In fact, the Investment Company Institute 2012 Fact Book implies the opposite is true.
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In addition, in many parts of the world illiteracy rates for women are well over 50 percent, according to the CIA World Fact Book.
They have at least 74.2 billion barrels of crude oil in reserves alone, according to the CIA World Fact Book, more than the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and China combined.
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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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In fact his book serves a valuable purpose by reminding us that the services we use online are becoming increasingly personalised and that there is more to search results than purely objective page rank.
Presented as fact, his book has sold around 4m copies since it was published in 2006 and is required reading for American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Yet he keeps fact and fantasy clear enough in his own head and, despite a sympathetic ear, cannot really hide the fact that this book is an extended visit to the epistemic zoo.
This film has been several years in the making, with five solo films woven together to build up to it, and Whedon is not just a great filmmaker and TV show creator, he is in fact a comic book writer of serious talent as well, and he took his time working to write and rewrite this film to get it right.
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.
He wanted the book he held to be infinitely rewriteable to be, in fact, the very last book he would ever have to own.
The FT article cited the remarkable fact of very low book-to-value valuations in the Japanese market.
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That is a defensible position, in fact, but the book does not trouble to make the case.
You must be constantly saying to yourself about whatever book, fact, argument, person or experience is at hand: Why?
In fact, the WSEF book involved 6 years of research before publication.
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In fact, in my book Employee Engagement 2.0 I show how recognition is a top three creator of Workplace Superheroes , along with the drivers Growth and Trust.
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And this book, in fact, its title, "The End of the Dream, " is clearly something else.
But, in fact, shortly after the book became a bestseller, by the mid 1980s, Apple was in trouble.
The fact is that the traditional book is an outstanding way to read.
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And it is made all the stronger by the fact that it is a book that embraces the recent past.
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Harrington was a socialist, who, to his subsequent regret, and much like Friedan, chose to elide that fact when he wrote his book.
So he was trying to make a comeback with The Old Man and the Sea, and the book, in fact, was a tremendous success.
Mr Jackson takes too long to get us there (half the book, in fact) but Grigware's daring escape and extraordinary later life are gripping.
Even more remarkable to young readers of the time, however, would have been the mere fact that this was a book the first children's book whose central protagonists themselves were children.
Now, Frank would argue, did in fact argue in his last book, that the super-rich have become an increasingly powerful and destabilizing threat to the economy, one deserving of all the extra attention.
And despite the fact that, when his book came out, Tokyo was humming with rumours of severe financial troubles at Japanese banks, he argued that these banks, led by the Ministry of Finance, were stronger and more efficient than their American counterparts.
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