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Octopus focuses on Wall Street trader Samuel Israel III, who attempted to commit hedge fund fraud by taking part in a "secret market" reported to have been run by the Federal Reserve. Lawson interviewed Israel for the book, commenting in an interview with CBS News that he was surprised at "how much truth there was to Israel's stories". [2]
[10] Octopus eyes, too, look and work much like those of vertebrates; but there, Baer remarks, the similarities end. Cephalopods are "immensely foreign", with "a distributed sense of self" and a "lived reality" quite unlike human consciousness, a feature that, he notes, Godfrey-Smith calls "the most difficult aspect of octopus experience to ...
She is author of 34 books, including The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, which was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her popular book The Good Good Pig is the international bestselling memoir of life with her pig, Christopher ...
Paul Hamlyn bought the company back in 1986 and added it to the holdings of his new company, Octopus Books. Octopus was sold in 1987 to Reed International. Hamlyn's children's division was sold to the Egmont Group in 1998. Hachette Livre bought Octopus in 2001. Hamlyn is an international publisher of non-fiction illustrated books. Two thirds of ...
Author Shelby Van Pelt talks about her octopus narrator, character and inspiration before the finale event for 14th Read Together Palm Beach County.
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The Octopus public domain audiobook at LibriVox "Zola in San Francisco", by Victor Davis Hansen in The New York Times Book Review, January 1, 2006. 3 short radio episodes "Bestial Welter [permanent dead link ]", "Nourisher of Nations [permanent dead link ]" and "The Octopus [permanent dead link ]" from The Octopus by Frank Norris.
Jim Keith was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He became interested in UFOs and the occult from age 7, writing short stories and articles at age 10. Growing up, the 6’4” self-described radical libertarian considered himself a member of the 1960s counterculture.