According to professor Mike Molasky, author of the book Post War Jazz Culture in Japan, these cafes thrived between the 1950s and 1970s, when the Japanese discovered the genre through the scores of French New Wave films and a series of influential live performances by the band Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1961.
Fareed Zakaria said in his bestselling book The Post-American World that a superpower is a country that achieves dominance in ideas or ideology, an economic system and military power.
As I was clicking through the pictures of the volume, I got to thinking that I might be looking at the future of the book industry in the post e-book world.
Some book authors now post rough drafts online to collect reader feedback.
Today, over at Digital Book World, I wrote a blog post about three kinds of digital book publishing start-ups that I am bullish on.
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First, my e-book, referenced in this post, talks a lot about that.
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But pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe repeats a more memorable tale while writing a post about a book called Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.
Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Book for Leaders, to prevent others from going through what I went through at the ripe old age of 24.
These points rang home during the opening keynote by John Gerzema, author of the book Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell and Live.
Essentially, the results of a player's in-game choices are used to populate a post-game comic book-style story -- progress, character info, settings, dialogue, achievements and screenshots are all pumped into an algorithm alongside the results of said variables, metrics from your playthrough, and your performance therein.
Most of the book is about Mr Pipes's post-war life in America, loved austerely but gratefully.
The book was serialized in the NEW YORK POST, sold overseas and to Paramount Pictures for a film with Jack Lemmon.
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One of my favorite books is the book True Enough: Living in a Post Fact Society, by Farhad Manjoo.
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This post was excerpted from his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, published by the Harvard Business Review Press.
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Thilo Sarrazin, a governor of the Bundesbank (and it's worth mentioning, a member of the left-of-center Social Democratic party) was pressured to resign his post in September after publishing a book arguing the failure of Germany's absorption of immigrants.
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Members of this group follow one another on a special Facebook page, where we post our latest blogs, tell of an impending piece to be featured in a periodical, announce a book launch, revel in our work having been accepted by a publisher, post the news of a potential writing job or share wisdom about our industry.
Since this is a blog post, and not a debt consolidation book, I am keeping it brief here.
They have an ability to toggle between the quick hit of a blog post and the deep dive of a book or long article.
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His book, The Day Britain Died, an analysis of post-devolution Great Britain, was published to accompany a BBC series of the same name.
What you see in the excerpts I post are not what you will read when the book is published.
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But as author Michael Hinshaw points out in his book Smart Customers, Stupid Companies and in a recent blog post, that gap is no longer tenable.
More than 25 Chinese Canadian journalists were due to cover the game, including one who presented Lin with a book of "Year of the Dragon" stamps from Canada Post and asked him to record a message in Mandarin, which he did.
We often forget that everything you post online, from your Facebook profile to your Amazon book reviews, is out there for others to see and judge.
Under the plan approved in principle by the board Wednesday night, publishing assets such as the Journal, the Times of London, the New York Post and scores of other papers along with the HarperCollins book publisher and the education business, will be spun off as a separately traded company that is yet to be named.
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These are carried at book value of 13 billion baht, but will be re-valued post transaction to 69 billion baht.
"The post includes a sample two-page spread from an unidentified book to show how this important innovation can be actualized, " Portnoy explains.
The sliding house is two years old now but I mention it because it appears in the Book of Ideas, from Dezeen, a magazine I featured in a post yesterday.
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Social researcher Wednesday Martin "caught wind of the underground network" while working on a book about practices among New York City's Park Avenue elite, the Post reported.
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