That's a powerful incentive to settle, even when the claims are unlikely to stand up in court, as with Myers' attempt to establish a class of book readers who suffered the same loss from reading a book they later found out wasn't entirely true.
The first reading for my class is from a book called Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, edited by Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger.
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They are co-authors of the forthcoming book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill, May 2008).
But the kids in my district who are losing their school bus can't book a flight to class.
Suze Orman, for example, wrote in her most recent book, The Money Class, that 8 months of savings in an interest-bearing checking account is simply a must.
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Though the big shopping budgets of many Chinese tourists are sustaining the growth of the luxury-goods industry, the bus tours that escort most middle-class Chinese tourists in Europe usually book them into budget motels on the outskirts of Paris.
It was like listening in on a college literature class where nobody had actually read the book.
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"The debtors in our sample include accountants and computer engineers, doctors and dentists, clerks and executives, salesclerks and librarians, " they write in their new book, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt.
The experience of Manchester workers inspired his book The Condition of the Working Class in England.
About five or six months before the book launched, we did a class on how to be black.
Molavi is also the author of "The Soul of Iran, " a book about Iran's middle class struggling to free itself, under intense economic and cultural restraints, from the control of the state.
And that whenever I have any questions, instead of going to a how-to book that I had from a class, I always just turn to Catch-22 or East of Eden, which are some of my favorite - two of my favorite novels, and that always seems to help more.
His first performance with a dummy was while presenting a book report to his small grade school class.
Even so, I got a book flung at me for talking in class by our inspirational English teacher, an ex-army man.
Card said he wrote the dialogue in 1984 based on what he was hearing children say to each other when they thought no adults were around, so the book would not have shocked the South Carolina class.
In 2001, book authors and the Authors Guild filed a class-action lawsuit, as did publishers, alleging that Google had violated copyright laws by scanning books from the libraries of major universities without always getting permission from the copyright owners of the books.
In his new book he looks at the rise of the mass affluent class and its discontents.
Deep Space Industries said it can build its first class of probes largely with off-the-shelf parts and book them on other launch vehicles, such as the French-built Ariane rockets or the Falcon boosters developed by SpaceX.
Such a view is a slanderous misjudgment, says Peter Gay, emeritus professor of history at Yale, whose new book is a witty and sophisticated defence of the Victorian middle class.
In the late Heian era (893-1185), when the book is set, the ruling Fujiwara clan of upper-class commoners (to which Murasaki belonged) would send their daughters to court at Kyoto, hoping that one would give birth to a crown prince and ensure their control of the imperial power.
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As McDonough recounts in his book, Inside National Health Reform, Dodd needed help getting CLASS through the Senate.
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My friend and colleague, John Gregory, was teaching a short non-credit summer class at Pasadena City College on the history of rock songs based on his book Making Music.
Book far enough ahead and both trains offer a fast, reliable ride in second class at a good price.
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Many want time to work on projects they're passionate about but can't squeeze in, like writing a book (Kelly Braddock, a NYC-based realtor), taking a writing class (Lois Kelly, owner of the marketing firm BeeLine in Rhode Island) or learning to cook (Andrea Botwin, a research scientist from Philadelphia), while the majority are hoping for spa certificates or weekend escapes.
Attorney Michael David Myers wants to assemble a class action on behalf of every Washington resident who read A Million Little Pieces-- plus anybody who bought the book from a Washington vendor.
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