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The interview, as a whole, also provides a fascinating glimpse of Dunn as a person, including where he gets his ideas, his favorite business book, and his first paying job.

Of all the coaches he encountered in researching the book, the most fascinating to Feldman was Tom House, who first came to fame not as a quarterback guru but as an adviser to baseball pitchers.

The first book taught Whit about synesthesia, and we have had fascinating conversations about that.

Thomas Weber wrote a fascinating book on Hitler's First World War experiences and his soldiering in the List Regiment.

The Musical Temperament by Anthony E. Kemp (Oxford University Press, # 14.99, ISBN 0 19 852362 9) claims to be the first book to study the fascinating personality differences between musicians.

While the entire first part of the book focuses heavily on genetic expression and how it impacts beauty (which is fascinating), the second half really provides the detailed explanation of the connection between diet and health problems, early aging, and the «diseases of civilization» we see today.

Directed by Joe Johnston, the film certainly feels like a precursor to «Captain America: The First Avenger» — yet another Johnston - directed period comic book film released decades later — with its pure, boyish hero, endearing love story and fascinating villain.

Watching the anticipation / excitement / fear from those I know who have read the books, as the movie was announced, cast, and slowly teased as tomorrow's opening got closer and closer, has been completely fascinating; it's not just that there's been the kind of «Oh God oh God please don't screw it up» reaction that every movie / television / transmedia adaptation of a beloved property brings with it (You should've seen me when the Scott Pilgrim movie was first announced.

Using fascinating truths and eyewitness accounts, «Good Morning America» weather forecaster Spencer Christian, along with children's author Antonia Felix, expertly guides readers through the formidable forces of nature, from untwisting the myths of tornadoes to shaking out the facts about plate tectonics, in the first two books of the series, Can It Really Rain Frogs?

In addition to the Carroll and Mozart volumes, Turning the Pages displays the personal notebook of Leonardo da Vinci; the Luttrell Psalter, an illuminated book created in the early 1300s that offers fascinating depictions of medieval life; a sixteenth - century medical anatomy text filled with exquisite engravings; the first atlas of Europe, assembled by Mercator in the 1570s; the dazzling Lindisfarne Gospels, the «pinnacle of Anglo - Saxon art»; and the oldest printed «book» in the world (actually a scroll), the Diamond Sutra, published in China in 868 and discovered in near - pristine condition in 1900.

Faces from racing history — Alan Smith presents a fascinating collection of photographs of famous racing drivers and personalities of the 1940s / First journey in an internal combustion - engined car — A report on a centenary run to celebrate the first trip in Britain in such a vehicle / Restore your car's interior — with our special offer — A leather restoration kit and an interior restoration book form this months special offer — elusive to readers / 1939 BMW 327 — During the mid-1930s BMW set new standards with a range of fine touring First journey in an internal combustion - engined car — A report on a centenary run to celebrate the first trip in Britain in such a vehicle / Restore your car's interior — with our special offer — A leather restoration kit and an interior restoration book form this months special offer — elusive to readers / 1939 BMW 327 — During the mid-1930s BMW set new standards with a range of fine touring first trip in Britain in such a vehicle / Restore your car's interior — with our special offer — A leather restoration kit and an interior restoration book form this months special offer — elusive to readers / 1939 BMW 327 — During the mid-1930s BMW set new standards with a range of fine touring cars.

Jim Butcher's first two books in his Codex Alera are fascinating - weighted with capable, yet flawed female and male characters, and full of political

And now, having written three picture books for children, I like to think that the Science Officer on the USS Enterprise would have found the lessons learned from my first book «fascinating» — or at least «interesting.»

Columnist Sybil Pratt calls the book the «fascinating, fabulous result» of Amanda Hesser's decision to» [cook] her way through the Times» recipe archive, which begins in the 1850s, when the paper first started to cover food, and goes up to treasures from the more current Dining Out sections.»

I did pick up this first book, but after that failed to carry on, even though the first book is good and Jo's reviews fascinating.

Ranging from 1951 to Lennon's reclusive years with Yoko Ono in the late 1970s, this fascinating volume contains thank - you notes to family and friends; love notes to Cynthia, his first wife (including a homemade card that celebrates their first Christmas together); a page from a homemade book, A Treasury of Art and Poetry, that he wrote when he was 11; and letters to record executives and other Beatles.

With fascinating nautical descriptions and her eye for the dramas of small - town life, Greenlaw does for lobstering what her first book, The Hungry Ocean, did for swordfishing.

Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power.Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture.

With over 300 illustrations, including first editions by famous artists, jackets by key designers and artists, groundbreaking series from major publishing houses, and classic pulp - fiction jackets, this unique and fascinating insight into the world of the front cover will appeal to anyone with a passion for books and graphic design...

The first half of Faber and Richardson's book is a fascinating look at how individual investors can mimic the Yale Model.

I first met Zhou late in the summer of 2006, and I found his story so fascinating I immediately started formulating a book in my mind.

Whilst we were developing the tours, creating a weekly what's on guide to the city, and the team of over twenty writers and photographers were keeping the website full of fascinating articles about the city, Paul, Marian, and Giulia were working with a good number of contributors to put together Slow Travel Berlin's first book — 100 Favourite Places — which is available in print and e-versions and will be launched with a party in the city next week.

The first artist explored in Eddie Chambers» fascinating book, Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, is a great surprise: Joseph Johnson, a seaman in the Merchant Navy until he was wounded, discharged and became a busker nicknamed «Black Joe».

Including a complete bibliography, this fascinating and fresh volume is the first substantial presentation of Warhol's important innovations in printed books.

Yehudit Shlosberg - Yogev's first solo exhibition, titled «Brighter Than a Thousand Suns» (after the book of that title on the Manhattan Project) contains apocalyptic and poetic images that are fascinating and disturbing at the same time.

In this massive book - the first of its kind - over 50 authors take a critical look at this theme: the result is a fascinating compendium of opinions and statements, experiences and reports.

There are a few parts of the book where Gaylord discusses Freud's working methods that I particularly find fascinating, such as that he doesn't make a careful outlined drawing first, that he will just start with painting in the middle of the face, an eye or a nose, and paint it to completion, gradually working his way outwards.

I decided to write the next book about how these fascinating people were celebrated culinary artists, first - family confidants and civil rights advocates.