Enhanced Editions, a U.K. book-app publisher founded in 2008, released enhanced titles from big-name authors such as Stephen King, Barack Obama, Nick Cave and Hilary Mantel.
General Assembly should be accepting such frills as air tickets from member states, as well as how, exactly, the payments were arranged, or logged in by U.N. book-keepers.
Global accounting rule makers proposed a change that would prompt non-U.S. banks to book losses on bad loans more quickly, though it wouldn't be as quick as U.S. banks may have to.
Servicemaster's cleaning and lawn-care book extended outside the U.S. and Canada to licensing arrangements with local operators in 25 other countries.
An airline agent tried to re-book him on another flight while U.S. Airways corporate security was notified, police said.
In a 1985 book called "Rip-Off U, " former Duke basketball player Dick DeVenzio railed against what he called the "theft and exploitation" college athletes face.
Earlier this year, Pew research found that about one in five U.S. adults have read an e-book in the past year, and that e-book users tend to read over 30% more books per year than people who only read printed material.
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Barely nine months after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, I sat at a U.S.-China Business Council luncheon in Beijing featuring U.K. journalist Joe Studwell speak on his book The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth.
Pew found that nearly three-fourths of U.S. adults read a printed book in 2011, and 11% listened to an audiobook.
The system also has more or less the same book-inspired shape as Lenovo's U-series Ultrabooks, meaning when the notebook is closed, the top and bottom edges protrude ever so slightly beyond the sides, sort of like a hardcover shell cradling a spine full of pages.
They are people with deep green bona fides, such as the award-winning U.K. environmental writer Mark Lynas, whose book The God Species champions nuclear power and genetically modified crops as essential for a sustainable planet.
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Direct Brands Inc. is the largest direct-to-consumer club network for books, DVDs and recorded music in the U.S. The company is home to such market-leading book, DVD and music club brands as Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday Book Club and Columbia House, among its 24 multi-platform businesses, as well as several other special interest and lifestyle book clubs.
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Of the six largest publishers in the U.S., only two have full-fledged library e-book lending programs: HarperCollins and Random House.
On Wednesday, the Fed will release its so-called Beige Book, which will showcase sectors of the U.S. economy that are losing, or have already lost momentum.
And only 2% of people in the U.S. aged 16 or older have ever borrowed an e-book at all, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life project.
During the U.S-Mexican War in the 1840s ABS gave copies of the holy book to both Mexican and American forces.
In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016.
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His first U.S. effort is full of bold, broad comic book strokes -- some of them pleasingly original, like a car chase through a cornfield, the husks of corn thudding against the windscreens like oversized bugs.
Traders who previously bought gold as a safe haven then opted to sell in order to book profits ahead of the three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., he said.
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Forrester says the e-book reader market will grow to 15.5 million units in the U.S. this year, up from an estimated 10.3 million units in 2010.
She is currently driving a 2012 Prius Plug-in on a high school and college book and speaking tour across the U.S., sponsored in part by Toyota Motor USA, through May 2012.
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Despite the evidence presented in the book, neither MOA nor Jamaat al-Fuqra is currently designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization.
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Through partnerships with 250 medical organizations and Web sites -- including the American Medical Association and Physicians Online -- Bhan says he has access to more than half the estimated 350, 000 doctors and 835, 000 nurses who are on-line in the U.S. Medsite offers the organizations a 5% cut of book sales.
The beige book said U.S. economic growth continues at a moderate pace, with a pick-up in residential construction.
The answer is in a new book, Export Now, that I co-authored with Frank Lavin, former U.S. Department of Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade.
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Kyle wrote the best-selling book, "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, " detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009.
She and Petraeus spent many hours together while Petraeus was commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, taping interviews for the book while the two ran six-minute miles together in Kabul.
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Borders is working to cut costs and close stores as the second largest U.S. book retailer has not been profitable for four straight years and sales are more than one-third lower than they were five years ago.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina sentenced Bodnar to 2-years of probation and ordered him to write a book about his experience connected to the case, which included questioning by a colorful New Jersey prosecutor, Chris Christie (now governor of NJ).
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