Having written several articles and one book together, we have firsthand experience in both the joys and struggles of getting two minds to speak with one voice, and the conflicts that can arise when one author is a fast writer and the other likes to linger over each word.
Many of the skills of the traditional kitchen — how to roll couscous, how to slow-preserve meat in the desert, how to make the paper-thin pastry dough called warqa — are disappearing fast, the authors agree.
I love Google, and in principle making information accessible is wonderful, but things are moving so fast, and authors are losing so much control over what we've done, that my fear was who knows, in five to 10 years' time, how this information could be used?" Gillian Spraggs has also set up a new group that will campaign in support of authors' rights.
For the circa 20% manuscripts accepted after peer review, most are ready for publishing within 3 4 months (depending on how fast the authors correspond to the revisions, re-revisions, statistical and linguistic issues, picture and table editing, and so on).
But his Who's Who frame of reference also brings to mind Robert B. Parker, Janet Evanovich, Dean Koontz, Stuart Woods and a lot of other fast-paced authors.
"This is worrying as, if the current government is to be taken at its word, the key test of its health policy is whether it is seen to be 'improving the health of the poorest, fastest", the authors add.
Although the horses in this study were not specifically fasted, the authors have observed that the majority of animals consume their meals within 4 hours resulting in an effective fasting period of around 8 -10 hours each day prior to administration of the medications the following morning.
He is the fastest selling author in Turkish history, as well as commanding international acclaim.
If the pteropod shells "are dissolving as fast as the authors claim, the effects on individual physiology, behavior, and fitness, and hence on populations and food webs, are not easy to predict," Lawson says.
Preliminary experiments conducted suggested that with naturally occurring aqueous concentrations of endosulfan and lindane, the rate of reaction was extremely fast and the authors were unable to study the degradation mechanisms.
In Park and Kim's study, "An empirical test of the triple bottom line of customer-centric sustainability: The case of fast fashion," the authors report a high correlation between social and environmental dimensions of the triple bottom line (TBL) model.
