Sentences with phrase «better book titles»

To continue with our trend of highlighting the slightly off - color (hey, it's Friday), allow me to introduce Better Book Titles.

In this post I'll cover five different book title types you can consider for creating better book titles, used for both non-fiction and fiction books.

Rather than just coming up with a generic title you believe simply describes the book, think about how you can play with the words and phrases to create better book titles.

The editors of BookPage have selected the 25 best book titles of 2012 (scroll down for the full alphabetical list):

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And, so you can see how a book publishing professional creates a perfect title for a book, here's a case study that shows how to take an adequate book title and make a good book title.

The best book title generator for your manuscript or proposal is you, and I suggest you read this article for some strategic insights.

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Not exact matches

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.

But if you're goal is to hone your brain with a good book, what you want is the title that will teach you the most with the quickest, most enjoyable read.

Just as every story needs a headline and every book needs a title, a good storyteller will start with the one big idea before expanding on the details.

You can get a pretty good sense of what Jim Camp thinks about Getting to Yes from the title of his book, Start With No.

If Canadian best - selling author Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about this year's presidential election, he said his title would be «I'm heading home.»

Articles and books with titles like How to Be a Better Procrastinator and What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast annoy the hell out of me.

Their infinite shelf space allows them to stock the Harry Potter book or The Dark Knight DVD as well as lesser known title, and their search and review mechanisms help the community vote up an occasional obscure title to become a hit.

The LRC runs lively, expert reviews of Canadian books — as well as the occasional foreign title, if on a Canadian subject or considered alongside Canadian titles on the same theme — and essays by some of the country's most thought - provoking writers.

Reviewing a book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote about the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

I just loved the original Winnie - the - Pooh books by A.A. Milne and all of those chapters started with «In which...» I have always hated titling posts — in fact, for a good long time, I just published essays without titles, if you can believe it.

Chris is co-author of the award - winning book Slow Church (2014), author of Reading for the Common Good (2016), and is presently finishing a book manuscript with the working title, Conversational Bodies: A Field Guide for the Journey Toward Belonging.

According to the chaplains and such well - known cancer therapists as the Simontons (whose recent book bears the comic title Getting Well Again), 8 as long as the patient does not understand the relationship between person and cancer, the malignancy festwell - known cancer therapists as the Simontons (whose recent book bears the comic title Getting Well Again), 8 as long as the patient does not understand the relationship between person and cancer, the malignancy festWell Again), 8 as long as the patient does not understand the relationship between person and cancer, the malignancy festers.

Best Synchroblog: The «When We Were on Fire» Synchroblog, via Addie Zierman, whose excellent book by that title released last week

Schlesinger's title, of course, announces a categorical rejection of the thesis of Professor Allan Bloom's recent best selling book, The Closing of the American Mind.

Cornwall has good credentials — he is a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, and author of the bestselling A Thief in the Night: The Death of Pope John Paul I — but his new book is full of exaggerated claims and deceptions, beginning with the title and dust cover.

The 1st one better represents the title of the book (why do I feel I'm taking a college entrance exam?

The title of your new book, Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?

Here some other key words from the book's title and subtitle must be underscored: the relationship between politics and religion must be thought about with reference to the common good; our conversations must be about how religion figures into our shared life.

City of Joy, the title of a well known book about Calcutta, is a reminder of the generosity of many who are very poor and Mary and I have known the wonderful welcome and hospitality of those whose homes are very simple.

But it's written from an unusual angle - and if the title helps to catch people's attention and get them opening the book and tasting its message, then that's a good thing.

The founders used all kinds of descriptions and titles for God — Father, Creator, Maker, Almighty God — but they all came from the Good Book.

If we do our work well, perhaps Bellesiles's future book can be titled Disarming America.

To use another phrase for the wisdom of Jesus that I see as saying the same thing as «a way that leads beyond convention», the way of Jesus is Robert Frost's phrase that became the title of M. Scott Peck's best - selling book.

In 1949, four of the five best - selling nonfiction books — excluding books on canasta — were religious titles, and though independent publishers produced many of these books, the popular interest in religion benefited the denominational publishers as well.

If ever there was a homogeneous version of this tradition in national life; if ever, after legal disestablishment, a faith was re-established in the popular ethos; if ever there was agreement on biblical authority, on God, Jesus, heaven and hell and the true, the beautiful and the good, then it was in the high years of what one of my book titles terms the Protestant Righteous Empire.

In my opinion the two best books on this man are by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, titled, The Death and Life of Bishop Pike, and The Bishop Pike Affair.

Is the child's prayer «Now I lay me down to sleep...» from which the book's title is taken comparable to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine Combook's title is taken comparable to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine ComBook of the Dead, or is the vision of the latter best measured against Dante's Divine Comedy?

The title given this book, Becoming and Belonging, indicates the general approach that I have taken: to exist as human is to exist as an instance of «becoming» or developing (for better or worse) and is also to belong with others of our kind in a great enterprise in which each one of us belongs and to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for ill.

(Among the best guides for this purpose are Julian P. Love, How to Read the Bible and Edgar J. Goodspeed's book by the same title.)

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospect).

As to what sort of thing «the gospel» may be, too many years ago I tried to explain that in a book with the title Story and Promise, and I still regard these two concepts as the best analytical characterization of the church's message.

Isa Chandra Moskowitz is the best - selling author of the hit books Isa Does It, Veganomicon, Vegan With a Vengeance, and many other titles.

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And this method not only makes a classic carrot cake recipe better, with no large strings of carrot or offensive hunks of nuts, but far easier (I reckon this is where the title of the book comes from).

The book titled «YUM» by Terry Durack, a well known Australian food writer and critic, still commands prime position on my now heavily laden shelf, 20 years on.

So when drafting the outline for a new soup book (working title — Soup Nights), one of the first entries I made was for a hearty chicken noodle soup jazzed up by the addition of some sautéed mushrooms and a good dusting of Parmesan cheese.

Whether fresh from the tree or as part of a refreshing summer dessert, peaches will always hold the title of «Best Summer Fruit» in my book.

Especially good for the novice — a couple of years ago a book about the history of «Joy» was titled with an early instruction in the cookbook: First, stand facing the stove.

The title alone, of David Tanis» book A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes has had a profound and lasting impression on me, and serves as a reminder that the best food is as simple as the title implies.