Paolini was only eighteen when the first volume of his Eragon series, the tale of the dragon rider Eragon, was privately published, in 2001.
Kenneth Widmerpool is present from his emergence in the first volume out of the mist on a school run to his bizarre death in the last volume.
He finished the first volume and immediately bought the second.
"The Last Victorian, " about Churchill, is actually a review of the first volume of William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill and is by far the most interesting and acute sketch.
He acquired the second volume of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Jewish laws, the Mishneh Torah. (The first volume had already been taken by the Vatican.) And he kept buying tzedakah boxes.
FORBES: Jewish Artifacts To Go For Millions In Steinhardt Judaica Auction
The comments are likely to anger Mr Blair, who is thought to have been annoyed that Lord Ashdown unveiled the details of private conversations between the two in the first volume of the diaries.
But these same themes, which are handled in a pointed, urbane and literary way in the first volume, become dangerously solemn in the second, as Huxley begins to take them (and himself) more seriously.
This performance was also a reunion for those players who were part of Los Guachos, the compact big band with whom Klein made the critically acclaimed studio albums Los Guachos II and Los Guachos III (the first volume remains unreleased).
At a recent leadership conference in Chicago, for instance, he regaled 2, 000 middle managers with tales of Ernest Shackleton, a turn-of-the-century explorer who helped his party escape certain death in Antarctica -- and whose story just happened to be the subject of Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, the first volume in the Adventure Library.
In the face of government policies aimed at lowering real estate prices, Longfor turned up the sales volume in the first half of this year.
FORBES: Divorce Knocks Net Worth Of China's Richest Woman But Makes Her Ex A Billionaire
In fact, she said, the greatest jump in volume during the first quarter occurred during Asian trading hours.
FORBES: CME Group's Hunnable: Copper-Trading Volume Sharply Higher; Big Rise During Asian Hours
The first is the volume of users on the platform, the second is showing developers that the platform is financially viable.
FORBES: The Windows Phone App Store Argument Moves From Volume to Variety
Intel claims that the growth in ultrabooks has helped the company achieve its volume goals in the first half of 2012.
Global equity capital markets volume fell 20% through the first six months of the year compared with last year, and global debt volume fell 30%, according to Dealogic.
The art market took a hit in the first quarter as sales volume fell 7% compared to 2012, according to market intelligence firm and auction platform artnet.
FORBES: China Brings Down Global Art Market In Q1 But U.S. And Europe Feed The Bulls
Instead of throwing in more surround sound, next year's TVs are the first to add Dolby Volume, cites the Shamwow guy, keeps commercials the same volume as your shows.
Much like the first half cash trading volume declines at NYSE Euronext, trading volumes at the Nasdaq were primarily the result of lower trading activity in the U.S. and Europe.
In what will no doubt be the most controversial argument in this first volume, Mr Strachan makes a convincing case for the outbreak of war in 1914 as a product of blunder and delusion, not of deliberate German aggression.
Compared to the very first PS3 model with 60GB HDD, the internal volume as well as its thickness and weight are trimmed down to approximately two-thirds.
ENGADGET: Sony unveils slimmer PS3: $300, lands in September (updated!)
The Ralph W. Miller Golf Library in the Industry Hills Sheraton Resort featured some 5, 000 tomes on the sport, including a rare 1597 volume that contains one of the first mentions of golf (as a distraction from archery practice).
The band, which just released its first album, MTO Volume One, combines the sounds of violin and banjo alongside trombone and slide trumpet.
Secondly, the ratio of Nasdaq to NYSE volume fell below 100% for the first time since 1998, indicating a contraction of speculative buying.
Apple has become the number one mobile phone vendor by volume in the United States for the first time ever.
ENGADGET: Strategy Analytics: Apple tops US phone market for Q4 2012, but Samsung takes the year
The Scripps Research Institute can measure the volume of coral reefs underwater for the first time without disturbing the reef.
With the moving averages first showing the buy signal in our strategy and with the volume increasing at about the same time, the confirmation is clear as our ADX chart rises above 20: traders should have been in on this stock.
For the first half of the year, volume in the financial futures pits fell 11%, while that of electronic trades surged 50%, year over year.
Earlier this year, its paperback partner, Picador, rereleased the first four novels in a single volume paperback to coincide with the publication of the final book.
WSJ: Hot Series From Hilary Mantel and Edward St. Aubyn: Do You Need to Read the First One?
Though this first volume concludes with the French revolution (a second, charting developments up to the present day, is in the works) its insights are relevant to our understanding of modern states and how they became what they are.
应用推荐