And I speak personally here because there are people here whose books or poetry or works of history shaped me.
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An equally good company whose books are certified by an obscure accountancy firm will have a tough time in the capital markets.
Then there are authors whose books continue to sell and actors who can still collect money from reruns of old TV shows.
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Welch, whose books glorified their skills and boosted the reputations of Chrysler and General Electric, D'Alessandro penned Brand Warfare: 10 Rules for Building the Killer Brand (McGraw-Hill).
But Wall Street veteran Dan Strachman, whose books include The Long and Short of Hedge Funds, says a lot of big institutional investors probably invested in it, too.
It pledged to slash more than 190 non-elected public bodies, including the Public Lending Right - which collects payments for authors whose books are loaned by public libraries.
These are men and women whose books regularly hit the top of the best seller lists and have a knack for making even the most difficult concepts seem accessible.
Once upon a time, publishers had relatively small lists of new authors whose books they distributed to independent bookstores and small-format mall chains like Waldenbooks and B Dalton.
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The council of the International Bar Association, alarmed by the accountants' plans, last year called on world regulators to consider preventing such firms from offering other services to companies whose books they audit.
"He is not only a superb historian, but also a gifted writer whose books are devoured by the public, and a patriot who has donated millions of dollars to environmental and educational causes, " McGovern wrote.
Although critics argue that traditional book publishing takes too much money from authors, in reality the profits earned by the relatively small percentage of authors whose books make money essentially go to subsidizing less commercially successful writers.
Her short masterpieces have begun to be reissued in Australia and England, and they may soon arrive in the U.S. In the words of the novelist Ellen Feldman, whose books include Lucy, Scottsboro, and the forthcoming Next to Love, St.
Their popularity is rivalled by western writers of pulp fiction whose books have been translated into Polish: John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Danielle Steel, Erich Segal and, above all, William Wharton, an American writer who is far more widely read in Poland than in his own country.
At least that is the story that Jon Krakauer is telling about Greg Mortenson, whose books about building schools in the remote bits of Pakistan and Afghanistan (Three Cups of Tea, Stones into Schools) have squatted atop, or near atop, the bestseller lists for nearly five years.
Whether this is a proper focus for business education is being openly challenged by thought leaders such as Harvard's Clayton Christensen, whose books on innovation include The Innovator's Dilemma, and Rakesh Khurana, also of Harvard, author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
Best-selling children's author GP Taylor, whose own books were threatened with burning in the US, gives his reaction.
Mantel, whose latest books are set in the Tudor court, is lucky she is not a character in one of her own books.
These are books whose significance exceeds anything they actually said.
The book effort suffered a setback this week when a federal judge in New York rejected a deal between Google and publishers that would have blessed the scanning of out-of-print books whose copyright holders are unknown.
Larger plot points have barely been discussed, and characters whose prominence in the books seems important have not appeared yet.
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Here to tell us more about this is the woman who started that petition, Jasmine Johnson, whose grandparents started Marcus Books in San Francisco.
We launched a project for a struggling school in Philadelphia at Feltonville Intermediate, whose library had shelves, but no books.
Mark Whitacre, whose case was written about in three books ( The Informant, Rats in the Grain, and the newest book, Mark Whitacre Against all Odds) is such a person.
Its Encore program has begun to publish books by self-published authors whose work attracts good reviews on Amazon.com.
But for the 40-year-old skipper, whose youth was spent wading through pages of adventure books, the voyage was also a fruition of boyhood aspirations.
"A key criticism is that they are not accessible to a group of people whose depression impairs their ability to concentrate and thus read books, " he said.
Bancroft's home office, whose shelves are filled with around 4, 500 volumes of books on plants.
Two books of condolence have opened for an Indian student whose body was found in a canal in Greater Manchester.
An intellectual, whose modest hilltop office overlooking the Obangui river is filled with books and journals, he has support in other quarters.
Far too many books portray corporate chiefs as comic-book superheroes, whose legendary vision, drive and hard work have accomplished miracles.
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