Sentences with phrase «author of a book which»

Mark Wahlberg plays Marcus Lattrell, the author of the book which inspired this movie.

At the point of departure in 2009, we're introduced to Jackson Curtiss (John Cusack) the underappreciated author of a book which forecast the coming global crisis.

As an author of a book which is available worldwide, i.e. no geographic restrictions, as a POD title and an e-book it concerns me why these retailers have accepted the imposition of this restriction from leading publishers.

In retaliation to Merchants of Doubt, a leaked email shows that Enstrom suggested filing «grievances» with Stanford and Harvard targeting Dr. Naomi Oreskes, the author of the book which the documentary was based on.

Not exact matches

He is the author of the award - winning 2012 book Going Social: Excite Customers, Generate Buzz, and Energize Your Brand With the Power of Social Media, which teaches brands large and small how to use social media for business success.

Roberta Matuson, a Boston - based business consultant and author of the 2013 book Talent Magnetism, says small firms need not be bound to rigid formal HR processes, which creates the opportunity for more creative hiring practices.

According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion, about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up in real estate, mostly at its headquarters in Clearwater and in Hollywood, Calif..

In his book, Navy Seal Training Guide: Mental Toughness (which by the way goes for $ 790 on Amazon), author Lars Draeger says there four pillars of mental toughness: goal - setting, mental visualization, positive self - talk, and arousal control.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

So does James Marshall Reilly, the author of new book, Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these days.

According to Goodman, your book should have three things upon launch: social proof, i.e., a number of Amazon reviews; an «intangible,» e.g., a quote from a renowned expert in the field, say a New York Times bestselling author; and lastly a good book (which may seem obvious, but...).

Most experts agree that an apology letter should open with a salutation and a warm greeting, which helps you soften up the recipient, says Julie Miller, founder and president of Business Writing That Counts and author of a book by the same name.

Patton and Getting to Yes's principal authors, Roger Fisher and William Ury, had earlier collaborated on a book for international mediators, which is of course a rather small audience.

The article's author, Steve Denning, dissects the main theme of Martin's book, which is that the current practices around maximizing shareholder value actually do more harm than good:

The Power of Nice describes an exercise from the authors» seminars, in which attendees are paired off, each playing either the «agent» or the «publisher» in working out a book deal.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

The teachers: Salvatore Scibona was named to The New Yorker's «20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch» and is the author of 2008 National Book Award finalist «The End,» the research for which he conducted while on a Fulbright Fellowship.

«If this was a straightforward guide to business success and personal growth,» Harford writes late in the book, «this would be the point at which the author would urge you to use the principles of adapting to gain wealth and success.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Award - winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave this iconic TED Talk in 2012, which later got adapted into a book of the same title and was partially quoted in Beyoncé's 2013 song «Flawless.»

Collins is the author of the best - selling business books Built to Last and Good to Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flounder?

A publisher pays the author an advance, which could be anywhere from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars, and then invests an enormous amount of resources in producing and marketing the book without any guarantee that it will sell.

He is also the author of two books, Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor, both of which are considered must - reads among the investing community.

The rules on the content that's allowed on television, particularly children's television, should extend to YouTube, which is soaking up more and more of young people's screen time, says Keen, author of the upcoming book How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age.

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.

Levinson has worked in corporate marketing and is the author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books, the first of which appeared in 1984; Horowitz, who lives in Hadley, is a marketer and environmental activist / organizer and author of eight previous books.

Dan is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin's Press), which is a # 1 Barnes & Noble business bestseller and was named the # 1 career book of 2013 by The Chicago Tribune.

Alfie Kohn is the author of four books, including No Contest: The Case Against Competition and the newly published Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, from which this article is adapted.

We aligned the book with a strong corporate brand through one of the authors and rolled out a series of book signing receptions around the country entitled: «An Evening of Enlightened Power at Eileen Fisher» which successfully took the book into non-traditional retail venues.

In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you will hear from Renée Mauborgne — professor at INSEAD and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, and author of the best - selling book, Blue Ocean Strategy, which has sold over 3.5 million copies across 5 continents and was recently updated and expanded in 2015 — as she discusses how any business can break away from the competition, build a strong brand, and get the world of social media to start talking.

He is the author of thirteen books, which is pretty amazing when you consider he's only really saying three things; buy index funds, keep costs low, and stay the course.

Jack Tatar is the author of the book, «Safe 4 Retirement: The Four Keys to a Safe Retirement» which takes a holistic approach to retirement that considers not only the financial aspects but the need to focus on health, wellness, mental attitude and staying involved as keys to living a long and safe retirement.

Michael Lewis, author of «Moneyball» and «The Blind Side,» speaks with Eric Topol about his latest book, «The Undoing Project,» which delves into the world of perception and cognitive bias.

She has won seven National Newspaper Awards and is the author of several bestselling books, two of which won the National Business Book Award.

He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin's Press) and the # 1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing), which combined have been translated into 15 languages.

Most of the other books I've read recently you've already had podcasts with the authors, like Sapiens I read recently, which I really enjoyed.

Oh, and he is also an active real estate investor, entrepreneur, traveler, third - person speaker, husband, and author of «The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down ``, and «The Book on Rental Property Investing» which you should probably read if you want to do more deals.

A recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics, Shiller authored a book, fittingly titled «Irrational Exuberance,» in which he asserts that psychologically driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of asset markets.

Matthew is the author of several articles, kits, and books including «Product Idea to Product Success» which has been used by inventors, entrepreneurs, colleges, government agencies, and sold into 14 countries.

He is author of two books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead and Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs, which is in its seventh printing, has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into nine languages, and peaked at # 17 overall on the Amazon bestseller list.

He's the author or co-author of three books, including The New York Times bestseller «Taking Time Off,» which encouraged young adults to take a year off between high school and college or sometime during their undergraduate years.

CAROL LOOMIS: In the conclusion of a book, Dear Chairman, which you recommend in this year's annual letter, a new book you recommend, the author argues that «the life's work of great investors is inevitably reabsorbed into the industrial complex with little acknowledgement of their accomplishments.

1) J.K. Rowling — She authored a very famous series of books known as «Harry Potter», which has now become popular on the big screen as well.

He is Joel Greenblatt, a great value investor, financial thought leader and author of several bestselling books including The Little Book That Still Beats the Market, which is considered an investment classic.

Many others are well - selling authors who make a lavish living from passive income from advances, royalties, seminars, and product sales — which all started and then snowballed — from the sale of their book (which of course started with writing a book proposal).

-- Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind «In this valuable guide Chris Guillebeau shows that transforming an idea into a successful business can be easier than you think... You are in charge of which ideas deserve your time, and this book can help you wake up every morning eager to progress to the next step.»

Veteran broadcaster and ordained priest, Patrick is also an author whose book, The Gospel of Folly, explores the connections which bring hope to a stressed society and confused Church.

Since the universe and beings exist, and within them are acts and creation; and since an orderly act can not occur without an author, a meaningful book can not be without a scribe, and a skilful embroidery be without an embroiderer, for sure, the purposeful acts which fill the universe have an author and the meaningful letters and amazing embroideries which cover the face of the earth and are renewed from season to season have a scribe and an embroiderer.

The author says they are his friends, which is commendable, but friendship does not explain promoting a book that can only exacerbate the problems of Christians trying to attain moral clarity about human sexuality.

Here is a presentation of the author of the best book about Universal salvation, Gerry Beauchemin: Gerry Beauchemin has written a book which should be the standard work in this topic!