Sentences with phrase «about a dozen books on»

I went to the library and checked out about a dozen books on weight lifting and started doing a routine I put together using some sand weights in my basement.

There is only about a dozen books on the digital day sale.

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Yes, you'll need to have captivating visuals and a clear message with great content, which you can read all about in the aforementioned dozens or hundreds of books and articles on ecommerce.

About a dozen years ago, mega-best-selling author Stephen King wrote a book about the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the CAbout a dozen years ago, mega-best-selling author Stephen King wrote a book about the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Cabout the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

She has authored a dozen books about marketing, branding, social media, copywriting, and technology and is the founder and editor - in - chief of Women on Business, a blog for business women.

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

After several months of brainstorming, talking with others in the publishing industry, doing hundreds of research on publishing methods, and reading dozens of books about publishing, I ended up with a process for book publishing which accomplished all three of my goals.

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

In his pursuit of 30 wins, McLain zoomed about in Lear jets, played Hammond organs, swigged Pepsi - Colas, schmoozed with Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Joey Bishop, Glen Campbell and the Smothers Brothers, changed his hair color, appeared on the covers of TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, recorded an album, gave organ lessons out of his home to two dozen students at $ 3.50 an hour and got himself booked in advance into the Riviera in Vegas, the Detroit Auto Show, Disneyland and a hundred other places to play electric keyboard with his band come winter.

Hoping her son will be home for Christmas, she has purchased about a dozen presents — a scooter, a book, the game Battleship — which sit stacked on the stairs.

Over a dozen years of parenting and dozens of books on parenting later, my advice to parents out there is: Forget about it.

Half a dozen books on his shelf are about the physics of heat transfer and another half dozen cover fluid dynamics.

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.

Now, however, with digital book formats and the ability to publish on your own through a couple dozen different outlets that all share revenues on about a 70:30 split with the author, maybe there's a lot more work to do as an author, but at least the system is set up to reward you the right way.

If you had two agents wanting to represent you and both were passionate about your book, but one agent had tens of thousands of followers on social media, while the other one only had a couple dozen or a couple hundred followers (or wasn't on social media at all), which one would you most want to work with?

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.

We are an affiliation of talented professionals who have worked on every kind of book you can imagine — from two New York Times best - sellers about war to a series of gorgeous cookbooks to a superbly written, self - published cancer memoir that has garnered dozens of rave, five - star Amazon reviews.

I gave away 4942 books over 3 days, picked up 5 reviews on Amazon, more than a dozen ratings on Goodreads, a few additional subscriptions to my newsletter, and had about a dozen immediate rollover sales to the next story in the series.

To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million books now (not counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and hit # 2 on the NYT Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.

Apple isn't trying to gain exclusive books rights, and thoughtful readers who aren't devouring the two dozen «instant articles» about this bit will see what's going on.

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.

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.

In my experiment, on a Kindle with about a dozen text books already loaded on it, I was limited to one Audible.com file containing an eight - hour recording.

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 talking about craft books, workshops, online courses, software, conferences, coaching, and probably half a dozen other strategies and «tools» that have come on the market since I started typing this post.

Later in the conference, I'll also speak with London's Roz Morris, who has «about a dozen» books selling more than 500,000 copies each... and her name isn't on them.

Similar to how I'm behind on my reading progress, I'm also behind on writing reviews: I have about two dozen books I've finished that need reviews written!

The problem with this is less readers will join, because they don't want to get signed up on dozens of email lists; and most authors will just email them info about their books right away, which will be seen as scammy.

Then I became my own publisher, started working with several of the largest publishing houses in the world, dozens overseas, and went on a hectic travel circuit to six continents where I spent more time talking about the book trade and business of being an author than I did hawking my own books.

I worked on the book for about a dozen years after I retired.

About a dozen more still to come, too — agents, editors, book reviewers, etc. waiting on bios / photos and «all that jazz» but wanted to be able to give folks a look - see before holidays come rolling in!

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.

He is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.