Clichés, too, pile toward the empurpled sky: books here sell "like hotcakes"; it is "always darkest before the dawn"; wars approach with a "steady drumbeat"; economies grow "by leaps and bounds" and at "breakneck speed"; slavery opens "a new can of worms"; foreign policy calls for "brass tacks".
The catalogue was included as the 7th (northern sky) and 8th (southern sky) books of his 13-book astronomical treatise Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις (Mathēmatikē Syntaxis), known by its later Arabic name Almagest.
He frequented Sky Books, a military-oriented bookstore in New York, and read many U.S. Army field manuals and technical manuals, and also credits his friend Lee Russel, a military historian, for helping him with research.
I used to be the main fiction editor at Dark Sky Books, and I was lucky to work on books with some really great writers: Jensen Beach, Ryan Ridge, Nicolle Elizabeth, Michael Bible, and Gregory Sherl.
(Sky's book, "The Unraveling," is the essential text on how everything fell apart).
But as the "golden sun sinks in the sky," the book turns to the deep, lavender tones of evening.
Far from whispered intimacies, such advances were made in full view of the cameras as I interviewed him for my Sky Arts Book Show at the Hay Festival.
Half the Sky – a book by Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn – will be transformed into a colourful Facebook game where the decisions players make channel sponsors' money to a number of charities for women.
The television documentary company that I'm working with (we're filming a PBS documentary of "Half the Sky," the book about empowering women that I wrote with my wife, Sheryl WuDunn) has agreed to accept parcels at its New York office.
I was in Vietnam partly to shoot an episode for the PBS documentary version of Half the Sky, the book about the world's women that I wrote with my wife, Sheryl WuDunn.
