But genes are rather like books in a library--not all of them are read.
But surely New York still bosses Los Angeles around in more serious matters like books, art and politics?
In addition to categories like books, electronics, music and sporting goods, customers can book rental cars, plan vacations and refill prescriptions.
The first is for setting "excessively high thresholds" for prosecuting IP pirates who counterfeit copyrighted materials like books, music and movies.
The company is also mulling brand extensions like books and a magazine.
For food (like books, music, and art) reveals not only new insights about our culture and society, but also a great deal about ourselves.
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The first question we asked upon getting a quick demo: will you be able to buy content like books, magazines and movies through Play?
The patent application, filed back in late-2009, describes a location-based social network that helps users discover people in their vicinity, based on common interests like books, movies, and, naturally, music.
So far, no one has solved the most basic drawback: Most people regard TV as an entertainment box and the Internet as a separate place to get information or to buy things like books and airplane tickets.
In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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Websites and social media are overtaking previously successful methods like phone books and even newspapers.
Brand expansion plans, like Ebay books and an Ebay magazine, are on the back burner.
So is the ability to print PDA data like address books and to-do lists on Bluetooth-ready printers.
However, I am also compelled by the additional exposure a tool like Nimble Books could give to quality content.
This is an enviable score, and whether you like his books or not, Mr Patterson has obviously hit a groove.
They are explorations of places known over years, fingered like venerable books and therefore loved with precision, with an amorous obsession for details.
"The easy route was, 'we know that girls like the books, and so let's show the violence and get the boys, '" this executive said.
Like phone books, we used to have immutable facts all compiled in Encyclopedia Britannica: 9 planets in our solar system, the Soviet Union, and avoid alcohol.
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The reason: Torahs aren't printed like ordinary books or Bibles.
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Clearly, consumers enjoy media experiences in the form of their choice, which has expanded far beyond the realm of traditional distribution chains like printed books, newspapers and magazines, audio CDs, DVDs and television.
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We wanted a heritage feel like Penguin Books and the Underground signs.... We discussed how we wanted it to be something people would be happy to prop up on a mantel or keep in a box.
Now a city need only mouth the words "adverse secondary effects" when enacting a regulation, and for the most part, courts will uphold it -- even though everyone knows the real reason is that the city doesn't like the books and movies that the store sells.
I'll tell you what I think that's a sign of a candidate who's deeply rattled as he has every right to be, I mean I'm sorry but you know policies, you can't just pull them off, off the shelf like library books and put them back a couple of weeks later.
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And I will say exactly why this is so: electronic books offer two major advantages: one, a lot of people would like to read books that they don't want to be seen reading, and don't want to have to move from apartment to apartment every time they get a new job in another city or graduate from college, or what have you.
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It will take more than books like Who Moved My Cheese to ease tensions.
And with the Internet, no need to buy books like You Can Do the Cube.
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Books like Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki talk about it in terms of enchantment.
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Books like Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain by psychiatrist John J.
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