Deep Space Industries said it can build its first class of probes largely with off-the-shelf parts and book them on other launch vehicles, such as the French-built Ariane rockets or the Falcon boosters developed by SpaceX.
Mr Segal's account of this episode is one of the most interesting parts of the book.
Given my background, it is not surprising that my favorite parts of the book have to do with physics and mathematics.
There is a flow to the chapters in WTF, but many parts of the book can be read as independent concepts.
Its scope is vast, parts of the book are confusingly structured and the author sometimes shies from pushing his arguments to a satisfying conclusion.
Those looking for news can safely skip the parts of the book that recount the history of the public relations industry and recap the health reform debate.
But writing was the thing, and Mr Carey's discussion of the novels and of the process of their creation is one of the most interesting parts of the book.
Some parts of this book work better than others.
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Among my favourite parts of the book is Mr Mehta's early life in London in the swinging sixties as a callow young man, who arrives from India with a few shillings and bags of Indian tea.
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In the earlier parts of the book Swift has shown where man's folly and scoundrelism lead him: but take away the folly and the scoundrelism, and all you are left with, apparently, is a tepid sort of existence, hardly worth leading.
One of the best parts of writing a book like Abundance is there was a fair amount of predictiveness involved.
In addition to the photo album, customers receive a book detailing how specialized parts work.
The two parts of Mr Krakauer's book co-exist rather uneasily.
The real interest lies elsewhere, in the parts of Mr Stiglitz's book that are in effect a memoir of what life was like as an economic adviser, and indeed a considerable intellectual, in the bruising and often brutal world of Washington politics and policymaking.
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Only two or three pages of this book attempt to describe the parts of the country where tobacco is grown and cigarettes are made.
The launch did not go the way book launches normally go in these parts.
Make 8 to 10 shallow cuts in the thicker parts, then open them out like a book and press flat.
Although parts of IBM implement some of what the book is talking about, much of IBM is firmly entrenched in management practices aimed at extracting money from customers.
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Build the same application with Apple's tools, Atkinson figures, and not only will his program run faster--it might be able to communicate with other parts of the phone, such as the address book, and, say, enable forwarding an audio clip to friends.
Eventually, vehicles might book themselves in for repair and order the necessary spare parts before they arrive at the garage.
As its debts mounted, HMV sold off parts of the business, notably its live entertainment arm and the Waterstones book chain.
Mr Curtis said he had worked with Mr Dutschke several years ago, and that they had discussed publishing a book called Missing Pieces, about an alleged conspiracy to sell body parts on the black market.
The second half of the book is a disappointing and repetitive collection of previously published attacks on various parts of British government policy.
Like everything Mr Searle writes, the book is clear and forthright, if not pugnacious, and, unlike parts of the books he is reviewing, it ought to be fully accessible to the non-specialist.
Third , it has all the parts of what marketing professor Jonah Berger, author of Contagious, writes about in his new book.
By the time Smith published a book seven months later, the firm had turned ruthless revenge-seeker, even sharing parts of Smith's self-evaluations with the media.
In the autumn it could not cope with a bulging order book and halted production lines for a month to complete a number of aircraft that were missing parts.
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