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Amy Jenkins

Although it was the second biggest debut novel of the year, selling over 250,000 copies in the UK and Commonwealth, critics noted that a central plot device in Jenkins' work possessed a striking similarity to the premise of Noël Coward's play Private Lives.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Arnold Amet

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

Bob Latford

Latford began his 55-year career in motorsports media and public relations by selling programs for the Daytona Beach races in 1946 for NASCAR founder Bill France, the father of Bill France, Jr. who was one of Latford's classmates at Seabreeze High School.

Bobby Ray Inman

During the press conference, Inman made angry remarks about comments by New York Times columnist William Safire.

Borderlessness

Borderless selling, the process of selling services to clients outside the country of origin of services while eliminating the actions specifically designed to hinder international trade

Boyds Bears

They began making and selling stuffed bears, and the bears became known as "Boyds Bears" for the town of Boyds, Maryland, where they lived and operated their business.

BSAA Star Tiger disappearance

Coningham's death shared the front page of the 31 January edition of the New York Times along with the news of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the death of Orville Wright.

Camp Dearborn

During the Great Recession of 2008, Dearborn investigated selling off the camp but found that the camp was profitable and that there was no prospect of a reasonably profitable sale due to zoning issues.

Claes Gerritszoon Compaen

Compaen later turned up in the Mediterranean, selling captured ships and their cargo at the Moroccan ports of Saffi, Mogador and Salé.

Collegiate Network

CN alumni include the editor of National Review Rich Lowry, CNN and ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, and best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza.

Compositing window manager

A few years into its development, it was discontinued by Sun, whose primary business was selling enterprise mainframes.

Contemporary Jewish Museum

Edward Rothstein of the New York Times criticizes the museum for its dedication to “multiple perspectives and open-mindedness…without a grounding in knowledge, without history, detail, object and belief.”

Corrinne Wicks

As well as playing her role in Emmerdale for ITV, Wicks acted in the BBC's adaptation of Nigel Slater's best selling memoir Toast (January 2011); she played young Nigel's lusty secondary school teacher.

Dave Jenks

In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, Jenks became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek's best-seller list.

David Holsinger

It is his largest selling work and has been used in several televised memorial performances in recent years, including commemorative services for the Challenger astronauts, Ronald Reagan, and the fallen heroes of the American armed forces.

Dingdong Avanzado

It was also during the time when he met and married one of the Philippines’ biggest selling female recording artists, Jessa Zaragoza.

Dispersive prism

The image of a dispersive prism was featured on the album cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums of all time.

Dörmögő Dömötör

The magazine is one of the best selling magazine of publisher Adoc-Semic.

Douglas Tompkins

In 1968, Tompkins and his wife, Susie, and her friend Jane Tise began selling girls' dresses out of the back of a VW bus; in 1971, they incorporated the booming business under the name "Plain Jane" which later became ESPRIT.

Enoch Cobb

The Cy-près doctrine was used to redevelop the trust fund as the original plans of the will would be hard to follow since selling cords of wood was not as profitable as it once was.

Eyal Gabbai

This period was characterized by vigorous privatization of state companies, including El Al, Bezeq, Israel's Oil Refineries and Zim, selling shares in a total value of 14b NIS in an unprecedented privatization spree.

Getz/Gilberto

It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on the tracks "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an internationally celebrated musician.

Jack H. Jacobs

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs' memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America's Time of Need, coauthored with New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Century, with a foreword by NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams.

James Hume Cook

Hume Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books.

Jim Fannon

Fannon is a veteran real estate sales representative with RE/MAX in the St. Catharines area and is the founder of Nature’s Hemp, a local business selling hemp-related food products.

Kansas Wesleyan University

The first featured speaker was national best-selling author Peggy Orenstein.

Killa Sin

Killa Sin has appeared on gold and platinum selling albums from members of the Wu-Tang Clan, on movie soundtracks such as Soul in the Hole and ONYX's Shut 'Em Down.

Kruse International

The company began as a local auction company selling real estate, farms and personal property run by Kruse and his sons Dean, Dennis and Daniel.

Linda Lovelace for President

After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.

Lundy's Restaurant

At the turn of the 20th century, Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Maraba coffee

The farmers hoped that by forming the association, they would increase revenue by selling directly to exporters in Kigali instead of through an intermediary transport company.

Mark Sandrich

However, while all these were hits, it is Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin, that is most remembered today, for it introduced the song "White Christmas" performed by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song for fifty-two years.

Merril Bainbridge

The Garden was released in Australia on 31 July 1995, where it debuted at its peak position at number five on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and certifying two times platinum selling 140,000 copies around Australia.

Novella Carpenter

In March 2011, the City of Oakland told Carpenter she would have to close her Ghost Town Farm because she was selling excess produce without a permit.

Pemberley Books

In addition to selling new and old books, they publish the journals Entomologist's Gazette and Entomologist's Monthly Magazine.

Pete Hanna Center

The Pete Hanna Center opened on October 18, 2007 with a lecture by best-selling author Walter Isaacson.

Philippe Rondot

The second Clearstream affair is an episode of the enquiry regarding the selling of Lafayette class frigates to Taiwan by Thomson, then directed by Alain Gomez.

Pride of the Bimbos

New York Times reviewer Raymond Sokolov called the book "an oddly unsettling satire of American machismo".

Refco

Man Financial kept the majority of the Refco futures businesses after selling Refco Overseas Ltd (Refco's European operation) to Marathon Asset Management who then relaunched the business as Marex Financial Limited.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wayne E. Oates, late author of best-selling pastoral care text The Christian Pastor, SBTS professor, 1947–74; first to coin the term, "workaholic"; nationally known authority on theology and health care.

Sports rating system

Some older computer systems still in use today include: Jeff Sagarin's systems, the New York Times system, and the Dunkel Index, which dates back to 1929.

Stamford Hospital

After consultation with his his friend and attorney, Edwin L. Scofield (later the second mayor of Stamford), regarding possible philanthropies, he gave the initial funding for the hospital by selling some of his property.

The Blum Store

The store was comparable in quality, style, and reputation to larger chains Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor and was one of the premier chains headquartered in Philadelphia, selling women's clothing and accessories and children's clothing.

The Man with All the Toys

As a single that year it had limited success (No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas chart), but built sales over successive Christmases and is listed by Billboard in the Top 100 selling Christmas songs in history, though well below the Beach Boys' 1963 Christmas single "Little Saint Nick".

Violent Femmes

Featuring many of their well-known songs, including "Blister in the Sun", "Kiss Off", "Add It Up" and "Gone Daddy Gone", Violent Femmes became the band's biggest-selling album and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA.

Voice of San Diego

In November 2008, New York Times media writer Richard Pérez-Peña profiled Voice of San Diego and more generally, the nonprofit journalism model.

Water biscuit

In 1801, Josiah Bent began a baking operation in Milton, Massachusetts, selling "water crackers" or biscuits made of flour and water that would not deteriorate during long sea voyages from the port of Boston.

World Safari

Includes a motorcycle trip across Australia, living with Buddhist monks, selling life insurance on the side of the road, and getting lost in a two-cylinder DAF van while crossing the Sahara desert.


see also

Alma Bridwell White

Alma White, the Pillar of Fire, and their association with the Klan are dramatized in Libba Bray's New York Times best-selling 2012 murder mystery The Diviners, in a chapter titled "The Good Citizen." The Diviners is being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures.

Bully Kutta

New York Times best-selling author Greg Iles depicted this breed in his 2009 novel, The Devil's Punchbowl.

Central Asia Institute

The story of the founding of CAI is outlined in the 2006 New York Times best-selling book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

Christopher Seufert

He is married to the New York Times Best Selling author Lisa Genova, who penned Still Alice, Left Neglected, and Love Anthony.

David and the Phoenix

New York Times best selling author David Weber used the book as a recurring motif in the Honor Harrington novel At All Costs, with a brief footnote about his own childhood love for the book.

David Sheff

David Sheff is an American author of the New York Times best-selling books "Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy" and the memoir Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction.

Goldwater Institute

The Goldwater Institute has hosted several prominent politicians, journalists, and speakers, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Czech Republic President Václav Klaus, and New York Times best-selling author Mark Steyn.

Josh Balk

His work at COK led to a feature in Kathy Freston’s New York Times best-selling book, Veganist, as well as Melanie Joy’s, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows.

Matthew Reinhart

He is the co-creator with Robert Sabuda of the New York Times best-selling three-volume pop-up series Encyclopedia Prehistorica.

The Breaks of the Game

Popular ESPN writer and New York Times best-selling author Bill Simmons has repeatedly praised the book.