The most vivid part of Moran's book is his account of Kemmler's execution, which was horribly botched.
The first third of the book gives an absorbing account of the making of an economist.
And with more pairs of decks sold every year and the ever-growing prominence of "named" DJs, this book is a worthy account of a massive and still evolving phenomena.
Most annoying of all is the lack of a conclusion: the book ends with a garbled account of the downfall of Margaret Thatcher and the limp observation that the 1980s were by far the most interesting part of the post-war era.
While 91% of advisors have at least one fee-based account in their book of business, the still remaining overall high percentage of transactional business illustrates that fee-based business has a very long way to go.
His book is an impressive account of a world that few readers of this newspaper will recognise.
For readers who can successfully suppress their irritation, his book provides a useful account of the dysfunctional relationship between Pakistan and America.
That gets its first outing in the Book of Revelation, a lurid account of the apocalypse probably best read as an allegory of the individual Christian's journey to salvation.
Mrs Kamte's book provides a detailed account of how the policemen ended up in a lane near the Cama hospital, where they were killed when two of the gunmen ambushed their vehicle.
The strongest part of his book, as of Ms Hayter's, is the account of the hypocrisy, faithlessness, demagogy, moral indifference and, at times, outright cruelty shown by different British governments on this issue since the 1960s.
It is also stymied by the fact that book values fail to take full account of intangible assets things you cannot kick, like brands, patents or partnerships.
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Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.
Written in the style of Chuck Colson, the Watergate conspirator who in adversity re-found his Christian faith, the book will be closely studied for its account of what actually took place at the Ritz.
For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.
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Read with the volume turned down a notch, the book is a valuable, if unhappy, account of the last years of her life.
This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.
In recent years, however, the act of reading has undergone a rapid transformation, as devices such as the Kindle and iPad account for a growing share of book sales. (Amazon, for instance, now sells more e-books than hardcovers.) Before long, we will do most of our reading on screens lovely, luminous screens.
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If you want to read the definitive account of what happened check out the book Coronary by Stephen Klaidman.
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McBride, culinary program director and editorial director for Strategic Initiatives at the Culinary Institute of America, what might account for the book's popularity.
The strategy for composing that retirement account is the subject of my new book, Safety Net: The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence.
Property development and mortgages account for less than 20% of loan book exposure, which points to less of a downturn threat.
Pape's book appears to be a very extensive and well researched account of the phenomena of suicide terrorism, at first glance.
Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.
Although as an account of the events of the war, the book can be commended, its explanatory framework is therefore anachronistic and incomplete.
HypoVereinsbank, for example, says that sub-investment-grade loans actually account for less than 30% of its North American book.
Now, with "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, " Mr. Platt presents the first book-length foray in this direction, providing a compelling alternative account of much-studied events that feels both a bit old-fashioned (in its panoramic view of battles and leaders) yet also very much in step with recent scholarship, placing national stories into global frameworks.
As a literate account of contemporary debates over economics, Mr Kay's book is welcome.
In his new book, Evening's Empire, historian Craig Koslofsky puts forward an account of how this happened.
"Zero Dark Thirty" was in postproduction when the book "No Easy Day, " the first direct account by a member of the SEAL team, came out last summer.
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If that eventually drives the competition away, Amazon (which is already projected to account for more than half of all U.S. book sales by the end of this year) would be essentially unchecked and able to set whatever prices it wants.
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