One likely reason for the book's staying power is that melancholy was merely a springboard for whatever else struck Mr. Burton's fancy.
It would put a buyer together with a seller, take "delivery" of the contract for one fleeting moment and book the entire "sale" as revenue to Enron.
They will create the book, print one at a time, take individual or bulk orders for the book, and ship the book.
That's one reason the book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for non-fiction.
If there was one dimension of disappointment that one could detect in Chinua Achebe, it was the fact that he was famous for one great book when in fact he had written a whole series of great books.
The one thought Richards had that summed up this book for me was his observation on the type of advice people give.
Alex Rae, the back issue buyer for Midtown Comics, one of the nation's largest comic book dealers located in New York, said if he had his choice of any comic book in the world, it would be the one just purchased.
Goodreads has quietly grown into one of the most prolific social networks for book readers.
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That was one of the purposes for me to write this book.
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Go for the best one you can afford, and book ahead by at least a few days, especially at busy times.
He's not planning on seeing the film himself, and for people who want to read the book, he makes just one request: that they borrow it, not buy it.
But even putting aside the fact that pre-war America is one of the richest settings of the modern era, in terms of potential for rich narrative, this book just feels more like fantasy than historical fiction.
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When I was conducting the research for my book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, I came across one story that provides a glimpse into how Steve Jobs and the company he co-founded has achieved its stunning success.
For me one of the fun things about writing the book was getting just a quote from all these different writers.
Others have been noted to take it rather more seriously of course: I recall one blogger proudly using his ranking in the blurb for his book.
"I think people love the source material because no character is sacred, no character is safe, and anyone -- even the most beloved and innocent people in the comic -- could be killed at any moment, " said Blair Butler, comic book expert for G4's "Attack of the Show" -- and one of many fans of the book's creator, Robert Kirkman.
One of the highlights in the book is his passion for building full-size helicopters.
One would expect a book by the CEO of a for-profit university to mount a vigorous defense of the much-maligned for-profit higher education sector.
The FTC is investigating one of the patents for Skelaxin listed by Elan in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Orange Book, a listing of drugs still protected from generic competition by patents or other regulatory mechanisms.
One faint hope for the protestors lies with a local historian whose book claims that the Battle of Hastings was actually held on the route of the road near Crowhurst - a possibility dismissed as "ridiculous" by the council.
Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg since she was catapulted onto the global stage, but perhaps none so strange as one told at the U.K. launch party for her book, "Lean In, " hosted by British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne at his official residence in Downing Street this week.
So for hard-core, superorganized collectors who have been following one comic book for a long time, she said, the chronological order of their copies isn't always so logical.
One is for students carrying backpacks, book bags and packages, and the other is for those without any items.
Remarkably, phone books have been around for 100 years and at one point were the most oft-read book in many houses.
It is one of the merits of this book that it lets the facts speak for themselves.
But would customers feel hard done by if they paid the same for a shorter book as for a longer one?
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Stocks are also still trading for six to seven times book value, versus one times book at the troughs in 1974 and 1982.
But unlike the nearby Beaverkill River, which has spawned countless very good books, the Upper Delaware, for some reason, lacked that one great book that every one of its fishermen needed to own.
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