Sentences with phrase «acclaimed author of life»

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Fear is one of the many topics acclaimed life and business coach, author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins addresses in his seminars.

Today's guest post comes all the way from Laos, where my friend Lisa McKay — author of the highly acclaimed novel, My Hands Came Away Red — lives with her husband Mike, who works for a humanitarian organization in the region.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

Rich is also the author of two acclaimed books — The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished — that address the vocation of Christ - followers to live out the whole gospel, bringing the good news to a hurting world in not only word but also deed.

Lu Hanessian is author of the acclaimed memoir Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood (St. Martin's Press, 2004), veteran TV journalist and former NBC anchor of Real Life, Discovery Health Channel host of Make Room for Baby, weekly newspaper parenting columnist, national speaker, and workshop facilitator.

Jonathan Fields, acclaimed entrepreneur, author, and founder of the Good Life Project, is a busy guy.

Dr. Saltz is the author of the critically - acclaimed Becoming Real: Defeating the Stories We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back, Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie and The Ripple Effect: How Better Sex Can Lead to a Better Life.

Acclaimed and bestselling vegan author and creator of VegKitchen.com, Nava Atlas, delivers a beautiful must - have guide to transform your kitchen, plate, and life with the best nature has to offer, with more than 150 delicious and versatile plant - based recipes for every day of the year.

Based on the award - winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this hand - drawn, animated film tells the true story of Raymond's own parents — Ethel and Ernest - two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraordinary events and immense social change.

Beasts of No Nation is based on the highly acclaimed novel by Nigerian author Uzodinma Iweala, bringing to life the gripping tale of Agu, a child soldier torn from his family to fight in the civil war of an African country.

Renowned and critically acclaimed author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., over the span of his life, published 14 novels and 3...

Wire Side Chat: Helping «Fake Readers» Become Proficient Life - Long Readers Cris Tovani, author of the best - selling «I Read It, But I Don't Get It,» chats with Education World about her checkered reading past and about her widely acclaimed work with students and teachers in the area of reading comprehension strategies.

An American parent living in Shanghai, author Lenora Chu looks at the good, the bad, and the different of China's acclaimed education system in her new book, «Little Soldiers.»

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Jo Lena Johnson, the AG Resilience Coach, is a certified mediator, international trainer, acclaimed author, founder of Absolute Good Training and Life Skills Management, and publisher of Mission Possible Press.

Purity By Jonathan Franzen Picador • $ 17 • ISBN 9781250097101 The epic fifth novel from the critically acclaimed and provocative author encompasses many themes of modern - day life — from the impact of student debt to the exposed secrets of the Internet — in a masterfully constructed narrative that stretches from Oakland, California, to Berlin.

Author of the acclaimed picture - book biography Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (2014), Patricia Hruby Powell turns her attention to the true story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter with her nonfiction novel in verse Loving vs. Virginia, about a white man and a black woman who fell in love and married in a time when this was an illegal act.

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.

Today, she is the respected author of deeply felt novels about the lives of women, including The Cheerleader, her acclaimed coming - of - age bestseller about a teenage girl in the 1950s, which launched her acclaimed Snowy Series.

He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.

Rachel Kushner lives in Los Angeles and is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba.

Now fourteen years have passed, and in acclaimed author David Hewson's stunning new crime novel the heart - wrenching case has come back to life as Detective Nic Costa and his fellow investigators search through layers of their city's history — for a killer leaving a trail of bodies, lust, and revenge.

You'll find pages to list books borrowed, lent, or given (even a place to list books you'd like to give), your book sources, and book group contact information, plus lists of acclaimed authors and titles to inspire future reading choices, and a section devoted to your reading life.

The next - generation Jin Yong Reader, named after China's best - selling living author, comes preloaded with Jin Yong's acclaimed 15 novel set (compiled in 36 volumes) and includes access to Koobe's content libraries, which features thousands of novels, comics, interactive e-books, animated picture books and magazines.

From the critically acclaimed and award - winning author of Past the Shallows comes a remarkable new novel that weaves together the lives of a young girl from Tasmania and a sailor in search of meaning, whose brief encounter leaves a lasting impact on both.

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.

Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by Rosencrans Baldwin FSG, $ 26, 304 pages When Rosecrans Baldwin, author of the critically acclaimed novel You Lost Me There, landed a gig with a French ad agency, his longtime dream to live in Paris came true.

The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families» lives.

In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other.

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world - and in the process created modern environmentalism.

Darin Strauss, author of the acclaimed novels Chang & Eng (a 2000 Discover pick), The Real McCoy, and More Than It Hurts You, and the award - winning memoir Half a Life.

In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

Lisa Renee Jones is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the highly acclaimed Inside Out series; the Dirty Money series; the White Lies duet; the Tall, Dark, and Deadly series; The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series; and Murder Notes.

The tragic lives of Henry VIII and his six wives are reimagined by seven acclaimed and bestselling authors in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of «Wolf Hall» and Netflix's «The Crown.»

Among the first adult titles will be published by Macmillan are; a book by acclaimed and beloved author and illustrator Maira Kalman celebrating libraries; a book on New York restaurant life, featuring menus from the library's extensive collection of 45,000 eatery menus; and Book Face, a book bringing together the best posts from the #bookface Instagram sensation.

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books, including When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, First in His Class: A... (more)

From Anna Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.

JK Rowling, author of the highly acclaimed bestselling Harry Potter series, spoke to over one million fans yesterday in a live webcast through Scholastic, Inc..

AWMAD provides us with the guidelines to work directly with our authors who have a good book that's selling well and receiving positive reader acclaim with regards to how one of our non-fiction titles provided real world help to improve the quality of their lives.

Acclaimed author Jennifer Gilmore's intimate and achingly beautiful novel deftly explores the role that chance and choice play in shaping the lives of two teenagers who are separated by...

Rich insights into the life of an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator, with full color reproductions of his early work and of his children's books.

VIBRANT APPEAL Steven Poole, acclaimed columnist at leading British game magazine Edge, and author of one of the most compelling approaches to video games so far, «Trigger Happy - The inner life of video games,» launched a vibrant appeal to developers to take more risks and to be more innovative.

Michael Bracewell (b. 1958) is the author of seven novels and eleven works of non-fiction including the much - acclaimed England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to Goldie (1997) on the cultural history of England.

In addition, poet MANDY KAHN (author of Math, Heaven, Time and co-author of the acclaimed Collage Culture) will be reciting her poetry to a live orchestration by composer DANIEL CORRAL (who's work has been presented by the Hammer Museum, REDCAT and MOCA).

From the soothing, restorative environment of Waterfall City to the hidden wonders of Chandara, acclaimed author and illustrator James Gurney's magical Dinotopian world comes to life in this enchanting exhibition that features 44 original oil paintings from the best - selling illustrated books Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (1992) and Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995).

Cohen, author of the critically acclaimed A Chance Meeting and the forthcoming Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, describes Geer's process in intimate detail: «What she is drawing is not fruit in a bowl or a reclining nude but the folds in her backpack, the tar stains on the roof of her studio building, the lean of the city buses parked in the lot across from 133rd street.

Rev. angel Kyodo williams Sensei is an author, activist, and master trainer that has been bridging the worlds of spirit and justice since her critically acclaimed book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace was hailed as «an act of love» by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, and «a classic» by Buddhist pioneer Jack Kornfield.

With the help of acclaimed author Trudy Ludwig, we've woven engaging live action and animated videos into every lesson.