Sentences with phrase «as stacks of books»

This incarnation features small video monitors playing Johnson's older video works, as well as stacks of books including Randall Kennedy's Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal and Richard Wright's Native Son.

This incarnation features small video monitors playing Johnson's older video works, as well as stacks of books including Randall Kennedy ’s

They appear in one painting as a stack of books, in another as a piece of fabric, and in a third as a Minimalist painting hanging on the wall.

Here, a twisted branch with plenty of tendrils is the same proportion as the stack of books and box it sits on, which creates balance within the display.

Not exact matches

The idea came from wanting guidance as a first - time parent, yet not having time to read stacks of parenting books.

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The author of Small Giants and co-author of The Knack (with Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky), as well as two books with open - book - management guru Jack Stack, Burlingham joined the magazine's staff in 1983 and has developed an unmatched ability to get inside some of the nation's most fascinating organizations.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Our platform provides «visual commerce» experiences (like shoppable catalogs and look books), as well as powers Mobile Image Search for brands like Nordstrom, Citi and Mary Kay — and we'd be honored to join your growing list of the «mar - tech stack.»

As a book of «facts», It will die a slow death, and you will then find it in the «Mythology» stacks instead of under «Religion».

As I write this post, I'm surrounded by a sea of cardboard boxes, stacks of books and papers, and a huge pile of food magazines that I'm not entirely ready to party ways with just yet.

We have seen as the concept of need is also very volatile in the NFL: one or two injuries at a position and a solid group is now shallow; you draft to become a contender the sooner, not to field the best team you can for the following season, and if a youngster becomes a top player at a position where you are stacked, you can later trade your veterans, or just have expensive contracts off the book...

I'm in PDX right now at the lovely Heathman hotel, having a «drinkable chocolate» (as decadent as it sounds) for lunch and cruising the stacks of their amazing library of books signed by authors that have stayed here.

If you can't stretch to buying one straight away then you can make do with resting you camera on a steady surface such as a table or a stack of sturdy books.

As I mentioned in Asha and my recent episode on media and entertainment favorites, I love getting big stacks of books at the library, particularly because a book needs to hook me within the first few pages or I give up on it (meaning, I tend to have a lot of false starts with books).

Ottomans or other furniture foot rests are often too high to use as a nursing stool, but a stack of books or kitchen step stool may work.

Ottomans or other furniture foot rests are often too high to use as a breastfeeding stool, but a stack of books or a kitchen step stool may work.

Still, she attacked them with aplomb, stacking baby books precariously on the nightstand and, in a stunning 14 - question performance, cementing herself as the Lisa Simpson of the birthing class on the very first night.

First, go through and see if any of those items could serve a purpose you haven't thought of before: Do you have enough books to stack up and use as a side table?

They have contributed to a stack of books on the issue that could fill a library: all five of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2012 Global Energy Assessment, countless journal articles, and special reports on issues such as adaptation, renewable energy, and more.

It's pretty enough to just display as is, on a stack of books too.

Amazing white bedroom boasts a mirrored tray table as nightstand filled with a Surya Jewel White Ceramic Table Lamp stacked on books situated in front of window.

Note to viewers tired of being psychologically hammered by (even well made) exploitative thrillers that ask one to accept superstition as reality: Just remember the sarcastic Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, reacting to uncanny evidence of demonic forces afoot in the public library: «No human being would stack books like that!»

They accelerate through tight underground tunnels and speed through precarious mountain passes, breaking not only stacks of traffic rules but a whole book of physics» laws as well.

One early scene features a narrator reciting the biblical story of the flood as water cascades around a church, even running over a stack of books held by monks.

They have probably described things such as the blinds that are ajar, the smudges of marker on the whiteboard, the smell of a lunch left in the coatroom too long, books stacked every which way in the bookshelf, the faded curtains, a sheet of crumpled paper that missed its trashcan target, or the pencil shavings on the floor beneath the pencil sharpener.

In Greenville, I would have 8 hours a night — if I did not eat — with only the smattering of books stacked in boxes in my house as resources, and I was to prepare 300 minutes of lessons each day.

They brought in stacks of books, used them as a backdrop for video connections, and signed personal copies for students who contributed to online lessons.

As part of this phase of the plan, the powers that be conducted a stealth removal of the books in the stacks, sending them to off - site storage and to private warehouses.

Plus, my family and I are a little over a month away from moving to a new apartment, and I've got to decide which books to get rid of from the teetering stacks on the floor in my room as well as the books sitting on the lip of the shelves of my bookcases, but not in my bookcases.

A genius idea a stack of black books that function as a clock.

-LSB-...] The Creative Penn — «How To Hit The USA Today Bestseller List As A Single Author With Ad Stacking» Again, another article that isn't solely talking about Facebook Ads but talks about the use of multiple outlets to during a promotion period to sell books.

And yet... will book reviewers even consider trade paperback editions as they wade through the stacks of worthy candidates?

When I am sitting at my desk, I have a stack of books on my left that act as a lamp - table and a writing shrine full of things that inspire me and have meaning.

And for as much as Barnes & Noble wants this to be a simple device, there's something inherently not simple, chaotic even, about devoting the majority of the home screen real estate to a no - holds - barred zone where you can stack book, magazine and app icons any which way.

But he's not complaining, as long as he has lots of books to read, classic rock in his ears, and stacks of gadgets and software to mess around with.

(I recently peeked into a used bookstore in Albuquerque and there were no shelves... only stacks of books, as far as the eye could see!

Sitting down with a big stack of comic books is something I still do as an adult, and even though I tell myself there are grown - up reasons to do that — it seems more efficient to read a bunch of books in one 45 minute go, than to read each of them in five to ten minutes bites spread thoughout the day — I think we overlook the hidden value in the act.

She still says, «It shouldn't be something that you can take up as a hobby one afternoon and a month later, key in your credit card number to CreateSpace or Kindle Direct Publishing before sitting back waiting for a stack of books to arrive at your door.

But with a stack of books nearby — and a pen ready to sign copies, of course — you'll be able to start making sales as soon as the reading is over.

Traditionally published authors wait and wait for their turn at the queue, and then it's months of editing and revising and proofing, and when the book finally comes out one - to - two years later we often find ourselves facing the same stack of marketing tasks as our self - published colleagues.

I'll bet you have stacks of writing - advice books stashed away, unopened, on your Kindle, as well as reams of writing - advice features bookmarked in your browser or read - later apps.

They provide an added excuse for solace at my favourite local comic store and a stack of new books to keep me company as I cower from nail guns and busted plumbing.

When it comes to initial discovery, conventional ebook stores still act as though they're made of bricks and mortar — as though readers can just wander through the stacks in a particular genre and find a book through serendipity.

I'm always trying to read off of my TBR Stacks, as well as review books, new books, etc..

As an author, you get to sit behind a table with a stack of books and hope someone stops by and says «hi.»

Whereas there are few joys to compare with holding the first copy of your freshly printed book, or seeing the figures stack up as your new ebook whizzes around the world, the process of getting to «Go» can be much more problematic.

Personally, being able to rent a server, install the LAMP stack and make a living out of it, being free to use GNU tools for the job with the only rule that I have to give away the code if I install my utilities on a client's machine strikes me as somewhat different than being unable to give a book I just bought to my girlfriend so she can read it on her favourite reading device.

I would have something picked out to read for read aloud, but also have a stack of other informational books for students to explore as well.

I figure, if I bring a stack of books with me and do it before, people can just buy the book there, I can use it as a marketing tool.