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Babelsberg Studio

2007 was the most profitable year since the Studio's privatization in 1992 - 12 feature films were shot at Studio Babelsberg, among them Valkyrie with Tom Cruise, The International with Clive Owen, and The Reader with Kate Winslet.

Maghound

In addition to all major Time Inc. brands, a partial list of participating publishers also includes: Rodale Press, Bonnier Group, Hearst Corporation, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Meredith Corporation, and The Reader's Digest Association, among others.


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A Clean Breast

Volume 3 also brings the reader up to date on Meyer's latter-day video (and other) activities with Pandora Peaks.

A. J. Weberman

The book includes transparent overlays, as in an anatomy textbook, so that the reader can compare the faces of the tramps briefly arrested in Dallas with photos of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis and David Christ.

Alexander Gough

Most notably, Gough wrote an introduction to Humphrey Moseley's 1652 first edition of The Widow; his preface "To the Reader" re-iterated the title-page attribution of that play to John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton.

Alexander Kuo

His writing makes demands on the reader in a way comparable to Franz Kafka or Jorge Luis Borges.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Brian Stowell

He is also Yn Lhaihder (Correctly spelled "Yn Lhaider") (The reader) to the Parliament of the Isle of Man, Tynwald.

Catherine Galbraith

The book includes personal anecdotes as well as photographs, and was described by Joseph Lelyveld of The New York Times as a "graceful and accurate book" that makes the reader wish for more stories.

Counter machine

However, the reader needs to be cautioned that, even though the μ operator is easily created by the base instruction set doesn't mean that an arbitrary partial recursive function can be easily created with a base model -- Turing equivalence and partial recursive functions imply an unbounded μ operator, one that can scurry to the ends of the register chain ad infinitum searching for its goal.

Danny Driver

His chamber music activities include collaborations with violinists Alexander Sitkovetsky, the reader Gabriel Woolf, as well as cellists, singers, clarinettists and others.

De tribus puellis

Thus, when the narrator of the poem says to the girl, da michi, queso, tua virginitate frui ("grant me, I beg, your virginity for my enjoyment"), the reader (or listener) is supposed to laugh at the play on Daphne's request that her father da mihi perpetua ... virginitate frui ("grant ... that I may enjoy perpetual virginity") in the Metamorphoses (I.486–87).

Donald Finkel

He would interlace his poetry with sections taken from a wide range of works, including the writings of authors including Lenny Bruce, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to create what The New York Times described as a "multilayered, sculptural bricolage through which Mr. Finkel expanded the reader's sense of what was possible in the genre."

Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems

"Charles Causley embraced narrative poems in traditional forms, drawing particularly on folk songs and ballads....Whether writing nursery rhymes or ballads, sea chanteys or religious sonnets, he was never quaint or sentimental. His intensely honest verse was deeply rooted in the history and geography of his corner of England, and never condescended to the reader" (Zipes et al.: 1253).

False title

He added that the phrase "right-wing spokesman Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson" was ambiguous, as the reader could not tell whether D'Aubuisson was the single spokesman for the Salvadoran right wing or one of many.

Gardens of the Moon

Andrew Leonard, writing for Salon.com, explains that the complexity of Gardens of the Moon offers the reader the opportunity to explore a rich and varied new world: Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics on a scale that would approach absurdity if it wasn't so much fun.

Germán Castro Caycedo

On the one hand the story of a gypsy witch, and on the other the life of a poor-well-known Colombian drug lord, Castro Caycedo uses their stories as a base to conduct the reader on a trip showing how the cocaine traffic affected the society and economy of a small town (Fredonia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and the United States' active role in the birth and expansion of drug production in Colombia.

Hotel Lautréamont

Barbara Everett of The Independent described the language of the book as "dislocated, dehistoricised, only making meaning if treated as a purely verbal pleasure. Language used like this restricts itself to an excessively thin power of expression. At the precise point at which the reader might trust a poetic world or style, the poem changes gear."

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

The story of his tour itself continues to unfold while the reader is simultaneously taken through O'Brien's training at Fort Lewis, Washington, where he acquaints a man of similar situation named Erik.

Indigenous Peoples in International Law

"Provides a thorough, insightful, and constructive analysis of the treatment of indigenous peoples in both historical and contemporary international law regimes. The book leaves the reader with a clearer understanding of the failures of international law in the past, as well as a sense of the potential of international law today."--Virginia Journal of International Law

James O. Goldsborough

He is author of numerous articles on foreign affairs for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Fortune, and the Reader's Digest.

John Alexander Porteous

Returning to New Brunswick in 1974, he became known as a commentator for the CBC, published numerous articles and columns for such publications as The Globe and Mail, TV Guide and the Reader's Digest.

Lawrence G. Green

In the formative phase of his writing career he experimented briefly with fiction writing but discarded this in favour of travelogues and other non-fiction, claiming to have little of value to offer the reader in the former genre even though an admirer of novelists such as Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham.

Lewis Carroll Epstein

Lewis Carroll Epstein is the author of layman's books on physics that use an idiosyncratic mix of cartoons and single-page brain teasers to pull the reader into advanced concepts in classical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity.

Liberature

In the works where Nowakowski provides the reader with three versions of the text – Polish, English and Esperanto – one could observe certain differences in the rendition of the same topic, the technique which contributes to the further differentiation of the book’s meaning.

Linksys WRTP54G router

A PC World staff blog post in 2005 warned the reader not to be mislead to think that the initial, and the only advertised price, was the total cost of ownership.

Michael ffolkes

Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as Strand, Lilliput, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire.

Natsuo Kirino

Kirino's works, such as Out, asks the reader what he/she would do if something awful happened to her/him.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Future Bond author Raymond Benson said "This is far and away John Gardner's best James Bond novel, and it is precisely because it is such a personal plot for the leading character. It's a plot reminiscent of From Russia, With Love, and it moves along excitingly! The chase idea was splendid indeed, and the reader is chased along with Bond throughout the book."

Pat Fish

For a full account of the history of The Jazz Butcher band, the reader is referred to the entry under that name.

Paul MacKendrick

Starting with the Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's excavations, the reader is told of accounts of excavations of major centers of the Hellenic world, including the story of Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B.

Pope Martin IV

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Martin IV in Purgatory, where the reader is reminded of the former pontiff's fondness for Lake Bolsena eels and Vernaccia wine.

Quintus Caecilius Iucundus

In Book Two, the reader finds Quintus in Roman Britain, living in the house of a distant relative named Salvius, who is also a historical figure.

Robin Hood Morality Test

In the test, a situation is posed and the reader is asked to rank Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John and the Sheriff of Nottingham in terms of the morality of their actions in the scenario.

Samuel Balmford

From Thomas Parsons's address to the reader, it appears that the two sermons were intended as a first instalment of a collected edition of Balmford's writings; but nothing more was published.

Serials crisis

Hybrid open access journals are traditional subscription-based journals that permit authors to pay a fee to make their article available free of charge to the reader.

Open access journals where the reader of a journal or the library at their institution does not need to pay a subscription or a pay per-view charge to read the articles published in that journal.

Six o'clock swill

Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, an autobiography of a depression era barmaid, describes the six o'clock swill, at a time (1952) when it was presumed that the reader would be familiar with the concept.

Strawberry Panic!

In December 2003, the characters from Spica (Hikari, Amane, Yaya, and Tsubomi) and Lulim (Kizuna, Chikaru, Remon, and Kagome) were introduced and in the January 2004 issue the first illustrations of the three schools and the Strawberry Dorms were published, drawn by Chitose Maki; the reader participation game began in this issue.

The Hawk and the Nightingale

Where the reader's sympathy for the nightingale was appealed to by Hesiod, it is now the hawk whose behaviour is approved, even by so liberal a commentator as Samuel Croxall.

The Moon in the Cloud

The novel was adapted for the children's television series Jackanory in 1978, with Ian McKellen as the reader.

The Problems of Philosophy

Russell guides the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description" and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike.

The Straight Dope

First published by the Reader in 1973, the column is written by Cecil Adams and illustrated by Slug Signorino.

The Tamuli

Domes of Fire returns the reader to the world of The Elenium and the adventures of Sparhawk - Pandion Knight and Prince Consort to Queen Ehlana of Elenia.

The Wasp Factory

Frank's father's deception of his son (one of Banks' central themes, which appears again in The Crow Road), and the propensity of people for deceiving themselves, are accentuated in the final chapters of the book when new facts force the reader to reassess completely the opinions formed about the narrator.

Troy: Shield of Thunder

Shield of Thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the Silver Bow; the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.

Vetaher Libenu

As stated by the siddur's editors in the Introduction, the committee was inspired by Martin Buber’s I and Thou to compose liturgy that addressed God most often as "You," rather than "He" or "She," in order to encourage a more personal bond between the reader and his or her God.

When Eight Bells Toll

British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert is sent to investigate, and narrates the story for the reader.

World Wide Country Tours

World Wide Country Tours was a guided tour company founded by publishing icon Roy Reiman in 1972 and served as the exclusive tour operator for and part of the Reader's Digest Association family of companies.

Yalcin Didman

Didman's masterwork is The Bear Rider, which was introduced to the reader in a 121-pages long first graphic novel adventure, Minus Eighty.