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Robert Mercer - Nairne is the author of the new novel about the battle between Thatcher and the unions, The Storytellers: Metamorphosis

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Gates wanted to talk to him about a novel concept Sadoway was working on to develop a new type of battery that could make renewable energy a practical, affordable mass market option, once and for all.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

One month he's giving 50 of his friends a new novel he adores, the next he's suggesting everyone get out the tissues and check out a heartbreaker of a memoir, then a bit later he's back on his blog enthusing about a deep dive into eviction in America.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York Review of Books.

Reviews of five new business books — two books about why some products fly and others fail; two business novels; and a new edition of a treasured favorite.

These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and love so well.

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

Tarkington, who saw the effects of the industrial revolution in his neck of the woods in the late nineteenth century, used the novel to talk about the rise of new technology — in this case, the automobile — and the impact it would have on an idyllic life.

In a recent article in the «New York Review of Books» on the television and stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring up the Bodies,» the Irish critic Fintan O'Toole tries to explain the present popularity of a story about Henry VIII's obscure....

But when the Rev. Paul F.M. Zahl read several of King's novels, he learned something new about the author: There's a lot of faith behind his fright.

In him there is the appearance of a novel response to a complex situation; and as such, he brings about new ways of understanding and new kinds of adjustment to the world which then may be shared and developed by those who hear him and accept his message.

About the middle of the nineteenth century Herman Melville, a New Yorker of Dutch descent, published his greatest novel.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

Observing devices, either within the region of the dissipative structure or outside of it, may detect regular oscillations caused by variations of components of the structure, or, if their temporal or spatial resolving power is not high enough for that, they may detect only a new, averaged reading, corresponding to a novel state of affairs brought about by the closure of the set of relationships which defines the dissipative structure.

I really thought you had some quite novel breath taking new topics about the future of Arsenal FC But no its the same issues Wenger out and who do we want to buy.

Adam Gopnik — like his pieces on France and the French — writing about Houllebecq (whose new novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London&raqunew novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London&raquNew Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London&raqunew free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London».

Don't forget to check out new shareable content from SNA to help you positively promote your school meal program during SNEW, and all year; visit the School Lunch Hero Day website to learn more about the history of the holiday, and author Jarrett J. Krosoczka and his «Lunch Lady» series of graphic novels.

From what we know about brain development, it is quite possible that continued exposure to this type of stimuli, especially if it occurs in different types of circumstances will gradually generalize to a more permanent reaction style to new and novel things they encounter.

I am joining the Ultimate Blog Party and would like to donate a gift of my new novel Running Against Traffic but you have the stipulation of it being valued at $ 25 but the paperback version is going for about $ 14 on Amazon.com Should I contribute two prizes of the paperback version or does this not qualify for a prize.

A new novel about modern politics provides a startlingly accurate glimpse into the life of a secretary of state.

Cuomo had promised to provide details in Tuesday's budget address about his proposal for a new payroll tax and a novel use of charitable contributions to help offset a new federal cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes.

A former official of the New York City medical examiner's office sued the city on Thursday, claiming that she had been forced from her job for raising questions about the office's use of a novel form of DNA testing whose reliability had come under question.

The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

The Quantum Dynamics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), has recently made novel findings about electrons floating on the surface of liquid helium, a quantum system which may be a new candidate for quantum computing into reality.

E. O. Wilson says, of his new novel Anthill: «This is the first time anyone has written about the lives of ants from their point of view» (10 April, p 38).

James Randi, famous debunker of frauds, talks about the «Amaz!ng Meeting» coming up in Las Vegas, and SciAm editor Mark Alpert discusses his new physics novel, Final Theory.

Examining genome sequence information for more than 250,000 people, the researchers first uncovered 16 new diabetes genetic risk factors, and one new CHD genetic risk factor; hence providing novel insights about the mechanisms of the two diseases.

A new method to identify previously hidden details about the structures of proteins may speed the process of novel drug design, according to scientists at Rice University.

We weighted diverse factors in choosing the winner, including the paper's topic, originality, impact, and more generally the extent to which it exemplified the goals of The American Naturalist: «to publish papers that are of broad interest to the readership, to pose a new and significant program or introduce a novel subject to the readership, to develop conceptual unification, and to change the way people think about the topic of the manuscript.»

«We are entering an exciting period of discoveries in genetics that may provide new insights about novel disease pathways that can be explored for development of therapies.»

The mission of deCODE genetics is to use human genetics and genomics to acquire new knowledge about health and disease, and work with pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers to develop novel methods to identify, treat and prevent diseases.

This novel approach, which reveals complex interactions between cells and proteins, can also be used for other diseases to generate new knowledge about the regulation and dysregulation of the immune system, which can eventually give rise to new, improved immunological therapies.

Mike Friedlander, the executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) and associate provost for health sciences, and David Kingston, a University Distinguished Professor and director of the new Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery (VTCDD), presented an overview to the Board of Visitors about Virginia Tech advances in human health, novel research programs, technology licensing, start - up companies, and drug discovery and development.

Paulaitis says «the novel concepts put forth in this study, of investigating small molecules called microRNAs to see what they can tell us about mitochondria disorders in cells of the retina, hold great promise of providing new insights into how age - related macular degeneration develops, after which new treatments can be designed to save or improve vision.»

Or, if that's being a little too ambitious, how about a 10 - minute meditation or a bubble bath, or reading three chapters of that great new girly novel before bed?

New York City About Blog Midtown Comics opened its first shop in 1997, and is the largest retailer of comic books, graphic novels, manga and related collectibles, news, podcasts, videos & more.

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Munich, Germany About Blog Definiens mission is to accelerate breakthroughs for this approach by helping scientists leverage Tissue Phenomics to deepen understanding of disease biology and immune system mechanisms, to bring multi-omics data into a cancer - relevant context, and to facilitate the translation of new insights into novel therapies and treatment strategies.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

This disappointing half - hour drama series is based on Stephanie Danler's novel about a young woman whose new job pulls her in into the chaotic and debauched world of high - end dining in New York Cinew job pulls her in into the chaotic and debauched world of high - end dining in New York CiNew York City.

March 18, 2015 • We talk to romance blogger Sarah Wendell about romance fans, romance novels, and some of her top recommendations for fans and new visitors alike.

Check out two new clips full of good advice from the following films: World War Z — This new clip from director Marc Forster's adaptation of the Max Brooks novel features an officer giving some good advice to Brad Pitt and his family about why one...

You know you're a real fan of «Psycho,» Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation of Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, if your first reaction to hearing about A&E's new series, «Bates Motel,» which premieres on March 18, was to grumble, «They've already done a TV show called «Bates Motel.»»

Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller based on the worldwide best - selling novel about a woman who wakes up every day remembering nothing — the result of a traumatic accident in her past — until one day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Today in news that could only be nerdier if it were also directing a movie about Han Solo, Prince Nerd of Nerdopolis, Wil Wheaton, will be narrating the audiobook version of Armada, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline's new novel — which will be in stores next week.

He is reinvigorated by her allure and supernatural ability to foresee her own death, and so he begins a new novel about her demise, despite his terrible state of health.