John Davis, of the Harvard Business School, is writing a book on the few family firms that do not succumb to the old rule of shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
The sliding house is two years old now but I mention it because it appears in the Book of Ideas, from Dezeen, a magazine I featured in a post yesterday.
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The 37-year-old is already a household name in India and, thanks to the book, The God of Small Things, she is now well on the way to becoming the talk of the chattering classes in the West.
Ancient civilizations, and cracking the code of long-lost languages is usually the reserve of Hollywood, or a good old-fashioned book.
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The title of the novel comes from an old proverb, "Truth is the daughter of time", and the book directly challenges the received idea that Richard was a tyrant who murdered the Princes in the Tower.
This story is based on his new book, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot.
The book reads like first-person reportage, and Defoe was a journalist as well as a novelist, but the book is set in 1665, when Defoe was only five years old.
The main plot line, about the undoing of a candidate, is plausible (just) and the book is good on journalists and the conflict between the lazy, pompous old media and the new media that are hungry, looked down upon and dangerous.
But ADD, the old term, is still used by many clinicians, including the authors of this book.
The e-book market, in any volume at least, is no more than two or three years old.
The book's success is attributed to bloggers and the sharing of book reviews and recommendations on social media, as well as old-fashioned word of mouth advertising in physical coffee shops, and most probably at the school gates.
Michael Koza is 51 year-old civil engineer from Sacramento who I profiled in my book (and in the current issue of Forbes magazine).
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