Sentences with phrase «author of stumbling»

Dan Gilbert (Harvard Psychology Professor and author of Stumbling On Happiness) is an expert on Happiness and was interviewed in the Jan - Feb 2012 Harvard Business Review.

Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, encourages audience members to look past short - term, material, and goal - oriented happiness in order to find a kind of happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according to plan.

The authors of Stumbling Giants, which won the $ 50,000 Donner Prize, see the banks and the rules that govern them as being in need of a shake - up

Not exact matches

I've already passed along recommendations for possible fall reading, but I just stumbled on a great list of winter reads from Slack VP of engineering, blogger, and author Michael Lopp.

The author signs up for Behaviorism 101 and is touchingly inspired to think he has stumbled onto the secret of how the world works.

As happens with many good books, I stumbled upon More Than Serving Tea by accident, after I read an interview with one of its authors, Nikki Toyama - Szeto, at Intervarsity's «The Well» blog.

-- Aran Goyoaga, creator of Cannelle et Vanille and author of Small Plates and Sweet Treats «The minute I landed on the Sprouted Kitchen website years ago, I knew I'd stumbled on a kindred spirit.

Then, while sitting in the chair at my hairdresser, where much of my reading on popular culture occurs, I stumbled upon an article by Turkish author Elif Shafak in this month's Vogue magazine.

Ana Slocum, Articles Editor and Author of Panda & Ananaso Ana is a single mother who stumbled into Attachment Parenting after the birth of her only son, Niko, in 2010.

In one of the articles I stumbled upon when my daughter was around 6 months old, the author claimed that children pee in between the sleep cycles and that some babies dislike soiling themselves so much it makes them cry and fuss.

Thus while Lord Acton's dictum — that all power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely — was, at the time of its authoring, primarily anecdotal and based on a selective reading of history, he had stumbled upon a stronger causal explanation than he realized.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

The authors conclude that they've stumbled onto an epidemic of melanoma — a type of skin cancer — in iconic and commercially important fish.

«It was an exciting thing to stumble upon,» says astronomer and lead author Rok Roškar of the University of Washington, Seattle, who notes that recent observations support the model's conclusion that radial migration of stars might be quite pervasive in the Milky Way.

And while the authors do an excellent job of describing what occurred in the decade from its inception to its demise, they stumble when trying to assign blame.

The three papers remove a major stumbling block to a scientific consensus, says Benjamin Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, lead author of the climate model study.

The results of the study, the authors write, demonstrate that influential cognitive processes are at play as people stumble through life, regardless of whether those stumblings are literal or metaphorical.

The project began when author, journalist, television veteran, and filmmaker David Stenn was working on a book about star Jean Harlow, who died mysteriously at 26, and stumbled upon the story of Patricia Douglas, a Douglas with a much more tragic relationship to the film industry than Last Vegas star Michael.

A gifted television and film producer who stumbled onto the Pledge tale while teaching at the University of Rochester, where the patriotic jingle's author had gone to school in the 1870s, Jones unfortunately died before he could finish the project.

The first part cover the basic questions about what the biggest pitfalls and stumbling blocks are in the field of eBook formatting, and also whether it makes sense to authors to format their eBooks themselves.

Make sure to check out this IBBS Rafflecopter giveaway — you could win lots of great books from some amazing indie authors, including copies of «Stumbling Backasswards Into the Light» and «Walking Between Worlds; Book I: Demons & Angels ``!

I discovered the hashtag #rockfiction about a month ago when I stumbled onto the Behind Blue Eyes website: http://behindblueeyes.ca/ Anne - Marie Klein is the author of a series of rock «n» roll Behind Blue Eyes novels that trace the...

I recently stumbled across an old news piece (16/06/14) released by the ALCS (Authors Licensing and Collecting Society) stating they had teamed up with Book Barn International (a second hand book seller) were launching a pilot scheme that would compensate authors when a second - hand version of their book waAuthors Licensing and Collecting Society) stating they had teamed up with Book Barn International (a second hand book seller) were launching a pilot scheme that would compensate authors when a second - hand version of their book waauthors when a second - hand version of their book was sold.

You know, the kind you feel when you stumble upon a famous author's fan page, and it looks really nice with lots of shiny little widgets and things to do?

You've stumbled on the website of Amy Hopkins, Fantasy Author.

Authors who have attempted to garner more searchability for their books have resorted to including titles like «Fifty Shades of Grey» or «Gone Girl» in the keywords for their books, hoping that potential readers stumble across their book listings.

I think perhaps you either stumbled across a listing that was in flux because the author has uploaded to Pubit and they've combined listings (the whole process at Pubit seems to involve merging listings before the Smashwords one disappears), or perhaps you've gotten ahold of of some listings where there are other versions like a print or audio edition that did not have the description limitation.

If you are lucky you may stumble on what you need in a few days or weeks, or if you are like me you can spend years attending local author meetings, book publishing meetings, reading everything Google has to offer, and still not have a clear idea of what steps to take to get your book out there.

This problem feels like one that can only be solved by a bookstore (preferably a used one) or a library or library bookstore, or even a coffee shop in which I can stumble across a mishmash of accidental inventory and feel it's fate when I discover that book or author that has been waiting to meet my need.

Whenever I visit various independent author forums, I'm bound to stumble across a handful of people who say they make most of their profits selling online with someone other than Amazon (Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc.).

Or maybe you're one of those authors who's stumbled across a copy of your paperback selling on Amazon for $ 6,789 or some such outrageous price.

The worst part is that this makes for a miserable, lie - awake - at - night book launch, because the author is forced to battle the fears and anxieties of platform - building at a time when they can't afford to stumble.»

In your Author's Note, you write about accidentally stumbling upon Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front in a library.

One of a bookseller's greatest joys is ensuring that those customers walk away with something great to read, and if you can help them discover a book or an author they might not have stumbled upon, and created a great connection between author and reader, that's what a bookseller lives for.»

But I had stumbled across the blogs of some authors doing well with e-publishing and decided to try the novels too (also, I was dreading the Agent Query Game).

And that may be one of the stumbling blocks, especially for indie authors — the «affording it» part.

Marketing is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for indie authors.

The Factory is smorgasbord of blogs and videos about Ben's progress as an indie author, his research and creative processes, news about stuff and things, and whatever else he stumbles across on the internet — usually gifs.

Stumbling and bumbling along, authors ignore that the creation of who / what the book is about in a quick few sentences can make, and certainly break, a book sale.

It's naive to think readers will just find you (there were millions of titles published last year alone)-- yes, genre authors and non-fiction authors (who have a platform) do better, but there's just too much out there to expect readers to scroll through Amazon or Barnes & Noble and stumble upon your works.

Authors unfamiliar with the book publishing industry can sometimes stumble on the path to publication by not understanding the definitions and roles of people in editing, production, distribution, and sales.

If you have been an indie writer (or, indeed, any type of writer) for a while you will have stumbled across the concept of an Author Platform.

Facing the harsh reality of a market flooded with books and talented authors, I wonder if I haven't stumbled upon one of the reasons so few self - published authors go on to publish subsequent books and also the reason that so few authors — whether indie, traditional, or hybrid — are highly satisfied with their publishing experience.

Having read one of the most influential and eye - opening books of my life, «Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing your Children's Future ``, it was refreshing to stumble across the featured article in this post, penned by the same author James Delingpole, out of the Daily Telegraph.

Woolf noted that the short form requires the author to narrow to the essential and not to be the «voice which is as a plague of locusts — the voice of a man stumbling drowsily among loose words, clutching aimlessly at vague ideas...» Id.

Meg Guiseppi, a personal branding strategist and author of 20 Little - Known Insider Tips to Accelerate Your Executive Job Search, recommends regular profile housekeeping not only for search optimization, but also to tout your industry relevance to those who may stumble across your page.

Randi Gunther, author of When Love Stumbles: How to Rediscover Love, Trust, and Fulfillment in your Relationship, a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor for more than four decades, gathered 14 core, and somewhat subtle, behaviors of couples whose relationships are deeply connected, and grow closer and more committed over time:

Spending this morning with the current issue of Psychology Today and stumbled upon a great article on Dr. John Gottman, leading couples researcher and author.

The Real Secrets of a Great Relationship Randi Gunther, author of When Love Stumbles: How to Rediscover Love, Trust, and Fulfillment in your Relationship, a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor for more than four decades, gathered 14 core, and somewhat subtle, behaviors of couples whose relationships are deeply connected, and grow closer and more committed over time: Partners don't... Read more»