Seeking middle ground with his latest project, "The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do" (to be published on Sept. 30 by Phaidon Press), Mr. McDowell, who has written more than 20 books, breaks fashion history down neatly by examining clothing as it relates to specific body parts.
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Some of these leaves come from books broken decades or even centuries ago.
A bank offers to bundle some loans on its books, break up the cash flows into tranches, and sell them to you as securities.
Simon & Schuster announced the creation of an author portal, a Web site where authors and illustrators can check sales of their books, broken down by type of merchant and book format, including digital.
By the end of the war, Cole was getting the top rate for comic books (about thirty-five dollars per page) as well as occasional bonuses of up to twenty-five hundred dollars when his books broke the two-hundred-thousand point.
These books break longstanding silences about two problems as they affect African-Americans: depression in black men and sexual abuse, often at the hands of family members.
Dressers, telephones, yellowed books, broken chairs, piles of clothing — for $2 a pound — and pots and pans are mixed in with handmade trinkets, high school sports trophies and other items of questionable resale value.
My mother is a clean hoarder: her clutter is comprised of things like clothing, books, broken sewing machines, pairs of cowboy boots she's convinced she can sell for a fortune, magazines, cardboard boxes, pots, pans, pizza stones, etcetera.
Amazon.com outdoor and nature editor LangCook says the books broke into the vendor's top ten sales ranking just after publication.
Different books break out at different retailers at different times.
