Sentences with phrase «author space who»

Met Joanna Pen, Mark Dawson, Orna Ross and other influencers in the indie - author space who inspired me to keep working on this journey.

Not exact matches

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

'' [H] e is not utilizing the space well,» said Lori Ruff, a Minneapolis - based trainer, consultant and author who has written extensively about LinkedIn.

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful.

The only top - level female bloggers in the general progressive political space who come to mind right away are Jane Hamsher and Digby — and apparently, when it was revealed that Digby is actually a woman, plenty of lefty blog readers and authors were startled.

Mr. Zimmerman is also an award winning author who has written four books on the history of space exploration, all of which are still in print.

Author Bennett included facts from real astronauts who have been in space, which I really liked, along with Carroll's watercolor illustrations.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

Hearts are promising organs for the new technology because introducing nanoparticles into the wide - open spaces of the organ's atria and ventricles presents less of a challenge than incorporating the tiny magnets all throughout more solid structures like brains or livers, according to Kelvin Brockbank of Clemson University and Tissue Testing LLC, one of the authors of the paper who spoke to reporters during a 28 February teleconference.

First, it can be used for practical purposes;, also there is a theoretical part, which is about fundamentally better understanding these phenomena,» said Tibor Durgonics who is a Ph.D. student at DTU Space and the main author of the new article in Radio Science.

Mario Livio is an astrophysicist who worked for 24 years with the Hubble Space Telescope and a best - selling author of popular science books; his most recent one is Why?

For example, in a study of fifth - graders published in Applied Cognitive Psychology in 2011, lead author Hailey Sobel of McGill University reported that students who learned definitions of vocabulary words on a spaced - out schedule remembered three times as many definitions as students who spent the same amount of time learning the material in a single session.

You'll learn about the Oregon woodsman who made off with a 15 - ton meteorite in 1903 (he was later forced to relinquish it) and follow the author on a five - week search for space rocks in Antarctica.

«There is a lot of space that is suitable for aquaculture, and that is not what's going to limit its development,» said lead author Rebecca Gentry, who recently completed her Ph.D. at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

Another author involved with the project, Eric Kort, who teaches climate and space science at the University of Michigan, regards it as a valuable new measuring tool.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

(11) Instead of Jarvik, a more convincing yet unlikely spokesman would be the popular Duane Graveline MD MPH, a former NASA astronaut, and author who was started on Lipitor during an annual astronaut physical at the Johnson Space Center, and 6 weeks later had an episode of transient global amnesia, a sudden form of total memory loss described in his book.

The flexible education programme was written and developed by author Lucy Hawking and publisher Curved House Kids, along with the UK Space Agency and a wonderful team of STEM experts and teachers who helped to make everything as inspiring and as informative as possible.

Yes, traditional publishers are all competing for the important in - store shelf space, but there are enough self published authors who are selling gangbusters in ebooks, who would do well on shelves.

Wilson: We've always said that we're digital, so the authors and illustrators who approach us do so because we are establishing a name for ourselves in this space.

Thing is, unlike Create Space who does everything on their end, with Lightning Source, the author has to do all the prep work.

Reviewers fall into two camps: those who love hearing from an author and those who feel reviews are for other readers and that authors don't belong in that space.

We offer solutions to many types of people and companies ranging from those who just want to free up bookshelf space, self - publishing authors, publishers with older titles available only in print, students tired of carrying heavy textbooks, and companies wanting to digitize internal documents.

Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to chain bookstore shelves than the big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort of buzz about their books.

A seven - figure author of fantasy, space opera, and sci - fi romance, Lindsay is a humble force - of - nature who is as dedicated to the author community as she is to her precious dogs.

We're starting to do collaborations with our work with the ABA (American Booksellers Association) where we're doing local self - publishing nights with the local bookstores, bringing together the local self - publishers and having them run clinics for other aspiring self - published authors or people who are trying to get a handle on what this space is... The catalog keeps growing with new authors all the time, new languages all the time, and even as the total business grows, that percentage of self - published sales remains shockingly consistent.»

«With shrinking shelf space, we need new discovery mechanisms, but it is the authors who are showing the publishers the way to explore the possibility space,» O'Reilly.

Authors who can produce a large volume of work consistently in a short space of time.

If, for example, an author writes about a scientist who uses a device to tear a hole in the space - time continuum to travel to the far reaches of the galaxy or for time travel, this book is clearly for lovers of science fiction / fantasy.

With a partnership, both entities could benefit with an author getting physical space and exposure while the bookstore gets enthusiastic PR from those who are already perfecting their marketing skills.

This would give them an excellent place to sell their eBooks from their fledgling publishing division and also give incentives for authors who use Amazon Create Space and Kindle Direct Publishing.

The author, a poet, newspaper columnist and former dean of campus at Goddard College, offers an exhaustive history of his subject, which includes such luminaries as Edward Gibbon, who devoted one - quarter of the space in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to footnotes.

I did hear (unsubstantiated) rumors that 25 % of attendees were actually authors and hopefully that means an even better event next year with more space allocated to the growing number of authors who want to learn more about the industry.

In April 2013, graphic designer Jason Gurley, who'd written and self - published three novels in the space of a year, met Hugh Howey, Amazon's most successful author — so successful at self - publishing that he then got a huge deal from Simon & Schuster.

Apparently the market would simply be too flooded with titles by the same author that it would self - implode (or maybe it had something to do with bookshelf space in physical stores — perhaps those of you who have been publishing longer than I have can enlighten us).

However, more vocal opponents of the tensions included two literary agents who spoke about the impact this can have on authors, especially lesser known authors who rely on every possible avenue for book discovery, including physical bookstores» display space.

But I completely support those who review all kinds of books at all kinds of interest levels — just not in the author's spaces.

But the authors who write the books that fall below my Golden Shelf Space standard aren't any less deserving of payment for work done, even if I don't have a Physical Thing (tm) to show for my purchase.

What is unique are the number of independent bookstores providing shelf space for those readers who do not use an e-reader and for the independent author to showcase their work at a bookstore.

Bloggers are more accessible than book reviewers for the average author or publisher; they have more editorial discretion than book reviewers (who have to answer to their editors and account for their use of editorial space); and they're far more enthusiastic about finding content (Q&A's, guest columns, etc.) than the average newspaper or magazine editor.

This leaves authors who write old - fashioned space opera, military science fiction, historical romance without modern - minded heroines, and numerous other sub-genres with no choice but independents.

After discovering the community pages, I connected with so many more friends and authors who either became a member of other writer - related pages or debuted their centralized spaces to advertise books and services.

I applaud Mr Correia's efforts to help other authors get noticed and I'm wondering if perhaps maybe he should encourage these those who participate in his book bombs to spread out their purchases over the space of, say, a week or so.

I rented booth space there and offered to share the booth with local authors, including Cedar Sanderson, who wanted me to post about the results of using the fair as a venue for book selling.

For authors who maybe aren't quite so savvy and are going to need more support, Lulu and Create Space are the two major options here in the U.S. as far as service providers that don't require to sign away your rights.

(For those who wonder, for 2017 / early 2018 it's six books in my soon - to - be-launched Sky Full of Stars series, Chains of Honor 3 and maybe 4, and four Ruby Lionsdrake space romance novels that I'll be doing as part of a shared world project with another SFR author.

2) The fact that traditional publishers want to give authors «a handful» of books to sign does not mean that that is what the purpose of the event was or that people who were promised space for books and swag were not cheated or treated unfairly when some got it and some didn't.

On the podcast in 2015, we kept interviewing authors who were doing really well with space opera / military SF.

She then goes on to write about a new era «in which trading conditions have changed and new possibilities are emerging for those who are alert to opportunity» — this, in reflection on Fine's comments about «an increasingly sophisticated author space,» several years now into the indie movement's development.

Because they take up little space, e-books can be offered indefinitely, with no «out of print» date, allowing authors to continue to earn royalties indefinitely (copyright law permitting) and allowing readers to find older works.Readers who have difficulty reading print books can benefit from the adjustment of text size and font face.