Not exact matches
Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self -
publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen
by more and more
authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such
as the movie version of The Martian.
For decades it was dismissed
as the desperate refuge of
authors rejected
by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.
But there's a downside
as well: self -
published authors don't get the marketing materials provided
by the Big Six, and have to work very hard in order to rise through the ranks, establish their personal brand, and attract the necessary readership to succeed.
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and WH Smith were just a few of the e-book retailers found
by The Kernel, an online muckracking website based in the United Kingdom, to be selling e-books from self -
published authors glorifying such topics
as rape, incest and bestiality.
As an
author, he has had 27 books
published by 7 different U.S. publishers, including his NO B.S. book series, now in its 12th year at Entrepreneur Media, which also
publishes Entrepreneur Magazine.
As a scholar, Polk had gained access to Faulkner's carbon typescripts for the major works; these were, effectively, keystroke logs of the
author's original manuscripts, and Polk compared these with the
published texts to return the prose to Faulkner's original intentions (these are the «corrected text editions»
published by Vintage).
Finally, in the «sadness» category, I am disheartened that there's an almost universal disparaging in this thread of those who happen to be
published authors and / or speakers,
as though this
by default makes us The Man and incapable of basic human compassion.
Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written
by the same five
authors and to be
published in 1991, speak
as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.
What's interesting is that though both these reports
by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society
as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the
author of the third document on this subject
published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis»,
published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.
G. E. Lessing (1729 - 81), a leading figure in the German Enlightenment, found the manuscript in the library at Wolfenbüttel, on his appointment there
as librarian in 1770, and
published parts of it
as «Wolfenbüttel Fragments
by an Unnamed
Author» between 1774 and 1778.
Dr. Sears is noted
by TIME
as «The Man Who Remade Motherhood» and
author of many parenting books, including The Baby Book: «First
published in 1992, The Baby Bookis now in print in 18 languages, with more than 1.5 million copies sold.»
Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book —
published in March 2018 — is written
by a collection of
authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp,
as well
as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.
In the review
published by Guise et al32 in 2005, the
authors classified only 2 of the 10 studies
as being of good quality.
Melding the category strengths and bestselling
authors of both imprints, TarcherPerigee's core
publishing areas include: Self - improvement (such
as the runaway successes Start Where You Are
by Meera Patel, The Power of Kindness
by Piero Ferrucci, Attached
by Dr. Amir Levine, and A Mind for Numbers
by Barbara Oakley); Creativity (including interactive books like Adam J. Kurtz's 1 Page at a Time and Me, You, Us
by Lisa Currie
as well
as the multi-million-copy bestsellers Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards and The Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron); Parenting (the New York Times bestseller Brainstorm
by Dr. Daniel Siegel, Carol Kranowitz's go - to guide The Out - of - Sync Child, and Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
by Dr. Laura Markham); Spirituality (including bestselling titles like Transcendence
by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, Goldie Hawn's 10 Mindful Minutes, The Science of Mind
by Ernest Holmes, and I Am the Word
by Paul Selig); and Gift / Inspiration (such
as the Wall Street Journal bestseller Chasers of the Light
by Tyler Knott Gregson, the New York Times bestseller Catification
by Jackson Galaxy and the James Beard Award - winner Imbibe
by David Wondrich).
-LSB-...] current economic orthodoxy within the Parliamentary Party, and outside of it, such
as «Plan C»,
authored by Dr Prateek Buch, and
published by the Social Liberal Forum last year.
He is the
author of «Barriers to Peace in Civil Wars», which was
published by Cambridge University Press,
as well
as articles in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research.
Blake's advice was not exactly neutral,
as he was a member of the Conservative Party,
author of «The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill», a history
published in 1970, and had been given a place in the House of Lords
by Heath in 1971.
«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold
by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or
by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known
as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead
author of a new study,
published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
By the time Sharon finished her postdoc, in 2006, she had
published 15 more papers, seven
as first
author.
The study is in line with previous research
published by senior
author Gratch, whose main interest lies both in how people express these tells — an unconscious action that betrays deception — and using this data to create artificial intelligence to discern and even express these same emotional cues
as a person.
For research papers created under grants for which the
authors are required
by their funding agencies to make their research results publicly available (for example, from NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or Wellcome Trust), we allow posting of the accepted version of research content (Research Articles and Reports) to the funding body's archive or designated repository (such
as PubMed Central) no sooner than six months after publication, provided that a link to the final version of the paper
published in the Science Journal is included.
To investigate this, the
authors conducted a study involving participants of Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (
published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described
by the
authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such
as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing country.
Three letters in comment,
as well
as a response companion piece
by the Warning
authors publishes today in the peer - reviewed journal BioScience.
For
authors who are required
by their funding agencies to make their research results publicly available, AAAS allows posting of the accepted version of the paper to the funding body's archive or designated repository (such
as PubMed Central) six months after publication, provided that a link to the final version
published by AAAS is included.
The report, «U.S. Academic Scientific
Publishing,»
published November 19, follows a July 2007 NSF study which found that the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles
published by U.S. - based
authors in the world's major peer - reviewed journals plateaued in the early 1990s even
as funding and personnel increased.
The report, now in its 26th year and
published as a special edition of the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was put together
by 456
authors in 62 countries and provides a checkup of Earth's health.
Heaney, Balete, and Rickart are also
authors of a book about the mammals of Luzon Island, just
published by Johns Hopkins University Press, that will be used in the Philippines
as a college - level textbook.
The
authors postulate that experiences of discrimination and racism may explain the higher rates of psychotic disorders in some immigrant groups,
as indicated
by previously
published studies.
The
authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed
by police
as well
as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just
as criminal data but
as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
by public health and medical professionals and
published on a weekly basis,
as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.
The panel found that the paper's first
author, Oona Lönnstedt, committed misconduct
by fabricating data in the paper; her lone co-
author and supervisor, Peter Eklöv, bears responsibility for the fabrication
as well, the board said, but was not guilty of misconduct under the regulations in effect when the paper was
published.
A study
published in the 27 September edition of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined how bias impacts the peer review process of medical journals
by comparing what happens when study
authors are identified for reviews, known
as a single - blind review, and when the identity of study
authors is kept from reviewers, known
as double - blind reviews.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law
by US President Barack Obama in 2010, can advance public health in the USA
by supporting increased emphasis on prevention, and reversing the historic division between public health and private health care services, according to the
authors of new research
published in The Lancet
as part of a new Series, The health of Americans.
A new test using peripheral vision reaction time could lead to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of mild traumatic brain injury, often referred to
as a concussion, according to Peter J. Bergold, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and corresponding
author of a study newly
published online
by the Journal of Neurotrauma.
«We determined the weather on these alien worlds
by measuring changes
as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day - night cycle,» said Lisa Esteves, a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and lead
author of the study
published today in The Astrophysical Journal.
New work
published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
by lead
authors Michael Raissig and Emily Abrash features a collaboration born at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology between Bergmann and John Vogel (now at the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute) who met
as postdocs at Carnegie.
WASHINGTON (October 26, 2016)-- The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to a paper
published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
by Trasande et al. alleging significant European health care costs from exposure to chemicals that the
authors have erroneously labeled
as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs):
I would do it
by presenting proven facts,
as published by science, with illumination from
authors, and the example of brave activists.
As we reported last month, Elsevier is retracting 26 papers affected
by fake reviews; Ahmad Salar Elahi is corresponding
author on 24 of them, including Khajehnezhad's now - retracted paper
published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
Per a meta analysis
published by Schoenfeld et al,
author Brad Schoenfeld notes that strength can be appreciably increased with
as little
as five or maybe less sets per week, per body part.
The research,
published in Clinical Psychology Review
by author Dr. Katy Tapper, found that a craving,
as defined
as a strong conscious desire for food or a specific drug, is causally linked to behavior.
In addition, he is the
author of the best selling book, No Grain No Pain,
published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Dr. Osborne has served
as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition.
All great
authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and
authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels,
as decided
by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal
published at the Unit
Additionally, Bracco is an Academy Award nominee for her performance
as a mobster's wife in Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS and the
author of a best - selling memoir, ON THE COUCH and a diet and nutrition book, TO THE FULLEST,
published by Rodale Books in Winter 2015.
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes, written
by those heroes, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone, with freelance journalist and
author Jeffrey E. Stern, was
published in 2016, just a year after their anti-terrorist triumph, so it was easy to mistake it for an «
as told to» quickie.
The EDGE OF TOMORROW novel was written
by Japanese
author Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and was previously
published as ALL YOU NEED IS KILL.
However, when a brutal serial killer begins to dispatch victims,
by recreating famous murders from Poe's
published stories, including «The Murders in the Rue Morgue»
as well
as «The Pit and the Pendulum,» the
author is thrown into a malicious battle of wits — with life and death hanging in the balance.
Dark Horse Comics has announced that Eisner - award winning creator Mark Buckingham (Fables) is adapting four of New York Times best - selling
author Neil Gaiman's prose short stories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be
published as a hardcover original graphic novel
by Dark Horse Book later this year.
(She's clearly a genius, racking up the royalties for a recently
published novel
by an
author she discovered, and issuing directives such
as, «Let's increase the font size two points for the print edition.»)
A child's reading progress can meanwhile be greatly supported
by providing children with dyslexia friendly books written
by some of the most popular and current
authors, such
as those
published by Barrington Stokes.
SPA Associate Professor Seth Gershenson was recognized
by the editors of the «Journal of Education, Finance and Policy»
as the
author of the best article
published in 2016.