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The nonfiction book, a New York Times # 1 hardcover bestseller and still in print as a trade paperback, recounts a double murder on Palmyra Atoll ; the subsequent arrest, trial and conviction of Duane (" Buck ") Walker ; and the acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, whom Bugliosi and Leonard Weinglass defended.
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Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??
To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.
* The Canon, nonfiction science book by Natalie Angier
The companion book to the series ( co-authored by Milton and his wife, Rose Friedman ), also titled Free To Choose, was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1980 and has since been translated into 14 foreign languages.
* Underground ( Suelette Dreyfus book ), a 1997 nonfiction book about computer hacking
King also wrote the nonfiction book, Faithful, with novelist and fellow Red Sox fanatic Stewart O ' Nan.
The invention, development, and financing of the Segway was the subject of a narrative nonfiction book, Code Name Ginger ( in paperback as Reinventing the Wheel ), by journalist Steve Kemper.
The Machinery of Freedom is a 1973 nonfiction book by libertarian economist David D. Friedman outlining the means by which an anarcho-capitalist society could operate.
As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).
Since the passages call for total nonresistance to the point of facilitating aggression against oneself, and since human governments defend themselves by military force, this has led some into Christian anarchism, including the notable Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of the nonfiction book The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
The Diamond Age depicts a near-future world revolutionised by advances in nanotechnology, much as Eric Drexler envisioned it in his nonfiction book Engines of Creation ( 1986 ).
After Clarke's nonfiction science book The Exploration of Space ( 1951 ) was successfully received, he began to seriously focus on his writing career.
Ramsey Campbell, Probably, a collection of Campbell's book reviews, film reviews, autobiographical writings and other nonfiction, was published in 2002.
In 2005, filmmaker Ken Burns produced a 2-part documentary about Johnson's life, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward.
The nonfiction book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, chronicling the story of ultra-runner Micah True in the Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara Indians, who taught him a better way to run.
Parsons ' relationship with Hubbard also appears in Feral House's Apocalypse Culture, Paradox's Big Book of Conspiracies, Alan Moore's Cobweb story in Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions, and in the Jon Atack nonfiction book A Piece of Blue Sky.
She also wrote a nonfiction book, " Killers of the Dream ," which examined the effect of race, sex, and religion on the Southern psyche, both white and black.
His nonfiction book Appalachian Wilderness ( 1970 ) lovingly describes Indiana and Home.
This is described in detail in the nonfiction book Rising from the Plains by science writer John McPhee.
The Bubbleworld or Inside / Outside concept was originated in 1964 by Dandridge M. Cole and Donald W. Cox in a nonfiction book, Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids.
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time ( ISBN 0-679-40003-6 ) is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan Weiner.
In 1910 Bram Stoker ( the author of Dracula ), published a book of nonfiction called Famous Impostors which deals with the subject of exposing various impostors and hoaxes.
" The book was criticized in major American newspapers and magazines and called, among other things, " the worst nonfiction book about terrorism published by a major house since 9 / 11 " and " a national disgrace.
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In November 2010, The New York Times announced it would be tracking e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction starting in early 2011.
Hanson: The Official Book reached number 9 on the New York Times Best Sellers List ( nonfiction ) on February 1, 1998.
* Joseph Wambaugh, novelist, including The New Centurions, and nonfiction The Onion Field
The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New York.
Although the publishers were convinced it would be rejected by the American reading public after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it spent 50 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list ( eight weeks at # 1 ) for hardcover nonfiction and is in its 43rd printing.
Among his other nonfiction work, he wrote theatre and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation, and other periodicals.
* Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution ( nonfiction ) ( Norton, released June 13, 2005 )
To date, there is very little published literary criticism of nonfiction works, despite the fact that the genre is often published in respected publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's and Esquire.
Sontag also published nonfiction essays in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Granta, Partisan Review and the London Review of Books.
Both of these books reached the nonfiction New York Times bestseller list, the second of which stayed there for five weeks.
Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence ( influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell ), several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction.
* Tracy Kidder, 1982 Pulitzer in general nonfiction for The Soul of a New Machine, MFA, 1974.
He has reviewed fiction and nonfiction in such periodicals as Interzone, the Los Angeles Times, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Observer, Omni, The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, and elsewhere ; some of these writings appeared in his early collection, Strokes.
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Hoagland authored the book The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever, and co-authored the book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, which was ranked 21st on 18 November 2007 on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction.
Island explores many of the themes and ideas that interested Huxley in the post-World War II decades, and were the subject of many of his nonfiction books of essays, including Brave New World Revisited, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy.
Vowell is a New York Times ’ bestselling author of six nonfiction books on American history and culture.
On April 3, 2011 it reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list of hardcover nonfiction.
Steyn's work America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It ( ISBN 0-89526-078-6 ) is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book published in 2006.
Pratt was a military analyst for Time magazine ( whose obituary described him as " bearded, gnome-like " and listed " raising marmosets " among his hobbies ), as well as a regular reviewer of historical nonfiction and fantasy and science fiction for the New York Times Book Review.
The Magic Writing Machine — Student Probes of the New Journalism, a collection edited and introduced by Everette E. Dennis, came up with six categories, labelled new nonfiction ( reportage ), alternative journalism (" modern muckraking "), advocacy journalism, underground journalism and precision journalism.
Michael Johnson's The New Journalism addresses itself to three phenomena: the underground press, the artists of nonfiction, and changes in the established media.
David McHam, in an article titled " The Authentic New Journalists ", distinguished the nonfiction reportage of Capote, Wolfe and others from other, more generic interpretations of New Journalism.
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