Sentences with phrase «which classic author»

• Yes, Valentine's Day is over, and everyone's experiencing some internet - quiz fatigue these days, but no self - respecting bibliophile could pass up BuzzFeed's Which Classic Author Is Your Soulmate?

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«In this business classic — now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis — Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller - coaster ride of Long - Term Capital Management.

As market watchers know, he's considered a value investor — someone who buys companies when they're cheap — which is a strategy he learned from his Columbia Business School professor Benjamin Graham, author of the geeky classic The Intelligent Investor.

He's the author of the investment classic, «Random Walk Down Wall Street,» which I recommend reading.

He is Joel Greenblatt, a great value investor, financial thought leader and author of several bestselling books including The Little Book That Still Beats the Market, which is considered an investment classic.

The author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last living links to an era in early 20th century America in which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.

Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

Most studies show that mothers who «eat to hunger» show a steady, gradual weight loss while nursing, according to Kathleen Huggins, author of the classic «Nursing Mother's Companion,» which has sold more than one million copies.

«The Middle Pleistocene was a long period of about half a million years during which hominin evolution didn't proceed through a slow process of change with just one kind of hominin quietly evolving towards the classic Neandertal,» said lead author Juan - Luis Arsuaga, Professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

H. Anthony Medley, the author of Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed, has updated and revised this classic text, which has sold more than half a million copies since its first publication in 1978 (Warner Business Books, ISBN 0 -446-69383-9).

«Although the structure of the cycles in these three systems had been noted as unusual by the authors who observed them, there had been, as yet, no unified theoretical framework from which to make sense of such as radical departure from the classic signature of predator - prey interactions,» Weitz said.

This portion of the routine is a classic variation of the «hard gainer» style of training promoted by Stuart McRobert and the various authors of Hardgainer magazine (of which I was one).

The game is based on the novel of the same name by award - winning author, Christopher Brookmyre, and sees the player take on the role of protagonist Heather Quinn as she negotiates a variety of levels, all of which reference classic games and genres of years gone by.

But to the sure relief of armchair aviators everywhere, director Mark Osborne's «The Little Prince» turns out to be a respectful, lovingly reimagined take on Antoine de Saint - Exupery's classic 1943 tale, which adds all manner of narrative bells and whistles to the author's slender, lyrical story of friendship between a pilot and a mysterious extraterrestrial voyager, but stays true to its timeless depiction of childhood wonderment at odds with grown - up disillusionment.

Margo is a heavily idealized character that only exists in the fantasy - land of a young author's imagination, where old texts of Walt Whitman are strewn around her bedroom, which is also filled with a collection of classic and rare LPs that would probably only make make her grandparents drool.

Well, to be honest author Douglas Adams» cult classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which can only be described as «Monty Python in Space!»)

Coppola noted that his adapted classics always gave possessive credit to the original writer, including the beloved «Godfather» films, which were always marketed as «Mario Puzo's «The Godfather» instead of «Francis Ford Coppola's «The Godfather» because, as he explained, «Anyone who's adapted screenplays knows the author did the heavy lifting.»

Major names highlighted the winners for Cannes 2017's Directors» Fortnight prizes with Chloe Zhao's The Rider, which was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, grabbing the Art Cinema Award and French directing legend Claire Denis tying with Philippe Garrel for the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize with their films Let the Sunshine In (with Juliette Binoche) and Lover For a Day, respectively.

Other initiatives to celebrate the event and promote reading in the city included using the city's buses and trams to display inspiring quotes from classic and contemporary authors, giving out bookmarks to the general public and a weekly book club which ran throughout June in the Cluj - Napoca's botanical garden.

Up next in the long list of Austen re-imaginings is the HarperCollins» Austen Project, in which six beloved contemporary authors provide modern takes on Austen's classic works.

Notable translations included in the first wave of releases, which will be available beginning in November, include LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel, AIR MAIL by Tomas Transtromer & Robert Bly, THE FOXES COMES AT NIGHT by Cees Nooteboom, THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen, UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo, THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing, THE COVE by Ron Rash as well as classics by Mary Norton, Amos Oz, and authors of wide - ranging international interest including Julian Assange, Julian Barnes, Mikhail Gorbachev and Michel Foucault.

Stephen Coonts is the author of innumerable New York Times bestsellers, the first of which was the classic flying tale, Flight of the Intruder.

Bedelia, Vera Caspary (1945) Vera Caspary is best known as the author of Laura, which was adapted by Otto Preminger (somewhat contentiously) into one of the classic films noirs.

The best - selling British author takes on the task of modernizing this Austen classic, which finds Elinor, Marianne and Margaret disinherited not for being female, but because their carefree mother didn't marry their father.

This is certainly true for the essay, but it is also true, I think, for classic nonfiction in general, be it Thucydides or Pascal or Carlyle, which follows an organizing principle that can be summarized as «tracking the consciousness of the author.»

Tayari Jones, author of the newest Oprah Book Club selection, An American Marriage, as well as the novels Leaving Atlanta, The UntellingandSilver Sparrow, which the National Endowment for the Arts added to the Big Read Library of classics in 2016.

Following the new roll out of new Kindle devices, Amazon has announced Kindle Serials, which will allow authors to publish books as installments much like classic serial novels such as Charles Dickens.

Her sharply focused, issue - oriented, strategic media campaigns, which blend classic media with new media for the widest possible exposure and platform building, have landed authors on the bestseller lists of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

Classic author website design gives authors too much freedom, which is bad for a number of reasons.

Tayari Jones, author of the newest Oprah Book Club selection, An American Marriage, as well as the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling and Silver Sparrow, which the National Endowment for the Arts added to the Big Read Library of classics in 2016.

I'd suggest that authors investigate thoroughly the competition for their book, which includes the titles that are now considered classics and that all readers interested in this subject will buy, as well as the titles that are fresh on the market and are drawing attention.

The authors say the book follows the format of The Elements of Style, a short classic on the art of powerful writing, which I confess isn't a title I had heard about before.

In «The Millionaire Next Door» (a terrific classic, which probably all of us have read several times), the authors discover that one of the most important factors in building wealth is choosing a partner who is frugal and whose outlook about finances is realistic, one who is willing to work together to build wealth.

In Lenox, 20 minutes from Stockbridge, you can tour The Mount, which was the home of Edith Wharton, author of that very New York classic the Age of Innocence.

He authored several books, including his best - selling 1988 classic A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 10 million copies.Hawking was diagnosed with the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 21.

An updated edition — with a new preface — of the bestselling parenting classic by the author of «BRAINSTORM: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain» In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent.

In the classic marketing and business book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, author Robert Cialdini spends an entire chapter on the concept of social proof, which basically shows that we humans decide what to do by looking around and observing what everyone else is doing.