As tech books go O'Reilly's leads the pack with a series of books that have reached cult status for programmers and webmasters.
Publishing rights to Bob the Builder are owned by BBC Worldwide and a series of books and a magazine have just been launched.
Like an author writing a series of books on the side of what they are best known for, the pseudonym offers an alternate, but persistant identity.
On returning to Egypt, Qutb wrote a series of books, many from prison, denouncing jahiliyya (ignorance), a state of affairs he categorised as the domination of man over man, or rather subservience to man rather than to Allah.
The phrase was first used by Mee - a celebrated writer and journalist best known for his 1908 Children's Encyclopaedia - in The King's England, a 1930s series of books offering a guide to each of England's counties.
Master storyteller, Jim Stovall, has sold over 4 million copies of this book that was turned into a movie and spawned a series of associated books and movies (one of which was co-authored by yours truly).
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The self-taught, Mexican-born dog trainer has parlayed his talent for calming even the most vicious of dogs into a hit TV show, a series of best-selling books, and a mass market line of collars, leashes, beds and pet food.
Travelers' Tales remains unprofitable, but O'Reilly, undaunted, has recently launched a series of medical books.
It is based on a series of five books, with more under way, and will probably run for years.
The movie was based on a successful series of books, the first of which came out in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom.
He is not the first footballer to write fiction - Arsenal star Theo Walcott has written a series of children's books and former England manager Terry Venables co-wrote a series of crime novels.
In February, the foundation launched its latest educational endeavor, a brainchild of Adriana's: a series of six e-books on influential Latin American artists (quotes and selected art from e-books at right) aimed at students and art fans alike.
He had previously endowed professorships in Shakespearean Studies and Jewish Studies at the college, and is also currently funding through the Yale University Press a series of approximately 100 books on famous Jews throughout history.
If there was one dimension of disappointment that one could detect in Chinua Achebe, it was the fact that he was famous for one great book when in fact he had written a whole series of great books.
Tracy Hickman, of course, is the author of the Dragonlance books, a series of fantasy fiction I devoured when I was younger.
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England and Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard is to write a series of children's books, publisher Little Brown has announced.
Later on, he decided to expand the project by launching a series of fun and educational books, songs and cartoons based on the dolls' characters.
Martin have been a huge let down for many fans of the series, and this has cast a pall over the earlier books, regardless of how much better they were.
In a series of lectures, monographs, and books, businessman and cultural historian James C.
During the past decade, Justice Stephen Breyer has led the way for the other side, arguing in a series of cases (and in two books) that Congress may enact strict campaign-finance laws.
With the overwhelming presence of the Windows platforms taking off, O'Reilly has added new titles such as The Whole Internet for Windows 95, Inside The Windows Registry and just recently a series of "Windows Annoyances" (ie Windows Annoyances, Office Annoyances, Word Annoyances) plus a complement to its UNIX series of NT books focusing on security and administration.
And so I really would love to, you know, write a series of maybe 12 or 15 of these books.
His books consist of a series of plainly stated statistical observations, in support of deceptively modest conclusions, and the evidence in support of his original observation is now so overwhelming that the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact.
Martin, author of the best-selling series "A Song of Ice and Fire, " was signing hundreds of books.
Under his own name and his nom de plume, Mr. Handler has written more than two dozen books, including "A Series of Unfortunate Events, " about the misadventures of the orphaned Baudelaire children.
Despite a series of U-turns - from forestry to school books to the NHS - the Treasury has yet to release any extra money to departments.
In a 1998 interview, Lhasa told NPR's Jacki Lyden that the family lived in a series of school buses and trailers filled with music and books.
The editorial content in the 112-page issue was made up of the kind of short, uplifting contributions from real people that made the series of books based on Chicken Soup for the Soul a success.
In the history books, the Second World War can appear as a series of crises and conflicts, following an inevitable course from Pearl Harbor to the coast of Normandy to the deck of the Missouri.
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