It has become much easier for people of all ages to simply skim over a news article or read a quick book summary online. ... Time is better spent opening up a book and reading. ... If the cost is free to download an e-book from Google, what underlying cost are we as a society inevitably paying? ... What will consumers do with a $300 dollar e-book reader if the e-book prices become unaffordable? When the internet is down, an e-book isn't accessible. ...

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A brief summary of the book The book is divided into 4 parts. ... He also makes the point that retailers have got to provide for parents who are shopping with kids in tow by providing safe distractions and diversions for those kids, leaving the parents free for a few minutes of uninterrupted shopping. ... The final fourth part of the book is devoted to a discussion of how shoppers psychologically react to shopping environments. ... The book is worth reading for shoppers - to see one's own behavior - and shopkeepers. ... What I was most impressed and learned Why we buy is an excellen...

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In the 1930's Brecht's books and plays were banned in Germany, performances were interrupted by the police or summarily forbidden. ... The audience was free to come and go at will. Spectators were actually free to watch rehearsals: "Often Brecht would ask such casual observers for their suggestions and if the were good ones he would adopt them" (Fuegi, p 23). ... John Fuegi writes in his book "Bertolt Brecht: Chaos according to plan" that "It would become ever clearer that Brecht's stage work was basically antithetical to Stalin's conservative cultural policy with its stron...

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The source is a chapter from a book by Robert Conquest on collectivisation and dekulakization. Its origin is of value, as Conquest was a renowned academic historian, specialised on Soviet Russia, and who at the time the book was written, had already published twenty-two works about the period. ... Also, Conquest wrote this book after Stalin's death, facilitating the gathering of accurate primary sources as fear of repression among the population was much lesser than during Stalin's life. ... Furthermore, the title of the book suggests a critical, and therefore perhaps not entirely ...

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Sheridan in 1970); many of his other books began to appear in translation following the success of The Order of Things, making his work accessible to an international audience.[3] In 1970, he was given the opportunity to join faculty at the CollÃge de France, and named his chair "History and Systems of Thought. "[4] By the 1980s, historians began dealing with the implications of Foucault's work.[5] The Birth of the Clinic, his second major book-length work, was published in 1963. ... Michel Foucault's unorthodox historiography does not treat the past is if it were an open book. ......

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Also of interest are the tiny spider like summaries in margins or on in margins or on the versos of letters, where he used to work out his replies. ... Kenneth Burkes book A Grammar Of Motives are the goal of all is works. ... Everyone realizes those who were close to Burke the emergence of large, reinvigorated race, gender, and sexuality movements many new folks unaware of class issues came into play, but no one argues that the only person who knew the aspects of revolution was the man Kenneth burks.A grammar of motives has proven a fascinating experience .while reading this book I learned a ...

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Bernard Bailyn composed the book The Origins of American Politics in the form of three essays, which were delivered, in their original form in November of 1965 as the Charles K. ... But by mid century parties were seen to be necessary for a free state, as long as those parties were directed not at private/personal gains, but at the needs of the public. ... There were 144 articles published between November 1720 and December 1723 and they were all compiled into a four-volume book called Cato's Letters. ...

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Summary; Asset securitization is a great innovation in that it allows financial firms to package different kinds of cash flows and risks in which they sell off to investors interested in holding them, rather than have the financial institution keep them on their balance sheet. ...

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