He only had that realization 20 years earlier it would have reshaped what became a nuclear arms locally. At the time i think he was just really unaware of the potentiality of Atomic Energy and dismissed it and kept saying im very happy with explosives we are to have. Lara heimert a lot of the conversation here at Bookexpo America this year is about ebooks still. Does basic have been approached to ebooks . Have they been helpful to your business . We love ebooks. We love it when people have more ways to read books and what we find is a lot of people toggle between the two. They dont become exclusive Ebook Readers and dont assert their bookshelves. I use my ereader when im traveling and its a wonderful technology. I think because we are exclusively nonfiction publisher we dont see the percentages of ebooks that you see at Mission House or other areas of publishing. Its a big chunk of our sales but nowhere near the majority of our sales. Look, do we want people to be reading. I dont worry
So you think that as a parent in the home, parents are educated regarding telling their child about drugs, would you recommend them apart from reading the book where else can they go to get information so they can start telling their kids at a young age . Or an appropriate . That is a difficult one. The countrys education in terms of the drugs is that the adolescent level. High price is trying to have a more adult conversation so high price is the absolute requirement. Another question. Do you see yourself, i know you are incorporating this within your course, is that what you are doing . I dont use high price in my course because i have another textbook which i use for my course. That book is more draw, more academic and it costs four times more than high price. Time for someone else. Thank you. Thank you all for coming. Final question . Em man has a question. I want to say how much i appreciate the book, i appreciate you, i appreciate your commitment to bring in your expertise to bea
Only through the collaboration of men and women throughout the country did factories produce 325,000 aircraft by 1945 and at the height of production, one b 24 bomber hour. This is about an hour. Of [applause] thank you, john. Of pleasure to be here and to talk about this subject which has been on my mind for those last few years. This is a strange topic in the sense that nobody had really done a book of this type. I wondered why. I would like to claim credit for the subject but the fact is the real credit belonged to my editor, refine editor who had asked me almost ten years ago if i had been interested in doing a book like this because he always thought there was a story here that need to be told and he had never seen it told and i looked into it at the time and i said let me think of it. I thought about it, i didnt see what i could do with it and i said i dont entire am the person for this and we went on and did another book and i had to do another book i had committed to. At the en
Some were hailed as heroes, others showed small acts of bravery and brotherhood known only to those with whom they fought and served. This is the story of their unknown valor. Im martha mccallum, growing up my mother, betty mccallum, told us the story of her cousin harry gray who shared with us his touching letters in the summer of 1944 at 18 he left arlington, massachusetts just after High School Graduation to join the marines and serve in the pacific. I was always intrigued and moved by these letters and i knew very little of the battle of iwo jima but i knew harrys death there left a deep grief in my mothers family. A few years ago i decided to tell his story. It struck me that in war movies there are the heroes and then there are hundreds of others. The guys who get hit on the beach or in the villages, just trying to carry out the mission. They are the extras in the movie but for some families somewhere they are there harry gray, their lost love, the line on the family tree that ju
Broxton Avenue came to life Friday as the Bruin Flea hosted its last event of the school year. The monthly flea, held from 3 to 8:30 p.m on the third Friday of each month, featured vendors and activities including henna art, jewelry and clothes.