coming to New York to promote the forthcoming Chronicle Books release, "Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book: Disgruntled Tips and Activities Designed to Put a Frown on Your Face" at BookExpo America, the publishing industry convention.
Les Bleus would have to face another group runner-up over two legs this fall to book their place in Brazil.
And I think that baseball has compromised its record book by allowing these players to use these drugs, because let's face it, baseball has been thrilling.
From book festivals and other writers, to fans who only knew his cheery bearded face from the photo at the back of his books, people were quick to respond.
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