Word: kaufmann
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...other volumes are on the way. "Lewis wrote 45 books," proclaims Martin. "And Black Sparrow has reprint rights to all of them. It's like having an exclusive option on the Inca Empire." If North Point represents the classical approach to publishing and Black Sparrow the romantic, William Kaufmann Inc. stands for the technocratic. The two letters most frequently heard at Kaufmann's modest headquarters in Los Altos, Calif., are "AI" (artificial intelligence), the science of making computers "think." In 1980 a professor from nearby Stanford came to Kaufmann, a former editor of science books, with a handbook of artificial...
...Kaufmann's list reaches as far back as the 19th century, with Martin Gardner's meticulously Annotated Snark, containing the text and original illustrations by Lewis Carroll -- and as far forward as The New Book of California Tomorrow, analyzing environmental issues that affect the company's home state. Although technology accounts for most of the firm's more than $1 million sales, its environmental and urban planning books are in many libraries. In addition, Kaufmann, like his West Coast colleagues, indulges some personal whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author...
...Crimson defeated Santa Barbara 6-3, but Captain Debbie Kaufmann came down with the flu and was unable to play for the remainder of the trip...
...much of the world, millions of faces, mostly female and mostly over 25, light up when he is mentioned. Feminine "ohs" reverberate from Madrid, where Iglesias was born and raised, to Montevideo. "He rouses middle-aged women, especially the depressed ladies with no dreams," says Italian Psychologist Erika Kaufmann. "When he sings, they come alive. I call him the sex symbol of the menopause...
...Columbia and Yale all avoided Shavuous when planning their commencements. MIT made the change, last April, after students first complained at Harvard, Kaufmann said...