It was a big jump from hard-core technical books with titles like Applying RCS and SCCS, to Parisian guide books, but as a sole owner O'Reilly was able to finance his dream.

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Is there a core library of books that should be distributed across the business?

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These deciphered messages, codenamed Venona by the Americans, form the core of the first two books under review.

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The Internet is bearish for retailing because it is at its core a price-discounting medium, particularly for toys, books and computers, which are easy-to-sell commodities.

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The habitual doctoring of books and records, the fictitious trades, the phantom accounts were the core of the charade.

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Reflecting a set of books and magazines laid out on the coffee table at home, the core layout of each customer's "Daily Shelf" lets them easily find their latest read or a new issue of their favorite magazine or newspaper.

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This bravura general explanation--of how a failing company and its toadying audit firm can cook the books through nonexistent revenue--is an expository tour de force and the core of the novel.

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If e-books encourage people to read more, that's good for public libraries -- which have a core mission to foster literacy and community engagement with information, culture and civic life.

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