Sentences with phrase «authors speak in person»

Not exact matches

«Our work challenges the widespread assumption that true creativity requires a kind of anarchy in which people are permitted to speak their minds, whatever the consequence,» commented study lead author and Cornell organizational behavior professor Jack Goncalo.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

Nadia Bolz - Weber is the author of Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People (Canterbury Press, 2015) and will be speaking at Greenbelt 26th — 29th August Follow Nadia @sarcasticluther

Speaking to popular culture blog Assignment X, the author said this as he again described the difference between his work and Tolkien's: «I think ultimately the battle between good and evil is weighed within the individual human heart, not necessarily between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black.

Now for the actual facts: According to Newsweek, this is a place that takes Catholicism seriously, but to the author of the Salon piece, the closest we get is a reference to, «We rocked out to Christian music with our hands in the air, watched people convulse in spiritual conversions as they were «saved» or «born again» and heard priests speak in tongues.»

«It is interesting that people who are genetically so different, who almost certainly looked different and spoke different languages adopted the agricultural lifestyle almost simultaneously in different parts of Anatolia and the Near East,» said Professor Joachim Burger, senior author of the study.

Max Steuer, Reader Emeritus at the LSE Centre for Philosophy and one of the authors of the paper, said: «The executive search firms spoke to us candidly about the difficulty of determining in advance how well a person will perform as a CEO in the long run interests of a firm.

Death, of course, seems a natural recourse for a season characterized, tonally speaking, by gloom, and indications of impending disaster are peppered liberally throughout: Don, in «Lazy Lazarus,» receives an existential crisis in miniature as the doors to a high - rise elevator open onto a yawning void; a newly obese Betty (January Jones), in «Tea Leaves,» discovers a nodule on her thyroid which may be cancerous; Roger (John Slattery), taking LSD in «Far Away Places,» authors a note of cautionary instruction to be left on his greatly disoriented person.

As the report's author notes, «Broadly speaking, the age - dependency ratio measures the number of people riding in the cart compared to the number pushing the cart.»

Other ways to get exposure for your books include: getting testimonials from famous authors, celebrities, or other influential people; getting commitments from influential people to help promote your book in other ways; having a website and / or blog with decent traffic; having a large email list; having your own radio show, TV show, or syndicated column; media appearances; speaking engagements; pre-sale commitments from businesses, groups, or other organizations; hiring your own publicist; etc..

However, in each case these authors have merely run into people who have strong opinions about Twitter or public speaking or blogging.

Everything you do when building your author platform, from participating in speaking engagements to building your email list, needs to be targeted to these people.

Examples include: testimonials already secured by celebrities, famous authors, or other influential people; firm commitments (sometimes in writing) from influential people to help promote your book to their audience when the time is right; you having a massive mailing list or social media following; you having a website and / or blog with massive traffic and / or comments (with the numbers to prove it); your own radio show, TV show, or syndicated column; past and upcoming media appearances; past and upcoming speaking engagements in front of lots of people; pre-sale commitments from corporations or organizations; having your own publicist or being able / willing to hire one.

We know business people to be heavy consumers of podcasts; thus, in the past year, we've placed major emphasis on securing business podcast interviews for authors in this genre which allows them to speak about the concepts of their books to the millions of appropriate individuals looking for new, unique insights through this medium.

Too often these authors will take their own problems and try to make it an issue of «Us vs. Them» as if they speak for all authors... this in turn leads to people painting the entirety of the indie crowd in the same negative light.

Both authors spoke passionately about their belief that writing books with transgender characters will help teens to have more compassion and understanding for people who may be different from them in some way, and maybe even to realize that they are not alone in their own struggles.

Localized content is available for people who speak Spanish, so you may find some bestsellers by authors residing in your own country.

From an outsider's perspective, an immediate worry about this approach is that the site could potentially operate in a manner similar to a Hollywood focus group, encouraging authors (consciously or not) to cut anything difficult or alienating in favour of a blander, more widely acceptable middle ground — trying to appeal to all of the people all of the time rather than trusting the judgement of one auxiliary pair of eyes (speaking of which, professional editors probably won't be too chuffed either).

This will be a win - win situation because the guest author will get a chance to speak to his audience and you will have many more people interested in your own book, especially if it gets a nod of approval from a bestselling author.

State if a person can change because of them, speak how an author shows it in the play.

When Trafford Canada was bought by Author Solutions in 2009, it all changed, and I've had bad experiences ever since, mostly due to constant staff turnover (anyone who was competent appears to have left), and outsourced customer service reps who don't speak English very well and bounce your issue around to numerous reps.. There is no «person» you can ever speak to unless you have back door numbers.

These revolutionary cards allow publishers and authors alike to sell e-books — digital downloads — at in - person events that include book launch celebrations and speaking engagements.

A few weeks ago, I came across an article where the author spoke about how most travel blogs are written by people who are sitting at home — or in a 9 to 5 job — writing about travel, but not actually traveling.

Joining Peter Greenberg on the program will be Judy Schwartz, Author of Water in Plain Sight, who speaks about the soil health movement in Bismarck, and why people from all over the world are traveling to North Dakota to see how they maintain their ecosystem.

Few people have made more effort to speak positively about video games in public than game designer, author, and researcher Jane McGonigal.

BOOKSHELF In addition to the forthcoming Alma Thomas volume, curator Lauren Haynes has authored and contributed to several of exhibition catalogs including «Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art» and «Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange,» as well as «The Bearden Project» and «Fore.»

The author touches upon this in his assertion that it is difficult (and perhaps not effective) to «make» people «do» KM (knowledge management) but that KM is most effectively done «behind the scenes» so to speak, using technology (p. 160):

The author of Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan, recently blogged: «What academic research into organizational silence shows is that people silence their fears and concerns either because they are afraid of retribution from bosses or co-workers (this is the chief cause in the U.S.) or they feel speaking up would be futile because nothing would change (this is the chief cause in Europe).»

After reading Kosinski and Wang's paper, three sociologists and data scientists who spoke with Quartz questioned whether the author's assertion that gay and straight people have different faces is supported by the experiments in the paper.

The holiday was established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG) and author of Things That Make Us [Sic], to remind people to «speak well, write well, and help others do the same.»