Sentences with phrase «about a dozen books by»

I've read about a dozen books by N. T. Wright, and I am sorry to say that Small Faith, Great God is not his best.

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The couple had 12 children, two of whom wrote a book about their family's life called «Cheaper by the Dozen.»

After reading about three dozen books on the subject by college and seminary professors, I think I can make a pretty sound judgement.

Oh, by the way, scientists don't expect ME to pay money in their honor every week so some guy in a staged ceremony can read from a 2,000 year old book, translated dozens of different ways, written by a bunch of folks whom we know virtually nothing about, where the facts and moral lessons are both flawed and contradictory.

The book resonates with me, since I have been studying Italian for about a dozen years now, mostly through classes that have by now evolved into weekly two - hour conversations with a private tutor — a fast talker from Turin who forces me to keep up with her onrushing molto veloce patter.

A lot has been written about on - going, formative assessments, but my favorite resource is Checking for Understanding by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey This book is a quick and easy read, very accessible and full of dozens of ways to thoughtfully and systematically monitor student learning.

I'm not going to give you a lot of advice about writing dialog, or creating dramatic tension, or any of a dozen aspects of fiction writing that have already been covered in books written by more respected authors than I. For that matter, I'm also not going to give you a lot of rah - rah motivational advice about sticking with it and overcoming your doubts.

Randomly stumbled upon this tonight and I see most of the comments are now years old... but in response to your last comment Tracy about how you know at least some writers that make $ 1,000 a day by writing longer works... out of curiosity, are these writers publishing dozens of books to get to that level or did they just find the right niche and only have to publish a few books to get to that level?

During this insider interview on our literary agent blog, Carol Plum - Ucci, author of more than half a dozen young adult novels published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in hardcover and paperback, including The Body of Christopher Creed, shares advice for authors of all genres about how to write, publish, and / or promote their books.

We're one of about a dozen bookstores now in the country that have this — the official name is Espresso Book Machine, made by On Demand Books and marketed by Xerox.

Authors will also want to check out a new eBook by Karen Robertson about how more than two dozen authors created a book app.

I have also been called a pedophile and racist through GR book reviews and comments under the book reviews as well as have two current hate blogs established in my honnor by these bullies as well as have dozens of these bullies blogging lies and making libelous comments about me on their blogs.

I can't count the number of times I've recommended Speak, Wintergirls, Sarah Dessen's Dreamland, all of the poetry - prose books by Ellen Hopkins, the realistic fiction of Gary Schmidt, or dozens of other books about drugs, abusive relationships, and other «edgy» topics.

What makes Fiasco stand out from the crowd of recently published books about the current situation in Iraq is the comprehensiveness and coherence of Ricks's reporting, and the dozens of military sources he cites (many going on the record for the first time) backed up by the thousands of pages of internal documents - Ricks says he read over 30,000 pages of documents, including diaries, unit logs, official briefings, email correspondence and US military documents.

What makes Fiasco stand out from the crowd of recently published books about the current situation is the comprehensiveness and coherence of Ricks's reporting, and the dozens of military sources he cites (many going on the record for the first time) backed up by the thousands of pages of internal documents - Ricks says he read over 30,000 pages of documents, including diaries, unit logs, official briefings, email correspondence and US military documents.

I'm sure you've heard about or read books by the dozens, of so - called early retirees who have made a cottage industry out of retiring early (somewhat of an oxymoron).

The book is unique in its coverage of international and transactional issues as well as traditional intellectual property law and policy, and has been adopted by about a dozen schools beyond the home schools of the authors.

Review by Eva Locke, CARW - [email protected] I can list dozens of books about the mechanics of job search - how to create a resume, how to locate job listings, how to interview successfully.