The exhibit, an exhaustive, deep look at this decade of creative destruction, is set up like a narrative of the author's journey toward a new kind of art, and the story it tells is as absorbing as the works of art themselves.
It takes a case of supreme arrogance to think that you can do better than the author of a book who spent a large chunk of his life writing and revising the story and go ahead and invent scenes and dialogue and alter events in the manner in which Peter Jackson has chosen to do.
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To complete this weird story, it turned out that the proper owner of the terrific pants was none other than Bruce Upbin, a senior editor at Forbes magazine and author of this cover story on Nokia.
The conversation was guided by Techonomy Media founder David Kirkpatrick, who, as author of the 2010 bestseller The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, is a widely acknowledged expert on the company and the strategies of its founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Olson presents as a prime example the poignant story of celebrated author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who was caught between her husband's leadership of the campaign to keep America out of the war and the efforts of her mother and sister on behalf of intervention.
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Suddenly, the story becomes a rambling psychological study of the author himself.
John Mackey, co-author of the imperfect but stimulating new book, Conscious Capitalism, has a fascinating story.
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Nevertheless, Michael Lewis, the author of the 2003 book Moneyball, the story of how the penny-pinching Oakland A's used quantitative analysis to win at baseball, said he couldn't see the harm in additional analytics in youth and scholastic sports.
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The author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, who has written a book inspired by Tull's story, called A Medal for Leroy, and Brian Binley, MP for Northampton South, are supporting the campaign.
Mr. Lamb, a journalism professor at Indiana University in Indianapolis, is the author of "Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training" (University of Nebraska, 2004).
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The author said that initially she had not envisioned a trilogy because "I thought the difficulties of carrying the back story into a third novel would be too great".
To make sure that children don't stumble into a disturbing story, Cindy Hudson, author of "Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs, " suggests that parents read the novel alongside them.
So far, this is a fairly typical story of an author having modest if not improbable success (the vast majority of authors who attempt to secure an agent or a publishing contract with even a small publisher fail).
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Ms. Buchanan, co-author of the bestseller "The Daring Book for Girls, " says she set out to create a multimedia story that took advantage of the protean nature of the latest e-readers, which can function as a book one moment and a photo album or movie player the next.
"This is really a story about how people unintentionally impact ecosystems, " explained co-author Autumn Oczkowski from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.
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