Considering Stockett has most likely made more than a million dollars so far, given that her book is a bestseller and she also sold dramatic rights, this is pretty cheap.
The portrait of the Brotherhood that emerges from her book is scarcely attractive but it is a weaker, more fractured thing than the sleekly dangerous creature depicted by Mr Vidino.
Her book shows us that sexism is still very much with us, that it is a complicated, often hidden element that is entrenched in our society.
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Of course, not everyone is going to do like Terry and replace their disposable razors with a vintage straight-edge razor, but her book is full of easy tips that even the laziest environmentalist could implement, and she goes far beyond the usual bag and bottle tips, too.
Indeed, she may well have published her book in part to quash the notion that she is a naive innocent who is simply manipulated to attack one political side and not the other.
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Her book is a very public way of breaking with that movement.
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The book seems written as if the author is fearful that her (American academic) peers will find the topic of cuisine frivolous unless viciously pickled in theoretical embellishments.
Her point is not just to be proud that women purchase more shoes or book more restaurants online than men, but rather to point to the business reality that women are the dominant purchasing population.
Scott, who was working on his own novel based on her mental illness, "Tender is the Night, " was livid that she had covered similar territory in her book, and insisted that Scribner cut large portions of the novel that overlapped with what he was working on.
Steel is embracing the e-book revolution--she recently announced that all 71 of her books would be digitally released on Amazon.com and the Sony eBook store.
And what distinguishes her from other teachers is that she flexibly allows the kids to move and point to the book.
In her remarkable new book "The Rambunctious Garden, " Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.
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That is a very contemporary story, and was clearly one of the main factors in persuading her to write the book.
In her magnificent (and prescient) book The Forgotten Man Amity Shlaes creates a useful metaphor that is easy to grasp and explains a lot.
Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.
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