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Explain how those three ideas shape the thrust of the book.
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Not long before he died, John Updike spoke eloquently of a book's "edges, " the boundaries that give shape and integrity to a literary work and that for centuries have found their outward expression in the indelibility of printed pages.
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In her much-discussed new book, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, " Annie Murphy Paul describes the ever-expanding efforts of researchers to determine how maternal diet, weight, stress, exercise and other factors can influence fetal development.
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