The children of the leaders and of the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, and those who are but the offspring of the dream, are telling their stories in a cluster of books recently published or about to be.
(Note: There was also a bizarre clustering of books about Yetis this year... but even I couldn't bring myself to create a category for Best Yeti).
It happens sometimes -- a cluster of books arrive with covers that bear a resemblance to one another.
Tim Waterstone's house in Holland Park, west London, sits on the edge of a small cluster of book-industry landmarks.
Last stop is a cluster of book-size digital screens showing videos of different decorative forms: glass grapes, a rotating vase, the front of a house in Istanbul draped with fabric.
This was how she did it: First, by searching for a cluster of landmark books: debut books or major masterpieces published that year.
Well, first, by searching for a cluster of landmark books: debut books or major masterpieces published that year.
For each of the 60 leaf nodes (right side) we show the number of books within the cluster and the most central book to that cluster's book network.
A characteristic book from each cluster is shown on the leaf nodes by sorting the books within each cluster by the total distance to other books in the cluster (e.g., considering each intra-cluster collection as a fully connected weighted network, we take the most central node), and in parenthesis the number of books in that cluster.
