Sentences with phrase «big history book»

Your accounting system is one big history book.

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Movie booking site Fandango told Variety that the film has become the biggest pre-seller in the history of the ticketing company, besting the inaugural installment of The Hunger Games.

As I argue in my forthcoming book, «The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America,» big corporations (in this case, Facebook) and political interests (in this case, right - wing parties and campaigns) but also ordinary Americans (social media users, and thus likely you and me) all had a hand in it.

Acme, the brick - maker, was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as making the biggest brick in history, a nine - foot - long monster dubbed «Baby Clay.»

When the history books are written, the shale oil «boom» will be looked back upon as one of the bigger scams executed beautifully by Wall Street.

My son is very into fact books and histories so this was a big hit with him.

A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in Box Office history, and grossing double its substantial budget within a week.

Or they just plain don't want to read the Bible, or our history, or perhaps not even the Big Book and its earlier manuscripts (Compare the facts in: Turning Point: A History of Eahistory, or perhaps not even the Big Book and its earlier manuscripts (Compare the facts in: Turning Point: A History of EaHistory of Early AA.

If you have no clue where the Bible came from or how we got the Bible as it is today, this classic book will provide the big picture overview and the history behind the development of the Bible.

He explained his views on the Big Bang and black holes in his best - selling book, A Brief History Of Time.

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - a fascinating book about the history of New York City, from the perspective of the oysterHistory on the Half Shell - a fascinating book about the history of New York City, from the perspective of the oysterhistory of New York City, from the perspective of the oyster trade.

Have to go back and search through the History Books, but I think I'm comfortable saying that this is the biggest margin of victory in the history of All Sports Series — Flag Football History Books, but I think I'm comfortable saying that this is the biggest margin of victory in the history of All Sports Series — Flag Football history of All Sports Series — Flag Football games..

The Arsenal team that won the Premier League season in 2004 without a single defeat have quite rightly got a big and possibly never to be rivalled position in the history books.

It's not that Bale has performed badly for Real, not most of the time, but aside from his stunning solo goal to win the Copa del Rey final against these opponents last season, and his extra-time goal in the Champions League final, he is lacking the big game - changing moments that write you into the history books.

In the lead up to this Saturday's big clash, we go back over the history books and list our top five best Grand Finals ever.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, we're joined by Jack Kelly, who has written an intriguing new book on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in American history, and the biggest in upstate New York; the Erie Canal.

Several senior politicians from Gordon Brown downwards, or upwards, tell me they can attract big crowds at a book festival or at a meeting of Make Poverty History, whereas if they deliver the same speech at a party meeting only a handful of people turn up.

The damage to the reputation of the Labour party of their shadow chancellor quoting from the book of the biggest mass murderer in history is hard to exaggerate.

A new book dives into the history of some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs — and the big brains behind them

Ciriaco Goddi, of the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, says he grew up in a small village in the mountains of Sardinia, where he didn't encounter anyone that might spark an interest in science until he saw Hawking's 1988 book, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.

Editor's Note: Mark Kurlansky is the best - selling author of «Cod,» «Salt,» «The Big Oyster» and other books focused on the story (and history) of food.

The greatest achievers in history all faced set backs, tough years, and big questions, but they played the long game and for that reason they have gone down in the history books, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Tiger Woods.

John Gray, author of the biggest selling relationship book in the history of the world, «Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus,» was at the conference to deliver shocking news: «Men and women still don't understand each other.»

Walt Disney Pictures is about to make history this weekend with Big Hero 6, the first animated theatrical adaptation of a Marvel comic book.

A supposed cast list posted to Twitter and then quickly deleted — but not before, given the nature of the internet, being screencapped to hell and disseminated anyway — is packed with a ton of supposed allusions to characters big and small from Peter Parker's comic book history.

One of the biggest bestsellers in history — a book that's been translated into more than 250 languages worldwide — would seem to require little tinkering, no «fixing.»

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop him from being a big bore, as his battle with Superman turns into one of the most drawn - out, low - budget cringefests in the history of comic - book movies.

The history of videogames - to - big - screen - adaptation isn't very pretty, and a far - cry from the ongoing Hollywood success of gaming's comic book cousins.

-- Writing Darker — Author E.L. James and screenwriter Niall Leonard trace back the history of the book and introduce viewers to the — much darker story and its adaptation to the big screen.

Feige also tantalized the crowd by revealing that this movie will feature the first big - screen appearance of the Skrulls, an alien race with a rich, destructive history in the comic books.

Because Texas is one of the two biggest purchasers of textbooks in the country, their version of science and history books are used in dozens of other states.

CORVETTE RACING AT LE MANS: Iconic Team Going for Ninth Class Win Familiar entries and lineup for program's 19th straight appearance Rockenfeller, Fässler join full - season roster at Le Mans Corvette Racing an eight - time winner in French enduro Biggest race of Corvette Racing's 20th season DETROIT (April 18, 2018)-- Corvette Racing will look to write another chapter in its history book at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year as the team today confirmed its GTE Pro entries into...

But hey, let's dream bigger: the Fox Body 5 liter was just a downshift away from the history books, and most BMWs were fair play as long as they lacked an M badge.

PACKAGING >> Smaller than Yaris — bigger than Alto We had to thumb through the history books to determine that this is the smallest car to ever wear a Holden badge.

But it's a fun book, to be sure, and would make great Halloween reading for those who are bigger fans of conspiracy theories, myths, legends and world history than of horror fiction.

He is eager to find nonfiction writers who will excite big and midsize houses: how - to's, self - help, business, personal finance, popular culture, biography, current affairs, history, health, medicine, spirituality, inspirational books, trends, technology, the future, and other books with enduring social, practical or literary value.

My first «big» book was in 1999, my history of the HIV - AIDS epidemic in the U.S. called VICTORY DEFERRED.

Instead, focus on your biggest accomplishments including the number of years of work history you have in the field related to your book, major media outlets where you have been featured, awards you've won, and anything else that demonstrates your authority in your field.

I think its interesting that this year 200 extra books will be released, making it the biggest Super Thursday date in history.

MacKenzie Bezos wrote a very long one - starred review and one of the more notable statements she made was «While numerous factual inaccuracies are certainly troubling in a book being promoted to readers as a meticulously researched definitive history, they are not the biggest problem here.

Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.

«There was a period in Amazon's history when they were trying to negotiate some very basic industry terms, and their biggest business at the time was books.

Personally, as something who spends about $ 4,000 a year on books (please don't rat me out to my wife...) I prefer the ebook format and I've taken big fat history tomes, sold them as used books, and bought the ebook version so I can read without breaking my wrists.

Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American Histbook writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American HistBook Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History.

Three newly released books remind us that history is more than just a series of big moments.

Some of the free titles include: The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, Cristina Ferrare's Big Bowl of Love, Creating Your Best Life, Glory in the Fall: The Greatest Moments in World Series History, 21st Century Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me and timeless favorites including Secret Garden and Robinson Crusoe.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Michael Lewis (Business & Personal Finance) Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand (Biographies & Memoirs) Lone Survivor, Patrick Robinson, Marcus Luttrell (Biographies & Memoirs) Heaven is for Real, Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent (Religion & Spirituality) Duty, Robert M. Gates (Biographies & Memoirs) Killing Patton, Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly (Biographies & Memoirs) Killing Jesus, Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly (History) Uganda Be Kidding Me, Chelsea Handler (Humor) David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell (Health, Mind & Body) The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown (Sports & Outdoors) The Five Love Languages, Gary D. Chapman (Nonfiction) Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham (Biographies & Memoirs) Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Business & Personal Finance) Hard Choices, Hillary Rodham Clinton (Biographies & Memoirs) Orange Is the New Black, Piper Kerman (Biographies & Memoirs) Wild, Cheryl Strayed (Biographies & Memoirs) The Body Book, Cameron Diaz (Health, Mind & Body) Super Shred: The Big Results Diet, Ian K. Smith, M.D. (Health, Mind & Body) Finding Me, Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford (Biographies & Memoirs) The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort (Biographies & Memoirs) The Blood Sugar Solution 10 - Day Detox Diet, Mark Hyman, M.D. (Health, Mind & Body) 10 % Happier, Dan Harris (Health, Mind & Body) The Monuments Men, Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter (History) Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg (Biographies & Memoirs) Blood Feud, Edward Klein (Politics & Current Events)

I don't wish to be negative, but this future - trend tells me that comics end up the way that Big Little Books and Pulp magazines ended up: part of a generational history... When paper - based comics go by the wayside, so will the interest in the characters of comics.

Until that glorious day, however, we're stuck with letting you know that the trilogy has now collectively outsold all seven Harry Potter books on Amazon UK, making EL James the biggest selling author in the site's nearly - fourteen year history.

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