Sentences with phrase «as books in»

A direct measure of family social background would be better than one that mixes in such factors as books in the home and the quality of peers at school.

For much of the time that I was writing I didn't know that it would emerge as a book in the end.

She becomes Chuck's obsession based solely on her looks, to the point where he not only does her book report for her, he chooses War and Peace as the book in question to impress her.

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As a result, the firm hasn't seen much change in the overall size of its loan book, despite overall growth in the non-bank residential mortgage industry.

Instead, he's a believer in «Small Data,» the title of his new book, which he describes as a method that's about «infusing creativity and preserving the instincts» of entrepreneurs, which he says can be their most valuable assets.

In addition to working full - time as a financial analyst, Sall also honed his personal finance knowledge with the help of a few useful books.

As Mandel - Campbell wrote in her book: «Language is only window dressing without a solid understanding of a country's culture and history.»

As a home - office journalist juggling a book deadline and domestic duties, I rely on regular runs along Ottawa's Rideau River to put work and parenting pressures in perspective.

Bring it up in conversation with a Brit and you'll probably be met with an eye - roll — as noted in Fraser McAlpine's new book, «Stuff Brits Like.»

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

As Fallon puts it, «certain books just feel more real held in our hands and paged through meditatively.»

After spending time in finance on Wall Street, Bezos founded Amazon.com in the garage of his Seattle home in 1994 and operated it exclusively as an online book retailer.

All this being said, there is still obviously such a thing as too much awkwardness, and most of us will continue, despite Dahl's pep talks for the self - conscious, to strive to behave stupidly in public as little as possible She very much understands that impulse and offers many tips she dug up speaking to researchers for the book, including:

In this book, Hill personally interviewed around 500 rich and successful people, such as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

As one of the oldest tricks in the digital marketing book, website scraping is still a premiere way of getting data.

A Jefferies analyst said this bookings miss was a «fluke» and not a sign of fundamental problems, and that any pullback in the stock should be seen as a buying opportunity.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

In this book, Ramsey coaches readers through the basics of personal finance, from paying off debt to building an emergency fund, providing «the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits,» as Amazon describes it.

One of those revisionists is Mitchell Goldberg, president of ClientFirst Strategy, based in Melville, N.Y. Metrics like P / E and price - to - book are subjective tools that never mattered as much as most investors thought they did, he says.

African - Americans and Latinos continue to be disproportionately criminalized and incarcerated as they have throughout U.S. history, as described in Michelle Alexander's powerful book «The New Jim Crow.»

In addition to CB «s Investor 500 stock rankings, investment strategies and stock picks, the book contains insight from top Canadian fund managers, such as BlackRock, TD Asset Management, Fidelity Investments and RBC.

These are leaders who, as I wrote in my book Great CEOs Are Lazy, prioritize wearing the «Coach's Hat»: their entire goal is to build a safe and accepting environment where people are encouraged to do their best work.

As Entrepreneur magazine observed in a recent article about the book industry, we now have a «market flooded with forgettable books created by companies for hire.»

As a voracious reader and all around brilliant guy, Gates is in a great position to evaluate which books are worth the time of a busy entrepreneur.

In their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business owneIn their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business ownein surviving the first three years as a business owner.

«In your body, nervousness feels the same, physiologically speaking, as excitement,» Dahl learned speaking to scientists for her book.

As LeBron James continues his unprecedented dominance in the NBA playoffs, he continues to re-write the record books.

His first book (those with delicate ears, please cover them now as I'm quoting the title in full), The No Asshole Rule, became a runaway bestseller, and he's recently come out with a timely follow - up, The Asshole Survival Guide.

You know how hard it is to find time in your calendar for a single event, so make your life easier by creating a recurring engagement — such as a book club or weekly coffee date with a friend — that you'll soon see as a schedule staple.

His books told him he was making a lot of money, but as he hired people and leased machines, he found his cash flow out was higher than his cash flow in.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

Part road novel, part ghost story, this National Book Award winner set in rural Mississippi follows a troubled mother and her two children as they drive to pick up the children's father from prison.

If you want your book to establish you as a thought leader, your audience is the people who care about the issues relevant to your space or the influencers in your space.

As I describe in my new book that comes out in January (pre-order it and you'll not only make Penguin Random House happy, you'll also be my new best friend) while we don't all have to be serial entrepreneurs... we should all be serial achievers.

«We use vitamins as insurance policies against whatever else we might (or might not) be eating, as if by atoning for our other nutritional sins, vitamins can save us from ourselves,» Catherine Price, a science reporter, wrote in the book «Vitamania.»

As travel bookings become ubiquitous digitally, one luxury travel firm is betting on growth in two categories: Asia and millennials.

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

These links between happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen» in my book of the same name) spends more time with screens than any previous generation.

Similar to the free books in Prime Reading, this Audible benefit unlocks free full - length audiobooks exclusive to Prime members as well as playlists handcrafted for every interest and Audible - produced news, humor, and crime podcasts.

Whether 2015 will go down in the record books as the peak of this tend remains an open question, however.

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

As we scale, I think about things with a 10X mindset, laid out by Grant Cardone in his book The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure.

Last week, executives said that bookings dropped following Flight 1380 and warned investors that the company would lose an estimated $ 50 million to $ 100 million in revenue as a result.

Furthermore, the app contains several built in functions that make their customers lives much easier, such as management of bookings and online flight check - ins.

In the opinion of the Company's management, adjusted book value per share is useful in an analysis of a property casualty company's book value per share as it removes the effect of changing prices on invested assets (i.e., net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax), which do not have an equivalent impact on unpaid claims and claim adjustment expense reserveIn the opinion of the Company's management, adjusted book value per share is useful in an analysis of a property casualty company's book value per share as it removes the effect of changing prices on invested assets (i.e., net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax), which do not have an equivalent impact on unpaid claims and claim adjustment expense reservein an analysis of a property casualty company's book value per share as it removes the effect of changing prices on invested assets (i.e., net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax), which do not have an equivalent impact on unpaid claims and claim adjustment expense reserves.

And as author David Rock observes in his book Quiet Leadership, advice can be challenged and debated; that's far harder when people reach a conclusion based on their own answers to open - ended questions.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

The general argument, as reflected in the title of the book, is that unless we progress with people in mind, as opposed to in spite of them, the world will continue to be a very treacherous place to navigate.