Trying to learn a knot from a book has always been a hollow experience.
You can learn in 60 seconds from a book what it took another individual 60 years to learn for himself.
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Sleep is also the new snake oil--the promise of a good snooze from a book or a bed or a bottle.
He then quotes from a book that predicts a four to five hour day, and generally speaking, thirty hour work weeks.
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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On Designer Daily I discovered the picture you see right of frame from a book on Chinese graphic design.
People are buying everything "from a book to a car online, which is not very common in other countries, " Mr. Hohagen of Facebook says.
In the first instance, the quote comes from a book by Halperin entitled Defense Strategies for the Seventies published in 1971 and reprinted in 1982.
But this is a particular skill that I have never seen anyone learn from a book, an article, or from a shrink-wrapped kit sold on a late-night infomercial.
Both Mr Blair and Mr Bush will face new pressure from a book which claims the US president began planning for the invasion of Iraq in December 2001.
Entrepreneurs and executives managing global operations might also benefit from a book that points to corporations thinking about terrorism and security issues in a strategic manner and not just as an afterthought.
The Center's report excerpts and analyzes relevant passages from a book published and translated by Saleha S. Mahmood Abedin called Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations by Fatima Umar Naseef.
The intertwining plots and narrative elements of the original novel, including extracts from a book written by one of the characters and a second story about pirates within the story, meant deciding what to include and exclude would be a complicated exercise.
In a moment of pure comedy from a book that veers between entertainment about the geekiness of it all and the scary extent of unchecked lawlessness on the web, Glenny relates how the US Secret Service was unwittingly investigating a secret agent from the FBI.
Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.
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 minute a reader hears about a book from a friend, she can buy her own copy.
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Publishers don't know yet how much content from a particular book will be available to Google under fair use.
From a 1977 book entitled Top Secret: National Security and the Right to Know Halperin wrote with Daniel Hoffman.
They will take comfort from a new book by Bob Davis and David Wessel, two journalists at the Wall Street Journal.
Yet this conviction has not stopped him from writing a book of profiles of psychologists who were reckoned to be geniuses.
The first task, which previous research has shown to deplete self-control, was tediously crossing out all the Es on a page from a statistics book.
Festival organiser and author William Dalrymple said that a lot of people "don't realise that even reading from a banned book is against the law".
From a text book perspective, Basel III requires banks to hold 4.5% of common equity, Basel II requires 6% of Tier I capital of risk-weighted assets.
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And as for non-commissioned pieces, owning art from a comic book you enjoy is a great way to relive your favorite fiction, especially if your favorite fiction fights crime.
Today, I am willing to suspend my disbelief, the same way I do whenever I turn on the cable and some movie adapted from a comic book is playing.
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