We use the magazine as a yardstick for our books ... We are no longer going to look at what sells as a sort of argument, because it seemed to me that we were in danger of losing our inventiveness about what we wanted to do .” Authors recently published by Granta Books include Simon Gray, Michael Collins, Anna Funder, Olga Tokarczuk and Tim Guest.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922.

Fentener, Leni Riefenstahl, Sven Hedin, Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein, Max Schmeling, John Simon, Maksim Purkayev, Pál Teleki, Vladimir Dekanozov, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Sumner Welles, Károly Csáky, Paul of Yugoslavia, Olga of Greece and Denmark, and Anthony Eden.

The Splash sculpture, based on dynamic simulation systems, was designed by Mona Kim, Todd Palmer, Olga Subirós and Simon Taylor from Program Collective.

, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.

Larry Turman, his producer, made a deal for Simon to write three new songs for the film.

In this version, Paul the Apostle is present along with Peter, Simon levitates from a high wooden tower made upon his request, and dies " divided into four parts " due to the fall.

Simon is there made to maintain that he has a better knowledge of the mind of Jesus than the disciples, who had seen and conversed with Him in person.

Recently, Berlin pastor Hermann Detering ( 1995 ) has made the case that the veiled anti-Pauline stance of the Pseudo-Clementines has historical roots, that the Acts 8 encounter between Simon the magician and Peter is itself based on the conflict between Peter and Paul, though his view has not found support among scholars.

Almost simultaneously, similar inventions were made independently in Belgium by Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau ( the phenakistoscope ) and in Austria by Simon von Stampfer ( the stroboscope ).

Obituaries of Simon Dee ( 1935 – 2009 ), the radio and television presenter, stated that his " Sixties grooviness " made him the inspiration for the character.

Philosopher Simon Blackburn made a similar criticism, and explains that moral relativism fails as a moral system simply because it cannot arbitrate disagreements.

She married Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, honouring an agreement that had been made between Earl Simon and Llywelyn.

It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made him the " uncrowned King of England ".

On March 1, 2007, Simon made headlines again when he was announced as the first recipient of the recently-created Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

On September 29, 2001, Simon made a special appearance on the first SNL to air after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The first articulate description of wage slavery was made by Simon Linguet in 1763 :‎

By mid-1983, just sixteen months after the original deal, Gibson completed a $ 290 million IPO and Simon made approximately $ 66 million.

The Islanders also made several free agent acquisitions, including defensemen Brendan Witt and Tom Poti as well as forwards Mike Sillinger and Chris Simon.

Simon describes a number of dimensions along which " classical " models of rationality can be made somewhat more realistic, while sticking within the vein of fairly rigorous formalization.

Simon describes a number of dimensions along which " classical " models of rationality can be made somewhat more realistic, while sticking within the vein of fairly rigorous formalization.

Snyder County took its name in honor of the famous citizen and political figure, Simon Snyder, who was governor of Pennsylvania for three terms, from 1808 to 1817, and made his home in Selinsgrove.

The WBO was made popular by boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Marco Antonio Barrera, Ronald " Winky " Wright, Naseem Hamed, Verno Phillips, Michael Carbajal, Johnny Tapia, Harry Simon, Jermain Taylor, Nigel Benn, Paul " Silky " Jones, Gerald McClellan, Joe Calzaghe, Steve Collins, Daniel Santos, Michael Moorer, Dariusz Michalczewski, Chris Eubank, Riddick Bowe, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, Chris Byrd and Tommy Morrison in the 1990s.

Branson made several appearances during the nineties on the BBC Saturday morning show Live & Kicking, where he was referred to as ' the pickle man ' by comedy act Trev and Simon ( in reference to Branston Pickle ).

* Simon Moores, the mining industry's writer, author and modern day thinker who made his name in Industrial Minerals magazine.

Davis's campaign advertisements made heavy use of scandals relating to alleged mismanagement of Simon's business and charities, though one of the major court rulings unfavorable to Simon was since overturned.

" James Taylor had just left Warner Bros. and made a big album for Columbia ... And then, Warner signed Paul Simon away from Columbia, and they didn't want me to have a hit record for Columbia — no matter what!

Simon Kelner was made editor.

In April 2012, DeVito made his West End acting debut in a revival of the Neil Simon play The Sunshine Boys-alongside Olivier Award-winning actor Richard Griffiths.

Another group under Sir John Simon then emerged, who were prepared to continue their support for the government and take the Liberal places in the Cabinet if there were resignations.

According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

Family home movies later aired on television showed Ball and Arnaz playing together with their grandson Simon shortly before Arnaz's death.

The role of long term memory in the skilled memory effect was first articulated by Chase and Simon in their classic studies of chess expertise.

In secular matters, Raymond VI of Toulouse, his son ( afterwards Raymond VII ), and Raymond-Roger of Foix attended the Council to dispute the threatened confiscation of their territories ; Bishop Foulques and Guy de Montfort ( brother of Simon ) argued in favour of the confiscation.

On top of this, he still performed other gestures, such as arranging police protection with his personal assurances for local artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, when they were threatened by Nazi supporters for their new patriotic comic book superhero, Captain America.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

Satisficing, as defined by Simon, can be applied to library and information science where researchers assess how much information is adequate to meet their information need.

Courtois was influenced by the work of Simon and Albert Ando on hierarchical nearly-decomposable systems in economic modelling as a criterion for computer systems design, and in this book he presents the mathematical theory of these nearly-decomposable systems in more detail than Simon and Ando do in their original papers.

In Book I, Irenaeus talks about the Valentinian Gnostics and their predecessors, who go as far back as the magician Simon Magus.

Copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten were chosen and Simon bet that their prices would decrease, while Ehrlich bet they would increase.

He informed Simon that if Germany's terms were not accepted in their entirety, the German delegation would go home.

He and Simon also launched their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications.

After meeting Simon King in a Chelsea shopping centre in 1969, he joined the band Opal Butterfly, but the group soon folded, having previously failed to raise enough interest with their preceding CBS singles.

According to author Simon Reeve, Afif, Nazzal and one of their confederates had all worked in various capacities in the Olympic Village, and had spent a couple of weeks scouting out their potential target.

In October 1967, they released their first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath.

Abdul, along with fellow judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson ( joined by Kara DioGuardi in 2009 ) evaluated thousands of amateur contestants in their ability to sing.

Without their opposition, Simon de Brion was unanimously elected to the papacy, taking the name Martin IV, on 22 February 1281.

* The song ' Scarborough Fair ' ( popularised by Simon and Garfunkel ) has the refrain " Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme " which is also the title of their third studio album.

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).

Both Simon and Garfunkel have acknowledged the tremendous impact of the Everly Brothers on their style, and many of their early songs ( including " Hey, Schoolgirl ") bear the mark of this influence.