For marathoner Kimi Puntillo, the fateful volume was a reference book associated with a certain Irish brewery.
But it is an excellent reference book for anyone wanting a better understanding of economic developments in the last millennium.
Witnesses to History is literature appropriate for students and the general public, and a reference book for specialists, scholars and decision-makers.
The reference book, featuring artwork by the top botanical illustrators and painters of the time, remains a valued reference even more than two centuries later.
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"We hear about cheating happening more and more, at younger ages, " especially as younger children bring more mobile devices to school, says Dr. Anderman, who is co-editor of a reference book on academic cheating.
While meant as reference book it is also quite readable, or at least skimmable, and with no disrespect to Michael Jackson or any of the other historically great writers on whisky, it makes every other book I own pretty much obsolete.
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Pages and chapters are indexed for quick reference and book-marking.
De Guilleuma investigated a reference in a book published in 1609 by the Italian Girolamo Sirtori.
With a grammar and words to fill it, the reader is equipped for the business end of the book: reference.
Amazon has become the canonical reference point for every book.
When the words finally come, they often contain the answer to the original question along with a slew of related thoughts, and maybe a reference to a good book or two.
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The blue book, a legal citation reference text, marks a person as a lawyer, just like the redweld.
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
For programmers, the perfect book is a source of reference, that provides examples and acts as a stepping-stone that raises you to the next level.
The book also serves as a reference tool that can inform and stimulate the current debate on the global trends that have shaped freedom of expression on the Internet.
The report gives a list of eight "Black Swan" scenarios -- a reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Black Swan, " which posits that history is built on unforeseeable, surprise events.
He texts back to book the time he wants and gets a reply back with the reference number he needs to pay for the ticket via his mobile wallet.
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Bizarrely, one of Dr Lomborg's critics in Scientific American criticises as an affectation the book's insistence on documenting every statistic and every quotation with a reference to a published source.
The project has also unveiled reference designs for a second generation machine, which will take the form of an e-book with twin touch screens.
L. James's book, you will know that the Grey in question is one of the protagonists rather than a reference to a fashion lexicon.
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The writer is set to release his memoirs, entitled Joseph Anton - the name he used while in hiding, and a reference to his favourite authors Conrad and Chekhov - which tell of how he was forced underground in 1989 over his book.
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