If you want to capture how a book was packaged and what it has meant to the readers who have unwrapped it, you have to look at all the copies you can find, from original manuscripts to cheap reprints.
The South Waziristan strike killed a pro-government peace negotiator who was a tribal leader and four of his family members, entirely in error, according to "Kill or Capture" (2012), a book about Obama's counterterrorism policy by the former Newsweek reporter Daniel Klaidman.
Pohl's other novels include The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969); the Nebula Award-winning Man Plus (1976); Gateway (1977), which won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award for best novel; Jem (1980), the first and only novel to capture a National Book Award for science fiction (hardcover), bestowed only in 1980; Chernobyl (1987); and All the Lives He Led (2011).
The Vice ethos is best captured by a book collecting the best of the magazine's writing over the years called "News, Nudity & Nonsense".
All this is captured in a book Sounds of Your Life, The History of Independent Radio in the UK, by former chief executive of the Radio Authority Tony Stoller, published in May.
Time after time, I'd be captured by a book and then a smart character would do something really dumb.
What bonds this chain together across the generations, this chain of honor and sacrifice, is not only a common cause -- our country's cause -- but also a spirit captured in a Book of Isaiah, a familiar verse, mailed to me by the Gold Star parents of 2nd Lieutenant Mike McGahan.
Their work is also captured in a book, which was launched at the event.
The book, which spent four weeks on the hardcover nonfiction list before capturing a National Book Award in November, has had an unexpected side effect: suddenly, people are buying Lucretius.
The ability to capture the essence of a book in a single panel should not go unnoticed and unappreciated.
