Sentences with phrase «as libraries around the world»

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Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

As a result of this unanimously positive feedback, Dr. Lee began to collect detailed data on these patients, and also began to research progesterone more in - depth, gathering studies from his local medical library, and communicating with scientists around the world to discuss their work.

As one example, consider the popularity of Khan Academy, whose library of practice activities and videos are accessed each month by over 10 million users around the world and in many schools across the United States.

As we address this challenge, educators across Canada and around the world are re-imagining the potential of the library to be a true learning commons: the physical and virtual collaborative hub within a whole - school approach to participatory learning.

With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.

The company basically powers the digital lending capabilities of more than 33,000 separate libraries around the world, as one of their huge innovations was the ability to borrow content... [Read more...]

Your ebook will be uploaded and made available to our distribution network, including Amazon, iBooks, and BN.com, as well as libraries and specialty retailers around the world.

H. W. Wilson products have become familiar to generations of library patrons as standard tools in college, public, school, and special libraries around the world.

«Partnering with leading bookseller in France, FNAC, brings Kobo closer to our vision of delivering the best eReading experience to more readers, on any device, in more countries around the world,» said Michael Serbinis, CEO, Kobo, Inc. «We believe our launch into France as well as our upcoming entries into Spain, Italy and the Netherlands will be embraced by the European eReading community, as people start eReading, building their lifetime digital libraries, and reading freely across multiple devices.»

«Partnering with leading bookseller in France, FNAC, brings Kobo closer to our vision of delivering the best eReading experience to more readers, on any device, in more countries around the world,» said Michael Serbinis, CEO of Kobo, Inc. «We believe our launch into France as well as our upcoming entries into Spain, Italy and the Netherlands will be embraced by the European eReading community, as people start eReading, building their lifetime digital libraries, and reading freely across multiple devices.»

The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine As the world she knows unravels, Betty's daughters — the passionate Miranda, a famous literary agent, and the more subdued Annie, a sensible library director — rally around her in support.

As new Little Free Libraries started showing up around the Midwest, word - of - mouth marketing has carried the concept out into the broader world.

«Come Write In» provides libraries, bookstores, and other public spaces resources to facilitate writing events: promotional materials such as posters, window clings, and bookmarks (available for the price of shipping), access to a local NaNoWriMo liaison who can help organize events, and inclusion in a searchable public database of all participating organizations around the world.

«Customers around the world can now download this free application from Android Market and enjoy Amazon's vast selection of Kindle books on their Android - powered devices», says the company in a statement as it hopes to bring in a new library of readers to its bookstore.

More than 7,500 libraries around the world are participating in the Big Library Read, which was organized to demonstrate the importance of libraries as a discovery channel.

Speakers from around the world discuss business models, tech trends, rights and licenses, as well as issues related to education and academic publishing, book production, library sciences, rights and licenses, marketing, and more.

As I searched the web, university libraries, and on - line scholarly paper repositories, I was impressed by how much very useful personal financial planning information was scattered around the academic world.

Considering neither the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or iPhone versions of the game had any sort of online multiplayer component, there certainly wasn't a big chance of any sort of online multiplayer interaction coming to the PSP, and hopes for playing with other players around the world were all but crushed when we heard it was coming to the PSP minis library, as minis don't include online modes.

He has completed commissions for the United Nations as well as for numerous institutions around the world, most recently public libraries in Iraq and Lebanon.

The ash - grey plaster installation, complete with a grand piano, an art library, drawing room and neo-classical sculptures set around a lotus pond, resembles a petrified villa of a Pompeii nobleman in what could be seen as a critique of the dead hand of the global elite on the art world.

It can also be found in libraries around the world as part of the EBSCO Publishing bibliographic and research databases.

One of their new releases is the World Trials Collectiosn which they describe in a brief summary as collections of famous trials from libraries around the world, and from antiquarian book dealers, as well as books that analyze and debate famous trials, as well as... [World Trials Collectiosn which they describe in a brief summary as collections of famous trials from libraries around the world, and from antiquarian book dealers, as well as books that analyze and debate famous trials, as well as... [world, and from antiquarian book dealers, as well as books that analyze and debate famous trials, as well as... [more]