Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...release date. What is the object of this secrecy? The Sampson Option, a new work by ace investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH. The dogged author will only confirm that the book is "about Israel," but other sources are willing to fill in some of the blanks. They say the tome provides potentially explosive new details about the country's secret nuclear-weapons program and often complicated relationship with...
Those spiritual theatrics have earned Williamson, 39, recognition as "the guru of the moment in Hollywood," the most highly visible advocate of a mind- awareness text called A Course in Miracles. The 1,200-page spiritual- psychological tome was written in the 1960s by a now deceased Jewish psychologist Helen Schucman; it teaches spiritual self-betterment through exercises to clarify the subject's perception of reality. The book has spawned an informal network of more than 1,000 study groups based on its introspective meditational program...
...crusade continues nonetheless. Kirkpatrick Sale kicked off the anticelebration with his anti-Columbus tome, The Conquest of Paradise. The group Encounter plans to celebrate 1992 by sailing three ships full of Indians to "discover" Spain. Similar merriment is to be expected wherever a quorum gathers to honor...
...simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book's contents, the company moved up its publication date from May to early April without informing Cannon, he claims. Although President Reagan has landed on some best-seller lists, Cannon has hired a lawyer to explore possible legal action. That move may prompt...
...many marketers turn to Direct Mail List Rates and Data, the industry's Domesday Book, to mine existing lists. This 4-in.-thick volume, published bimonthly by Standard Rate & Data Service of Wilmette, Ill., at an annual cost of $317, features descriptions of 10,258 rental mailing lists. The tome does not provide specific names and addresses of customers-in-waiting, but it indicates who owns compiled lists and which rolls include the names of people who responded to mailings. These "response lists" are the jewel in the direct-mail crown. According to marketing lore, if your name...