"It's one of the things you often get when a stallion has a stellar book of mares," he says, suggesting that "alpha females" produce stock that resemble them more than the sire.
Mantel's first two instalments of her planned Tudor trilogy have been a literary sensation, winning her stellar book sales and literary prizes that may well be added to next week when she is the bookmakers' favourite to add the Costa book of the year award to her collection.
In addition to the stellar books by Geoffrey Miller, "How the Mind Works," by Steven Pinker, and "Evolutionary Psychology," by David M. Buss, are superb starting points for readers who wish to learn about evolutionary psychology as it is actually practiced.
I wanted my buyers to know that my books were worth purchasing because I had done my research and wrote what I thought were "stellar" books.
They know if subscribers trust them to only market a few stellar books at a time, they have a better chance of keeping that subscriber happy and making money off them.
Although it feels unseemly to name any of the less-than-stellar books that triumphed over the ones that proved to be classics, look up the list if you're so inclined.
I kept your ratings stellar, your book sales booming, your page views sky-high.
One party to that conspiracy has been the mainstream media, which, as Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn point out in their stellar new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, is what happens when a phenomenon is extensive, entrenched, and so common as to be perpetually old news even while it's happening.
The renowned photographer, who's had his work featured in publications like the New Yorker and GQ and published four stellar photo books, got pretty weirded out by my request.
The renowned photographer, who's had his work featured in publications like the New Yorker and GQ and has published four stellar photo books, got pretty weirded out by my request.
Anna Quindlen, whose most recent novel is "Blessing," said that while Ms. Godoff "was an absolutely stellar advocate for books," she did not think Ms. Godoff's departure would make Random House less attractive to authors.
