The system also has more or less the same book-inspired shape as Lenovo's U-series Ultrabooks, meaning when the notebook is closed, the top and bottom edges protrude ever so slightly beyond the sides, sort of like a hardcover shell cradling a spine full of pages.

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Finally, reward yourself for harnessing your anger with an enjoyable break or treat, says Dr. Lafair, author of "Don't Bring It to Work, " a book on how family patterns can shape people's work conduct.

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When David Heber appeared recently on ABC's Good Morning, America, viewers believed the noted nutritionist was pitching his new book, The L.A. Shape Diet.

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Explain how those three ideas shape the thrust of the book.

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Not long before he died, John Updike spoke eloquently of a book's "edges, " the boundaries that give shape and integrity to a literary work and that for centuries have found their outward expression in the indelibility of printed pages.

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In this new book Solis, principal analyst with Altimeter group, explores how businesses shape their customer experiences, particularly from the standpoint of continuous engagement.

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In her much-discussed new book, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, " Annie Murphy Paul describes the ever-expanding efforts of researchers to determine how maternal diet, weight, stress, exercise and other factors can influence fetal development.

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But we get an even better and funnier dose of Paul Giamatti, who plays an alternative Harvey, and who is framed, or sometimes drawn, in fond imitation of a comic book the implication being that even the cruddiest lives can, in sympathetic hands, acquire shape and grace.

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But the real hero of this book is the long-lost intellectual milieu of Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s that did so much to shape him.

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