Sentences with phrase «action against the book»

In recent years, most major retailers have had to take unpopular action against books and authors that were mislabeled.

As a consequence, Amazon enforces strict rules about their use and has been known to take swift action against books («take downs») when these rules are violated.

to John Aga, I don't take the DOJ's action against the book publishers as proof of anything meaningful.

I have just received an email request to pass on a warning about Amazons latest actions against book authors reviews.

Not exact matches

What they are threatened by are the actions and atatudes [deliberate typo due to ridiculous moderation AI] of those who do profess belief in those deities, and feel justified by their beliefs and holy books to discriminate against those of differing beliefs.

In the late «90s the neocons urged President Clinton to take military action against Iraq; their letter to him is reproduced on the dust jacket of Dorrien's book.

A new reading scheme has been launched for boys (Times, January 7th 2009) with books emphasising action, adventure, and a team of young people battling against danger.

So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against women.

Advocating death or severe punishment for actions such as holy book destruction or dunking an avatar in place of a dead person may cause the «offended» in a position of appearing quite distance from his / her religious instruction and thereby sinning against one's own diety.

Levine adds; «Ruth's actions offer no means for improving the social system of Bethlehem,» and; «It is the reader's task to determine whether this book affirms Ruth or ultimately erases her, whether she serves as a moral exemplar or as a warning against sexually forward Gentile women.»

Despite their very obvious christian undertones, I though that the last book contained an argument against religion (more - so organized religion, which is a bit different), where the donkey and the monkey pretend to respectively be and be acting for Aslan (the Jesus symbol) and their actions result in widespread chaos, and the eventual collapse of Narnia.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

To Arsenal fans it was a foregone conclusion that Diego Costa should be punished for his despicable behaviour in Chelsea's win over the Gunners, so thankfully the FA have called him to book and are looking for explanations for his actions against Laurent Koscielny.

Publication of the editorial came on the same day as two other events of note, first, the release of a new book, Back in the Game, in which sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher and award - winning journalist Joanne Gerstner repeatedly and pointedly criticize the media for «irresponsible» reporting on CTE, and second, the filing of a class action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Pop Warner, USA Football, and the National Operating Committee on Standards For Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) which assumes as scientific fact that repetitive head impacts sustained in youth football «exposed» plaintiffs» sons to CTE, and led one to engage in «erratic and reckless behavior» resulting in his untimely death, and the other to take his own life.

Author of Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids: What You Need to Know; Political Class Dismissed: Essays Against Politics; Direct Citizen Action: How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot; and his latest book, Progressivism, A Primer

The community's efforts to find the cause and its lawsuit against corporate giants W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods were later detailed in Jonathan Harr's book A Civil Action and a movie of the same name.

Also the book Dirty Medicine by Martin J Walker contains some critique of Herberts research methods and his political actions against the alternative health movement.

Ben (Kevin Kline) is no longer an alcoholic, and Elena (Joan Allen), whose last actions in the book are shockingly cruel, comes off as more sinned against than sinning.

If Fox, Bryan Singer and Matthew Vaughn ever wanted to up the action ante and deliver what would one of the most ambitious action set pieces seen in a comic book movie, having the X-Men (the original trilogy's team and that of the First Class quasi-prequel) face off against an army of Sentinels would be the way to do it.

Dame Helen Mirren has joined the cast of Red, the comic book - based action thriller that pits Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman against each other.

Production on the film is set to start in the summer in and around New York, and it is set to be released on April 15th, 2016, which will see it go up against Disney's live - action remake of The Jungle Book and the Jason Statham - Jessica Alba vehicle Mechanic: Resurrection.

Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins have similar plans, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which characterized their actions as «a dramatic stand against the cut - rate $ 9.99 pricing of e-book bestsellers.»

The lawsuit alleged defamation per se on the basis of two posts from this blog: one from March 2013 covering the second class action lawsuit filed against PublishAmerica, and one from January 2014 covering PublishAmerica's new name and services as America Star Books.

In her piece, Katherine references (but does not link to in order to avoid helping the blogger with traffic to her site, as Good e-Reader likewise will not) an article that circulated almost virally last weekend, a piece that named thirty prominent, best - selling self - published authors; while specifically targeting author Melissa Foster, who is now pursuing legal action against the blogger, the post by someone who claims to have spent two years «working undercover» at Fiverr names authors Hugh Howey, Blake Crouch, Amanda Hocking, and several others as those who purchased bulk book reviews.

Anderson has turned Scroggins» action into an opportunity to speak out against banned books, telling readers what they can do if books are challenged in their communities.

This isn't the first time Amazon has taken this kind of boycott - action against a publisher for not agreeing to its terms, but it's also not the first time any book retailer — online or otherwise — has refused to stock, discount, sell, or promote a specific publisher's works.

The United States of America, acting under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, brings this civil antitrust action against Defendants Apple, Inc. («Apple»); Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»); HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»); Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d / b / a Macmillan (collectively, «Macmillan»); The Penguin Group, a division of Pearson plc and Penguin Group (USA), Inc. (collectively, «Penguin»); and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Penguin, «Publisher Defendants») to obtain equitable relief to prevent and remedy violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1.

These allegations have come up in the past and they stem mostly from the fact that Amazon relies on author honesty instead of vetting each uploaded ebook; the online book retailer also has only course of action against stolen content, which is namely to wait for complaints from consumers or authors, then remove the ebook from its catalog.

Moreover, the slow process has been a disappointment; in the time it's taken for the EU to come to any sort of action against Amazon, countless small book retailers have already suffered.

His step - mother, uber - socialite Dede Wilsey, threatened legal action against his publisher (after excerpts had run in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle) in an attempt to stop publication of the book on the basis that there were more than 30 «actionably defamatory statements of fact... which constitute libel per se» (and that was just in the excerpts!).

Apples iBookstore wields enough power to change how electronic books are sold and priced, according to plaintiffs in class - action suits against the Cupertino, Calif., company and several traditional publishers.

If you're traditionally published, you have the option of contacting your publisher to take action against the websites pirating your book.

Russell is the international bestselling author of Fatal Exchange, a groundbreaking genre - blending thriller set against the counter-culture backdrop of New York's gritty underground, The Geronimo Breach, an action / intrigue / thriller set in Panama, the bestsellingZero Sum trilogy of Wall Street thrillers — Kotov Syndrome, Focal Point and Checkmate (which hit # 15 on Amazon's top 100 free books), The Delphi Chronicle trilogy (The Manuscript, The Tortoise & The Hare and Phoenix Rising), the epic assassination thriller King of Swords, and its prequel, Night of the Assassin, and The Voynich Cypher.

Warning: If any books bearing your information are found being distributed illegally, then your account will be suspended and legal action may be taken against you.

Next up for OR Books is Norman Finkelstein's book on «Israel's Growing Isolation After the Gaza Invasion,» set for January, in which he «looks at how the reckless and disproportionate military action against the Palestinians in Gaza a year ago has led some of Israel's closest allies to question their support for the country,» while «offering the possibility of something hopeful emerging from the tragedy of what occurred in Gaza.»

But this book trains the telescope on the less explored parts of the investment skies and provides us with the secret to success: run concentrated portfolios with permanent capital to prevent against capital withdrawals just at the depressed times when bold investment action is called for.

Outside RRSPs or TFSAs, such an action might generate capital gains taxes or — depending when it was bought — some capital losses that could be applied against previously booked or future capital gains.

The author wisely omits the more gruesome aspects of the pit to keep readers from closing the book, but without sparing them completely, because Stauss» self - imposed mission in writing this book is «to shock people into taking action against dog fighting and at the same time change negative perceptions about the breed.»

The forum will include brief presentations by several collectives including, #ArtsGoBK, BRIC, Chinatown and Lower East Side Artists Against Displacement, The Creative Resistance, the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance, Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM)- Moving Arts, For Freedoms, Hands Off Our Revolution, Hunter Community Action Coalition, The Illuminator, Kingsbridge Project, Love City Arts Collective, Occupy Museums, Resistance Media Collective, TVR - Imagine Liberation team, TVR - News, Wendy's Subway, Word Up Books, along with many others.

- Midland Free Press «Boyd's powerful, well - documented book will shake readers out of their complacency and empower them to take action against environmental hazards.»

Books: Among Amazon.com's 200 top - selling books in March 2006 were Flannery (2006) and Kolbert (2006a), the latter previously published in the New Yorker [Kolbert (2005)-RSB-; some commentators hoped one or the other would serve like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), which spurred action against pesticides and environmental pollution in genBooks: Among Amazon.com's 200 top - selling books in March 2006 were Flannery (2006) and Kolbert (2006a), the latter previously published in the New Yorker [Kolbert (2005)-RSB-; some commentators hoped one or the other would serve like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), which spurred action against pesticides and environmental pollution in genbooks in March 2006 were Flannery (2006) and Kolbert (2006a), the latter previously published in the New Yorker [Kolbert (2005)-RSB-; some commentators hoped one or the other would serve like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), which spurred action against pesticides and environmental pollution in general.

As such, Klein's book is symptomatic of the Left's disturbing turn against progressive, pragmatic action for people and the environment.

The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.

Bill of Costs Bill of Costs (Tariff Items) Consent Form 18 Requisition — General Form 41 Subpoena Form 52.2 Certificate Concerning Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses Form 80A Affidavit Form 91 Direction to Attend Form 124A Notice of change of solicitor Form 146A1 Affidavit of service Form 146A2 Affidavit of service — Personal Service Form 146B Solicitor's Certificate of Service Form 149 Tender of Payment into Court Form 171A Statement of claim Form 171B Statement of defence Form 171C Reply Form 171D Counterclaim against parties to main action only Form 171E Counterclaim against plaintiff and person not already party to the main action Form 171F Defence to Counterclaim Form 171G Reply to defence to counterclaim Form 171H Third Party Claim against a person already party to the action Form 171I Third Party Claim against a person not already party to the action Form 171J Third Party Defence Form 171K Reply to Third Party Defence From 223 Affidavit of Documents Form 255 Request to Admit Form 256 Response to Request to Admit Form 258 Request for Pre-Trail Conference Form 301 Notice of Application Form 305 Notice of Appearance — Application Form 314 Requisition for Hearing — Application Form 337 Notice of Appeal Form 341A Notice of Appearance — Appeal Form 344 Certificate of Completeness of Appeal Book Form 347 Requisition for Hearing — Appeal Form 359 Notice of Motion Memorandum of Fact and Law Model Bifurcation Order Model Jeopardy Order Motion Record Notice of Consent to Electronic Service Solicitor's Certificate of Expert Witness

«The whole office knew about my book but they took action against me about it only after I had complained of sexual harassment,» she said.

Disappointed readers subsequently filed a class action against Frey and his publisher, Random House, seeking a refund for the cost of the book, and they'll be getting a small refund check.

Mr Bannon has not yet spoken publicly about the president's comments, the book or the legal action taken against him.

Action against Defendants, a pharmaceutical company, its former CEO, and its former Controller, in connection with alleged financial reporting, books and records, and internal accounting controls violations by Defendant company.

The continued presence of books and records cases on this list was driven largely by enforcement actions against three firms primarily for failing to preserve records in a «write once, read many» (WORM) format.

An author of a children's illustrated book failed to state a valid claim of copyright infringement in her action against a publisher and entertainment agency for their alleged infringement for mirroring the author's story in another publication which adopted the