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Rare praise for the readability of a book about math from computer scientist Roger Antonsen: «I recently picked up Foolproof at a local bookstore in San Francisco, and I simply couldn't put it down!

When they did write books, which was comparatively rare, they wrote mostly what we would call trade books» biographies, collections of essays, etc.» which, even if somewhat technical at times, were still accessible to a general readership.

Tamar is one of those rare cooks who also happens to be an incredible writer, and the book is like a love letter not just to preparing nourishing meals at home, but to doing so in a balanced and resourceful manner.

Here at Little Hearts our readers have BIG hearts full of love for little people and have joined together to Give the Gift of Gentle Parenting and Give the Gift of Life, raising funds to donate gentle parenting books and resources in bulk to hospitals for new parent bags, to children's hospitals, and to crisis family centers and also to help with author L.R.Knost's medical expenses as she battles a rare neuroendocrine cancer.

Mindset is one of those rare audio books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way.

Documents related to the appointment process are among 56 boxes of papers recently sent by Paterson, the state's 55th governor, to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.

His team also uncovered unexpected measurements from World War II at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and rare numbers from the icy seas around Russia and Norway in an obsure book tucked away in the New York Public Library.

The image of an intact gynandromorph at left — the more brilliant blue left side is the male half — is included in the magnificently strange book Rarest of the Rare, a sampling of curious artifacts from the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

The author Donald Schueler in his 1991 book, Incident at Eagle Ranch, presented a rare portrait of a private man who avoids the public eye.

The York Gospels also offer a rare record of the people of the book: Almost 20 % of the DNA Teasdale extracted from its eraser shavings came from humans or microbes shed by humans, he announced at the symposium.

As a matter of fact, Professor William Bean, Chief of Medicine at Iowa University, wrote a book called Rare Diseases, and he included my syndrome in that book.

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At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, SherlockAt its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlockat his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

Most movie adaptations of fantasy books make disappointing changes to the source material — but over at Tor.com, Emily Asher - Perrin argues that Stardust is a rare exception.

Bart Layton) In December of 2004, four young men attempted to steal a number of exceptionally rare books from the library at Transylvania University in Kentucky.

A rare book from Gutman's special collections called The Freedman's Spelling - Book, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Cultbook from Gutman's special collections called The Freedman's Spelling - Book, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and CultBook, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

At the peak of the nastiness over the summer, when Amazon was slowing shipments of some Hachette books and removing presale buttons on others, and after Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert eviscerated the retail giant in a popular segment on his show, Amazon made the very rare move of going public with what it wanted from Hachette — namely, $ 9.99 pricing on most ebooks.

When Greer entered the lounge — her room, a rare single, was too depressing to stay in all evening, and she'd been unable to concentrate on her book — she was startled to realize that he was merely looking at his screen saver, which was a picture of his parents and sister, all of them smiling at him from far away.

With rare glimpses into their zany style and their compassion for those less fortunate, Newman and Hotchner (founders of Newman's Own all - natural foods) have written the perfect non-management book, at once playful, informative, and inspirational.

Grahame - Smith found success jarring at first, «even though reading has always been a huge part of my life — my stepfather was a rare - books dealer, and my mother was a literary editor.

Booklist (starred review) This character - driven novel looks at the ravages of rare book theft on libraries, and, more broadly, the destructive effects of contemporary greed... on cultural heritage.

Only on rare occasions will a ghostwriter work with someone on a contingency basis, putting in all the time and expertise required to write a manuscript and pitch it to publishers at no charge to the originator of the book, in exchange for an agreed - upon percentage of future royalties.

Like anything rare, I enjoy the emotional upheaval that books such as this provoke... All of the characters are unsavory, particularly the men and women that at first glance appear somewhat normal... Of course, it is easier to read about nice folks, but unless they are inspirational, I would rather enjoy provocative literature of the type that Koch knows how to deliver.of the characters are unsavory, particularly the men and women that at first glance appear somewhat normal... Of course, it is easier to read about nice folks, but unless they are inspirational, I would rather enjoy provocative literature of the type that Koch knows how to deliver.Of course, it is easier to read about nice folks, but unless they are inspirational, I would rather enjoy provocative literature of the type that Koch knows how to deliver.of the type that Koch knows how to deliver...

The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books.

I was first impressed with him in how he handled A.J. at the time of his wife's death and at the time the rare book, Tamarlane, was stolen when he saw to it that A.J. saw a doctor because he was concerned about his mental state.

Written in Woodson's eloquent free verse and illustrated with Lewis» beautiful, spacious watercolor paintings, Each Kindness is written in the first - person voice of Chloe, who is both a bully and a bystander and who contemplates the loss of a «chance of a kindness with Maya» at the book's end — a rare conclusion in a picture book in its sense of regret and also the bully's and bystander's perspectives.

Hope's ginger - colored cat, Margaret, peered at him suspiciously as he raced through General Fiction, hung a right at Philosophy, and skidded left into Religion, where the enterprising Hope had recently installed a shelf of rare books.

«From the beginning of the published book, there has been a special place for any release that passes the rare milestone of one million copies,» says Matt Baugher, senior vice president and publisher at Thomas Nelson, Inc. «Even today, few accomplish that feat each year.

Many details in the novel offer significant comment on the worth and power of books, from Rosie's fondness for nineteenth - century novels like Emma, Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, and Hard Times, to Elsa's reaction to Jane Austen, to Rudi's joy at receiving a rare text, for example.

Just as reading a Russian folktale inspired her to write The Snow Child, so too did the concept for Eowyn Ivey's second novel arise from a piece of literature - this time on the fragile pages of a rare book she discovered at the bookshop where she worked.

It's a rare writer who hits it out of the park with their first published book (EL James, I'm looking at you).

Like The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night - Time, which was initially targeted at young adults in Britain but to adults in the USA, The Book Thief is one of those rare books that really does speak to both young and old alike.

At the center of the Special Collections department was the Amanda Devereaux Rare Books Room, a monument to the late bibliophile in which her greatest treasures were permanently displayed.

Matthew Haley, head of rare books and manuscripts at the Bonhams auction house in London, said that news of rare books moves faster and wider than ever before and that this is driving up prices at the high end of the book market, while Internet shopping was helping the lower end.

Amazon says that this sort of thing is «rare,» but that it can happen at all is unsettling; we've been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better.

Were there any factors aside from your wild success that enabled you to sign that (at this point) incredibly rare type of book deal with Simon & Schuster that enabled you to maintain exclusive rights to sell Wool online?

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Since the Kindle version of so many books which are bound for the best seller list release now at $ 14.99, that is unpalatable for me so it is rare for me to buy them at that price.

She noted with another light laugh that some authors who practically beg to have their book reviewed will often focus in on the one negative she might point out at the end of a review and give her a hard time for that, forgetting that having a generally positive review is rare and valuable.

In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking.

If however, you have a seller of a rare comic book on the phone, and also have a buyer on the phone, and you can make a profit by buying and selling at the same time — that is arbitrage.

However, there are exceptions; for example, my vet, Dr. Katy Sommers (author of the Complete Holistic Dog Book) at the Mendocino Animal Hospital in Northern California is that rare vet who is aware of the problems with most commercial pet foods.

Because it's not that rare to find Business Class flights between the US and London coming in at under $ 2,000 and, on top of that, if you're booking an award you still have the issue of finding availability... and that hasn't been easy in recent years.

A rare chance for travelers in Romania to book very cheap return flights from Bucharest to Toronto at the end of summer season 2018.

The weather cools, the new art season begins, and the New York Art Book Fair arrives at MoMA PS1, the rare art bazaar where anyone with a little bit of money in... Read More

Many of these pieces are soon to be going on show at an exhibition entitled The Written Image at London's Benjamin Spademan Rare Books

APPOINTMENT Kevin Young a poet and professor of English and creative writing and a curator of rare books and archives at Emory University, is named director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

A color catalogue will accompany the exhibition with new scholarship by Pellom McDaniels III, Ph.D., Curator of African American Collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

This year, Barbara Chase - Riboud's papers and manuscripts will join those of other celebrated authors at Emory University's Manuscript and Rare Book Library.