Word: paperback
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...book's publishers, Stewart Richardson, a former editor in chief of Doubleday Publishing, and Hy Steirman, the former owner of what was once the Paperback Library, incorporated in January. Richardson, who had previously obtained a book on foreign policy by Leonid Brezhnev, originally suggested similar works from Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, both of whom died before they could complete their oeuvres. Negotiations for the Gorbachev book were completed in Moscow in September and were conducted without the knowledge of American authorities. The book was translated from Russian in Moscow, but will not be published there. The first printing...
...people and on the decline of intellectuality in national life. Liberal academics, defending the trend toward de-emphasis of the classics, responded that Bloom's prescriptions are unsuited to a society as heterogeneous as America's. The book has sold 800,000 copies and has just been issued in paperback. TIME senior correspondent William McWhirter spent four hours with Bloom, 58, surrounded by classic texts and European oil paintings in his apartment overlooking the campus...
Hardcover books can be so forbidding, can't they? Those imposing, inflexible covers, that terrifying $20-plus price tag. Whereas paperbacks--so soft, so yielding, so informal, so ... cheap. Some of last spring's best books are just coming out in paperback, so if you waited till now to read them, your patience is rewarded. And what's a year, anyway? Isn't great literature timeless...
...Vice President of Operations Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06 confirmed that there was little damage to his organization’s office. The water level was not high enough to ruin the computers, he said, but noted that about 50 paperback copies of the Harvard International Review were lost to the waters...
Four years later, Dallaire has published a bestselling memoir, Shake Hands with the Devil, which was re-released in paperback form by Carroll & Graff last week. A documentary of the same title will air at the Sundance Film Festival next month. On occasion, he can be found in an office on JFK Street studying conflict resolution...