At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book.
The items were donated to a charity shop in Kent, where workers spotted the artist's address on the book's cover.
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Store wrote a blurb of endorsement on the book's back cover.
But to see it in these terms alone is to be, as Caplan points out on the cover of his book, selfish.
In fact, on the back cover of his book he declares that many people alive today could live to be a thousand years.
As the authors say, the book is not just about the big number on the cover.
Even my book cover is schizophrenic: on the front is a woman who is a mess, scowling, with her hair obscuring her face.
Ideally, something that is going to be really interactive or live out on the web needs to be more like an open book like if you took the cover of the magazine and turned it outside in so that people could discover and access the stories more effectively.
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With this book, I had final say on the title, subtitle and cover, all things we fought and lost bitter battles with the publisher on our last two books.
Although it would be a great thing to be able to step out of time and read a book and then turn the clock back on and design its cover, in reality, it probably works better this way.
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In case you missed the 43-year-old Facebook executive speaking with Oprah or on the cover of Time, the thesis of her "Lean In" book is this: We have educated a generation of women well, but too few make it to the top rungs.
Not just on the cover or on the title page, but your name was inserted into the book making you the protagonist.
You can't criticise a book without opening the cover any more than you can criticise a TV programme without switching on the box.
The first Kindle, now available only on eBay or other outlets where antique hardware languishes, is a sloping wedge that's wider on its left side, which allows readers to wrap their hands around the e-reader like a paperback book with its cover folded back around the spine.
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