But more than that, Hopkins's father was the author of A Handbook of Average and A Manual of Marine Insurance, both standard reference books for negotiating, averaging, and adjusting the liabilities to insurance underwriters of cargo losses and shipwrecks, so Hopkins grew up in a world wet with marine accidents and was especially attentive to them.

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The device has enough internal memory to hold more than 1, 000 standard e-books, says Sony, and it has expansion slots for memory cards.

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In the little world of gold standard advocacy in the English language, most of the books date from the 1960s and 1970s.

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For its digital bookstore, it has focused on using an open standard, called ePub, that enables people to take their digital books with them to any devices, said Michael Serbinis, chief executive of Kobo.

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So when a highly prized teenager without enough money to pay for expenses beyond tuition, room and board and books, he and his parents cannot rely on a uniform standard across the 120 Division 1 FBS schools to determine which school offers enough to cover the full cost of attendance.

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It uses the same standard protocols (such as OAuth) as its social SSO relatives, but instead of posting meals or books to your feed it sends payment information to shops through a secure channel.

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