(1) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
(2) The tented village around St Paul's – 200 canvas homes and counting – has acquired an increasingly permanent feel, and now boasts a bookshop, information centre and a prayer room.
(3) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
(4) Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
(5) The important thing about radical bookshops is that they were more than just places that sold commodities, they were centres for activists, they held events, they encouraged people."
(6) +30 21 0896 2237, limnivouliagmenis.gr ID5587998 Gazarte A venue that blends live music with a cinema, bar-restaurant and bookshop.
(7) Hatem Ben Arfa has cancelled his planned meet and greet session with Newcastle United fans at a city centre bookshop on Tuesday night after being warned it could be counterproductive to his hopes of first-team football at St James’s Park.
(8) And to make your conscience even clearer, a percentage of every purchase goes back to local independent bookshops, helping them to survive in the scary era of all-online shopping.
(9) In Henley, he encountered with interest the bookshop-owning lesbians who had taken opium with Cocteau, and a prim, elderly lady who had, in her youth, urinated regularly upon pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis.
(10) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(11) The winners of all three Edinburgh comedy awards (best show, best newcomer, panel prize) performed at non-big four venues (the Stand, the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe and Bob's Bookshop).
(12) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
(13) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
(14) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(15) Joe’s Garage , a tiny eclectic record and bookshop on Westbourne Road, is a place to meet random characters and to flip through vinyls.
(16) "It is a great idea … and could be massively important thing for independent bookshops."
(17) He was apprentice to a furniture maker, a carpenter’s mate and a bookshop assistant before undertaking his national service in the RAF (1950-52).
(18) The UK bookshop chain Borders was placed in administration today, raising doubts over 1,150 jobs.
(19) It is available from the Guardian bookshop, priced £14.44 including free UK p&p .
(20) And unable to compete on price, the sector of the market that will "lose out in the long term is the independent bookshop," believes the novelist.
Library
Definition:
(n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.
(n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(4) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(5) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
(6) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
(7) However, the plasmid libraries for chromosomes 1, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, and 20 hybridize weakly or not at all near the centromeres of the target chromosome types.
(8) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
(9) The decision, announced earlier this week, will see the region’s libraries reduced from 51 branches to 35.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(12) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
(13) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(14) Two genes were isolated from a library of total plasmid DNA of one of the mutants, 3F1.
(15) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(16) Three independent clones with overlapping inserts of 6.8, 10.5, and 11 kilobases (kb) were isolated from S. cerevisiae genomic libraries in YEp24 (2 micron) and YCp50 (CEN) plasmids.
(17) However, when using DNA libraries with large cloned inserts, this sequence characterization is not immediately practicable.
(18) Programs to search for patterns in individual sequences and libraries of sequences are described.
(19) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(20) The library was screened by plaque hybridization to identify phage clones containing the unamplified 10.5-kilobase DNA sequence.