Sentences with phrase «book at a few of»

(Amazon lets you peek inside the book at a few of the... [more]

(Amazon lets you peek inside the book at a few of the first pages.)

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If asked, most of us could name at least a few iconic logos, whether it be Coca - Cola's cursive script or the namesake bird of Penguin Books.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

A few weeks before the book party, Newman, now CEO of Magic Hat Brewing Co., a craft beer maker in Burlington, sat at the desk in his cluttered office, bearded and barefoot as usual, and composed an e-mail to Hollender:

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.

«You look at a lot of ideas, rejecting most of them, flirting with a few, and then — hopefully — settling in for a trial phase with the most attractive and well - rounded option,» he writes in his book.

A CRY OF DE-STRESS: Speaking of time, few things are as stressful as staring at a towering stack of books and journals you know you'll never get around to readinOF DE-STRESS: Speaking of time, few things are as stressful as staring at a towering stack of books and journals you know you'll never get around to readinof time, few things are as stressful as staring at a towering stack of books and journals you know you'll never get around to readinof books and journals you know you'll never get around to reading.

It took discerning consumers a few years of swimming through the ocean of mediocre - to - bad online recipes before they became frustrated with «free,» according to Bill LeBlond, editorial director of food and drink at independent publisher Chronicle Books.

The post flags a few trends: Investment rounds are happening at higher prices, investors are increasingly collaborating with each other, and many of the start - ups are booking revenue before they seek funding.

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of articles and books written on ecommerce and the importance of having your potential customer click as few buttons and see as few pages as possible between the point at which they're interested to the point they've completed a transaction.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

Given that Donald Trump «wrote» the best - selling «business» book of «all time,» it's surprising that Hillary Clinton in the last few weeks has proven to be the better dealmaker in at least one case: how they have dealt with their main political rivals.

But on Twitter, Mr. Gurley of Benchmark, one of the earliest supporters of Mr. Kalanick at Uber, said of the executive, «There will be many pages in the history books devoted to @travisk — very few entrepreneurs have had such a lasting impact on the world.»

Written between 50 and 300 years after the death of Christ, over 300 books at one time, vetted down by the Emperor Constantine to a mere 78 at one point, a few more take out later, modified many times to suit it's political purpose.

If you look at the King catalog very few of his books are actually horror.

In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's History of the United States, Daniels called «disinformation.»

This is a few hundred years old at best and as pointed out «Because both sides of the fragment have writing on them, King said it could have come out of a book rather than a scroll.»

You should also put a few of these books and magazines on your desk at work.

And a few of them, within a year of speaking at this conference, will get a book deal or an invitation to speak at Exponential, or some other church conference.

This observation was brought delightfully home to me a few months ago, when I dropped a small pile of books on the checkout desk at my neighborhood public library.

A few years ago when people were writing books critiquing what many of us were trying to do with our churches, I would regularly contact these folks and invite them to come and spend some time with our community or stay at my house and we could talk about all their concerns.

Little did we know it then, but in just a few months» time Merryn and I would be setting off on an adventure we'd never forget — walking the streets of Rome, climbing the Alps of Switzerland, and settling into our new city of Oxford, United Kingdom, where Merryn would get a dream job at the University and I would write a book helping others recover from their broken dreams.

He recommended a few books that I plan to order on my oh - so - old - school Kindle: The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor and Faith at the Edge by Robert Wennberg.

In the same book Pope John Paul wrote that «a determination on the part of husband and wife to have as few children as possible, to make their own lives easy, is bound to inflict moral damage both on their family and on society at large.»

willy: Of the 10 commandments, the first 4 demand idolatry; most are merely thought crimes and a few are merely common sense... if you need a book to tell you not to harm, then have at it because you're obviously lacking morals to begin with.

Exactly, If they are really Christians or have at least read the last few books of the Bible they defiantly would have read or come across that no one will know when the world is going to end only God knows this («But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.

A few days after the September 11 attacks, I bought an old copy of his The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power at a used book sale.

No book deal or contract yet — it's still just a proposal with a few chapters, making the rounds of publishers, at this stage of the process.

So many churches lose an expository pastor, and then bring in some guy who has a lot of charisma, or he's published a few books, or he is great at fundraising.

I probably could have risen in the ranks of church hierarchy, written a few books, and been asked to speak at conferences.

Every few years, beginning in 1967 with Death at an Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.

*** Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.The few parts of the Bible and other holy books that are actually accurate, are more metaphorical to me than literal.

You'd think one honest look at the ugly bloodstained cacaphonous shit - hole that is «The Holy Land» would give just a few of these people pause, and make them wonder whether their magic book had a fib or two in it, but... nope!

Some of the books of the Bible were probably still being written about 100 AD, but a few hundred years later the bishops met to set canon, which meant ruling the various books based on accepted theology at the time.

We will look at some of the critical passages in future posts, but first, we must make a few preliminary observations about the role of baptism in the book of Acts.

I go online, send a few emails, find an apology for the offensive post, it makes me feel thankful, hopeful even that God is at work in us, taking steps, we're all such a mess, and half the time, I wonder if just listening to each other, hearing the cry of each other's hearts, a bit of tenderness given and received, would help more than any conference or book or proper worldview.

For some reason, the May issue's Public Square chose to pick two sentences out of my review of Jefferson Powell's book on the Supreme Court and twist those few words to portray both Powell and me as at least «confused» and perhaps as defenders of an imperial judiciary.

A few critics have ventured dissenting opinions: Some have fretted that anti-Semites and other bigots might take encouragement from the vile rhetoric of the book's central character (presuming that lot would have the intellectual stamina to read the novel at all), and others have raised objections to the shocking incompetence of the writing.

Along with his parents, Matthew began carefully studying the Bible's few references to same - sex behavior (which will be examined, at length, throughout the rest of the book), and rethinking his position on the matter.

P.S. Webb does a great job of grabbing his readers» interest at the beginning of the book by asking them to look through a list of a few dozen verses and mark which biblical instructions are «still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated «on the page.

The best plan is either a consecutive reading in one book a few verses at a time, or the passage for the day indicated in some form of devotional guide.

I gave away over 2000 PDF copies of the book to people on my email newsletter, and quite a few people also took advantage of the sale of the book over at Amazon.

In a few cases this will undoubtedly be true, but if the general run of readers of the book — and it is not designed for specialists in the field — are anything at all like the students who, across the years, have enrolled in the writer's courses in the Bible, then it is fairly safe to assume that their knowledge of the book is not too extensive or detailed.

i made this last night, and have just finished it off for lunch, its absolutely delicious, i made a few tweeks, i put the potato in raw, i cut them into cubes, but didn't par boil them, this thickened up the curry nicely, i also added, fresh garlic and coriander at the end with the spinach, it was quite thick today, so i loosened it up with some coconut milk (fresh) it really is so good, i served it with black quinoa, I've also just received your book, can't wait to try out more of recipes, you should be very proud of your self Ella, a beautiful book, and inspiring story x

book «Green», bought it when I was in France a few years ago... still one of my favourites... Didn't know what to eat tonight... had a quick pick at your latest recipe....

We have a few of her books at home.