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In the best-seller Freakonomics, economist Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner both confirm and cast doubt on the notion that the broken windows theory was responsible for New York's drop in crime, arguing " the reality that the pool of potential criminals had dramatically shrunk ", an alternative that Levitt had attributed in the Quarterly Journal of Economics to the legalization of abortion with Roe v. Wade, a decrease in the number of delinquents in the population-at-large one generation later.
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Initially selling over 75, 000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.
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Reprinted many times and in many languages, it continues to be a best-seller.
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In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor who was looking for new fiction, read what she had written and saw that it could be a best-seller.
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In 1940, under the pen-name " Cato " he and two other Beaverbrook journalists ( Frank Owen, editor of the Standard, and Peter Howard of the Daily Express ) published Guilty Men, a Left Book Club book attacking the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government that became a run-away best-seller.
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The Bard's Tale was both a best-seller and a critical success, and produced three official sequels:
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The Price of Loyalty was met with both commercial and critical success, and was the first book by Suskind to be a # 1 New York Times best-seller.
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The book was a best-seller in both the United States and Germany and Craig was awarded the Pour le Mérite medal for this book.
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After appearing with a star-studded cast in the Mike Nichols film ( 1970 ) version of another best-seller, Catch-22, he starred in Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, and yet another film based on a famous Roth novel, Portnoy's Complaint ( 1972 ), in the title role.
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# Joshua Riffkin's recording of Joplin rags on Nonesuch Records, a classical label, became a " classical " best-seller.
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They also pointed out that the rise of this industry meant that artistic excellence was displaced by sales figures as a measure of worth: a novel, for example, was judged meritorious solely on whether it was a best-seller, music succumbed to ratings charts and the blunt commercial logic of the Gold disc.
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In late December 1984, the 1985 edition reached first place in the category of paperback Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous books, on the New York Times best-seller list, with more than 1, 760, 000 copies sold at the time.
The book was a Book of the Month selection and reached # 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
Miss America spent a total of 16 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list.
( published early in 1939 ; the title is modelled on a contemporary best-seller, The English, Are They Human ?).
His The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times.
Her literary output included popular books for adults ; with her sister, Nora A. Smith, she published scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel: Froebel's Gifts ( 1895 ), Froebel's Occupations ( 1896 ), and Kindergarten Principles and Practice ( 1896 ); and she wrote the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1903 ), as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o ' the River.
Philosophus Autodidactus went on to have a significant influence on European literature, and became an influential best-seller throughout Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Ten years later, when his book, Complete Book of Running ( which spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the best-seller list ) was published, he was 60 pounds ( 27 kg ) lighter and smoke-free.
Initial sales were slow, but as Mimi Reisel Gladstein described it, sales " grew by word-of-mouth, developing a popularity that asserted itself slowly on the best-seller lists.
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