It is this doctrine that allows us to browse the stacks of used books and records stores.
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Sure, Amazon.com uses neighborhood booksellers to address scarcity, especially for used books, but ebooks magically eliminate such concerns.
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It had a toilet seat behind the counter and sold mostly used books.
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With more than 40 product categories from used books to gourmet food, it manages to offer customers selection and simplicity.
When Portland skies begin to look moody and gray, duck into this multi-level bookstore to peruse the shelves of new and used books.
Sales of new books account for little more than half of all textbook revenue, with the remainder split between used books and other course materials.
What he didn't forgo was reading--used books, manuals, leftover journals.
E-books used to get lumped in with the same science-fiction stuff as jetpacks and lunar colonies.
History books used all over America have slowly wiped out the story of our great innovators.
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The money will be used to buy books for the history section of the library.
Others used it for books and computers or for trips and extra-curricular activities for the poorest pupils.
Those topics were the result of a survey targeted the public libraries on the most frequent books used at their premises.
There are many trade publishers out there that are trying to sell their ebooks into schools the same way they used to sell books into schools.
Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.
The financial markets, which pioneered the three-time-zone world, have grown used to rolling bond books around the globe.
More people owning tablet computers this year and improved efficiency in the processes used to make such books might help change that soon.
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His early cartoons, used to illustrate his books of acerbic whimsy, were James Thurberesque caricatures of humanity elongated figures, often grotesque, usually absurd and ungainly looking.
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True crime author Cathy Scott, for instance, is offering a one-hour Skype session on launching a book on social media, a technique many authors, including Scott, have used to move their books up the Amazon charts.
It earned the label "poor man's tennis" because pieces of wood, or even even hard-cover books, were used as rackets.
Planes, jeeps and even donkeys have been used to get millions of books and teaching materials to the schools that are still open.
Bookish tourists should stop in Santa Cruz, CA and visit the marvelous Bookshop Santa Cruz and the great used bookstore, Logos Books.
Like phone books, we used to have immutable facts all compiled in Encyclopedia Britannica: 9 planets in our solar system, the Soviet Union, and avoid alcohol.
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She wants books and videos used for sex education to be given a rating by the British Board of Film Classification before they are used in schools.
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Federal agents said the defendants paid the workers a pittance off the books, then used the money they saved on labor to buy Mercedes and nice big houses in the suburbs.
The challenge for the NHS, where self-help books are already used in many places, is how to implement this model so people have easy supported access in primary care, he said.
The MP recommended that books and videos used for sex education in England be given a rating by the British Board of Film Classification before they are bought by schools and local authorities.
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The former is familiar with some of the terrain, having previously replicated his grandfather's expedition using the original log books and diary used by Heyerdahl, and taking the opportunity to track changes in the Pacific's environmental conditions.
In Asia, where it has the most programs, only 30% of the cost of establishing a library involves printing and distributing books, while the rest goes toward furniture, training teachers and monitoring to make sure the books are getting used.
Indeed, when I was living in Indonesia as a child, when my mother would wake me up early in the morning to teach me, among the books that she used to pull off the shelf were the legends of Greek mythology.
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