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URL. www .scribd .com. Scribd Inc. (pronounced / ˈskrɪbd /) is a digital content subscription service providing access to a large collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and other written and spoken content. The company operates three main platforms Everand, Scribd and SlideShare. [1] [2] [3]
Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.He is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. Previously, Jared was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ( / ˈmɪŋɪz / ⓘ ). After the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), he began to write full time. His first science fiction book, Consider ...
Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written books on a variety of subjects including notable film directors, screenwriting, the JFK assassination, and a memoir of his youth. He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.
David Lodge (author) David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work ...
Goodreads. Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon [ 1] that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls ...
The author page is a section of a book or other literary work that consists of a short biography of the author. Written in the third-person narrative and sometimes accompanied by a photograph, the author page is usually a single page long, consisting of only a few sentences. [1] Biographical information typically includes the author's academic ...
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World is a 2021 book of neuroscience, epistemology and metaphysics written by psychiatrist, thinker and former literary scholar [ 1] Iain McGilchrist . Following on from McGilchrist's 2009 work, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western ...