Sentences with phrase «at big book»

«I'm currently the administrative assistant for a senior editor at Big Book Publishing House and I basically run his calendar and his office.

It's not difficult to see where the growth is coming from Indie books are eating away at big book publishers.

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book - and publishing - related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Publishers Weekly looks back at the big book publishing stories of 2016 GalleyCat is ceasing publication.

When the big discount book sellers came along, they shifted the market from a personal experience in the small shop to a discount and variety experience at the big book sellers.

I can not tell you what a pleasure it is to be addressing all of you — keen and excited and unconstrained — compared with the talk I just did on Wednesday at the big book industry event, Book Expo in New York, where I was lamenting again the inability of the traditional book industry to make space for innovation.

Being on social media is more like being at a big book fair or writers conference.

Today, the guys answered listener questions, and Jeff and Lindsay interviewed Jo about what he learned at the big Book Expo America convention last week.

Regardless of whether you know Manning's injury status, the line moves at the big books tell all you need to know.

The industry also benefits as a whole from the extra attention it receives due to the promotion of its authors and the presence of the publishers at the biggest book fair in the world.

This month we're looking back at our biggest book - publishing - meets - technology conference ever.

Not exact matches

Steve Eisman, a fund manager at Neuberger Berman Group LLC in the U.S., was featured in Michael Lewis's book «The Big Short.»

The firm attributes 30 % to 40 % of its profits to the U.S., and trades at a bigger - than - average 75 % discount to tangible book value.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

It said JOURNALIST in big letters, proudly referred to publications that don't exist anymore and highlighted projects and books that, at the time, represented the peak of my career.

Having the right physical book with you at the right time when you suddenly have an hour to kill somewhere or trying to decide which books to bring with you on vacation or if you're even going to want to read the ones you picked when you get there, these are big problems that digital reading helps solve.

(Apparently, he wasn't sold on the idea that the internet would be a big deal at the time the book was initially published in 1995.)

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

Michael Smith and Rahul Telang — two professors at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Public Policy and Management — explore these questions in their new book, Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment, published by MIT Press last month.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.

If you're like most people the answer is, you sit at your desk and daydream about a big change — that artisanal food business you've always wanted to start, the book you could write, that round - the - world trip haunting your bucket list, or the career - transforming master's degree you really should pursue.

The co-founder and CEO at Buffer on the books that have had the biggest impact on his company and himself personally.

This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.

Amazon bought Joyo, the biggest online book seller in China at the time, in 2004, and rebranded it as Amazon China in 2011.

I recently had the privilege of interviewing Adams, who is preparing for the softcover release of his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, which is currently available in hardcover.

He shares his journey from office worker and serial failure to success in his latest book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, currently available in hardcover.

The hotshot «dealaholic» selling machine, who got his first taste of sales success at the age of seven selling a record - breaking number of books and Christmas calendars door to door in his native Stockholm, returned to the City That Never Sleeps at 25 determined to make it big.

The challenge: Finding growth in the digital - books arena at a time when big publishing houses are muscling in.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

Inspired by books like How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big and The 4 - Hour Workweek, Quey focused on building systems that would enable his business to grow while working on the side.

«Probably the book that made the biggest difference to me, intellectually, was a book by an Australian academic whom I got to know when I was a graduate student at Oxford.

Typically, when stocks of big banks trade at prices substantially below book value, the bank is in some kind of distress, or banks broadly in the market are facing structural problems.

Among the Big Six banks, BMO also has the highest proportion of its loan book in business loans, at 49 per cent, according to a February note from CIBC World Markets.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

[42:14] Tony explains the questions to ask an advisor, to ensure they're truly on your side [42:28] 60 % of people surveyed today say they believe their financial advisor is putting the company interests above their own — it's actually worse than they believe [42:45] Why Tony has chosen to support Peter and his firm, Creative Planning [43:33] How you can get a second opinion from Peter's firm, Creative Planning, through their website (www.GetASecondOpinion.com)-- it doesn't matter how much or little you have, they'll give you feedback [44:00] Tony's biggest challenge when writing his first book, and how it brought him to Peter Mallouk [44:30] Peter explains the process Creative Planning went through to open their services to people at the $ 100,000 level, and how offering this extensive range of services to people at this level is unprecedented

Over at The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz breaks the silence about what's held up his long - awaited book, Bailout Nation.

Book signing: Chef Jess Schenker grew up in Parkland and graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School before making his way to the kitchen at Big City Tavern in Fort Lauderdale.

Schenker will sign books at Big City (609 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-727-0307, BigCityLasOlas.com) 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, while guests enjoy complimentary wine and light bites.

«It's a sound idea, but it gets a lot harder to do the bigger the company gets,» says Bruce Ellig, former worldwide head of human resources at Pfizer Inc. and author of several books on compensation.

Thailand's reserves are up $ 10 billion since the end of June (Thailand also has a big forward book, but that has been constant); it is now intervening at 33 baht to the dollar.

Normally, my response to this is the one nobody wants to hear: put the money in a savings account or savings bond, check out a book about investing from the library, save more money while you read the book, and start investing once you have the $ 1000 minimum to open an account at a big mutual fund house like Schwab or Vanguard.

Nearly $ 40 billion was invested in risky leveraged buyouts in the USA, including 40 % of the amount used in the buyout of RJR Nabisco, which ended in the biggest corporate scandal in the USA at the time and became the topic of the book (and the film), «Barbarians at the Gate» (Watkins, 1994).

The delegation was so big that they reportedly had to book additional rooms at the Four Seasons and St. Regis to host the group in its entirety.

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Rather than book any big losses in 2015 and 2016, if they could hang on until 2017 then the big economic boom being predicted would pay off especially for where junk prices had been at the lows.

Have a personal concierge at your beck and call 24/7 that can help you book travel, dinner reservations and score tickets to the big game

To look for a correlation between book value and stock returns, we will take a look at the study's results for the HML, HML Big and HML Small alpha returns.

The CEO, Kathryn, in Patrick Lencioni's book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, says, I think my biggest strength, at least the strength that will have the biggest impact on our success, is my...

Obviously, it's not the first time the book has been adapted for the big - screen: At the time, the 1927 version was one of the most acclaimed films ever made.

Bill Wilson gave me the Big Book just before I spoke at his 34th Anniversary Meeting here in Manhattan in 1968.