Sentences with phrase «u.s. national book»

Staff members and fellows have written over 60 books, many of which have won prizes including the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award.

His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian (2007), is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award for best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Sherman).

Her books include The Trolls, finalist for the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1999, Everything on a Waffle, a runner - up for the Newbery Medal in 2002... (more)

Her books include The Trolls, finalist for the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1999, Everything on a Waffle, a runner - up for the Newbery Medal in 2002 and winner of the National Book Award.

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«The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the technology),» said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.

Globalization's dependence on U.S. national policies is one of the book's central theses.

The culinary techniques outlined in this book have been validated by the culinary industry and sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Labor and the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation (ACFEF) National Apprenticeship Committee.

His father, Val, was the U.S. National Women's and Men's team coach, the National Technical Director of Canada, the National Technical Director of the USVBA, the author of one of the first books on volleyball, the author of the National Technical Journal, and traveled the world running coaching clinics for the IVBF (International Federation of Volleyball).

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Scientific American, the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal, and Tor Books, the leading science fiction and fantasy publisher, are media partners for the contest run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.

Forman had gained renown with his book Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions and was subsequently invited to join a national council on the impact of the U.S. transportation network on ecology.

Theory can be learned from seminars and workshops such as the U.S. National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology, conferences such as Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching, and books, Moctezuma says.

His scholarly contributions, reported in well over 650 publications, book chapters, and reviews, have earned Dr. Jain scores of awards and honors in the U.S. and internationally, including election to the United States National Academies of Medicine (2003), Engineering (2004), and Sciences (2009).

The book's premise is that U.S. schools are doing well, despite messages to the contrary in national media since the early 1980s, Ravitch told the Washington Post.

Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing and increasingly borderless and innovation - based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart is not about casting blame; it is about understanding what the best school systems in the world are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools — at the national, state, and local level — might do differently and better.

Franklin's previous book, 33 Men, offered a behind - the - scenes account of the Chilean miners trapped nearly a kilometer underground, became a national bestseller in the U.S. and UK, and was translated into nineteen languages.

In 1999, I was reading a nonfiction book on runaway slaves and came across a few lines and an endnote about an Antebellum divorce case from the Circuit Court in Talladega, Alabama (the city's lovely courthouse, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is still in use and is the oldest working courthouse in the U.S.).

Mom and John, both of whom had met with Nancy many times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, were working together to form a U.S. foundation to help Nancy raise money for a national cultural center and library - something Afghanistan didn't have - to be built at Kabul University, and for mobile libraries for villages all over the country, bringing books in Dari and Pashto to people who'd rarely or never seen a book in their own language if they'd seen a book at all.

Mitchell Kaplan to be honored at National Book Awards ceremony; Poll finds one in six Americans likely to purchase e-readers; Workshop draws prospective bookseller from across the U.S.; Sourcebooks forms education division

While the book is designed to entertain, it also explores the very real issues in the current debate over vaccine safety in the mandatory U.S. National Immunization Program.

The Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report ™ is a biennial, national survey of children ages 6 — 17 and their parents as well as parents of kids» ages 0 - 5, in the U.S. exploring attitudes and behaviors around reading books for fun.

Women like Teresita Fernández, often known for large - scale, public sculptures (and as the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, as appointed by President Obama), or Jacqueline Woodson, author of the best - selling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming and winner of the 2014 National Book Award.

He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally at venues such as Madrid Abierto / ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05 and 07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, The Pontevedra Biennial, The Queens Museum of Art, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Rutgers University, The Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, The MacDowell Colony, Provisions Library, El Museo del Barrio, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery / BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others.

National Academies publications based on publicly - funded studies, which should be readily and widely available in the U.S. and abroad, have had their circulation limited by a National Academies Press business model that combined the sale of sometimes pricey books with cumbersome online reading and printing arrangements.

In the U.S., the National Chamber of Commerce judges it as one of the 10 «Books That Drive the Debate» in 2008.

The 45 environmental groups were selected from among the major national environmental organizations analyzed by political scientist Christopher Bosso in his book Environment Inc: From Grassroots to Beltway, an award - winning study of the history, financing and political strategies of the U.S. environmental movement.

When the book closes on the year 2012, it will go down as the warmest year in the National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) history for the contiguous U.S. — a history that goes back to 1895.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

These days, I use an orange - book system on Linux, courtesy of the U.S. National Security Administration, but only for some fairly trivial bits of consulting data.

His journalism and books have been honored by the Mirror Awards, U.S. National Press Club, National Magazine Awards, Canadian Online Publishing Awards, and Crime Writers of Canada.

- Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW)- Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP)- 20 years as a professional writer and entrepreneur - 18 years service in the U.S. Department of Defense, with background in logistics management, IT, financial management, and human resources - 11 - time contributor of resumes and cover letters to best - selling career industry books - Quoted in U.S. News and World Report / Money / Careers - Quoted Career Expert on Monster.com, 8/2010 - Career Consultant / Resume Expert at Women for Hire, CareerBuilder.com, & National Society of Hispanic MBA's Career Fairs - Member, Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches (PARW / CC)- Member, Career Thought Leaders (CTL)- Member, Career Directors International (CDI)- Member, National Resume Writers Assoc (NRWA)- Member, The Career Experts (TCE)

Mr. Cooper's firm has been ranked as the # 3 online resume provider in the U.S. (out of literally thousands of firms), and is the only resume writing firm recommended by the award - winning national website, CollegeGrad.com and the book, The College Grad Job Hunter, available in all Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores nationwide.

U.S. Army National Guard, Group Support Co & 1st Battalion 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) 2007 — 2011 Unit Armorer, Supply Sergeant, Property Book NCO

Formerly the national speaker for realtor.com ® and an agent and investor, Joe authored «The Foreclosure Revolution» in 2008, an award - winning book that predicted the U.S. housing market crash.