Whether a book of that nature, the impact it has is sort of not for me to decide.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature, a 1982 book on the continual reappearance of fractals in nature, made him famous.
During an interview with Time magazine last year, Kyle defended his decision to write the book despite the secretive nature of the SEAL world.
In an interview with Time magazine last year, Kyle defended his decision to write a book despite the secretive nature of the SEAL world.
Ms. Buchanan, co-author of the bestseller "The Daring Book for Girls, " says she set out to create a multimedia story that took advantage of the protean nature of the latest e-readers, which can function as a book one moment and a photo album or movie player the next.
But despite the social commentary for which the author is developing a reputation, he wants to make the fictional nature of the book clear.
Given the nature of the book's title and those it is most likely to appeal to, it is not surprising to find that the locations of John Graham-Cumming's suggestions are provided in geographical co-ordinates rather than addresses.
Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot and the Treo mobile phone, used a chunk of his money to fund research into understanding the nature of consciousness, and he even wrote a book on the topic.
This essay is adapted from his new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, " published by Viking.
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
The book is quite punishing to read and the view of human nature it takes is more fundamentally lowering than that of the most cynical French aphorist.
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Ms. Marris's book goes further, challenging the very idea of a balance of nature.
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This connection also has historic roots -- during the Middle Ages, extravagant meals or banquets hosted by the wealthy often featured sculptures made from edible ingredients like pastry dough, sugar and ice, according to the book Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance.
But it his fear -- as the title of his new book, "The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change" (it is called "With Speed and Violence" in the U.S.), suggests -- that we still haven't fully realised the apocalyptic forces we have awoken and the reality of what is at stake if global warming continues untrammelled.
Political scientist Stephen Macedo described the nature of the problem 16 years ago in his short book The New Right v.
The nature of this power gap was illuminated in Jonathan Alter's new book on Obama's first year in office, The Promise.
As a sports-management major, he worked as a research assistant on a book that one of his professors, Mark Rosentraub, recently co-authored about the intersecting nature of professional sports, entertainment and real estate.
This important book by a U. Cal Berkeley economics professor contains vital insights and data about the nature of jobs in our new economy.
Although evocative of a supposedly simpler era, this book proves that while times and circumstances may change, human nature -- at least in Estleman's Detroit -- does not.
His new book sets out, clearly and forthrightly, to dispel Western (and especially American) illusions about the nature of change in the Arab world.
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