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.
Dr Aldrin, whose book is reviewed here, would prefer NASA to aim for Mars directly.
Joining us from the Phoenix metro area side of the game is Will Leitch, whose Web site, Deadspin.com is among the sports world's hourly must-reads and whose book, "God Save the Fan, " is on sale now.
But it is an important book, whose ideas deserve to be widely heard.
Ms Henshaw, whose Book Barge is moored in Bath on a six-month tour, said she was doing better business on water.
Its lead author, Rick Smolan, is a veteran photographer and book producer whose credits include the A Day in the Life book series.
Like Jane McGonigal, whose first book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, will be published by The Penguin Press in January.
"If you want a tribe, then the chief has to be a member of the tribe, " says Godin, whose book Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? (due out in December) talks about how big companies often bungle communication on the Web.
In fact, it's Thimbletack, a "house brownie" whose job is to protect Spiderwick's book.
Every once in a while a book comes along whose subject is totally in tune with a crisis, trend, fashion or deep-seated yearning of a particular time.
Another proponent of the employee-first management model is Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL, whose book Employees First, Customers Second calls for a radical shift in top management and employee roles.
Mr Brown, whose book on the recent financial crisis is out this week, urged "more imaginative" proposals.
It is second time lucky for Banville, whose novel The Book Of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker in 1989.
Winn, whose penchant for self-promotion is detailed in another book, Dot Bomb, by company p.r. head J.
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The book is a great read for any child whose family is dealing with financial strain or changed employment circumstances.
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However Mr Kreckeler, whose book of transcribed inscriptions of the vaults is mentioned in the plans, said this would be difficult to achieve.
The tone of alarm in their book is a departure for the pair, whose previous research has focused mainly on the benefits of advancing technology.
Yet the Ehrlichs, whose own tone is disagreeable, have done little in this book to remedy that defect.
Mr Rees, whose book came out in Britain in January and is now being published in America (and turned into a stage show in London), introduces the greatest players.
Singer is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution whose book, "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, " projected a vision of the future of war that developers were seeking.
Never before have I been able to wrap my mind around what it meant to be a classical composer in the 20th century until I began working on a book about Samuel Barber (whose 100th birthday it is this year).
Goldstein is nothing but resolute when he talks about the value of tasting blind, whether it is by a group whose aggregate ratings will provide the recommendations in these book or an individual discovering the one-on-one sensual pleasures a particular beer provides.
This article is by Ram Charan, an adviser to CEOs and corporate boards whose latest book, Global Tilt, will be released by Crown this winter.
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The book begins a series by the multi-talented Howe, whose artwork for the cover is a finalist for the 2007 Dream Realm Award.
What pulses through the book, above all, is the author's love of China and of the Chinese people, whose extraordinary vitality is only now being released.
Haslam is meticulous in his research, so much so that unfortunately some of the pace of the book is lost when he incorporates a few too many references to clubs, managers, DJs and others whose names can only mean something to a select few.
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