Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela’s death has rather drawn attention away from the passing on December 5th of one of Britain’s more original and odder modern writers, Colin Wilson (1931-2013), who after a lonely and marginalized youth, was catapulted to intellectual stardom at age 24 with the publication of his seminal study on the newly fashionable doctrine of [...]

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Blast-Off by Rose Blessing Ever sit around brainstorming about a new product idea? Before World Book embarks on the creation of a new product launch, these are some of the questions that development teams typically consider, Ross explains. Concept and Content What kinds of content do you plan to use? Photos, illustrations, text, graphs, charts? How will you get it&emdash;assign it to on-staff writers or illustrators? Derive it from previous products? Gather from a third party? Should a new technology be incorporated, like a hot new kind of image or animation? How much value will it really add? What is the audience? Is it entertainment? How-to? Education? A blend? Is the concept