As a webmaster and a programmer, I find it a great comfort that the O'Reilly series is sitting on the book shelf behind my chair.
The book surveys shelf after shelf of the economics literature but in such skilful hands it does not feel like a dutiful trip to the library.
If a book on the shelf piques your interest, by all means, check it out.
The iBook display looks like a real wooden bookshelf and will let users touch a book on that shelf to read it.
It's not too difficult, but is still considerably more complicated than walking into the library and pulling a book off the shelf.
Ms. Perillo stacks the book on a shelf in her kitchen.
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At their previous home, which overlooked a city park, "I would sometimes have someone come up to me and say, 'Oh, I saw you getting a book off the shelf, ' " she recalled.
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Self-published, she was unable to obtain distribution or shelf space in book stores.
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The references to the founders and the documents in the second half of the book make it a useful book to have on the shelf.
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Deep Space Industries said it can build its first class of probes largely with off-the-shelf parts and book them on other launch vehicles, such as the French-built Ariane rockets or the Falcon boosters developed by SpaceX.
For years now, that book has been sitting on a shelf in my office.
These are homes where authors turned ideas into page-turners, and maybe even inspired the next book choice you dust off the shelf.
To the right, a button lets you open the book (you can also accomplish this by simply clicking on the book, naturally), view more info on the title, delete it from your shelf or find similar books -- yet another spot for some e-book upselling.
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Stanford library director Michael Keller says the librarians determined which books to keep on the shelf by looking at how frequently a book was checked out.
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